Rubina Ratnakar

  When we live in a country with our fellow citizens, we enjoy a number of rights and benefits. Along with all the rights, we have many duties too. Being a socially responsible citizen is a very important role we have to play. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar emphasizes on way to becoming a socially responsible person. Starting with some common ways of showing empathy to your surroundings, donating money to the people who are in need, and volunteering for a service you can provide for free are some of them. When you do anything for your job, you get your remuneration for it. But when you do something for needy people, you would feel happy and content. The money won't last but the happiness and contentment will. All of us are busy with our everyday life chores, and barely get any time to be on our own. We already plan parties or getaways with our family in our free time. Why not plan to do something for charity with your family, once a month? Working at a food shelter, donatin...

 Mindfulness refers to a state of mind when we are completely focusing on the task we are doing. It symbolizes no distractions at the time of doing something and doing it with whole heart and mind. Once you start being more mindful about everything, you will see astonishing results in your daily life. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar suggests some ways which help you in improving mindfulness. Focusing on one single thing is very difficult in our lives these days. There are so many distractions all around to pull you back from giving cent percent attention to one single task. One of those biggest distractions is a mobile phone. Even if we are eating or studying or working or watching our favorite movie, our mobile phone is in our hands to distract us from everything with those frequent notifications. So, your first step should be limiting your phone time and not doing anything on your phone while doing any task. Meditation is a great way to keep your mind at peace. Even 10 min...

  With the changing lifestyle, our lives and our behaviors are changing as well. We can see some vital changes in our personalities or some aspects of our behavior which we sometimes ourselves can not understand. It is necessary to know yourself and how to keep a check on your mental and physical health. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar helps you in improving self-awareness. Out of all the possible ways to increase self-awareness, meditation is the best one. Focusing on one single point is the main idea behind meditation. Meditation will enhance your thinking power and thus will focus on yourself and make you see all the things you have been ignoring. You might be familiar with all the things that pose a problem for you. If you don't know, pay attention to your reactions and especially to the ones that are not suitable. See what makes you angry and in which situations you feel exhausted and anxious. Once you know your trigger points, you will be able to deal with things in a ...

Nowadays everybody is busy with the respective jobs or any other work they do. They may be self-employed, a government worker, or a businessman running his business. Everybody faces trouble in balancing their life with their work schedule. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar gives you some tips on maintaining work-life balance and handling everything smoothly. You should start with categorizing the tasks you have to do every day. Make categories according to the importance and the urgency of the tasks. Place them under very urgent, urgent, and not urgent to get a clear view about what needs to be done first and what can be done later. Fix your working hours. If you are having trouble balancing your life and work, one major reason behind it may be your mismanagement of time. You should decide the number of hours you are going to work and decide the timings and stick to it. Check out some great time management tips by Rubina Ratnakar. Don't forget to keep some personal time i...