Rubina Ratnakar

All of us one time or the other come to a point where we feel stuck between saying yes or no to a situation. You may hate the thing that is happening and would have already foreseen the consequences you are going to face but may still say yes. This is something you need to stop doing. Saying no to things that you don’t like and don’t want is a good thing for you only. Stop being the kindest and modest in front of everyone. Start thinking about yourself and your likes and dislikes. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar gives you some tips that will help you say no to unwanted things in life. Many of us say yes to certain requests or things because we are afraid of saying no. We don’t want to spoil our image and relationship with anyone by declining their request. This is a mistake you need to stop making. It is not necessary that it is you who is going to help each and every individual in your life. You need to start by observing and analyzing your behavior carefully and detect when yo...

 Everyone wants to achieve some targets and goals in their lives. Some people may find it really difficult to set a goal and achieve it. It is very important to follow a defined path to achieve success. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar gives you some useful tips that will help you in effective goal setting. You should begin by thinking about what you want to see at the end of your journey. You should be sure about your goal so that you can put in all your efforts in achieving it. Make sure you have the zest and passion to achieve all the goals you set. After deciding what you want to achieve you should proceed with the famous SMART goal setting technique. This technique sets the criteria in front of you about how your goal should be. SMART is the acronym for specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound. These should be the key features of the goal you set. The next step in your plan should be writing down your goals on paper. Now put them where you can have...

 In our lives, we may come across many situations when we may get hurt by someone. Different individuals have different personalities and distinct ways of dealing with their lives. Whenever someone hurts you, you may never feel like talking to them. Sometimes things hit you hard and may even start affecting your health. So, not for the person who did wrong to you but for your own good, you need to forgive them and move on. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar suggests some techniques and strategies that will help you in forgiving someone. First of all, you need to prepare yourself to forgive someone. Since you have been affected emotionally by them. It may be challenging for you. Just think about the positive sides of forgiving someone. Holding on to the grudges will never make you feel relaxed. You will feel really good when you let go of the pain and move on with your life. If you have been hurt once by your loved ones you may find it difficult to trust someone again. One bad exper...

Life skills are the values or techniques we learn in order to live a smooth life. Whenever it comes to working as a team, a leader is needed to show a path to everyone. There are many qualities to look for when looking for a good leader. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar tells you some ways that will help you in developing leadership skills. One of the key responsibilities of the leader is to maintain discipline among the team. So if you have to make others behave in a disciplined manner, you yourself should be a disciplined and sorted individual. The people of the team are going to look forward to you and follow you in their work and performance. Develop good habits in order to become a good leader. Once you have thought about standing out of the queue and becoming a leader you need to do something extraordinary for that. You should try to do more than what is given to you and take more responsibility. In order to become a good leader, you should be fine with giving control to others...

 In today's world, it is difficult to find someone who thinks exactly like you do and perceives all the things happening around you in the same way as you do. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar suggests some great ways to adjust ourselves according to the situation and accepting other's perspectives. When it comes to handling our relationships with the people around us, it is important for us to accept the people the way they are. Always try to understand what others want to say and their point of view on a certain topic. Whenever a person talks about a problem going on in his/her life with you, you should try to think about the topic in their way. Don't force them to think your way and make them feel they are doing something wrong. All of our minds work differently. We can't expect similar responses from different people. Keep the fact in mind that if there was no difference between the people everywhere, how boring everything would get. We may sometimes feel uncomfortable ...

  Note making is a very important process in our life whether we are studying or we are working somewhere. We need to memorize some important things that we need to deploy in our daily chores. At one time or the other, we may get bored of the tedious process of note-making. In such cases, mind mapping comes to our rescue which is a better and more effective way of memorizing and analyzing something. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar tells you about the working of mind maps and highlights the benefits of mind mapping in our life. Let's begin by showing how we start making mind maps to memorize certain things. Take a page and start from the middle of the page. You may use it for anything you want to learn whether it may be learning a process, writing a new article, developing a business plan, or doing something as simple as understanding your family tree. Start making arrows and writing the related points and keep on extending them until you make everything clear with the help of those a...