Rubina Ratnakar

  Leading a happy and smooth life needs a lot of skills and the right decision-making. One such life skill is developing a proactive mindset. It refers to a mindset in which you try to keep yourself ready for the upcoming situations. You try to prepare yourself in advance to deal with everything. This quality is not easily found in every individual. It takes a lot of effort to build a proactive mindset. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar gives you tips to build a proactive mindset. To build a proactive mindset, you need to start focusing on the future. Think about how things can go wrong or get delayed if you don’t prepare for them, beforehand. Try to make predictions or guesses so that you can handle everything that is coming your way. To make predictions, you need to pay attention to what happened in the past and what events are repetitive and can happen in the future as well. Focus on your achievements and responsibilities instead of looking at others. Take pride in your own...

There is no age for learning something. You can start learning anything at any time you feel like regardless of your age. Learning a new language can be a great skill in your life. When you have been speaking and writing in a different language since a small age it gets difficult to learn a new language. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Rubina Ratnakar suggests some great tips that will help you in learning a new language. If you want to learn something in a fixed time interval, you should set goals and targets for you to achieve. Set goals that are achievable and short-termed. Challenge yourself so you can work with a lot of determination to achieve your goal. When you are learning a new language keep in mind that you cannot learn all the words of that language. You need to learn the right words and the words that are going to be of your use. Remember that you don’t know all the possible words in your own language as well. This is the tip you would have heard frequentl...

 Money is an important element of everyone’s life. To lead a happy life we need to spend it wisely. For that purpose, we form budgets and to keep a check on the expenses incurred by various activities as well. Most of us may find it difficult to form a budget and stick to it. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar suggests you some tips that will help you in sticking to a budget. When you are forming a budget you decide on the savings and the expenditure. Once you have decided on these two you move on to making all the important purchases you need to make. Our suggestion is to make this division of savings and expenditure wisely. Keep your budget real and it should be easy to follow. Don’t make a budget that is too harsh on you and which you will ultimately swipe away from your life. Think before making the big purchases. Whenever you buy something that is costly you should think about it again. Do you really need that product? Is the price right for the product? Will the product r...

  Learning life skills is a vital part of every individual’s life. They help us in leading a better and happy life. Building relationships with the people around us is one essential life skill. It is important to behave in a cordial way with everyone around us to create a happy environment. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar helps you in building interpersonal relationship skills in the workplace. Many times in life you have to start working with someone at your office and complete a project. An interpersonal relationship can be between two employees, an employee and a manager, or between any two people connected to each other in a workplace. You need to behave in a good and proper way to build good interpersonal relationships. The first thing you should be doing is to indulge positivity in your nature and attitude. Be optimistic about the various situations you may face in life. A positive outlook will help you in creating a good personality that ultimately attracts the other ...

 It is always said that one should not step into two boats at the same time. But at times, we have to do two tasks at one time. Multitasking can be difficult but it will save your time as well. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar helps you in learning to multitask. When you decide to do a number of tasks at the same time generally the reason behind it is the limited time available to you. To overcome the time obstacle you decide to multitask. Before you start doing a number of things at the same time, you should have a clear picture in your mind about how much work you can do. You should not take up something which is not possible or will completely exhaust you. Prevention is better than cure. Don't take up tasks that you won't be able to complete and will regret later. Your tasks should be differentiated on the basis of urgency and importance. You can place the tasks under categories namely important and urgent, important but not urgent, urgent but not important, and not im...

  Communication of our thoughts and ideas to our fellow beings is a vital part of our life. Speaking out our opinions and listening to someone are two elements of communication. There are many qualities you need to develop in order to become a good speaker. Rubina Ratnakar highlights some ways that will help you in becoming a good speaker. When you start speaking in public you may feel nervous and extra conscious about yourself. It is a common thing and almost everyone experiences this. In order to eliminate the nervousness, you should practice speaking again and again. Prepare yourself for the occasion you are going to speak on. A good speaker always looks after his audience and the response of the audience to his speech. Try to know more and more about the audience and prepare the content accordingly. Humor is a great way of easing your stress and making a connection with the audience. Tell them some stories and anecdotes they can relate to. Make what you say as inte...