Alka Dwivedi

When I started blogging again, then one thought was quite prominent in my mind, We can’t reach a milestone everyday in terms of finances or career or fun. We can’t wait for few milestones in our lives to be happy. We can’t party everyday. We can’t hang out with friends and family everyday. We can’t [...]

Ah! Weekends! How the name weekends sound music to ears. Even a happy feeling creeps in on the Friday evening itself.Weekend means throw all the carefully crafted routine to winds. Weekend means being yourself or breaking free from daily routine. I love it when we go out to visit someone or our friends and family [...]

Today I was in better shape. In the morning I didn’t have problem focusing on positive thoughts and feeling peaceful. I have not burn a CD yet. But I am selecting songs I like. Today I was watching news. I like watching news and reading newspapers whenever I find time. It is one of the [...]

Today I opened my eyes to immense pain in my back and legs. Again, flooding my mind with positive thoughts flew out of the window for a while. I have woken up brooding why I am having so much pain? Then I remembered that last evening I played a lot in the garden and then [...]

I know I am supposed to write about my experiment with inculcating habit of having fruits and salad on daily basis. But I find stretching my boundaries immensely satisfying and happy experience. I want to pen it down first. We often feel miserable when we limit ourselves by creating rigid boundaries. Sometimes we need to [...]

I consciously make a choice to be happy. Today is my first day. I promised to wake up and flood my mind with positive thoughts and emotions. What happened today? When I woke up the first thought that crossed my mind was, “Oh! s**t! I don’t want to wake up with this intense pain in [...]

Once I was thinking about time. And suddenly a thought struck me that with each passing year, month, week, day, hour and minute, we are moving away from our loved ones and from ourselves too. Even the day we are born the clock starts ticking away and reverse counting starts. With each passing day, we [...]

How the meaning of happiness differ from person to person. Millions will be so happy to settle down in heaven on earth Switzerland with a career of their choice with Euro in their purse. But not Narayanan Krishnan, CNN Hero. He was working as a chef in a five star hotel. All set to go [...]

What stands out in this young man was his pursuit to be happy. I don’t want to say the usual things that how inspiring this young man Dinesh Thakur is. How fortunate we are. If he can do this why can’t we? We don’t have to watch some disadvantaged person to feel if he can [...]