SINOJ JACOB

We all are in pursuit of a happy life. Our journey to happiness is often like beating around the bush without any specific destination and route map. Ironically, we don't even know what actually makes us happy in life. Remember, a happy life is not a single product we can find or buy from somewhere for our whole program of life in this world. It is in fact a bundled pack of multiple components that contribute to making happiness a reality in one's life. Knowing those components in that package of happiness is super important before you begin your journey in search of a happy life. Based on my knowledge and experience so far in life, I discovered six essential elements that contribute to the foundations of happiness in human life. If you have a clear idea about each of them, it is easy for you to chase one after another to fulfil those basic requirements for a happy life in the modern world. If you know them well, it will help you to confirm which of them are already with you an...

Are you still confused about the fundamental aim of your life? Are you still in search of any supreme purpose and meaning for your life? Please don’t! There is no metaphysical aim, purpose or meaning for your life in this world or beyond. Our life is nothing special in this gigantic cosmic phenomena other than any other organisms or objects have here. Our deceptive mind fabricated some stories of consolation over our ignorance about this infinite world and our clever intellect coined some beliefs of life after death over our helplessness about this finite body. We are still in the furnace of those genetically imprinted dogmas and unwilling to rewrite the reality even after our scientific understanding about this universe. That is why world renowned scientists who scientifically know earth, sun, stars and galaxies ascribe the science of all those phenomena in a god. They believe that ‘god makes sun rises in the east’ instead to know that ‘sun rises in the east’. They are incapable of re...

When you fail in any of your attempts, think that the plans you fabricated for the tasks were not effective enough to invite desired results. That’s for sure! Revise your plans all the more foolproof and try again. Results are always awaited for the right pursuers. So, never quit until you are done. You will never quit something you think inevitably important to you. We tend to quit something that does not fascinate us. Still, we try for a few such things as just matters of luck; and, success in such attempts is also just a matter of luck. Probability to fail is high in such scenarios. We quit them without any regard or regret to those losses and never make any more try even. Whereas, you value something high and spend a considerable amount of preparation for gaining that, you cannot quit and forget that anyway. Such dreams will frequently prop up in your mind as a reminder to insist you for further tries. When you go for your next try, you will never go the way you went earlier, bec...

We often hear and speak about taking risk is the key to get successful and wealthy in life. True to a great extent. Here, we ironically regard highly about financial risking. We are so much conditioned to conceive that risk taking is always a monetary affair when it comes to success and prosperity. Our society and culture reinforce with the idea in our minds through models that are rare of the kind and literatures that are plenty in that sort. But, most of us are trapped in that societal fancy of impractical models to mislead our vulnerable minds to make us believe such unrealistic but fascinating models. Rare and lucky models of financially successful people who risked money to invite their fortunes are projected in front of us to fascinate us about them and their act of risking money. Again, abundant and easy collection of literatures on taking risk by those who have never taken any serious financial risk are also projected for our serious reading to make us mesmerised of the effects...

You must have noticed the label on some packages: ‘Fragile! Handle with Care!’ When we seriously think about life, the label is very much applicable to it. Life is something fragile if we do not handle that with great care. If you think, let your life go on its own course, the label is not appropriate to your life. But, there will come some time when you realize that the label is valid for your carefree life too, even though you don’t care for that and go past ignoring such occasions. Interestingly, it is not because the label is irrelevant, but because you don’t value that. Anyway, a purposeful life cannot ignore the warning and live life without any precautions for the future. Because, there are variety of situations that can spoil many of your precious aspects of life if you don’t take strict preventive measures not to happen anything such. I made a detailed study on such occasions in people’s lives that must be avoided for a better living and a rewarding future. 1.   ...

When we look around, we see some people enjoying higher degree of freedom in life than we do. Though they are a very few in number they grab our attention by their charm beyond their beauty and our admiration by their grace beyond their smile. We wish to relish the same amount of freedom in our life too. But how? You know, we also can enjoy the same amount of freedom if we can also practice what they do in their lives. When I began to notice such people (it is noticeable only when we begin to think about life a little more seriously from a meaningful perspective), I developed a kind of curiosity to study their path of life and came up with some stark findings common among them that I am going to share here with you. Those traits can be inculcated in our life and we also can experience more freedom than we do have now. 1.     1. Brave is free A coward can never be free in life but always under the bondage of his variety of fears. He is afraid of anything and everything aro...