what is self help

What is Self Help

On this page, you can browse videos, articles and workshops on how to improve, how to be better, how to be more productive in work and in one’s life. Most articles are in English, most videos are in Urdu.

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The Friday Refresh

The Friday Refresh

Weekly review is one of the four fundamentals of being a DreamBreaker. Are you a Dreambreaker? You should be 🙂 What is the Friday Refresh? Every week, I sit down and review the past week, and plan the coming one. I started doing this in 2011. It is possibly one of the...

Buying Truth About Abs

Just bought the ebook Truth About Abs from Mike Geary. This is in connection with my overall plan to have a ‘wholesome’ body by the end of November 2011 (that’s this year!). This also helps me dish out great content for Gym at Home website and all...

Opportunity Knocks, but Exactly How Many Times?

Opportunities are rare. You must pounce on them the moment they show up. That’s what it is all about. You know what they say: “opportunity knocks but once” Do not be fooled people, because more often than not, these type of quotes are used to get you in line, to...

I am a wimp most of the times

Are you a wimp? Probably. Do you want to be braver, bolder? Probably. ## I am wimp most of the times. I make too many excuses, I rationalize too many things for long enough for them to lose all appeal and I think I am right most of the time. I also make – at any given...

2 Questions, and answer the second one first

I was re-reading Chris G’s great little book “World Domination” (download for free here), and in that book, he asks two questions: “What do you really want out of life?” and “What can you give to the world that no one else can?” The remarkable thing about the...

The Main Motive for Your Actions (it’s not money)

Why are you getting an education? To learn something new? Really? Or is the primary reason for you to get an education, to go to university, is to get a good job? Why get a good job? To earn money, you answer quickly. But is ‘getting a job’ the best way to...

Are you even capable of reasoning with someone?

To reason with someone, you need to entertain other person’s thoughts with your own. You need to compare the other opinion with your own. To do this honestly, you actually need to allow for a possibility of your own opinion being wrong. This possibility, this...

Coffee in a teacup

He was then silent. So was I. The coffee shop deserted. I began lifting my teacup of coffee, and stopped in mid-air. Looked up. He returned my stare. I then answered, “Have your words and thoughts live longer than yourself. Perhaps your words, your writings,...

Is This what Your God wants?

As the drama right after Salman Taseer’s murder unfolded on GeoTV here, I tried to explain to Akhtar (the servant watching the TV with me), how this Qadri has tried to punish a supposed blasphemer (as of course, nothing Mr Taseer said could be put within the...