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Author: Arif Vakil

August 4, 2008 by Arif Vakil

3 captivating stories/analogies, that help you find the Meaning of Life.

Ghazalli’s Alchemy of Happinesss is a beautiful book that I will probably read a couple of times again. Contrary to the image of heavy hard-bound complicated volume, the Alchemy of Happiness is 30 or 40…

July 16, 2008 by Arif Vakil

Why there is Still World Hunger and 5 Steps to End it, by Bill Gates at Harvard University.

There were a whole lot of email forwards and blog posts on a speech that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford. But the speech that Bill Gates delivered at Harvard have done fewer rounds on the…

July 12, 2008 by Arif Vakil

Swirl in Ecstasy, by listening to the captivating Sufic Stories & Poetry Of Kahlil Gibran.

I was returning from my weekly site visits from our projects. I had a long hot day and on my return I was in the mood to listen to something light and relaxing. I had…

July 8, 2008 by Arif Vakil

Why Some People Always are so Efficient, Yet Relaxed at the Same time.

It’s because of Rules. We had them as School kids, there are Rules at office, then then there are traffic Rules. Rules Rules Rules everywhere. Who needs ‘em, Wouldn’t it be better if we just…

July 2, 2008 by Arif Vakil

5 Steps to Begin Learning GTD – A Guaranteed way to Save Hours from your Workday.

photo credit: gideonstrauss Me and Ali have written a lot about GTD in earlier blog posts. We’ve covered a bit of what GTD is all about, How GTD is made my traveling easier thanks to…

June 14, 2008 by Arif Vakil

Six Wonderful Skills I’m glad I picked after School, which you can too.

I’ve truly had fantastic teachers throughout my life. Right throughout school, through religious school, during my association with Toastmasters, at my first job at KPMG all in Dubai and right now in Bangalore I’m extremely…

May 25, 2008 by Arif Vakil

Two Great speeches in History, that I loved hearing again.

We don’t much of have a culture either at home and at our community to listen to music, so that sort of forces me and Ali to dig deep and keep looking for alternate sources…

May 16, 2008 by Arif Vakil

Another cool No Smoking sign.

Not bad eh? Click here to see the no smoking sign that I had spotted at Pizza hut.

May 16, 2008 by Arif Vakil

Four blogs that I really enjoy reading.

Out of the 154 or so blogs that I’ve subscribed to in my NetVibes page, there are four that are distinct Star Bloggers in my books. What makes them more exclusive than others is that,…

March 17, 2008 by Arif Vakil

Two Resources for Beginners on the path to Enlightenment.

We’ve (me and Ali) recently been hearing the podcasts of Oprah and Eckhart’s webcast discussion of “A New Earth”. These webcasts are a chapter by chapter discussion of Eckhart’s latest book A New Earth. I…

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