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Five Exceptional Posts That Will Motivate You Today

Welcome to my first-of-its-kind monthly selection of exceptional posts from around the web. Reason? We read so many informative things online everyday. But we tend to forget faster than we read. I want to start “capturing” it by putting it on my blog. This way, it stays sticky in my mind and I won’t forget it. Better still, you can read it too, take what’s interesting to you and come back to it whenever you want to, and so will I. 

Sit back and hope to see you enjoy reading these posts!

Afraid to quit your job because it pays your bread and butter?  Look at it with holistic vision and embrace  a different course of action! I think you will LOVE this post by Vishnu.
If you have troubles surrounding you 24X7, this will help you to COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

Love to read literary magazines? Find some more to pamper the literary hunger.
To toss up something easy, quick and healthy, try this omelette, it tastes YUM! I add some milk into the egg mixture and the texture and taste will make you WANT more.
Are you recovering from heartbreak? Learn something from it and let it go! 
Do any of these posts resonate with you personally? Do drop a line and say which post you learned most from.

Comments

Asha said…
That's a beautiful gesture by you to share motivational and exceptional posts. This is as good as social work, swapna. I am always a regular here because of these lovely posts that you post. BTW, read Vishnu's post, loved the post.

Will read the rest of the links too.

Keep the genre of posts coming:)
Asha said…
That's a beautiful gesture by you to share motivational and exceptional posts. This is as good as social work, swapna. I am always a regular here because of these lovely posts that you post. BTW, read Vishnu's post, loved the post.

Will read the rest of the links too.

Keep the genre of posts coming:)
jk said…
NGDCs .. Makes me wonder what might be ur next post .. hmmmmmm .. :O ..
@Asha: Am so happy to hear from you and to know you liked this idea of exceptional posts because I felt excited to be doing something like that - a kind of giving back more feeling to the blogging community, you know what I mean. Will line up more posts - there are such inspiring posts that limiting the number becomes a key challenge!

@JK: Keep guessing:)
Vishnu said…
Swapna, thank you so much for including my links - it really means a lot:)

I too like to keep track of articles that inspire me and that I don't want to forget about so I try to link them to my various posts so it stays there in my online memory:) I link them to actual blog posts I write or share them on Facebook.

Also, enjoyed the post about counting our blessings faster.

I think this is a wonderful idea - roundup posts and you do the hard work of browsing the web for inspiration for all of us.

Thank you again.
Hi Vishnu,

Always happy to share your thought provoking & inspirational posts! Keep'em coming - now see who's doing the real hard work....:)

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