Dr. Bharat Desai's Blog

With all the success, achievements, and happiness-infusing-technologies, our search for being joyous, pleasant and happy is not over. India has its own guidelines, very well defined by Bhagavadgita, Buddhism, and Jainism. Still, our search for techniques to be happy pushes us to explore different ways around the world.  Some people traveled to the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Japan to find out four concepts of happiness, NIKSEN , HYGGE , LAGOM , and WABI-SABI respectively. These four countries top the list of the world happiness index and are amongst the first ten. Let me simplify and summarize each of them and try to derive the ultimate formula for happiness.  NIKESEN (Netherlands) In the Netherlands, Dutch people have found out key to happiness in NIKESEN. NIKESEN means “Doing nothing” purposefully and deliberately - leaving from work of body and mind - with a purpose to do nothing or having no purpose at all for a certain time (not exceeding 10 minutes).  “Doing ...

Over time, I have learnt and practised being accountable and better-organised in day to day life. That makes me disciplined and presentable with honour – any time and every time. I maintain day to day diary for the last seven years recording all the events and emotions. Reading the contents of the 2018 year diary inspired me to write the statement of account presenting activities of 365 days of the year. Daily Routine I consider my day starting at night, 9.30 PM, when I go to bed. I get up around 2:00 to 3:00 AM. That’s when I do my reading and writing work until I fall asleep again. That gives me more than 2 to 3 hours of study every night. I do clinical practice as an ophthalmologist between 9.30 AM to 1:00 PM in the morning and 4.30 to 7:00 PM in the evening. Yes, after lunch, between 1.30 to 4:00 PM there is a compulsory sleep, the classic after siesta, for about two hours. Morning hours, between 7:00 to 9.30 AM are “no work” time, spent in getting ready, reading newspapers...

Great damage is done to you if you say Yes when actually you want to say No . During a lifetime, we come across incidences in the day to day life where a critical situation arises and we wrongly say Yes  instead of No . This is about the analysis of all circumstances telling and teaching us why do we say Yes , how should we say No and most importantly, what are the benefits of telling No . No means no! (Photo source: indiatoday.in)

One has to earn enough to realise that money cannot buy happiness. First you have to reach the stage of needful money earning - that is a must. So, the poor cannot realise this fact!