At the end of a recent training session where I spoke about the benefits of reading as a habit, one of the participants handed in a little note that read, “This day I will never forget. I fully understand the importance of reading and you are my inspiration. If you don’t mind, give me a book for reading. Thank you.”

Mom’s Crispy dosas for breakfast, dad’s caring reminder about my medicines as I left home, my 60+ year old driver’s patience and skill to navigate across the morning traffic to get me on time for the session, 2 hours of teaching a group of interactive & lively students,

How many times out of ten have you been on a shopping visit having come to terms with what you want to buy before stepping out of the house and ended up buying something totally different from the research that you had done?. It happened to me very recently.

I was on Facebook last night and perhaps it was the 10th time that one of my readers mentioned that I had stopped updating my website and my blogs.

This story is from a very popular book which had an impact on millions of people all over the world. As I am reading through the book perhaps for the 5th time in English (I have read it once in German as well, the book having been translated into 63 languages), I decided to pause and pen this story down which has a deep meaning.