New Year, New Energy: Goals, Growth & Giving Back!

New Year, New Energy: Goals, Growth & Giving Back!

Another new financial year begins and we have already completed a month. This year we started off on a great note. We created a set of goals for the year 2025-26. Then, using the power of mind maps and some productivity techniques that I learnt from my mentor recently, we worked further. We split the goals month wise. We also worked out methods on tracking what we accomplished. We found that we had done pretty well for April! That felt really good and we are charged to do more next month!  In April an important development was figuring out how we could…
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Decision making / taking responsibility

Decision making / taking responsibility

The years 1990 - 1992. I was an Assistant Librarian of the Indian Institute of Geomagmetism. Fresh out of Library School. However I was not in my twenties like most of my batchmates were. I was married and had two school going children. But having got married immediately after graduation, I was still carrying the mindset of - Listen to your elders / Do not break any rules and all the generally good/ethical stuff that one is taught. However, as a "professional", one is not often taught to make decisions that may not fall under the above We had a…
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QMed’s impact. A young doctor wishes to help his institution’s library

QMed’s impact. A young doctor wishes to help his institution’s library

I am delighted to share this month’s “DonorCONNECT” story – one that  touches our hearts. There are some days when we have unexpected calls / emails / visitors. A recent event was when a young doctor we knew, wrote to us after quite some time. He had attended our PubMed workshop a few years ago. He later enrolled in www.qmedcourses.in for advanced learning. For both events he gave us excellent feedback and had kept in touch with us off and on. When he called, he shared with me about having joined his Alma Mater as a resident a few years ago –…
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