I realize that normally when anyone is made to hear or bear a motivational speaker — it runs the risk of becoming too much unwanted ‘Gyaan’. That’s exactly why I promise my people: ‘No Gyaan, Zero Yawn’ Events.

Self-help that actually works. Not just the ‘WHAT TO DO’s of life. But the ‘HOW TO’s as well.

Just a few years into my work as a Motivational Speaker, I clearly realized — being funny is a serious business. In the last 18 years, humor, sarcasm, and storytelling have helped me reach my audience in more incisive ways than I had initially imagined. It requires fearlessness, spontaneity, a crystal understanding of the audience’s emotional state — and much more. I am 18+ now in my work. So censor issues (which I had initially) have also been taken care of. 🙂

Here are 50 extremely funny motivational quotes, jokes, and one-liners — organized by life situation — that are sure to make you ROFL and maybe inspire you at the same time. Because the best kind of motivation is the one you didn’t see coming.

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I do not have an answer to this question. But I wanted to know what makes Harry Potter book series so  inspiring to millions of people around the world, including my son. The fandom is obscenely huge, consists of millennials mostly and the author, J. K. Rowling, is still making millions every year even though the franchise ended more than a decade ago! But I am a Motivational Speaker; seeking motivation from anywhere is a part of the job! So, I asked another of my die hard potter fan friend, Arunima, to tell me all about it. This is what she told me:

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Age 20 to 30 yrs was all about Over-Confidence, Impressing people by over doing things, Flirting, Randomness, Eating everything served in the Lunch Buffet 🙂 etc.

The next 10 i.e. age 30-40 yrs in summary were all about Confidence, Work-Alcoholism (Did some 80+ Events every single year), Wealth Building, Power, Kursi Ki Peti baandhiye & then whatever time remained after doing these- on Spirituality, Helping People, Mom, Ritika (wife) & Atharv (my son)- not in the same order. All this while, I was figuring out some really important life lessons as I lived my life forward but understood it backwards. Wish I had known some of them sooner.

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The 12 best motivational songs are: Bollywood – Roobaroo (Rang De Basanti), Ek Jindadi Meri (Hindi Medium), Zinda Hai Toh (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag), Ruk Jaana Nahi (Imtehaan), Love You Zindagi (Dear Zindagi), Tu Naa Jaane Aas Paas Hai Khuda (Anjaana Anjaani); Hollywood – I Get Knocked Down (Chumbawamba), Get Up Stand Up (Bob Marley), It’s My Life (Bon Jovi), Don’t Worry Be Happy (Bobby McFerin), Eye of the Tiger (Survivor), Lose Yourself (Eminem).

These songs combine powerful lyrics with beats that fire your discipline and boost productivity.

They say music has no language and it is beyond barriers.

If you ask me, it’s quite true.

I do events across the world and make audiences of all races dance to the music I use during my motivational talks.

I love music, so much that I once had my friend gift me a collection of 100 of my favorite Hindi tracks for my birthday.

It plays in my car all the time now.

If you have attended any of my leadership or stress management talks, you would know what I am talking about 🙂 .. Hence, a list of my favorite and super motivational songs, both Hindi and English had to be there on my blog!

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Love is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful emotions one can experience. It can literally and figuratively rock your world, if you are really lucky. And it can make your world pretty rocky, if you are being stupid. Why then, am I making such a strange request, that you delay falling in love! Because, love alone isn’t enough. It is not everything. But most people don’t realize this until much later. And because it is very easy to mistake every other emotion in the world for love, when one is specifically looking to be in love.

Let me first tell you all the things (I learned all these years) that love is NOT:

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The biggest curse that any family could face in today’s times is ‘when any of its family members is addicted to some substance e.g. Alcohol, Drugs or any of similar genre’. Very often family members write to me in super exhaustion- ‘Do anything but cure my son/ daughter’. Forget about the family progress, even basics of life go awry for those families. Strange na that life expects one to have many good habits to be super successful in life but only one bad addiction can render one perpetually drowned in abyss of gloom (not only for oneself but also for the entire family).  Addiction could be to anything – smoking, drinking, drugs, sex, internet, gaming, sitcoms (Netflix) and Mobile phone etc. Sometimes, to people. And sometimes also to sleeplessness.

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