Author: Bhavik Sarkhedi

Bhavik Sarkhedi is the founder of Ohh My Brand, co-founder of Blushush Agency. His work has been featured in esteemed publications such as as The New York Times, Forbes, HuffPost, and Entrepreneur. He is the best-selling author of 'The Unproposed Guy'. Bhavik Sarkhedi is an accomplished and verified personal branding expert, award winning digital marketer, independent SEO writer, published author of 12 books, and storyteller known for his prolific contributions across various domains.

The rest that is earned/Soup for the Soul

Posted on December 1, 2025December 1, 2025 by Bhavik Sarkhedi

The rest that is earned/Soup for the Soul

The rest that is earned/Soup for the Soul!-We, the humans have a very predictable disposition. You won’t ever see a person, trying to take the toughest way out to do something. We all go for the easiest and coziest way to do almost everything. No one wants to do the hard work when it’s not needed! And this is justified as well, why take a hard-hitting when you can do things with comfort.

But is it always justified to keep oneself at rest? Is the comfort zone a better place to be? In many cases, it’s not!

The things that we strive for in life, can only be achieved if we take the arduous road, else it’s never going to be in our hands, it’ll simply slip away. Too much sticking to your comfort zone is dodgy for your own life as this will never get you success because success has this in its very nature, it comes to only those who struggle!

So, a rest is only good when it’s earned. Else, it’s just doing your own bad and spoiling your own self!

Soup for the Soul

The Weak Point Dealer

Daughter, Not Dowry

Posted on December 1, 2025December 1, 2025 by Bhavik Sarkhedi

Daughter, Not Dowry

Indian marriages, or to say, the big fat Indian marriages are famous worldwide, because it’s no less than a huge festival for the two families.

The celebration of two families getting tied in a totally new relationship is what spreads happiness throughout the procedure of the marriage.

But our customs and our traditions have gone too far today. There used to be some merry customs of gifting one’s daughter with goodies while she moved to a whole new family and with a new person in her life. It was a way of blessing her to stay happy and satisfied and more than that, parents gifted their daughter with things that she would use for her comfort in the new house that she was going to live in.

But, sadly, this dowry system had taken its ugliest and most haunting form. The groom’s family has their hopes raised higher and higher about whatever their daughter-in-law will bring with her as dowry. They never understand, whatever she would bring, it’s not for them anyways.

Sometimes people fail to understand the feelings of a girl when she leaves her own house and family to join a whole new family which has a whole new ambience for her. Whilst she ADJUSTS in all of this, she is tortured and taunted for bringing no or less of the dowry in many cases.

What about welcoming her with open arms? She left so much for you, can’t you just make her life any simpler by adjusting yourself too? Why is she forced to bring things that she won’t even ever use? Why every time the in-laws fail to overlook the “-in-law” in their daughter-in-law?

Things would be much better if they focus on the daughter that comes in their life and not the dowry.

The Party Tale

Posted on December 1, 2025December 1, 2025 by Bhavik Sarkhedi

Losing That personal Touch!

Technology! Said to be man’s best friend and worst enemy is spreading and developing rampant!

We all have that cell phone in our hands without which we can’t imagine even an hour. We all have laptops with us to work or to entertain our self.

Day by day this possession of technology is spreading and almost everyone falls prey to it. We become so ridden to gadgets that we don’t care about anything else but getting social on the social media, updating themselves and striving for everyone’s attention there.

The phones and the laptops seem to be our new habitats because rarely we come out of them. We’re just stuck in the social networking, liking others updates, following them, commenting on their updates and what not. We even stalk people online!

It’s spreading so much that even during social gatherings where we meet people face to face, we talk about the social media or we’re just too engrossed in chatting or clicking pictures for the next updates!

The Party Tale

What have we become!? Is this the beginning of something drastic?
The human to human touch, the personal touch has been lost, so lost that it’s pretty hard to find again.
We have forgotten to actually TALK and not CHAT. We’ve forgotten to actually have group gatherings and not group texting. We’ve forgotten to really care and we just show it!
For a change, can’t we just go out and enjoy the world with our loved ones! Away from the technology, away from social networks and away from the FAKEISM.
Can’t we just be real?

The Positive Realm

Posted on December 1, 2025December 1, 2025 by Bhavik Sarkhedi

Soup for the Soul

The nature is composed of abundant of beings. We know most of them but there are millions of others that we’d never seen or heard of.

And with such great diversity, mother nature has shown a great amount of bias mess too!

And that is, she didn’t make her children equally intellectual. The most intelligent creature in nature is us, the human beings. We’ve been gifted with this rarest gift called intellect that no other creature possesses as us.

And how do we use it?

When it comes to comparing our self with the other creatures, we feel superior but we forget that they have life in them too! They live in the same nature as we do!

And being the wisest of all we should make the better use of our brains. Instead of mistreating the other creatures, who can’t even express themselves, we should try empathizing with them. Because they too are making their sort of struggles to survive like us. If we can’t feed us with our own hands, we should at least let them live naturally, away from the human dominance.

Give them that space that they require, live with them, in utmost harmony and the world will be better.

A rigid person can survive but he can never live his life to the fullest and he can never enjoy his life.

Being rigid we just bound our self so hard in some invisible ropes that even if we want, we don’t take a chance to change. And it’s a fact that life never gives us same sort of situations. Times change and we got to be dynamic to survive in every situation.

SOUP FOR THE SOUL

If we be rigid, we can never face changes with all the required guts. We’ll just run away from changes every time.

And that is what makes life even more difficult. To be flexible is very much necessary to survive the changes. Nothing can come to us wrapped up the way we want to see it. We have to make the move sometimes and be a little flexible to achieve what we desire.

Being rigid only bounds us and it surely ends the charm we have towards life.

Rigid people can survive, but they don’t ever live!

The Deliberate Dilemma

Posted on December 1, 2025December 1, 2025 by Bhavik Sarkhedi

The Deliberate Dilemma/Soup for the Soul

Many a times, almost every time when we’re stuck in a dilemma, we take too long to choose the right thing and even if we choose something from our options, we doubt if it’s right for us or not.

And out of many such decisions, we regret some choices that we ever made.

Dilemma is such a situation where sometimes the mind fails to work because each option that we have for choice has its own goodness to be accepted and its own drawbacks to be rejected. We analyze too much and end up coming to no conclusion.

That is when there comes a little voice which is suppressed most of the times by the other loud ones!

That voice comes from the heart. And that is the voice we really need to listen in such situations. Because our heart tells us what’s the option that we really want to go with.

It might be a tough choice because the option our heart tells to choose might not seem that pleasing but that’s surely what we need and what we want.

SOUP FOR THE SOUL

A heart knows us better than our mind because not every time the practicality works.

Go with the heart! It’ll never be wrong! Because eventually you’ll be smiling at the choice you had made.

SOUP FOR THE SOUL

Everyone’s life is looked at for the achievements he has made throughout his life.

We might have a lot of goals and aspirations in our mind but they won’t get accomplished if we don’t get up and work on them. And for their accomplishment, we need a lot figured out.

Your goal can only be achieved if you focus on it with your whole heart. A little distraction can crash everything whatever you achieve.

And to avoid distractions, a proper path should be paved that will lead you to the goal. The path will be paved when you start walking on it but before that you should have a clearer picture of the path beforehand.

The path is needed because you can’t afford to wander in your journey of achieving the goal. You have to pave it and walk on it and nothing else. If you don’t know where you have to go or what road you have to choose, you’ll be taking different roads worthlessly and that will push your goal much far away than you.

So to walk the journey of achievement, you got to pave your own path, and stick to it!

Many people, in the whole world are such with great stories of struggle in their life. They’ve reached certain heights, starting from nowhere.

Like a person living in a village in India, strives hard to study outside his village and besides much pressure of the family, he manages to get a decent job in the city. That’ll be his greatest achievement because starting of nowhere, he reached somewhere.

But then, what would he expect from his children? Would he just want them to have same sort of education and have similar job like him? Would that be a good desire?

Nope! It won’t be a good one because that’d never let the development happen.

If we struggle hard to come out of weaker circumstances and achieve something better, we should always set much higher goals for our children. Asking them to follow the same path would hinder the growth that they ought to have.

SOUP FOR THESOUL

You grew somewhere then why stop the process? Expect your children to grow further so that this constructive process goes on and on and on.

Don’t get stuck in a humdrum streak of achievements. Invest in better ones!