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Nov 02
Different people have different ways of looking at success. For most people success is all about having lot of money or good standard of living. But after lot of my readings for me success comes in 4 different levels. There levels are :
1) Health and Energy : I feel this is the most important level as it my health and energy that gives me whatever I want to accomplish in my life. If I want to do lot of things in my life and I just don’t have right health and energy to support it than I will not be able to accomplish what I want in life.
2) Love and Relationship : Its love and relationship that actually says who I’m. I think love is the authentic expression of me as human being and people around me allow me be one express my love in my relationship.
3) Whatever I do that makes a difference : No matter how many activities I’m involved in, question to ask all the time is “is it making a difference”.
4) Having a Financial Freedom : We all want money as per our self expression. And growth is equally important so that people around you can grow. If you have a life where you don’t have to worry about money, you get money thats your self expression comes in without worry – I call that having a financial freedom.
Thanks to all the great Gurus in my life who inspired me write this blog.
Oct 28
We all get worried for different things in our life. None of us want to be worried but we all end up being worried. In fact we are worried about things all the time.
Worry costs us our peace of mind, happiness and health. In fact it’s been proven scientifically that more you worry more it will impact your immune system.
Most of the time we are worried about things that we don’t have any CONTROL. We are worried about outcome, results, how it will unfold, how future will look and all that. But we should ask a question, if I don’t have a control on things, is it worth worrying? No it is not, because any ways you don’t have control over it and it will not get modified because you are worried. In fact by worrying you are just worsening the situation and not adding value to the situation.
Now second scenario is when things are in control. Let’s not worry about it as anyways things are in control. Really there is nothing to worry about.
Worrying is the choice we make most of the time in our life. In fact I discovered sometime back that I worry because I think if I’ll worry I’ll get out of the situation and I’ve enough evidences from past when I was worried and got out of situation. So worrying has become like my survival mechanism and its ok for me to worry in spite of heavy cost that I pay for worrying.
When one can see worry is more like survival mechanism and nothing more than that, one can choose to be peaceful and loving in any situation or circumstance.
Thanks to all Gurus who have contributed to my writing.
Jun 22
I recently took time to examine my motivations for my everyday actions. I have strong beliefs regarding the way things should be done, and I started to think about the word ‘should’ and how it applies to almost everything I do.
Most of the things I say I ‘should’ be doing, I do not feel I have a choice about. I am driven to do things because of fear, or a sense of morality. I don’t ‘choose’ to do certain things, but I am constrained to do them because I am afraid of what will happen if I don’t.
Having a strong feeling that I ‘should’ do something means I have given up my choice in the matter in favor of fear or some moral code. Sometimes this makes me feel that I am not the owner of my life, that I am living the life of someone I do not even know.
I sat down to make a list of things I ‘should’ accomplish in my life. As the list grew, I realized that almost all of my goals are driven by this feeling of ‘should’. I am driven by fear, not my own self expression.
No wonder I am stressed at the end of each day! I get so caught up in what I ‘should’ do that I lose sight of what I want to accomplish. Simply doing as I ‘should’ becomes the ultimate goal, rather than financial security, happiness or simply the joy of being ME.
I want to drive my life, not be driven by it. I want to do things with the intent of accomplishing my goals, not simply because I ‘should’ do them.
I’m not sure what I ‘should’ do next, but I know what I will choose to do. I will drive this feeling of ‘should’ rather than let it drive me. I will choose my actions, not be forced to them through fear. I will accept my life the way it is, love each and every day, and do things because I want to, for the joy they give me, and because I CAN, not because I should.
May 30
From last few days, one of the distinctions I’ve been working on is the distinction between “Being Interesting” vs. “Being Interested”.
I have been confronted with how much my life is oriented around “Being Interesting”. Whenever I’m heading teams, I’ve seen my whole focus has been around being interesting to people around me, rather than being interested in those people and their life.
In one of many conversations with my coach “Gopal Rao” (Landmark Forum Leader and Extraordinary Human Being), I distinguished that a true leader is someone who’ll always be “Interested in People”. A leader will always be thinking about his team made up of the people around him winning, rather than what he personally wants to accomplish. I think the best example is Mahatma Gandhi, who was always interested in everyone’s freedom and always cared about them. I’m really moved by this distinction and I’ve been consciously practicing this distinction in my life.
I’ll keep sharing the results I’ve produced consistent with the new possibility I’ve invented for myself and my life. Also, feel free to share your feedback, comments, insights or anything else you have to contribute!.
Regards
Jan 22
Words are everywhere. You find words all around you. We read them, we write them, we think them, we see them, we type them, we hear them, we communicate them and even express ourselves. And every word holds either ‘Positive’ or a ‘Negative’ vibration, means every word shapes the future you are living into. Example Word Money can hold ‘Positive’ and ‘Negative’ vibration, person who is always worried about money will create ‘Negative’ vibration around money and person who is clear about his vision of how much money he wants to make will hold ‘Positive’ vibration. Our words attract things that we want in our life and things that we don’t want in our life.
Words -> Thoughts -> Feelings (Positive or Negative)
Life is simple. You get what you think . If you keep repeating to yourself “I’m not good enough” than guess what you are not good enough. If you keep repeating to yourself “I can never make money” than guess what you’ll never make money. Your life become what words you use to create your thoughts and your though creates the Feeling (Positive or Negative vibration). I like the example from book “The secret” that we all are Alladin and Universe is Ginnie. Ginnie has only one job to do every thing that Alladin wants he says “Your wish is my command”. So every thing that you formulate in word and language it, Universe says “Your wish is my command”.
So if we are committed living life powerfully, we must orient ourselves around words that gives us power.
