Keep Moving & Smiling!!🏃🏽😊

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. A single thread of hope is still a very powerful thing. Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. When the word says, "Give Up." Hope whispers, "Try It One More Time." Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the Hope that they won't last forever. That hurts be healed and difficulties overcome. Never Loose Hope. You never know what next year may bring. Happy New Year 2018!! Happy Sunday!! Keep Moving & Smiling!!🏃🏽😊

In the last week of Year and with a long weekend, you get time to reflect on the year gone by. What went right, what didn't, what were the new Learnings, new opportunities, these thoughts do cross your mind. And while you reflect on the year gone by you also start looking forward to the new year ahead of you. While we do so, I thought it will be appropriate for me to share with you the excerpts from the speech of Martin Luther King to help us create the Blueprint of next year on the horizon. The excerpts of the speech are as follows : "Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint. Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint. I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life’s blueprint...

Last week I received a message on the above in one of the many WhatsApp groups. After being in Sales for many years, had made me speak more and listen less. However, the last few years of my Entrepreneurship journey and off late attending so many Seminars have made me realize the importance of listening more. I believe with technology constantly influencing our lives, we can protect our most vital and important relationships by Listening. In today’s fast-paced world, our ability to stay in touch with all has conveniently been reduced to text messages that can easily result in misunderstandings and hurt feelings. I am sharing few of the many conversations in the recent past which I enjoyed the most, is one with our Advisory Board Member where he actively listens more, gives me strategic insights and help me clear the clutter in my mind. Another conversation which I enjoy most is with my Dad where I happen to listen more of his experiences, his journey so far, his feelings. I think th...

In the early stage of Our Startup Journey, My Partner shared with me that "We are not trying to take more of the pie for ourself. We are trying to make the pie larger for everyone." This is a beautiful example of the abundance mindset. Expand the pie. Abundance is a feeling (or a state of being) and can be felt for many things..Plain and simple: it's your choice if you want to feel abundance. When you live in abundance, you never desperately need anything. The point of an abundance mindset is to constantly operate at the highest level. This is done by eliminating distracting factors such as pressure, anxiety, and stress. Life will never go as planned. There will always be undesirable surprises. But rather than telling yourself that you have either lost something, have less of something, or will never have what it is you want, make the command decision to focus on adopting an abundance mindset and focusing on what you can be grateful for. Confidence is a result of liv...

If you want to maintain a healthy relationship, view it as a bank account that needs regular deposits of positivity to thrive. Having been Banker for over many years, I share this analogy in many of my training programs/interactions. While the comparison may sound transactional and uncomfortable, the idea of relationships as a bank account hits home for one very important reason: both need regular deposits to maintain.  Think about your relationships, with family, friends, work colleagues, and strangers, as though they are a metaphorical bank account. Making a deposit into your relationship with that individual requires you to do something that adds intrinsic and/or extrinsic value to his life. Conversely, a withdrawal is doing something that causes undue effort, favor, and subtracts value. The most important thing with any bank account is knowing what your balance is, and taking action when you’re beginning to go overdrawn. Think about the last person you interacted with. Ask y...