Category: General
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Inner peace
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace” – Dalai Lama This one quote has helped me a lot in the last one year. One area I have been working on is coming from a place of inner peace whenever I interact with my child. What my…
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Mind as a tool
A couple of years back, we had to fix some issues with the electric wiring in our apartment building. One of the electricians who came had only a tester cum screwdriver with him. He said it is the only tool he needed. He could screw, unscrew, cut, tap and hit…
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It’s a Freeday!
It’s Sunday again. A day on which we are usually freer than we are on other days. This Sunday, let us free ourselves from the addiction to thinking. When we identify ourselves too much with our thinking, we are either in the past or in the future. We are reliving…
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Help and love
“I love my team at work and my family back home. I do so much for them. But I don’t get back much from them. People are thankless. So I decided I won’t do anything for them henceforth” said a coachee recently. The love that he described is egoic love.…
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Bicycle or car?
There is this coachee who recently gave up going to work in expensive cars. He said he had attended a training on how attachment and ego causes suffering. He said his attachment was to his expensive cars. He identified with this egoic image of his as a person who traveled…
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FOMO to JOMO
Do you have FOMO? Fear of missing out? Fear that you are missing out on something? Something that others are experiencing now? Fear of lost opportunities? For example, you see an ad. Say for a course on coding. You fear your kid is missing out on something important. You fear…
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Are you your mind?
A coachee was recently lamenting how technology controls humans these days. One thing to definitely ponder is how our mind controls us. Our thoughts, beliefs, labels, judgments control and use us every day. The more we identify ourselves with our minds, the more this gets reinforced. Instead, we should use…
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What does a coach do?
“What does a coach do?” asked a friend yesterday. I was reminded of this parable that Eckhart Tolle once narrated: A beggar had been sitting in a place for many decades. One day he saw a stranger and asked him for some money. The stranger said he had nothing to…
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Being in the present moment
What does it mean to be in the present moment? Is it relevant to work? Being in the present moment means we stay as we are. In each moment. We allow whatever comes to appear and disappear. What comes could be:* thoughts in the mind* sensations in the body* perceptions…
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Mindfulness and Business
“I hear a lot about mindfulness and living in the moment. How will that help me in my business?” asked a CEO recently. Each one of us have our ways of seeing things. Old ways based on what may have happened in the past. Old ways based on our assumptions.…
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Birthing ideas
One of my coachees quit work a year ago. He is setting up something he has been wanting to do for a long time. He feels deeply connected within. He loves what he is doing. The people close to him worry that nothing much is showing up as an outcome…
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Transitions
One of my coachees is transitioning. From a senior leadership role in an area he knows like the back of his palm. An area where he is well respected. To a role in an area he has wanted to work in for a long time now. An area he has…
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Happiness at work
At work, we may be doing things that we “must” or “have to”. The key to happiness is doing more of what we “want to”. In what proportion are these present in your work life today? How can you do more of what you “want to”? Photo by Jacqueline Munguía…
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