Category: General
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Happy new year 2021
Friends, wish you all a Happy New Year 2021. Wish you great success in all your pursuits! As Ibn’ Arabi/Balyani say, “You yourself are the object of your quest”. May you find and be yourself. Setting up and growing Business Clinique has been a labor of love this year. Thank…
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Loneliness
One common theme across the people I have had the opportunity to coach in 2020 is loneliness. Especially entrepreneurs and artists. Loneliness compounded by lack of support and even discouragement from their loved ones. Especially immediate family. That too in a year that has been very tough to navigate. One…
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Be childlike
Words, especially nouns, help us identify, communicate to and understand each other. But they have this tendency to trap us at the mind level. We then fail to connect to the essence of anything, in the moment. We pass by objects and people around us thinking we already know them.…
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Inside-out. Outside-in.
Before 2020, I spent a large part of my life living outside-in. Trying to cater to what is out there in the world around me. Being at its mercy. Or trying to control it. Being on my own as an independent professional the last few years only accentuated it. 2020…
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Jealousy
One of the coachees I work with often feels jealous of others’ success. The trigger could be the news of a college batchmate’s company getting funding. Or a neighbor getting promoted at work. Or the sudden revelation of a relative’s salary being higher than his. Or someone’s video getting a…
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Goals and the path
A new year will soon begin. If you are setting goals for yourself, work towards them. But remember not to obsess over them. Enjoy the path to the goals. Do not obsess over the future. Life unfolds all around you in the present moment. The present moment is all we…
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Clock time and psychological time
There are two types of time. Clock time and psychological time. Clock time is timeless. You are in the present moment. You access past or future when needed. Deal with it for practical matters. Once done, you move back deeper into the present moment. Psychological time is when you identify…
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Who do you own?
We often start the parenting courses we conduct with this poem by Kahlil Gibran. It is refreshing to read this every single time. The beauty is that it applies to so many other contexts as well. For example, you can replace word “children” here with team members at work. Or…
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Freedom from time
“I know many time management frameworks and techniques. But I feel trapped in time”, said one of the CXOs I was coaching. How does one free oneself from time? We are often either preoccupied with our past or with the future. The past is gone. The future is yet to…
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How should we treat others?
Q: How should we treat others?Ramana Maharshi: There are no others. What changes in your life or work when you read this?
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Fear of uncertainty
One of my greatest fears used to be the fear of uncertainty. I started my career in the semiconductor industry which was very cyclical. Then consulting where there was heavy pressure on being a billed resource every day of the year. Then senior management positions with uncertainty of so many…
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Finding time
“I have a busy schedule. I find it very difficult to sit and practice for even 30 minutes. Is there any way out?” asked a participant in my workshop yesterday on fun with music, math and rhythm. This is something I struggled with for a long time, given especially my…
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Feedforward
We provide as well as receive “feedback” almost every day. Often it doesn’t feel nice to receive feedback as it focuses on something that we didn’t do well in the past. So we avoid it. Marshall Goldsmith proposes using “feedforward” instead. Here the focus is on ideas for the future, not the…
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The need to know
One of my coachees had this urge to know about everything that happened around him. In his life. In his children’s school. In the lives of his relatives and friends. About what each of his team members did every minute at work. He said it gave him a sense of…
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