Hope 2014 has started off well for you. Sorry for the long silence. I have been devoting most of my attention to help launch a live virtual workshop in Mindful Leadership for Janice Marturano. Janice, a kindred spirit, left General Mills as its Deputy General Counsel to dedicate her life to helping people and founded [...]
Is there a real difference between Joy & Fulfillment vs. Achievement & Pleasure or is it purely semantics? Let's see if this makes any sense to you. Most of us have been raised to believe the following myth, whether explicitly or implicitly, "Focus on Achievement and Happiness will follow." Unfortunately, in my work as a [...]
Happy Valentines Day! Enjoy your day no matter what. You may be someone who has chosen a partner to share the day with or you may be someone who wants to spend the day differently. Either way, have a blast. It's an ideal day to pose the above question. So many of us, both young [...]
Today is the first day following my biggest choice in life, or so my mind thinks. I made the choice to give up a lucrative job as a Chief Operating Officer & Life Coach at a top Wealth Management firm in the country to pursue my calling to empower people make better choices in life. Was [...]
While we were traveling across the northern states of India last month in a van with my middle school son and daughter squabbling in the back, I suddenly heard my son say, "Did you know that fashion models have the highest suicide rate." The statement definitely caught my attention for two reasons. First, the word "suicide" and second "fashion [...]
"It is better to do your own Dharma than to do someone else's well." — Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita Even though I had the opportunity of hearing the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient Indian text, from my grandmother when I was young and later read it a couple of times, I had not registered [...]
The media is inundating us everyday with news about the Fiscal Cliff. In my humble opinion, what we have here is a classic standoff between two sides. Please take a look at what I refer to as the third choice and let me know what you think? Peace and be well. Krishna
Dear Friends, I had written a post titled 'Scaling Peaks (New Heights) and the Valley of Learning' back in June and had my daughter create an illustration for it. Since I liked it a lot, I made it the wall paper on my iPad. Recently, I discovered an App on the iPad called 'The Now' [...]
While we tend to think that we use our rational sense and logic to make our choices, most often we are mistaken. Check out my short 3 minute video for the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say. Would love to hear your comments and how you are beginning to notice [...]
When I share the title of this blog post, I usually get a chuckle from those who know my book, Beyond the PIG and the APE: Realizing Success and true Happiness. Obviously, elections in America are all about the Democrats or the Republicans each represented by their animal counterpart — the Donkey or the Elephant. [...]
There are many ways we experience Halloween. Obviously, the most common way involves a celebration with costume parties and trick-or-treating. Other ways include playing pranks, telling scary stories, visiting haunted houses and watching horror movies. As this blog is about Ego Awareness and the tricks our minds can play on us, I wanted to see how Halloween can [...]
If you ask my wife, she will confirm that I sound like a broken record when it comes to recording the details of any particular situation, especially if you perceive it negatively. I strongly recommend that we take great care in recording events as objectively as possible, since they will come back to haunt you [...]
This is a topic that has been discussed for ages. Questions such as how much money do you need to be happy? I wrote about my perspective on the Million Dollar Myth last week. Even though I can separate the need for money and happiness, I discovered over this weekend that I do have anxiety [...]
For years I have heard so many people say to me, "Once I have a million dollars, everything will be okay" or some variation of that statement. In fact, I used to be one of those people as well. About 10 years ago, I was fortunate to let go of that belief when I realized [...]
One of the most powerful movies that moved me to tears while inspiring me into action was Pay It Forward. It stars Haley Joel Osment as a boy who launches a good-will movement, Helen Hunt as his single mother, and Kevin Spacey as his social-studies teacher. Over the last two weeks, I have had to capture [...]
"The most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later." — Randy Komisar I was told that September is National Self Improvement month. So I went looking for what a number of us are working to [...]
Today is Happiness Happens Day! Thought I'd make an attempt to demystify a common myth about pleasure and happiness. People have this belief that their lives could be improved purely by indulging in pleasure-filled activities that can be often be purchased for money. Yes, many of these activities do provide immediate pleasure and alter your [...]
It has been two weeks, just 14 days, since our world lost a great humanitarian and true leader, in Dr. Stephen R. Covey. It seems like the news of this amazing human being's life has all but died down in the media merely one week after his passing. Stephen Covey, best known for his runaway bestseller, The 7 Habits [...]
We live busy lives with too much going on most of the time. The very fact that I am up at 1:30 AM trying to write and share this post is a testament to how busy we are. Rushing around in this state seems like we are running in an auto-pilot mode, like a zombie [...]
At the outset, I would like to thank everyone who took the time to read and comment on my article which appeared on InspireMeToday.com and outlined what I felt were the key learnings in my life to date. The comments that I received touched all four key areas of learning. To keep my post organized, I thought it might help [...]
