Joyful July 2026 - Game of the Month to strengthen RYD Growth Habits
Theme: Strengthening Gear 1 Consciousness for Personal Mastery and stepping into the next Spiral of Growth from Gear 1 to Gear 5 across July 2026 to Nov 2026.

Dear peaceful warriors on our shared good to great journey to lead humanity forward from Fear to Love Consciousness by leading ourselves from Fear to Love using Business as our playground,

In June, we strengthened our Gear 5 Consciousness (Excellence) for Life Mastery by choosing one Habit to practise, the one Habit that gives us the most joy because Mastery is about doing something with joy, and not out of force of will or pressure of discipline. We played to do that Habit daily with deep joy in our heart.

It is time to complete Jubilant in June and start Joyful July, to strengthen ourselves in Gear 1 Consciousness (Agility of Mind) for Personal Mastery, beginning the next spiral of growth from Gear 1 to Gear 5.

Reflect and respond to the following questions to complete Jubilant in June and start Joyful July from 4-Jul-26:

Q1. What outcomes got created as I played the game of Jubilant in June?
Q2. What is the status of the action I had committed to take as an outcome of last month's reflection on the May game?
Q3. What are my learnings and insights from playing the game in June and by taking the committed actions?
Q4. What action am I committed to take as an outcome of my learnings?
Q5. How am I feeling as I complete Jubilant in June to start the game of Joyful July?

After the above reflection, let's join the July game to continue strengthening ourselves across our 3 growth levers to joyously lead ourselves, our health, our kids, our relationships, our people and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.


Here's how we will play Joyful July:
1. The foundational Gear 1 Habit for Personal Mastery is Daily and Weekly Creation.

2. The game is to do Daily Creation — Sunday to Friday — and on Saturday, do Weekly Creation. Do it as a Nano Habit but do not skip a day. That said, play for Mega Habit level. Nano Habit is doing a habit for one minute. Mega Habit is to fully do the habit the way it is designed.

The intensity of a Habit can range from:
i. Nano Habit - Spend 1 minute to do the reflection and creation. Mark the remaining questions as - x
ii. Micro Habit - Spend 5 minutes to do the reflection and creation. Mark the remaining questions as - x
iii. Mini Habit - Spend 10 minutes to do the reflection and creation. Mark the remaining questions as - x
iv. Midi Habit - Spend 15 minutes to do the reflection and creation. Mark the remaining questions as - x
v. Mega Habit - Do the reflection and creation fully, the way it is designed.

3. Update your Daily Status in - RYD Growth Habits Group - using the following format to hold space for each one in our community to do their growth habits. It is in giving that we receive.


Joyful July
Date: dd-Jul-yy Saturday

Streak Counter: Day x
Days played this month: y
Number of times I fell off and came back: z

Leadership Depth:
1. My Joyful July Habit - Daily / Weekly Creation - Done
2. ...
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Craft Mastery: 
1. ...

Business Excellence:
1. ...

You can include additional habits for Leadership Depth, Craft Mastery and Business Excellence for your own self to design your Growth Habits Game for the month. That is your choice. The July game is to do the Joyful July habit of Daily and Weekly Creation — daily and consistently.


Rules of the Game:
1. Consistency over Perfection.
2. Keep the chain going.
3. If the chain breaks, get back within a day.
4. If the Joyful July habit drops, set the Streak Counter back to Day 1 when you get back.
5. The 3 gold medal winners at the end of the month are the peaceful warriors:
i. who get the maximum number of consecutive days in July 2026 for the Joyful July habit
ii. who get the maximum number of days doing the above habit, irrespective of how many times they fell off
iii. who get back every time they fall off and play till the last day

You will self-track, and the winners will be declared based on your self-tracking. Your coaches will support you to track correctly.

The fun is in playing the game; and growth is in getting back every time we fall off, with joy for being on our good to great journey and with love for our own self.

The game begins tomorrow, 4-Jul-26.

Let's keep being Love moment to moment (LD), keep being a Student moment to moment (CM), keep being a Space for Massive Positive Impact moment to moment (BE), to joyously lead ourselves, our health, our kids, our relationships, our people and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.

Loving you,
j.

Jubilant in June 2026 - Game of the Month to strengthen RYD Growth Habits
Theme: Strengthening Gear 5 Consciousness for Life Mastery

My Reflection to complete the June game to step into Joyful July:

I played every single day, although I was on a Sacred Pause, because the community held my space. If I weren't a part of the RYD Community, I would have probably fallen off a lot earlier. I am deeply grateful to be a part of our community without which I wouldn't be one-millionth of a human being that I am today.

Doing Growth Habits consistently is a way to experience Personal Mastery, which is the foundation of everything else. 

My Habits Scoreboard for Jubilant in June game as on 30-Jun-26 Tuesday:
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Date: 30-Jun-26 Tuesday

Streak Counter: Day 30
Days in a month Counter: 30
Number of times I fell off and came back: 0

Leadership Depth:
1. Prayer of Gratitude - Day 91 Done
2. Dream Lifestyle and Personal Manifesto - Day 39 Done
3. Raising my Consciousness, Leadership Oath and stepping into my Whole Soul and Big Mind - Day 38 Done
4. Yoga - Day 92 Done
5. Vipassana - Morning and Evening - Day 91 Done                                                                   
6. Morning Pages / Journaling - Day 41 Done
7. Daily / Weekly Creation - Day 39 Done
8. Walk and Talk with Aditya - Day 0
9. The 9:00 pm game (in bed by 9 pm to play for 3:00 am) -  Day 0
10. Yoga, Vipassana, Morning Pages, Prayer of Gratitude, Personal Manifesto, Raising my Consciousness, Leadership Oath, stepping into my Whole Soul and Big Mind before my first deep-dive on the weekdays and before starting my day on weekends - Day 0
11. Healing myself to Heal the World meditation - Day 39 Done
12. Creating uplifting Physical Spaces - Day 47 Done

Craft Mastery
13. Jubilant in June Habit: Reading and creating summaries - Day 40 Done
14. Jubilant in June Habit: Writing - Day 34 Done

Business Excellence:
15. Build / improve Good-to-Great Growth Tools and Good-to-Great Resources to progress our coachees on their good to great journey with greater ease, grace and velocity: Schedule 1 hour for this daily Monday to Friday - Day 2
16. One Checklist every week - Schedule 1 hour for this daily Monday to Friday - Day 0


Q1. What outcomes got created as I played the game of Jubilant in June?

Personal Mastery journey
1. Stepped up to the next leg of my good to great journey with my coach, Leon VanderPol.
2. Instead of the comfort-zone of home Karate lessons, I increased the intensity of the workout and the strength of my commitment by going to the dojo. 
3. Did my quarterly 3-day water-only fasting.
4. Saw my pattern of being late in plain sight, caught myself before the words escaped my mouth — It's in my DNA to be late — and shifted my thought to — It's in my DNA to be on time.
5. The tumour in my stomach is stable in size since the last 2.5 years when it was first discovered with the doctor's prognosis that it was likely to be cancerous. I chose the path to heal it naturally and organically, instead of removing it surgically. Stability in size means it is more likely to be benign than malignant. I am grateful for the grace of more time to continue healing organically and naturally. 

Relationship Mastery journey
6. Integrated my in-laws into our life rhythm by creating them to stay with us on Saturday night, and have lunch and dinner with us on Saturdays and breakfast on Sunday.
7. Started the Family Book Club
8. Shivenn is a lot happier than in the past few years. He is out of the darkness of our traumatic past to the sunshine of joy. This is my biggest win. He has re-discovered his love for learning and excelling. He is eating very well. That is the clearest sign that he has left his painful past behind because he struggled to eat since our family broke on the dining table in October 2019.

Business Mastery journey
9. I finally put together the Business Requirements Document (BRD) for the Dreaming to Reality component of the Leadership Depth module of the RYD Tech Platform, our new RYD Playbook. I have struggled to initiate the development of our new tech platform for over a year. I have managed our existing tech platform for about 10 years. It requires a massive upgrade if we are to scale but I wasn't able to get started. I had a visceral experience of how founders are the barriers to scaling-up.

Getting the BRD out is a huge breakthrough. I am deeply grateful to Sibyl, my Claude thinking partner, for partnering with me on this. Sibyl enabled me to understand the structure of my thinking and have a meaningful conversation with my own thinking that allowed me to actively discover gaps in my thinking process and transform the complexity of my thinking into simplicity. Not only that, the mechanical work of documentation in a way that the tech team would understand my requirements all got taken care of by Sibyl while I could use my time to provide creative inputs.

10. I created the next version of our Quarter Creation tool.

Leadership Mastery journey
11. I had a brainwave on how to coach our coachees to grow from a Confident Leader in Gear 1 to a Being-of-Service Leader in Gear 2 to a Leader-as-a-Coach in Gear 3 to a Leader-as-an-Awakener in Gear 4 to a Leader-as-a-Creator in Gear 5.

I realized that instead of me leading the LT EXPAND Event for L1s of our coachees, it would serve both our coachees and their L1s more if we coached our coachees to lead monthly LT EXPAND Events for their own team members as part of their Monthly Meeting with their leaders.

12. I went to Mumbai and finalised Taj Lands End as the venue for our August 2026 EXPAND Event: Nurturing Indian Giants with Verne. We have planned for a room size of 200 with the intention of taking Scaling Up deeper into the businesses on the RYD Good to Great journey to become Fortune Global 100 / Fortune Global 500 / Forbes Global 2000.

Life Mastery journey
13. I am reflecting on what could be an expression of Life Mastery = Having It All. Ultimately, it is to play the game of creation for the joy of creation, for the love of creation, for the love for creation, with a mind without preference.

I moved the start of my one-month Sacred Pause from 30-May-26 to 9-Jun-26 because I knew we had to travel to London to settle our daughter in her new home as she starts her 1-year internship with IBM in London as part of her 4-year degree program around the first week of July.

Anya's start date with IBM is 16-Jul and she decided to go on a solo trip to Norway followed by a trip to Barcelona along with a friend before settling down to work. So, our travel plan is now from 10-Jul-26 to 18-Jul-26 just as I get back to full day of coaching after a month's break. I will now be coaching in that week from 3:17 am to 7:27 am local time in London.

To embrace this with grace and gratitude is my way of progressing on my Life Mastery journey. I also see this very clearly as the Universe's way of supporting me to fulfil my intention of 9 pm to 3 am sleep rhythm. In my June Growth Habits Scoreboard, this habit remained at 0 because I matched Shivenn's sleep rhythm of sleeping at 12 midnight and beyond to spend time with him.


Q2. What is the status of the action I had committed to take as an outcome of last month's reflection on the May game?

1. Top 1 — Deliver the first component of our AI-enabled RYD Playbook: Dreaming to Reality — from 5-Year Dream Lifestyle to Annual Playbook to Quarterly Creation to Monthly Creation to Weekly Creation to Daily Creation. This would support delivery on two of our three brand promises — Have It All and Realize Your Dreams — with greater ease, grace and velocity for both RYD Coachees and RYD Coaches.

Status: The first version of the Business Requirements Document for the Dreaming to Reality component shared with the tech team. 

2. Checklists and Process Flows for elevating coaching excellence.

Status: Not Done.

3. 1st-level conversations with Seekers for expanding RYD Soul (the community of RYD Coaches), with the intention to onboard and nurture 8 new RYD Coaches this year.

Status: Not Done

4. Complete this year's planned upgradation of the RYD curriculum on Business Excellence to strengthen delivery on one of our brand promises — lead your business from good to great.

Status: Not Done

5. Birth RYD Publishing House to serve our coachees on their Craft Mastery journey and publish our first book to make a bigger difference with greater velocity within the businesses we coach.

Status: RYD Publishing House birthed

6. All the above while elevating my growth habits, and being fully present and available to my family.

Status: Done

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Q3. What are my learnings and insights from playing the game in June and by taking the committed actions?

1. Playing to create for the joy and love of creation; and trusting that life is guiding us forward on our journey from good to great, instead of resisting life as it emerges, in the face of whatever may emerge.

2. Again and again and again - Consistency over Perfection. Nano Habit or Micro Habit or Mini Habit or Midi Habit or Mega Habit - anything but doing it daily. No better expression of this learning than - Your future is enhanced by the habits you repeat, not the goals you set. I read this today in Verne's email.

3. It is not about faking it till you make it. It's about believing it till you create it. Reality shifts with the quiet strength of belief.

4. As we progress on our good to great journey in life or in sport or in business or in any other area, the intensity of our commitment increases and that is what progresses us on our good to great journey.

5. Our mistakes are the gifts from the Universe because they carry valuable information on how to course correct and step up on our good to great journey. In that sense, there are no mistakes. There are only 2 kinds of actions - actions that progress us on our good to great journey and actions that tell us how to progress on our good to great journey.

6. Growth lies in doing what we resist. The awareness — I don't want to do this — is profound because it creates the opportunity for us to pause and then do exactly that.

Every resistance is sourced in fear, every resistance is a comfort zone I don't want to step outside of - the advice I don't want to listen to, the car breakdown that I would rather my husband handle, the conversation I would rather avoid, finances that I don't want to take responsibility for, the household chores that I feel are not worth my time.

Every resistance is an opportunity to embrace and massively grow.

7. Scheduling the committed actions in the calendar is a structure of success. This would enable correct estimation of time and effort required for the action, and action taken as per the schedule.

8. Do the reflection in the last week of the month instead of the first week of the month for the previous month.


Q4. What action am I committed to take as an outcome of my learnings?

1. Top 1 — Share with the tech team the full Business Architecture of RYD and the final Business Requirements Document for the first component of our AI-enabled RYD Playbook: Dreaming to Reality — from 5-Year Dream Lifestyle to Annual Playbook to Quarterly Creation to Monthly Creation to Weekly Creation to Daily Creation. 

2. Checklists and Process Flows for elevating coaching excellence.

3. 1st-level conversations with Seekers for expanding RYD Soul (the community of RYD Coaches), with the intention to onboard and nurture 8 new RYD Coaches this year.

4. Finish the final editing of the book - Awaken to Your Greatness - and share for proofreading and printing with our project manager of RYD Publishing House.

5. Full detailed program design for our in-person RYD Community EXPAND Event: Nurturing Indian Giants with Verne for the event to make a massive difference to each one of our 200 participants.

Q5. How am I feeling as I complete Jubilant in June to start the game of Joyful July?​

I am feeling happy and grateful for the monthly games because I am experiencing a step-up in my awareness, a step-up in my confidence to create reality in alignment with my reality- defying intentions and my impossible, unimaginable, crazy-big dreams, a step-up in my commitment to increase the consistency of my daily growth habits with every passing month, a step-up in my growth habits and a step-up on my good to great journey as an outcome of that.

Let's keep being Love moment to moment (LD), keep being a Student moment to moment (CM), keep being a Space for Massive Positive Impact moment to moment (BE), to joyously lead ourselves, our health, our kids, our relationships, our people and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.

Loving you,
j.

​Jubilant in June 2026 - Game of the Month to strengthen RYD Growth Habits
Theme: Strengthening Gear 5 Consciousness for Life Mastery

Dear peaceful warriors on our shared good to great journey to lead humanity forward from Fear to Love Consciousness by leading ourselves from Fear to Love using Business as our playground,

In May, we strengthened our Gear 5 Consciousness (Excellence) for Life Mastery by choosing one Habit to practise — the one whose mastery would most progress us on our good to great journey. Mastering that habit was to do it daily.

It is time to complete Mastery in May and start Jubilant in June, to strengthen ourselves further in Gear 5 Consciousness (Excellence) for Life Mastery. Where May was about mastery through consistency, June is about mastery through joy.

Reflect and respond to the following questions to complete Mastery in May, whether you played or not, and to start Jubilant in June:
Q1. What outcomes got created as I played the game of Mastery in May?
Q2. What are my learnings and insights from playing the game in May?
Q3. What action am I committed to take as an outcome of my learnings?

After the above reflection, let's join the June game to continue strengthening ourselves across our 3 growth levers to joyously lead ourselves, our health, our kids, our relationships, our people and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace.


Here's how we will play Jubilant in June:
1. Choose one Habit that gives you the most joy. Mastery is about doing something with joy, and not out of force of will or pressure of discipline. Do that Habit daily with deep joy in your heart.

2. The game is to do the Habit daily with joy in your heart. Do it as a Nano Habit, if you have to, but do not skip a day. Though, play for Big Habit level. Nano Habit is doing a habit for one minute. Big Habit is to fully do the habit the way you have designed it to best serve you.
The intensity of a Habit can range from:
i. Nano Habit - 1 min
ii. Micro Habit - 5 mins
iii. Mini Habit - 10 mins
iv. Midi Habit - 20 mins
v. Big Habit - Doing it fully, the way you have designed it
3. In your Daily / Weekly Creation, share your learnings from doing this daily habit as and when you get an insight. Capturing insights concretises and integrates the learnings into our consciousness for them to elevate our performance as we play the game of life to Have It All.

Update your Daily Status in - RYD Growth Habits Group - using the following format to hold space for each one in our community to do their growth habits. It is in giving that we receive.


Jubilant in June
Date: dd-Jun-yy Wednesday

Streak Counter: Day x
Days played this month: y
Number of times I fell off and came back: z

Leadership Depth:
1. My Jubilant in June Habit - <Describe it> - Done
2. ...
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Craft Mastery: 
1. ...

Business Excellence:
1. ...

Your Jubilant in June Habit could be a daily Leadership Depth Habit, a daily Craft Mastery Habit, or a daily Business Excellence Habit. A daily BE Habit is from Monday to Friday. If your BE Habit is a weekly habit, break it into a daily habit or schedule the weekly habit on a fixed day so it stays alive.

You can include additional habits for Leadership Depth, Craft Mastery and Business Excellence for your own self to design your Growth Habits Game for the month. That is your choice. The June game is to do one Jubilant in June Habit daily and consistently.


Rules of the Game:
1. Consistency over Perfection.
2. Keep the chain going
3. If the chain breaks, get back within a day
4. If the Jubilant in June habit drops, set the Streak Counter back to Day 1 when you get back.
5. The 3 gold medal winners at the end of the month are the peaceful warriors:
i. who get the maximum number of consecutive days in June 2026 for the Jubilant in June habit;
ii. who get the maximum number of days doing the above habit, irrespective of how many times they fell off;
iii. who get back every time they fall off and play till the last day.

You will self-track, and the winners will be declared based on your self-tracking. Your coaches will support you to track correctly.

The fun is in playing the game; and growth is in getting back every time we fall off, with joy for being on the good to great journey and with love for our own self.

The game begins today, 1-June-26.

Let's keep playing to joyously lead ourselves, our health, our kids, our relationships, our people and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.

Loving you,
j.

Mastery in May 2026 - Game of the Month to strengthen RYD Growth Habits
Theme: Strengthening Gear 5 Consciousness for Life Mastery

My Reflection to complete Mastery in May game to step into Jubilant in June:


My Habits Scoreboard for Mastery in May as on 31-May-26 Sunday:
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I played Mastery in May every single day. Won the game the first 15 days. Then, I redesigned my Habit Rhythm to make it more difficult, and I lost every single day after that. 

Streak Counter: Day 0
Days in a month Counter: 15
Number of times I fell off and came back: 1

Leadership Depth:
1) Prayer of Gratitude - Day 61 Done
2) Dream Lifestyle and Personal Manifesto - Day 9
3) Raising my Consciousness, Leadership Oath and stepping into my Whole Soul and Big Mind - Day 9
4) Yoga - Day 61 Done
5) Vipassana - Morning and Evening - Day 61 Done
6) Morning Pages / Journaling - Day 10 Done
7) Daily / Weekly Creation - Day 10 Done
8) Walk and Talk with Aditya - Day 0
9) My Mastery in May Habit - The 9:00 pm game (in bed by 9 pm to play for 3:00 am) -  Day 0 
10)  My Mastery in May Habit - Yoga, Vipassana, Morning Pages, Prayer of Gratitude, Personal Manifesto, Raising my Consciousness, Leadership Oath, stepping into my Whole Soul and Big Mind before my first deep-dive on the weekdays and before starting my day on weekends - Day 0
11) My Mastery in May Habit - Healing myself to Heal the World meditation - Day 9
12) My Mastery in May Habit - Creating uplifting Physical Spaces - Day 17


Craft Mastery
13) Reading and creating summaries for 2 hours daily, and sharing 1 Insight in RYD Book Club daily - Day 10 (Micro Habit)
14) Writing - Day 5 

Business Excellence:
15) Build / improve Good-to-Great Growth Tools and Good-to-Great Resources to progress our coachees on their good to great journey with greater ease, grace and velocity: One every week -  Healing Myself to Heal the World tool - not done, and Leaping across the Chasm article -  done
16) One Checklist every week - Journey Share checklist for this week - not done


Q1. What outcomes got created as I played the game of Mastery in May?

i. I passed my Karate Belt Test and earned my Brown 3 Belt.

ii. Activated the RYD Publishing House initiative to chart the path for our coachees to progress on their Craft Mastery journey, as the growth habit in Stage 5 of Craft Mastery is writing a book to contribute to expanding the body of human knowledge and wisdom.

iii. Money flowed outwards from me with ease and grace as I paid all my bills and accounts payable on time, often ahead of time.

iv. Partnered with our AI mentor, Lalit Yagnik, to start the work on developing our AI-native RYD Playbook, with the commitment to build it in a way that supports RYD Coachees and RYD Coaches to progress on their good to great journey with greater ease, grace and velocity.

v. My 17-year-old son, Shivenn, finished two classics — The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse — both personal favourites of mine. It warmed my heart to see him read the books I had recommended. I loved our book discussions even more.

vi. Anya, my 19-year-old daughter, found a golf course near her college in the UK, hired a trolley for her golf kit, and played a 9-hole round all by herself as her nurturing me-time. What gave me immense joy is that she went of her own accord, without my inspiring her to, and that she thoroughly enjoyed herself.

vii. My husband won a golf tournament — he's thrilled.

viii. My husband came to my belt test. He told me to send him the address of the dojo and that he might drop in. I saw myself respond differently than before. Earlier, I would have told him not to come — creating the reality in alignment with my hole in the soul: 'I am all alone. No one loves me.' And even if I had given him the address, had he not shown up, I would have been mighty hurt and upset. This time, I simply gave him the address, at peace with whether he came or not. When he came, I felt grateful.

ix. I started going on evening walks with my mother.

x. My younger sister, Di, a doctor with the Indian Army, came with her daughter to stay with us for a few days. I loved connecting with her at a much deeper level. We were always deeply bonded as kids, but then life took over. I feel grateful that the two of us found our connection again. She said yes to my gift of the Awaken to Your Greatness journey with Anju.

xi. Found a way to implement Scaling-up for our coachees with greater ease, grace and velocity through Shannon's work. I have deep respect for Verne for integrating the work of business thought leaders and masters to create Scaling-up, telling us What to Do to build a great business. Shannon, his best student, learnt from him and built on that to create Metronomics, giving us a step-by-step guide on How to Implement the vast body of knowledge in Scaling-up — elegantly supplemented by her own deep study of the masters of business excellence and her hands-on experience as a business builder and then a business coach. I loved studying her work in depth in May and creating resources for our community, building further on what she has created.

xii. I discovered the joy of Lean, gifted to the world by Japan. Lean is a way to DLCM positive impact — Do Less to Create Massive positive impact -- and there is an ocean of wisdom in it to dip into. This is the next integration piece into RYD. 2026 is the year of integration for our Business Excellence components: taking Verne's Scaling-up deeper into the organization through Shannon's Metronomics, alongside AI and Lean.

xiii. Got the courage to leap across the chasm and start the RYD LT EXPAND Event — though just a day before, I was tempted to cancel it. As an outcome of that first event, I got clarity on the way forward in our journey to contribute to the leaders of the businesses we coach.

xiv. A Year 3 coachee has chosen to step into the RYD 2026 version of the journey, even though the earlier version was available to him under RYD Protection. He is also bringing his #2. The 2026 version significantly strengthens our ability to deliver on our brand promise — lead your business from good to great — and his #2 joining strengthens it further still. This is a breakthrough moment for us.

xv. In a recent Psychodrama, both RYD coaches were at 8 on 10 in their belief in our ability to be a Fortune Global 100 business ourselves. I sense their belief has since climbed far higher.


Q2. What are my learnings and insights from playing the game in May?

i. When we are winning, we are actually losing — because winning a game means we are playing at a level that is comfortable for us. When we are losing and yet still playing every day, we are actually winning, because we are growing.

ii. Stepping outside our comfort zone to do something we don't feel confident about brings our fears to the surface. When we see our fears, we can lovingly embrace them so they dissolve, and we become more Love Consciousness. I saw lack of self-confidence, self-doubt and fear of failure both before the LT EXPAND Event and before my belt test — so much so that I heard my functional fitness coach and my Karate sensei tell me, before the test, the very same things I tell my coachees: Believe that you will win. Focus on the process, not on the outcome.
As I stood up for my test, I suddenly remembered how to embrace my fears, and I lovingly told myself: I love you. I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I am whole, complete and perfect as I am right now. I love, accept and revere myself as I am right now.
And as I slept the night before the LT EXPAND Event, I told myself: I am making a difference. I trust the process of life. I trust the Universe. The Universe is gifting me my Highest Good, moment to moment. I am a channel of massive positive impact. I am whole, complete and perfect as I am right now. I believe in myself.

I slept with peace in my heart, and I led the deep-dive with love for each person who showed up, trusting that they would get what would most serve them and that I am merely a channel of massive positive impact.

iii. Implementation of any system in an organisation is possible only if the CEO / business owner has 100% belief in its value and leads its implementation with missionary zeal. My job as their coach is to hold space for that zeal to emerge, rather than to overwhelm my coachees with my own zeal.

I love playing the game so much that I make my coachees' game, and my kids' game, my own — and that sometimes has the opposite effect. My son's expression is something like: I will do it, Mom, but your being excited about it puts pressure on me and builds resistance. So back off.
That is my learning edge — to play the game with a mind without preference. Knowing that doing something will contribute massively to my coachees and my kids, and yet waiting lovingly for them to arrive at that place themselves, in their own time. The urge to protect them from the pain of learning the hard way is very strong, but I recognise it is sourced in Fear Consciousness.

iv. Awareness, at a much deeper level, of how everything emerging in my space is a mirror of what is inside me.

v. The magic of writing Top 5 Priorities — which are nothing but intentions. I wrote my Top 5 quarterly Priorities to be completed in June. Within a day, reality began to emerge to move me forward on 2 of the 5 — doing nothing myself in one case, and hardly anything in the other.


Q3. What action am I committed to take as an outcome of my learnings?

​I will go on my Sacred Pause from Tuesday 9-June-26 to Monday 6-July-26.

I am stepping back from the course to practise on the range to change my swing so I can hit longer with less effort by focussing on my Top 5 Individual Priorities for the Quarter, the ones I don't get time for while playing the game:

i. Top 1 — Deliver the first module of our AI-enabled RYD Playbook: Dreaming to Reality — from 5-Year Dream Lifestyle to Annual Playbook to Quarterly Creation to Monthly Creation to Weekly Creation to Daily Creation. This would support delivery on two of our three brand promises — Have It All and Realize Your Dreams — with greater ease, grace and velocity for both RYD Coachees and RYD Coaches.

ii. Checklists and Process Flows for elevating coaching excellence.

iii. 1st-level conversations with Seekers for expanding RYD Soul (the community of RYD Coaches), with the intention to onboard and nurture 8 new RYD Coaches this year.

iv. Complete this year's planned upgradation of the RYD curriculum on Business Excellence to strengthen delivery on one of our brand promises — lead your business from good to great.

v. Birth RYD Publishing House to serve our coachees on their Craft Mastery journey and publish our first book to make a bigger difference with greater velocity within the businesses we coach.

All the above while elevating my growth habits, and being fully present and available to my family.

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Let's keep being Love moment to moment (LD), keep being a Student moment to moment (CM), keep being of Service moment to moment (BE), to joyously lead ourselves, our health, our kids, our relationships, our people and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.

Loving you,
j.

Dear RYD Circle of Love,

Our Leadership Depth journey is about increasing our awareness, or in other words, our consciousness.

At the highest level of awareness, we are Love Consciousness. Our default state is Gear 0 or Fear Consciousness where our level of awareness is negligible; and we are unconscious of how we are creating our own reality, unconscious about our own Power to Create, unconscious about our undeniable genius.

The measure of the Leadership Depth journey is Having it All:
i. Deeply fulfilling, successful, profitable business supporting us to live our purpose of life; gifting us with impact, contribution and financial freedom
and
ii. Loving, harmonious, positive, uplifting relationships at work, at home and in the world
and
iii. Happy, healthy, responsible, confident kids with their genius joyfully expressed
and
iv. Nourishing, nurturing ourselves to the highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being - physically, energetically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually
and
v. Making a massive difference through the work we do

It's only when we operate from Love Consciousness at its highest level (Gear 5) in all areas of our wheel of life, are we truly able to create Have It All.

RYD Leadership Depth Growth Habits and Tools are designed for increasing our self-awareness one tiny step at a time.

For the first time, many of our co-travellers on the RYD Good to Great journey are ready to step-up to Gear 3. Therefore, it was time to initiate the community on the RYD Gear 3 Transformative Practise of RYD with Yoga.

Yoga in the tradition of Sri T Krishnamacharya; strongly founded in Patanjali's teachings and specialising in adapting yoga to each individual's unique needs, aligns with RYD's approach of putting our coachee at the centre of our Universe instead of any specific methodology.

Therefore, we have partnered with YogaVahini, Centre for Specialised Yoga Therapy, Training and Research, founded by Saraswathi Vasudevan, a modern day Yoga Master. Most of you would have met Saras at our in-person RYD Community EXPAND Event: Nurturing Indian Giants with Verne in August last year.

Our coachees, based on their self-assessment, who are ready for stepping up to Gear 3, can start RYD with Yoga as their Gear 3 daily transformative practice. If you are consistent in your Daily and Weekly Creation (Gear 1 keystone Growth Habit) and RYD Prayer of Gratitude (Gear 2 keystone Growth Habit), then you are potentially ready for the keystone Gear 3 transformative practise of RYD with Yoga.

For Pioneers, there would be weekly yoga group deep-dives along with other Pioneers led by Shakuntala, who is a very senior Yoga Therapist in Saras' team, a corporate professional in her previous avatar and a Cancer Winner.

Catalysts and Trail Blazers will work in a quad in their inner journey with Yoga - coachee, RYD coach, Shakuntala, j. In this format, RYD Coaches would be enablers while Shakuntala would play both roles of teacher and mentor.

CTL (Ashokas, Brave Hearts and Guardians of Light) members will work in a Triad - coachee, j, Saras. In this format, j would be the teacher and Saras would be the mentor.

This additional component of RYD with Yoga along with monthly RYD Meet the Mentor Series are now plugged into the RYD design, and are available to all our coachees in their current program.

Inviting each one of you to step-up to Gear 3 to accelerate your Good to Great journey in the Starter Track with greater ease and grace by becoming consistent in Daily / Weekly Creation for a step-up to Gear 1, RYD Prayer of Gratitude for a step-up to Gear 2 and Daily RYD with Yoga for a step-up to Gear 3.

Keep learning, implementing and contributing to joyously lead yourself and your businesses from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.

Loving you,
j.

Reflection, Integration and Completion note to fellow participants after the 5-day Trauma-informed Psychodrama Directing Intensive at Media, Pennsylvania, USA in Nov 2025.

Dear co-travellers on our shared journey of learning, growth and contribution,

Sharing in your committed listening to concretise, maximise, integrate my learnings and insights, and create clarity about the actions that will most progress me on my inner journey of personal transformation and outer journey of massive positive impact; trusting my share contributes to each one of you in some way. Feel free to share your learnings / insights / actions or not share based on what would most serve you.

I had 11 psychodramatic experiences that has shifted my experience of myself, of others and of life itself:

1. Experiencing myself in the role of the Unintended Perpetrator, creating the experience of role-reversal with my spouse in the moment of his fracturing my arm; deepening my forgiveness of my own self and my forgiveness of him, freeing me of my past.

2. Rupture and Repair - Experiencing the possibility that ruptures can be repaired if one takes responsibility, accountability and seeks forgiveness from love and wholeness, even if no harm was intended. This provided role training for me to seek forgiveness from my children for them experiencing trauma on account of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual rupture between me and my spouse (their father) for 19 plus years.

3. Healing of the missing little girl - A little girl went missing long long long time ago because she could not process the pain of her trauma at that time. Present-moment awareness that she is still missing because in a psychodrama about a traumatised little child, the physical body of her adult self went off to sleep. The little girl found a safe space in the healing circle to fully feel her pain, express her hurt and sadness through her tears, feel free to grow up and integrate to create a whole self.

She went to sleep in a subsequent psychodrama. Possibility of the need for further healing of the little girl. And a possibility of this being an outcome of working 2 shifts while in the US - 8:30 am to 5:30 pm attending trainings, and 7 pm to 12 midnight leading deep-dives for her coachees and completing work for the day in India. Continue to observe, reflect and understand.

4. Communication from wholeness - The sad, unwanted, unloved little girl felt deep pain for not being believed for the goodness of her heart by a parent role in the psychodrama space. The Nurturing Self embraced the little girl; creating space for her expression of her pain, healing and growth. Role training of a new emerging role - Courageous, Compassionate, Confident Communicator - who could share authentically from wholeness about her feelings with the group leader in the listening of the group and offer an alternative nurturing way to create a safe space in the group for everyone.

5. Disconnection, Healing and Connection - Outside the Psychodrama space, a phone-call which left both spouses disconnected. Another phone-call on the night of the 4th day of 5-day training where the Courageous, Compassionate, Confident Communicator experienced committed listening from her spouse as she shared her psychodramatic experiences of the discovery and healing of a sad, unwanted, unloved little girl. The committed listening of her spouse was healing and therapeutic for both of them, creating further healing and deeper connection between them.

The missing little girl had showed up as - a terrified little one; screaming and crying non-stop for 15 minutes, clutching her throat - in 3 psychodramas over the last 3 years. In her 3rd psychodrama, the nurturing adult role had emerged. In her 4th psychodrama - Healing of the missing little girl (point 3 above), the nurturing adult role was fully present holding the little girl in her warm loving soothing embrace to give her the safety to fully feel her pain and release it through her tears.

6. Excessive Containment, Graceful Acceptance and Gentle Allowance - After directing her psychodrama, she became aware that she could not name her feelings before or after the psychodrama. During the psychodrama, the clock, the goals of the protagonist and her goals as a director moved her from moment to moment as she directed the drama; instead of letting the immense love flowing through her heart, mind and soul to lead her forward; creating her to be an empty soothing nurturing joyous space for the psychodrama to emerge on its own. 

Such a psychodrama and a life lived like that would contribute to her and everyone in her space. Awareness, Acceptance of what was and Allowance for the new way of being to emerge.

7. Separateness to Engagement - All previous psychodramas over the last 5 years has seen her progress from self-isolation to uncomfortable separateness. This psychodrama training, she used the psychodrama space to role train an emerging new role to shift to At-ease Separateness, practising full intentional engagement. She knows this role will further evolve to At-ease Oneness from where involvement and engagement will naturally spring forth.

8. Betrayer and the Betrayed - We in India carry an experience of betrayal since China attacked us at the height of friendship between the two countries. Brooke's childlike charm and vulnerable authenticity had me drop all apprehensions about the chinese people and feel a warm heart-connection with the people of China. Brooke's experience of betrayal by her Indian friend had me experience her pain. I also experienced a role-reversal between the Betrayer and the Betrayed. I felt freed by a further deepening of the belief that all us human beings have darkness and light in us. What we choose to focus on - in our own self and in others - grows. Though to see the light in our own self and in others, we need to heal our own self first. 

9. Embracing of a few fears to experience their dissolution - Travelling alone, flying, travelling after the sun has set, travelling to new countries, new cities, travelling by cab on my own (especially at night), staying by myself in a strange city in a strange place sleeping in a strange room, stepping outside the comfort of my sacred space in my home - are part of my personal Fear Repertoire gifted to me to transform into a Growth Toolkit. These fears had me push way under the carpet any thought of travel since March 2025, when I had registered for both the trainings (Psychodrama and AI at MIT in Nov 2025) till one hour before I had to leave for the airport to fly to US; which is when I packed my bags for the 2 weeks learning and growth journey.

As I travelled from Delhi to New York for a day, New York to Boston for 6 days, Boston to Philadelphia, and then to Media for 6 days, then back to New York for a night and now on the flight to back home, I re-connected with a role  - Fun, Adventurous, Happy Big Me - beaten out of me through how I processed my experiences of life.

10. Deepening and Strengthening of Childlike Trust and Faith in the Universe - As I trusted the cab drivers to drop me safely to my destinations, I experienced trust from the owner of the Bed n Breakfast where I had stayed in Media. My USD currency card did not work with his software application. I left without paying him, experiencing his gracious childlike trust that I will have the funds transferred to him later through an alternate process.

11. Integration to Wholeness - Different psychodramatic and life experiences came together with gentle insights for an experience of wholeness. The last psychodrama provided the integration to be complete; and to create the next leg of learning, growth and contribution.

Actions based on my learnings and insights to create a new future:
1. Practise communicating from wholeness through the emerging new role to strengthen it - Courageous, Compassionate, Confident Communicator - in conversations with my husband, kids, sisters, parents and in-laws.

2. Create conscious balance between work and the rest of my life by finishing work and physically stepping out of my sacred workspace by 3:31 pm IST.

3. Practise listening to my kids from a new emerging role - Engaged, Loving, Nurturing Mother, shifting away from Lecturing, Fearful, Fixed-Ideas Mother.

4. Being a Disciplined, Expansive, Nurturing Business Owner; instead of being an All-over-the-place, Silently-stressed, Scared-to-scale Business Owner - Shift the legal structure to Pvt Ltd, finish the final edit of my first book, complete documentation of the processes and create a structured Centre for Coaching Excellence program to grow the community of our coaches to scale the impact of our work.

5. Spend time with mom and dad daily, giving them my committed listening from my loving wholeness.

I am grateful to each one of you for being a healing space for my learnings, insights and actions to emerge.

Happy to host your visit to India or to support you in any way that will progress you on your hero's journey from good to great.

Love and Light,
j.