How Beautiful Would that Be?

A friend's 11-year daughter requested her dad to give up smoking and offered to give up drinking coke in return. My 9-year old son requested his dad to give up alcohol and promised to give up soft drinks in return. Inspired, I gave up white sugar to support my son and spouse. My 12-year old daughter promised to eat the food on the table in 30 minutes without fussing to complete the family pact.

An organisation is only many families put together and the world is all the organisations put together. You want to transform the world, start at home. If one individual gives up a limiting habit or takes up a growth habit; there is an increase of happiness, love, friendship, respect and integrity in that family contributing to the increase of that in the organisations the family members are a part of. That contributes to the increase of happiness, love, friendship, respect and integrity in the world that we all belong to. 

How beautiful would that be?

I believe people come together in a relationship, in a family, in an organization, in a community, in a country, in the world to support each other to walk the path to our inherent greatness lying hidden beneath layers of accumulated fears, to support each other to realize our greatest dreams in deepest communion with our highest self. In supporting others, we discover the path and come home to our own self.

All the stress and strife in the world is an outcome of unacknowledged stress and strife in our families to begin with. The purpose of this stress and strife is for each one of us to make a choice to work on our own self to become bigger than who we are by learning to respond with love instead of reacting from fear. In those choices, made moment by moment, lies our growth. When we grow, our families grow, our organisations grow, our country grows and the world grows.

By giving all our time and energy to solve the world problems, increasing profitability of our organisations and ignoring the fundamental unit of humanity - the family; we actually end up reducing our power to solve the world problems and leading our organisations from good to great. Gold medal cannot be won in the Olympics with a pebble in your shoe.

Each one of us is meant to win the gold medal in the Olympics of Life by having it all - deeply fulfilling successful career, loving harmonious relationships at work and at home, happy responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed and lots of nourishing nurturing me-time, while making a difference in the world. 

​May you walk the path to increase your Leadership Depth to have it all. Only a true leader would have the strength to make it possible.

Love, Jyoti.