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Another word for Ego is Small Mind, which is sourced in Survival Consciousness that experiences Fear and Scarcity. Freedom will not be achieved by trying to kill the ego or the small mind. Ego or Small Mind isn’t something to be critical of and fought a battle against. More we fight it, shame it, resist it; more it will grow through a cyclical inner drama rotating between Helpless Child (Victim), Critical Parent (Fighter) and Over-functioning Rescuer. All these 3 roles in our emotional body are expressions of the small mind and the hole in our soul. It’s only in moving towards our Light, our whole soul - made whole by filling the hole in our soul with our spiritual values - that we can break free from this inner drama, which is the source of all our misery, to be a Peaceful Warrior, an expression of our Thrival Consciousness that experiences Love and Abundance. What are our Spiritual Values? These are our inner resources that we deeply value. We may not be able to vibrate with the energy of these inner resources all the time as yet but they have a deep resonance with us. Some examples of Spiritual Values are - Love, Gratitude, Reverence, Integrity, Mastery, Excellence, Authentic Vulnerability, Authenticity, Connection, Humility, Equanimity, Kindness, Generosity, Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy, Abundance, Gentleness, Inner Strength, Courage, Stillness, Peace, Calmness, Light, Truth, Honesty, Beauty, Balance, Harmony, Grace, Ease, Wisdom, Tranquility, Respect, Trust, Freedom, Contribution, The outcomes we create is a function of which consciousness our actions and words are sourced in - Survival Consciousness (hole in the soul, small mind, Fear, Scarcity, Trapped, Struggle, mad / bad / sad emotional energy) or Thrival Consciousness (whole soul, big mind, Love, Abundance, Joyous Freedom, Ease and Grace, glad emotional energy). The same actions and words with a different consciousness will give us different results. Each human being is on a journey from Survival Consciousness to Thrival Consciousness, at their own pace, probably over many lifetimes, to maximise their human potential and be the highest version of themselves to make a massive difference. The difference we have made is the only way to measure how much of our potential we have realized. Why should we care about realizing our full potential? Because how fulfilled we are is a function of an experience of our own growth. Our maximum growth lies in realizing our full potential. Since our potential is limitless, the sky is the limit for our growth. That means there is no destination. Joyous fulfilment of experiencing our growth lies in being on the journey itself. It's when we stop in our Comfort Zone, that we fall off the journey and experience the emptiness of lack of meaning, purpose and fulfilment. Our pace of growth is our choice and other people’s pace is their choice, not for us to judge them for their choice because when we judge, we fall off our path to our highest self. Yet, when we accelerate on our journey from good (Survival Consciousness) to great (Thrival Consciousness), we create space for others to accelerate on their good to great journey. When we step up to Gear 5 consciousness, people in our space step up to Gear 2 consciousness because a raised consciousness raises consciousness all around. This journey from Fear to Love, Survival to Thrival, Good to Great is our Purpose each Lifetime and playing for 'Having it All' using the 3 growth levers - Leadership Depth, Craft Mastery, Business Excellence - is a beautiful game to enable this transformation. i. Deeply fulfilling, successful, profitable business supporting us to live our purpose of life; gifting us with impact, contribution and financial freedom ii. Loving, harmonious, positive, uplifting relationships at work and at home iii. Happy, healthy, responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed iv. Nourishing, nurturing ourselves to the highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being -physically, energetically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually v. Making a massive difference through the work we do Whenever we are feeling mad or bad or sad, we are judging ourselves or people around us. And, when we judge, we have fallen back to Gear 0 consciousness (Fear Consciousness). That does not mean we push the Bad / Sad / Mad feelings, which is an expression of our small mind and hole in the soul, under the carpet. What it means is that we acknowledge and embrace these feelings as our guardian angels as they are here to lead us to our higher consciousness by leaving us with no choice but to do our inner work for raising our consciousness to escape the misery and tyranny of these bad, sad, mad feelings. It does not mean that we continue to suffer silently or complain loudly because suffering or complaining both mean that we are in Gear 0 consciousness because if we truly loved ourselves and experienced ourselves as extraordinary, we would take affirmative action to better our situation. Tough words and tough actions can come from a place of Love, Abundance and Joyous Freedom. And, when they do they can serve the other person’s evolutionary journey as well. Though, be aware of which energy you are acting and speaking from because the small mind can very easily masquerade as the voice of Inner Wisdom. Therefore, do your daily RYD Transformative practises like Yoga, Meditation, Journaling, Reflection and others based on the Leadership Gear you are at to increase your levels of self-awareness which is what consciousness means. Keep being Love, Abundance and Joyous Freedom to joyously lead yourself and your businesses from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way 💜 Loving you, j.
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My 5th Attempt over 25 Years It is my 5th attempt over 25 years at learning Hindustani Classical vocal. I went to my teacher in June because when I had gone to her 1.5 years ago, which was my 4th failed attempt, to re-start the journey, she had told me if you are serious about re-starting, then plan to re-start before you are 50 because with age, vocal chords become rigid. With one month break on my side and only 5 months before I hit half a century, I immediately dialled her and fixed our first class to get re-started. After our class, she said it is strange that your voice has become melodious with age while voice actually loses its melody as people grow older because vocal chords age. That is music to my ears. I am joyously grateful especially because 10 years ago, she had told me my voice had an unpleasant harshness and I will have to work very hard at learning to sing. Even 1.5 years ago, when I had gone to re-start and she did my voice test, her comment was that you really need to work hard on your notes. What happened in the last 1.5 years that vocal chords opened up without any practise, the notes are in harmony and there is melody where there was tunelessness? I believe the heart became gentler and the soul embraced greater abiding, unwavering childlike trust and faith in the face of increasing emotional blows on the personal side. When you break, you discover the unbreakable gentleness inside. Though you have to allow what wants to happen to happen by embracing what is happening. For a coach, it is absolutely critical to do their own inner work to continuously clean-up their Space within to be Nothing, to be an Empty Space because only in being Nothingness, in being an Empty Space can their Coachees experience their undeniable greatness. It's not so much the technique as much as it is the consciousness of the coach that holds space for the coachees' transformational journey of raising their own human consciousness enabling them to joyously lead themselves and their work from good to great, realize their greatest dreams in deepest communion with their highest self and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun along the way. What that means is that the coach has to regularly go on a trek to the dark scary places within to shine the light of awareness and embrace the unembraceable. In doing that, they create the space for their coachees to do the same. This is mirror neurons at work. That's the only way transformation really happens. Each one of us has an Inner Light and it is our explicit purpose to dissolve the thick black curtains of unconsciousness for our Inner Light to light up the world to make a massive difference through our work. When we dissolve the thick black curtains of unconsciousness and ignorance through Transformative Practises (RYD Habits in our language), our Inner Light connects with the Universal Light, Universal Consciousness. That is what it means to be enlightened. Light rises towards light and light comes down upon light. and it is light upon light. - Najin al-din Kubra, Sufi Master That is what it means to awaken and raise our human consciousness for it to find a connection with the Universal Consciousness. When we do that, we unleash our highest potential, become the greatest versions of ourselves, masters of our craft and lead our business to realize it's highest potential by living our purpose through our work to make a massive difference. We become a channel of impact, a light that removes the darkness in the world. There aren't too many examples of business leaders living like this and yet they have built successful businesses. But our dream is much bigger. Our dream and our commitment is to build great businesses that make a massive difference, realize our greatest dreams in deepest communion with our highest self and have it all with ease and grace while having lots of fun along the way where Having it All means to have: 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 and at home and iii. Happy, healthy, responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed and iv. Nourishing, nurturing ourselves to the highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being - physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and v. Making a massive difference through the work we do Not one, at the cost of the other. We choose the simple though the difficult path of mastery, the way of the Peaceful Warrior committed to climbing the summit of our Mount Everest inside ourselves and outside on the playground of business using the 3 growth levers because it supports us to have it all. Any High Performer can build a profitable business but it takes a Super Performer to build a great sustainable profitable business that lasts beyond his / her lifetime, while having it all with ease and grace. And, we want to transform ourselves to be that kind of a Super Performer, that kind of a Peaceful Warrior. It's a tough climb up and what it makes available makes the climb-up worthwhile. I am describing here the 3 growth levers, even at the risk of repeating it the nth time as repeating it a million times is also not enough because I want this to erase any other meaning of leadership, business and being a key person of influence (thought leader) in the world: i. Leadership Depth: The inner journey of personal transformation from our default Fear Consciousness to Love Consciousness, from our default Scarcity Consciousness to Abundance Consciousness, from our default Surviving Consciousness to Thriving Consciousness, from being a Fighter or a Victim or a Rescuer to a Peaceful Warrior, from darkness to Light, embracing and dissolving our default fears to become Whole and Complete by stepping into Pure Consciousness and Transcendent Love for greater impact in the world by living our Purpose of Life through our work. ii. Craft Mastery: The journey of playing to be the World's best, a Master of our Craft, in service of our customers' said and unsaid needs by becoming a Thought Leader and being at the source of Transformation of our industry globally. Craft Mastery not for the sake of ambition, but as an outcome of being purpose-inspired to contribute and make a difference. iii. Business Excellence: The outer journey of professional success by living our purpose through our work, leading our business from good to great, generating a healthy Triple Bottom Line (3P - Profit, People, Planet); creating a legacy by making a massive difference to our employees, customer communities, business partners, investors and all other stakeholders. RYD Habits are transformative practises. They transform our consciousness just as Business Excellence (Rockefeller) habits transform the consciousness of our Business. Though only if they are practised daily and consistently for mastery instead of as a tick-mark activity. When the habits are tick-mark activities, then we get burnt out, resent the habits, drop off for a long time and end up becoming dabblers. Not much shift in the consciousness really happens. It's when we play the game of mastery through the habits, transformation happens within creating transformation on the outside. I did yoga, morning pages and 2 hours meditation daily irrespective of my personal world tumbling all around me, inspite of the fact that nothing seemed to transform on the outside. Something did transform. Though not so much my situation with my spouse and kids, transformation and grace showed up instead in my vocal chords. For me, Karate, Yoga, Vipassana, Business, Golf, Music are my journeys of mastery. More I journey within, greater ease and grace shows up though not in the area where I am fighting and struggling for transformation but in every area where I am in acceptance of what there is and willing to practise consistently inspite of seemingly no progress, trusting the process of life. When I get upset with myself, the situation and the people in the situation because of seemingly no progress, everything tightens and I am left struggling and gasping for breath. I went back to my Piano teacher as well for my 4th attempt over 13 years to learn western classical music. Interestingly, I practise hindustani classical vocal more diligently, attend those classes with greater commitment because my connect with my singing teacher is stronger and she is more invested in my growth as a singer. It is a strong reminder to me how important the teacher-student connect, personal investment and interest of the teacher in the student's progress, and purpose alignment between the teacher and student is for the student to progress with velocity. I want the RYD Coaches reading this to always remember that your success is a function of you bringing your heart and soul to nurture your coachees. Your intellect will only take you so far. So, it is for the leaders reading this article because your people will bring their heart and soul to work if you are a Nurturing, Loving, Realize Your Dreams (RYD) Coach to your people and without your people bringing their heart and soul to work, you have no access to leading your business from good to great. I struggled in progressing in golf with the country's best golf coach because he wasn't invested in my growth and because golf was an identity goal for me. So, I brought all my struggle and Fighter instinct to the golf course. And the golf course fought back. Inspite of being a coach, I didn't realize that for a long time. Even a coach needs someone to hold a mirror to them. Days I meditate and do yoga before my golf game, there is ease and grace on the golf course because for some time after yoga and Vipassana, the Fighter in me has been lulled to sleep and has lost some bit of its power on me. I also changed my golf coach to someone who is more invested in me now and fearlessly holds the mirror to me. I see my golf game finally turning around. For mastery, a coach is critical. I don't want to be a dabbler, so I have a coach for every journey I am on. Though I know how tough it is to have a coach and I understand what you all go through 💜 I had reached a certain level of competence in golf though with an ineffective technique. As my coach makes tiny shifts in my technique in our weekly sessions, I drop below my original competence level as I try to inculcate the tiny new shifts and then there is an exponential rise in my performance as the shift becomes a part of my muscle memory. As I become comfortable with a particular shift, I am gifted with a new shift in the next weekly session. Then, back to the discomfort of the new and the hard work of practising till I move from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence to unconscious competence. And, the process continues ad infinitum week on week on week. That's the path of mastery - most of the time is spent on the plateau doing daily practise interspersed with exponential spikes upwards, though far apart. The Dabbler drops off because of boredom of being on the plateau, bored of the daily practise without the high of increase in performance; while the Master loves the plateau because they bring in love and purpose-inspiration to the rhythm of their Daily Practise. The Master knows that the journey of mastery is over a lifetime and the journey itself is the destination. Mastery is merely a by-product of the journey. Instead of the aggression of Discipline, the masters bring in the gentleness of Blissipline which is Discipline sourced in the bliss of purpose-inspiration and the love of the craft that they are mastering. A true master remains a student till their last breath, while the Dabbler wasn't even a student in the first place because Dabblers are looking for highs to feel good about themselves. Reference: Mastery by George Leonard The 3rd Learning Expedition The 3rd Learning Expedition I began in June was to begin a 5 year journey to become a Yoga Acharya (Teacher of Yoga) and Yoga Vaidya (Healing through Yoga). Anju, COO of our Mums At Work Channel of Impact is already 3 years into this journey. Why would someone whose work is about enabling creation of great businesses want to commit to a 5 years of rigourous study about Yoga? At the first glance, it seems odd. Yet, if you consider it for long enough, you will begin to find how that piece fits into the jigsaw puzzle. Our work is about maximizing human potential. I would study anything that gives me a deeper understanding to enable that. But, I won't dabble. I will study only for mastery because how you do anything is how you do everything. Yoga is coming and moving together of mind, body, breath and being. Yoga is about being fully present in the moment. Yoga is also about finding a quiet place within to engage with the world outside. Alignment of mind, body and breath is also yoga. Good health and joyous well-being - physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually - is also yoga. Truly getting in touch with the experience in the moment is also yoga. Yoga is also being in touch with the pain in the moment and moving to another place of joy. Yoga is a transformative practice and is an RYD Habit in Gear 2. I have been doing yoga since 1999 though falling off regularly and getting back. I was practising the standard factory-fitted model of asanas and pranayam that is commonly available. Only when I came across Saraswathi Vasudevan that I discovered a new tradition of yoga (Shri T Krishnamacharya), where the practise is custom tailored to your special physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs. Most of you have met Saras, founder of YogaVahini, dedicated to specialised yoga training, therapy and research. She had come to one of our EXPAND Events as a Guest Mentor. Yoga is about raising human consciousness which is what Leadership Depth journey is about. Therefore, it's another transformative practise that will get integrated even more deeply with the RYD structure of success over a period of time just as Psychodrama will, which is another Learning Expedition I am on. How it will get integrated will be the way it will benefit our coachees the most. They decide as it is with everything that RYD is about. I begin my day with Morning Pages which empties my conscious and subconscious mind. I follow that up with my personal practise of Yoga tweaked week on week by Uttara, my Yoga mentor, which stills the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energies; aligning them together by aligning my mind, body and breath. Now, I am ready for Vipassana which works all the way down to the level of the unconscious mind, purifying it of impurities (also known as fears of the mind). Verne in India As a scaling-up Coach, every year we have continual training. I didn't want to travel to the US for that because I probably couldn't till some time back as I had chosen not to get Covid vaccinated. I got Covid 3 times, healed through homeopathy and didn't need to take a day off from work even when I was sick with Covid. I wanted to deepen my skills without travelling to another country. My intention is also to accelerate the adoption of scaling-up methodology by my coachees for them to scale their business without drama and with greater velocity by implementing a globally tested framework. That means getting them and their Leadership Teams to get a deeper understanding of the framework. My intention is to also train the RYD Coaches on the Scaling-up methodology for their training, development and growth for them to make a much bigger difference to their coachees. My intention is also for the other Scaling-up Coaches in the country to get more scaling-up implementations so that more businesses get a tested framework to scale. My intention is also to increase the number of Scaling-up Coaches in India because that would accelerate the growth of the Indian entrepreneurial eco-system. 5 Intentions. So, it is time to play the 1FOR5 distinction. What could be that 1 Action that would fulfil all my 5 Intentions above? Host Verne in India through a Scaling-up Event. That would give an opportunity for my coachees, their leadership teams, my staff coaches and me to learn directly from the master himself. The other scaling-up coaches in the country would use the Scaling-up Event as an opportunity to market themselves to get more clients to sign-up with them as it happens in other countries. The marketing of the event would create more awareness about Scaling-up in the country getting more businesses and business coaches to become aware of the framework. One Action fulfils 5 Intentions. The intention is set in Sep 2022 and I send out an email to Verne. No movement except that Verne checks out my Linkedin Profile. So, in December 2022, I reach out to 2 other Scaling-up Coaches in the Country to form a Cohort of India Scaling-up Coaches with the purpose of Scaling-up India. Another email and action begins to follow. And, the stage is now set for the Scaling-up Event on 12-Oct-23 in Mumbai. Verne will lead the Event in the first half. In the 2nd half, while the other Scaling-up Coaches will run a workshop for the participants to inspire them to start their Scaling-up journey, the RYD community along with their leadership teams will move to another room for an in-person RYD EXPAND Event to reflect on our learnings from Verne's session and build the next phase of the implementation plan to increase the speed of implementation for greater profitability and scale. The 2nd half of the event would be a special RYD EXPAND Event with the theme - Birthing of Indian Giants, because that's the intention for all Business Athletes who walk the RYD Way. So, this time I hadn't really totally switched off from work except for the last week because of the weekly meeting with Scaling-up Coaches to co-create the 12-Oct-23 Event. It's been an interesting experience and a lot of learnings working with the world outside of RYD. In one meeting, 2 of the coaches were very upset with me. I heard them out fully and took responsibility for their experience. With that, we moved to the next agenda item of the meeting which was to choose a leader for the initiative amongst ourselves. Each one of us chose who we thought would be best to lead us on this initiative. Interestingly, the very 2 people who were most upset with me came out and chose me as their leader. That is how committed listening works. Dream Lifestyle and One-Pager My hole in the soul is - 'I am all alone. No one loves me.' This fear kept me in a dysfunctional, emotionally and physically abusive relationship for 19 years and after a separation of 1.5 years, pulled me right back only for us to separate again after 1.5 years because the limiting patterns came right back. My previous Dream Lifestyle finished in June 2022 and I could not get myself to write my next Dream Lifestyle and my One-Pager for 2023. I didn't find the time is always the surface reason. Underneath is always resistance. The resistance was that I did not know what to create for my relationship with my spouse. Should I create an intention of Divorce because the scare of that had kept me a prisoner in a relationship that was no longer serving him or me, or should I create an intention for yet another recreation of the relationship? My soul said - Recreation, my mind said - Divorce and my heart only cried. He fractured my hand in Oct 2019 in a fit of rage just days before our 19th wedding anniversary. That pushed me into the darkest dungeons of despair which took me 9 months to crawl out of, and another 12 months to forgive myself and forgive him. I faced everything that I was terrified of - loneliness because I finally gathered the courage to walk out. Kids chose to stay with him which broke my heart into a trillion pieces. That's how it became gentler and found its way to Love. Of course, I was silly to not have managed my finances. So, I had no penny in my bank account when I walked out and at 47, I found myself living off my parents' retirement funds because the emotional, mental, spiritual and physical trauma had shut-down my business. I also found myself sharing an apartment with 2 other flatmates. I would crawl out of bed because of 2 coachees I still had. They don't even know that they saved my life. If it wasn't for them, I would have had no reason to get out of bed. The Universe came together to help me crawl out of my hell-hole to joyous freedom. Total strangers came into my life as my mentors, guides and coaches who pulled me through. I was tempted to get back to my corporate job after 9 years of building my business breaking 10 Business Models along the way. I nearly gave away my professional freedom by signing up with a global HR firm who were willing to give me better financial terms that they gave to their best empaneled coaches. I chose to remain true to my purpose through thick and thin, and massive business breakthrough finally happened. Everything began to come together. It seems as if the business breakthrough happened in 2020 but it was only possible because of the work done in 12 years before the breakthrough. And, I can clearly see how my fractured hand was instrumental in creating the breakthrough in business. My business grew massively with ease and grace from pre-fracture to post-fracture when I rebuilt my business. I know why that happened. It happened because the fracture and the subsequent massive inner work I did to heal myself raised my consciousness to the level I had not experienced before. After our 2nd separation, Aditya said he couldn't deal with our relationship anymore, let's just divorce. I said that is not part of my plan because I am holding space for recreation. He said let's get back to Couple's Therapy and let Tania, our Couple's Therapist, either help us get back together again or help us get a mutual divorce. In the first session of our 2nd time journey with her, Tania told me - 'Jyoti, you are like a kid who wants to play in the sand pit but the other kid doesn't want to play. You can't force him to play.' That hit hard. I had a session with my Nutrition Coach few days later. She said if you love people, you let them go. That hit me even harder. I sat listening to 'जाने वो कैसे लोग थे जिनके प्यार को प्यार मिला, हमने तो जब कलियाँ माँगी, काँटों का हार मिला with wet hot tears tumbling out and I let them tumble out in honour of the pain my heart felt. For the first time perhaps, I did not make my pain or my tears wrong. I just sent love to myself and felt whole even as tears coursed down my cheeks. In one session with Nisha, my yoga teacher (who assists Uttara, my yoga mentor) based out of Pune, I just showed up in our Zoom session with tears tumbling out and did my personal yoga practise on the mat as she watched in silence because she understood that my pain was so deep that her words could not reach that place. By the end of my practise, my eyes dried-up, heart felt lighter and centred, body felt grounded, mind felt still, soul felt connected for me to be ready to lead my coaching sessions the next day starting with 5:01 Daily Huddle. I accessed deep grief lying hidden below many layers in my session with Scottie, my therapist who is a professor of Psychodrama in a University in New Jersey. I touched raw grief of seeing my vision of a happy family break as I finally accepted Divorce as a reality in my life after spending 23 years avoiding it. I was attached to my Vision of a happy family which made me sit through the trials and tribulations of our married life inspite of physical abuse, emotional pain of infidelity and anger at feeling trapped. I was carrying the burden of my mother who kept suffering emotional abuse in her married life and never looked at Divorce as an option. On 1-Jan-2020, when I walked out of the relationship nursing my fractured hand, it was my first step of freeing myself and ensuring I don't pass on the burden to my kids. When I accepted Divorce, it was another step towards freeing myself from that burden. We were on a verge of Divorce with the date set with our lawyers as 23-July-23 to mutually agree on terms for out-of-court settlement and Divorce. When you accept what is and stop struggling to create, grace steps in. I realized the reason the first recreation failed is because though I had forgiven myself and I had forgiven him, I did not hold him to account for taking responsibility for breaking my hand and taking some affirmative action as an expression of his taking responsibility. When old limiting patterns emerged again, this time I asked him to leave the house with the request for him to take up personal therapy and go to Vipassana as a way to do his own inner work because for a relationship to work, it is not enough that one person only does the inner work. My learnings have been: 1. A person on a personal transformational journey needs a supportive environment. That is why I grew massively when we were separated and struggled to grow in a critical, judgmental, bullying space that I experienced with him when we were together. 2. Both partners need to grow and become whole for the relationship to be whole and complete. 3. It's never that one person in a relationship is a devil and the other is an angel. It's the battle of the darkness in him with the darkness in me. My small mind and his small mind dancing together in a vicious traumatic cycle. My hole in the soul and his hole in the soul. Darkness upon darkness. That's the truth of the story. Both are equally traumatised. If he wrote an article, the pain that would come through would tear through each one of our hearts. 4. Even if I took on being the bigger person in the relationship, I needed an emotionally safe space to dissolve my small mind and hole-in-the-soul. Separation and staying alone created that space for me. 5. Challenges are gifts if you choose to use them to raise your consciousness. When you walk the journey to raise your consciousness, that's when joyous ease and grace comes along to decorate your life. He said he did not feel ready for personal therapy or Vipassana. So if that's my pre-condition for us to get back, let's just divorce. That is where we were when we went back to Tania, our couple's therapist. Few sessions with Tania, Aditya has now started his personal therapy. It is helping him understand his emotions better. And, he has shared his intention to get back to Isha meditation and yoga. This creates the space for me to invite him back into my life and rebuild our family together. That freed me to create my next 5-years Dream Lifestyle. It is bigger, more scary, more audacious. It has Aditya and me joyously contributing to the world by co-leading Bliss Relationship Coaching program for married couples and Happy Families coaching program for families to become loving, nurturing spaces for children to joyously unleash their limitless potential to become the greatest versions of themselves to make a massive difference in the world by living their Purpose through their work, leading themselves and their work from good to great, realize their dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun along the way. If Aditya and I can heal ourselves to transform our relationship and heal our family, we would know everything viscerally that is there to know to realize the above dream. My outcome goals for 2023 are clear to me now: 1. Deeply fulfilling, successful, profitable business supporting us to live our purpose of life; gifting us with impact, contribution and financial freedom - Make a massive difference to my RYD Coaches and through them, their coachees ii. Loving, harmonious, positive, uplifting relationships at work and at home - Heal my relationship with my spouse and recreate our friendship. iii. Happy, healthy, responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed - Heal my kids in partnership with Aditya and give them a nurturing, loving, happy home; with all of us staying together feeling deeply grateful for our healing and coming together. iv. Nourishing, nurturing ourselves to the highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being - physical, emotional, mental, spiritual - Get my golf handicap to 20. v. Making a massive difference through the work we do - Make a massive difference to my 8 Brave Hearts and 2 Guardians of Light Solo Vacation One way to become a whole soul is to master our fear. Fear is an absence of Love. There are 2 types of fears - one in the Body and one in the Mind. We want to honour Fear that shows up in our Body because Wisdom is in the Body. And, we want to master fear in the Mind by - a. Doing what we fear (fears of the mind) b. Doing what we have an aversion for c. Doing what we resist d. Doing what we hate e. Doing what we don't want to do f. Dropping what we crave for g. Doing what we are embarrassed about So, I am constantly in search of what I am resisting. It is usually because it scares me at a deeper level. Travelling alone intensifies the feeling of being all alone. Solo vacation is a perfect way to embrace that fear. So, I went to Coorg for 4 days on my own for my first solo vacation. And, I loved it. Took a break from my daily rhythm and just did what I love the most - reading and writing, and came back totally refreshed, rejuvenated and re-energised. Solo vacations are now going to be an annual event for me. Finished reading Mastery by George Leonard, a fellow martial artist. Brilliant book. It's going to be a resource for the RYD Wisdom Projects in September this year where all of you would choose one of these two themes to explore - Mastery or Creativity. The 2nd book I am still in the process of reading is A Shift in Being: The Art and Practices of Deep Transformational Coaching by Leon Vanderpol. Beautiful book. It's a book I could have written but don't need to write any more because Leon already wrote it. It is going to be a resource guide for RYD Coaches. Redefining one of our Core Values - Roots Our original definition of Roots was - Elevating India's status in the world. I just uncovered another definition in June that resonates so much more with me than our original definition: Roots - Contributing to the world through the wisdom of our ancient heritage Will take it to the RYD Staff for us to reflect on it together and check for resonance with each one of them. The metric I track myself on and report during our Daily Huddle is number of hours I write daily. With this article, I have already completed this week's writing hours :-) May my learnings serve you to travel your own journey of personal and professional transformation with greater courage and velocity 💜 Keep playing to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realise your dreams and have it all with ease and grace, while having lots of fun along the way, Loving you, j. Breakdowns, problems, challenges, obstacles, troubles are all breakthroughs waiting to happen. Don't let the ugly paper they are wrapped in fool you. Breakdowns, problems, challenges, obstacles and troubles are our best friends on our journey as they are precious hints for us to find our way to our higher selves and win the Treasure Hunt of Life to joyously lead ourselves and our business from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun along the way Here are the 5 steps to transform every breakdown, problem, challenge, obstacle, trouble into a breakthrough: 1. Awareness 2. Acceptance and Understanding 3. Energy Shifting by Making the Choice 4. Intention Creation 5. Playing to Win 1. Awareness The first step is to develop greater awareness of the voice of our soul in the spiritual body, thoughts in our mental body, feelings in our emotional body and sensations in the physical body. In another words, raise our human consciousness. RYD Growth Habits are designed to create a safe space within for our awareness to increase. Leadership development is elevating human consciousness which means developing greater awareness of our spiritual, mental, emotional and physical bodies. If I put my hand in the fire and I have no awareness of the sensation of my hand burning, I will continue to keep my hand in fire and allow my hand to burn and disintegrate. If I have the awareness of the sensation, I will immediately pull my hand away. What it means is that when I have high awareness, I will not harm myself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually; and I will not harm others because harming others is same as harming myself. It's in giving that we receive. When I have high awareness, I will think, speak and act only in a way that contributes to myself and contributes to others. That is why Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi were Leaders; and Hitler and Osama Bin Laden were Anti-Leaders. When we operate from our default fear consciousness, we numb ourselves from our sensations, feelings and emotions, cloud our thinking as a way to protect ourselves from the pain; not realising that experiencing the pain is the way to be free of it. If I can feel the pain of my burning hand, I will immediately pull my hand back to be free of it. A higher order awareness is required to even have this understanding. The state of consciousness of the Spiritual Body results in thoughts in the Mental Body, which results in feelings and emotions in the emotional body, which results in sensations in the physical body, which results in words and actions by the physical body, which create our circumstances, which acts as an external stimuli and concretises the state of the spiritual body. And, the cycle of life repeats ad infinitum till we choose to break it to create a new Reality, new Circumstances, new Experiences. The pain appears in the Spiritual Body as Fear Consciousness, leads to limiting thoughts (small mind pattern) in the Mental Body, leads to unpleasant feelings and emotions in the Emotional Body, which leads to dis-comfort and dis-ease in the Physical Body. This is the Default Cycle. There is a way to release ourselves from the pain of our default fear consciousness and unleash our undeniable greatness to become the greatest versions of ourselves, which is through practises that elevate our human consciousness, increase our awareness of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies for us to shift from Fear Consciousness to Love Consciousness in our Spiritual Body; from stressful Limiting Thoughts to centering, grounding Limitless Thoughts in our Mental Body leading us to be Equanimity in the face of chaos; from draining, negative feelings to joyful, positive, uplifting feelings in our Emotional Body; from exhaustion and disease to joyous well-being in our Physical Body. That has us be Grace and Ease in who we are, Grace and Ease in all our relationships, Grace and Ease in Life; along with having fun and experiencing the joy of being alive coursing through every cell of our body. With the above as the context, the first step for transforming any problem, challenge, breakdown is Awareness. The physical body is more gross (material, therefore easy to understand) than the emotional body which is more subtle (difficult to understand) than the physical body. The emotional body is more gross (easier to understand) than the mental body which is more subtle than the emotional body. The mental body more gross than the Spiritual Body, which is more subtle than the mental body. That means if we are starting the journey of increasing our Awareness, we would first become more aware of our sensations and feelings than thoughts or voice of our soul. Therefore, when you want to transform a breakdown into a breakthrough, first become aware of your sensations and feelings. How are you feeling? Use the below emotional range to identify how are you feeling. Close your eyes. Where in your body do you feel it? If the feeling is anywhere from 6 to 22, we are in the grip of the small mind and our Hole in the Soul. At 6, the grip has begun to form and by 22, we are fully in the grip. Check in with your small mind thoughts and Hole in the Soul in your Energy Shifter. Check for resonance. Do the previously identified small mind thoughts and the Hole in the Soul resonate with you in this moment?
2. Acceptance and Understanding As soon as you can see and feel the resonance, that awareness creates a Space of Grace. The Space of Grace creates a gap between me and my thoughts and feelings. That gap allows me to accept that I am responsible for all that happens in my Space and creates an Understanding that if I am responsible, then I have the Power to Create another Reality. 3. Energy Shifting by Making the Conscious Choice While in that Space of Grace, read your Whole Soul (I am 'followed by your Values') and your Big Mind (your chosen limitless thoughts about yourself, about other people and about life itself) which is your promise as the place to come from, as the energy to vibrate with. Make the Conscious Choice to shift your Energy from the Hole in the Soul and small mind to your Whole Soul and big mind. The Red Indian grandfather tells his grandson - Grandson, we have 2 wolves in us. The Good Wolf and the Bad Wolf. The grandson says - Which wolf is stronger, Grandfather? The grandfather says - Which ever wolf you feed? We have both - good wolf (our Whole Soul and our Big Mind) and the bad wolf (our Hole in the Soul and the small mind) - in us. It is our choice which wolf we feed. Whichever wolf we keep believing in, keep speaking and acting from, that wolf strengthens. Limiting Habits nurtures and nourishes the bad wolf. RYD Growth Habits nurtures and nourishes the good wolf and makes it stronger. The bad wolf in us keeps our undeniable greatness locked up in the tower beyond our reach. While the purpose of the good wolf is to free our undeniable greatness and unleash our highest potential for us to joyously live in the expression of our undeniable genius and make a massive difference in the world. The Mahabharata plays out within us each moment. Whether the Pandavas (or the good wolf) led by Krishna (our Thrival Consciousness sourced in Love and Abundance) wins the battle on the battleground of our Consciousness or the Kauravas (or the bad wolf) led by Shakuni Mama (our Survival Consciousness sourced in Fear and Scarcity) wins will always be our choice. That Choice requires Agility of Mind, our first Gear 1 Leadership Muscle. If we are regular with our Gear 1 RYD Growth Habits, it would be easier to make the choice to shift our Inner Energy. In Gear 2, the 2nd Leadership Muscle (Being of Service), it is even more easy to make the choice to shift our Inner Energy. With every next Leadership Muscle, it becomes progressively easier to shift our Inner Energy from helplessness and powerlessness to the joy of creation. Transformation to our Highest Self is a 4-step Process - a. Unconscious Incompetence (Ignorance): At this level, we are at the effect of Life - either as Victims or Fighters or Super Hero Martyrs. Things happen and we are not even aware that we are creating them, consciously or unconsciously. We have no access to our Power to Create™ our life in alignment with our intentions and dreams. We are not even aware of our intentions and dreams, not even aware of who we are and what our Purpose is. b. Conscious Incompetence (Starter Track of Transformation): Then, one day Awareness descends either through Pain (learning through life's experiences) or through Insights (learning through coaching / mentoring). Then, we begin to see how we are at the source of all the chaos in our life and as yet, we have no power to do anything but to observe at this stage. This step is progress, yet most people may become disheartened thinking they have regressed rather than recognising that they have actually progressed on the journey of transformation. c. Conscious Competence (Champion Track of Transformation): In this stage, we make a conscious effort to shift our energy from low state to a high state, from the energy of the Hole in our Soul and small mind to the energy of our Whole Soul and big mind by making a Conscious Choice anytime we become aware of our low physical and emotional energy states and taking Actions (thinking, speaking and acting) from our Whole Soul and big mind in response to Life. It is Taking Actions which concretises the Choice, otherwise the Choice dissolves the moment it is made. d. Unconscious Competence (Mastery Track of Transformation): If we keep Making the Choice to shift our energy through RYD Growth Habits and keep Taking Actions (Thinking, Speaking, Acting) from there, a time will come when we will effortlessly vibrate with the energy of our Whole Soul and Big Mind, moment to moment, creating a Life we love in alignment with our Dream Lifestyle. 4. Intention Creation When we have made the Conscious Choice to Shift our Energy to the energy of our Whole Soul and our Big Mind, then we are ready to transform every problem, breakdown, challenge, obstacle, trouble into a breakthrough. Translate every breakdown in the form of an intention through Generative Language. Here's an article on Creating and fulfilling your Intentions with velocity The difference between intentions and desires is that intentions are intense burning desires that we are committed to bring into reality by courageously and consistently being in action to do that. Intentions have 7 characteristics: i. They are written in the present tense. ii. They are written in visual language, meaning they accurately describe the outcome such that we can visualise the outcome as we read our intention. iii. Intentions are emotive, meaning words that express our emotions on fulfilment of our intentions are used to structure the intention. We feel right now, in the moment, the emotions that we would experience at the fulfilment of the intention; for the intention to become the place to come from, instead of as the place to go to. iv. Gratitude is the world's most creative and powerful force. When there is Gratitude in our Consciousness, no other emotion can exist. By stepping into Gratitude, we can dissolve the Hole in the Soul and the small mind. Gratitude becomes naturally available to us in Gear 2, the 2nd Leadership Muscle (Being of Service), though we begin to practise Gratitude right from the start. Therefore, intentions are written in the form of Gratitudes. v. Intentions are short, sweet and simple; rather than long-winding and complex for the mind to process the intention. vi. Intentions are joyously inspirational. They bring stars to our eyes, joy to our heart, stillness to our mind, dance to our feet, song on our lips. vii. Intentions leave us with the experience of Joyous Freedom. All stress dissolves as we read the intention. Here are some examples of how to translate Breakdowns into Intentions using Generative Language. Problems are stated in Descriptive Language. Problems describe Reality as it is. Intentions are written in Generative Language. Intentions describes the New Reality that we intend to generate. i. Problem Statement (Descriptive Language describing the current reality): My Marketing Leader is neither responsible nor effective. Intention (Generative Language generating the new Reality that I want to create): I am happy and grateful that our Marketing leads the industry in creativity and innovation, supporting us to grow our business with velocity. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ii. Problem Statement (Descriptive Language describing the current reality): We are losing market share and making losses, quarter on quarter. Intention (Generative Language generating the new Reality that I want to create): I am happy and grateful that we are market leaders, effortlessly making profits, quarter on quarter with me and my team enjoying working with each other, learning to be the best and making a massive difference to our customers who are grateful for our contribution to them and their business. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. iii. Problem Statement (Descriptive Language describing the current reality): My stomach is burning, my body is aching and I am feeling low energy. Intention (Generative Language generating the new Reality that I want to create): I am happy and grateful to experience moment by moment joyous well-being and joy of being alive in every cell of my body; making me feel refreshed and rejuvenated. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 5. Playing to Win After translating the problem into a powerful intention, do the 3 tests of beliefs to test if you are still in the energy of your Whole Soul and Big Mind: i, Do I believe I can fulfil on this Intention? ii. Do I believe others are supporting me to fulfil this Intention? iii. Do I believe the Universe is supporting me to fulfil this Intention? The answer would be a No if you slid down to the energy of your Hole in the Soul and small mind. If the answer is No to any one of the questions above, make the Choice to Believe by being a Yes to each one of the questions above. You can make that choice and shift your Energy to the energy of your Whole Soul and Big Mind. When you are in the energy of your Hole in the Soul and small mind, your Creative Mind shuts down and Survival Mind takes over. When you are in the energy of your Whole Soul and Big Mind, fear and scarcity sourced Survival Mind shuts downs; and the love and abundance sourced Creative Thrival Mind takes over. From the energy of your Creative Thrival Mind, write down a powerful Structure of Success - a set of powerful, effective, precise Inputs Actions with dates - which would guarantee the fulfilment of the intention. Playing to win would be to take these actions irrespective of chaos within or outside by the date you said you would, the way you meant to. And, then, irrespective of the outcome, continue to make the choice to be happy, fulfilled and grateful. This would be possible if we are doing our daily RYD Growth Habits. The next step would be to go back to reflect on the intention, change it in a way that resonates or leave it as it is if the resonance continues to be 10 on 10. Make the choice to believe across the three tests of beliefs. Update the structure of success based on new information gathered by taking actions to fulfil the intention. Take actions as per the updated structure of success, irrespective of chaos within or outside. Irrespective of the outcome, make the choice to be happy, fulfilled and grateful. Go back to reflect on the intention. .... and the cycle continues till Reality shifts in alignment with our intention. Every breakdown is a breakthrough wrapped up in an ugly paper. We just need to learn to unwrap it the right way to access the breakthrough. As we take action with commitment, sincerity and joyous equanimity to transform every breakdown into a breakthrough using the process of Intention Fulfilment, we grow exactly the way we needed to in order to unleash our highest potential. Every breakdown is designed like that. Transforming every breakdown into a breakthrough leads us to become the greatest versions of ourselves. The Obstacle is the Way. Keep creating to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun along the way 💜 Loving you, j. Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain Our work on the RYD Journey is to awaken our inner guidance, our Inner Wisdom. In Gear 0, the noisy voice of our small mind and our Hole in the Soul is so loud that we can't hear the gentle, soothing, centering, grounding, loving, nurturing, nourishing voice of our Inner Wisdom, our Big Mind, our Whole Soul. Let's keep doing our daily RYD Habits with integrity, commitment, passion and enthusiasm to strengthen our Big Mind and to reduce the power of our small mind so that the noisy decibel level of its voice comes down for us to hear the soft whispers of our Big Mind. The RYD Journey is over 3 tracks - starter, champion and mastery. We tend to give up on our habits because we experience failure on a daily basis as it is super difficult to be consistent. That is why most people give up on growth habits. But, that is the design of the journey. We progress not because we never fall off. We progress because we come back every time we fall off. In the starter track from Gear 0 to Gear 5, we fall off 60% of the times. It's in coming back and coming back and coming back each time we fall that we step up to the Champion Track. Yet, on the champion track we fall off 20% of the time and the fall is steeper. It's in coming back and coming back and coming back that we step up to the Mastery track which is when we are on the path 100% of the time. When we have mastered something, then we raise the bar and take on something new to master. It's an ongoing journey with no destination. Climb to one summit and from that summit, you will see other mountains to climb and other summits to conquer. The journey itself is the destination. The joy is in being on the good to great journey. Success is being on the good to great journey. Failure is to choose to play the good game and deny ourselves the joyous fulfilment of playing the Good to Great game. RYD Gym is a structure of success for being on your good to great journey. When you complete from the RYD Gym and become a graduate, don't complete from your good to great journey because that belongs to you and is your gift to yourself. Find other structures of success, find other Consciousness Gyms for you to continue elevating your human consciousness to become the greatest version of you to make a massive difference to live your Purpose this Lifetime. What does Consciousness mean? Consciousness’ refers to one's awareness of one's unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment. In other words, consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of one's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. Elevating our human consciousness means elevating our awareness of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies through Growth Habits (RYD Habits in our language) to create the highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being. Leadership Depth is the inner journey of personal transformation from our default Fear Consciousness to Love Consciousness, from being a Fighter or a Victim or a Rescuer to a Peaceful Warrior, embracing our default fears to become Whole and Complete by stepping into Pure Consciousness and Transcendent Love for greater impact in the world by living our Purpose of Life through our work. Business Excellence and Craft Mastery journeys accelerate the Leadership Depth journey. Leadership Depth accelerates the Business Excellence and Craft Mastery journeys is equally true. Business Excellence accelerates the Leadership Depth and Craft Mastery journeys. Craft Mastery accelerates the Business Excellence and Leadership Depth journeys. These are all true statements because each one powers the other two Growth Levers. Therefore, it is important to travel all the three journeys together for us to travel with greater velocity. How do we measure Leadership Depth? The measure of Leadership Depth is to Have It All: i. Deeply fulfilling, successful, profitable business supporting us to live our purpose of life; gifting us with impact, contribution and financial freedom ii. Loving, harmonious, positive, uplifting relationships at work and at home iii. Happy, healthy, responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed iv. Nourishing, nurturing ourselves to the highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being - physical, emotional, mental, spiritual v. Making a massive difference through the work we do It's a high state of Consciousness that enables us to Have It All. That is what makes the Leadership Depth journey, our inner good to great journey of personal transformation, worthwhile. RYD Distinctions (a distinct point on the ball of perspective that gives us access to our Power to Create) enable us to strengthen our Leadership Depth. RYD Habits help us to transform the intellectual understanding of the Distinctions into Experiential Understanding which is when our Inner Wisdom awakens. Leadership Depth journey is from Gear 0 to Gear 5. At Gear 5, our Power to Create fully blossoms, we step into Pure Consciousness having dissolved Fear (impurities) from our Conscious, Sub-Consciousness and Unconscious Mind to become a Master Creator. What is Craft Mastery? The journey of playing to be the World's best, a Master of our Craft, in service of our customers' said and unsaid needs by becoming a Thought Leader and being at the source of Transformation of our industry globally. Craft Mastery not for the sake of ambition, but as an outcome of being purpose-inspired to contribute and make a difference. Reading and learning not for intellectual stimulation or entertainment or for making us feel good to about ourselves (in other words, for filling the hole in our soul), but for the purpose of contributing to the communities that we are committed to serve. Craft Mastery enables the delivery of the Value Proposition at the level that our customers have no right to expect and has them queue outside our door to buy from us, instead of us having to chase them to sell. Craft Mastery at its highest is a state of Consciousness in Gear 5 where the game is Excellence not for external applause or external validation but for the God within us, inside of our commitment to make a massive difference to our employee and customer communities. Craft Mastery is to play the game to be so good in our work that Gods themselves bow down to us in reverence. If we try to skip the earlier gears (Gear 1 - Love for Self, Gear 2 - Gratitude for all in our Space, Gear 3 - Reverence for all of Life, Gear 4 - Integrity) and jump straight to Gear 5 from Gear 0 to play the game of Craft Mastery, then we are saddled with arrogance which drags us down to the very Hole in the Soul we set out to fill. At Stage 5 of Craft Mastery, we become Master Contributors. What is Business Excellence? The outer journey of professional success by living our purpose through our work, leading our business from good to great, generating a healthy Triple Bottom Line (3P - Profit, People, Planet); creating a legacy by making a massive difference to our employees, customer communities, business partners, investors and all other stakeholders. i. Nurturing Customer Relationships: Coaching our team to work from Being of Service consciousness, creating a powerful Value Proposition for our customers that makes a massive difference, by marrying what’s missing in the world for them with Craft Mastery. Frameworks to leverage: Blue Ocean, Verne Harnish’s Scaling-up’s 7-Strata, Alex Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas ii. Operational Excellence: Creative ways to reduce our and our team’s time, effort and resources and yet increasing value for our customer communities creating a powerful Profit Proposition. Frameworks to leverage: 1FOR5 (1 Action to fulfil 5 Intentions), DLCM (Do Less to Create More Value), Verne Harnish's Scaling-up Methodology iii. Extraordinary Service: Serving and contributing to our customers, employees, business partners, investors and all other stakeholders to the level they have no right to expect; sourced in a powerful People Proposition created through Leadership Depth. Because our words create our world, here’s what is the RYD definition of common business terms inside of our commitment to transform what it means to be a business, what it means to be a leader and inside of that what it means to be a human being: i. Business - Channel of Impact ii. CEO - Chief Engagement Officer. The job of the CEO is to engage the hearts and souls of the people under their care (meaning all people in their organisation) by supporting them to joyously lead themselves and their business functions from good to great by living their Purpose through their work to make a massive difference, realize their dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun along the way. iii. Reportee - Instead of Reportees (team members who report into us), we have Supportees (Hat Tip: Verne Harnish) in the RYD World. Supportees are our team members who we are responsible for supporting to lead themselves and their business function from good to great, realize their dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun along the way. iv. Marketing - Communicating to our customer communities who we are as a Business by Making a Difference to them in ways that contribute to them v. Sales is ‘our Impact in the world’ vi. Profit is the difference we are making to our people, our staff, our employees. vii. Operations is ‘Do Less to Create more Value’ viii. Innovation is ‘Make a Difference to Customers’ ix. IT is ‘Ease of Making a Difference’ x. HR is ‘Happy Healthy Prosperous Employees’ xi. Corporate Social Responsibility is ‘Nation Building’ xii. Organization: Organised way to make a massive difference to communities that the business is inspired to serve Leadership Depth, Craft Mastery, Business Excellence are a Parallel Journeys Gear 1 Leader (State of Consciousness: Love for Self) - Stage 1 of Craft Mastery (Passive Learning) - Mountain 1 of Business Excellence (Mountain of Purpose) Gear 2 Leader (State of Consciousness: Gratitude) - Stage 2 of Craft Mastery (Active Learning - implementing our learnings for the benefit of our employees and customers) - Mountain 2 of Business Excellence (Mountain of Value) Gear 3 Leader (State of Consciousness: Reverence) - Stage 3 of Craft Mastery (Expert) - Mountain 3 of Business Excellence (Mountain of Growth) Gear 4 Leader (State of Consciousness: Integrity) - Stage 4 of Craft Mastery (Mentor - Coach others to become Experts in our Craft) - Mountain 4 of Business Excellence (Mountain of Scale) Gear 5 Leader (State of Consciousness: Excellence) - Stage 5 of Craft Mastery (Master - Coach Experts to become Mentors in our Craft) - Mountain 5 of Business Excellence (Mountain of Mastery) Click here for more details on the 5 Gears of Leadership Depth, 5 Stages of Craft Mastery and 5 Mountains of Business Excellence - How to Lead your Business from Good to Great At Gear 3, the leader becomes a Business Athlete. The highest expression of the leader is at Gear 5, when the leader becomes a Business Buddha. Keep nourishing and nurturing the sapling of your undeniable greatness (if you are in the RYD Gym or are a graduate of RYD Gym, the seed of your greatness has already germinated) to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace, while having lots of fun along the way 💜 Loving you, j. Wisdom is way more powerful than intellect. Intellect gets you to work hard to give you what you want, though at a cost. Wisdom will give you with ease and grace not only what you want but also what you need and don’t know as yet you need. Intellect comes with arrogance. Wisdom comes with gentleness of humility. Intellect makes us a High Performer, supporting us to create more impact in more time. Therefore, our impact cannot grow beyond a point with Intellect because time is finite. Wisdom makes us a Super Performer, supporting us to create more impact in less time. Therefore, our impact can infinitely grow with Wisdom. Intellect is in the mind. Wisdom is in the Being. It is present in each one of us as our undeniable greatness. 5 thick dark black curtains of Unconsciousness separate us from our Inner Wisdom, our Inner Light of undeniable greatness. It’s our responsibility to strengthen ourselves to pull these curtains down one at a time to live in the expression of our undeniable genius and make a massive difference in the world by living our Purpose through the work we do, leading ourselves and our business from good to great, realizing our dreams and having it all. Since one part of our work is about pulling down these 5 thick dark black curtains of Unconsciousness to shine the light of our Inner Wisdom, our undeniable greatness (Leadership Depth), I have designed a new game for us to play - RYD Wisdom Project. Unlike Business Excellence, Leadership Depth (raising of human consciousness) cannot be learnt in a class-room. It’s only through mastering a Sport, mastering a Creative Art, through RYD Growth Habits across the 4 bodies or through specially designed real games (not virtual) can we truly raise our human consciousness. RYD IPL Championship is one such game, RYD Buddy Call is another such game, 100% RYD session attendance is also another game designed to strengthen Leadership Depth (raise human consciousness). RYD Wisdom Project is another such newly created game. Participation is voluntary. I am on my next vacation / sacred pause from 16-March till 29-March which is when RYD 2023 Wisdom Projects for the first half of the year would be concluded. Awakening your Inner Wisdom through Investigation, Exploration, Experimentation, Validation and Integration. That is what an RYD Wisdom Project is. There are two themes for March 2023 RYD Wisdom Projects: A. Joyous Parenting: Raising ourselves as Extraordinary Human Beings Hypothesis to investigate: Parenting is not about raising our kids to become good human beings. It’s about raising ourselves to become the greatest versions of ourselves because humans primarily learn through mirror neurons. Parenting is not about what we do with our kids, it’s about what we do with ourselves that our kids learn and grow to be Happy, Healthy, Responsible; joyfully unleashing their undeniable genius. Intention of the Session: All participants get an access for Joyous Parenting. Resources: 1. All you need is Love: The art of Mindful Parenting by Dr Shelja Sen 2. Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know by Dr Meg Meeker 3. Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men by Dr Meg Meeker 4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: Creating a Nurturing Family in a Turbulent World by Stephen R. Covey 5. Article on Parenting by j - How to raise Happy, Healthy, Responsible Kids with their Genius Joyfully Expressed 6. Family Wisdom: Nurturing the Leader within your Child by Robin Sharma B. Integrity: The Secret Super Power of Creation Hypothesis to investigate: Integrity is about doing what I said I would do, by the time I said I would do, doing it the way I meant to do it. Great businesses are born out of integrity. Integrity can only be accessed after raising my consciousness to love and accept myself unconditionally as I am, love and accept others unconditionally as each one is, love and accept life as it is (childlike trust and faith in the Universe). Intention of the Session: All participants get an access to be Integrity in every area of their Life Resources: 1. The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz 2. Leadership Talk on Integrity by Prof Michael C. Jensen of Harvard Business School - 2 hours video 3. Article on Integrity by j - Without Integrity, Nothing Works 4. Article on Prof Michael Jensen's ideas about Integrity developed in partnership with Werner Erhard and Prof Steve Zaffron ![]()
5. Article on Creating Leaders: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model by Werner Erhard, Prof Michael C. Jensen of Harvard Business School and Kari Granger of Center for Character and Leadership Development (United States Air Force Academy) ![]()
If you are choosing to play, pick up one of the two themes above that resonate the most with you as exploring that theme would contribute to you the most at this point in time. You will present the result of your investigation, exploration, experimentation, validation and integration of these themes on: Saturday 18-March 5:23 to 7:57 am IST Integrity: The Secret Super Power of Creation Saturday 25-Mar 5:23 to 7:57 am IST Joyous Parenting: Raising ourselves as Extraordinary Human Beings Here are quick guidelines on how to play the game: 1. Pick up one resource from the above list of the theme that heart and soul-connects with you, make a summery of Insights that made a difference to you, implement those insights in your own life and observe the results that get created. 2. Together, as a group, present the insights and learnings from your own implementation of insights from the different resources to the community, and lead a Socratic Discussion to support all participants to elevate their own lives. 3. Ensure you all finish the session 30 minutes before so that everyone (including yourself) fills up the Session Reflection form during the session while everyone is still alive to the learnings and insights. If you are choosing not to play, then you can simply attend the above sessions to learn from the experience of others. We are a community and share our human consciousness. Our consciousness is the average consciousness of our community. So, keep playing to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun along the way 💜 Loving you, j. This is a story of 2 co-founders - a story which is very common in any business with 2 co-founders - but this story instead of having an ending has a new beginning. The 2 co-founders were upset with each other. The CEO founder felt that the COO co-founder wasn't supporting him to scale the business. In fact, on the contrary, he was silently opposing him. The COO co-founder was upset because he felt he was not consulted about the roadmap of the company's growth. In fact, he didn't even think what the CEO founder was proposing was in the realm of possibility. CEO Founder's Mind - COO is not moving fast enough for us to grow. COO Co-Founder's Mind - CEO has ideas about growth that are impractical and impossible. In fact, this could be a story of any CEO and any of his Leadership Team member in any business in the world. How does this usually end? In a heart-breaking separation. Business failure is usually an inability to communicate in the world of others - in the world of our team members, in the world of our customers, in the world of our investors, in the world of our business partners. Though, before we can communicate powerfully in the world of others (Gear 3 of Leadership Depth) for them to be a Yes to our proposal, we need 2 other gears to climb - Gear 1 - Agility of Mind to move from 'I am Right, You are Wrong.' to 'I am Right. You are Right.' Gear 2 - Being of Service to the person we are communicating with by moving from 'This is what I want' to 'What do you want and how can I support you to get what you want?' Well, the founder and the co-founder we started this story with happen to have the same coach. So, they came into a coaching session and spoke to each other with authentic vulnerability. Miraculously, through that conversation, they found their greatest supporter and believer in each other. I am going to bet my last paisa on their super success, though they don't have any investors rooting for them and they are working silently with commitment to serve their employees and customers in one end of country without their photos being splashed all over the newspapers. Loving you, j. Based on my learnings from coaching and inputs from many of you in 2022, here's what I feel will contribute to our community. All these ideas would be tested, changed / dropped and iterated forward based on what would contribute to you to move forward with greater velocity to joyously lead yourself and your business with greater velocity, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun along the way.
1. Deeper Review and Reflection - Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual, 5-Yearly i. Though Review n Reflections have always been a part of our RYD Habits, the quality of Review n Reflection could not be established, and ultimately that's what develops and expands the Creative Mind. Therefore, tools have been built on the platform to ensure better quality of reflections. These tools will continue to be iterated in alignment with what really makes a difference. ii. The Reflections will get emailed to all group members and the coach in a group program. If some members of the group are not comfortable about sharing their reflections with the group, they can choose to use the questions in the tool to do self-reflection in their journal. In one-on-one programs like Project Brave New World, the reflection gets emailed only to the specific Braveheart and to the coach. The coach will use the reflections for identifying coaching opportunities for greater impact. iii. Reflection tools are also important because insights and actions can then get tracked, and ensured that the actions identified are taken for breakthrough results. Insights are fun, but it's actions that create results and our whole work is about creating results in alignment with our coachee's intentions and dreams. One tiny action every day can have a compounding effect. 2. RYD Book Reflection tool The difference between an A Player and a B Player is that a A Player reads at least 26 books in a year for learning, growth and contribution. The amount of books that get read by our community is massive. RYD Book Reflection tool would ensure that cross-learnings are accelerated so that the community moves forward together on the journey from good to great with greater velocity. Whenever any member posts a Book Reflection, it gets emailed to everyone in the community so that each one of us can learn from each other's insights and actions. Those who would not like to receive these Book Reflection emails can opt out. 3. Year completion and New Year Creation would be an in-person Annual RYD Retreat. Day -2, Day -1, Day 0 would be Annual RYD Soul Retreat, Day 1 for RYD Graduate and current members. Day 2 and Day 3 would only be for current members. Humans learn through mirror neurons. Therefore, in-person sessions will accelerate learning and growth. 4. For similar reasons, there'll be a quarterly in-person session for Brave Hearts over a game on the Golf Course. The walk together on the beautiful green golf course will give the coach an opportunity to identify areas of growth that might be missed over Zoom; besides providing an opportunity for the coachees to learn faster through mirror neurons. 5. Proposed changes in existing programs and bringing into existence new ways to contribute: i. Launch of a new program - Project Space of Grace, as part of Centre for Transformational Leadership™. Unlike other programs which are over Zoom, Project Space of Grace is in-person for those who are inspired to use Business as a playground to raise human consciousness to evolve humanity to the next level. Click here for more details, The RYD World ii. Launch of a new Channel of Impact - Centre for Sports Excellence™, to enable India to be the world's best Sporting Country with the highest number of gold medals in Olympics and a reigning super star in all sports by supporting athletes and sports people to connect to their Power to Create™ through The RYD Way. iii. The format of Project Athena, Project Unicorn and Project Socrates will change for any new peaceful warrior joining post 31-Mar-23. There will be no impact on existing member of these programs. iv. Launch of 2 new programs as part of Centre for Entrepreneurial Excellence™ - Project Rising Stars and Project Pinnacle. These would be led by RYD Coaches, under the supervision of j. While the RYD Coaches would run weekly sessions, j would run quarterly or monthly group sessions for our coachees participating in these programs. v. From 1-Apr-23, Project Unicorn would become a monthly one-on-one, weekly group format similar to the Project Ashoka format to support our coachees to accelerate their business growth. vi. The current batch of Athena would be the last batch for some time to create space for new ways to contribute. vii. Project Socrates would also take a back seat to create time for nurturing and strengthening Project Awakener, whose participants are RYD Staff. Project Awakener is only open to our RYD Graduates who choose to come home to give to the world what they received. The below notes are for RYD Soul, though RYD Circle of Love is welcome to read. 6. While RYD Gym™ for Business, Leadership and Life Mastery is the mother brand, we will begin to build individual Channels of Impact as separate brands as soon as we have an owner of the Channel of Impact - the CEO (Chief Engagement Officer in our world). Because our words create our world, here’s what is the RYD definition of common business terms inside of our commitment to transform what it means to be a business, what it means to be a leader and inside of that what it means to be a human being: Business - Channel of Impact Marketing - Making a Difference to our communities we are committed to serve. Sales is ‘our Impact in the world’ Profit is the difference we are making to our people, our staff, our employees. Operations is ‘Do Less to Create more Value’ Innovation is ‘Make a Difference to Customers’ IT is ‘Ease of Making a Difference’ HR is ‘Happy Healthy Prosperous Employees’ Corporate Social Responsibility is ‘Nation Building’ 7. What is Branding in the world of RYD Soul? Branding is Craft Mastery. Greater our mastery of our craft, bigger the difference we make to our coachees, bigger our brand. That's how we will build our brand - working deeply with one coachee at a time. Craft Mastery is learning, unlearning, re-learning from the masters of our Craft from around the world in service of our coachees. Branding is the by-product of Craft Mastery. If you want to use social media, write articles for your community that really make a difference in their lives supporting them to elevate themselves in areas that deeply matter to them. Run events to make a difference because when you make a difference, marketing is the by-product, though make a difference from 'being-of-service' consciousness instead of from 'I-will-get-something-in-return' consciousness. Let's continue to play our big game to support people to have it all; and be happy, healthy and prosperous; with us together creating USD 15T impact enabling India to be the world's most developed, greenest and the most beautiful nation in the world; with her citizens happiest, healthiest and the most prosperous. I am grateful for your support and partnership in our journey together to fulfil on our shared Purpose and BHAG 💜 Loving you, j. On Monday 5-Dec-22, I broke my last year's record of 11 minutes by holding the plank for 12 minutes. Though, on Friday 2-Dec-22, when I tried to hold the plank, I fell down after 1 minute 30 seconds. Couple of lessons here: 1. Past is no reference for what may get created in the future, yet we live life with our past creating our future. 2. We need Agility of our Mind to operate in the present moment with only the learnings form the past and not from fears of the past. 3. Learnings from the past help us create a powerful future in alignment with our intentions; fears from the past recreate the pain of the past in the future. 4. It's logically impossible for me to do 12 minutes plank. I am 49, probably in menopause, genetically anaemic because I have a condition called Thalassemia Minor. I am plant-based and fast daily for about 16 hours, eating 2 meals between 10 am to 6:00 pm with fruits or vegetable smoothies to replace the 3rd meal in-between. That means even if something is logically impossible, we can still achieve it. 5. My fitness coach is certain it is not my body that does the plank, my mind does it. She is right and there's a lesson here. Mind is way more powerful than we give credit to it. And, our Mind can bend Reality in alignment with our intentions. Then, the question is how do we strengthen the Mind. I like to use the phrase - Agility of Mind, because it feels more accurate. By default, our Mind is stuck to one point on the Ball of Perspective, which feels very logical, giving us a certain point of view. Since our mind is very logical, it will take Actions in alignment with that certain point of view. And, guess what? The Results we create are in alignment with the Actions we take. If we want different results in our business, relationships, health or in any other area of our Life, we necessarily would need to take different Actions. That's where the catch is. We cannot take different Actions if we don't see a different view on that Ball of Perspective. And, to see a different View, we would necessarily need to travel to another point on that Ball of Perspective. That, my friends, requires the mind to be Agile enough to move. Then, the question is how do we strengthen our Agility of Mind. There are many answers, one way is by strengthening the Agility of our Body because Mind (mental body) and Body (physical body) are interlinked not only to each other, but also to our Heart (emotional body) and Soul (spiritual body). The ancients in our country discovered this a long long long time ago. This understanding gave birth to Yoga, which is the only system in the world that works on all the 4 bodies. If you haven't integrated Yoga as part of your Daily Rhythm, stop reading the article and do that right away. Yoga to the mind, body, heart and soul is like brushing the teeth; to be done daily. When we strengthen the Agility of our Body by pushing the body beyond what feels like its limits, we are in parallel stretching the boundaries of our Mind. As the boundaries of our Mind expand, the Mind becomes more Agile, becoming capable of moving easily and quickly around the Ball of Perspective. Agility of Mind is the first Leadership Muscle (Gear 1), without which the inner Leadership journey cannot even begin. The key theme in Gear 1 is - 'I am extraordinary. I love myself.' The default Mind is the small mind, operating from the Hole in the Soul - i. I am not good enough. ii. I am all alone. No one loves me. iii. I am not important. To get to Gear 1 itself requires a massive shift in human consciousness, massive amount of Agility of Mind to travel around the Ball of Perspective to find another point to see - I am extraordinary. I love myself. I am enough. I am worthy. My worth is not a function of my success and wealth. My success and wealth is a function of my worth in my own eyes. My success and wealth is a function of my contribution, the difference I am making which is a function of my worth in my own eyes. I can do it. If I imagine, I can do it. I can create from nothing. Therefore, I push my body beyond its limits because I want to push my mind beyond its limits so that I break the barriers between my Conscious Mind, Sub-conscious Mind, Unconscious Mind and the Super-Conscious Mind. On my One-Pager for 2022, I made a list of challenging tasks for my body. It's December and before the gong goes off at 12 midnight on 31-December-22 to welcome the new Year with a smile, I am going to give my best to do all that I had put out on my One-Pager. Here's something I want all of you to remember, don't push yourself beyond limits without a Coach holding your Space. If you are planning to push yourself beyond your physical limits, ensure you have a Fitness Coach committed to you and to whom, you are committed to, because without that partnership, it is just not safe or advisable. I push you all off the cliff because I am there holding your Space, with my arms wide open to catch you incase you fall. Jumping off the cliff is part of the growth journey because that's when we discover our wings and fly high to the sky of our limitless possibilities; and in the process strengthen our wings to fly even more higher. That's me in the photo below, massively relieved that it's all over after the 12-minutes plank. Actually, I only meant to do 11 minutes 1 second to break my last year's record. There I was holding to the last ounce of strength in my body for my fitness coach to tell me 11 minutes 1 second is over, but she told me only after 12 minutes. I didn't even have the energy left to tell her - That's just not fair. You may well ask how does all this have to do with building a business or having it all. Let me tell you the story before and after the plank. It is middle of our staff meeting over Zoom on Monday, with all of us trying to grapple with the agenda, logistics and the plan for our first in-person 3-days Annual RYD Soul Retreat. We call our staff - RYD Soul. Why? Well, that's another story. I had tried to scale the business 10 years ago. With a sense of relief, when my Chief Operating Officer quit, I scaled down the business to become a solopreneur. In retrospect, I realise I didn't have the Leadership Depth then to be responsible for my people, didn't have the Leadership Depth to truly take care of my people, that leading people felt like a burden. I was relieved to get my freedom to do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, however I wanted without having to take the whole organisation with me, dragging me down as I wanted to fly in different directions at the same time. Over time, as I strengthened my Leadership Depth, I realised if I wanted to increase the impact of my work, I needed to grow up and become an adult; a Nurturer, a Coach, a Leader to support my people to joyously lead themselves and their work from good to great, realise their dreams and have it all with ease and grace. That should have been easy enough for me to do considering that's what I do - day in, day out - for my coachees. My coachees are part of my Heart, I call them RYD Heart. My staff are part of my Soul, they are far closer home, far greatly impacted by my energy, needing far greater Leadership Depth from me. My fractured hand in Oct 2019 gave me the emotional depth to make that leap, not only helping me to give to my coachees a lot more than I had ever been capable of before, but also to finally get the Leadership Depth to start scaling up again. The biggest breakdowns are the source of our biggest breakthroughs. In fact, a breakthrough is only born inside of a breakdown. So, welcome your breakdowns, embrace your breakdowns. They are the gifts from the Universe, guiding us forward to the summit of our Mount Everest, personally and professionally. So, in one year's time, we grew from 1 to 6 of us. And, on 5-Dec-22 at 12 noon, we were having a meeting over Zoom to finalise the first ever 3-day in-person Annual RYD Soul Retreat starting from 7-Dec. We are a Zoom organisation. We work over Zoom. Our Daily Huddle, weekly Deep-dives, Monthly Immersions all happen over Zoom. And, now we were going to be together for 3 days, in person - exciting and scary at the same time. In the middle of the meeting, I get a call from my daughter from school crying that she wants to come home because she is tired and exhausted after being up the whole night for an exam. No, she doesn't want the driver to pick her up, She wants mumma to come. So, mumma moves the Zoom call to a Whatsapp call for her to continue to be in the meeting. Drops off from the call on reaching school to hear from her daughter, brings her home and settles her in. Daughter wants internet to watch Netflix. Mumma says No as it is better to sleep and becomes the devil again for her daughter; and rejoins the meeting. By the time the meeting ends, I realise I am late for my fitness class. If I leave now, I will reach 15 minutes late. My fitness coach is okay this time. Usually, she makes me do 5 burpees for every one-minute I am late. I reach and share my intention of doing 11 minutes 1s plank, though just 3 days ago, I had fallen down after 1 minute 30s. With the intention set, I get started and break the 12 minutes barrier. I have an unscheduled coaching call on the way back home. We have a family dinner at home because it's my son's birthday. Things are going on well till at midnight, my son and my husband have a tussle. Another breakdown. Everyone is shouting at each other with my daughter joining in. I feel strong and still in the midst of the chaos. I am kind of feeling stuck now, not sure how to proceed, whether I have the courage to continue telling the story. Writer's Block has gripped me since my hand got fractured; after writing massively for many years before. Words no longer effortlessly flowed out, as they had before, as if they were scared to come out. It is on my One-Pager to write for one-hour daily but I never found the time. I know better - it wasn't time. It never is the time. It is always our own emotional energy. I just didn't know how to write without baring my soul and I was scared of baring my soul. That's why writer's block gripped me since Oct 2019. For 1 year, 9 months from October 2019, my world crumbled in 1000 pieces. I did the 1000 pieces jig-saw puzzle to numb the pain, shedding buckets of tears with every piece I put in the jigsaw puzzle. I am a Have It All coach and I had nothing at all. Emotionally, I was shattered. My kids chose to stay with my husband. My hand was fractured so badly that the doctors said only a surgery would heal it. I left my home to set-up another house with a single hand with no money in the bank and no energy to work more than one coachee I was coaching. Years of being a coach gave me enough strength to get-up after having crashed down on the rocks and find a therapist who gave me courage to leave a toxic relationship. Through the therapist, I found a psychodrama support group and finally found Herb, my Psychodrama teacher and mentor. I re-discovered myself, re-invented myself, re-built myself with his help and with the help of my coach, Clarence, to re-build my business, which is far more successful than before because it is creating far more greater difference because I have far greater Leadership Depth today than I had before my hand got fractured. I did 100 burpees in 28 minutes today, saving 2 minutes since the last time; and yet I wrote 100 burpees in 10 minutes in my 2022 One-Pager. I am going to play full-out to win, so will take another shot at 100 burpees in 10 minutes on 30-Dec-22. It's all linked. The Stillness I experience is not only because of my rigorous work-out rhythm which includes yoga, karate and functional fitness. Though, it is a very important first step, a very important tool in strengthening the Agility of Mind; which gives us the access to undertake the inner Leadership journey in the first place. And, the outer business success and impact is built on the foundation of the inner Leadership journey. Greater the Leadership Depth on the inside, greater the Business Success is on the outside. Inviting all of you to create a daily fitness rhythm, integrating elements from all these five elements to ensure a well-balanced Exercise Rhythm: 1. Aerobic Fitness / Cardiovascular or Endurance Workout 2. Strength Training 3. Core Exercises 4. Balance Training 5. Flexibility and Stretching Include it as part of your 2023 One-pager and inspire yourself to show up daily for your fitness hour; though under the watchful, committed eyes of your fitness coach. Our 3-day Annual RYD Soul Retreat was deeply fulfilling, bringing all of us together on our Shared Purpose of supporting people to have it all; and be happy, healthy and prosperous. We are bound together by our shared Big Hairy Audacious Goal of creating USD 15 Trillion impact enabling India to be the world's most developed, beautiful and greenest nation in the world; with her citizens happiest, healthiest and the most prosperous by 2037. Today 6 of us believe in this dream. I know the dream will become a reality as more people believe in this dream and as we take actions today in alignment with our dream of tomorrow. Because FATE is From All Thoughts Everywhere. India will become the world's most developed, beautiful and greenest nation with her citizens happiest, healthiest and the most prosperous. When more and more people in our country believe this dream, when this dream becomes the place to come from, we will bend Reality in alignment with our Dream. I have a Dream. That is more powerful than I have a Plan because without a Dream, a Plan will bring us to a screeching halt after sometime. I have a Dream, therefore I will continuously evolve the Plan which begins with giving my all to my coachees tomorrow to coach them to joyously lead themselves and their businesses from good to great, realise their dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun along the way. Dream Big. Create Big. Impact Big. And, it all begins with pushing your body beyond its limits. Loving you, j. |
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