Savvy Raj

Live Life Lovingly!


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Walk in light

Why walk in shadows of dark
When light  is just around the bend.

Walk in light
If you can’t see the light
Find the light in you.

Trust your inner light to show you the way.
Love the light that you actually are!

Savvy


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Imprints of kindness

On Kindness
Kindle the kindness
It’s the springwell of love
For love is limitless
Kindness generates
Heartfelt abundance
From one to another
Creating magic in action
Be it in words thoughts or deeds.

That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth

Leave imprints in kindness

Every word you say

Every where you go

Every act you do in kindness

Every tree you plant

Makes a difference

For it is busy saving the world.

Be kind stay kind

It’s possible.

Savvy


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On Respect

What is respect?


Respect is an understanding
Of another life right to be.
To express and be acknowledged.
Respect is deeply entwined in true humility .
To be humble enough to accept that there is always  something more to learn.
To explore, know & acknowledge.


In my stints, as a Consultant & Mentor I have been privy to many interviews  for Senior  leadership positions  I have noticed often enough  that the decline of respect is directly proportional to higher job titles. And  so is incline for the need for self respect.
Let me explain, in the years of experience garnered over the years often there an increase in self – confidence  so much so that the need to be seen as important takes over in conversations. 


I witnessed an interview to hire a VP Human Resources  by the CEO. The candidate was a lady in her 40s and the CEO interviewing her in his fifties. Age apart the interview  exchange veered in the direction  of Corporate Culture. In  her steering the  communication  in the direction of her  association  with brands and people, throwing out top industry names than her personal achievements,  she also began  calling the CEO by name , without checking if it was fine by him.
The fact was 250 employees  of the company used to greet & address him respectfully  and here this candidate, choose to address him directly  by first name without a proper professional salutation ahead of the name.

While it was fine as she didn’t know anything about the culture of the company, it was a sign of lack of acknowledgement by the candidate of the cultural hierarchies  and shows  the  inflexibility and rigidity  to align with others.  A sign of ego and need for value for self  but lack of empathy  for another.

So inspite of the candidate  ticking  other boxes on the requirements  list she was rejected.
Don’t get me wrong it was not because  she did not care for professional  salutations  but more importantly  because  it was a sign of defiance to protocol and  authority.

A team needs one leader and like too many cooks spoil the broth, too many non compliant leaders will wreck havoc in any organisation.
For work is worship as the saying goes…and the
ability to respect the work one does and the workplace that accepts us, becomes  paramount in the scheme  of best work practices.

For even if the  candidate  had been onboarded the team would eventually sense a lack of cultural fitment in her soon . So no matter the degrees the education  in reputed universities, the travel abroad and working in MNCs  a simple life’skill of giving due respect  wherever necessary is a valuable skill.  For no ones loses anything  by it . Actually respect given, is trust gained.

After all every part of the world has its unique culture practices, it would be good to be safe than sorry by treading with care & respect and acknowledge differences.

After all respect is not taking another for granted.

Savvy


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Life strings

We are strings of matter
Asserting ourselves in the giant spindle of time.

A string
Is meant to connect
It is also to be a bridge of bonding
Like a string of pearls
To string is to align with a purpose.

We are divinely connected in the subtler realms
To the infinite strings of matter.

Yet in the physical realm
We hold the strings to many
We pull these strings at times too lightly or forcefully
And what was meant to be for alignment ,  instead creates imbalances.

The strings we hold or latch onto
The strings that are passed into our hands
And the strings we want to control
All have a deep significance to the way we  were are,  we are and what our future will be…


Care to acknowledge our stringed existence in the interconnects.
Aspire to untangle the threads yet value the rootedness therein.


Aim to reach beyond the shackles of being
Unlearn to learn
Reach beyond knowing.

Life heals as its aligns and manifests the truth of its own potential.

Savvy


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A blessing in disguise

On Sensitivity

Every life is unique

And each of us on this planet

Have different personality traits

Our heart and mind is wired

In infinitely different ways.

An acknowledgment of the uniqueness to life

Makes us understand how valuable we each can be.

A little sensitivity goes a long way…

Although people cannot be compartmentalised

There are many ways nature and nurture impacts

Some hardened by life in resilience

Some suppress their emotions

Causing imbalances within

Some sensitive to sense the subtler energies

And Some who wear their heart on their sleeves

Expressing emotions and feelings away…

It can be challenging

For they also hurt easily.

For they sense a flood of emotions

They are often extremely receptive

As well as empathic in their sensing.

And often quick to understand

Perhaps they are blessed with subtlety

Of perception & awareness

With a highly developed intuition

For they are sensitive & emotional beings

They are who they are as they are.

Sensitivity can be blessing in disguise

Yet Sensitivity makes us humane

In the way we relate with the world

The planet needs sensitive souls

Who care a little more

Who sense and feel in empathic ways.

Let’s never discount this gift & virtue

In these sensitive souls.

For how we sense and feel

Affects what path and actions we choose to take.

And the world around is but a reflection of who we are

Savvy


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Treasure of happiness

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought.

Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Loved the message in the quote…Build a treasure of happiness.


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The Power of the Heart

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

The Power of the Heart

What is your kind of power?

Power of Influence

Where your charisma

And your words and behavior

Hold them in sway

And allows you to lead

Or is it Dominance

Where your overt assertion

Makes you take charge

Wherever you are

Do you lead with your heart

Or is it all about the mind

The way you weild your power

Speaks much of you as a person

Are you powerful enough

To let love be felt & expressed

To have patience in waiting

To listen keen to what’s unsaid

To know that being gentle is strength.

Always remember the path of the heart

Is far powerful than the mind.

For its far expansive it knows the way.

Savvy


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What is it to dance?

We dance to let go, To enjoy this now. And celebrate it and find ourselves again.
In awareness is a flow, that merges in harmony to synch in with this now, in artistry of the moves… this is the truth of what it is, to dance!


-Savvy Raj


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Mind body integrity

I think if you exercise, your state of mind – my state of mind – is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.Stone Gossard

Well said and true for it only shows how much our mind and body is integrated.

Savvy


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Beautiful You

Beauty is a very subjective term inspite of all the objectification that goes on in the name of beauty.

Beautiful you

Every age has a charm

Of its own doing

Every life is beautiful

In its own way!

What to speak of a lifetime?

Savvy

Pls watch the amazing video

I came across today.

”Hauntingly Beautiful”: Anand Mahindra Shares AI Video That Shows How A Girl Ages

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/hauntingly-beautiful-anand-mahindra-shares-ai-video-that-shows-how-a-girl-ages-3978999


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Creative Journey

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Creativity thrves in an open minded approach with an ability to trust and try.


To take a chance is to take a step into the unexplored unknown dimensions of potential possibilities.

The creative spirit is replenished in such an atmosphere.The forays into the unknown can be a pure game of chance.

A dare unto beyond that may or may not pay rich dividends. But in those trials and tribulations a creative soul is nurtured. And new paths are created to journey on!

Savvy


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Acknowledgement

How to see the good

When bad is doing the round

To bring the good in focus

Perhaps you need to search

For it in their way of being

In the visible & hidden nature

There is much that happens

In the circumstances

And much that goes invisible

For it cannot be expressed

For it is seen as a weakness

To be vulnerable

To be sensitive & emote

Are qualities that are negated

For it makes ones life difficult

But life has many shades

The very weakness for one

Can be a strength for another

It’s all in the way we see it.

Every life is precious

With many gifts of nature

It is in us to acknowledge.

Savvy


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Trustful ways

In any organization
When leadership listens
Empathy is nurtured
Safe space is created
Conversations  connect
Teams bond in trustfulness
Productivity rises
In balanced motivation
Both intrinsic  & external
Work becomes less dense
In collaboration & cooperation
Valuing diversity of potential
Possibilities are explored
Challenges gets simplified
Structure becomes systems
Protocols are in place
Change is acknowledged
In faith goodwill and trust
That we are stronger together
There is unity in diversity
As respect becomes culture.
Trust becomes the way.

Savvy Raj


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On Trustfulness

A changing world


In this world of metaverses and advanced technology where emotional connects  brings us closer, no matter the actual physical  distance,  building & sustaining trustfulness, integrity becomes paramount benchmarks  for buisnesses in digital space. Companies that can understand this need and work around  it by providing clarity of information and create experiences with strong data securities will have an advantage. Even terms and policies on user data needs transparent communication.


On the other hand the question  remains  how the world  will adapt to new ways of work with avatars taking prominence over actual humans. The lines of real and virtual are truly interweaved. While this generation born in a digital world is synced in with the changes like AI storming in to our life the earlier  generation is still reeling with trust issues.

Changing Times…

Times are changing and how
From a generation  that grew up without phones & computers &  to a world  that knows not to be, without a mobile phone & laptops.

Trustful Connections


In all this changing there is still one element of truth that is consistently evident.
The need for  human connection. As development improves the way we interact with one another it is getting extremely important to feel a sense of trust.The way of work has higher need for transparency along with the responsibility.And that is creating more interdependence and collaborative styles of work.
Autocracy  has to move to meritocracy  for trust to be formed. For we are living  in a world  where everyone can function from anywhere at the touch of button,and can be informed and aware in real time.

Sustainability

Challenges are plenty but solutions are also clear.Leading the change building trust. Creating and sustaining better relationships.It’s all in us, the way we behave interact and live each moment. Trust takes time to form and be instilled. Once trust is gained it becomes a gamechanger. In any successful relationship be it professional or personal it is important to understand the need to cultivate and sustain efforts towards trustful connections.

Savvy


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Gift of this now

This now is full of infinite possibilities

For every day is replete with potential

Whatever the path you take

Your life’s moments are a gift

You are meant to sense

So care to take a moment

To acknowledge the gifts

Of this moment as it is

See how everything connects

To every thing else.

And if you truly wish

You can create more moments

Of joy and light in & around u

Start simply by a practice

Of acknowledging this moment in this now..

Make today count!

Savvy