Savvy Raj

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Category Archives: Nurturing


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On Mentoring

Trustful Mentorship

The dynamics of mentor mentee relationship is one of trust and confidence.

Building trustful mentorship requires genuine love to help guide people for the better.

Besides the required skills and expertise, mentors having an inclusive, expansive and holistic approach while helping unique  pathways for clients, adds to their repertoire to create trustful mentorship .

Clarity and integrity in communication & behaviour , excellent interpersonal skills and empathic attitude add value beyond the experience and expertise of the mentors.

It is important to acknowledge the influence a mentor can have on the mentees decisions be it at work or personal life.

Hence, a good understanding of ethics while handling conflicting opinions biases, & emotional triggers helps empower the mentee than exploit them.

After all, a mentor is someone who guides advice and supports along the way…

©Savvy Raj

(A bit more from my writings On Mentoring)

  


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On coexistence & safe spaces

So we have been keeping a food bowl and water bowl for the hungry and thirsty birds in our terrace garden.

I have  seen some occasional birds come in to drink but every day there is a family of squirrels who somehow have made their feeding zone.

So this morning I chanced upon a pigeon carefully perched on the edge of the bowl watching the surrounding environment…

Apprehension & trepidation are the words that comes up when I saw this lone bird feeding for the first time. So much fear and anxiety before dipping her beak into the bowl. So unlike our regular daredevil squirrels dashing into the bowl, this one was mighty cautious and careful and yet so very graceful in her ways…
Watching her I sensed how much she values her freedom. And how much she is relying on her wings to take off at any moment and fly free.
After all in every life, the spirit of freedom aspires to live & fly free in safety, peace & liberation.
Here’s to creating safe spaces for life to coexist, thrive and flourish.

©Savvy Raj

 


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Nature nurtures

Watching this papaya tree grow in our garden gives me great joy. Nature has so much wisdom to offer if we take time to reflect on it.
Love how the tiny little shoots are protected and nurtured by an umbrella of more mature leaves until they are ready to face the sun on their own…

©Savvy Raj

#life, #naturelovers, #treelovers #nurturing,  #homegarden #nature #awareness


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Find Yourself

Be so engaged with your life that you take all of you in whatever you do!

Find yourself!

How involved are you in life?

In your passion?

In your engagement?

In your purpose?

In your life’s moments?

What is it that makes you go on

Taking all of you

Into whatever you do?

Perhaps…

You have an answer within

You are already on your path!

Creating anything worth having

Can take all of you

To be involved to be engaged

With a purpose that drives you…

Beyond yourself!

And you find yourself!

Savvy


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Amazing tribes

Where you are, makes a difference to who you are.

You are powerful beyond compare.

Your body adapts to your kind of environment

Evolving in the journey of life

Every human being changes.

Came  across this interesting share on the amazing tribes across the world. Do read..

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/41CmT6sbsC4fhUVj/?mibextid=TrneLp


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Coaching Challenges

Balancing power play

In a group setting as a life coach it is important to balance power dynamics.

It is important to create a space of mutual respect and understanding.

Being inclusive creates an expansion of thoughts and ideas in openness tolerance and acceptance of new possibilities.

In a group setting it is important to hold space by  balancing  participation through inclusive ways like encouragement appreciation and rewarding contributions. This ensures the power dynamics are kept in check by empathic  approach and moderation by allowing space for all to speak up,  so as to prevent   lopsided conversations.

Have you had  any such  experience as a team member ?

Do share  your experiences of power dynamics at play in group setting.

©Savvy Raj


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Spirit of Happiness

True happiness is spiritual

Manifesting in interconnects

Pure, unselfish and expansive

Generated in grace of love & bliss.

Elusive in the holding

Inclusive in the sharing

Creating  abundance as a gift of life.

©Savvy Raj


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Building Trust in teams

Trust & Idea sharing

Building trust creates a rapport for greater communication.
Besides listening actively, addressing any issues and finding resolutions together immediately builds trust in a team. Being authentically approachable adds to the trust. Creating a transparent process and protocols for idea sharing helps. Showing appreciation for the ideas generated brings forth confidence to share more. Most importantly, giving credit where it is due by acknowledgements fosters trustful teams. Creating a responsive, cohesive and collaborative team requires transperncy in purpose.

©Savvy Raj


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Forest creators

When there is authentic effort

When the intentions are expansive

And the purpose stronger together

In the journey of life

Dreams take roots to realize itself.

Seeds to trees

Trees to forest

Barren lands turn fertile greens

Salute to this inspiring couple who created a forest out of barren land.

Together they have planted more than 2000 trees… Do read more…

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/q3joTWxL1U9VC5aS/?mibextid=xfxF2i


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I am

Affirmations in Self Belief

I am all me

My imagination, my quirks

My thinking, my writings

My habits, my choices,

All is me.

I acknowledge

The human in me

Senses and all.

I experience

Joy & happiness

With gratitude

Love and blessings

Of infinite abundance.

In this journey of life

I am my dreams & vision

I continue to create 

& live life lovingly.

@ Savvy Raj


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Breath well

Take a moment in this now

Check out for yourself

Do you breathe deep or shallow?

Deep breathing eases you

Shallow breathing stresses you

If you breath reaches your navel

You are breathing deep

If your breath reaches the chest

You are breathing shallow.

Our fast paced world is stressful

Deep breathing helps destress.

The science of the breath

Is a dance of awareness

Of the subtlety of power

As much as its strength.

Your own breathing patterns

Changes the energy in & around u.

Your life force energy

Shifts and alters perspectives.

All is a matter of energy

What matters most is the energy

You choose to create.

And the intention behind it.

Start with your breath…

Take a deep breath, breathe well.

© Savvy Raj


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Honey, Sweet?

Yesterday, once again I heard  of the bees being driven off their homes and then collecting the honey from their hive adulterating it with jaggery and selling it locally, it seems be a racket in urban cities. Smoking out the hives out  for honey results in suffocating many of these bees.

How callous we are, truly there is nothing sweet about this kind of honey.

Here is why bees are essential to our planet.

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/why-bees-are-essential-people-and-planet

What bees mean to humans is by now common knowledge to any human with a conscience.

And then this morning sn intriguing share caught my attention…

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/27T3dUkBH32aATpb/?mibextid=TrneLp

A few musings,

What a bee understands, sadly human doesn’t…

Energy radiates for a reason

Energy changes for a reason

Understanding these signals

Are crucial for harmony in nature.

If we humans truly care

To interpret the signals

Nature is sending out

And nurture  nature we have

We can heal the world.

@ Savvy Raj

#life #writing #sustainability #savethebees,


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Salute to Trees

Came across a beautiful tree in my walk  this morning…

Wondering of the lifetime experiences that trees live through

Of how many seasons it must have seen

Of how it must have survived through the storms

As well as enjoyed the beauty of springtines

Of the countless lives it could have generously sheltered

And continues to do so….

Strengthened by nature

Thriving in the surviving

Salute to the tree.

© Savvy Raj


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You

No one but you

Knows your true self

Empower your self

Create your life

Being yourself.

Be kinder, be connected

With yourself.

Allow to express your self.

Your truths in your voice

Makes you feel heard

Your voice with your words

Makes you understand

You are more than enough

To sense the light in you

Find out for yourself

With all of you

Who you truly are.

©Savvy Raj


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Puzzles fit in Patience

The journey of creativity
Flourishes in the flow
Out of passionate awareness
Of the spaces between
Light to dark & dark to light.
For in betwixt these hours
Ideas birth & creativity grows.
In passionate perseverance
Puzzles fit in patience.

©Savvy Raj

Sometimes comments by readers become an inspiration for verses in a flow…. This was once such a flow.. I thank @KatieMiaFrederick for the inspiring comment. 🙏