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It’s all in you to change.

A story share

A young girl was studying in a school.

She hadn’t been to school for four days because she was not feeling well.

When she went back to school, there were a lot of lessons taught.

To catch up on the lessons, she asked her best friend for her notes.

But her friend refused to give her the notes, saying she had to study them that evening.

Feeling dejected, she couldn’t get the notes copied.

Another girl came to her aid and gave her the notes, helping her out.

The girl was heartbroken that her best friend didn’t help her. She remembered all the times she had given chocolates and colored pencils to her friend.

Reflecting on this, she felt extremely sad and cried, becoming obsessed with the thought.

“Obsessed” means thinking about something repeatedly. She couldn’t stop thinking about her friend not giving her the notes.

She couldn’t eat lunch properly, came home, and sat quietly.

She couldn’t talk properly, watch TV, or laugh. She couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about it all the time. The next day was a school holiday, but she couldn’t enjoy it.

That day, her family went to a park. Her father put her on a swing and started pushing her. The swing went higher and higher, making her happy. She screamed joyfully, asking her dad not to push too hard. Her dad kept pushing, and after half an hour on the swing, she got down and played more games.

She forgot her anger and sadness towards her friend, feeling at peace.

That night, while sleeping, she reflected on the following points:

Point 1: It was wrong of her friend not to give her the notes. Why should she lose her happiness, appetite, and laughter over it?

Point 2: Maybe her friend genuinely needed to study and couldn’t give her the notes.

Point 3: Being angry at her friend made her distance herself from her loving parents.

Point 4: Constantly thinking about anger and irritation towards someone is torturous. It prevents us from doing anything else.

Point 5: Why didn’t she try to forget her anger for even five minutes? She felt excited while on the swing and forgot her anger. Why didn’t she think about getting out of the problem?

Reflecting on these points, she reached a conclusion.

Thinking negatively about anyone all the time will prevent you from being at peace. It drains our energy and makes us unable to enjoy life. Therefore, she decided to stay friendly and cheerful.

She woke up energetically,
greeted her parents,
took a bath and wore her uniform,
ate her breakfast, packed her bag,
and as she stepped out, sunlight shone on her face.

Her face looked brighter and more beautiful in the sunlight.

When our thoughts are good, our actions will be good. When our actions are good, our life will be good.

A tamil story translated by AI


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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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Pave the way

Water your strengths

Let it grow in nurture

Weed your weakness

Let it go from your nature.

Focus on the good you have

Pave the way for the positives

You will find you true purpose

In the journey 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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Grateful

A shift in perspective

In feeling thankfulness

In sensing appreciation

In seeing the glass half full than half empty

In seeing the sunny side of things than as partly cloudy

The way of seeing is a choice in our hands

Natural involuntary effects

An increase in dopomine

Sense of satisfaction

A boost in sertonin

Feeling of positivity

A practice of seeing all things with a positive attitude makes life more meaningful

Gratitude makes us recognize and value things we already have even more. That is how it brings a sense of abundance.

Seeing the positive side, focusing on the good in life journaling regularly and being thankful

Every day a practice of gratitude could include a variety of things that may feel right to you.

And of course you will have unexpected serendipitous moments that you  can’t help feeling grateful for…

Today morning as I stepped to my terrace garden I saw a beautiful squirrel  enjoying the food bowl and water bowl I have placed on the ledge there for birds. I watched with joy and happiness as this little guy munched and munched.

Feeling grateful for a great start my day… Feeling thankful the squirrel is feeding. Hope he is able to feed here every day.

Gratefulnness is a beautiful attitude with lasting effects through the day. Cultivate the attitude of Gratitude.

©Savvy Raj


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5 Tips for self care

Take some time every day to improve your life with these self care tips…

1: Breathe fresh air and walk every day thinking good thoughts. Every time you become aware of negative self destructive talk, take a good breath to regulate your emotions.

2: Hydrate with plain water, it helps the body and mind stay healthy and balanced. To think well, the right amount of water is a necessity.

3 : Nourish yourself with wholesome food. Choose to eat more plant based food .

4: Create Art, draw, doodle, paint or sculpt or do craft work. Sing a song, hum for a while if you don’t sing, take a step and dance your heart out. Even if it is for a short while, it destresses you.

5: Write write and write some more. Journal your thoughts regularly. It takes the pressure of your mind.Write your everyday thoughts in a journal or post an article or maintain a blog about things you love…

Starting with these five tips can make way for a lighter you.

© Savvy Raj


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Lead with empathy

Empathy  & Leadership

Empathic leaders find it easier to understand the challenges of their teams but they also need to be empathic to themselves to avoid burnout and manage their lives.

Stress Management for Leaders

If you are feeling stress beyond a level you can handle as a leader  you need to introspect.

There could be many factors that build up the stress often without your own knowing. It can happen to anyone after all we are only human. And it would be good to acknowledge the importance of work life balance and self care.

Are you biting more than you can chew? To manage work stress as a leader, while delegating work check, if you are delegating tasks with clarity to the team.

Are you approachable and exercising  patience in communication?

Are you checking if they have understood your requirements?

Are your mails, messages and your  attitude,  building people up?

Remember the way you chose to behave rubs off on people. While it’s only human to err  and there could be good & bad days, being  a leader  is a responsiblity. For you have the power to influence and impact lives. 

Likewise your actions  beliefs and behaviour can affect your own health.  Hence managing your own stressors empathically become paramount as a leader to get work done.

Every now and then tweaking your own approach, to the changing needs, being flexible and  adaptable helps you and your team towards reducing  work stress.

©Savvy Raj


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On Sharing

A great read today made me contemplate further…

https://www.timesnownews.com/web-stories/lifestyle/things-you-should-always-keep-private-in-life-according-to-psychology/photostory/111782158.cms

How much to share

What to share

When to share

And how to share

Whom to share

What not to share…

These are thought worthy questions.

As a creative writer, I enjoy the juxtaposition of imagination and reality. For life experiences become my muse. But still it is advisable to be savvy when sharing with the world.

A succinct share indeed. Do read.

©Savvy Raj


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On guard

A barking dog seldom bites
A silent one has propensity.
Watch out for the signs
Too quiet or too willing…
Both are signs not to be ignored.

Who are very quiet and a little too willing to let you have your way should never be taken lightly.

For there is always more than what meets the eye.

©Savvy Raj


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Remember

You are a divine manifestation of consciousness.

Remember it and all is well.


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Patterns of Oneness

Emerging patterns of nature are captivating indeed. For instance, be it waves or stripes or spirals, and more, nature patterns itself in synchrony.

In the waves of the ocean and the sand dunes, ripples in the pond, in the striking stripes of a zebra and the striped Zebra plant or even the striped flowers, their formation at the atomic and molecular levels may have a reason purpose in nature.

We as humans, find inspiration in nature and we are drawn to recognising these emerging patterns. It reminds us of the bigger picture, of the Oneness in the interconnects in life and living.

©Savvy Raj


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On Trust & Delegation

Delegation and trust go hand in hand.

Why delegate work, when you can do it on your own. Because it is common sense that with growth, work increases you will need people to get things done. And without trusting people, you cannot build a team that you can trust. A huge part of delegation is about being accountable to get the  work done well.

Successful delegation empowers a team.  It is about finding the right person or team for the job. Mastering the art of delegation is rewarding in the long term for it develops and builds skills enhances productivity. It validates the values of  collaboration and trust to the team hence improves the attitude at work in a team.

Moreover it improves the time management not only for you but  for the team and the organisation thereby increasing productivity and this can help find balance in professional work and  personal life.

Do you delegate with the right attitude and for the right reasons?

© 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