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
Pave the way
Category Archives: Writing
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
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
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
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
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
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
On Sharing
A great read today made me contemplate further…
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
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
Remember
You are a divine manifestation of consciousness.
Remember it and all is well.
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
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
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
Life is what you make of it!
The very fact you are reading this
May change your perspective
All of what you interact or sense
Shifts and alters meanings.
You, as a reader & observer
Have the power in you.
You, matter to the whole
What matters to you
Matters to the whole.
Create a beautiful you,
You create a beautiful whole…
Here is why…
The core of particle physics
The truths of sacred geometry
The essence of prayer
The logics of yogic systems
The dynamics of integration
The beliefs of ancient wisdom.
The cosmic interconnects
Creation to destruction
Birth to regeneration
Order to disorder
Chaos to resurrection
Stillness & movements
Balance & harmony
Time , space & distance
All is a matter of energy.
The observer effects the observed.
All of life, the sun & the stars
The universe you are in
You are because they are
They are because you are.
Understand as an observer
You are playing a part
What you do with it
Is a choice in free will
The choice is with you.
©Savvy Raj
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,
Savvy Raj 
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