The first step
Often taken in blind faith
In love and expectations
To experience lifes best moments
With or without a backstep
With or without fear and doubt
On some corner of the mind & heart
Yet a step ahead in time
Makes all the difference
Between thinking and doing
For action speaks louder than words.
Savvy
Like the sky above,
Be expansive,
Unfurl your imagination,
Extend yourself, reach beyond knowing.
Like the earth below,
Be connected,
Yet stay rooted to the ground,
Have the steadfastness like the earth.
Like the fire within,
Be spirited,
Let your passion speak,
Explore life and give it your all.
Savvy
Life challenges us all in every moment
Yet love is the way to surmount the odds
For life to truly thrive in wellbeing
Making this world a better place.
Savvy
Take a deep breath
To truly be able…
To Breathe in ease
feel the peace deep within.
Take not this breath for granted
Know the gift of grace in every breath.
Inhale and exhale
Sensing Gratitude in every breath
Savvy
Part 2..
On Teams & Leadership
When teams align in purpose
Converging energies by envisioning
Towards a a common mission.
Streamlining the processes
Strengthening the teams
With diversity & inclusion
Acknowledge a natural fear that creeps in
With every introduction or exit
Of a new or older member.
Allaying their fears is allowing
Them to fuse and alloy together
In possibilities of their potential.
True mark of leadership
Is in the evaluation and application
In guidance and course correcting
Leader paves the path ahead
Leading the way with trustfulness
Empathetic of their vulnerabilities
Replacing fear with focus to forge ahead
Meeting doubts & insecurity with clarity
Taking decisions to ensure resolutions.
For Teams need empathy and respect
To survive the storms
Both in themselves and their leader.
Savvy
Positively speaking.
Whether it is today, in these times of uncertainty or other… a positive approach to life and living is deeply rewarding.
This is indeed wonderful as an attitude to cultivate towards living life. Being positively enriching & encouraging is truly the best way to help make a difference.
But the trick is in fine balancing the emotions that manifest along the way.
Embodied Practice of Empathy
When you practice sharing positive vibes consistently, you are putting a lot of hope and faith out in the world.
Yet you need to be empathic to yourself, care to understand your own emotions as well, by accepting and acknowledging them, without getting embroiled in them .
Make sure to acknowledge what is happening with your own life.
Speak from the heart.
All that is happening in the world today can be disheartening . So when you are out, sharing positive vibes make sure that you are internalizing them too. Sustaining a spirit of hopefulness is the key driver for a positive mindset . The world needs doses of positive attitude in thoughts words and deeds.
Authenticity of Attitude.
Making sure to feel from your own heart before you share these words of hope is a worthy practice to adopt.
Whatever said or written,words are mere words But when you begin to respect and respond to the emotions sensed in the feelings that arise you begin to see the world in its most vulnerable state.
When heart speaks the world hums along…
Savvy
Team Management & Motivation Tips
If you are in a position of leadership and influence, consider it your responsibility to keep your team motivated consistently.
Every career experience is deeply significant in understanding and expanding your vision. As a Consultant & Mentor, my years as a Ballroom Dance Educator & Trainer have been truly insightful in understanding teamwork and collaboration and the values of direction and motivation from a leadership perspective in team performance.
Here are a few tips to manage & motivate your team.
Attitude: A team is a set of individuals who are meant to align towards a vision and mission. Start of by getting the hiring process right. Hire the people with the right attitude.
Connection : Begin to connect with your team with genuine interest in their work plan, issues and tasks at hand. You are more likely to understand the pain points, their strengths and find proper resolutions
Trust building : Building trust in your team starts with a leader who knows when to engage and when to back off.
Trust creates responsibility and makes team members accountable.
Safety : A team that is ensured, mental, physical, social, environmental safety feels well-supported. Understand how important it is for every member to sense the safety so that your team can take steps with confidence.
Respect: Give respect to get respect.
Create a platform to collaborate without character assaults and biased opinions.Always remember there is the benefit of doubt.
Non-judgmental : Avoid & Reduce personal bias and judgements in assumptions from affecting your team.
Be inclusive and create a diversity in the team such that it becomes a source of strength.
Attention: Care to pay attention and nurture your team. Be available and wholly present to guide, mentor your teams through their tasks and issues. But reduce dependencies.
Appreciation: Last but not the least care to celebrate their small & large wins, take time to appreciate the good work.
Savvy
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
Nature never ceases to amaze us
Such is the wonder and awe of nature.
Nature is full of surprises
Every tree , every branch
Every flower, every bud
Like all living things is unique
Yet patterned in synchrony
Adapting to ways of being
Nature is resilience personified.
Every where we care to look
There is something to admire
Something to respect and learn from
Salute to the splendors of Nature.
Savvy
Some positive takes in an accidental spill…
To keep calm and address the lesson in the spill.
To turnover a spill to evolve for better
To sense a pattern of possibilities in a spill.
To challenge the statuesque through a spill.
To test skillsets learned from a spill
To move beyond in a dare with a spill
To spill some more and align the pattern formations
To envision hope beyond the accidental spill.
To create artworks from the potential in a spillover
To empathize with the spiller across the learning curve…
Spills become art and art spills over.
Savvy
We need arts to explore our potential and understand ourselves
For the study and practice of arts opens us to discover different perspectives.
Art patterns itself through creativity
And art flourishes in appreciation and patronage.
But art emotes from the depth of the soul and spirit in the sensing.
Art can salvage the broken and the indifferent souls.
As much as channel the creative genius to express from within.
Art is both an intervention as much as intrainment experience.
When the soul speaks art renders.
Savvy
Every day you have countless thoughts
Our thoughts carry energy
Some positive ones making you hopeful
Some negative leaving you stressed
Upset and drained.
But to truly make each day beautiful
Whenever there are too many negative
Thoughts that arise…
Become mindful
In awareness, train yourself
To think it over
Focus the many good
Let go of the bad.
Flipping it over makes all the difference
The question is
Will u try and flip the script?
Savvy
A person never is bored when he or she is creating something,expressing oneself. Through art forms, painting, singing, writing,and whatever that connects deeply to oneself.
And thats the beautiful part, where one art inspires another as much as the self to explore more.
Savvy
As an employer, recruiting the right people for the job is extremely crucial for a successful recruitment.
While hiring
Your degrees may not matter that much
As much as…
Your integrity, sense of ownership and dedication at work.
Yes, the employers are seeking all of you, beyond the certifications
Your drive, your ability & your commitment
Is visible in all that you say & do.
For it truly does not matter where you come from or what you know,
What matters is what you do with what you know.
Build the self to be aware, empathic and emotionally intelligent beyond your degrees and specialization.
For even if degrees get you the job
It is your ability & adaptability that keeps you there.
Savvy Raj
In the din of the moment
Is the quiet reflection
Of thoughts in musings,
Like a whisper in all its subtlety,
Like a soft caress of a breeze,
Like a feeling wafting through.
The soul knows…
Unnoticed, unobserved often
Yet felt by one and all in consensus.
At one point or the other
It is sensed in the being.
For it’s the heart that senses…
Whispers that speak to the soul;
Wherever you are, you know…
Wisdom speaks to the willing listener.
Savvy
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