• Listen to yourself.• Live in the present moment. Now. Every minute.• Discipline yourself—it will give you true freedom.• Do not pretend to be in total control.• Allow yourself to be vulnerable sometimes.• Ask for help. Network.• Reinvent and renew yourself periodically.• Make a sincere effort to keep promises and commitments—your internal sense of justice …
As a famous saying goes, ‘Attitude decides the altitude.’ An attitude transplant is required to fill your blood with the chemicals of bliss. Soar on your positive attitude. A positive attitude takes you to higher altitudes. If the climate inside you is positive, it radiates all around you.To create positive actions• Pray together• Sing together• …
A germinal idea requires the sanctuary of a mindspace that is totally nurturing. It requires a space to grow so that its wildness is not nipped in the bud. Who knows which weed will become the coffee bush? Let the wilderness flourish in a totally non-threatening atmosphere. Let the ideas grow high and tall. Leave …
Life provides rich material to develop creative ideas. There is a story in the Bhagavatham about how Uddhava asks Krishna the question, “Who is a Teacher?” Krishna says: “Look at the sky; far, far away, you can see an eagle swift and strong and free. In a single instant, it can swoop down to earth …
The world is in your drawing room, it is clamouring to change your life with more and more sophisticated toys. As a popular jingle goes, ‘What separates the men from the boys is just the price of their toys.’ Simplify and go home to what you really need. The world is like a buffet counter …
Look into the purple heart of an amethyst. Register the colour in your heart and illumine every part of yourself with that colour. Beauty has the power to open the secret doors of the human personality. You become relaxed, alert, comforted and nurtured. Your mind becomes fluid and flowing. All that is harsh and dissonant …
It is important to bring all the teams together and unite them to achieve a single goal. The goal should be noble; it should be inspiring and should fill the teams with energy and commitment. The leader could kick start things off with an inspiring presentation and ask everyone to give their ideas on how …
We generally fear our fathers and love our mothers. The concept of a mother – Goddess appeals more to our hearts than that of a father – God. Women are trained to be lovingly supportive. They show utmost patience when listening to a child struggling to say his first word. Patience is a culturally celebrated …
Socrates is said to describe poetry as a divine gift, ‘gathered…… out of glens and gardens of the Muses and they bring them as the bees do honey, flying in like the bees.’Picasso is said to have seen the handlebars of a bicycle and created the thoroughly modern ‘Bull’ from the handlebars. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s …
Tapping Stakeholder Creativity (TSC) involves facilitating intense discussion and problem solving between stakeholders to reinvent future products and processes. It is a radical new approach which enables companies to include the customers’ or vendors’ voice in developing a product, activity or service and encourages the inventing or shaping the future together. This is a unique …
