Active exploration of my own life journey, struggles and triumphs have led me to writing and sharing my story with you. As a result, I’ve gained a deeper appreciation for my own life and the underlying currents taking me in the direction of my work today. I have gradually developed the courage and acceptance of sharing this story publicly; knowing full well that I will be judged by some and encouraged by others. I accept that both exist.

 

My intent with sharing this story is to serve YOU and help you awaken to the underlying currents in your own life and your deep truth. An invitation for you to explore your own journey, listen to the call of your heart and walk the path that only you can.

 

So here it goes…

 

If I told you that growing up I had

• low confidence as a child

• almost died as a teenager with hepatitis

• lost my best friend

• grew up in a family with dysfunctional finances

• had my heart broken more times than I can count

• struggled with anger for as long as I can remember

• was afraid to lead

• questioned the very purpose and meaning of life itself

 

Now if I told you that I have today: 

• The highest confidence than I ever have

• Am in the best shape of my life physically, mentally and spiritually

• Am surrounded by loving and kind friends and family

• Am married to a beautiful and loving life partner

• Have processed and shifted my anger habit tremendously

• Am fearless

• Living with purpose, prosperously and joyously doing the work I love

 

Would you believe me? Lying isn’t something I practice so I hope you will. 

 

Recovering from severe illness

 

It wasn’t until I dug into my story deeply that I realized that there was a point in my life when I almost died. For a long time I had discounted and forgotten this event in my life as something I never wanted to experience again but within it was also a great realization. The realization that life is finite. It also reminded me of my connection with God when there was no other way. 

 

I want to take you back to 1999. I had finished 7th grade and knew that we were destined to move to the US later that year. What was supposed to be a great summer break before embarking for this life altering move to the United States turned into a nightmare when I drank the wrong glass of water. I was infected with hepatitis which almost took my life and also changed me forever.  For months I barely ate and became severely weak in both body and spirit. I looked and felt like a skeleton barely hanging onto life. When I went for a blood test on one occasion, I lost complete consciousness and collapsed on the floor. I woke up to find my mom crying and the doctors having raised my legs to help me regain consciousness. The disease  left me pale and my body itched to the point that I had scabs all over. It wasn’t pretty.  

 

My parents found the most respected doctor in the field who actually removed all unnecessary medications and also emphasized the need for prayer. He knew that both basic medicine and prayer were necessary. There was very little the doctors could do. 

 

My family prayed a lot, took me to Hindu & Jain Temples, Gurdwaras and Islamic fakirs to gain their blessings for my safe recovery. Being raised as a Hindu but going to an Islamic fakir for blessings was a big deal but they would do almost anything at this point for my health. On one of the nights, I remember not being able to sleep through the night while staring at the picture of an Indian goddess in the room, Ma Durga, while praying for better health. With the many blessings I received over months, what could have been only divine intervention, my health gradually recovered. 

 

This was my very initial awakening to God. Shortly after I moved to the United States and forgot all about it.  

 

Perhaps you too have faced something drastic in your life or know someone who has. I share this story because too often people don’t realize that their life is finite. They know this truth as a “concept” but haven’t fully internalized it. Often that internalization happens when a close loved one passes away. Only then we begin to wake up to the fact that perhaps our own life would come to an end one day too. And that we had better start living it! 

 

I’m not saying this to be overly dramatic but it’s TRUE. Upon holding this thought initially you might feel some sadness. If you stay with that feeling, breathe through it and let it process through you, eventually what follows is a gradual awakening to live the LIFE you already have and the desire to live it in the best way possible. No longer on auto-pilot. Every bit of virtuous difficulty gives rise to a greater possibility. The same is true here. 

 

So let me ask you this - 

• Are you AWAKE to your life? 

• Do you fully REALIZE that your life is finite? 

• Are you living it the way you really want or are you on autopilot? 

From financial insecurity to freedom

 

After having gone through the severe ordeal with hepatitis as a teenager, life felt like a rebirth. I was able to do ‘normal’ things again like sleeping peacefully through the night, having the strength to play with my cousins and enjoy my favorite foods. There weren’t any sudden awakenings but there developed a deep appreciation for life itself. 

 

Our family was bound to move to the United States later that year. I knew my life was about to completely change but I didn’t know how. My grandparents had been to the US before and I remember sitting next to them and asking what life would be like in the US and what people did there. My grandma would laugh and answer all my questions :). I was an excited little kid! 

 

This would be my very first time flying, that too bound for the United States. On the flight I remember being in and above the clouds with the vast mountains and the ocean underneath. I had never seen such views before. I was completely mesmerized!

 

We had a new found sense of stability as we arrived in the US vs life in India but that  quickly changed when my Dad got laid off during the dot com boom and bust of 2001. 

 

On one weekend, I sat in PJs inside our two bedroom apartment in Fremont, California. What should have been a fun weekend, instead felt stagnant and dull. We weren’t going anywhere, nor planning anything fun. Instead what I overheard sitting in my room was one of several conversations I would witness about money between my parents. Without an income, I came to learn that our family had been racking up bills on the credit card for nearly two years. 

 

As a 15 yr old, I began to be filled with a constraining sense of dread and became increasingly angry about our family’s financial health. 

 

What would happen to us like this? Would we end up on the streets? 

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Have you experienced a moment in your life where you felt the walls caving in on you?

 

Though dad never made us feel a lack of money, he could no longer hide it. One day he took me to a meeting with our apartment manager to negotiate a lower rent. I realized that he took me with him reluctantly so he could show that he had a family to take care of and perhaps the landlord would have some mercy on us. Luckily the landlord was kind. 

 

I remember the humility I saw in my Dad’s eyes that day. I could sense the sadness in his voice and noticed his drooped shoulders. I felt his pain. He was doing the best he could given the circumstances .   

 

That day I decided that I would never live my life in financial insecurity like I experienced that day. (Sunkulp #1  i.e. Heart and Mind Aligned Decision). 

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Was there a moment in your life where you formed a strong determination for something?

 

We had no money coming in as a family and I decided I had enough of this limiting existence. God had blessed us with a chance to live in America and I wasn’t going to squander it. I would go get a job myself, earn my own money, help my family and never have to ask for money from my parents again. And, I never did. 

 

Being fifteen and a half, the only place I could work was McDonalds where I spent an entire year busting my butt in the greasy and hot drive-through, which paid a whopping $5.25 an hour. I worked various retail jobs throughout high school eventually ending up at Costco where I had to work in the blistering sun and rainstorms pulling carts in the parking lot - the hardest physical work I’ve done to date! I also created my first 401K there which is still doing well!

 

I learned the value of hard work and what it took to earn a living. It made me strong and helped me pay my own way through college. It made me so resilient that I felt I could take on anything. I knew I wasn’t going to work in retail forever. I knew I could do better. 

 

Once in college, I started applying and landed an internship at Ernst & Young. Overnight I went from pulling carts in the parking lot at Costco to working on a computer in an air conditioned office with double the pay. Life changed overnight again!

 

After many wanderings, I decided to study finance in college. I learned how to invest from the very best and began to save and invest in all the years that I worked since. When I graduated I had no student loans, bought a used mustang for my first car and lived at home for several years before moving out. I often saved and invested more than one-third of my net income.  

 

Today, I love empowering people to become the very best version of themselves in career, business and home while living in financial freedom!   

 

Very importantly, these experiences taught me to balance my choices between pleasure and pain. 

 

• See, if we want amazing health and energy, we have to take care of our body.

 

• If we want to achieve big goals in our life, we have to become intentional with our time and effort. 

 

• If we want financial freedom, we have to learn to manage our money. 

 

Going through the very ‘pain’ in our life, creates the way for greater happiness and fulfillment to follow. 

 

Initially what feels like pain, becomes great pleasure.

 

If we always lean into pleasure and avoid pain, we eventually find ourselves in even greater pain. 

 

Question for you - 

• What does reading this story bring up for you?

• Have you created an empowering relationship with money?

• What’s your relationship with pleasure and pain in life?

 

The Quest for Truth

 

Just as the hard work began to create some financial stability, something deeper began to stir inside me. I was drawn to study philosophy as I began asking deeper questions like -

 

• What is all of this? 

• Why are we even here on Earth? 

• What is the purpose of life itself? 

 

[Have you ever asked yourself these questions?

 

I flashed back to a time in fourth grade in India when I first learned about the SOLAR SYSTEM and was blown away by what I had just learned. 

 

It took me more than a week until I could get my bearings straight - 

 

“You mean to tell me that we’re sitting on a round ball of dirt that’s spinning in infinite space around the sun?” I gasped at my parents. They nodded their heads and I still couldn’t believe it. 

 

My little brain wondered - 

 

“What the HECK is going on here and why am I caught in the middle of it all?!”

 

Fast forward to college years and I was about to embark on a much deeper journey in search of Truth. 

 

One day I remember stepping out of one of my philosophy classes at SJSU wearing black business slacks that I often wore to my internship at Ernst & Young. Throngs of students were walking out with me yet the campus was quiet in this late afternoon. There was silence in the air. 

 

I was in deep contemplation internally and if it was as if something within me nudged me to slow down and stop walking. 

 

I saw everyone around me slowly moving and the voices gradually fading away as I became completely still within me. 

 

Even though there was movement all around me, my inner world had completely paused. 

 

I felt my consciousness gazing at me, observing everything around me and also at what’s coming ahead in life. 

 

I could foresee the trajectory of my whole life ahead of me - 

 

1. Graduating from college, 

2. Getting married, 

3. Having children, 

4. Buying a house, 

5. Having a good career 

 

And, then wondering to myself, is that all there is to life? 

 

That moment came about 5 years ago as I sat on the couch in our living room right as the COVID pandemic was at its peak. 

 

I felt I had checked all the boxes - a nice house, car, loving wife and children, loving relationships, great career, fun vacations. 

 

And sitting at that couch I asked myself - 

 

“Is that all there is to life?” 

 

Something didn’t feel right. Something was missing. Something in me knew that there had to be more to life than just checking all these boxes.  I knew I had to go deeper to uncover the Truth. This would form my Sunkulp #2  i.e. Heart and Mind Aligned Determination to uncover the Truth for myself. 

 

Studying philosophy was a good start in college but eventually it felt like a lot of intellectual debate with very few answers. 

 

Religion as I saw it practised presented many rituals and theories with the practitioners not knowing why they did what they did. This blind faith, while perhaps beneficial for one’s mental sanity, also didn’t feel like the Truth. 

 

While at Intuit, I rode the early morning tech shuttle buses from San Francisco to Mountain View almost every day. It was these early morning shuttle rides when I read books on philosophy, autobiographies of famous leaders such as Martin Luther King and Gandhi. I read sacred spiritual texts such as the Genesis, Bhagavad Gita and parts of the Quran. These sacred scriptures seemed to provide a window of opening into the Truth. 

 

I was starting to gain some understanding as to the purpose of life. That we are born for our soul’s evolution and to work out unfulfilled desires so that eventually we can ascend to the image of God we are made in. All our pains and difficulties are meant for our soul’s growth. I had witnessed that in my own journey first hand.  

 

The Earth shook underneath me, figuratively, when I read the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The sutras laid out the path towards attaining enlightenment i.e. ultimate union with God through the eightfold path of Yoga as practiced since the dawn of time by Yogi’s. It is no easy path but it beckoned me to travel the path and realize the Truth for myself. 

 

I had found a manual for approaching the infinite but I needed a definite guide or guru to follow it. 

 

So began another search - I went to buddhist temples, vedanta schools, church lectures and meditation paths in search of a path that would resonate. Internally I was in deep prayer almost everyday to find a TRUE path forward. 

 

My prayers were answered. In 2014 while we were still dating, my now wife walked in and brought home the book, Autobiography of a Yogi. She simply said, “they were giving away some books and I thought you might like this since you’re into spirituality.” Little did she know how this book would transform my life as it has for countless others. Once I read it, I knew I had found my Guru. 

 

Yogananda was the 4th in line of enlightened masters each having first hand realization of and communion with God. This is no ordinary statement. Once the Guru had completed his work on Earth, he set a time and date for his departure, told all his disciples and left his body as many realized saints do by entering mahasamadhi in meditation in 1952. His work lives on through the Self-Realization Fellowship and most recently he was honored by India’s Prime Minister,  Narendra Modi in 2017 when the Government released a new postage stamp to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his work in India and Paramahansa Ji’s Mahasamadhi. 

 

Though I had now found the path and a Guru, it wasn’t easy to commit. I was still too restless internally to begin my journey in earnest. During the next 5 years, I went to spiritual retreats, became a certified yoga teacher, started and fell off my meditation practice over and over until I would be able to fully commit to the spiritual path for good. 

 

After many years of wandering, in 2019 I traveled to the SRF headquarters in Los Angeles where I was initiated as a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda in the Self-Realization Fellowship. I became a Kriya Yogi and committed to the practice of daily kriya meditation to attain a personal realization of Truth. 

 

Entering into a Guru-Disciple relationship holds a very sacred meaning. It means that you are committing as a disciple to follow the path laid out by the Guru to the best of your ability for your ultimate realization in God. Not only that, but the Guru also takes on the responsibility to guide and be responsible for your life evolution, not only in this life but as many lifetimes as it takes for you to realize that goal. 

 

The path of self-discipline, heightened awareness and personal development that the Self-Realization path offered in mind, body and spirit has been priceless in being able to walk my path today and I’m eternally grateful. 

 

I’ve shared with you what I’ve learned on my quest to date. My main intent is for you to awaken to the potential that this life holds.The path that I’ve chosen may or may not be your path forward. Only you can determine that. 

 

I encourage you to make time for self-reflection and sit with some questions below. 

 

Questions - 

• What does reading this story bring up for you? 

• What questions are getting stirred inside of you? 

• What does your personal quest for Truth look like?

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I would love to hear what comes up for you! 

Stepping Up as a Confident Leader

 

 

As the search for Truth was deepening within me, it was also present within my quest for meaningful work. 

 

In college, I transitioned from Ernst & Young to Intuit where I initially started out working in finance. Those were early corporate years where I learned a lot about the business world and I’m grateful that I was able to do that at one of the best companies in the world. 

 

After a few years in finance, it became clear that it wasn’t my path. I felt like I was stuck on a hamster wheel with repetitive financial cycles and very little room for leadership or creativity. In 2011, after many months of contemplation, I mustered the courage to have the difficult conversation with my boss. He liked my work and supported my transition. 

 

Around that time I read the book, ‘The Art of Non-Conformity’ and it opened my eyes to self-determination. I realized that I didn’t just have to conform to a particular career just because I had studied it or spent a lot of time in it. 

 

Life is an evolutionary process. We go through a journey and shift when something fundamentally doesn’t feel aligned anymore. That’s how we keep growing. Our past experiences can serve more as tools in a toolkit vs. shackles to a particular path, if we choose. 

 

The book encouraged me to ask big questions. If I could have the ultimate business mentor, who would it be? If I could learn from anyone, who would I choose? 

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Who has been a key mentor in your life?

 

I thought of some of the greatest leaders in the World at the time. From Steve Jobs to Warren Buffett and more. After some consideration, I realized that the leader I admired the most was right in front of me. 

 

It was Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit. I was intimidated at the thought of reaching out to him but  decided that I would. The worst that could happen, I thought, is that I may not get a response but I must not say no to myself. My spirit nudged me to go for it!

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Have you ever said NO to yourself when you really wanted something?

 

In my email to him, I wrote about what I saw in him, why I wanted to learn from him, what I felt on my own career journey and how having him as a mentor would be priceless. To my surprise and delight he agreed to meet with me! 

 

When I met him for the first time, I told him how grateful I was and that I knew I was meeting someone great. I’ll never forget when he replied and said ‘so am I’. Brad saw in his people what they often struggled to see in themselves. He would become my first coach. 

 

Over the next 10 years, I had the opportunity to be coached by Brad and it changed the trajectory of my confidence and career forever. Today, I’m grateful to be able to call him both a coach and a friend! 

 

At Intuit, I eventually made my way from finance into marketing and eventually product management where I worked with engineers and designers first hand to create products for customers. 

 

In my early years as a product manager, I often held back. I didn’t have the full confidence to show up and lead. I didn’t direct the team proactively and often looked to the seniors to make important decisions. After one of the product reviews, I was called out by my boss for not fully showing up. Though it felt devastating to receive this feedback at the time, looking back, it was one of the best pieces of feedback I could have received! 

 

It was just the nudge I needed to take full ownership and lean into my potential as a Leader. This led to me forming Sunkulp #3  i.e. Heart and Mind aligned determination to show up as a TRUE leader. 

 

[When were you challenged to step up to your potential?]

 

I met with every single person in my team 1:1 and read everything I could about leadership. Please give me your candid feedback, I said. What could I do better? What can I change? After the 1:1’s, I wrote thank you letters to every single person on the team. I learned a lot from that experience and formed some great friendships as a result. 

 

Within six months, I went from someone who was going to be put on a performance improvement plan to becoming a respected product leader in my org and getting promoted! 

 

Instead of being branded as someone who didn’t show up, my brand quickly became someone who showed up with 100% accountability and ownership. My leaders could count on me. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and I grew tremendously as a leader during this time. 

 

I invite you to take some time to reflect on the following questions and note your reflections -

 

• What have I learned from my own leadership journey? 

• When have I denied myself an opportunity?

• Where am I holding back in my own evolution?

 

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Manifesting Love 

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Have you ever manifested something in your life?

 

Something you felt was impossible in your lived experience. 

 

But, something you really wanted in life. 

 

In high school and college, I had experienced endless heart breaks. They destroyed my self-esteem. I struggled with relating to the opposite sex for a long time. 

 

I held beautiful women on a pedestal and myself below it. 

 

As a result, I was often ‘needy’ and ‘seeking approval’. Because of my bitter experiences with finding love, I became sarcastic towards women. This certainly didn’t create any possibility for attraction. 

 

I was dating left and right but struggled to meet the right person and it never turned into a great relationship. 

 

By my late 20’s, I had had enough of this situation. I wanted to be in a great relationship and to be in love. I was ready to meet the person I would spend my life with.  I knew I had to take greater ownership of this dynamic in my life. 

 

This led to Sunkulp #4  i.e. Heart and Mind Aligned Determination to get a handle on my love life. 

 

Manifestation might be a far concept for many of you but there’s something magical that happens when every cell in your being gets aligned with a decision. I have experienced the ‘magic’ of this phenomenon several times. Not only do you get aligned internally, it’s as if the universe becomes aligned with you. 

 

I shared my struggle with a dear friend and my desire to have a great relationship. He suggested that I read the  book Power of your subconscious mind. 

 

The book had a section on meeting your ideal soul mate. It suggested that I chant a specific affirmation night and day with deep feelings to attract my ideal life partner. This all sounded like wishful thinking but after having experienced enough pain, I was willing to try almost anything! 

 

So I started meditating on  the affirmation day and night with deep feeling. I even had a cheesy song associated with it to get me in the right emotional state! haha 

 

Here’s part of the affirmation I meditated on twice a day: 

 

“I now attract the right woman who is in complete accord with me. This is a spiritual union because it is divine love functioning through the personality of someone with whom I blend perfectly.”

 

As I did this, I came across and became open to coaches and books that completely shifted my mindset around dating and relationships.

 

Once my desire and feelings for a beautiful and fulfilling relationship were aligned, it was as if the right actions and changes all began to show up. All I had to do was follow! 

 

Six months after I had started the affirmation, I met Prairna. And a year later we got married! 

 

Not only did I just meet someone and got married, I met the PERFECT person in every way imaginable! Our values, interests and desired lifestyle were in complete alignment as I had been affirming. 

 

I had just manifested my life partner! 

 

This experience was so eye opening that it firmly established my belief in a higher power, yet again. 

 

How could 10+ years of agony vanish in just under a year? I was perplexed. It was so hard to believe all the shifts that had occurred in my life. 

 

I started wondering… 

 

If I could summon the powers of the infinite intelligence in the universe to shift my biggest challenge in life to date - which previously I didn’t even think was possible!!

 

What more could be possible in life?    

 

I invite you to take some time to reflect on the following questions and note your reflections - 

 

• What does reading this story bring up for me? 

• What do I believe is not possible in my life? 

• What would I like to shift in my life?

 

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Overcoming our Need for Control and Attachment / Growth in Relationship

 

“The greatest human growth occurs inside a relationship.”

 

I read this quote recently and it illuminated multiple phases of my growth in relationship with people, places and experiences. 

 

Earlier in life, my default response was often frustration. Frustration with constantly moving, having to make new friends parents, school and later on romantic rejection, not loving my work  etc. 

 

The smallest of things would irritate me because so many other emotions had built up. I was constantly on the edge and would frequently find myself in a bad mood. 

 

I was trying to control situations to make them pleasant but something or the other would fall out of bounds. 

 

A situation wouldn’t quite workout the way I had planned, and it would frustrate me. 

 

Someone would change a plan and it would frustrate my wanting things a certain way. 

 

Someone would offer alternative ideas and it would challenge whether my idea was good enough. 

 

Underneath it all - it was about my ego wanting to maintain control in my life. 

 

Because in the past I had felt so out of control - about constantly moving as a kid, changing friends, money, love etc. 

 

So there I was constantly trying to manage the frustrations. 

 

People often tell me that I’m calm. I’m calm because I’ve had to learn to be calm through these situations. 

 

And I haven’t always been successful. 

 

Underneath I’m actually an excited being who learned to be calm to manage his frustrations with daily life. 

 

I’m adventurous in spirit. I like to explore, travel, deepen in relationship, learn and grow as a person in the process. 

 

The younger version of me constantly sought new and exciting experiences- festivals, concerts, parties, vacations - experiencing the highs of life was what it was all about. My cousins joked how I would always drag them to the city because that’s where the excitement was. 

 

While these experiences did satisfy me in the moment, they often left me with a void afterwards. I was attached to them. 

 

It all made a lot of sense when I learned that I’m a type 7 on the Enneagram - an Enthusiast. 

 

Eventually I realized that no quantity of ‘exciting experiences’ would ultimately satisfy me. 

 

My ego was constantly seeking satisfaction through these experiences but it was always only temporary. And I could not control how these experiences would always turn out. 

 

All experiences kept changing constantly. Sometimes pleasant and many times unpleasant - which then led to frustration. They couldn’t be relied upon. 

 

It’s why I dove into spiritual growth. Because in my experience, none of these experiences quite satisfied me fully. 

 

I sensed there was more to learn here than to attach oneself to experiences.

 

As I grew in my spiritual journey, I learned to love these experiences but with much less attachment.  I could enjoy them for what they were, however perfect or imperfect in my interpretation, without trying to control the outcome. 

 

This sense of control carried over into my relationships as well. 

 

When we come into a relationship - whether at work or home, we are constantly sensing, interacting, discussing and hopefully aligning on whatever we are up to together. 

 

The ego wants to control but we are not in control. We are in relationship. And a healthy relationship requires cooperation. 

 

A relationship is not about YOU or I. The relationship itself is a distinct entity to be nurtured. 

 

Therefore a healthy relationship can only exist when the ego cooperates.  

 

Any attempts at maintaining control, consciously or subconsciously in a relationship, will sabotage the relationship itself.

 

If one person tries to control the other, frustration builds up over time, giving rise to an outburst of emotion and eventually anger.

 

We must realize that we cannot control others. We never will. We can suggest, request, influence or try to demand but ultimately we’re at the mercy of the other person and their own preferences. 

 

What we can do is to share our desires in a healthy way, honor the wishes of others while maintaining healthy boundaries for ourselves.        

 

As I’ve grown, I’ve learned that a lot of life is about learning to let go of control in a way that still honors your personal boundaries and those of others. 

 

Coming into a relationship - whether with a person, place or experience - is a perfect place to practice that.

 

With this in mind, I invite you to take some time to reflect on the following questions and note your reflections - 

 

• Which circumstances or relationships am I trying to control? 

• What is the cost of maintaining this control for myself and others?

• How is ‘control’ shaping my experience of life?

 

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Awakening to Power and Purpose 

 

I asked a manager once - Why do you do what you do everyday?

He replied - “I eventually settled”. 

 

Over my journey, I’ve realized that we have a lot more power over our lives than we realize. We often say ‘No’ to ourselves and settle. 

 

I didn’t come here to ‘settle’. Did you?

 

Many people tell me that I’m a completely different person than who they met before. 

 

It’s because I decided not to settle for limitations. 

 

I chose not to settle for ‘getting by’ in my initial financial circumstances. 

 

I chose not to settle for ‘fear’ in redefining my work & purpose. 

 

I chose not to settle for ‘low confidence’ in my journey as a leader. 

 

I chose not to settle for ‘loneliness’ in love. 

 

I chose not to settle for ‘control’ in relationship to people, places and experiences. 

 

I chose not to settle for ‘ignorance’ in my quest for truth. 

 

I overcame every adversity, limitation and fear I came across. 

 

And the journey is not over by any means. I continue to grow. 

 

Now, I didn’t shift any of these dynamics on my own. There’s little any of us do on our own. We’re always learning from something or someone around us. 

 

I overcame these dynamics that were keeping me stuck by…

 

…getting clear on my desires 

…overcoming my fears and limiting beliefs  

…forming an unbreakable determination to learn and grow in life

…learning and getting coached from the best and by applying what I had learned

So ask yourself - 

 

Where have I decided to “settle” in life?

 

Some of us are trying to make a lot of money - hopefully fast. We attach ourselves to a goal or outcome in the future - promotion, start-up success, building a large company etc. 

 

Yet, we know from our past experiences that reaching a goal does not equate to happiness. It’s momentary happiness. It is the quality of our relationship with life on a daily basis that determines happiness and fulfillment. Not at some far out point in the future that isn’t even certain. Our journey with money is only a partial solution towards lasting fulfillment. 

 

That which is missing internally i.e our relationship with life, cannot be fulfilled by mere accumulation of wealth. 

 

Some of us  are just ‘getting by’, slowly trying to make our way to ‘retirement’ - someday in the future. 

 

We’re avoiding life and caught in comfort. We put up with the daily drudgery in the delusion that someday it will be over. 

 

What passes us by in the meantime is our life and the opportunity we have to be ALIVE. 

 

Unless we  choose to shed the layers of delusion, wake up to our innate power and align it with our purpose, we will find ourselves at a crossroads of dissatisfaction. .  

 

Our external journey of chasing money and success is only a partial journey towards fulfillment. It is not the end all, be all. Choose to wake up from this delusion. 

 

My intention is to live the most healthy, heartful, joyful, prosperous and peaceful life in which I’m of service to others. Nothing less.  

 

I intend to wake up millions to their power and purpose in that process.   

 

I want them to know that they are much more than what they’ve believed themselves to be. 

 

For me life has never been about settling. 

 

I didn’t arrive here from the depths of darkness to settle. 

 

I didn’t arrive here to retire. I’ll retire when death arrives. Even then, maybe. 

 

Until then, I plan to live fully. This isn’t about chasing the “highs” of life. 

 

But rather, to be present in every moment and fully involved with every moment of life. 

 

I invite you to take some time to reflect on the following questions and note your reflections - 

 

• Where have I chosen to “settle” in life?

• What am I chasing and why? Am I chasing fame, power, wealth, pleasure? If so, why? 

• Am I allowing life in its full expression to bloom through me?

 

A reminder that I've shared this story not for the sake of you knowing ‘my’ story; but rather so you can relate through it to reflect on YOUR own life story and step through to become the best version of YOU and create your best life!

 

Thanks for being with me on this journey. I’m grateful for the work I get to do and how I get to help others lean into their fuller expression of life! 

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