Jolly good “Anger”

Last weekend, I happened to watch the movie “Angry Birds” once again. I must have seen the movie several times, but this time a scene caught my attention. The film is the story of a Bird’s Island where everyone believes in being calm, happy and merry all the time. There is no place for anyone …

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Power up

One of the intentions, when I started writing my blog, was to share few insights so that if someone is going through something similar, it might help them get some clarity or even a perspective. Today I wish to share how I discovered ways to stay committed to any action I decide.  I am not …

Thinking with Questions

Out of many, one lesson that stayed with me after I completed my NLP practitioner program was that of being aware of the narrative I had running in my head all day. The story we tell ourselves! You may have noticed we keep speaking and listening to ourselves endlessly the entire day. In simple terms, …

Hear them out

“Could you please just listen to me?” I guess it would be safe to assume that all of us have either been told or have said this to someone on several instances. And before you think this is just one more lesson on listening, hear me out, please 🙂 I have been trained to listen …

Get your play glasses on!

Did you have fun today? If anyone had asked me this question a few years back, I would have thought of them as trivial. While I was finding my feet in the coaching business and sharpening my ability as a coach, my teacher used to end our session saying, “Play with it …have fun.” My …

Learners Mindset

I was bitten by the learner’s bug in my college days. I loved reading books related to my course, taking notes sitting on the first bench, making my own observations and studying. After college hours, I made sure I was always learning something. So I enrolled in a Chinese cookery class, a typing class, computer …

Shed the layers

Today I would like to begin by sharing the gist of three movies that I feel gave a compelling universal message. Hope you have seen few of them. A few years back I watched the movie “Up” that I love repeatedly watching even today. In the film, Carl Fredrickson’s heart is hardened by his wife’s …