Divapreneur - Truly Own the Queen Within

Know your passion, monetize it, scale it to the next level and much more. Law of Vibration - universe start communicating to you and you get Ideas you never thought of before. Doubts of Divapreneur will help get rid of limiting belief. Go with the journey, everything builds on the next thing, and in that there is an order to open the abundance and lock of your identity. Only ourselves can change our life and nobody else. Knowledge if used has impact. 

We can design our life, we are co-authoring with God. Believe in your own power, and the world will start believing in your power. Start writing. 

Life purpose meditation, and mindset towards passion will give you clarity.

• Clarity
• Creation
• Communication

CLARITY:

Who am I?

~ Time - Better we are organise, better it would be. Destruction kills most of us, know where you are wasting your time. Find out when we are the most productive during the day. If we can give 3hrs a day productively to our business we can succeed. Check your energy. Schedule the right thing at the right time. 

~ Money - It is not the lack of resources but the lack of being resourceful. Look for the ways, and you will find a way out. You can borrow, find an investor or sponsor. Think of abundance and you will attract that. Learning to ask, learning to borrow is a skill we women need to work on.

~ Value - We need to align ourselves with our values, to be successful. Write out what is important to you, and bring it in alignment with what you want to do. There are two kind of women: Giving vs. Ambitious - Identity/Legacy. Know which one you are and start working on it and also on your other side, to keep a  balance. Be careful as the last thing you want is empty victory. You need to manage the guilt well. Be able to fix your emotions on your journey. Don't get frustrated and irritated, but enjoy and be fun. 

~ Passion - Align with who you are. Ask - 1) What are my talents.- Dancing, putting things together, home, beauty 2) What do you get maximum appreciation for? 3) What you absolutely love to do?  - I love to read - self-help life coach. 4) Where you would like to Improve your skill set - it will add value. 

Understand my why:

• Reason - is like putting fuel in the car. Having a higher purpose, make us do things in the current, which is hard otherwise. It could be (1)Joy, living highest potential, (2)to keep ourselves happy/busy/productive and not just being consumer of life, (3) Money - Independence. You can fulfil not only your desire, but even others. Our joy comes from giving.  (4) Legacy - Contribution to society - leave a mark. 
• Connect to higher purpose - What is the problem your are solving in the world? It is of self confidence. Remove low self esteem. Give everything you do a larger purpose, a larger meaning. In this Patriarchal society, we should be the fuel in our car, and must not 'need' them, but 'want' them. Be the candle. A connection. There is no small work. A mason may be creating a wall, or building a home. 

CREATION:

Feasibility study (first five) and Branding (last two). 

 

• Product - Do you know your product? Divide it into three. (1) Easy to buy (2) Primary (3) High Ticket. Primary is the main business. High ticket is where big money is easy. Easy to buy is people can take it as add on or with lower cost. Identify one product/program in each category. 
• Customer Avatar - How well do you understand, who need your product? Sit and make list of what our client needs. Understand need, desire and pain point of the customer and create a vertical. Three people - work on confidence, business, relationship - Eagle, Dove and Peacock. Ask them, understand their need, desire and pain points. Find the kind of people you want to serve. 
• Market Survey - It's very important to get feedback from people we want to survey. How? By creating a list of 25 people who are your target audience and create a survey. Ask a minimum of 10 question with lot of choices. It will help you get over your fear.

• Pricing - We all have general idea, work backwords. Know how much you want to make per month, and this will help how much you want to sell. If you have clarity on this two, it will help know how many to sell. Another way of looking at it is where is your market at? Unique or general? Common sense is needed. Keep price low, untill you get market feedback. Keep moving upwards. It will help to improve, and once your improve, it is okay to charge more. Identifying pricing and quantity is the key. 
• Where to Sell - From home, online, exhibition, stores? Having clarity will help in creating business plan. You can choose all eventually. Start small, and from one of these. More the platform, greater will be the sales. 
•  Product & Logo Design - allow flexibility to let the brand evolve, and make it consistent across all channel for brand recall. Use your name. More clarity the better. You should have the last say in your branding. Try to have one, that is clean, and not complicated. Today minimalism is the fashion. Keep it smart. Nice to get expert opinion. Firewere?
• Understand your Audience - While creating feasibility plan, branding happen. Share your feasibility plan with those creating your brand, as it will help create the market. 

Once done, you will feel like a creator, as you are giving birth to your dream. Have fun, while doing it. 

COMMUNICATION:

 

First 4 is Marketing and Communication. 

•  Marketing Formula - Visibility + Credibility = Profitability. First just become Visible. Let people see your business. In your visibility, understand what problem are you solving? Educating people will help credibility, word of mouth will spread. Once you have visibility and credibility in place, profitability will follow you. Leaving a mark is very important. 
•  Become Visible - Don't work in your business, work on your business. People who are talented keep working on them, but forget to market them. The best known always out beats the best. Business is 70% marketing and sales and 30% the rest. For this you need a mindset shift. 
•  Social Media - This has become so important now. Now advertisement and communication has become simple and easy, doable at the touch of a button. Create content every day. Make sure world is seeing your creation, or people will forget you soon. Post everyday. Have your website - it is your ownline retail store, without having to build with bricks and motors. Have something there to create your leads. Any good offer will help. Once you create leads, make a list for active customer. Or you will be stuck in your business, upgrading your sill, without marketing. Have full plan. Keep your client engaged. Think in ways on how you can keep your client engaged. A couple of loyal fans are enough to keep your client engaged. 
•  Consistent Marketing - To become the queen of marketing, the key is 'consistency'. Lauch has lot of energy, what do not have energy, is somewhere down the line you have lost enthusiasm. Truth is keep marketing, result less. Marketing is not about selling. Don't limit yourself with your product or ideas. Sit and decide on your monthly calendar. 
•  Create a 'Wow Experience' - How can you make your client's experience unique? In time what you create wow now will become a best practise in your industry, and you will need to create a new one. Capture the feeling where you have had a wow feeling and recreate it in your business. 
• Grab the Customer's Attention - Today all are fighting for attention. So untill you create your wow, your business will not survive. It's very important to catch your customers attention - through the extra delivery, though your words or deeds. Its absolutely essential and is a commodity today. 
• Genuine Care - In the busy world today, if you show a little care, you will create loyal customer.  Trouble feels half, when people are received with genuine care. Today this is the currency. Use it to make your customers, loyal and long term. 
• Get Feedback - At the end of every interaction, take feedback, and make difference to your business. Get into the details of delivering your best. In the details is your wow. Make people feel that you are working on the feedback. 
• Journey of Customer Experience - Before , during and after - customer experience is good, but there is also after-after - making sure that the client is actually been taken care. Think of a way, that you can touch your client, long after they have left you. 
• Explore your USP - When customer see us in our authentic self, it will help. Work on your quality. Steve jobs - innovation. Bill Gates - Help. Opera - Care and concern. Authentic, real - is how the customer experience should be, that is what you will be. 

 

Final Over - Day 11 - LT (Linked Thinking)

LT (Linked Thinking)

It's is all about how we get inspired from the ads around our daily life.

Do explore in FB Ads library

Use search filters for your product / services with keywords 

Don't copy, get inspirations

Add your touch 

Present your ideas & concept beautifully of your product or service to customers

FB library: it's a treasure of  ideas for inspirations to do ads campaigns 

FB Manager is to run to the ads

Today's assignment:

After exploring fb ads library,

Create your Ads .poster with your company/brand logo/tagline/ a short content with attractive words/ an relaxant image/ contact / buy/shop now tab

By using tool : 'Canva'

Qala

Set in late 30's early 40's in pre-Independent India, with amazing locations from Himachal and Calcutta, Qala is about a singer, haunted by her past, a talented with a rising career, having just won an aware,  coping with the pressure of success, a mother's disdain and the voices of doubt within her. This movie gives a strong message on mental health in depth. Every emotion of this movie whether jealousy or partiality or sexual harassment or love feels real.

Tripti Dimri and Babil in stills from Qala. Babil is Irfan Khans son and Tripti had won  award for Bulbul, and even here, she is amazing. Also starring are Amit Sial, lyricist Varun Grover and is produced by Karnesh Ssharma, who previously collaborated with Anvitaa Dutt the director for Bulbbul. 

The movie revolves around a popular singer played by Tripti Dimri who is admired by many because of her ‘mesmirising’ voice. She, however, is not able to enjoy this fame as she is constantly haunted by her past. As the film progresses, we learn more about her strained relationship with her mother played by Swastika Mukherjee.

It looks like with great cast and rich look and great feel, thanks to cinematographer Siddharth Diwan, story is an ambitious and sincere attempt at story telling, but lacked the punch, because of its screenplay. It could have been more subtle and relied more on ‘showing’ than ‘telling'. Pacing too is not catchy.  As the movie ends, you feel sad. 

Songs are profound, mesmerising and deep, especially this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKv8FqBSkRk

The film’s music is by Amit Trivedi with lyrics by Anvitaa, Varun, Swanand Kirkire and Kausar Munir.

Magnetic Manifester

 Attract Anything Challenge. 

Start will all the excitement, so that it carries you till the end. Create, Be, 

1. Start with a desire list. Sit down and write down, what would you like to have - you can have it in different areas of life like:

• Health
• Wealth
• Relationship
• Happiness

When we have clarity on our desires, the chances of them coming true becomes far greater. Know what you want.

Sit in corner, dream, see what is attracting you and write it down. Have a balance. Want more in life. It is great to be content with the past, but for our future, we must always aspire. In aspiration, there is growth of personality. Our souls have taken birth to grow to our highest self. 

2. Get Specific - with the desire list. More specific we are, the better. Customise your desire. 

3. Have visual representation of your goals - Take a picture of the specific goal, keep it either on your phone or as a printout. We do not think in words, we think in pictures. This is a simpler version of Vision Board. See it every day. 

4. Affirmations - Write out a sentence, connecting with the photo. Make it present tense, adding five senses. Feel emotionally. Emotion is the fuel of subconscious. 

5. Mind Video - Marrying visual representation with affirmation. Imagine experiencing the emotions. That we can't imagine, we cannot attract. The more clarity you put in, the better. Realistic do not attract things and there is no excitement. Get charged up. 

6. Being Positive - Universe is conspiring to give us, what it is that we want. Connect it to the fact the universe is finding a reason to give the new one. When Universe is trying to give something, you will be able to connect the dots only in hindsight. Be inversely paranoid. Look at the glass half full. Say the affirmation every day, - Puri kayanath mere liya kam kar rahi hey. 

7. Commitment - Biggest problem is some of us are confused. Then we throw resistance at what universe is trying to give. Don't throw tantrum. Be specific of what we want. Be open. Honor what you get. God knows better for me, than I know. Mindset, attitude change and Vibration go up. You become a magnetic manifester. 

8. Gratitude - Write 5 things from previous day, that you are grateful for. It will help us focus on the positive. It creates funnel in our brain for positive things. Most of the time, it is the little things. When everything becomes beautiful, life becomes beautiful. When you handwrite, heart speaks. 

9. Appreciating Others - Become very generous with your compliments. Give good thoughts a venue to spread out. It will start to create a flow. You will get back, may not be from the same person but from others. Build your Vibe. Most of the time we keep the spotlight on us, notice others. Start to build more of the positive in the world, it will be different. Learn to receive. Open arms and receive it. Take it in, Breath in. Write 3 people, call and appreciate. Start with 3 today and do one daily. It's always nice to reconnect. 

10. Intention for today - Power Stone - As you work on your vibe, this is extremely important to follow. One quality that you want to have. (Say - No matter what the situation is, I will remain calm.) Ground and tigger it into your palm. Discipline, Focus. Without getting distracted. Fake it till you make it, and you will make it one day. Act as if. When you start do this on a daily basis, the kind of personality you will build in, you will be amazed. Do it even before you are ready. Power stone beside you. Pebble or shell you choose from around, to do this. 

11. Inspired Action - Some are obvious actions, and things we need to do for things to come true, and this comes from practise. Then there are inspired actions. When we hear something and that becomes our passion. At times you do not know why you are taking some actions, but in the bigger game of the universe, it has a very important role. Start to listen to your gut and your intuition. Don't use too much of your intelligence. Start to honor and listen to the whisper to the universe, it starts speaking with you. When it starts becoming two sided, the kind of magic it creates in your life is unbelievable. Honor your inspired actions. Some will turn fruitful and some will not. Keep going on the journey. You will then not need goals and desires, just gut and intuition will take you through life. 

12. Principal call - Ask, Ask, Ask. Think of all the people in the world who are successful, they have reached out to others to be successful. When you are successful, you would want others to be successful. But they can do it, only when people will ask them for help. Think of someone whom you can call and ask for help. Do you feel excited or nervous? The more you learn to ask, more you develop higher self-esteem. Don't overthink, just do it. Have a list of ask. 

13. Go within - We have more than 60k thoughts per day. How can we connect with ourselves? Whenever there are certain activity, that are build in a way, that if you do in a certain way, your thoughts, settle. Example, meditation, chanting, deep breathing, spending time with nature, listening to music, all these are helpful in calming your mind and being present with the self. when we are present with self, we start a relationship with our selves. That little inner voice gets a chance, to speak to us. It speaks to us in whispers, but if you are ready to hear it, they all come, what is your channel of introspection? 3*3 meditation can help. It could be any style. 

14. The Victory Log will help to focus on our accomplishments rather than on your smallest mistake. Write three victory log on  daily basis. What we focus on life grow. Carry this. It is very good for self esteem.

15. Jars - Stop criticising/complaining, blaming, excuses - look at the pattern, stop them. You will be an evolved person. Things, person, and self - be positive. Do not use your mouth to express it. Choice - take out only positivity. Become that. 

16. Forgive yourself for all that you are holding against yourself. It is important to take critic and change to coach. How? By saying I will not do it again. If you fall, you will fall in your eyes. Identify you did wrong, let that go. Only in that you can grow. We unloop ourselves in doing this. We accept our failure and become comfortable with who you are. Fill yourself with love.

17. Rule of 5 - Identify what your BHAG is and write 5 things you will do to achieve that. Identify the number one goal, that you will laugh at with excitement and with surprise, so you will have enthusiasm to attract it. Come up with new things, when you finish doing things in your list. 5 things towards your goal. They get done. In life there is never going to be time. It will be the discipline to do it. 

18. Law of spirituality - Sacrifice is needed to achieve something bigger in life. Create a materialistic vacuum, it will create a laser focus approach to our desire. It is one of the way to communicate with the universe. Don't get too attached to your desire. It is not a barter. What is the one thing you are willing to give up - that you are attached to, to achieve your desire. 

19. Grow your heart - Kindness & Compassion - Standing water attracts disease - there has to be outflow. Running water is beautiful. If you are a hoarder of any sort, start giving off, without expecting anything in return. Don't create clutter at home by hoarding. How are you going to create an outflow in your life? God is noticing his people who are serving other people. Law of Karma. Three things you will do to grow your heart - meditation/forgiveness/time in volunteering/giving - Have abundance mindset to be an abundance attractor. 

20. Hour of power - Like recharging phone, self-recharge time - Strategy - Writing gratitude, victory log/Exercise/   - Commit for 90 days, and you will start to feel your power and high level of self-esteem. You will be a miracle person. It is all about at what level you are vibing at. 

21.  Celebrate - People who celebrate in life, grow in life. This is the way to take us out of the mood we are in, and take a moment to acknowledge our self, and see how amazing the life is. Celebration is not just custom, culture or frivolous. Don't just keep upgrading our goal. Celebrate achievements. You will get self-esteem from the moment. Choose to be happy, and uplift the mood of the world around. Brag, be proud. See your magic. Feel your aura and power. 

Final Over - 9 - Tools & Hacks for Networking

 Tools & Hacks for Networking

(with people for Business / Individuals)

Before going abroad or visiting outstation 

Can schedule in advance with following process 

Prepare an Excel sheet with Meeting Date / Time / people / Business category etc..

Posting / Informing in fb groups about your visit programs, confrences attending & possibilities of meeting over there.

Tool/Hack#1

BNI (Business Network Individual)

Non members also can make use of this forum

Eg:- search: BNi chapter/category wise like BNI Members/Meetings Attendees list

Dubai BNI Evergreen, BNI insomniac, Rising pheonix,etc…

Category wise: Training/ Advertising Agency / Marketing with your business related companies, persons, agencies…

You can self decide meetings & fix up with based on Max.no.of members of the particular group.

Tool/Hack#2

Linkedin 

Free Members : search by using filters like people, products, Post and view contact details

Connection Established Just like that.

Even if not active in LinkedIn, still can leverage 

Monthly 3 email possible to send within LinkedIn 

Tool/Hack#3

Linkedin-SALES NAVIGATOR

Very useful for B2B 

with Potential buyers / suppliers / products / services, area, pincode wise with full contact details can be generated.

Paid basis (make sure untick auto renewal for monthly. Based on your visits can subscribe for specific months only.

Tool/Hack#4 

eventbrite.com

Meet-up - app

Couch surfing 

Airbnb

Use filters to findout and match your needs like country/city/location wise….

Do explore also for individuals events like 'ultramarathon' runners, etc…

Community based Networking is more effective to get connected for business & individuals with like minded people 🙏

Final Over - 8 - COLORFUL PLANNING TOOL

 COLORFUL PLANNING TOOL for Business

(Product / category wise segregation with different colours for priority wise color coding can be done)

Out of many tools available, most interesting is

Tool name: monday.com (with many interesting features)

Available for apple users as an "app" & online for others.

(Mainly for Owners/HOD/Decision Makers for Meetings-Plan/Execute-Launching of Events with bigger / multiple task oriented teams) 

paid version with many features - customisable according to our business needs works.as an Complete solution provider tool with a kind of CRM Dashboard for Planning with upgradable / modified topics by us)

Standard version (paid ver.- appx 10 USD per person per month)) with more features like Templates/sheets/fb featurescalendar/guest access…)

Free version for 2-3 seats (person) small team with less features 

Eg. seen like using for R/estate - deals sold, under negotiations, etc

education - quarterly budgets, etc.

you can search & try fo for your business categories

This tool works n give daily automated reports to us instead of having to work manually. 

Use atleast any of digital tool in business which

Saves lots of time for rest of the day to Entrepreneurs & Business owners to spend more time effectively in other areas of business / Life.

While purchasing tools, can ask for discounts if it is bulk users' team.

Whatever learnt Do explore, modify, incorporate in your business & make use of it to get benefited by actions

Confidence Booster

 Own the nervousness. Anything you do you have fear. Small risk when accomplish builds confidence. 

Confidence is a muscle, you build. You have to start first. Confidence follow success. 

Courage, Self Esteem and such tiny step leads to confidence. Enjoy the process. 

1. Stop Criticising self. Start sending positive affirmations.  Only when we do that, others will start supporting us. First notice what you talk about and then stop it. Negativity - add up until now. What you are till yesterday, will be different from what you are today. 
2. Take 100% responsibility of your life -Stop complaining and blaming.  Stop being confused. Design your own life, don't be a puppet. Take feedback from others but make your own decisions. Whatever you commit in the next 30 days, you must do. Most important is when you make commitment and don't do it, your subconscious mind and conscious mind are not in sink, and you lose confidence. Respect you get, when you respect yourself, and this comes from Trust. Trust yourself first. Accomplish your commitments. 
3. Mindset should be the faith that everything is happening for you and not against you. Meditation is to get the universal energy to your side. Be connected with one energy that exist in all of us. By way of prayers, cleaning, dancing, music, exercise. How you plug into that energy does not matter. Plug yourself into that energy. For the great, good has to go. When your faith is like that, nothing will matter. Believe in your faith. Do it every single day. 
4. Energy around: People and environment - Inspiring and Expiring. People that surround us are those who inspire us or those who expire us. We need to be careful of them. When we are being judged or not supported, we give the same energy to them. Think, if they knew better, they would have done better. Know, their intention is good, but is unable to see what we see. Overcome everything we think is an obstacle our way. Once this is done, people will start having confidence in us. List out the people and environment who support you and who do not. Clutter takes away your positive energy. 
5. Control your emotions and become smart using your subconscious mind. We make decision from conscious mind; it is where our intelligence leave. Our thoughts and belief system are in our subconscious mind. Will power is when we keep the command of our mind. We have to build will power. Say it. Do it. Say it. Do it. Our emotion drive our subconscious. Emotions are deep and shallow. It is not just positive or negative. All sad emotions go deep. We have to train ourselves to net let negative emotions to go deep, and train mind to let positive emotions go deep. Shallow emotions, we are so achievement oriented, instead of celebrating, you land up moving to next goal. The whole society is revolved around celebrating yourself. If you don't celebrate it don't go deep. What goes deep mind demand recurrence of the same. Angry people will be angry with everyone, there is pattern that is created. Don't let emotions go deep. How do we break patterns? Conscious practises. Keep negativity at superficial level, - (i) say 5 sentences for positive things and 1 sentence for negative things. (ii) Speak about things you can control. Talk to wife about boss problem and talk to boss or friends with wife problem. Talk with the right person.  
6. Connect with your pleasure. We are living in patriclan society, where everything masculine is given lot of importance. Women should own the power, to have the world in balance. Be in Balance. Come into your own. Sacrifice, adjust, tolerate - was what was expected of women, and they become like dry well. She is not able to create hormones to be happy. Give important to your desires. You let men mistreat you, and then when they mistreat you, you feel bad. Having pleasure is not being selfish. We need more sleep because we need more energy and have less outside pleasure. Bragging - post about what you like about yourself, do Gratitude and write your desire.  This is a golden Trinity. Understand the importance of feeling yourself important. Don't be just giving and giving. Sit yourself and enjoy your own company. 
7. Resistance is the enemy and opposite of confidence. This is the one thing that will always show up. It covers doubt, fear, overwhelm, perfectionism, procrastination. Change brings resistance. Resistance speaks to your weakness. It is invisible and is internal. It dampens our confidence and courage. The minute you recognise resistance you can overcome it. Change in your life will bring something new, something good. Find places where you can make change, explore newness. If you don't grow, you will start going down. Nothing in life is stagnant. Best book on resistance and change - who moved my cheese. 
8. Attract what you desire. You can design your own life. What you want gets decided by you. But when you get it is not designed by you. Farmer can sow but can't decide when it will sprout. When you are desperate for something; it would come to you until you do not need it. Wait, and wait for. Desperation of desire cause suffering, drop desperation. Press the lift button and wait is desire. You keep pressing the button and cursing, it's desperation. Enjoy the wait, and don't keep cursing. You have a choice. If we overwater our plants it will die. Give time to God to respond. Where in your life you can replace faith with restlessness. We are cocreating. Give time to others to respond. Have no problem losing what you want to attract. 
9. Hour of power - Every morning, 5 things grateful for, 5 things To do, food exercise and sleep tracker. 20 -20 -20 : Affirmations, exercises, Journaling. Life is all about expectations. Don't push it for more than an hour. Do what you are doing very well. What is important is consistency. Start to see how you can bring all of this into your life. 
10. Connection - We feel isolated and alone because we are not willing to be vulnerable anymore. Own the part of your that you are ashamed of. We start to hide behind and not become confident about. Just stop hiding. To connect you have to be honest, and to be honest you need courage. Keep energy up. This taught to own who you are. To be okay to be judged and open. Clarity is power. Know what is stopping you. World is divided into two kind of people - 1) Who thing they are worthy 2) Who do not know or think they are worth?  - Think you are worthy for who you are, without anything in your life. Love yourself and don't hide behind it. Whoever you think you are, bring out another version of you. Nourish new quality. Be seen. Leave what your are absolutely dependend on. Be uncomfortable. Only then you will be confidence. Only when you are seen you will feel connected and when you are connected you will feel worthy. We judge one another, first stop judging yourself. Own yourself. What are you hiding? Stop. Get out of the race for approval beggary. 
11. Consistency - Know why you are connected to what you want to do. Why gives us the power to follow the routine. Publicly announce, and you will feel the need to accomplish.  Celebrating small victories will give us happiness and boost our confidence. We can build habits by connecting old habits with new habits! Start with tiny habits. Don't make too many commitments. Set routine. Celebrate what you want to do. Mind just doesn't focus on good stuff. Don't stop, start stop start. Once you start, continue. Start consolidating all the activity, let your mind process the information, and write down three things you want to do consistently. Build habits and think of tools that will work for you. There are ways - but are you ready? It will not come from a place of relaxation. You will have to be dedicated and give 100% of yours. Who will become in 5 years, will depend on you doing what you say. Become who you are inside. 
12. Gratitude - Most profound thing in life. Negativity, blaming, for all this Gratitude is the anecdote. This is the highest emotion to live in. When you are in a place of Gratitude you cannot be in any other place. You can be happy but upset about something. There is a science behind Gratitude. You will be calm and composed. You will be able to convert negativity to positivity. Start as soon as you can. You can use Gratitude journal, Go as deep as you can, and it will become a recurring activity. There is a gratitude rock. Get up with gratitude, sleep with gratitude. It is about removing the poison you have build over the years. Gain your power back. Start appreciating others, let go of your ego. Make the effort, make the pattern, let your tube grow. Become the amazing human being. Do this one thing. That is enough. Live in the space of gratitude, and your life will transform. 
13. Forgiveness - Function of our mind is to protect us. To give meaning to our life. To prove us right. You create file, and keep putting facts, and think that is right. We need to change the meaning to the events in life. Give story that empowers us. Give the twist, say things in the head that helps us settle. Hurt people hurt people. Vicious cycle. Everyone gives the meaning they want. Why forgive? Whose life it is? If you are riding, and a vehicle comes in the wrong direction, will you move or not? Talk about people we love and not about people we hate. Own your life. Don't be consumed by anything or anyone. Give up and let it go. Start at looking at people's intention. Say they are just like that; we are just one of the person. Clean yourself or keep things in yourself. Don't just be comparing. First decide do you want to forgive? Truely decide do you want to change your story? Then think of How to forgive. Giraffe and squirell cannot become friends and want one to be short or the other to be tall. Tell people so they can realise. People keep hurting and you keep retreating, go for a cup of coffee. Fix if you can or accept it. Don't live in a space where you have to live with the hurt. The harder you find forgiving, when you hold a lot of regret and shame. 
14. Anger - is not a decision. It's a reflex action. When someone upset you, it shows up. You don't have control over your anger as it surfaces. Feeling of anger is a feeling of protection. Tell the person what makes you angry - there is no need of shouting. Just say, this is making me angry, or you are pushing me to get angry. Helplessness trigger anger. Understanding anger help control. Respect before you are angry. When you are angry you cannot thing all this. Your intelligence shuts when you are emotional. Where in your life do you feel helpless? Below anger is fear. Below fear is always hurt. Divert your anger. Walk away from the situation. Don't let it lose this time. Build consequences. Acceptance is the best way out. Start to show the world who you are. Compassion, kindness, love. Bring that into the world. Deflect this week your anger. When we speak, speak with elegance, calmness. You and others will respect you. 
15. Parenting - Honour the mother in us. Don't judge this aspect. Connect the type of person we are to the mother we are. Don't shout and scream at the child. It will reduce the soul of the child. Don't break the soul of the child, to make him one who the society appreciate.  As much as you can, let your child make his decisions. Honour the soul inside the child. Start with positive energy, hug and hold him. Let children make their own choice. Else they will not know how and when to make decision. If he fails, let him, and make him fix that. Let them play sports. It will teach them many things. Be interested in the things your child have to say. You don't lecture him, do something with him, that is of interest to him. Pure basic kindness is what is needed. Believe in them. Zero criticism rule. Check if you can say it in front of the people. If not, don't say behind the back. Gossip feels like fun. Don't criticise people when they are not around. Be consistent, and make children be consistent. Make them important, build trust. Delayed gratification. Teach them how to earn the things they want. Make them a chart for 30 days - write gratitude, do something that they need to improve it - at 80% give him and if achieves 100% give bonus.  It's bribing, if you give them something to get things done. These are great qualities to have. Discipline, Responsibility, Kindness, positivity - are the important things. Give him or her the tag 'I am proud of you'; this is more important than 'I love you'. Pray to God, to give them a great destiny, so they can shine. 
16. Relationships - Love Language. It is basically every human being has a language of love. When they get love in that form, they understand it better. Any other form, they don't understand. Five Love Language are: Gift, act of service, words of appreciation, Physical touch, quality time. Touch replenishes the soul. Infant die, if they are not touched. Its applicable to your parents, children, spouse, friends. It is something for which you will fight, or you get upset about. Once one act is complete, we will need the next. 
17. Creative Happiness - Ever women do not need career. But need creative happiness. God put a part of beauty in each of us, some have explored it and some have not. Find where your beauty is and explore this side of yours. The more you learn, the happier you will be and connected to your soul. Beauty is important in the world. Understand it. Explore it. You like to admire the beauty of nature. It calms you down. Do more of what give you happiness. Build your talent. We get attracted to what is inside us. Have freedom and independence to make own decision. Highest punishment is to take freedom. So people are putting them in jail. Financial Independence give one more freedom.
18. Planning - Affirmation and Visualisation. Affirmations are basically mantra. Any kind of repetition, that silence your mind. 'I am an amazing enjoyable life, because I am an amazing, wonderful wife.' It should start with I am, use emotional adjective that excites you as we are talking to our subconscious, let it be in present sense - 'ing' word, it should be specific, it should be positive, read it at night before sleeping and morning as soon as you wake up, it will help make closure you desire. Read with emotion. Emotion is the key. It is all around essence - like Gratitude. You should be able to visualise your affirmations. 
19.  Handle consistency - Be an explorer than a committer. You start strong, and then weaken. When you weaken, have a strategy in advance. Create 80% rule (You dont work 30 day, you leave out saturday and sunday and get paid for a month). Restarting takes lot of courage, so don't stop. Continue. Have a BHAG goal - Big hairy audicious goal. It will keep you excited, and you will keep trying. If you stop having goal you will not achieve anything. Make your own rules, we are given intelligence, use it. 
20. Kindness. World has lost compassion. Be kind to self, and start with it, then to your family, to people who come into your life. Whenever you have a choice, choose kindness and not revenge. 

Final Over - 7 - Staffing

Once you know what a person is good at, don't try to force the person into another role, unless there's a good reason to do so, factoring the employee's choice/commitment.

Understanding the clarity of Teams of an organisation /firm/company with respective positions & works done by that person of the team

Multiple roles also possible in a Firm by a same person

Mostly Entrepreneurs (beginners) will do all 9 roles also (Navatharam).

Efforts don't matter only results matter.

Appoint new staffs and interview using Belbin's wheel of Team

Make a planner/poster with staff names & job to do & achieve better perfomance for 2023.

Once a bird was searching for a home to lay her eggs and get shelter. In her search, she found two trees and went to ask for shelter. When she asked the first tree, he refused to give her shelter. With disappointment she went to the second. And second, agreed. She made her home, laid her eggs and then days later there was heavy rain. The rain was so heavy that the first tree fell  and was carried away by the flood. The bird saw this and started taunting the tree, “ See, this is your karma, you didn’t offer me shelter, now God has given you punishment.” The tree smiled and said: “ I knew I’m not going to survive rain that’s why I refused you. I didn’t want to risk your and your kids lives.” 

We as humans are really quick when it comes to judging others. In most cases we don’t even know the person or their back story what they’ve  gone through or what they’re experiencing.

Practise the PAUSE before concluding with a judgment and see the difference. 

Pause before judging 

Pause before assuming

Pause before accusing

Pause whenever you’re about to react harshly

It’s a special habit to imbibe and it helps us to  REFLECT, THINK AND RESPOND in a right manner and it will also avoid you doing or saying things that you’ll regret later.

On our way to the future - Metaverse

Future Technology.

In 1992, American sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson coins the term metaverse in his book Snow Crash, which depicts dystopian future world where rich people escape into an alternative 3D, connected reality. In October 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook's vision to build an alternate virtual existence for individuals by employing augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies. Adaptation is all about volume, creation and origination. So, in Metaverse - How do we virtualise production?

How did it develop? Not over-night, and we are not yet there. The Zensar team of Metaverse developers provides all the support and tools to the businesses to bring virtual content and experiences into the real world. Infosys has introduced the Infosys metaverse foundry to navigate the unusual confluence of technologies such as XR, DLT, 5G, AI, IoT, and many more. The tool builders, the software developers, world builders, artists, 3D modelers, game developers, users, investors, those are the proverbial owners of the metaverse.

The journey, began with tiny steps, with focus moving from Analog to digital, built in a virtual world. CGI. Combination of real-life action and virtual production. What is happening right now is, the work on principals of creating metaverse which big 4 are working on like PWC, Garner.

Analog was manual/slow. Product had to be shipped, there was pre shoot, photo shoot, post production and output analog. This could be used in print, social media, digital and POS. When there was a new product or change needed, one had to reshoot, involving lot of cost. 

Digital helped create digital twin, there was a virtual product library, helped create variations, and customise to customer. Output could be anywhere, turntable 360 degree, could be printed, used in social media, AR, digital platform, TVC and more. New product or change needed new render, which involved lesser cost.  Digital Brewery, Kitchen, travel and many more could be created. 

CGI Models can be used for adaptation. It is not just two dimensional. It becomes digital assets. You can show flower blooming, - can be used throughout the year. 

Things moved from a mix of digital and CGI and eventually to full CGI environment with CGI Backplates. 

Pick different locations for different product, including different people. Unreal engine was used and output is so realistic and photo real, it can be done in automatic rendering, at real time.  It gives the client flexibility to get additional content and changes, once full environment is created.

Virtual production has many uses. With T V screen behind. Animate wheels moving vehicles could move with ETS, - Unreal engine and artist, but working real time. It is done using motion control camera.

Today, Amazon has biggest virtual production stage in America LA for amazon prime video shows and they have come up with Stage 5.

Brick and Motors - Lego - plastics. 

1. Sustainability is one of the biggest things for virtual production. offset carbon emission
2. With unreal engine, driving dynamic - Expertise Travel Services drives; It's easier and faster. 
3. Correction and recreation is cheaper, easier and faster. 
4. It comes at lesser cost and quicker. 

Marvel comic - Actors would just sit at home, and all would come out. Client has the real touch and feel - product is priority.

Accessing the metaverse varies from platform to platform. You can enter gaming metaverses as a guest user with just a computer or smartphone — though to truly participate, you'll need a Windows PC and a crypto wallet. Other platforms require augmented reality glasses or a VR headset.

How Cheap and fast?  It is not easy to quantify.  It goes back to right tool for the right job. 

3D scanning, to digitise product. Photogrammetry can be accurate. In the packaging space, it is quite rudimentary in the way it uses 3D model. Augmented reality, mixed reality.

Selling point would be finding tangible need to sell with technology and provide ROI - No body will buy if we say invest in technology. 

What are the trending skills that we need to watch out for this?

Lot of innovation come from passion - Pushing the boundaries. We can google AI and get tangible results. Identifying the career pathway, and understanding were one want to get to. AI Photoshop, editorial perspective to level of edits, communication, future technology, creativity - multifaceted approach, would be the key. 

Think Smart. Craft Smarter. Most Important - Be Together. 

It was a cool peak into the future. 

Lessons Learnt: From Enron to Satyam

Pattabhi Ram Sir

First time in the history of our country something of this grandeur happened.

Enron was mighty and spectacular; Enron and Arthur Anderson fell by the wall side for lessons to the world. But lessons were learned the hard way, and that should have not been repeated. But it did happen. 

All accounting scandals 

• Overstating of income - Satyam
• Understanding of expenses - 9 companies 
• Assets are overstated - Satyam hid 5000 crores of cash
• Enron - understated their liability.

Question asked, 

• 'What were the auditors doing'? Where they negligible or involved?
• Credit Raters, what were they doing? 
• What was the role of Independent Directors?

Lessons:

They all are paid by the company:

• Auditors
• Employees
• Credit Raters
• Directors

Trust; nevertheless verify.  When earnings come from profit, there is a tendency to jack up profit. Basic Maxim - higher the risk, higher compensation. 

Each story tells us 'Honesty in public life, is perhaps lack of opportunity'. If you link reward, best of men, will end up having legs of clay.

Great thing to have great character.

Even company which we held in high esteem have fallen down. 

Delink reward from performance and profit. 

Manoharan

Satyam scam came to light, at the time of Subprime crises. People failed paying interest and principal, and so banks collapsed. Many institutions collapsed. The inflow of orders to IT company was dwindling, and there was liquidity crisis. Satyam too fell into the crisis, and promoter had to confess because they wanted to keep the rating of the company, with fictitious billing, and had to show it as collected in the books.  Bogus banks statements were prepared. It was channelised by bank statements being fictitious. It was difficult to show expenses, and was shown as bank's Fixed deposit, which had interest. Software revenue was taxed, but Interest was exempt. Even taxes shown to have been paid were bogus. Everything seemed to be manipulated. 

1. Restore financial stability - 500 crore p.m. 
2. Employee motivation
3. Continue patronage of the customer in 66 countries. 

Withing 100 days was able to turn around, amidst many challenges. Ultimately, it was taken over by Tech Mahindra, which has grown three-fold.

Purpose of writing the book:

1. Document the learning, that could be read with interest
2. Lessons learnt for corporate life and personal life 

Q1. Corporate Governance - How is it looked at? 

A1. There are two perceptions. It is very essential. Scares resources of shareholders are entrusted with the Management, how they use their talent is to be regulated. Buzz word today is ESG - Environmental, Social Governance. CSR is one small segment of this. Governance is Profit should be earned in a proper way. It is to be regulated. It is challenging because few people do not follow Government regulation or norms. Government is mandated to put in stringent regulation, which make compliance difficult and thriving of good company too, difficult. Morality cannot be regulated but conduct can be. 

Q2. Independent Directors - do they have power?

A2. By far, have been happy with the quality of independent director. Independent director where not in Favor but were persuaded. Courage of conviction, the independent director should have. It is better to get it recorded to get it descendent. 

Q3. How Independent is the Independent Director?

A3. Bonus paid even if it could have stopped in a recent case, having them is one way of ensuring independency - their remuneration should be fixed by outside. After Satyam, sitting fee cannot be in the way of Bonus share. Good people will always follow the law, and those who want to find loophole and avoid, they will do it. Striking a balance is recommended, if the compensation is lowered, the quality may be lower. Independence does not mean, being disruptive. They are there to facilitate the company to grow. 

Madoff punishment, for 150 years, nothing of that sort in India, which is needed. 

Experience of writing the book was a great experience. What Raju and Mahendra did was a different story which can happen again. But what happened, during those 100 days is important, and got first-hand information on that. 

 

What Stops us from achieving our dreams

 Understand what is stopping you from Starting. What if's are many.

If you have lot of doubt and fear - it is common. Your resistance will try to annoy you. That is common.

Learn to deal with your mind. Else they will win and you will lose. How?

1. Doubt - Will we be good as them? We try to compare our first step, to other 50th step. Improve. It doesn't matter where you start, there is someone who know little than you. Start there. Doubt will kill you, if you don't kill it. Everyone creates their own space and attract their own tribe. Because our vibe matches theirs. Instead of doubting - ask why should I not help? Who am I not to help? What really matter is - is this information help you. Start serving your client. 

2. Fear - Elizabath Gilbreath - Put Doubt and Fear in the back seat. You can ignore them. But don't let them take the driver's seat. Fear is Fatisicied experience appearing real, it is not real. 'If'.  Thing good and positive. It's our minds duty to protect us, so is highlighting what can do wrong. It is worth having fear. What can go wrong? You might get feedback. If one person gives feedback it is their opinion. Think positive. 

3. Overwhelm - You see all the things you have to do, but don't know where to start. If you want to eat an elephant eat bite by bite. If you have to do 20 steps, do three things today, three tomorrow - split. Overwhelm start to work in your favour when you start taking action. Chunk your 'To Do' into smaller steps. It becomes easier doing step by step. Complete clarity in the beginning is never going to happen. Know your first few steps and start taking action. 

4. Dream Stealers - People around us. 2 Typers - 1) Protective 2) Jealous. No support at home. Most people don't believe in us, because we have not proved it. Stop expecting perfect scenario to happen before you start. Initially people who love you, will warn you what all can go wrong, which will create more doubt and fear. They come with good intention, you can love and respect them. But don't go in the negative zone. Every now and then you might get trolled. Let it pass, don't take it personally. Your biggest enemy become your raving fan, when they see you success. Success and Gossip are same coin different side. Start to build your own tribe of people. Don't hate them or get into arguments.  Your dreams are most valuable , and you need to live your mission. 

5. Perfectionism - Success is shabby. Just launch, and keep fixing on the way. It does not matter how amazing your creation is, it is not worth if things don't come out at all. You can always keep improving and fixing. Chase excellence and not perfection. 80% is okay. Perfection can never be achieved. 

6. Procrastination - Resistance is very smart, it just keeps delaying. It knows your weaknesses and you will keep delaying what has to be done. Today will turn into someday, which will not come.  Start - even if at the smallest level. 

7. Victimhood - Please stop having Pitty party, start to take 100% responsibility. If it is to be it is up to me. Only our life is being effected. Don't give your power to others. Take it back. Stop playing whatever card you are playing - uneducated, lack of support, women. 

8. Spirituality - Some feel it does not match materialism. Take every religion in the world, you will realise how rich they are. Anything good need fuel to run it, and it is money. Do good, but if you do for money, you can do it for more people. Start to marry spirituality to materiality. Become comfortable with money. 

9. Isolation - Every time caterpillar become butterfly, they lose caterpillar friends and make butterfly friends. Till you become butterfly, you will not realise what your potential is. Live your best life, highest potential. Forgive and let go of what is not working in the current environment. It will go.

10. Criticism - Change your inner critic into your inner coach. Learn continuously, don't say sorry - say Thank you and how it will be done better next time. Forgive quickly. Mistakes are bound to happen. Self and others around. Not all will behave our way. If they knew better, they will do better. Grow your heart. 

11. Support and Rational - Too are young, someone at home is ill etc. Whatever in life you think is your highest priority - you will make extra care to protect it. 

12. Balance - How will we have balance? Balance do not serve anybody. What you can have is Harmony. Balance is dividing equally - harmony is fixing what is important. Handle things according to guilt.

13. Beauty - Be comfortable in your skin. Your energy is important. The level at which we play our life is important. Confidence has a different posture, adopt that. Have bold enthusiasm.

14. Humility - Afraid to handle success - It is good problem to have. Learn to handle problems. You cannot sit here and know everything. When things show up act. 

Let not your doubt stop you. Some other show stopper are - laziness, time management, imposter syndrome, frustration, comfort zone and phone. The list can go on. 

Have a beautiful garden. 

Explore what is the doubt - fix, check, understand, know it will not go away. Accept it, but don't stop. 

Start before you are ready. Keep improving after you take action. 

Early it was : Ready - Aim - Fire 

Now it is : Ready - Fire - Aim 

Keep firing to get your target.

Take action continuously. 

Don't let self-sabotage to kill your dreams. 

You can't please everybody. There will be someone judging you. Don't be afraid of judgement. 

Align with your value system, work on your passion. Create your mission. 

The purpose of God throwing a challenge at us, is to check your strength and courage. If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it. There is guidance, and a supportive hand behind you. 

Don't allow anything to stop you. 

Go do it. 

Eric Karl Anderson's 50 books for An Armchai Setective

 A reading guide with titles to tick off one at a time. From supreme examples of the genre, to newer and less know, all are included here. Some veer more towards crime, comedy, the supernatural or the literary. The great thing about mysteries is that if you like a particular one, there's usually an entire series of books featuring the same detective or location. Each book offers its own unique style and form of suspense. 

From the famous Agatha Christie, loved Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conon Doyle to Bella Ellis and Sujata Massey; many find a place here - Hark back to a nineteenth-century tome considered to be a pivotal tale of mystery or explore an array of choices from the golden age of detective fiction. From lavish English mansions to small-town America, from a train journey in the Andes to a bustling community in Botswana and a Japanese island, the settling of these tales circle the globe and present a wide diversity of characters.  Of course, this list isn't completely comprehensive. It has been designed to hint at possibilities and suggest authors you might want to try. The great things about mysteries is that if you like a particular one, there's usually an entire series of books featuring the same detective or location. 

As the author writes in the cosy crime and the thrill of the chase - challenge yourself to solve the crime before the culprit s revealed. Take this list as a reading guide with titles to tick off one at a time, or pick and choose from the books within to try something new. 

Bibliophile and book blogger Eric Karl Anderson will provide lots of inspiration in these pages. 

Domestic Diva

Connect with the Domestic Goddess within you:

Small steps towards Self Love

Put yourself at the top of your to-do list, every single day and the rest will fall in place.

Keep your house guest ready . Only then you can be the domestic goddess. Use things for yourself first.  Don't keep things to be used when guest is in. 

Tips on training your staff

You cant train a donkey into horse, you can make a horse a better horse. Three time rule. Same thing explain three times. Train them for 90 days ...first...start following the three times rule....  Have systems, remove old cloths every three months. 

Create Conveniences

 Keep everything at its own place. In everyway, make your own life and those around you convenient. 

• Have a kettle for green tea beside  lounge
• Have extra towels in the loo
• Have nuts etc close to my table to eat as & when

Dependability:

24 hours rule for the family members. Ultimately Leadership is in serving the people, we love.

Make a To do list in the morning and get it done. To become Divine God, we need to be able to provide people what they want. Don't let family member want to remind you. 

Becoming the Domestic Goddess:

Become Clutter Free: Have nothing in your house that you do not think to be useful or beautiful - remove all extras. Ask is this something that gives me joy? If not keep things aside. Don't just remove things because they are broken. Everything in your home should spark joy for you. Start with a room or space. 

The Pipeline story: A person used to dig everyday,  when others would go and get water from the well, gradually he had a pipeline from the well, but others did not. It is important to have pipeline mindset rather than well mindset. Create systems. Pipeline is replaced by systems. Become as effortless you can. Daily things in life. When are fans and switches cleaned? It is far more important than doing all yourself. You do what you love. Delegate to others and create systems. 

Atithi Devo Bhava: Having guest is how we share joy and love with others. It has everything to do with your ability to serve, and that is what matters. Your house should be always ready for guest. People matter, energy matter. More people are at home, it will flourish. 

Being Dispensable: Even if we are not around, things should go on. If we put all energy on things we have to do, you will not have time. We do not delegate all that we have to do and do what we love to do. Plan better. If you keep doing what you don't like, frustration and depression builds in. 

Create Pleasure Points: Do walking into your house give you pleasure? Have comfortable sofa, ready to make tea, perfume, book near tea, if you do things, it makes you present, and you just be. Walk around and see, if what you do gives pleasure. Create small unique things in your home, that will give you pleasure. 

Sprinkling Pixi dust: Just walk around your house and touch everything with your hand, and give our positive vibration. Everything has energy and aura. Women of house can cleanse the aura of everything. Remove the negativity from every thing. Remove anything that is damaged. Become aware of everything that is at home, and make things come alive. It is important that things get your energy.  You will not feel, moody, depressed, frustrated. Sprinkle Pixi dust and you will feel good about self, and people leaving there. 

The Constructive criticism: Zero Criticism, no unnecessary criticism . If you can say it on the face of people, tell it; no gossiping. Constructive criticism is good. While criticising, and when people discuss people, energy fall. Make home zero criticism zone. Have code of honour. No blaming, complaining or excuses.  More you can do this the better you can feel. Make your home a comfort zone. Be aware of things that we say unconsciously, that create criticism. Stop creating/manifesting negativity. 

Focus on Passion: Start working. Anything that gives you satisfaction. If you work only at home, you will start taking things for granted. Give the busiest man something to do and it will get done, and give someone who have nothing to do, the work will never get done. My be go for a run, be part of organisation. When you focus on passion, you house will get more efficient. 

Create Magic Moments in your house: Use all your senses to create environment to have joy - through music, lighting, aroma. All of these, though little, make so much difference to the mood. Burning bay leaf is a way to have aroma. See how different it feels, even though the house remain the same. 

Become a supervisor rather than worker: Allow people to make mistakes, as you supervise them long enough, and they start doing things the way you want to. Be the teacher and not the doer. The moment the domestic Goddess don't do this, you will be indispensable at home, and will not be able to contribute anywhere else. Start to lead, and trainee people to do certain way at home. Stop jumping in and become the Steve Jobs of your home. 

Three important reason to be a domestic Goddess: Anchoring, Self Esteem and Pleasure are three important reasons to be a Domestic Goddess. Our house is  place where we come back for calm. We need to be aligned with it. It is important that small joys should attract you and your mood should be uplifted. When our anchoring is strong, our ability to fly high would be better. From there you become who you want to. We derive our self esteem from our house. Appreciated, acknowledged and approval, helps you bloom - it is life soil, water and sunlight. Look for doing things at home that will boost self esteem either from external or internal ways. Every one should be connected to pleasure. Beauty is essential and core to our soul. Clearly beauty is essential - it is a part of life - look around. 

Be Ambitious: When we go out in the world we need our foundation to be set up and house strong. Put in effort to keep the home running. Own the part to maintain the home. Be good in your primary role. Our moods and emotions play a very important part in all we do. So our home should be happy. You can take care of both. Give love the people at home deserve. We truly can do this 'and' that and not 'or'.

Qualities needed: 1.Patience. Rome is not build in a day. It takes time. 2. Love and Connection. Energetically serve others. Build connect with others. Develop their EQ. Grow love and connection at home. 3. Get Organised. Be dependable. Have a to do list everyday. Ask for help and go out and do what you want to do. Anything you touch, that place should blossom. For that you should be your best self. Make everything better. Operate with one question and be the gorgeous domestic goddess. 

Reduce overwhelm: Become a queen of Jughad and learn best practices from your Mother. Concentrate on the things that are amazing and keep blossoming. Eveything is figureoutable. Women is the pride and should always present the best out of what we have, enjoy and grow. Use the smartness that you naturally have. Peel out the outer cover to make your flowers last. Share tips to become the queen of Jughad. Be clever and smart in the most beautiful way. Stop blaming and complaining. You are making hell out of beautiful and amazing when you blame and complain. Our journey is an evolving journey. The seed take time to grow into a tree. Find our way of operating and blossom. Do'nt be negative of your own space. The women of the house, make the mood of the house. Make it happy , positive, amazing one.

Take action - start today: Wanting is not enough, take action. Start now. If not you are letting resistance to win. Immediate action lead to success. 

Deserve life of extraordinary, don't settle for ordinary. 

Final Over - 6 - Sugar cosmetics - Brand story

 Day - 6 - Sugar cosmetics - Brand story _ take away notes 

1)Customer preferences are changing dynamically 

2)Sugar cosmetics - Every entrepreneur journey will cross both ups and downs together.. 

3)Subscription Model - repeated buying is the key aspect of it - hence CAC is less and hence better ROI

4)Understand the Changing marketplace analytics 

5)Fabbag - Company starts with a different ideology but later the market demands changes the company product line. 

6)Customer usually will be reluctant in giving personal data and on their emotional needs and demands.

7)Personalized questionnaire is listed to the customer after every buy. 

8)They built a strong resource of customer response data, which becomes the reference book for all their future decisions.

9)Customer feedback and change management loop is a core aspects for a brand growth. 

10)They understand with that high volume of customer expectations data and they revamped the product line accordingly.

11)Customer buying preferences such as the buying methods / brand experience / product on demand / variable need based on occasion / defines product portfolio 

12)Black kajal & eyeliner  - became the Queen products and from there they reached 500 SKU’s

13)Sugar cosmetics had a reasonable fan Following / a cult based following / a pride for a customer who owns It / a personalized connect / 

14)Customers with their belief,  were ready to buy added products launched without hesitation.

15)E COMMERCE brings a better initial leverage for brands to go for store openings. 

16)A wide community and strong distribution methods.

17)non stop R & D - future order value and volume were pitched with the manufactures 

18)Take immediate recall on SKU’s that haven't reached as expected 

19)A High focus on Low inventory management

20)Pre launch - market mirroring feedback givers - 50 internal +5000 external  

21)A Plan that good match the changing demands of next gen will have a sustainability and success score. 

22)A specific product with high sales - a deep R&D - understood for a long lasting result - A mass personalized understanding 

23)Influencers - specific domain - content creators - they make product speak - 

24)Product Boosting done through specific influencers when there was a specific marketing acute need. 

25)Test run the product in market and have a backup plan for either scaling up or exit based on the sales. 

26 ) Good website experience - better engagement

Vision Board - Part 2 - Puja Puneet

“VISION is the PICTURE of the future that produces PASSION”

Such a vibrant person, so full of energy, you can never have enough of her. Though I have created a Vision before, much before I heard about it from her, it is amazing to listen to her speak. It helps energy to flow into us, such is her effect.

There is so much she would share, there by everyone deriving something new and more from each session of her. She also calls the Vision Board, the Goddess Board. 

Science of Manifestation:

It is a science of mind sending what is needed, by way of electric charge to the universe and getting it back by way of magnetic pull. There are various teachers on this subject like Louis Hay, Michell , Abraham, Bob. 

There are three levels of Manifestation:

1) Victim Energy:

Every person around fall under either of the two category, based on the energy in them:

1. Victim - They always blame their past, and is with poor me syndrome. 
2. Creator - They are futuristic. 

Our intentions and attentions can be positive or negative. They create our personality. Our new personal reality is our new personality. We can co-author it with the divine. Each individual has around 60k to 70k thoughts every day.

Our thoughts become our choices

Our choices become our behaviour

Our behaviour become our habits or experiences

Our habits become our feelings and emotions

Our feelings become our thoughts

What you feel inside is what you will be outside. 

The cycle continue. Delay is the biggest disease in the world. Say 5,4,3,2,1 and take action.

There will be nuisances in life, bless them, try to reduce them and deal with them, you cannot remove them completely. 

 Toxic people will make you feel expired not inspired. 

2) Manifestation Levels:

Basically it could be effortful or effortless. This will be based on Clarity of intent and elevated emotion. Routines and rituals will help us master it. Like driving a car. First it will need lot of 

Intention -) Attention -) Awarness.  

Slowly it will become automatic.

3) Move into Channel - Energy: When God start working through you, there is effortless manifestation:

It is our Attitude and not our aptitude that determines our altitude. We can change our altitude by changing our aptitude, and the six + one i.e seven personality steps for this are:

1. Have complete responsibility - 'I am responsible for my own life, I am responsible for my own happiness.'
2. Have complete clarity - 'Ask and it shall be given'. When you want to travell and go to a travel agent to buy ticket, you need to give some information like when, where etc. So also you need to have a clarity about your life.
3. Work on your belief system - Practise, take small steps and complete them. 
4. Start creating goals.
5. Affirmations and Visualisations are the key
6. Take action
7. Tap into divine when you do this - work on faith and surrender. 
• Ask what you want let God decide when to give,
• Work towards what you want and tell God, give me this or something better.

Be optimistic and not just realistic. Believe and receive. 

There is no one right way to create a vision board. To each their own, but there are basic steps, that can be followed, and Have Fun when it is done. The four basic steps for creating a vision board are (RCAD):

• Reflect
• Collect
• Assemble
• Display

This can further be divided into 10 steps viz:

1) Reflect:  The more time you spend on this the better. It should come from the highest state. 

1. Gratitude: What sinks gets linked. Let Gratitude sink in. Provide gratitude for the previous self. It is the ultimate state of receiving. Write at least 10 things that you are greatful for on a daily basis. Every year end, write 108 things that you are greatful for - you can spread it across different area like - career, relationship, health, nature, finance, anything and everything. 
2. Desire Dumping: all so called even impossible desires to be included; let it just flow. Don't block your resistance, Just prepare you list. It takes same energy to dream big, as much as energy it takes to dream small. So dream big. Explore. Have Abundance mindset. Jealousy is okay, but better to be inspired. One need to be selfish to become selfless. 
3. Value System:  Realise your basic values, and connect to it. What do you value most. Know your why. Know what you do not want, it will help know your why. 
4. Top 10 Goals : Spread it over different areas of your life, and specify - how much you want and by when.  You can spread them into two parts - i.e 1. Non Negotiable, 2. Nice to have 
5. Marker or process. (3 things to achieve each goal): It is the steps you would need to take to achieve your goals. They are the habits you need to create. 
6.  BHAG. (that one big goal):  From all your goals determine one specific goal, that you would definitely want to achieve , which is called Big Hairy Audacious Goal. 
7. Affirmation and Visualisation: Spend 15 minutes daily doing this, and it is very important, even when preparing a new Vision Board. Keep it positive. Dream. Focus on consistency. Stop Judging, Start loving. 
8.  Collect photos: Have a strong base; when you cut pictures - cut out all negativity, doubts and fears; and when you use glue - think it to be God. Get your own photos, don't outsource
9. Solid Morning routine and daily rituals : Around vision board, goals, affirmations and visualisation. 
10.  Letting it go.- this or better: Remove desperations, doubts and deadlines. 

Though all 10 steps are said to be part of Reflect, looks like; 1 to 4 will be part of Reflect; 5 to 7 Collect; 8 Assemble and 9 & 10 Display

2) Collect

3) Assemble

4) Display

Mean what you say and say what you mean. If anything negative comes to mind, say 'upuntill now'. 

Every people have a desire to live their full potential.  If I can see in my minds eye, it is for me. "Kisi cheez ko agar siddat se chaho to Puri kainaat use milane me lag jaati hai."

Kartheegai Deepam

Yesterday, there was a discussion at home, my hubby said Karthika is tomorrow, I said, it was in November. Yes, it do come every month, but the actual celebration was today. 

Thiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, celebrates the Karthigai Deepam festival  today. It is celebrated with a maha deepam.   A massive earthen lamp is lit around 6 PM at the top of the 2668 feet high holy mountain of the town. Nearly 3500 kilograms of ghee are used to light this lamp.  The fire that appears at the top of the mountain is visible up to a radius of 35 KM.  The mai, the ash that remains as residue after the lighting of the ghee is distributed as prasadam to devotees.

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi has composed the following Tamil verse to explain the significance of the Karthigai Deepam that is lit on the Arunachala Hill every year. The stanza is as follows:

Ittanuvē nānām enu-madiyai nīttapbuddhi idayattē porundi-aga nōkkāladduvita mā-mey agac-chuḍar-kāṇ gai-bhūmaddi-yenum Aṇṇā malaicchuḍar-kāṇ meyyē.

Meaning: The true significance of seeing the flame (Karthigai Deepam) on Annamalai, which is the Heart centre of the world, is realising the Light of the Real Self that is one without a second, after discarding the notion ‘I am this body’ and making the mind abide in the Heart by attending to the source of the mind (through Self-enquiry and meditation).

Temples in Kerala have lakshadeepam or Karthika velakku tomorrow. 

When sun and moon are also amazing  on this day.

And the moon

And here is a wish summarizing all

The Change Journey - Wayne Nelsen

Change is hard, especially when it involves executing your business plan or strategy. "As logical and beneficial that improving on execution has been proven to be, many still ignore it, and others fiercely resist it." For many organizations, the cost of getting better at execution far outweighs (to the negative) the risk of maintaining the status quo. The status quo wins hands down, and much of the blame comes down to resistance. A resistance that often starts at the executive level. "It's not the right time," "we already do something like that," we're too busy," or "our people's plates are already full." These are just some of the more common retorts heard from the C-Suite. We push possible solutions out of the picture because we're fearful of "what our people will think." Even when there is commitment at senior levels to take on execution, know that there will always be pockets of resistance throughout the organization, ready to prolong, jeopardize, and outlast the effort. Getting better at managing execution is hard work because it's a unique discipline that must be learned and applied. Therein lies the rub. It takes extra work and commitment if it's going to be done correctly. Moving from traditional methods to new ones is a requirement. Change is a commitment borne of cultures that value continuous improvement and achieving results. Cultures that understand what the status quo means and the impact it will have on the organization. It limits everything; growth potential, future products and services, and ultimately the degree of success the company will experience. This quote from Max DuPree sums it up nicely. "We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are." As a leader, if you've never known of or have just discovered execution, then why not look into it? What's the worst thing that could happen? Or will the resistance be too difficult to endure? www.keyneinsight.com #ceos #leadership #change #execution