So in my last post, which was my first post after a very very long time, I spoke about how I’m inspired to get back to scribbling and get back to writing again.
And what am I going to talk about?
This is how I ended my earlier post.
“Most likely, the the first post, after this one, would very well be a log from my life on what is on my reading list and also what inspired me to start off with writing to begin with. I don’t think I’ve shared that yet or at least recently”.
So, yes, this post is about what’s on my reading list and also how that inspired me to start off with this series of ‘What I talk about when I talk about reading and writing’ in the first place. …
It’s been a while I’ve written anything beyond e-mails at work, my Podcast script/concepts, or my public speaking talks I’ve been doing off late.
Long before this, mostly writing for me has always been a process of inward reflection or creating inspiration that drives my thoughts out into the universe whether it was a poem I wrote or a story way back when I was in school.
Or travel blogs that I started writing about 10 years ago, and I can say for sure, after traversing to over 300 destinations across India, I’ve learnt how traveling and experiencing is great, but writing about those journeys and the memoirs of sorts, become a great window to the past. …
So you’ve signed up and have received emails for your first #LifePlugin summit!
And hopefully, are already on the Facebook and WhatsApp groups for #LifePlugin. If not, please do join them.
They’ll be abuzz with conversations about the location, the venue, the schedule, folks introducing themselves and of course what to expect from India’s first of a kind personal transformation festival, #LifePlugin!
But hey, you may still have plenty of questions in your mind as to ‘What should I expect?’ out of this event! And hopefully loads of excitement meeting new tribe members, probably a little anxiety even…
Guess what, I feel you! That’s exactly how I felt in Goa, on my first #LifePlugin. …
Disclaimer: Long post, didn’t want a split. Headlines will help progression.
How the magic started?
In September 2018, my company Social Kinnect, had a fabulous event called #Kinnection. Yes, that’s me at that event with my famous stache ;-) So #Kinnection2018 was a company offsite, a first of a kind in 7 years, it was a fun, frolic but also a goal setting event which laid the foundation to each and every team creating a vision board for their respective teams to lay down long term goals for ourselves.
Just after the event got over, my CEO, Rohan, came up to me and told me to keep myself free for the last weekend of October. As part of #KinnectEDGE, our Enhanced Development Growth Ecosystem, he was taking a few of us tenured senior members to a life design / personal transformation event. I asked him what the event was all about, he said, “It’s best if I experience it myself.” …
What happens to a writer who’s sitting at a bar alone, in the ‘City of Dreams,’ Mumbai, when his smart phone dies on him!
A series of quirky, some cheesy, some witty short letters professing his affection to the only thing available to keep him engrossed. Bar Tissues!
A place where not just your mind, body or soul but your personality can explore its true depths.
I’ve been a mountain lover for the last 6 years and Himalayas have been a yearly thing for me in those past six years. Being an avid lover of mountains and trekking, having hiked miles and miles across North Western, Eastern Himalayas and a bit of Nepal as well, I think I’ve found a yearning for the Himalayas that I believe isn’t something that’ll ever just fade away…
To me, being close to the mountains is being close to reality. For me, ‘Being discovered’ in my truest sense is when there is utmost clarity in my peak senses of not just my mind, body and soul but an inner conscience that sends me on a deep and exploring journey in a space which gives me clarity towards not just what I am doing, what should I be doing, but who I am and who I really want to be. …
From the start of my life till today, there has been one thing that has driven me to get out of bed do whatever it is that I do. It’s a thing called Passion! Passion is an important thing for me because I get motivated and do whatever I need to do because I love to do what I do. Sometimes I have had great passion to do amazing things and many times I've had even better days because of the things that I've learned while doing anything I did from the time I've been born.
When I was a kid, I enjoyed reading comics and enact my superheroes because I was passionate about the stories that they told me. An inspiration that they gave me to be a person that I couldn't be in real life. I used to enjoy going out and playing games with friends and excel in those because, they gave me a feeling of exhilaration that nothing else gave me. Competitive sports helped me better myself each time I tried it out. I realized newer things about myself and my life which I didn't know. I hated math in school because I struggled at it. I loved English, Social Studies, Science because I enjoyed it and had a passion for it. I loved reading about people, places, history, the world and I had the curiosity that helped me build that passion. I still love writing, reading, science, history and of course Geography, considering the travel bug bit me about six years…
What if I had no story to tell. What if in a mindless existence of a mundane life, there suddenly began a chain of events which kept circling around without a meaning. What if I had no purpose in life. What if my sole damnation of being alive depended on a simple reason that I go on about that very same business that I find inherent or even circumstantial. Just dots connecting around without any particular pattern, until you realize…
Until you realize that the whole reason for this life is to be able to decipher a code. A code that we generally don’t realize we have cracked until we've lived that life of making mistakes, learning from them, hating every single moment of making those mistakes, being challenged and reasoned with yet trying so hard to be right all the time. Sometimes, NO, actually almost every time, making compromises because there will always be reasons to do so. You tell yourself. There’s always a reason to reason with your inner soul and give up to this beast called mediocrity. Failure teaches us a lot. …
“We always live for a better tomorrow.”
“We always live to achieve our goals.”
Not just one day, but almost every single day. Our goals are sometimes defined by success and sometimes by failure. We make our life what our goals are more often than not. We try to tell ourselves that this is achievable. We should set ourselves this benchmark; we should try and achieve these goals. We build great plans to achieve those goals and hope that we meet them. Most of the times, the number of times we have been able to achieve a similar kind of target, or have some experience in what we do helps us to achieve our goals more efficiently. …
“Jump!” He said!
I tried… I failed!
“Jump Again,” He said!
I tried… I failed!
“Jump Again, He said!” I tried… I failed!
Do not give up till you get there, do not think of sitting down, do not imagine yourself below the realm of your belief! Sometimes small things give you the inspiration to do greater, bigger and better. You may not know what they are at this moment, at this time… But tomorrow when you look back, you realize that you’ve come a long way. Not because you started doing something different, only because you ‘believed.’ Not because you used your brains, but because you shut your lizard brain. …
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