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27 Mar 2020

I Enjoy the Music

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Dear family, friends: While staying home and social distancing to do our bit to deal with the pandemic, I read a few very good articles on social solidarity to be there for each other in a supportive way. I read a few good ideas and saw some videos about having a sense of gratitude for the many pos

11 May 2019

Let my Droplets Drip … :)

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Biren forwarded to me email about Building Bridges workshop from Atmarpit Smrutiji, disciple of Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri. I was intrigued by the introduction: “Relationships form an integral part of your life. In this workshop, you will gain mastery in inner architecture, aimed at bre

13 Aug 2015

Connecting Credibly – Part II of II

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Yesterday’s workshop was fun. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Here are my nuggets from it. Stories are powerful. Stories help people feel it. Your audience gets something to relate to. Stories don’t have to be really long either. Key is to tie in the point you are trying to make. Also, tell your stori

3 Aug 2015

Home

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Home … I think we all leave home – it could be 24 hours away, or 2 hours away, 20 minutes away, or sometimes only a few seconds away … We embark on that journey of pursuing dreams, a journey of making things happen, a journey of finding our own identity, a journey of carving out a niche for ou

23 Jul 2015

Connecting Credibly – Part I of II

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Every presentation has a purpose – you would like your audience to do something about it. It could be - Understand your view point, or Understand the problem at hand, or Adopt your solution or an answer, or Think about a situation or person or a problem in a different way, or Take your call to

15 Jul 2015

SMILES with the Smile Cards

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[Note: I originally wrote this on ServiceSpace feed.] The idea of using Smile Cards sounded really good the moment I heard of it. It sounded fun. It took me a while before I actually used a Smile Card, or as the card says, I tagged someone. I decided to tag someone first time while walking

15 Jul 2015

A Ripple on Parenting

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I had read a very nice thought about children and parenting them in Scott Peck’s book, Road Less Traveled – children are worthy of living their own life, of facing their own challenges and situations and finding meaning of their own life through all of that. Welcome their arrival in this world,

9 Jul 2015

Feel It

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When you feel it in the heart, it shows. It connects.Emotional Connection – charge from inside. I was once talking to a group of teenagers about facing their fear of speaking in front of people. I brought up a story from my own teenage years – when I was once paralyzed by fear of speaking in

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