Jack of all trades... Master of none

This proverb has always intrigued me since childhood. I have felt hopeless many times in the past because of this proverb. If I didn't succeed in something as per my expectations I would curse myself saying how do you forget the proverb "Jack of all trades and Master of none". I would go bashing myself for knowing and learning too many skills. As a child, I would be sent by mom to lot of classes like art and craft, stitching, typing, painting, musical instrument, swimming, badminton, table tennis, rangoli, cooking and what not. My cousins and a few friends would always look down on me and say "You will be master of none and you wont be successful ever.". Its very surprising how negative words get tattooed in our brains but my moms positive words didn't .. she would say "these are skills and will never be a waste, they will come handy to you when you need it.". How I wish I should have focused more on her words rather than this very proverb and what my cousins and friends said.

Today I realize the importance and see the benefits of each and every class and skill I learnt has impacted my life and me. Its made me what I am today. I now firmly believe this proverb is not true. I do lot of things from life coaching, online business, reiki healer, volunteering at KMM and for visually challenged students, blogging to being a software professional along with being a full time mom and wife. I transition from one to the other with ease. All the skills I acquired have helped me to excel in each of them. I give my 100% to each and everything and the positive feedback I get keep me motivated to do better in each one of them.

There was a time in my life when only a 9-6 job would take all the energy out of me. I would feel I cant do anything other than this in life. My life is so hectic with office. But I was so wrong, there is always space and time to do whatever we like, for our passion, for all those things that give us satisfaction and contentment.

Make a list of all such things and start doing them. New doors will open, new opportunities will open, new people will walk into your life, you will grow and evolve into a beautiful being.. the way I have.. so will you.

Explore the gifts life has to offer and see life transforming into a musical melody with high and low notes and there is no looking back.... Life is beautiful, Embrace it.

Balance with a PAUSE

Yes you read it right... PAUSE... Ask your body and soul what it is wanting at that moment. Try to listen, acknowledge, understand and provide that to your soul and body. This is what I feel is the balance.

We all read and come across lot of inspirational and motivational quotes and articles 24x7.. thanks to globalization and social media. Terms like ME Time, Pushing your envelope, Going an extra mile are the in things. We all get inspired and try to emulate this in our lives. At times we succeed, get satisfaction and just love the experience and sometimes we get exhausted, feel irritable with this. Quiet natural and normal. We all try to be super-humans.. but we forget that we all are very unique in our own ways and need different things to nourish our body and soul at different times.

We read about how someone continued exercising or trekked in-spite of having a broken leg or a back. This truly inspires us but sometimes our body might not be ready to push that envelop and we need to listen and give our body the time to heal and be ready to achieve that. There are times we feel inspired by a cousin or neighbor or someone on social media who is doing everything at the same time working, cooking, doing social service, partying till late night and running a marathon the next morning. That's really commendable and we get inspired and want to follow it. But again the word which is important that is PAUSE . Ask will this really nourish and enrich my body and soul. How much of this will really make me happy and better. We all don't have to do everything.

I have been there.. gone through it and then realized I don't have to be a superhuman.. Just need to be a good human. I learnt to take a PAUSE and listen to my body and soul.. and give what they are longing for. It works wonders and gives the right BALANCE  required in our life. Our right balance need not be other persons right balance. So always look within. You will find your right balance and have a fulfilled, accomplished life now and forever.

Go ahead identify your PAUSE moments and strike the right BALANCE that is your own unique one. Have a PAUSED BALANCED Life and always stay happy and blessed. Love and Blessings.

Dream Come True

Dreams.. I love to dream.. they make me feel alive, give me a purpose to move ahead and achieve them. I have achieved quiet a few of them in the past. We all have dreams and few of them look like impossible, not achievable to us. Similarly I too have such dreams, one of them being interviewed on Radio and the other was of addressing an audience which is kind of huge.. an auditorium full.
Both looked like distant dream to me until last month, last few days.

Destiny has its own plans for us and it gives us whatever we desire if we work towards it and become deserving. I lived my two dreams back to back on Wed 28th November 2018 and 29th November 2018. I addressed more than 200 students and teachers together on 28th November 2018 in a school where I would take sessions as a part of my work as a volunteer with LifeSchool's Keep Moving Movement. I have been part of Keep Moving Movement for last 4 years. I have learnt and grown as a speaker and human being under the able guidance of our mentor Narendra Goidhani. I have been facing a class of 40-50 students for last 4 years but never more than that. There was this dream of taking it to a bigger audience and making an impact, living my fingerprints on the lives of these students. This year the school, I have been taking sessions at, invited me and my co-volunteers to address their students and teachers almost more than 200 of them. It was scary at first. But we decided to give our best and achieve and fulfill our dream. It was dream come true. Honored and overwhelmed.

Couple of days back one of the RJ's from a well know radio station in my city connected with me and told me she would like to interview me as she wants to celebrate adoption month in her show. I instantaneously jumped at the opportunity as I was going to achieve 2 things. Firstly, live my dream of being on radio and secondly I was going to get a wide audience for creating adoption awareness which I have been doing in my own small way from a few years. I walked into the radio station yesterday, 29th November 2018, a little skeptical, will I be able to speak well but the RJ did a fantastic job with me. I recorded between 1.30-2 pm and I was on Air between 4-5 pm. Coincidentally that one hour had the best songs played on that radio channel. What more could I ask for .. I am humbled at the ways of the Universe.

I am speechless, grateful and all geared to do more better work and spread my message and my imprints far and wide. With Love, Gratitude and Blessings signing off for now.

Compartments like a train...

A train has many compartment coach.. each compartment coach is linked with each other by a chain and a door or separator which once shut has no link with the other coach. What happens in one coach is not known to the other coach. Similarly is my mind... divided into fine compartment coaches. Its very easy for me to shut one and move to the other. No disturbance in one coach can affect the functioning of the other coach. Its very easy and comes naturally for me to shut and move to the other.

Would pen a few instances - When I was in college and I had a fight or breakup with my then boyfriend and now husband, I would still be at peace at home, do my studies and score the best marks. Once I would be at the study table what mattered to me was only my studies. I have consistently been in top 5 throughout my graduation and post graduation in-spite of any disturbance in the other compartments.
Once at work no problem back home with in-laws would stress me and affect my work.
Being at home does not make me worry of my office or work.

When my family or friends would say - "How come you don't get stressed?", "How can you focus and concentrate even after a fight?" , "How can u be so positive and smile even when u met with a life threatening accident?", "How could you decide about adoption at the age of 12-13 and stick to it without a single doubt?"

Initially I wondered and then retrospected... Bingo.. it was like Eureka.. I was at first amazed and overwhelmed .. oh my God I can do this and I never realized it. Going a little more deeper, I felt it was because of Osho and the spiritual, meditative environment I spent my childhood in.
As a child, my parents would visit Osho Ashram at-least once a week and sometimes even more number of times. We would accompany them as staying at home alone as small kids was not an option. I remember we would play with our cousins and few friends who would tag along with their family and then would do some meditation dance and sit to hear the discourse by Osho... not even 5 minutes into the discourse and I would doze off till the end. Somewhere subconsciously all the discourses have impacted me. As a family, I have been witness to many spiritual discussions and family meditations as a child. All this have left its impressions on my subconscious and soul so deep.

These have created well defined compartments in my mind and I travel through them with ease, no extra effort required.

One this weekend of Thanksgiving .. my heartfelt gratitude to the Universe for this invaluable gift of compartments I have got. Blessed. Always blessed.

Welcome to my Life

I have always been a very private person. Not too many post on social media. But life always  has something in store for you. More you shy away from things the more they chase you. On insistence from family and friends I have taken up blogging to share my many journeys along with my learning.

Being born in a family where more than 80% members are Osho followers was a blessing. I have grown up seeing my family members meditating, celebrating and laughing together as a child. I have had the opportunity to be in the presence of the Great Master Osho. As a child this never seemed to be a blessing though .. was more of a bane.. Will surely write on this sometime later.

I have been very confused as a teenager and in early twenties whether my family was a forward thinking progressive one or an orthodox one. Now I realize my family was much more ahead of the times than most of the families but at times would get drowned in some orthodox or societal norms which is quiet natural. As a family they too were discovering, growing and learning with each experience. For sure I knew one thing always that many different people coexisted with varied beliefs and principle as one big happy close knit family. Everyone's space was preserved and never invaded. No one ever judged the other person for being a certain way. Growing up was a mix of varied experiences, beliefs, fears, cultures, people, etc.

As I look back I see so many journeys... its overwhelming... Loads of writings to come soon.. Stay tuned.