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A library of reflections on leadership, consciousness, and the work of awakening to a more aligned way of being. 

These essays are for leaders navigating the frontier between inner stillness and outer impact.

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Coaching Leadership Philosophy

What Makes Value Valuable?

Yesterday, I was invited to respond to a question in a coaching group. One of the members wanted to know whether or not they were providing enough value to their clients. While I made a video clarifying it for them, I realized that we all tackle with this question in a more fundamental form - in our relationships and in our work. In our personal relationships, it takes the form of 'Am I a good

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Leadership

Impressing vs. Impacting

So often, we look to impress rather than impact. In my late teens, I was preparing for the CAT exam (which is an entrance exam into the premiere B-schools in India). The faculty who ran the coaching institute was impressive. He was a graduate from one of these B-schools. He spoke loudly, called everyone sweethearts, and used outlandish vocabulary and body language. He was extremely impressive, so much that I remember him more than anything

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Coaching Philosophy

A Fresh Look at How You Wake Up!

Remember the morning when you woke up today. What’s the first thing you did mentally and physically? Now, imagine you just got into your car. What’s the first set of things you’d do? You would probably (hopefully – for your own sake) put on the seatbelt, release the handbrake, check the gear in neutral (or at least engage the brake pedal if you have an automatic), and then start the engine. You clearly don’t just

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Coaching Philosophy

Are You Really That Powerful?

6 years ago, I heard one of my mentors say ‘I help powerful people remember how powerful they really are’, and I thought it was a nice marketing statement that didn’t really mean anything. It sounded like he is just hyping people up. This was still in the early days of my coaching career and I was still pursing my initial coaching credentials. I assumed, all coaches get trained on similar skills, and they all

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Coaching Leadership Philosophy

A Fresh Look at the Unknown

What is it about the known that gives us security? What is it about the unknown that makes us afraid? If you investigate into this, you will realize that the only difference between the known and the unknown is that one is part of your memory and the other isn’t. But since the unknown is not part of your memory, it also means that it’s not fixed. It’s pure potential and possibility. It’s everything that

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Coaching Philosophy

A Fresh Look at Your ‘Normal’ Day

I invite you today to forget everything you have ever learnt about yourself and the world, just for the next 5 minutes. Play along. Notice how your experience of being alive started most recently. You were blissfully ignorant of everything, even of yourself, while you were deep in sleep. You were experiencing nothing except a deep sense of rest. Suddenly, your mind and your sense organs start becoming active. Instead of a blissful blankness, you

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Coaching Leadership Philosophy

A fresh look at Your Genius

I invite you to take a moment right now and notice the universe. I’m not just talking about the universe that you read about in textbooks, I’m talking about the universe that you are experiencing with your thoughts, emotions, and senses everyday – both while you are awake and asleep. Just pause for a moment and acknowledge your personal universe - this includes your body, your inner sense of being alive and your energy. This universe

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Personal Philosophy

Living Tango – A Life of Surrender

I just returned from a week-long festival of Argentine Tango at the experimental spiritual town of Auroville in India. Dancing Tango is a deeply spiritual experience, while also being emotionally and physically intense. Tango requires a high degree of attunement to the music and to your partner. And it has seemingly paradoxical physical requirements – a gymnast level body control and stability while being as relaxed as possible in all your muscles. The surrender that

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Philosophy

A Fresh Look At Money

As a possibility, what if money really just meant numbers on a screen, like points in a game? - A short game that ends very soon and by the end of which you will not be left any richer or poorer than you were before you began.And depending on the money you have, you can do different things in the game, and because it is play, it is fun.But for most of us, money means

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