When I look out of the window, which I do very often once I am back from work, I first look towards the blue sky, so beautiful, full of clouds, so calm & peaceful. I can keep on staring on the sky for quite some time as it helps me feel good & relaxed. Then I look around the place in the neighborhood, the buildings around me, people in their balconies, birds flying around with chirping sounds and finally I look down in my own building and see people walk & children play.

I love listening to music, playing musical instruments & singing. It makes me feel good and completely relaxes me. Somewhere along the way, as work became a priority, I stopped playing music and singing. I want to take it up once I retire and become so good at it that I can teach others also how to play and sing.

A book which made me cry, which really brought in a lot of insights, which led to so many changes in my life was “ Who will cry when you die ?” My biggest realization was that life is so fragile, that anything can happen at any time and hence lets work towards leaving a strong impact on all those with whom we come in contact, specially our near and dear ones.

Integrity. Dependable. Compassionate. These are very important for me. I must have the faith that this person will not do anything which is wrong. If I delegate some work to someone or I need some support from someone, I know that I can depend on this individual for the same. And this person must be compassionate enough to understand others and help them.

A training program inspires me when it leads to Aha Moments! During the interactions or activities suddenly, I feel why did I not think of this before … this insight is something which can completely change the way I work & interact with colleagues at work. I can immediately relate to it and can realize what can be improved in my approach. I can already visualize the positive outcomes of implementation of the learning.

This was after I delivered a leadership program. I could notice wholehearted participation from all in the activities that were conducted. Not only participation, during the debrief sessions they came up with so many learnings that I had also not thought off ! Also, while I was facilitating, I could sense that they were with me, there was undivided attention to the topic which was being discussed and I had to actually restrict participants from sharing their thoughts …. All wanted to share! This made me feel that this was indeed an effective training.

I tend to get up early on the day of the training. No, not to read but to ensure that I have done my exercises and meditation, had a good breakfast and warm shower and have reached the training venue at least an hour before the training. I like to check on training equipment beforehand so that there are no last-minute worries and like to be completely ready to receive my participants to the training. I like to talk to them as they are walking in and in the process of making them comfortable, I  become comfortable too.

You learn & in the process, I learn more. For me, every next training on a particular topic should be better than the previous one. And hence, regularly through the training I keep on making a note of what could have been better. And then implement the same in the next training.