Thank you for allowing me to share your space.

I am a walking, talking, living, work-in-progress in the field of personal development and hope to be a ‘CATALYST’ to positive change and emotional fitness. I dreamt of having the ability to help people grow and change, I became obsessed with success... people’s success..passionate about how much one can be, how much more is possible in a day.. how much more in a relationship or from an opportunity..How much MORE??? I wish to create ‘personal value’ for you or your organization!!! Value that can be used to GROW!!"

'Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you' -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am an idealist, I don't know where I am going but I am on my way."

I am a Social Entrepreneur, Motivator,Life , Business and Success Coach and know exactly where I am going.I just love the phrase up there  for being so true for idealists' who lose track of their lives in idealism and so false for those who seek direction from the same word and lead extraordinary lives!! I have been blessed with sensible idealism and thankfully have never lacked a sense of direction in my life, for which I can only bless my stars and the heavenly people who have been around me all through my life, for teaching me the value of ideals, purpose, beliefs and the power of thought and action.

'Let us love and be loved'....easier said than done, I hear most of the times, not easy, difficult to do, but not impossible is what is true!!  Can we make this a day to day reality, not just that we talk, but we walk the talk!!

Personally, I am grateful for all the opportunities that have come my way, have inspired me and have catapulted me to unimaginable heights physically, emotionally and professionally. Obsessed with the word 'Success' and the stress that it brings with it, I have devoted my speaking to sharing those 'little do-able real things' about this 'most wanted' word. As a Woman from India,having travelled from being just a woman to an empowered woman has been a powerful impetus for me to share all that I learnt on the way. I have had the privilege of looking at things from a very different perspective from the very basic homefront, relationship front, professional front, business front and all possible imaginable fronts. Learning from lives of the most successful and from the lives of the failed, from those who are there, and from those who are scrambling to get there, for those who are working hard to retain their successes, and from those who do not enjoy others' successes and my own life ,has been so intriguing and so real.I have kept my speaking 'No frill' like the 'No frill Airlines' and believe in churning out solutions for the biggest 'Stress Word' of our times  and ' how we can succeed in making success stress free' and know that SUCCESS IS A POSITIVE WORD but is it REALLY , thats the BIG question!!!!

As a Motivational Speaker, Life and Success Coach, I would be working especially in the Asian Region. 'Life comes just but once' and I hope to touch a million lives by the year 2015 directly. We are pioneering personal development content for TV keeping the element of entertainment intact.These are based on tried and tested methods in the World of Personal Development, Growth and Self Actualisation. The Video message is a scratch promo of one of the Shows that we have created ,own and that's ME in the Video  doing the talking.We have developed 2 Shows to be taken to different parts of Asia.The first one is a Corporate Motivation Show, scratches of which are in the Video Profile above.

WHAT DRIVES ME TO DO WHAT I DO

My focus has been on the basic human needs.While keeping in mind the state of things as they exist today in my country and in the Asian region, globalization, it's impacts ,the social pressures and changes,I felt there was a need to change mindsets and make the East as well as the West adapt to the new scenario.My work would entail and include cushioning the chaos in people's lives.

YET ANOTHER THOUGHT

Being an Asian ,being an Indian, makes me go back into history, cultures, religions across the World to understand why we are the way we are today. Could we have been better, most certainly , we could have been, but why are we not?? Where do we need to change. ?Where are we good and where can we improve? I found that the solution to that end would be to EDUCATE people , LISTEN to them, make them AWARE, TREAT them with respect, give them HOPE. Treat them with COMPASSION whoever, wherever they are.

India is a beautiful country and so is every other in the region and elsewhere in the World.However, Asia as a region lives an image. I often wonder why we are simply a piece of news or documentary on world television????? Why do we continue to live in isolation ???Is the World disconnected? How can we create respectful connections? There is a need to integrate India with the rest of the region and the World.There is a need to integrate Asia with the world through its people for the World to see it differently and for Asians to see themselves differently. The picture that is often seen of Asia is not untrue but desperately incomplete. I hope to be the CATALYST to bring about the necessary SHIFT in this image and to bridge the disconnection.My passion for seeing these connections come to life overrides many other thoughts that I have.

OUR MEDIA ACTIVITIES

Our Media division also offers to make visual testimonials or Infomercials to turn entrepreneurs into celebrity entrepreneurs.Content which could be used for TV,marketing, positioning, repositioning and expert tutorials.We are continuously creating content on 'personal achievement, victories, changes, and ways to achieve personal and business excellence'

WHO CAN I CONNECT YOU TO

You can treat me as one of your Asian Connections,our company can represent you or your company,or connect you to someone who could be useful to you or your business.

WHO DO I WANT TO GET CONNECTED TO

If there are any socially committed professionals from the medium of television and related fields who would want to join us and form part of this revolutionary team, Channels and producers looking for Asian content, please do contact us.

Please let me know how I can or anything that I am doing be of help to you . In what ways can I contribute to your life or work .It would be a pleasure to do some sharing there.

THE CREATIVE SIDE

My right brain works more and at time works overtime!! Sometimes, I start to use my left brain too, it still works.I am told , I am very talented, have versatility and commitment.It's great to hear , I keep adding to my skills whenever I get the opportunity. My personal USP would probably be my ability to connect and my ease with people, my sense of humor, my conviction that laughter is the key to peace, that success is for all of us, my faith in the genuineness and need for some of my IDEA's and the fact that I am getting there slow and steady.

My guidance and learning has come from the most unexpected sources, my request to everyone would be to 'keep looking around yourself for what you need, it just comes' from God only KNOWS where.I wish success and happiness for everyone under the Sun

THE WONDERFUL BEGINNINGS

As a hyperactive kid,I was almost everywhere at the same time. I started selling candles at age 8, did my first public speaking at 9 with 150 audience, my first big time singing with 500 audience at 10, painted houses at 11, started a shelter for dogs at age 13,sold just whatever I could lay my hands on (including cigarettes - at that time I did not care if people died of cancer, the dogs were more important  garbage, old newspapers, my course books , my mother's expensive dresses, and some more stuff to raise money for the dog shelter, freaked out people by forcing them to adopt the poor dogs, theatre, drama, debates, elocutions, karate, mobikes at 14, and won a challenge to learn to drive a big car in 15 minutesة.I had never driven before. There is some more.. I do not think I can put that up here. Basically, the whole world told me , I was wierd!

I studied only when I got the time, lots of friends and lots of fighting for the all the wrong in the World. I was everywhere when it came to saving animals, children's parks, planting trees,cleaning drives, and fighting FOR just anybody and everybody irrespective of the issue involved.Can't say why I did all that, but I was very comfortable doing all that and felt happy when it helped people around me.I got poor kids admitted to school free of charge ,got many women jobs ,fought for student's issues, better amenities in the neighbourhood.All these were possibilities that most people never bothered to try.They just gave up! The title UP ON THE PODIUM 'peacemaker or fighter' should have been on my parent's door!! My poor parents had to face a lot of criticism because of the way I was. I did not fit into the conventional good girl mould.A little too outspoken for everyone's liking. My intention was never to hurt anyone by what I said, but when I look back, I must have! I have conveyed my apologies to all the people I have been loud with.

MY EYE OPENERS

Early in life ,I felt , most people did not feel comfortable to talk for themselves, there were those who couldn't express themselves, there were others who did not cry for fear of ridicule ,there were some who wanted to share their hurt but did not know who to share it with,some who wanted to be mischievous but feared social pressures ,and most people feared failure whether at work, relationships or life.Most of them had learned to live that way and had given up doing anything about these thoughts. These people were awfully talented people but not their complete self because of these thoughts. I had the fortune of being around many such people. I would always ask, WHY were they doing what they were doing ?? But for some reason or the other, they would fear bringing about any change in their lives. It kept hurting them and they kept living it. It hurt to see them like this, so I did what I loved to do most, kept talking to them. ALL of them needed a patient ear, and to be talked to with respect.Somewhere, I could convey to them , that these states in life are mere thoughts and happenings, and not permanent, that thoughts could be changed for the better and that life was far bigger than few negative thoughts. A thought is a thought and nothing more. It was for us to understand our thoughts and decide what to do with them. I gave VOICE to some such people. Some lives changed and some people were annoyed .It did not go down so well with the conservatives, but it certainly empowered some of these people.Life was full of learning and fun. Not a moment of boredom.

My thoughts wandered and came to a still when I realised ! IT WAS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE.Life was all about change, evolution and getting better.

At 13, I spoke a passage from Swami Vivekananda's writings.I would like to share one line from those writings that has never left me. Here it goes," Men, Men, Men, These are wanted, everything else would be ready, BUT strong, vigorous, believing young men, sincere to the backbone are wanted. A hundred such , and the world becomes revolutionised."
I dreamt of being one of the hundred then. Today... I am doing everything I can to do to follow my dream, vision and calling of being a CATALYST in Human development.

OBVIOUS CHOICE

People fascinated and inspired me.Each life a world in itself, so much to learn just from being around people.And then came the big decision...What CAREER could make me be with people, allow me to do my favourite.. TALKING and facilitate my instinct to FIGHT  for many things that were going on around me? What would it be, if I did well, could make me meet the people I most admired, where could I be in the midst of knowledge and where would it be that I could actually practise what I felt.. Compassion and Passion for..LIFE and PEOPLE, Vague it was then, but I was certain about what I wanted to do.It had to do with bettering life, it had to do with people, it had to do with being a VOICE.

I chose Law. Thanks to my lawyer father who exposed me to this field from a very early age. I was a regular at courts, I met judges, attorneys and lawyers, I would sit through all the discussions,I went to every event that he went to.I just loved what he was doing.Being a lawyer Involved talking as well as fighting  , two of my favorite things!! What it also involved on the side was learning  and that too in unimaginable quantities. I was fortunate to learn under the guidance of some of the best lawyers, and had the privilege of meeting so many people I admired.It left an indelible impact on my mind.Some of these people had brought about massive changes in my country, who were written about, books authored by them were part of our college curriculum.What was it that was different about them, I used to wonder? They were as human as all of us.But they had commitment, they had a vision ,they were an inspiration. Meeting many such people so closely and getting some great advice from them was unbelievably uplifting. One of the simplest advice was to develop the reading habit with a focus on reading anything and everything available on the subject that you have chosen.This time I started to read with a focus on developing people, developing environments, developing minds. After more than thousand books many things changed .I Changed...the way I looked at myself and the way I looked at the world around me.

LAW EQUIPPED ME WITH TONS OF COURAGE AND KNOWLEDGE and made me understand people and situations in their worst times.The biggest satisfaction came with the smiles on people's faces when I saw their hopes fulfilled.All through the years, I realized the basic need of all human beings to be heard, talked to, laughed and cried with, simply acknowledged. I believed that anyone's life could be fulfilling if it is filled with energy, hope and laughter. A belief that never left me and a thought that gave me crystal clear directions in my life.And I quit law in the year 2000 to pursue people's development.

THE FINAL SWITCH

With due respects to the profession that gave me so much, I quit as a lawyer after 10 years of practice, carried all the learning and moved on to train myself in People's Development.I wanted to create an environment where people respected each others thoughts and lives.Respect- A word not defined clearly when it came to people in general.In the big picture, there were nations which did not respect each other.In the small picture, people did not respect each other. In our families, we did not respect our relationships. In life ,we did not respect our neighbours and people around us.Were we insensitive or were we so self -consumed that we could not understand that basic human life is same if wanted others to respect us, we needed to do the same??

WAS THIS THE POSSIBLE REASON FOR LIFE, FRIENDSHIPS,RELATIONSHIPS, STATES, NATIONS, THE WORLD NOT BEING PEACEFUL!!!

And so much talk about Peace all around us.

Everyone laughed and would ask me what did I want to change things for?To what end?

My BIGGEST LEARNING was the realisation that THIS IS JUST ONE LIFETIME FOR ALL OF US,No one could beat each other on that one, we didnt control that. But We Definitely Could Use It As Best As we Tried To. And Make a Difference by the existence that we have.

I did not know where I had come from and I had no idea where I will be once I got out of this World, all I knew was that I had to do all that I have to, while I am still around. This thought transformed the way I lived.There was so much to do and so little time, I felt.For me life started once again at this point in my life.I had to hurry and needed to take a look into what I could do to reach my goals, one of them being to re-define the word 'RESPECT', your own as well as that of others.THE KEY WAS WITHIN THE PEOPLE AND MY WORK IS NOW DEDICATED TO THIS END WHILE I WORK ON DEVELOPING PEOPLE through all possible mediums.

I want to spread the message of RESPECT in a non-threatening way, in a way that is understandable, a way people could follow and practice, a way that could change the way we live in this World.

I HAD TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL/NEED TRAINING

I wanted to use every possible medium to convey this message across in a RESPECTFUL way.I chose Writing and TV.Speaking came naturally but I still trained myself more to speak,write and TV.What resulted was 5 years of research and learning and a series of books which I am all set to publish.I trained my Voice, I trained myself for Television, a medium which I felt was powerful and transformational. I went to Film and TV School at 34 .It was strange not for me but for others around me ,as most people felt, I had lost it. They would never leave a lucrative law practice for something that may or may never happen! I knew where I wanted to be, but the 'How' was still not clear.That was ofcourse their view, not mine!! I came out shining. .Best Actor,Newsreader and Commentator, confident that I could do justice to this medium as much as I wanted to do justice to my thought.

THE FAMILY FRONT

I am deeply influenced by my father who was fearless and had come much earlier in time to this World.Had he been 35-40 now, he would have been one of the most powerful motivators of today.We lost him in November 2007 when he was not very strong but still thinking strong, he was the most courageous man I have known.I love him and his courage.He is and will always remain my biggest inspiration.

God has been generous in my life for being around me and giving me all that I could ever aspire for. And the ways in which all has come are the 'Amazing ways of God', unexplainable, unquestionable and simply miraculous!

My son is 15. He keeps the element of fun in our home alive. I am forced to question my belief that I know him well every day. I get to see some or the other side of him which I had not seen before. He has raised my level of curiosity about the fascinating way childrens' mind's work. I try my best be his friend and also be his mother .It's a conflicting task to do both and I have failed many times. But with practice I guess ,I have learnt to switch from one to the other as and when the need arises. I believe I am getting better everyday. I would want to believe that  That's the pep talk I give to myself every time, I fail !!  How often that happens, I cannot tell on this forum !! My son lets me know with every cm that he grows taller, how short I am. Also ...that I can do nothing about it. Thanks to him, I know few of the boy games, I get bruised often and all the play keeps me fit. He is a world in himself and teaches me all that he learns about computers(I call myself technically challenged!!).I feel sorry for him, when he looks hapless trying to teach me simple technical stuff. The look on his face is not very encouraging but I guess this could teach him patience with the old ignorant slow learners

My daughter has just turned 5, she is yet another crazy world. When I get past the feeding, school, play, tantrums, sleep, crying etc. I realize that she is loads of unconditional affection and love.How exciting... after all that she makes me do all day!!  There is good side to her too, atleast that is what I believe... At that age she is pure giving ,innocence and selflessness, things that we often lose as we grow. Its a huge learning to watch her as she is, very determined ةnot to listen to her parents  and the joy of being around a being who does exactly what she wants and expecting everyone around her to do the same. Which includes her parents being on all fours atleast few times a day. With a reasonably good sense of humor for her age, there is little we have to do to hunt for de-stressers. It is amazing to be around her, she exuberates so much energy and laughter into our home. She is tiny and honestly her unconditional love ,affection , laughter, sense of fun make me feel tiny sometimes .I strive to be as tiny as her.

And the man without whom, life would been bland, boring and mundane, the man who turned my life around, who never expected me to be anything but myself, who tolerated stupidity as part of living with me  and who lived my dreams as much as I did.I am blessed to be married to the 'best soul in the World'.

I am deeply inspired by Abraham Lincoln's -LETTER IN VERSE TO HIS SON's TEACHER when I need guidance to bring up my children. It's a must read for all parents, parents to be, expecting to be anytime in life, and all those who do not have neighbors to guide them about how to bring up their children. Abraham Lincoln has done a good job by writing to his son's teacher! For people like us.

SOME HUMOR IN MY SPEAKING

As I was terribly talkative ( I have put my brakes on now) I became a talkative speaker.When I became one, I was taught to speak from the heart , so that I could connect with my audience. I got smarter and thought why not speak from my soul and touch people deep inside them. Until I just touched souls and connected so well with everyone, I could never charge them any money  So I changed my strategy.. I spoke with my mouth, supported by my heart and supervised by my soul, touching my audience exactly in the same sequence ( please replace mouth with - ears, eyes ,smiles, love, learning and gratitude  I developed the 'Art of Brainstorming with yourself" and Why we are still thinking 'THAT' when 'THIS' could change our lives forever.A system which could connect you with yourself at the deepest level. A system which when applied to business will multiply results by the tons. I speak on TV, I speak on Radio, I speak in Seminars and I speak to everyone I meet, I speak in my sleep, in my free time, as and when there is the slightest opportunity.As a kid, I was always asked, How much would I charge to shut up! Few years later,they just paid and begged me to shut up! All their money has eventually gone waste! I became a Speaker.Now , I seriously charge money to speak.Any takers

JOURNEY

Up until now the journey of life has been beautiful and I look forward to complete this journey even more beautifully. When I have to get out of here, I will probably use my networking skills to find a way to get back here and spend some more time If on the way I can serve , I would feel my stay here fulfilled and complete.

FINALLY

If you've got till here,you deserve appreciation from me,do send me a message and I will send you tons of it. Unless ofcourse you are bored,irritated and ready to throw something on my photo.I understand your plight and I apologise for the irritation caused to you.You can still send me a message and I will thank you for struggling through this.My profile is L.....O.....N....G!!