Be Your Own Hero
Are you the hero in your life? Are you the main character in your story? It turns out that your understanding of your own self may be the best indicator for your ability to create the habits in your life that will lead to meeting your personal and professional goals. If your beginning-of-the-year-goals are starting […]
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Who is your Valentine?
The day of love is approaching and the celebrations have begun! Friends and Lovers alike are ready to express their feelings for each other. The Year of the Rabbit indicates inner growth and personal expansion. Why not take the cue from the Rabbit and send a message of love to yourself. Why not be your […]
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Two Important Ways to Work from the Core
In my book, Nucleus: Power Women Lead from the Core, I offer a strategic tool to strengthen women mentally and emotionally, not from the gender perspective but from the socio-human perspective. The goal is for a leader to understand how to move from or ordinary to effective and effective to excellent through an experiential methodology […]
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Three Questions Every Entrepreneur Needs to Address for Maximum Potential
The most vital question an Entrepreneur must ask him or herself is, ‘What is the value I will gain if I sell my business?’ I know this sounds strange for a start-up to consider, especially when you are starting up! But you must envision the outcome of your business in order to make sure you […]
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The Optics of Your Business — Creating a Visual Brand
What is the nucleus of your business? Is it the product or the earning potential? Do you consider your style or your business plan the center piece of your business? The best advice I can give you is to make yourself the nucleus of your business. When it comes down to it, is not just […]
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The Nucleus of Business: It’s Achievement Potential
By Abha Maryada Banerjee, humanitarian leader, entrepreneur and business consultant We always begin with the ‘expected potential’, but how many Entrepreneurs can safely guarantee the ‘achievement’ potential of their business? It is not just the good idea or a good plan, but the executor and execution of that idea and plan. It depends on the […]
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The ‘M’ Factor: Essential Ingredients for Entrepreneurs
When the big idea struck you, and you knew that your breakthrough thought would lead to a business solution, that was the moment that turned you into an entrepreneur. That moment may stay with you for life but how can you turn that breakthrough into a successful business?
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The Five Essential Questions Every Entrepreneur Needs to Answer
The Editor-at-Large for Psychology Today, Hara EstroffMarano, said in her an article “The Art of Resilience,” “At the heart of resilience is a belief in oneself—yet also a belief in something larger than oneself. Resilient people do not let adversity define them. They find resilience by moving towards a goal beyond themselves, transcending pain and grief […]
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The Balancing Act
The very mention of a working woman brings to mind the term ‘work-life balance’. The roots of this term can to be traced to the 20th century, a term coined to describe the juggling between professional functions and homely responsibilities. A modern consumerist society and the fast paced speed of life make it essential to […]
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Tarzan or James Bond? Defining Your Entrepreneurial Style
The fictional character of the noble savage, Tarzan, was known for his reflexes, agility and heightened senses. Those are just the reflexes you need to have as an entrepreneur. On the other hand, 007 with his sophisticated entrances and stealth in handling the enemy are qualities equally important to your success.
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Stepping Forward from Your Core — Three Ways to Move Past Your Need for Approval
You are certain your idea will become a booming business. But you are getting nothing but sideways looks from your friends and families. How can you beat your need for approval and move forward? My best advice is to focus on your core, the nucleus of your passion. First — approve of yourself. Have the […]
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Reach Past Your Fingertips – Making What is Out of Your Reach Part of Your Network
The ideal for you as an entrepreneur is to run the business with its achievement potential fully strategized and from the nucleus – the core of your business. The way to grow your business is to reach past the core in a balanced way. Your business can have multiple areas of activities and tangents. Each […]
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Olympic Gold Quest starts London countdown
With exactly a year to go for the London Olympics, Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ) announced that it was putting together the best possible package to help the athletes in their pursuit for the gold medals.
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No Approval Needed — Three Steps to Moving Forward with Your Next Idea
I recently spoke on what I call the Approval Aperitif — our desire to gain approval before we move forward. When I published my book, Nucleus: Power Women Lead from the Core, this is what I hoped to address for women entrepreneurs and all small business owners alike — what it means to work from […]
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Naaree Interviews Abha Maryada Banerjee, India’s First Woman Motivational Speaker
Abha Maryada Banerjee is India’s first woman motivational speaker of international acclaim. She founded Success India in 2008 and has coached more than 2000 people around the world in performance enhancement.
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Mahesh Bhatt releases Abha Banerjee’s “Maryada”
The inspiring book of poems “Maryada” by Abha Maryada Banerjee was released with great aplomb at RahejaClassique today on the 20th of November 2012. Mahesh Bhatt, Dolly Thakore and Abha Singh attended the launch adding the extra motivational touch along with Anubhav Sinha (director Raone) and Ashwini Chaudhary (director Dhoop and Jodi Breakers).
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Look Good, Feel Good — Being the Face of Your Business
What makes the difference between owning a small business and being an entrepreneur? You are the difference! You are the ambassador of your idea, its benefits, the value it creates and how you intend to turn it into a profitable business. That makes you a seller, a marketer, a mouthpiece, a face, and a life […]
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Interview with Mrs. Abha Maryada Banerjee, Founder & CEO, Success India by Vakani Saba
Tell us something about yourself? I am India’s first woman motivational speaker of international acclaim, rated as one of the Top Ten Life, Business and Success Coaches in Asia Pacific. An expert at Leadership, Human Peak Performance and Emotional Intelligence, I am also the Peak Performance/Mental Strength Coach for Indian Olympic Athletes.
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India’s First Woman Motivational Speaker ABHA BANERJEE launches SUCCESS INDIA MASTERY ACADEMY
Mumbai, Maharashtra, October 27, 2008 /India PRwire/ — Founded and led by ABHA BANERJEE, The ‘Centres for Personal And Business Excellence’ is a pioneering initiative towards ‘HOLISTIC SUCCESS, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLE’s POTENTIAL and for OPTIMIZING HUMAN POTENTIAL FOR BUSINESS AND PERSONAL GROWTH. The first of these will be started in Mumbai and eventually […]
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Growing Your Dreams by Strengthening Your Core
In Yoga, and in all forms of exercise, the instructor will tell you to use your core – the muscles of your stomach, as the foundation for working all your other muscles. If you have been sedentary, it may take you some time to feel this core. But once you do feel the intense power […]
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Exclusive Interview with Abha Maryada Banerjee
By Lucy Walton | 19 March 2014 ‘NUCLEUS – Power Women: Lead from the Core’ is the first book of its kind on leadership for women which has iconoclast solutions from the World of Law, Leadership, Universal laws of nature and personal development. It carves a path for women desirous to be leaders or in […]
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Create a Culture of Yes
When you say yes to opportunities you create a pathway for success for your self and your team. Economic value is created by human value in any company. People drive the engine of every company, not matter what the product. Take that meeting that you are sure will lead nowhere, it will lead to a […]
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Beware of Pinchers! How to Keep Your Ideas Protected
When I started out in business my passion about my purpose and ideas drove me to share those ideas with every Tom, Dick and Harry. And then Jane, Susan and Mary. Then I had the terrible experience of people who stole my identity and tried their level best to make money off my idea. Though […]
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MOTIVATION-An Entrepreneur’s staple diet
When the big idea struck and you knew that your breakthrough thought could change something around you or your environment, something that could lead to an obvious solution or an answer to a long forgotten problem…the moment that turned you into an Entrepreneur. That moment will stay with you for the rest of your life […]
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No is polite
It is important in life to know when to say YES and when to say NO. Culturally it is rude to say NO and we must say YES whether or not we want to. But if we start conducting ourselves based on that thought, it seems quite impossible to say YES to everything and everyone. It is not even right. Let me tell you why!!! In the last blog I mentioned about WHAT to say NO to. Today, I want you to know WHY it is one of the most important things that I have learnt in my life…and also one of the most difficult to do.
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Self Doubt
THE SELF ESTEEM KILLER One of my Coachees ,Stewart loves to analyse every situation, everyone and every time. Inevitably it so happens that instead of becoming clearer, things just keep falling apart. While chatting with him the other day,I found d he doubts just about everything. While he was articulate and systematic, a side of […]
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WOULD YOU RISK BEING CALLED A ‘FOOL’
Whenever I asked this question of anyone, I got a cold response or no response at all. Most people avoided the question, some got agitated and others were amused. Most looked at me questioningly and thought , ‘What a Fool!’They put the question back at me and asked why would someone ever want to be […]
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WHICH PARADIGMS HAVE SHAPED YOUR LIFE
We have committed to master ourselves in 2015 and we will do whatever it takes !!! What I’m about to share with you is true however, for all of us at various stages in our lives and all the years to come.
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Lead yourself or someone else will
Thank you friends for your response to the previous blog. Today’s blog is an extension of the previous one but we will approach the same thought from an opposite perspective. If we are not aware of our own worth, the question is how worthy will WE be for anyone else !!! How will we ever […]
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The Road teaches us ‘Resilience and Persistence’
We travel on roads every day, there are turns, there are speed breakers, there are potholes, there are smooth stretches, sometimes there are traffic jams, sometimes there are complete road blocks and we have no choice left but to take a U turn and take a different road.
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Be big on Self Esteem
Friends, let me introduce you to concepts in self esteem that make people wonder what they had been thinking all this time about themselves. We will do a number of these over the next weeks so you can take up each of these over a period of ten days, work in it and move on […]
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Attack the De-motivators OF OUR FUTURE ….
Yet another series of blastsin Delhi, I was in Delhi when this happened , luckily I was not in either of the places where the blasts took place .I have lived and grown up in one of these places, worked in one other, always shop in one of these, so it came as quite a […]
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Is there a price we pay for our resilience-26/11
Mumbai shocked everyone, however, the speed at which Mumbai tried to get back to normal was equally shocking for me !! Yes….life has to get back to normal..There is a sense of anger, outrage but WHERE IS IT expressed??? I wish the city ….the country had stopped at least for a day and EXPRESS what […]
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You can have it ALL! What is your ALL
MUM, BE THE LEADER! If we had all the answers to all the problems and situations, how would life be? High hopes, I hear often when I ask this question to working women, entrepreneurs and even leaders. And then I ask if we actually managed to find the right and apt answers to any situation […]
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SEX AND MONEY
Is Violence the only Expression??? In the light of rapes and sexual violence.. Sex and Money are the two most ‘misunderstood’ concepts .. So totally not understood, so poorly expressed and so vaguely defined..
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SOLUTIONS TO GENDER ISSUES ACROSS THE WORLD
Gender is a ‘biological fact’ and when we hear gender becoming a major ‘issue’ in society, it is disheartening to the mind. The other major dampener is that Gender Issues are always pertaining to the female gender. Women across the world have fought this fight, which apparently is neither their own nor created by them.
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SYB – Abha Maryada Banerjee Interview
Emotional fitness guru of India for personal and business transformation, Abha Maryada is set to launch an iconoclast and visionary leadership book to help women reclaim, redefine and internalize leadership within themselves. With the undeniable background of gender issues across the world, India’s First internationally acclaimed Woman Motivational Speaker, Thought Leader, Visionary,
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WHO IS TO BE BLAMED
FOR THE STATE OF MINDS AND THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM??? WHO IS TO BE BLAMED?? CAN WE BLAME AT ALL?? Are WE THE CONDONERS??? Is Condonation also Perpetration??? And our obvious choice for life, is that we do not want violence of mind or body…stay TOLERANT..Stay peaceful, accepting and adjusting.
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OUR ARRIVAL TO THIS WORLD
OUR ARRIVAL TO THIS WORLD..WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN? You were planted in this World with no contribution of yours. Your parents discovered that you were conceived. They would have gone through many emotions on discovering your presence, not fully knowing how to react. With lot of excitement, they would also have entered a state of […]
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MUM BE THE LEADER
MUM, BE THE LEADER!If we had all the answers to all the problems and situations, how would life be? High hopes, I am told, when I ask this question to working women, entrepreneurs and even leaders. And then I ask if we actually managed to find the right and apt answers to any situation and […]
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KARMA -THE DRIVERS SEAT
TRANSFORMATIONS HAPPEN IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT : KARMA India, the hub of spiritual wonder has fascinating lessons for life and business transformation. The Gita, our big scripture is set on a battlefield called ‘Mahabharata’, where absolute peace is being propagated in the midst of havoc. Contradictory as it may sound, the scripture shows that it is […]
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Is your business fulfiling its potential
THE NUCLEUS OF BUSINESS: IT’S ACHIEVEMENT POTENTIAL We always begin with the ‘expected potential’ but how many Entrepreneurs can safely guarantee the ‘achievement’ potential of their business? It is not just the good idea or a good plan but the executor and execution of that idea and plan. It depends on the Entrepreneur himself, he being […]
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HAPPINESS IS BUT A CHOICE
HAPPINESS IS..BUT A CHOICE!February 5, 2013 at 9:45am It ‘pains’ when happiness of any kind is questioned by those who do not understand it or have not seen enough of it.There is not enough of it in the World and trying to shadow happiness, questioning happiness, belittling happiness, calling it names, doubting happiness indicates a ‘way […]
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GOOD WOMAN BAD WOMAN
GOOD WOMAN/BAD WOMAN…CONCUBINES NO MORE!December 28, 2012 at 10:13am Where does the problem lie?? Or is it a problem at all !! The city woman has ‘raised’ the quality life for herself , stepping out of her comfort zone and testing her strengths..The New Woman is capable of fending for herself and does not necessarily live for […]
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ENTREPRENEURS-Beware of Idea Pinchers
BECOME A TARZAN ENTREPRENEUR: BEWARE OF IDEA PINCHERS When I began as an Entrepreneur, I was so excited and passionate about what I wanted to do as a Life purpose or of my business ideas that I spoke about it with every Tom, Dick and Harry. And the Jane’s, Susan’s and Mary’s. Soon I saw […]
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Step Out and Step Up In Your Leadership
Economic value is created by human value in any company. People drive the engine of every company, not matter what the product. As a leader, you must realize that employees are looking for more than just success they are looking for significance.
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Three Questions Leaders Should Ask
A good leader listens intently to their employees but it is a great leader who asks questions to motivate the discussion of their employees. Let’s look at the questions that you can use to get them thinking for themselves.
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The Questioning Leader
We all know that the mark of a good leader is one who listens. In my work as a life coach and coach to professional Olympic Athletes, listening well is the way to diagnose the issues that need to be addressed. One way to make sure you are listening well is to become a ‘Questioning Leader’. A great leader asks questions that motivate the open discussion of their employees.
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New Year, New You? How about New Year, Same You Just Better?
A new monthly series in the UK’s The Guardian asks women in leadership to write an article on advice to their younger selves. Cookery entrepreneur Hari Ghotra wrote in November 2014 that she is fulfilling her dream of bringing Indian food to the masses with an online Indian cookery school. “I would encourage my younger […]
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Looking Back Moves You Forward
People magazine recently asked the U.S. first lady, Michelle Obama, if she could go back in time, what words of wisdom would she give to her younger self. “If I could give my younger self just one piece of advice, it would be this: Stop being so afraid! That’s really what strikes me when I […]
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Accomplishing Your Goals and Dreams
In order to accomplish your goals and your dreams, you must first know what they are! You must know with unwavering certainty exactly what you want, where you see yourself, and where you want to be next year at this same time. Often we have a general feeling – I wish I was in my […]
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Your Three Steps to Success
Each New Year brings us the possibility of achieving our goals. In truth, every day we have this same possibility to step into our dreams and make them a reality. January simply reminds us of that daily opportunity. So yes, write your resolutions and make your goals. Here are three steps you can take to […]
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