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You think this is out of place at this time of the year? We are still 40 days away from the new year (2022). Well, 1st Jan is when pretty much the whole world celebrates the New Year. In addition, based on the individual religious belief and following, people also celebrate their other 'new year' – the Hindu new year, the Islamic new year and so on. AND then there is a very personal New Year that everyone has. Their BIRTHDAY 😊 The birthday marks the start of another year of our life. A day we celebrate. A day we can use to look back at our past year and plan for the coming year. Yesterday was my New Year (the Birthday kind) and I wished 'a Happy New Year' to a small group of people who began their transformation journey with me. I kicked off my new coaching batch and it's a start of something incredible for them (as well as me). To each one out there, we are 40 days away from 2022. What are your plans for 2022?   Have you 'planned' what your goals are? Wha...

THE CARNOUSTIE EFFECT Today, a colleague of mine mentioned the CARNOUSTIE EFFECT - something I have never heard before.  And immediately, I could relate it to so many different occasions in my own life, both professional and personal.  I am surprised this is not a common board-room terminology, thrown around by consultants and CXOs / senior management all year round to explain what was going on (before throwing up their hands in despair).  If you have heard about this for the first time .. let me introduce you to the very interesting and pretty much universal phenomenon!  THE CARNOUSTIE EFFECT ...  ... is a term arising after the 1999 Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie, Scotland, when the world's greatest players, many of whom were reared on manicured and relatively windless courses, failed to play to theoretical par for the distance and were frustrated by the unexpected difficulties of the Carnoustie links compounded by the weather. Even the winner finished six strokes over par....

Halo Halo ... We are Half Done !! The "half-empty half-full glass" visual is a common sight and kicks off a conversation that I don't want to get into today ... half of 2021 is gone and the other half is before us. As they say, TODAY is the first day of the Rest of your Life. Well, lets focus on 2021 for now. 2020 was a wierd weird wired year. (yes, I deliberately put 3 of them in there) At the end of 2020, most of us had high hopes from 2021 and even made some lofty resolutions / goals for 2021 - challenging ourselves to achieve them and make the best of the year after the pandemic. 2020 gave us many revelations on personal and home front ... and we were determined to make changes in our lives in line with those revelations. With 2021 half gone, its time to do a quick but exhaustive audit of where we are versus where we were supposed to be in the context of what we aimed for. (It like appraisal .. but its only you, and you gotta be honest) The half year audit is import...