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What if the top you want to be is not worth the climb?

What if the top you want to be is not worth the climb? Poetry Reading, from #TheSoulsMind​ book. Poetry:- ‘worldly desire’. Listen to this one to discover how a goal setter, dreamer and get what you want kind of person turned to a being who settled. Soul’s mind guides me to realise that setting goals and running for materialistic things develops a disease in you and that is ‘striving’.
I wrote this the time I realised that the goals I had set were to fix for those who said ‘,I can’t’ however it was so not the purpose of my soul. I later asked my self, what is the mountain (, dream) I am climbing (, working hard) to be on the top (, achievements) is not as beautiful as the journey (learning). When we do not know what’s on the other side we either try to get there or assume that it will.br better than this side. But the soul’s mind says the most beautiful space is in the present , in the moment – by being grateful for what you have. Listen to this and be brave to comment if it did connect with you , I will be glad to know your thoughts on this.

Work from office- Too early or Brave?

So the recent development is here, my office decided to open workplace for all the department thinking it will shoot up the productivity as working from home wasn’t doing good in terms of sales. Ever since I received the email I wonder what would have been the thought behind. Of course one option was to directly ask this question but since I am inclined towards my own perspective sometimes it is satisfying to draw my own story around.

I brought this up here, so that I could give you all a bubble for thoughts to stay in for a while. I do not intend to claim whatever is written here is true however a possibility for sure.

As a child I loved pretend playing as a CEO of a company and behave as I have own office and people to work with. I enjoyed the kind of power and freedom it gave in that play. Well I did the same this time, I was trying to wear shoes of the organization and employees to bring some reality to this inquiry.

Let me first begin by sharing my empathetic story line as an employee. 2020 took a great deal for me to adapt to the work from home set up. I made good personal expense setting up a home office. Since my work involved being on video and my voice I got some lights and microphone to lift up the quality. Apart from that my husband and I worked as partners for household responsibilities and also give each other productive space to work. Our work timings differ and so we ended up talking over lunch.

(Dinner timings were also different). Well this did work for couple months but eventually it was frustrating.

No sooner it was time that we finally got adapted to the new lifestyle. There was more to this, it was a blessing to work from anywhere as far as the promises were delivered hence we did go home and stay with parents and my sister. And it used to be a scene where all of us had our work rooms and corners and we met for food or catch up on lobby sort of meet. But Sundays were the best. We ended up planning so much more with the work from home lifestyle.

In December 2020, our parents asked us if we were ok to travel to home for 2weeks in April and happy us, we said ofcourse it should not be a problem since we are working from home so we could travel on a Sunday and work weekdays. The time was closer that soon I received office email saying we need to join office regularly from 1st April 2021. It was funny, my husband works in big MNC and they have officially declared this year too as no office year.

This made me frustrated and thinking why would my organization to this when the covid cases are shooting up and too risky to use cab and office where you would never know who is coming from where. I did try to speak but it seemed to be a DECISION.

Well I realised how Indian organization deal with the culture where we still have the people with following mentality that you discover from the below casual comments:-

1. Oh so you are leaving early from work today?

2. Working from home seems to managers as if employees are at the malls. Well some may have done that but the insecurity of leaders reflects when they make same rules for all irrespective of unique departments.

Like sales we do get their productivity is high when they are less distracted they pick more calls. But what about designers and content developers?

I mean they need their own space; Imagine a hall full of sales call and chit chat , in one corner someone trying to hit head over new curriculum or idea or content. It’s a disaster.

3. I see many co-workers compare the hours of work they put in with others or quantity of work. They simply do not get it that some folks require to get numbers and some are paid for being experts that comes from the years of experience working on fields. And that is frustrating, I guess more than bosses people keep proving to colleagues to stay away from being questioned.

4. x: why don’t you work from home, I see you getting troubled. y- sure. then also x to z, look y is working from home when we have to come to office. Also x kind of people are the ones who are floating to seek attention in self-pity. And more reason for managers to make same rules for all as they do not want to be questioned about the same. Ugh!!! it is certainly difficult to be a leader.

So leaders who thought going to office will increase the productivity has actually done wrong for some department or different mature of work.

This shows their is certainly lack of trust and some integrity issues. However I still feel that one rule cannot work for all. Like being in education we always believe that we need to look at children as individuals and each one has their own way to learn and so using different methodology. I guess we need such approach in organisation so that productivity and quality of work is not affected by individual’s view and fear

It was a nightmare to adjust working from home and it is a nightmare to readjust going to office with the risk.

My mom said your office will have someone to replace you but we would not have anyone to replace you with of something happens.

Although I chose to stay calm, go with the flow and manifest the lifestyle I want. It is much better than gossiping or cribbing around with people who are just talking and commenting in head. I am sure the company needs that space.

What do you think? And what’s your opinion?

– Shruti Nagar Dave

I don’t see a difference between a child crying and adult crying

“Watch the baby scared of something, it was too much fun”, says a parent who apparently has no clue what damage they are making on their own children.

“Hey take a chill pill, and just for fun” videos that unaware parents make on body shaming, distorting child’s outlook, listening and worst is the video context that children are unaware.

Take a pause people who encourage such show biz. Take a pause people who keep numb about this. Unfortunately in our country there are no laws to protect children from these issues. Well, who will .. own parents using them as a tool to earn, fulfil their own failed desires and fantasies on their babies.

This mindset is low in thinking about the impact they are preparing for in near future. There are comments like why take things so seriously let it be, let children have fun. True, but these Sharents need to let their babies or children have fun in the WAY THEY WANT TO, not as scripted by the parents.

It requires intellect, brain and compassion to be able to really think about what are you feeding your child in zero to 6 years of age. Highly recommend parents to read research articles that give more insight on child development ( Highscope.org)

In Spiritual context, under the influence of Maya in such cases, attention, self identify based on others opinion, proving, fixating self.. and getting response in a short term wave will never make the Sharents experience the damage they are doing on children. Only if one is willing to nurture the child keeping in mind a responsibility of brining life on earth.

Quoting a poetry from my book the Soul’s mind

I mean that is what it means !

Thought to share this with you all, as it is important to voice this to save childhood of many souls on earth.

Please share this with people you think needs this thought.

Shruti Nagar Dave

Women’s Day Special with Rising star in Cricket _Nuzhat Parween

Meet Nuzhat Parween, an Indian International Cricketer. For her cricket is a game that brought stability and discipline to her life..Her impressive performances earned her a spot in the Indian squad to feature in the women’s world cup. Indian women’s team performed brilliantly in the world cup as they reached the final for only the second time in history.  The next target is to do well in the T20 world cup and the selection of Parween shows that Indian selectors are planning for the future. Listen to her inspiring story about her career and how she transformed the mindset of people back in her hometown. *This interview was taken while Nuzhat was traveling and not set up for, hence please excuse the voice cracks and low bandwidth patch.

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Welcoming her with all the love and gratitude

Welcoming her with all the love and gratitude

What is life without risk?

Hey, It has been a while I was away from digital space, however I am grateful to have been gifted a thought at this hour to write about. With my recent accomplishment, I realised how fierce and courageous I am when it comes to taking risk in life or raising my own bar to improve myself.

I love being an achiever in my own terms and define my own path to success. Well whatever I blah blah about is blah blah in front of the real purpose of life. I want to firstly say that I am super proud of myself.

It is beautiful to live a life where nobodies judgement, comment or thoughts about you impacts you. All I care is how much am I content with what I have and what I did. Is it not how it must be? Now some of you may have a thought bubble about “hey, but what about feedback or improving self?”

ACCEPTING YOURSELF AS YOU ARE, AND TAKING FEEDBACK to improve yourself – are the two different things all together.

Lets work on this. So you loving yourself, accepting your actions and feeing proud of where you is indifferent from how are others feel about your work or achievement. We must have our ears open for those who come to you and give feedback but not necessarily you let it impact you by taking it to your efforts or work you have done. How about discovering that the person who gave feedback feels that way, and his experience of life and meanings that he or she would give is what makes the feedback. We all are unique and have distinct experiences from our forever nurtured values and deeds, so with respect to that, being respectful to others at the same time not doubting your own potential and possibilities is what is the call.

As much as one would enjoy the failure, success would be celebrated. There is no definition of success universally accepted in my opinion. Each one of us can defined and draw line to acknowledge where has one reached and how much more work is required on self.

So, Celebrate what you have, who you are, and discover and distinguish you as a soul. The body would bring the ‘maya’ that you are trapped in for ages and only with an objective for you to spiritually be blessed with the knowledge of – ‘life is about devotion; purpose is to meet the supreme, and the duty/ role you play on earth everything is to be dedicated to god” – Not getting attached with what is and what will be and certainly not with what was.

I have some poems on this learning in my first ‘THE SOUL’S MIND’

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-Shruti Nagar Dave

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5 WAYS YOU MIGHT BE GIVING POWER TO OTHERS to define you.

Why there is no good reason to give your personal power away?

I want it to seem like I am confident all the time but really it is challenging to keep up if you are walking towards bettering yourself everyday. Life is testing you all the time, the moment you achieve first level it prepares you for the second. But how is it that it can’t just be? Because

evolution is the key.

You are growing in life if you are evolving in life. Be involved in evolving for getting close to your soul each day

You evolve mentally and you can know you are alive . When I say mentally it is not concerning to the IQ however to the way you receive life.

We all deep down know our strengths and wish to work to nurture’em, somehow when we are in the process to develop ourselves as a better person we witness situations that highlights what we fear and opportunity to overcome.

Here is another thing I wish to discard from my bag to 2021, ‘giving power to others that impacts your self worth’ . You deserve the best and so you must save this for you

Let me know in the comments if you relate to any of the slide and if you successfully overcame it in your life. And this will contribute a lot in our community as responsible humans.

5 ways you might be giving power to othersHow many do you check from the list?

-Shruti Nagar Dave