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What Makes You Happy

Ashish Kothari was a Director at consulting giant McKinsey and a very successful guide to major companies. His spiritual side started making itself known more insistently and he knew that it was time for him to move on. He started a podcast called The Happiness Squad that explores your inner world. He interviewed me for…

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How Spirituality Fits Into Coaching

Last month I was interviewed by Coacharya at their grand event that brought together a number of world class coaches in a multi-day information sharing format. Coacharya is based in India but has a global reach and membership. It is a wonderful resource for established coaches as well as those would like to become one.…

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Try Harder? Or Give Up and Begin Afresh? Also a Request for Help.

It is a well-entrenched belief that you, as an entrepreneur, should work hard and be persistent. Endlessly persistent. You will face difficulties and your job is to put your head down and bulldoze through them because at the end of the road is success. Glorious success. And there are tales galore of entrepreneurs whose companies…

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How to Get Rid of Self-Limiting Beliefs

There is a question that I get asked repeatedly. MBA students at top business schools have asked me this. So have successful entrepreneurs who wish to be even more successful. So have home-makers who wish to have some income of their own. The question is: “Professor Rao, I know I can accomplish much more than…

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How to Keep Up Your Practice When Life Gets Busy

An error that we fall into is the notion that there is our spiritual life and there is our regular, everyday life and the two are in conflict. Or that they are separate even if they are not in conflict. In my last blog, I addressed this by asking you to relinquish your sense of…

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The How of Being!

In my last blog, I mentioned that the cure for our constant feeling of being overwhelmed was to be wherever we happened to be. I heard back from a reader who said she had lots of demands on her – children, work, social, family, self-care and so on. Children need to be fed and nurtured…

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I Have No Time!

Many years ago Tricycle magazine ran an article with excerpts of the teachings of Kodo Sawaki Roshi. He was better known as “Homeless Kodo” and was an influential Zen master. Here is one of his teachings: To you who are complaining all the time that you haven’t got any time Everybody complains that they’re so…

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What Can You Do In These Times of Turmoil?

When I was teaching Creativity and Personal Mastery at major business schools one topic frequently came up during the alternate reality exercise. It had many forms but dealt with relationships between partners and particularly why people who loved each other would get into bitter quarrels. I asked students to reflect on the emotional domain they…

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Interview by Mohua Chinappa

Mohua Chinappa hosts one of the fastest growing and most influential podcasts in India. She was recently asked by Rupa, a leading publisher to interview their authors. Rupa just published my book, Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots, in India and this was how Mohua came to interview me. She is a warm personality and a skilled…

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Get Rid of the Imposter Syndrome For Good!

The Imposter Syndrome is alive and well. If anything, it is spreading virulently. Or, possibly, people are more open to admitting that they have it. Successful people, very successful people, feel that they accomplished what they did by chance or good timing or pure fluke. That they are not competent or skilled at all. And…

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