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A Conversation with Dr Uttara Pattanaik Dr Uttara, an ICF certified Coach enables organizations/teams/Individuals to be their best version. Let us find out how. Dr Amit-How does one identify one’s passion? Dr Uttara- Have you heard of “Ikigai”? Japanese say, Finding and igniting your “Ikigai” or a sense of purpose is the key to living a long happy life. According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai. An ikigai is essentially your reason for BEING or the reason to wake up every morning. This is similar to passion but holds a strong "purposeful" connotation. Ikigai is also believed to be the union of 4 elements: What you love doing, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for. According to Ikigai, passion is the outcome of “What you love doing” + “What you are good at (your strengths)” with an overarching purpose, that acts a guiding light throughout your life’s journey. There may be many things that you are good at and also enjo...

  Click here to add this blog to your feed (subscribe to Blog) Sometimes a warm hug is the answer to our question and sometimes a gentle nudge is the answer. 'Hug and Nudge' is a fortnightly column with two different perspectives from two different continents and cultures on the same question in personal development area viz.  Jennifer Sertl (based in New York, USA) and Dr Amit Nagpal (based in New Delhi, India). Question- "Passion is generally missing in the corporate world. What can leaders do to ensure employees love what they do and do what they love.” A great question by Nitin Uppal, Asst. Manager-Marketing, Mahindra Comviva Jennifer Sertl's Answer Before I founded Agility 3R , I worked for two large corporations - one in telecommunications and the other in healthcare. I have been in systems where root-cause and corollary have many, many layers. I have been in systems where goals and objectives between teams were in direc...

Have you lost track of the world and time...may be you have discovered your deepest passion. If you have not discovered your deepest passion and are looking for some motivation and guidance, then read my story on SadaNam Kaur's Blog:- From Rat to Cat to a Human Being

Living with Deepest Passion Series-1 Guest Blog by Tom Grimshaw I saw a quote on Facebook this morning: " No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible ." I commented, " Wow! Doesn't this just lay responsibility at each of us feet for the whole of everything? We can be part of the avalanche of people who do nothing. We can be part of the small group of people who do the wrong thing. Or we can be part of the growing group of people who change the world for the better, one person at a time. Isn't that an exciting prospect? Or did I just get up on the right side of the bed and do a workout so I feel good ?" Today I want to do three things for you that will help you take a zillion percent more responsibility for your life than you have probably been taught to do. I want to clear some weeds from the garden of your mind. I want to show you how to plough and fertilise the ground and plant a crop. Then I wan...

You may give it different names viz. deepest passion, life purpose and so on. But there is something which we enjoy so much that our focus shifts from the destination to the journey. We start enjoying the journey so much that we stop worrying about the destination. Why do most of us fail to discover our deepest passions? Often we are not sure that out of the multiple passions that we have, which one is the deepest. So have you found your Deepest Passion? If not, then read my posts/PPTs and pins on deepest passion. It may set the ball rolling. Spirituality, Social Media and Personal Branding Here are the 7 connections I found between spirituality and personal branding. Let me explain in a format of how spirituality can help you build a great Personal Brand. Connection 1: Becoming Spiritual helps you in discovering your deepest passion Once I had posted on Facebook, “Passion is easy to discover but deepest passion requires deepest connection with self.” Tweet This! S...

The 7 Joys of Life The Publisher, New Delhi Price Rs 495 The book begins with a chapter on self-knowledge, which is so lacking in the modern society. We are so busy learning about objects and other people, we forget to make an attempt to know ourselves. We do not know our innermost desires, our deepest passions and what gives us intense joy or grief. We are not aware of the working of our mind and emotions. Often we don’t like the way we are headed, yet we refuse to do what is required-going within. We rather search for answers here and there, not even aware of the treasure called human soul. Then we are guided to the second step in the journey of connecting and falling in love with ourselves. It is such an irony that we are busy running after relationships yet feeling insecure all the time of losing them. We think that relating with ourselves is the last priority though it should be the first. The author rightly points out that meditation has wrongly been associated...

Source: Uploaded by user via Dr on Pinterest "You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle." Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Computer   Self-Reflection with the help of meditation is the best way to discover our true and deepest passion. During meditation the conscious mind gets silent. As a result, we are able to hear the sub-conscious mind or we can say that the sub-conscious gets activated. If you feel more comfortable with self reflection or plain contem...

In this article I have shared my own evolution as a person and how I moved from mere passion to my deepest passion. It tells my story of how and why I moved from corporate world to teaching, teaching to training and finally from training to coaching. I thought that Teaching/Training was my deepest passion, and then I dug deeper and found that Coaching was even deeper passion. And then I dug deeper and found Inspiring people to achieve their peak potential was my deepest passion (good news is I have stopped digging). Then one fine day I realized that teaching, training and coaching all fitted into the picture of inspiring others.  To read more, click here:- From Mere Passion to Deepest Passion

Two Opinions on Uncovering Our Greatness 'Uncovering our Greatness' is a monthly column on becoming a great human being and has two opinions on the subject from western and eastern part of the world viz. Michael Thallium  from Spain and Dr Amit Nagpal from India. Michael Thallium’s opinion   Michael Thallium is a global and greatness coach based in Spain. Michael has spent many years of his life traveling around many countries and continents, sailing the seas, flying the skies all over the world. He has lived in different places doing many different jobs: translator & interpreter, tourist entertainer, language consultant, au pair, PR Manager, assistant cruise director, singer and musician occasionally, tour guide, shore excursions manager in Australia and Indonesia, international sales manager around Europe, group co-coordinator, and hotel manager on cruises. Since 200...