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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...

Living with Deepest Passion 3 A Guest Post by Vijay Nallawala It was as recently as the 5 th of May, 2012 that I attended a Mind Mapping Workshop by India’s premier Trainer in that domain, Dharmendra Rai. The Map he had asked us to create as an assignment was to be on any topic uppermost in the Mind, to which a solution was elusive. It surprises me that I chose the Topic of ‘Money’. Dharmendra joked that I could hardly think of any other topic (being a Financial Planner). The reason I had instinctively picked on money was that I was at the crossroads of my career- although I was doing well, I had lost the passion for it in the past couple of years. I was sort of forcibly being dragged along! I already had a deep desire to write a book. My Blog which I’d recently started had got encouraging response and appreciation from many sources.  Nobody had to drag me to write, for sure! As I charted out my future career options in the Mind Map, I realized that I wa...

Living with Deepest Passion Series-3 Debbie Friend's story I believe that there are no accidents or coincidences in life. I also have faith that everything happens for a reason and when the time is right, it all makes perfect sense. When thinking about how I discovered my passion and how it changed my life, I had an “aha moment” and realized that all the ups and downs, twists and turns and beginnings and endings I've navigated through over the past several decades were— in actuality — meant to beautifully and meaningfully guide and direct my life’s trajectory to precisely where I am today and where I am meant to be. After earning my Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation, I spent years working in cardiac rehab, corporate wellness and adult fitness settings. Being passionate about wellness and health, I worked very hard to make a difference in others’ lives.  However, for the most part, I was dismayed to discover that as much as I was ...

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

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...

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

The post is a personal story of how i discovered my deepest passion. I have tried to give a step by step experience including the frustrations, what spurred me into action and how I finally found my true passion. To read click here:- How I Discovered My Deepest Passion? "Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul." ~  James Allen,  As a Man Thinketh Source: Uploaded by user via Dr on Pinterest