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Saying ‘Yes’ to Beingness

On By Ranjan De SilvaIn belief, Compassion, Ecology, Environment, happiness, Health Care, hope, Life, Love, purpose, Releasing, Spiritual, Struggles, Values1 Comment

An original poem by Ranjan De Silva

Image credits: goodmorninggratitude.com





Beingness invites us to ‘be’





But we attempt to ‘become’





Are we human beings or human becoming’s?





What would it mean to just be?










Beingness begins when we understand beingness





When we listen to the signals of beingness





Try to understand the grand plan of beingness





And say ‘yes’ to beingness










Being is participating in the process of life





It begins with the understanding of the process of life





It requires us to understand our role in the process of life 





And contributing to the process of life










When beingness provided us a pandemic,





With a grand plan to wake us from a bigger pandemic





To save us from the materialistic pandemic 





To save us from the power pandemic















The pandemic of destroying nature





The pandemic of destroying humanity





The pandemic of destroying economies





The pandemic of destroying livelihoods










Some are trying to stop the virus





Some are trying to nurture the virus 





Some are trying to prevent the virus





Some are trying to cure the virus










Driven by their own knowledge





Driven by their own aspirations





Driven by their own agendas





Driven by their own purpose















Can we please stop?





Can we listen to beingness?





Can we talk with each other?





Can we agree how best to say ‘yes’ to beingness? 


			
					

	




			
				


			

		

			
Taking a Break – Is it Purposeful Behaviour?

						

				On  By Ranjan De SilvaIn Ecology, Economics, family, happiness, Life, Love, Personal Excellence, psychology, Purpose Quest, Relationships, SpiritualLeave a comment			

					


		

			

Image Credits: Humanperformancepsychology.com 





I decided to take a break from social media, blogging, tweeting and newsletter writing during October. This is partly to allow my mind to settle down and rest after the extensive online work  done in the past 6 months from April to September. It is also due to my calendar getting filled with corporate sessions for clients in UAE, Africa, Solomon Islands. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.  





On the personal side, it was my second daughter’s wedding which gave us a lot of joy and I needed to release myself from work for this important life event.  We also had two other wedding anniversaries and four birthdays in the family during the month. It looks like October (my birth month) is becoming a month of family celebrations and this perhaps would be the month I take time off from work in the years to come. 




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Being The Person You Are Destined To Be

						

				On  By Ranjan De SilvaIn Business, Communications, energy, engagement., happiness, Leadership, Learnings that Matter, Personal Excellence, purpose, Relationships, success, Team Excellence1 Comment			

					


		

			

Six questions you need to ask yourself to be the person you are destined to be  – A presentation by Marshall Goldsmith.





Engage in this sincere presentation by Marshall Goldsmith and reflect on the six powerful questions he is prescribing. You may at-least  start thinking in a manner that leads you to discover who you are meant to be. Enjoy the journey.













The following process can be used to create a learning experience for your team using this video.




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The Courage To Fail – Path to Success

						

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A Thought Provoking Talk by Les Brown 













As you watch this video, reflect on your attitude towards failure, rejection and setbacks etc. What steps would you take to reinforce your attitude or change your attitude to enjoy success? 







			
					

	




			
				


			

		

			
Purposefulness in Team Members – Can It Be Developed?

						

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Developing Purposefulness in Team Members – My presentation at the Asian & African Retail Congress in Mumbai India,





 A presentation made to leaders in the retail industry at the Asia & Africa Retail Shopping Center Congress. Practical application of leadership and personal develop ent methods delivered with powerful concepts and personal experiences.





As you watch this video, reflect on steps you are taking and further steps you can take to develop purposeful team members in Your organisation.













The following process can be used to create a learning experience for your team using this video.





Step 1 – A moderator (an expert from your company) to open the session, explaining the importance of the session.





Step 2 – Show the video – let participants absorb, take notes and write down questions to ask later





Step 3 – Have a Q&A session and a discussion





Step 4 – Agree on actions to be taken based on the video





Step 5 – Participants to say how the session was useful.







			
					

	




			
				


			

		

			
Emotions that Motivate you

						

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A Power Packed Talk by Tony Robins 













As you watch this video, reflect on your motivation (motive to take action). How does emotion (energy in motion) creates that motivation  from within that helps us make a difference? 







			
					

	




			
				


			
				


			

		

			
Do We Keep Writing or Re-Read What We Wrote?

						

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A Pen, A Paper, and A Purpose – Isbah Nasir.





 A Poetic spoken word piece that explore the question: what is the purpose of life? and explores the decisions we make that shape our lives. 













As you reflect on these words, a powerful line within it to reflect is; “Just keep writing, keep filling in the chapters on the pages of your life and don’t look back because if you keep regretting and rereading you won’t move past and you miss that final ending at last”. 





What has passed has passed. Everything that happened has given us some insights to assist us in our quest for our purpose. The next step we take, using the learnings of the past or not, will help us get more insights in our quest. Turning the page and moving on seems more meaningful that turning back and regretting.





 Reflect on your life so far to make sense of your higher purposes and use that information to take your next step in your quest for purpose.  







			
					

	




			
				


			

		

			
Say ‘No’ to Distraction and Say ‘Yes’ to ‘Mastery’

						

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Robin Sharma – on the dangers of your devise and other non-value adding addictions on your success and how to gain monomaniacal focus, using practical and neurological information.













As you listen to this powerful speech by Robin Sharma, reflect on steps you can take to kill the distractions of your life, build purposeful habits and give life and energy to your special talent … to achieve mastery purposefully. 







			
					

	




			
				


			

		

			
How to Manifest Your Destiny

						

				On  By Ranjan De SilvaIn happiness, hope, Life, Personal Excellence, Quoates for Reflection, Spiritual, success, Values2 Comments			

					


		

			






Reflection Guide





As your read Mahathma Gandhi’s quote above reflect on the destiny you intend manifesting and think in the reverse order. What values will help create that destiny? What Habit will help live those values? What actions will help create those habits? What words will lead you to those actions. What thoughts are needed to use those words? and what beliefs will help generate those thoughts? 





Thereafter develop the required belief through reading, writing, affirmations, conversations, and teaching etc. As you keep moving forward towards destiny by converting beliefs to thoughts to, words, to actions, to habits to values to your destiny, reflect if this process has changed your sense of destiny. If so work backwards from any point in the process and start again.   





While you may or may not find and/or reach your destiny in this life time, being in this process, holding it lightly, experiencing the messiness, savouring journey will give you contentment, happiness, and peace. You will feel that your life is purposeful, giving you meaning. 










You might be searching for destiny your entire life, but being in this process, holding it lightly, moving forward and backwards will help you to live and happy, content, peaceful life. A Purposeful life.