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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara


"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why" - Mark Twain.

For the last many years, the journey for my professional and personal life is to make a transition. For my employers , from being a manager to a leader. For my family, the transition is from being a provider to a someone who is there to help others in their life journey. For society, from being a mere stakeholder/consumer to someone who can give back or contribute in a meaningful way.

Leadership for me is not about a title or a pay check for you cannot be leader just in your professional life. A true leader is the one who can play a leadership role in all aspects - work, life and for the society at large.

The quest for leadership begins with finding your true purpose or meaning in life. Your purpose is defined by your passions, your values and your strengths. A purpose defines who you are and what makes you distinctive, its like your personal brand. Once you find your purpose, you can align your work, life and play around it. PURPOSE when put into ACTION sculpts leaders.

As Victor Frankl beautifully puts across in his book 'Man's Search for Meaning'

"Life is not a quest for pleasure or a quest for power but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is find meaning in his or her life and then help others find meaning in theirs".

The last many years of my life have been an honest attempt to find my true purpose in life. All tough I am yet to find my true calling , I just keep trying and trying ...

"Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside us, unplayed" - Oliver Wendell Holmes.

I look forward to playing my music for the world and in that hope, my quest continues ....

-Viva






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