Monday 26 December 2016

Short Poem - "Let’s talk to them, and listen ‘more’ !"



Let’s talk to them, and listen ‘more’ !
Our children…our youth, let’s talk to them and listen ‘more’.
Outer behaviour is all, we try to 'cure' ;
There's more behind , .. we need to ‘explore’ .
Let them cry, laugh and express, all they want to 'pour';
As caregivers and mentors, ..we must never close any 'door'.
We are by their side , for them to share ‘more ‘;
And of this, let them be very ‘sure’.
This alone, can help their present and future,
become safe and ‘secure’ !

Our children…our youth, let’s talk to them and listen ‘more’.
There's enough in this worldthat tries to ‘ allure’..;
even the more ‘mature’.. .
Every mistake can be made good.. ;
please do ‘reassure’!
Our children…our youth , let’s talk to them and listen ‘more’.
What they become to impress others , is fashion no ‘more’.
What lies within and ‘pure’..;
is the true wealth, they need to ‘insure’.
An exam or contest ..,whatever they ‘score’ ;
Happiness lies right where they are, …and not elsewhere to ‘adore’ .
Our children…our youth , let’s talk to them and listen ‘more’.
It can be fun, but not a joke ‘anymore’;
let this be real, and not a ‘folklore’ ….
Our children…our youth , let’s talk to them and listen ‘more’.
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Thankyou for reading my post and I look forward to your comments !

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Monday 19 December 2016

Daily Dose of inspiration ........"what we choose to do once we hit the ground , defines who we are"

Progress is the eternal quest  of every conscious human..in the course of which we always fall , more than few times ! It’s what we choose  to do once we hit  the ground , that defines who we are…

Namita Sinha, Success Coach





Saturday 12 November 2016

Never give up on what you feel in your soul to be true...#daily dose of inspiration !

"The power of intention is incredible. Never give up on what you feel in your soul to be true."
-Namita Sinha, Success Coach

If you understand what you truly want and what you stand for, and if you have all the courage to pursue it with sincerity ...there's nothing stopping you from achieving it..



Worrying about dirt, doesn't get rid of it; washing it off does.." - Daily dose of Inspiration



It’s time to catch yourself every time you say ‘someday,’ ‘I’ll do it later,’ or ‘maybe next week/month/year.’ Start with the most positive attitude you can muster !

"Worrying about dirt, doesn't get rid of it; washing it off does.What's the simplest action you can take today to move forward..."- "Namita Sinha, Success Coach"




Monday 24 October 2016

Daily Dose of inspiration # ...Love what you do ..; make a difference ...to yourself and those you support !

And as the belief keeps growing stronger that Leadership has little to do with Title and those with Title are not always the ones willing to lead from the front, I have even greater faith and conviction to say that, 

"A Coach who loves Coaching enables a Leader to Love "Leading". 
- Namita Sinha, Success Coach

Whether you are a parent, mentor, teacher, trainer,leader, manager, boss, friend ,student , artiste or just anyone ; listen to your calling and seek support to fulfil your dreams !



Love what you do ..; make a difference ...to yourself and those you support ...

 :)

Tuesday 6 September 2016

Get comfortable being uncomfortable !...........#daily dose of inspiration !

Get comfortable being uncomfortable ! Because when you are always showing up ,no matter what , amazing results will inevitably follow as a natural byproduct !

- Success Coach, Namita Sinha


If you study the greatest artists, academics, and athletes of all time, they all have one thing in common.
They all put in a remarkable amount of hours of hard work into honing their skills before reaching a level of mastery.
What they happen to feel like on any given day has nothing to do with it. They do their job anyway.
If they experience resistance, it doesn’t matter because they are comfortable being uncomfortable.
And this is what allows them to be so consistent that greatness follows as a natural byproduct of their efforts.
Because when you are always showing up, no matter what, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, amazing results will inevitably follow.



Tuesday 30 August 2016

Every next Level of your life demands a Different You ! ..#daily dose of inspiration !


Every next Level of your life demands a Different You !

And though You may have to begin Alone,

 be sure at some point you will meet people with similar interests as You !

- Life Coach Namita Sinha

Wednesday 18 May 2016

Everyone deserves the spotlight in their own journey ... #daily dose of inspiration !



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Be whatever you are right now, start from wherever you are 

right now !

If you are confused, it's where you begin to learn new things. 

If you are hurt, it's where you begin to heal. If you are 

frustrated, it's where you start to make more realistic 

decisions. If you are sad, you  are brave enough to  hear 

your heart ! Honour your own true self for whatever you are !

You deserve the spotlight in your own journey in order to live your Best Life ! 

- Life Coach Namita Sinha



If only all of us knew and could sense how important we are to our own happiness !
Everyone deserves the spotlight in their own journey in order to live their Best Life .

Monday 28 March 2016

"....Everything starts with you".......daily dose of inspiration Quote !

Life is simple #…Everyone of us has within our own unique self , the power to create whatever we want in our own life and to end what we don’t want.. Afford some moments of silence and self reflection in your daily schedule ,to understand what really makes you happy and to truly focus on what’s important…




"Everything starts with you. If you start waiting for someone or something out there to change in order for you to be happy, you 'll be waiting forever.Once you know clearly enough what you want, you are going to make it happen". - Life Coach Namita Sinha

Affirmation..."..I can and I will...watch me "!

Dose of inspiration....."....nothing is a waste if experience is used wisely " Quote #


Time has a Strange Way of telling us what really matters , and nothing has been a waste if the experience is used wisely !
It does not make much sense looking back with regret, it does make a lot of sense how well we move ahead, instead !
- Life Coach Namita Sinha

A dose of inspiration..........make everyday count !..Quote #








You may not be there yet, but you are closer ...than you were yesterday ! Step ahead..make everyday count ! - Life Coach Namita Sinha

Saturday 5 March 2016

Customer experience - frontline services #

For leaders, managers and business owners - a thought to reflect upon !

“For any business, if your frontline services - your customer interface  ,  is not scoring excellent , you 

need to go back and redo the basics “

- Success Coach, Namita Sinha

And again, think about it,,..whether you want to take this strongly at the very point where customer experience originates or more later where your folks are busy doing damage control- its kind of an assembly line ; these days !
And it’s constantly being reminded of and  being felt greatly whether one is on the provider or the consumer side!



Saturday 27 February 2016

Somethings that Matter # Guilty or Not Guilty !


Ishita Katyal, a 10-year-old from Pune, has become the youngest Indian to speak at the TED Youth Conference in New York, the Brainiacs meet “, and from what she said there and of what I read of it in the Times of India, …turned out to be something of a final nail in the coffin -in establishing my own doing in a crime of sorts. Till then I was still an under trial, and being my own Judge, kept feigning blissful ignorance around facts of the case.  However after listening to her, and with deeper contemplation, I have decided to better own up.  Yes, I am guilty of this one, at least at some point in my journey as an adult and as a parent, definitely I have been…!


And then I came across another great quote from John Lennon , 


These lines from , the renowned musician, poet and political activist again reminded me of the offence; and my growing concern around how many perpetrators may still be thriving unaware and scot-free and that their conscience needs to be shaken a bit, prods  me to write this one! 

And so quoting from what the 10 year old said at the Brainiacs meet which has left quite an impact on both the brainy and the not-so brainiacs- ,"Instead of asking children what they want to do when they grow up, you should ask them what they want to be right now.. We can do a lot in this moment, in the present. The problem is our world has many forces working against the dreams of children.. “ Adults, she said, chronically underestimate kids, and in the process they pass on fear to children who are born without fear…

Ishita’s message was simple: Put children first; give kids a chance!


And the details of the crime, I were guilty of and not anymore, is no more than asking our children time and again, the so heavily loaded sinful question, “What do They Want to Become When They Grow Up”?

And if you again read every line and every word of the excerpts of what she said above ;it not only sums up all the research and trillion dollar worth findings and work being undertaken across the globe - be it in psychology , neuroscience, behavioural techniques, life coaching, spiritual and mindfulness schools…or any other  discipline ; but perhaps it even goes beyond and ahead of what they still have to conclude – that ‘put children first, and first in their present moment-; not so much in their future designed from  your Adult imagination’ - and you automatically have a better world – better adult, better leader , better millennials , better relationships- better and best of whatever maybe on your radar right now and forever !

As much as we strive to make great leaders and happy adults out of our kids, and talk so much about passion and following our dreams, and letting children choose the career of their choice, do we realise that this question in itself is such a killer virus that it curbs the very spirit of free imagination.
“When a child starts to learn how to walk and falls down 50 times, he never thinks to himself, “maybe this isn’t for me”. He has no fear, no inner boundaries, he is willing to test waters with every risk and pleasure, every win and loss; and explore the unimagined ! However, the moment he is well into walking and talking, we jump in with our curiosity to ask him , “So kid, what do you want to become when you grow up “?

If you stop and think about it, it's pretty amazing how early we start talking with children about their future career choices, very often, as soon as they are just 3 or 4 or latest 5 !
And that is the crux of my concern …why tie the loose ends of their free self into tight knots so early…!

Some more enlightened ones think that by asking them and not actually giving them a final verdict of our own, we are giving them an early opportunity to plan a future of their choice.., well good intent at that , but no brownie points here as well – because for all your pretended generosity , you are very cold bloodedly forcing a child to take away all the glory from his own present intelligent capable being – and instead put his intention on a remote future – and that too by picking up his favourites from a motley bunch of few celebrated ones! And hence, this question inevitably creates a tunnel vision.  It can even go as far as affecting one’s ability to see themselves any different ever.
It’s like asking a kid’s internal time machine to stop the clock then and there, and fast forward all imagination, all creativity  to a future world and predict it based on handful of outdated  inputs.   And his present unique self, starts dying a slow death – which otherwise if left to blossom in the moment unhindered, had the infinite potential of carving out a unique present and a unique future - one of his own true identity!

The underlying assumption in stuffing these inputs in their minds is perhaps the fact that we adults think, children are not as intelligent and its best to show them ready-made models to imitate.
Well for all the intellect coming from  great Leadership and Spiritual thinkers ; who nowadays bask in the glory of highlighting superior qualities of kids and preaching  all and sundry to- “Be like a  kid” -   because enough research has established that kids have in them worthy attributes , and are far ahead , be it in  their quick learnability,  their adaptability ,  their selflessness,  their resilience, truthfulness , trust– all of which we would so much like to be the traits of a modern leader ; – I would then like all of us to give it a thought  to what aare we actually doing here – we are  first killing the spirit of the kid and then asking an overgrown over conditioned adult, to take up the near impossible task of again becoming one - wow,  that’s some great stuff , isn’t it!

So kids are more intelligent, period, and the likes of Ishita Katyal, and many more, are already showing us the way the world over…Now to avoid the risk of some adult corrupt minds here, misinterpreting my message and already planning to curb their childhood further, by tapping their intelligence and directing it for being utilised in high yielding boardrooms or parliaments or perhaps advisory boards of corporates, - I say hold on, I have no appetite for being held guilty anymore! I am only exploring the possibility of us consciously framing our questions and dialogues with kids in a way that we don’t in any way kill the spirit of dreams and passions and individual identity!
And before telling adults to “value living in the present moment and become mindful”, let us first let the innocent kids live their present fully into it, laughing and kicking, and imagining and dreaming….to their heart’s content!

Let's stop being guilty; let’s try to be the change we want to see in the world and let’s start by banning the age-old question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Come on, I am sure we are capable of better conversation, and though it sounds like an innocent question, and I know that people who say it don’t mean any harm (case in point: me), nevertheless, I dream of it being retired from our socio-cultural lexicon.

Apart from what has already been written, another disaster caused by this question is the fact that the expected answer to it is always a type of job, it reinforces the idea that the way to find identity and value is through career. Our society is already saturated with messages that the title on your business card is directly connected to your worth as a human being. This question again trains one and all to view adult life through the lens of their place in the workforce. And being constantly encouraged to ponder their future career - it channels kids’ discernment efforts away from whether they wish to lead a happy life first, and my take further is that  people in this society—children especially—need all the reminders they can get that they are not defined by their careers.

But there has to be a way out…we can’t curb our curiosities altogether, can we? So I look forward to views on this…  Rather than asking, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” perhaps we should ask, “What are you passionate about, what do you love to do..”.

The beauty of building children into great beings , after all,  is that it’s the little things we do every day that mould them into the people they’ll become - unshakeable faith that they have in their care-givers !



Tuesday 23 February 2016

Somethings that Matter - # understand others !


"As much effort as we put in wanting others to understand us, so  much if not more should go in us trying to  understand others , too ! - Success Coach Namita Sinha

And this is not so much for others’ , as it is for our own well being. Be it personal or professional relationships, when we are so focused on what and who we want to become we find ourselves not understanding why some people aren’t agreeing or appreciating what we are doing ; maybe we start hearing and listening  less from people that we used to…
We really want to be encouraged by those we think matter, so much that we sometimes lose sight of others and we lose sight of understanding why people behave and  things happen, the way they do. In order that we avoid the grave risk of  falling off track and disturbing ourself severely at mental and emotional level, we must acknowledge that times change and people change.  We need to understand that things aren’t always going to be like they were.  Once we pause and begin to understand others, it really puts things into perspective that one  can still maintain friendships and relationships …with less chaos and expectations; albeit  more joy, peace and harmony !
 Apply this to your own situation and relate it with your own relationship dynamics  be it with your family, friend, relative or at the workplace - with your boss, colleagues, clients, customers, suppliers…or whoever. At some point, it shall make sense , very much !

Dedicated to your success and happiness, - ”Somethings  that Matter” is a series of posts and quotes from me mentioning my thoughts and learnings towards personal and organisational behaviour , that may find a connect with you !