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Before You Sail, Build the Boat and the Vision

May 26, 2016ByteSizeblogger, Blogging, boat, destinations, disrupt, entrepreneur, fun, Happiness, India, instapassport, instatravel, Kerela, kids, latergram, Love, Metaphor, Mind, parents, principles, sea, simplestuff, startup, thirdworld, thiruvananthapuram, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, wanderlust

Boats at shore always seem out of place. They aren’t built to sit still—they belong to the waves, the winds, the unknown.

Watching them, ready and restless, just beside the sea, you can almost feel it—the pull of adventure, the promise of distance.

But every long voyage is actually two voyages. The first happens in the mind—where dreams set sail long before the hull touches water. The second, on land—where boats are built strong, crafted well, ready to endure what lies ahead.

Because when the mind doesn’t imagine wide enough, or the boat isn’t built strong enough, voyages don’t happen the way they should.

So, what voyages are you on?
How far have you traveled in your mind?
And most importantly—how strong is your boat?

March 19, 2016Uncategorizedblogger, Blogging, boat, boathouse, champions, destinations, instapassport, instatravel, kerala, Leadership, Love, management, Play, poovar, team, thiruvananthapuram, Travel, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, wanderlust, wisdom

A picturesque boat house is best complemented by a an awesome boat. The awesome boat by a super estuary. The estuary by the island. The island by its people. The people by their smiles.

And it goes on.

It’s never just one thing that makes all the difference. It’s in the coming together that magic emerges. Every moment suddenly unfurls itself, dusts off any slumber and emerges in its glory, on the coming together!

That’s exactly what happens in teams as well. There is a difference between a team made of champs and a champion team!

Coming together makes all the difference! Coming together means saying more ‘WE’ and less ‘I’. Try.

(at Poovar Island Resort-Kerala)

March 19, 2016Uncategorizedblogger, Blogging, destinations, emotion, estuary, gangways, instapassport, instatravel, kerala, poovar, thiruvananthapuram, Travel, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, trivandrum, wanderlust

“Thats a pretty gangway”, I tell the boatman who doesn’t seem to care. He gazes into the land ahead. He has to do a few more trips and get people to this part of the island.

He docks the boat with great care and elegance. The inviting gangway helps us leap out to land from the infirm rocking of the estuary. People who stand on the gangway, take our place in the boat. They have all kinds of expressions on their faces.

The gangway is a unique place. It has stories of both joy and sadness. The breathless joy of arrival left at lurch by a strange vagueness of departure.

Hellos and goodbyes are always rich in emotion. There are tears that remain and tears that lurch. In expectation of what is to come or all that gets left behind.

And gangways, they host them all. They ought to be beautiful.

January 31, 2016UncategorizedBlogging, Joy, Kerela, Love, Monsoon, poovar, puddle, Rain, thiruvananthapuram, Travel, travelblogger, trivandrum

When it rains it pours. At times you catch the rain because it leaves an imprint on itself. Or at least what was part of of itself.
As the rain pelted the roof with shower, the water ran off from a corner of the roof. A mini waterfall of sorts.

The rain didn’t care or pause. And as one more sharp drop landed on rain water that was running away, it created a small puddle. A dynamic puddle if you will.
#puddle #rain #monsoon #kerela #trivandrum #thiruvananthapuram #travel #travelblogger #blogging #puddle #joy #love #Poovar (at Poovar)

January 31, 2015Uncategorizedimdia, Kerela, kovalam, peace, thiruvananthapuram, Travel

The Hierarchy : 1. Rooms. 2. Rooms with a window. 3. Rooms with a view. And then, there is Kovalam. #kovalam #kerela #imdia #travel #peace #thiruvananthapuram