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Mumbai’s Rain: A City of Anticipation and MagicFocus

June 3, 2018ByteSizeblogger, Blogging, businesstravel, conversations, flow, Ideas, imagination, instapassport, instatravel, journeys, lessons, Life, Love, marinedrive, master, Mind, Monsoon, Mumbai, Musings, passion, rains, traveladdict, travelblogger, traveltheworld, wanderlust, wisdom

There’s something about Mumbai when it rains. The city slows, just a little. The streets glisten. The sea looks alive. But there’s also something about Mumbai when it waits for rain. The air is thick with hope. The sky teases with grey clouds. People glance up, waiting.

Anticipation fills the city.

And when the first drop falls, it feels like Mumbai breathes again.

The wait makes the rain sweeter.

That’s Mumbai—a city of moments.There is something to Mumbai when it rains. There is something to Mumbai when it expects the rain!

April 26, 2016Uncategorizedanxiety, beach, beginning, challenge, coach, commonman, conversation, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, Happiness, incredibleindia, Joy, latergram, Leadership, Life, makeadifference, mentor, optimism, partner, peace, practice, ready, startup, sun, Tourism, Travel, wisdom

So, how do you welcome a new day?

When the Sun sends the first hints of his shimmering rays, it is but a small hint of the opportunity ahead.

To continue the work from yesterday.

To begin anew.

To press reset.

To walk the long road.

To course correct.

To sit down and reflect.

Whatever works for you.

That the Sun shows up in the east can lull us to think of it as a matter of routine. But to look at it as something else can alter how we treat the rest of the day.

So, wherever you are, sing in celebration when the Sun shows up. Dance. Run. Play. Read.

The majestic Sun teaches us about changes & transitions like none else.

(at Udaipur City, Rajasthan, India)

April 20, 2016Uncategorizedanxiety, beach, boat, challenge, coach, commonman, conversation, effort, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, Happiness, incredibleindia, Joy, Leadership, Life, makeadifference, mentor, oars, optimism, partner, peace, practice, ready, ride, sea, startup, Tourism, Travel, wisdom

When the waters kiss the boat with a rather stern energy you are reminded of the strength safety net that the shore offered.

And when the boat ebbs a bit in hapless disregard for the passengers on it you sniff the challenges ahead.

You have a thousand butterflies in your stomach. But there is strange adrenalin coursing your veins. Its almost like when you were young, full of life and ready! Thats when life shifted.

You grip the oars and can feel the water through them. You begin to stroke the oars and the waters seems to gird their loins.

A thin smile escapes furrowed brows and pursed lips. For you have worked at this. You are ready for the ride.

April 18, 2016Uncategorizedanxiety, beach, challenge, coach, commonman, conversation, effort, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, Happiness, incredibleindia, Joy, Leadership, Life, makeadifference, mentor, optimism, partner, peace, practice, ready, startup, Tourism, Travel, view, Vision, wisdom

There is one fact. There is one view. And then there is another. And then there is another. There are several.

The fault in us is when we assume one view to be the final view. Our view that is!

To always stay on the look out for our biases colouring our views, will help us see things in better light.

For started, recognising that there could be a different way of looking at the same object will set us on a better tangent.

So what are you looking at today. Rather how are you looking at it?

March 30, 2016Uncategorizedblogger, Blogging, destinations, fun, instapassport, instatravel, jung, jungian, Leadership, Life, light, Living, Love, management, psychology, shadow, Travel, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, wanderlust, wisdom

When we walk facing the Sun, we cast shadows. The shadows are not us but caused by light falling on us.

Our shadows are not us. In some sense, they are caused by us. Every small movement of the body falls with grotesque disproportion on the ground. In the most natural and connected of ways.

The shadows that fall on the ground are real. Visible and clear.

The shadows that fall in the mind are far more dangerous. In Jungian psychology, it is about the unconscious and dark side of personality.

They get us to tell stories of ourselves and our situations. Those stories determine our reaction to situations and challenges. It is in those stories that our future rests.

So, what shadows fall in your mind?

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)

February 29, 2016Uncategorizedblogger, Blogging, destinations, experience, flow, instapassport, instatravel, Love, story, Travel, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, wanderlust, Water, wisdom, yosemite

“Be like water”, he tells me. “Find your space. You may be contained by your present container. But remember you aren’t the container”

I am awestruck by what a simple man sitting under a giant oak tree in the courtyards of a simple temple is telling me. I look at him with wonder. “You see water finds its place. Hold yourself lightly and keep going. There is a joy in the flow.” He is old and the wrinkles bear testimony to the many seasons his skin has been in the game.

A silence fills the moment as he stares into the sky and I stare into his lost eyes. “You will know what it like when you stand by the stream or watch a waterfall. You can hear it’s energy”

He breaks free from his trance. And proceeds rather dourly. “You didn’t expect this from a wrinkled old odd smelling fellow like me, did you?” He doesn’t wait for an answer. And then says, “many years ago I was like you. Riveted by drive and laced with passion’

His pauses for the longest period of time. Unable to bear it any longer, I ask, “and then?” He smiles, dusts himself up as he prepares to leave and says “I began to flow”

He walks away leaving me in the company of a silence broken by the sounds of his receding footsteps on dried leaves.

(at Yosemite National Park)

February 15, 2016Uncategorizedblogger, Blogging, cairo, culture, Egypt, instapassport, instatravel, Joy, keys, kindness, lategrams, Life, Listening, People, story, Travel, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, truestory, wisdom

She is beautiful. With piercing blue eyes that are intense. I stand there, transfixed at her unbridled elegance and charm. Her wrinkles show up in large numbers when she smiles. She smiles often.
As the busy market in Cairo bustles by, she tells me her story. In broken English accented with an intact spirit.
Of sons, daughters and grand children. She has lead a very happy life, I can tell. She sells trinkets by the roadside.

As I prepare to leave, she takes a key chain from her beautiful collection and thrusts it into my pocket. “For you, my friend”, she says. With a charming smile and a bit of a wink adds, “ The friend who took the time to listen”. I couldn’t have stood there for more than 10 minutes, I think.

I insist on paying.
She insists on giving it to me for free. “Choose the right keys my friend”, she says and moves on.

People, their kindness and their wisdom is available to us always. Travel and discovery are good keys to open doors of the mind.
What roads are you on today?

#travel #traveller #instatravel #instapassport #blogger #travelblogger #blogging #travelinsights #traveladdict #traveltheworld #story #truestory #Cairo #Egypt #people #culture #kindness #wisdom #joy #listening #life #keys #lategrams (at Cairo, Egypt)

January 27, 2015Uncategorizeddesktop, wisdom

My desk professes wisdom that reminds me that much more needs to be done! #desktop #wisdom

March 28, 2011Uncategorizedcolour, culture, India, Society, truck, wisdom

The lorry love that brought some wisdom ! http://kavismusings.blogspot.com/2011/03/wisdom-in-truck.html