Celebration Time!

 

 

I have been attending the Master class of Iron Lady program. Today was the third session.  Each session teaches me something new to do. Iron Lady, is an initiative started by Rajesh Bhatt to empower a million women to reach the top. He is authentic and genuinely appeals to women’s psyche.

I have taken his four principles and am working with them. I also share it with my family members sometimes to be shot down and at others to be looked at with admiration and awe. What keeps me going is the deep child-like excitement. I work late in the night, doze off with a book or the laptop in front of me, engage my kids to think with me, and have never felt so fulfilled.

The best part of this project/ venture is, it feels it's bigger than me. Even when I feel worked out, I do feel a push to keep going.

Iron Lady as a platform professes to go all out. In one of their sessions today I heard an Iron Lady mention Strength profiling. This term was new to me, despite being in the industry for long. Maybe I have lost touch. Especially at a time when I was myself struggling with coming up with building a brand.

My struggle was twofold after I left my full-time job; it was just like some spiritual awakening dawned upon me that everything is a label. My job, my relationship status, my individuality, everything. .However, I did realize that needs to stick with it, more as a tool to get them validated.

After a span of 5 years when a friend approached me for a talk on Instagram Live, I was hesitant to give him any designations. Despite his reservations, he went ahead with the same. Then last week, I was attending a virtual meet up where the host was introducing everyone by name and few lines. My lines revolved around being an authentic human being.

It was a proud moment for me because I had finally achieved the ‘brand’ I had sort after. But now I come back again, in a professional world driven by a goal which is spiritual but needs a differentiator.

Achieving it would be a challenge when all you are aiming is to make difference in people’s lives through helping them be more self-aware and fulfilled. Yet I look forward to achieving it. I feel happy, excited and absolutely celebratory to work for my goal.