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High5 to a NEW YOU 2020

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 January 8, 2020
Art of Happiness Institute

‘Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities’  Gloria Steinem

High5 to a NEW YOU 2020

I love the New Year or new beginnings. I get all excited to about the possibilities in life. A time for renewed hope and dreams. It is time for celebrations. Can you feel the excitement? Exhilaration? I am absolutely invigorated. I love the lightness that invoke a sense of brightness. We into the 2nd week of January 2020 already.

I am sure you have received tons of email about New Year 2020: change your life, transform your life, make it the best year ever, 5 steps to maintain New Year resolutions, 3 steps to create a new life in 2020 and many more telling you how to awesome 2020 can be. They all mean well and it’s great to have coaches, bloggers, and mentors to guide and encourage you. These emails can excite or sometimes it can create a feeling of overwhelming proportion when the mountain ahead of us appears too large to summit.

Let’s take a step back. Clear our minds of:

1) What should be and how it should.
2) All the stories you have been telling yourself since it’s the New Year.
3) Are you feeling the pressure when people ask what are the plans for 2020

Step 1 – Set your intention

Reflect on 2019. What lessons have you learnt? Are there some things that will continue in the New Year? Do you still want the same things? What do you want in life? It all starts with what you want in life. Then you have the choice in creating what you want in life. What is your deepest desires? What does your heart yearn for? It starts from the heart. Think about what it is you want. Think & Feel your intentions.  Set your intention. It’s a great starting point.

Step 2 – List your dreams

Be bold and big. Write down every dream you can think of. From a dream date with your favourite movie star to owning a Ferrari. Submitting Mount Everest or going to Cordon Blue School in Paris. Travelling to Amazon jungle to volunteering for WHO. Stop analysing just write it all down. There is no wrong or right dream. If you have thoughts this is not me or this is not for me. Just ignore them for now. Select one to three dreams from the list. The ones where the music is clear and booming.

Step 3 – The BIG WHY

Now read the dreams aloud. Sensing and feeling when you read each dream out loud. Write how this dream would transform your life. For example, owning your own business can give you financial security or financial freedom. It can empower you buy your dream home. It can make you feel independent, talented, successful, have your own personal identity. Think if your dream came true, how you would feel. What would change in your life as a result of your aspirations coming alive? This is Your BIG WHY! Why do you want this dream to come alive? The BIG WHY is the key ingredient to keep you motivated and committed to the dream when you feel like giving up.

Step 4 – See Your New Life

Sit quietly and reflect as if the dream has already come alive. Live in the happiness, the success and whatever feeling the dream invokes. Picture where your friends, where you are, how does the environment and atmosphere feel. Imagine having the correct people and things to make your wish to come true. How does it look, feel, taste, and smell? Sense the dream as if it’s already part of your life. Feel the BIG Why. Listen to your body for messages for how to achieve the dream. Hear the music inside you. Release struggle and resistance. Let there be happiness, ease and flow in your visualisation.

Step 5 – Take the first step

All things are achieved one action at a time. BE BIG & BOLD take the first step.

Each day each step adds up, and just like putting one foot, one step ahead of the other on your path, soon you will be on the top of the mountain, looking down at your accomplishment with self-satisfaction and self-respect.

I’m here today to help you plant the flag in the top of your mountain, by encouraging you to take the first step. Why not you!? You were born for greatness. You were born to impact this world. Dare to leave your mark. Your Legacy! Dare to Dream. You have a dream inside of you that only you can achieve.

So, what will your first step be today?

NEW YOU 2018

To THE NEW YOU in Year 2020!

Cheers

 

 

 

11 Girl Boss Ignite Your Spirit Must Read Books

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 February 22, 2018
GIRLBOSS MUST READ BOOKS

Books! Books! Books! I love books

Holding a book, smelling its woody pages, sucking up the cover art and reading the personalised preface and acknowledgments. Wow! It invokes the imagination. It tantalises the senses and teases the brain.

Every word telling a story, transporting you to different realms and dimensions. Its invigorates the soul and spirit with every turn and twist of the words building into a story. Some words silently while others loudly blatantly thrilling, exciting, teasing as it reaches the depth of our beings.

I love romantic, psychological thrillers and obsessed with self-development books. I am a sucker for motivational types and all things that help me expand. I love to marinate in inspiration through books, specifically breakdown internal barriers, help instil vision and clarity and ignite your spirit type books.

If you’re a book type gal, I invite you to be inquisitive about them below. While I haven’t read all of them yet, I personally own all of them, and am steadily making my way through the stack. Each book was purchased either through a podcast, a blog post or a friend’s suggestion – I’m finding that the combined message between them all is, so you can get out there in the world and do what matters to you in ways that work for you.

The authors are helping readers learn to live it through vulnerability, creativity, heart, accountability and community.

So without further ado, below are 11 Inspirational, Girl Boss, Ignite Your Soul, Must-Read Books:

  1. Big Magic                                by Elizabeth Gilbert
  2. Playing Big                              by Tara Mohr
  3. Rising Strong                         by Brene Brown
  4. Leave Your Mark                   by Aliza Light
  5. The Universe has your Back   by Gabrielle Bernstein
  6. The Desire Map                      by Danielle LePort
  7. #Girlboss                                 by Sophia Amenise
  8. Make it Happen                      by Lara Casey
  9. You are a Badass                    by Jen Sincero
  10. Good to Great                         by Jim Collins
  11. The Confidence Code            by Kathy Kay & Claire Shipman

Alright girl bosses, are you feeling motivated and exhilarated?

You sure must be, because just writing this makes me want to read nonstop. Become a ferocious reader! Such Fun!

I hope you gathered some great inspiration here, possibly intrigued by a book or two. And are now starting on the incredible journey of creation, confidence, greatness, vulnerability, recognizing your self-worth, helping to create a vision for braver living, loving, and leading.

High5 to a New You Year 2018

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 January 16, 2018
new you 2018

‘Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities’  Gloria Steinem

High5 to a NEW YOU 2018

I love the New Year or new beginnings. I get all excited to about the possibilities in life. A time for renewed hope and dreams. It is time for celebrations. Can you feel the excitement? Exhilaration? I am absolutely invigorated. I love the lightness that invoke a sense of brightness. We into the 3rd week of January 2018 already.

I am sure you have received tons of email about New Year 2018: change your life, transform your life, make it the best year ever, 5 steps to maintain New Year resolutions, 3 steps to create a new life in 2018 and many more telling you how to awesome 2018 can be. They all mean well and it’s great to have coaches, bloggers, and mentors to guide and encourage you. These emails can excite or sometimes it can create a feeling of overwhelming proportion when the mountain ahead of us appears too large to summit.

Let’s take a step back. Clear our minds of:

1) What should be and how it should.
2) All the stories you have been telling yourself since it’s the New Year.
3) Are you feeling the pressure when people ask what are the plans for 2018

Step 1 – Set your intention

Reflect on 2017. What lessons have you learnt? Are there some things that will continue in the New Year? Do you still want the same things? What do you want in life? It all starts with what you want in life. Then you have the choice in creating what you want in life. What is your deepest desires? What does your heart yearn for? It starts from the heart. Think about what it is you want. Think & Feel your intensions. Set your intention. It’s a great starting point.

Step 2 – List your dreams

Be bold and big. Write down every dream you can think of. From a dream date with your favourite movie star to owning a Ferrari. Submitting Mount Everest or going to Cordon Blue School in Paris. Travelling to Amazon jungle to volunteering for WHO. Stop analysing just write it all down. There is no wrong or right dream. If you have thoughts this is not me or this is not for me. Just ignore them for now. Select one to three dreams from the list. The ones where the music is clear and booming.

Step 3 – The BIG WHY

Now read the dreams aloud. Sensing and feeling when you read each dream out loud. Write how this dream would transform your life. For example, owning your own business can give you financial security or financial freedom. It can empower you buy your dream home. It can make you feel independent, talented, successful, have your own personal identity. Think if your dream came true, how you would feel. What would change in your life as a result of your aspirations coming alive? This is Your BIG WHY! Why do you want this dream to come alive? The BIG WHY is the key ingredient to keep you motivated and committed to the dream when you feel like giving up.

Step 4 – See Your New Life

Sit quietly and reflect as if the dream has already come alive. Live in the happiness, the success and whatever feeling the dream invokes. Picture where your friends, where you are, how does the environment and atmosphere feel. Imagine having the correct people and things to make your wish to come true. How does it look, feel, taste, and smell? Sense the dream as if it’s already part of your life. Feel the BIG Why. Listen to your body for messages for how to achieve the dream. Hear the music inside you. Release struggle and resistance. Let there be happiness, ease and flow in your visualisation.

Step 5 – Take the first step

All things are achieved one action at a time. BE BIG & BOLD take the first step.

Each day each step adds up, and just like putting one foot, one step ahead of the other on your path, soon you will be on the top of the mountain, looking down at your accomplishment with self-satisfaction and self-respect.

I’m here today to help you plant the flag in the top of your mountain, by encouraging you to take the first step. Why not you!? You were born for greatness. You were born to impact this world. Dare to leave your mark. Your Legacy! Dare to Dream. You have a dream inside of you that only you can achieve.

So, what will your first step be today?

NEW YOU 2018

To THE NEW YOU 2018

 

 

 

15 Qualities of AUDACIOUS SUCCESSFUL Women

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 March 6, 2017

AUDACIOUS SUCCESSFUL Women

Audacious women are successful. I have witnessed so many women online, professional women, celebrities, women in my life, I have read about them, watched them on TV. Audacious women who inspire me are Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah, Jane Goodman, Amelia Earhart, Junko Tabei, Zinc heroes – Sister Sudha Varghese, Coco Chanel, unlikely heroes, dreamers, and doers. These are ordinary women with extraordinary qualities.

Here are their extraordinary qualities that I think are common to these powerful ordinary women:

  1. They have big dreams
  2. They are confident and highly curious
  3. They believe in themselves
  4. They live by their own rules
  5. They are alive and full of vitality
  6. They are highly motivated
  7. They don’t sweat the small stuff
  8. They just do it – Keeping it simple and organised
  9. They understand the duality of failure and success
  10. They take themselves seriously – consistent and persistent
  11. They are continually learning and flexible
  12. They understand connection is currency
  13. They know where and how to direct their energies in life.
  14. They play on their strengths and talents
  15. They continually challenge themselves to new success stories

 

These audacious women are seemingly tireless, relentlessly dedicated and endlessly curious. There’s always more, always better, always further to go further to reach further to climb…

The amazing part of this whole story is that these ladies are just like you and me (ordinary). Their extraordinary lives were not handed to them on a silver platter. They struggled, strained & stressed on their journey to success. They are ordinary people living extraordinary lives. They’re highly intelligent and sharply focused. From a distance, it may seem they have magical powers or come across as superwoman. But they ordinary women with extraordinary character and mind.

They have clarity of mind, strength of character and surety of passion & purpose.

Are you an Audacious Successful Woman?

CHEERS TO AUDACIOUS SUCCESSFUL WOMEN

May we Know them,

May we Be them

May we Raise them

12 Habits of Highly SUCCESSFUL WOMEN

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 June 11, 2016
successful

Recently certain thoughts have been needling me. It’s disturbing my inner calm. The world is obsessed with it. Life is not fulfilling and meaningful if you don’t achieve it. YES, it’s all about SUCCESS! One must be SUCCESSFUL to be happy, to fit in, to belong, to be recognized.

What it means to be SUCCESSFUL WOMAN?

Does it mean a high paying job, living in a big house and driving an expensive car?

Perhaps owning your own home…?

Running a thriving business…?

Maybe successful is having a happy and healthy family life? For others success is being able to stay at home with their children, just getting along with a sibling/spouse/parent day after day.

Learning another language. Being able to coax an Orchid into re-blooming?

Or perhaps it is just as simple as being happy when you drinking a cold glass of water on a hot day … Success comes in many forms and has many meanings. What success are you seeking in your life right now?

Whatever successful means to you, there are certain habits of successful women that help them achieve their own success.

Giving them their own unique SUCCESS -It has genius, power and magic in it. SUCCESSFUL WOMEN have some unique habits that helps them to their pathway to success.

  1. She is committed to herself, her life, and her dreams. Until there is no commitment, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. All acts of initiative and creation, ideas and splendid plans will fade away and die until that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then magic happens. The pathway to success begins. Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Be Bold COMMIT – Boldness has power and magic in it.
  2. She makes time for herself. Women on the GO schedules are demanding & running rife filled with meetings, deadlines, kids’ soccer matches, etc. A successful woman knows her own value and knows that she needs time out to rejuvenate and just focus on herself. She is smart enough to schedule some time for herself.
  3. She challenges herself. This can be done in so many ways. She can challenge herself intellectually, physically, mentally, spiritually…… She sets goals for herself then push them a little higher. The point is that she is always challenging herself to achieve more be more…growing and creating a colourful life
  4. She educates herself. And I don’t mean she has to have a University degree. Knowledge is power and a successful woman is aware that she needs to be educated. Whether it’s in business or day-to-day life, a successful woman researches, reads and asks questions. Applies this knowledge in her life to make wise choices.
  5. She understands mummy guilt and general woman guilt, acknowledges it, and moves on. Mummy guilt is something we live with everyday, we feel guilty if we go to work, we feel guilty if we stay at home, we feel guilty for just about everything. But we need to acknowledge that we feel this way because we want the best for our children, for our families and for ourselves.
  6. She knows it’s important to be healthy. Healthy isn’t only about exercise and food. Healthy is a mindset, it’s about her heart, it is about our whole life. It encompasses everything we do, every day. A successful woman knows the importance of her overall health & wellbeing.
  7. She is financially savvy. It is vitally important to know the ins and outs of your finances, to be on top of your financial situation. Successful women are successful because they can manage financial side smartly. Financial stability is such a massive part of life –A successful woman doesn’t live a champagne life on a beer budget.
  8. She smiles at herself and life. Do you realize how different you feel if you smile? And what about when you smile at someone else? I challenge you to smile at a complete stranger today. Chances are they will smile back. That means your smile just made someone else smile. That’s pretty darn powerful. Successful women know the power of a smile and use it. A successful woman knows that we all get further in this world by being nice and smiling, our mothers taught us so.
  9. She can step away from her job and have a life outside of her workplace. A successful woman knows that work isn’t everything, all the time. She knows that she can step away and it’s okay. She can switch work off, step away and have some fun.
  10. She makes a plan. A successful woman knows where she wants GO and has a plan on how to get there. She sets goals for herself and puts into place an action plan to achieve those goals. She measures, re-evaluates and sets more goals.
  11. She celebrates her wins, both big and small. A successful woman knows the importance of celebrating the wins. Some days that are as simple as ticking off items from the to do list or as big as achieving her major goals – either way, she knows that celebrating the wins helps keep her motivated, committed and driven.
  12. She helps others through selfless acts of kindness. The old idea of needing to be ruthless in order to succeed is outdated. A successful woman gives back, she gives and expects nothing in return. She smiles at others, she helps others and she is kind. She is generous. She understands random acts of kindness

What does SUCCESS mean to you?

My Happiness Manifesto

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 March 20, 2016
I choose Happiness

Today is International Day of Happiness and I am writing my Happiness Manifesto

My friend dared me to write my own happiness manifesto. So I’m picking up the gauntlet she threw down and writing my own Happiness Manifesto. With that… I promise that I love myself enough to do the following to the best of my ability at any given moment:

My HAPPINESS MANIFESTO

Say YES to Life daily

Choose love and happiness—first, last, and always

Say no to drama in my own life Laugh–unabashedly. Sing–LOUDLY. Dance–BOLDLY

Live from my heart

Make memories – Connect with people

Apologize and forgive to maintain inner peace

Give myself permission to feel what I am feeling

Eat well and exercise

Relax and breathe deeply to manage stress

Live simply

Embrace on being happier

Do you what I love doing

Embrace my story, my power and be courageous

Smile often and be kind

Be silly. Read–everything

Grow flowers.

Hang out only with people who uplift my spirit

Not get stuck in a rut of self-doubt or self-recrimination

Not judge how other people live their lives

Intentionally make time for play and fun

Trust in myself and others

Believe in the good in people

Be vulnerable

Be generous and helpful

Watch less TV

Eat lots of chocolate

Cook, both simply and extravagantly.

Explore, discover and Travel

Dream big and bold

Wear ALL the colors. Be sparkly–in clothing and in spirit.

Inspire others to laugh and hope and love

Believe everything will be okay and work out

I Choose Happiness!

What do you choose?

What’s your manifesto look like?

Don’t have one. Try it. It’s pretty easy once you set your pen to paper. Post your manifesto on your page and link it here, or just post it in the comments. I’d love to read it, and with each manifesto we’re changing the world.

 

 

20 Things Stealing Your Happiness

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 March 19, 2016
Art of Happiness Institute

What is stealing your happiness?

Do you know? Do have a clue?

20 things that Cloud, Cover, Disrupt or Rob your Happiness in life.

Many things that are stealing you of your joys are habits we have developed. It’s what we believe to be correct.

Our happiness is a gift we are all born with. Its an inner switch. An inner knowing.

If we choose to develop it, focus on it and use it. It’s also quite simple to rediscover that inner joy and happiness — it just takes a little awareness and practice to develop new thoughts and habits. Here are some areas in your life that could be preventing you from switching on your happiness:-

  1. Complaining
  2. Gossip
  3. Talking down to yourself
  4. The stories we tell ourselves
  5. Comparing yourself to others
  6. Putting things off
  7. Fear of future
  8. Living in the past
  9. Holding on to Old pain and wounds
  10. Doing everything yourself
  11. Not prioritizing your life
  12. Starting many things and not finishing it
  13. Waiting for things to be perfect
  14. Trying to please everybody
  15. Not keeping your word
  16. Worried about what other people think of you or will say
  17. Not living your life
  18. Making the same mistakes expecting different outcomes
  19. Waiting for inspiration and life to happen
  20. Focusing on everything that is wrong in life

Be a good finder — to look for the good or some good in yourself and everything that happens and every person you meet. Actively find something good.

Use this affirmation daily: “Every day is a good day. Every place is a good place. Every person is a good person. Every thing is a good thing.”  Tell yourself that until it becomes a reality in your life. In your mind and heart. A strong belief about happiness.

I believe that the more you focus on what is good and right in life and celebrate it, the more happiness you will have. So there you have it — 20 things that can steal your happiness.

Choose One that is causing you unhappiness and find your way to change it to Switch on Your Happiness.

 

 

 

High5 to a NEW YOU YEAR 2016

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 January 4, 2016
High5 to new you year 2016

 

‘Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities’ Gloria Steinem

High5 to a NEW YOU YEAR 2016

I love the New Year or new beginnings. I get all excited to about the possibilities in life. A time for renewed hope and dreams. It is time for celebrations. Can you feel the excitement? I am absolutely invigorated. I love the lightness that invoke a sense of brightness

I am sure you have received tons of email about New Year 2016: change your life, transform your life, make it the best year, 5 steps to maintain New Year resolutions, 3 steps to create a new life in 2016 and many more telling you how to awesome 2016 can be. They all mean well and it’s great to have coaches, bloggers, and mentors to guide and encourage you. These emails can excite or sometimes it can create a feeling of overwhelming proportion when the mountain ahead of us appears too large to summit.

Let’s take a step back. Clear our minds of:

  • What should be and how it should.
  • All the stories you have been telling yourself since it’s the New Year.
  • Are you feeling the pressure when people ask what are the plans for 2016

Step 1 – Set your intention

Reflect back on 2015. What lessons have you learnt? Are there some things that will continue in the New Year? Do you still want the same things? What do you want in life? It all starts with what you want in life. Then you have the choice in creating what you want in life. What is your deepest desires? What does your heart yearn for? It starts from the heart. Think about what it is you want. Think & Feel your intensions. Set your intention. It’s a great starting point.

Step 2 – List your dreams

Be bold and big. Write down every dream you can think of. From a dream date with your favourite movie star to owning a Ferrari. Submitting Mount Everest or going to Cordon Blue School in Paris. Travelling to Amazon jungle to volunteering for WHO. Stop analysing just write it all down. There is no wrong or right dream. If you have thoughts this is not me or this is not for me. Just ignore them for now. Select one to three dreams from the list. The ones where the music is clear and booming.

Step 3 – The BIG WHY

Now read the dreams aloud. Sensing and feeling when you read each dream out loud. Write how this dream would transform your life. For example owning your own business can give you financial security or financial freedom. It can empower you buy your dream home. It can make you feel independent, talented, successful, have your own personal identity. Think if your dream came true, how you would feel. What would change in your life as a result of your aspirations coming alive? This is Your BIG WHY! Why do you want this dream to come alive? The BIG WHY is the key ingredient to keep you motivated and committed to the dream when you feel like giving up.

Step 4 – See Your New Life

Sit quietly and reflect as if the dream has already come alive. Live in the happiness, the success and whatever feeling the dream invokes. Picture where your friends, where you are, how does the environment and atmosphere feel. Imagine having the correct people and things to make your wish to come true. How does it look, feel, taste, and smell? Sense the dream as if it’s already part of your life. Feel the BIG Why. Listen to your body for messages for how to achieve the dream. Hear the music inside you. Release struggle and resistance. Let there be happiness, ease and flow in your visualisation.

Step 5 – Take the first step

All things are achieved one action at a time. Be BIG & Bold take the first step.

Each day  each step adds up, and just like putting one foot, one step ahead of the other on your path, soon you will be on the top of the mountain, looking down at your accomplishment with self-satisfaction and self-respect.

I’m here today to help you plant the flag in the top of your mountain, by encouraging you to take the first step. Why not you!? You were born for greatness. You were born to impact this world. Dare to leave your mark. You have a dream inside of you that only you can achieve.

So, what will your first step be today?

 “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop” Confucius

With all the above comes secret ingredients to makes dreams come true:

CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM.

Your new intentions can lose steam within a few weeks or they magnetically attract the people and resources to bring them into reality. All of us, at least some of the time, fall into the trap of criticising ourselves, doubting our abilities and underestimating our value we can bring to the world.

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Come on! Let’s do this! Powerful Woman! Let’s learn to love and value yourself, treat yourself with compassion and steer yourself to greatness.

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