- about life/living/worthiness/basically, lot of philosophy. I'll take up from where I had left and will do an honest attempt to put my learnings in this blog- you know like the
. As I write this,
is over and my six-month fellowship as well! Post-IIS withdrawal symptoms are evident and we have already started preparing for
! Luckily I have found a new internal development team to work with, who have thankfully recruited me… But you know, my fanship days are going to continue…
Why?! I thought of jolting down the lessons I have learnt in past six months and to which, I plan to keep coming back, whenever in the future, to relearn the learnings! Here we go with
rainbow lessons:
- Always give others Permission to Succeed- give hope to someone, encourage others to succeed!
- Desirable Difficulties- face adversities to realize our true potential.
- Right intentions can change the world- do with pure heart.
- Be thankful & acknowledge- gratitude is always the best virtue.
- Leap of Faith, trust & Delegate- can get things done in lightning speed and collective passionate efforts can create magic!
- Everyone of us has "Other 8 hours" : 8 hours of work + 8 hours of sleep + "Other 8 hours" to make this world better.
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| Volunteers- all of us in IIS 2014 Dias |
- Humility, being humble- is what people will remember us for, forever!
Above lessons are very frequently used in speeches & for a change, I was fortunate to experience them first-hand. Trust me, these things if put into action, forms an unwaverable energy that will
conspire for our success and well-being.
It was such sweet period of time during the fellowship, along with the above lessons, I also got opportunities to get involved in
GIFTED, SalesJam 2014, India Inclusion Summit 2014, program office strategies and communication-related activities.
I can only be thankful for the opportunities
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| Lamp Lighting: Open Day IIS 2014 |
showered at me!
Being part of GIFTED journey itself was so fulfilling that you remember the struggle to
deliver a box of books at 2am with smiles! Toiling hard for
IIS 2014 with amazingly talented & very hardworking team was priceless when audience walked away with pinch of positivity and heaps of hope. This blogpost won’t do justice to put my experience on what went through those 15 days before IIS 2014. It was beautiful to watch
things falling in place, all of us egging each other,
stage setting up, brochures being made, deck getting ready, finer aspects taken care and finally speakers & performers showing up with their gusto! I can't rate any speakers/sessions in specific since I had interacted with most of them personally, and I only see their tireless efforts in
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| My Team: Thanks Annika for Clicking this! |
creating
#InclusiveIndia and they giving their 200% to achieve our common dream of inclusive society.
As the IIS drew to close with
Rajan Brothers performance, crowd danced with ecstasy, I sat in the corner of stage where I had spent my full day, my legs were aching and my stomach had starved, I watched the
stage holding tears in my eyes and heartfelt smile, I knew, I couldn't have asked for better perfect happy ending. To my surprise, Rajan Brothers sang a song of
Mohd. Rafi from “Hum Dono” that emotionally strikes all of us strongly, me in very particular, and those lines went something like it stuck beautiful balance between heart & mind- happiness & sorrow, like a journey of heart, that can never end, that can only continue to prosper, like my fanship days…
Gam aur khushi me fark na mahasus ho jahaan
Mai dil ko us muqaam pe laataa chalaa gayaa
Mai zindagi kaa saath nibhaataa chalaa gayaa
Har fikr ko dhune me udaataa chalaa gayaa…
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