Happy Birthday to me.
For the past 15 years I have loved writing this annual
Birthday retrospect. It’s like this notch on the wall of time where I mark out
my growth, very much like how I mark my son’s height on the wall on his
birthday. It is this sacred pause, that I take each year, to remind myself ‘Aah
this is where I am, I am here.’
And each year before I write my birthday blog, I read the
previous years blog, just to see the character arc of my life story.
This year 2023 , has been an absolute – unimaginable year of
Expansion.
I was thinking, 38 year old 2022 me could NEVER have
predicted how far I would come in just 1 year by my 39 birthday.
And then, I read my
birthday blog from last year about ANT- FRAGILITY, and I realised that if there
was anyone who had already predicted my unpredictable growth, then it was my
2022 self !
An
excerpt from last years blog
“Resilience
is about surviving and recovering despite a difficult situation.
Anti
– fragility is about thriving and getting even better because of the difficult
situations!
And
I realised I had not just survived my Lebensmude, I had not just recovered from
my 2019 phase and gone back to 2018 me, I had upleveled, upskilled, become
fitter, more aligned, more fulfilled, healed, magnetic, sensual, joyous and
daring because of the stressors. I had learnt new skills, I had started new
businesses, I had stepped into arenas I had never ever imagined I would – like
being an entrepreneur, or a life coach. And the best thing is that it doesn’t
end here, because the anti-fragile keep changing, keep pivoting, keep
transmuting, keep evolving. Even I don’t know which way my life story will
turn, if anything the past 3 years birthday retrospects have taught me, is that
I never know what I am going to do next year !
This
year 2022- 2023has been a year of EXPANSION for me.
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My eye fit kit my Vision Therapy at home kit grew in popularity, and now
we have served patients from almost every state in India, and to 4 continents
including Australia and Africa.
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My squint surgeries popularity grew across the country, and last month
70% of my surgical patients were actually all-India patients who travelled from
outside Goa to come and get operated by me. We have had patients from 9 Indian
states this year, including Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, and I
look forward to the day I have patients from every state in India.
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Financially I made more in a month that I had made in a year in one of my
enterprises. And then I managed to make more in a single day, than I have made
in an entire month. And then I sold out one of my kids journals in a single
day.
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We had some amazing International vacations In Spain and Vietnam, and
local travel holiday to Meghalaya and I managed to continue taking breakfast
calls with patients and clients even
during my vacations, it was the first year I was able to see the tremendous
power of Work Life Blend .
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I went for deep immersive events and retreats and invested big in my own
personal growth.
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And finally had the resources to invest in my all-time favourite Coaches
and Mentors.
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My mind was blown by the immense growth that I was having in all areas of
Life, and I had finally created a blueprint of how others could create that in
their own lives, and I started my 6 months Mentorship program called The
Expansion Experience.
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What’s even crazy is that yes, I have had a massive year this year, but
through Expansion Experience, other women, are also creating their quantum leap
year this year.
Another
massive growth, was how much I wrote this year . each year, I wait to write my
most life changing, my most inspirational post , for my Birthday, and these
birthday blogs were these shining pieces of prose that would guide readers on
their life journey. But this year , I started my own email newsletter, and now
I wrote atleast a 100 pieces of writing this year , and sometimes every single day I send
out an email – which is sometimes, inspirational, sometimes motivational and
sometimes transformational. And I have avid readers who wait each day to read
my writings.
( To
be part of my email list , leave your details HERE)
Gosh,
I wrote so much this year! Gosh I taught so much this year! Gosh I did so much
this year! Gosh I got so much this year! And – I had so much fun. I really did.
Here is
how.
Words .
Words changed
my life.
My least
years post had a few words I have used over the years – Lebensmude, Resilience
and Anti fragility.
For
the year 2023 my words were – Love, Expansion and Delight.
I
chose the words in December 2022 itself, and they started to show the miracles
in December itself.
Love –
and delight – made me create the Kids new Year Journal in December, and it was
my idea of Expansion, give more, do more, make it more, expand it, that it
being appreciated so much that we had a 100 copies of it sold in a single day.
We
were traveling in Meghalaya, and were in a small village in Cherapunjee in February.
I had barely any range, and was also on a family holiday, but 3 of my VIP 1: 1 Life Coaching clients wanted urgent appointments with me. All 3 were related to love
and relationships. Catching their husband in an extramarital affair and having
moments of personal doubt, another finding herself being in an extramarital
affair and unable to reconcile herself to what she should feel, and yet another
wanting to go back to her separated husband. Now, I am not a marriage
therapist, so they were clearly not seeking me out for marriage counselling. It
was a break down of Self-Love and Self- Trust that each of these women were
going through. And on my 7 hour trek in Cherapunjee that day, I pondered what
would be the absolute best way to help them and women all over to develop such
deep Self Love, and Self- Trust that they can then find the growth and answers
in each of these complex relationship problems.
the first thing I did when I came back was hold a 7 day Self Love challenge, for all my clients, and every woman out there.
I know
most of you are thinking – the solution is not that simple.
And I
realised the same. To give women a true ability to decide and choose for
herself – we would have to deal with years of society, and patriarchy, and her
own family situations, and then her financial situation, and her childhood
dreams and aspirations, and what her mental state, and her emotional needs and
her physical needs as a woman.
And through
Love, Delight and Expansion – I created a 13 weeks program called the Expansion
Experience.
This
program was designed to help women live their best life in the 10 areas of her
life without burnout, overwhelm and self doubt. and I knew it needed to be
taught in the most feminine, and fun and delightful manner. And so everything
from money management to business ideology, to healing past karmic cycles, and
finding your life’s purpose, to finding your G spot, everything is covered every week, for 13 weeks. And to make it
even more filled with love, and even more delightful, and even more expansive,
I decided to give 13 weeks extra, as a bonus.
That
was my business and life strategy for 2023 – give more.
And it
worked.
“How
can I make it more Expansive?” Is the question I continued to ask myself while
creating everything this year. “What would make me feel more love, more
delight, more expansion ?” “What makes me feel more expansive? What makes me
feel more contracted? Where am I feeling guided to say a Big fat full body yes
?”
We have
created some of the most amazing moments and memories, inside Ex Ex.
The
next batch begins in 1 October, and takes you through the last 3 months of
2023, and the first 3 months of 2024. Why is this October batch going to be so
special? Because they get the unfair advantage of finishing 2023 on a winning
streak, and starting 2024 off on a flying start , it’s the kind of rocket fuel
to an ambitious woman’s dream life like no other mentorship program.
And also
because I am all fired up.
This year
when I marked out that little notch on the wall of life, I saw this huge growth
spurt between 2022 and 2023. From antifragile to being in expansion, but next
year is going to epic. I turn 40. Everything from tomorrow, to 1 year from
today, when I turn 40 is all about Epic and Fabulous.
There,
I set the stage. Let’s go !
And I want to take all of you along with me for the ride .
kick starting the year of Epic and fabulous with my First ever All women's Retreat in Goa from 28 September-1 October. Read Here
and the Unfair Advantage batch of The Expansion Experience from 1 October .
You can be part of both !
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