An interesting dialogue recently happened around Tresonance with a participant during one of my workshops.
In order for someone to work at discovering their thrill, skill and trying to align it to their drill, you need a will to do so. And that is an extremely important aspect. I wish to talk about that here.
I have realized that there are only 2 things in life that can help you attain the escape velocity to break out of an existing paradigm. One is PAIN and the other is ASPIRATION. It is as true of organizations as it is for individuals that the desire to change is really triggered by one of the two.
I looked back in my life to see what the triggers were.
On 21 Dec 1992, after a hard fought cricket match in Gillette where i was the hero taking 7 wickets, i woke up at night sweating, with pain in my left arm. The pain was natural as I am a left handed bowler but the sweating in December was unusual. So we landed up in a nearby hospital and the doctors confirmed my worst fears. They said it was a Myocardic Infarction (MI - a heart attack).
Sure enough, i was put in the ICU for 3 days and then recovered in the hospital for another week or so. I spent that new year's lying in bed and reflecting what i had been through. I got myself discharged after fighting with the hospital since my stay was only adding to the bill and not to the treatment.
I was home for another 3 weeks to slowly recover from the heart attack. I was only 35 years old at that time.
That one month gave me a huge opportunity to think about my life, where i was heading, what i was doing. At this time, my mother gifted me a book 'Autobiography of a Yogi' by Sri Paramhansa Yogananda. I figured out this 'higher order' conspiracy only in retrospect.
That month of January 1993 transformed my life. The shock of a heart attack followed by the book that created a huge sense of 'seeing light' and a burning aspiration that followed thereafter, were the twin forces that broke me out of my entrapment.
In February 1993, I went for some additional tests to a more recognized hospital. They conducted a Stress Thalium test where a die is injected into your body whilst you work the treadmill. The photographs are intended to map out the scar areas created by an attack. Strangely, there were no scars to be found anywhere. The hospital clearly said that this did not seem like the heart of someone who had MI. They stopped short of alleging that i was perhaps a victim of commercial exploitation.
The purpose of this event was, however, served in more ways than one. The most important one of them was to create the trigger for my change using PAIN as the driver.
The book, on the other hand, gave me an entirely new perspective to life itself. It came to me at a time when i was reflecting, contemplative and therefore open to receive. That knowledge, coupled with my own reflection and state of being, created a burning fire inside me which translated into a very different outlook to my career and what i wanted to be in my life.
Today, i see organizations and individuals struggling to generate that escape velocity. To gather that courage, that 'will', to make the change in the direction of their Tresonance.
To them, my message is simple. You have a choice; either to figure out an aspirational trigger which can be a higher order sense of purpose, a vision, a calling. Alternatively, wait for that pain which is likely to be induced externally, when you will be left with no option but to push forth in that direction.
The sad part is that the pain comes only to the chosen few, and i was fortunate in that. Many of us can go through an entire lifetime in a comfort zone, made even more so by their financial success.
Today, the universal pain being felt by many as a result of the recent socio economic and environmental events are merely the unfolding of this opportunity. I am hopeful that this will create the WILL for a much larger number of us to introspect, go within ourselves and initiate the journey towards our TRESONANCE.
In order for someone to work at discovering their thrill, skill and trying to align it to their drill, you need a will to do so. And that is an extremely important aspect. I wish to talk about that here.
I have realized that there are only 2 things in life that can help you attain the escape velocity to break out of an existing paradigm. One is PAIN and the other is ASPIRATION. It is as true of organizations as it is for individuals that the desire to change is really triggered by one of the two.
I looked back in my life to see what the triggers were.
On 21 Dec 1992, after a hard fought cricket match in Gillette where i was the hero taking 7 wickets, i woke up at night sweating, with pain in my left arm. The pain was natural as I am a left handed bowler but the sweating in December was unusual. So we landed up in a nearby hospital and the doctors confirmed my worst fears. They said it was a Myocardic Infarction (MI - a heart attack).
Sure enough, i was put in the ICU for 3 days and then recovered in the hospital for another week or so. I spent that new year's lying in bed and reflecting what i had been through. I got myself discharged after fighting with the hospital since my stay was only adding to the bill and not to the treatment.
I was home for another 3 weeks to slowly recover from the heart attack. I was only 35 years old at that time.
That one month gave me a huge opportunity to think about my life, where i was heading, what i was doing. At this time, my mother gifted me a book 'Autobiography of a Yogi' by Sri Paramhansa Yogananda. I figured out this 'higher order' conspiracy only in retrospect.
That month of January 1993 transformed my life. The shock of a heart attack followed by the book that created a huge sense of 'seeing light' and a burning aspiration that followed thereafter, were the twin forces that broke me out of my entrapment.
In February 1993, I went for some additional tests to a more recognized hospital. They conducted a Stress Thalium test where a die is injected into your body whilst you work the treadmill. The photographs are intended to map out the scar areas created by an attack. Strangely, there were no scars to be found anywhere. The hospital clearly said that this did not seem like the heart of someone who had MI. They stopped short of alleging that i was perhaps a victim of commercial exploitation.
The purpose of this event was, however, served in more ways than one. The most important one of them was to create the trigger for my change using PAIN as the driver.
The book, on the other hand, gave me an entirely new perspective to life itself. It came to me at a time when i was reflecting, contemplative and therefore open to receive. That knowledge, coupled with my own reflection and state of being, created a burning fire inside me which translated into a very different outlook to my career and what i wanted to be in my life.
Today, i see organizations and individuals struggling to generate that escape velocity. To gather that courage, that 'will', to make the change in the direction of their Tresonance.
To them, my message is simple. You have a choice; either to figure out an aspirational trigger which can be a higher order sense of purpose, a vision, a calling. Alternatively, wait for that pain which is likely to be induced externally, when you will be left with no option but to push forth in that direction.
The sad part is that the pain comes only to the chosen few, and i was fortunate in that. Many of us can go through an entire lifetime in a comfort zone, made even more so by their financial success.
Today, the universal pain being felt by many as a result of the recent socio economic and environmental events are merely the unfolding of this opportunity. I am hopeful that this will create the WILL for a much larger number of us to introspect, go within ourselves and initiate the journey towards our TRESONANCE.
