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Life comes with no operations manual!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on March 31, 2022Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Face Life, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Go with the Flow, Happiness, Help Yourself to Happiness, Inner Peace, Life Lessons, the happynesswala, ZenTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas2 Comments on Life comes with no operations manual!

Surrender and let go!

Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on December 17, 2021Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Detachment, Face Life, Happiness, Inner Peace, Let Go, Move On, Pause & Reflect, Prayer, Spirituality, SurrenderTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Let Go, Life, Prayer, Spirituality, Surrender, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on Surrender and let go!

Learn to love your crisis

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on October 19, 2021Format ImageCategories Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Crisis, Equanimity, Face Life, Failure, Faith, Fear, Fearlessness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life Lessons, Patience, Pause & Reflect, the happynesswala, ZenTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Crisis, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Love your crisis, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on Learn to love your crisis

On learning to accept the design!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on October 14, 2021Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Celebrate Life, Divinity, Enlightenment, Equanimity, Face Life, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life Lessons, the happynesswalaTags Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Non-frustrated, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on On learning to accept the design!

On being fearless

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on September 23, 2021Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, Death, Enlightenment, Equanimity, Face Life, Faith, Fear, Fearlessness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Spirituality, the happynesswalaTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Death, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Fear, Fearlessness, Happiness, Impermanence, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on On being fearless

It’s never over until it is over!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on July 6, 2021Format ImageCategories Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Courage, Equanimity, Face Life, Fearlessness, Happiness, Insecurity, Intelligent Living, Life Lessons, Pain, the happynesswala, WorryTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Courage, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Fear, Fearlessness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Non-worrying, Pain, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, WorryLeave a comment on It’s never over until it is over!

The key learning

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, Equanimity, Face Life, Happiness, Life Lessons, Spirituality, the happynesswalaTags Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Leadership, Life Lessons, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas1 Comment on The key learning

Are you flowing with Life or are you fighting it?

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on August 27, 2020Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Face Life, Fear, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, the happynesswalaTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Face Life, Face your fear, Facing Fear, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Fear, Fearless, Fearlessness, Flow with Life, Go with the Flow, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on Are you flowing with Life or are you fighting it?

When leading in a crisis, deploy the powers of Reflection, Resilience and Resourcefulness

A journalist reached out to me the other day. She is close to Vaani and me; and so she knows that we have been enduring our bankruptcy for 13 years now.

She asked me: “Dealing with a crisis for a prolonged period of time may have taught you invaluable lessons surely. If you are open to sharing AVIS, I am keen to understand if personal leadership in a crisis situation is any different from leading a team, an organization or a nation through a crisis?”

I liked that question. And this is what I told her.

Leadership is all about accepting your situation for what it is, the way it is, and doing what you need to do, to the best of your ability, in the given circumstances.

So, as we see it, leadership is leadership. It hardly matters what context you are having to lead in. Whether you are leading in a personal, professional, social, sports, political, national or global context, you are leading. Period. The act of leadership does not change even if the context is different.

For over a decade now, in the context of our own bankruptcy, Vaani and I have been leading through uncertainty. In this time, our leadership has been all about deploying the powers of Reflection, Resilience and Resourcefulness. Now, these are three dormant strengths that are inherent in all of us. They are key to not just surviving a crisis, but, as we have discovered, they help you thrive in one.

Reflection is the ability to pause and ask yourself deep, searching, questions: why am I here, what is my current reality and how can I possibly change it?

Resilience is your inner strength. It is the ability to withstand enormous pressure in a painful situation. To unlock your Resilience, you must ask yourself a simple question: what must I do to (and how can I) adapt to my current reality? Resilience, interestingly, is deployed the moment you ask this question and explore the myriad answers it throws up. Resilience, therefore, comes from the path of least resistance, it comes from total acceptance of your current reality.

Resourcefulness is all about making do with what you have. So, it answers another simple question: what is the best I can do in my given situation with whatever I have?

AVIS-on-Happyness If you look closely, you will observe the beautiful interplay between these three qualities. Each one complements the other. And, important, they are already present in you. All you need to do is to summon them from within you and deploy them. When you do this, you are, miraculously, happy despite your circumstances! Truly, as we have discovered, it is Happiness that is the antidote to uncertainty and the catalyst to High-Performance, particularly in times of a crisis! This awakening in us has made our materially challenging and dark Life very meaningful; which is why Vaani and I are now the happynesswalas and believe our Life’s Purpose is “Inspiring ‘Happyness'”!

So, it doesn’t matter what context you are leading in. As long as you are accepting of your current reality and are deploying Reflection, Resilience and Resourcefulness in a crisis situation, you will always thrive in it. Surely, you may not be able to solve your problems overnight or, as is true in our case, you may not be able to solve them even over a prolonged span of time. Yet, you will be happy, you will be anchored and you will be in the game – no matter what you are going through.

And as long as you are in the game, and, as in cricket until the last ball is bowled, anything – actually everything – is possible! 

Note: AVIS and Vaani are the happynesswalas. They believe their Life’s Purpose is Inspiring ‘Happyness’! They are going through a fascinating, Life-changing experience – a crippling bankruptcy!! If you would like to invite them to inspire your team(s) or explore other opportunities, please look up: www.avisviswanathan.in and www.avinitiatives.co.in.

Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on May 14, 2020Categories AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Crisis, Face Life, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Bankruptcy, Crisis, Equanimity, Face Life, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Higher Purpose, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Leadership, Life, Life After A Crisis, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Personal Leadership, Purpose, Reflection, Resilience, Resourcefulness, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, UncategorizedLeave a comment on When leading in a crisis, deploy the powers of Reflection, Resilience and Resourcefulness

Don’t fight Life, face it!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on May 12, 2020Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Face Life, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Equanimity, Face Life, Face your fear, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Fear, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Reflection, Resilience, Resourcefulness, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Don’t fight Life, face it!

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