It is a beautiful morning today and I stole time to write. The way wherein the purest feelings of my heart, the voice of my soul just flow out and I let it be not hindering or judging it but rejoicing in it.
Last week I had the calmest birthday of my blog baby and as I sat thinking and smiling at all the beautiful years gone by dabbling in my favorite form of expression, I realized writing has been the bottom line of all that I have achieved in the past decade.
In fact, the roles in which I have evolved gradually and take pride in today as being my identity have all evolved from my love for the written word right from my childhood. Writing helped me channel my emotions since I was four and didn’t let me sink as my parents dropped me at my maternal grandparents for my education. From then whenever I am overwhelmed with any magnitude of emotions, the words automatically help me navigate through them patiently.
They also became my saviors when I stepped down from my dream career at Ikea of Sweden, and I gradually started my blog. Those who read me recommended me to start my communication skills academy in Pune and thus I knew it was God’s way of making what I love become my profession. More than money it was the positive joy or change that I could bring to someone’s life, that mattered to me then, and even today. All this while I also dabbled in the tasks of a legitimate blogger influencer in all earnestness, only picking up campaigns that struck a chord or brought some sort of value addition for my readers and audiences. Your support mattered as I garnered over 1.8 million footsteps on my blog, along with winning Women of the Year Award in 2015, the Planet's Pride Award in 2018 and Sahityakosh Samman in 2021. Awards were rare early on unlike today and they reinforced my belief that I was on the right track. One thing led to another and in 7 years I churned 7 books and self-published them. Well, those who read them loved them.
I never marketed them enough though, I don’t have that vein, I am all empathetic and compassionate, and selling has never been me. My best friend, a sales mastermind, feels that we had a great opportunity to become a corporate training agency and make big bucks and so does the love of my life who says that I could have had my own marketing agency or more. But to me many years ago when I quit corporate, big money stopped making a difference and my focus has since been on the little joys of life because I identify with them. I have a lot of friends amongst you who may not agree with me and I value their opinions just that I am not wired like them, I aim is to lead a wholesome, spiritual, and full of love, life until I am alive.
My focus is always on my growth too and I proudly say my constant growth or my earnest attempt to keep growing is the real fuel to my soul and I cherish it about me. This year in March, I launched 27 Authors through my book Brave Inked Emotions and to say the least, to make their dreams come true was an enriching journey and so was valuing their emotions exactly like mine. I think I did a fair job as a first-time editor. I am humbled that it still has an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 on Amazon. So yes I have grown a lot from a blogger, author, communication skills coach, and influencer to being an editor recently but it does not stop here.
For all those of you wanting to know where I have been, I have recently been certified as an international Nutritionist in Modern Nutrition and Ayurvedic Diet. But more on it in my next blog.
This one is more to thank you all for being there to receive and accept my words, and my writing always with open arms and kind heart. It means the world to me.
If you like what I write, you can grab copies of my eight published works here: The Fragrance of True Love, Destiny's Favorite Child, Dare to Defy The Destiny, Empowered Women Empower Women, Soulful Letters On COVID, for My Future Grandchild, I Live to Love You, Soft Strings Of My Heart and Brave Inked Emotions. Also, as the founder of the Endometriosis Support and Awareness Group of India and Emotionally Strong Women Of India, I would love for you to join me in my mission or approach me for any women's health-related (physical/mental/emotional) assistance you seek.