Entrepreneur Diaries: Blessings in “this guise”!

Oh yes, been a while since the Entrepreneur spoke and this post is going to be pretty real. In the journey of an Entrepreneur, there are many ‘Blessings in Disguise” situations and people you learn from. Some of them are “Pure Positive Experiences” yet others are “Pure Positive Lessons”, all meant to grow into their own reality, to exponentially reflect the truth! None, should be dismissed as a goner… till you’ve learnt what they’re meant to teach.

When you work from an intent to GROW WITH GRATITUDE, the obstacles are “thought processes” not people. People only reflect and radiate the “thought processes” of the “collective” and as you continue to accept them as they come, you personally learn, that there are social challenges far greater than “Poverty, Illiteracy, Hunger, Mal Nutrition and jobs” that need to be met.

In my recent and phenomenal conversations with people, wanting to know more about Intern to Entrepreneur” this is what I have come to learn and these learning's, really, are the solid affirmation that I have to continue what I am doing, irrespective of “response”. I have begun a new journey and that is to inspire and empower “Entrepreneurs” with their first big step and to take this first big step, they’ve got to want it, they’ve got to choose it and they’ve got to live from a more inspired and empowered place in their minds first… that the reality of their thoughts may show UP in their lives. It is not about me, it is NOW about them.

Entrepreneurs Create in the Image and likeness of God and not the image and likeness of God:  Sometimes, we choose, to play GOD, creating GOD in our own image and likeness, which is the folly of an entrepreneurial journey, the truth is that we as entrepreneurs learn from our ventures how to ALLOW growth, both for ourselves and those that come in connect with us. We unlearn all the “management jargon” to ACCEPT that our ventures must continue to create, ripples within us, to keep us “creating”. We first choose the outcome, then figure out, through experiment and experience “how” to reach that outcome. We don’t always have the PHYSICAL ANSWERS yet, we derive them from our experiences, we learn all the time, we innovate to sustain and grow. These aren’t tangible “things”, these are infinite in-tangible, born of a “growth mindset” not “grow mindset”.

Entrepreneurs, take the RISK of CONFIDENCE in their VISION: Every Entrepreneur, has a beginning, that is filled with “circumstantial evidence of growth” possibilities. Once they take the plunge and are on the other side of the fence, the initial dilemma is “that the grass is greener” on the employee side of life, where cheques walk in to your bank account and money is around at regular intervals. It is the Entrepreneurs confidence in the SELF and in the AD-VENTURE, that is the “power backup” of the un-learning process, getting out of the employee mindset, takes atleast 6 months. if not more to adjust to! It is often “fear” of “”no money in the bank” and “bills to be paid” that breaks the vision.

As a survivor, I learnt that practically. It wasn’t easy yet it was fun, I took 3 detours in the process : 1) Everytime I felt “poor” I’d take a pen and paper and write what it felt like to create a brand 2) I wrote a book K.A.A.M guided spiritually to a new Know.Allow.Accept.Manifest the idea, the brand, the waiting and the divine timing. I found, that Gratitude, that has been present all my life, was leading me to be able to THINK BIG, before I began what I now call my DeePositive Journey. 3) fallouts, drawbacks, depression, poverty all knocked at my thoughts, wanting to drown my “vision”, as I look back, my fears, my deepest fears were surfacing and I had the CHOICE to treat them as real or accept them and let them heal. My greatest gift, well, accepting that these “fears” were deep within me, being brought into my awareness for the simple purpose, letting me know, that they existed, then when I saw them with gratitude, they unfolded into “healing my fears” making me MIND READY to grow the vision. I learnt that my VISION was far greater than my fears, each time a fear cropped up and I can promise you they did, lots of them, those who know me closely, know that I have had my share of tears, fears and tantrums, I felt so alone so obsolete that I wanted to go back to my comfort zone, being an employee! Thank God for Gratitude, thank God for a deeper understanding, Thank God for Angels… I took a leap of Gratitude in 2010, today I am co-creating at the speed of Gratitude and I love it! Dedicated.Enthusiastic.Empowered.Positive my anchor and vision.

Entrepreneurs, are take Responsibility or Response Ability of their CHOICES:,Growing with Gratitude is a gift to every human being, based on their CHOICES. Entrepreneurs live through it, to tell a success story or fade away. An Entrepreneur makes new choices everyday, born from their inner vision. One of the key attributes of an Entrepreneur and a wonderful way to KNOW the difference between and entrepreneur and a businessman/woman is the ability to be “inclusive” in success and “exclusive” in failure. An Entrepreneur, takes failure as a lesson, a personal lesson, it is a gift really. Failure, in the KNOW of an Entrepreneur, is the gap between Vision and Execution, a personal learning. Where as Success is a bridge built between vision and execution. The Entrepreneur HOLDS the vision before all that is, always and in ALL WAYS! It is important therefore, to KNOW, that the RESPONSE- ABILITY comes from a deeper understanding of the vision. If the actions in thought word and deed don’t match the vision, the VISION, ceases to INSPIRE AND EMPOWER growth, the brand, doesn’t need NEW PEOPLE, it simply needs a new vision. As an Entrepreneur, you embody the vision, you are the vision, that every team member draws from, so, you should actually be the perfect example of what your company stands for. If your CHOICE comes from VISION, you will automatically create an “inclusive growth” environment. When the VISION is OUTSIDE of YOU or you see INSPIRATION and EMPOWERMENT of your team as an OBSTACLE, you begin to desire “exclusive growth”, this cramps your ability to respond with vision. Looking for “scape goats”!

Blessings in “this guise” , assist the inner growth of the Entrepreneur Mindset, this is another perspective, merely another perspective to meet the entrepreneur within you. In my learning, the odds have produced more results that the expected. I still choose, the VISION, for the vision is the guide to tomorrow I may not live to see, yet, that will I leave as a memory, shall grow, for GROWTH is Intentional, it is Infinite, it is Invisible, Omnipresent and Omnipotent… all of out choice and all in “this guise”.

How you perceive it is how you receive it!: Dee

Entrepreneur Diaries: I ACCEPT!

One of the key challenges of being an Entrepreneur, is the ability to ACCEPT the challenges and the thoughts without judgment knowing very clearly, that the vision creates from scratch all that needs to be DONE and delivers them unto you for the completion of the project.

Now, considering that I practice Gratitude as a core foundation intent in all my work, does not take away the challenges that present themselves to me or to the project at hand. Sometimes, Gratitude delivers unto you the greatest challenge of all “TO HOLD THE VISION in THE MIDST OF DIVISION”. This is a key practice in the alignment required to move from a BUSINESS person to an ENTREPRENEUR!

Business, well, anyone can do, the best in business are children. They know what to say and who to say it to, to get immediate results. However, in the case of an Entrepreneur, more like the PARENT of this child, immaterial of the profit or loss, must hold the “grown up version of the child” and chart his/her path for maximum outcomes when he/she turns 18! The path isn’t always all “green” there are patches of barren, there are needs that must be met, there are finances that must be planned and there is a vision that must be at the core of the up bringing. You have to match your vision, everyday to make the picture clear, first in your own mind. This radiates from you and becomes part of the mindset that attracts all that is required to complete the picture.

Entrepreneurs, I understand, have the keen ability to create a future in words and then, steeple chase through circumstances to get to the final “big picture” or the VISION! There is an INTERNAL ability to see the OUTCOME more often than the OBSTACLE course to get there. The Gratitude technique gives you the the prowess to HOLD ON TO THE VISION, even though the NOW of it is filled with CONTRADICTIONS!

I ACCEPT is a powerful affirmation that assists you in making PEACE with the CIRCUMSTANCES without losing FOCUS on the VISION/OUTCOME!

Here’s what I mean:

When I took up the Intern to Entrepreneur Idea and made an initiative out of it, I ACCEPTED, that there were people who would JUMP for an OPPORTUNITY to grow their lives. Be confident of investing in themselves and take this opportunity to grow their lives and grow their dreams into realities. I smiled, my intent, clear, to create a powerful and new eco-system of Gratitude Growth with the core values of Dedicated.Enthusiastic.Empowered.Positive!

I ACCEPT that they are scared to KNOW that it is true! They have more evidence of scams, they have more evidence that if it is as cheap as Rs.5000/-  there is a hidden agenda!

I ACCEPT that we’re learning too! Goodness doesn’t have as many takers as GOOD FEES do!

I ACCEPT that they won’t TRUST us to DELIVER on the promises. They’re more aware of promises that come with BIG TICKET fees that seem more promising!

I ACCEPT that everything is going according to a DIVINE HEALING plan! That for a lot of people, just the exercise of filling in the application maybe all they need to feel confident about themselves AGAIN and that will be a new beginning.

I ACCEPT that every delay is created by the intent, people are moving towards SELF CONFIDENCE, still not being able to truly trust their own instincts, leaning towards RESEARCH and TRENDS! Something as new as this, WILL TAKE DIVINE TIME, to make a place in peoples’ thought, then their word and finally their actions.

I ACCEPT that the signs of delay in the office set up and functioning too are divinely guided by Gratitude, it is OKAY, the office will come together by design, when the interns show up. The space is for them, they will inherit a PERFECT space to grow their IDEAS!

I ACCEPT that I was meant to create an initiative and share, it is an individual choice to be a part of it. It is now PUBLIC PROPERTY and those who are meant to grow from it, by CHOICE, will find it.

I ACCEPT that the challenge is to breakthrough the mindset FREEZE and open windows of individually inspired and empowered ACTION. The OUTCOME is a CHOICE that the INTERNS will make for themselves.

I ACCEPT the new ideas of growth coming my way and focus on how to maximise the reach and inspire and empower others to CHOOSE a beautiful new life for themselves, knowing that the CHOICE is theirs to MAKE, mine is COMPLETE in providing ANOTHER WAY for them to GROW!

I ACCEPT that Gratitude, Dedication, Enthusiasm, Empowered Action and a Manifest of the promises we’ve made is my PART. Wanting it for themselves is their part.

Above all I ACCEPT my place as Co-Creator with the greater ASK of all times, to create a brand new future! It is my deepest intent ONLY to take the journey of Gratitude towards the VISION of a Dedicated.Enthusiastic.Empowered.Positive business eco-system that will create a KNOW of personal, professional, social, local, national and global vision of abundance! There’s enough for everyone to live abundant lives, it is now time to ACCEPT it!

As I complete this post, I have learned something invaluable from it, that there is a powerful feeling of Gratitude that is filling my confidence RIGHT NOW, willing to surge ahead and do what I do best.

There is greater growth in acceptance than expectance!!

Entrepreneur Diaries: A weak week can be a boost a tweek ;)

So, another week has passed, I have had to extend the dates for the applications. The office, takes its own time to feel complete. People are telling me that it isn’t possible to do good, AGAIN! There are those waiting in the wings to watch what happens. DeePositive is like a giant screen that people are watching, growing with and love. Like a  block buster movie, and everyone wants to be invited for the premier!

“Oh! How impatient you are” is an oft repeated thought in my mind. When you begin a journey, there is excitement about the destination, here the destination is introducing Entrepreneurs into the network! So, for as long as the only OUTCOME is the Entrepreneurs, the impatience is about WHO they are going to be, how I am going to plan their 365 day journey and WHY I am really really doing this?

Delays seem to perfectly work for me right now, the commitment was made the day I decided to put my savings where my office now is, the blessed assistance of a special vendor who has become family, helping me take that BIG STEP. Then comes the setting up of the office, there is a lot of “cheque work” and then there are things that happen around you that begin to give you a comfort level like no other.

Delay has opened up many moments of miraculous THOUGHT that have converted into very special things, having two new team members and the tribe is growing. The co-inspired path is another revealer, while my impatience has been niggling and nudging me into a place of BEING OK, which I often turn to, impatience makes me very very snappy! There is another part of me that absolutely is drawn to #GratitudeTribe on twitter, this exercise, that began with a tweet from Pri introducing Mehul and I on twitter on all things gratitude, the words that came to my mind, has become daily practice, just hash tagging a thought with #GratitudeTribe, fills me with much energy and excitement.

We’ve now decided to move the first batch to JULY, knowing that JUNE is going to be so hot! All the AC’s in the world won’t make life comfortable for all of us, unless, we’re in one of those posh buildings that have central cooling. Yet, our office is going to be home to many vibrant people, creating their dream ventures and building life changing ideas. Super exciting and very tempting to want to start NOW, then again, everything created has a perfect time. The time, is decided by thought and manifested INDEED!

Growing is a gift you give yourself and Growth is the OUTCOME of this giving!: Deepanjali

Growth and Growing are two different aspects, Growth is visible the OUTCOME. Growing is about creating yourself in the image and likeness of the OUTCOME. May sound simple, yet, it is a most oft missed opportunity. #WordVibration is another very important factor, the tone in which something is thought or said, becomes the FOUNDATION on which an outcome is built.

In the process of Growing You are called to the SELF and the more you meet the self, you create the self, needed to make your venture or idea a market ready concept. What we are going to be to doing, is creating entrepreneurs of individuals, by first associating their mindset with Growing, themselves in Gratitude, before they sow their “entrepreneur” seeds where the growth will be their company.

Some tips that will help you when you’re setting up office:

• Keep it simple: when you think office, know that this is a space where you’re going to be spending quality time, in THOUGHT WORD and DEED, it has to feel good!
• ASK FOR HELP! You may think you can do it on your own. Remember, you have limitations and you need to focus on HOW of things happening, there will always be brilliant help, if you dare to ask. Sometimes, the deal is waiting for you to accept.
• Buying furniture, keep it minimal, an office is like a home, too much and it looks crowded, too less and you feel poor! Make it a workable space.
• Wifi is a first, it is convenient. However, if you’re calling AIRTEL, like I did. You ought to know that the sales team is brilliant, make it all sound so easy and they are extremely FAST at the beginning, their idea is to make the sale and start your trip. The key is in the know, that the salesman, will disappear once the sale is complete. What you’ll be left dealing with is a bunch of “pass on the buck” lot that can make it very very trying to get anything done! Professionalism lasts only till the verification call, after that, well, you’ll have to find your way!
• Keep the pantry area, sacred, make it up if you have to, but remember, that this is a place where you don’t want your team to be spending all their time, you need it to be, yet, it should simply be a functional space which does not interfere or get too attractive. Ha ha ha ha, I loved the pantry in most of the offices I’ve ever worked in, the coffee machines, the food, well, if you’re me, this is an area you sure must have, yet, keep it minimal.
• Your own working space, I speak, for the entrepreneur, should be isolated a place where you are free to put on your THOUGHTS and make Strategies of them, this is sacred space, make it for yourself and fill it with love and empowering objects of sight. One Table and Chair a few shelves and a vision!

Just a few thoughts to get you started! Now am off to a day of settling in the LOOK of the office, taken 20 days so far and still much to be done!

Entrepreneur Diaries: Unlearning to Learn

When the journey of entrepreneurship begins, the most dangerous partner to your vision, is your CHECKLIST! It’s an extra-marital affair, a short term fix. So, be cautioned, you will be attracted to it, tempted by it and yes, you may need it sometime but, you must always be more aware that you don’t get #spotfixed and cheat on your vision.

Now, on the face of it, if you DON’T HAVE A PLAN, you don’t really know where you are headed, atleast, that is what we’ve always been taught or rather, every boss expects a plan, she needs to know what you’re going to do. Plans, Goals, Checklists are the perfect trap to keep you needing proof of growth. Well, even when you meet clients, they want to see HISTORY of HOW before they even consider that you may have potential. So, every new entrepreneur, me included 3 years back, struggled to create a checklist of Must Have and Goals, clearly defining the future of the business.

These plans, checklists bait become the basis on which you view your dream. More often than NOT, this invites you to SOURCE FUNDS and the moment your IDEA depends on funds, your IDEA becomes A FUND-RAISER a short term fix, in the LONG TERM, the idea becomes the “FUNDS” it has, all else, including you, are compromised to follow the BOTTOM LINE!

Lesson One to UNLEARN : “No one invests in an idea, they invest in the revenue the idea generates”: Deepanjali Rao #fact

Lesson Two to LEARN: “Stay Dedicated.Enthusiastic.Empowered.Positive about an idea and the path will find you”: Deepanjali Rao #truth

Your idea isn’t important and will never be important and significant unless it clearly shows HOW THE MONEY WILL ARRIVE and WHERE THE MONEY WILL BE SPENT and WHO WILL SHARE THE PROFITS. The first question most people ask is “how are you going to make money?”, so, you have a great idea, then idea can’t serve you dinner, get realistic, you need to sustain yourself”. The word sustain, can be a pretty powerful word that makes you change more than just your mind. People will tell you that if you don’t have a FINANCIAL BACK UP, don’t even venture into adventure of running something of your own, the world is UNKIND to those who don’t transact in cash! Then again, unless you unlearn this #fact you will live a SHORT TERM, REVENUE TERM!

What you need to learn, is that the idea give to you. Has you as the protagonist and will grow in tandem with your KNOW about it. Every idea has the potential to grow into a grand business proposition, yet, the most important part of the idea is YOU, the seed of the idea. Remember, you are the seed, the idea came from you! YOU and every thought, word and person that comes to YOU will be the most important ingredient to your AD-VENTURE of creating with your VISION! You will always be the FACE, THE VOICE and the VISIBILITY of your idea. Those, that will help GROW, will find you and you will find them. YOU have to trust yourself with the OUTCOME! It is NOT about the money or the matrix, you are the matrix through which all that you’ll ever need to BEGIN and GROW!

I am not saying, it won’t be a lot of fun if other people were to INVEST and make it CASH RICH to GROW INSTANTLY! Then again, there’ll be a time, LIKE NOW, when ORGANIC is sought after! There will come a time, or really has come a time, when IDEA & CONTENT, is getting recognised and life is getting re-organised. So, start slow, start seeding, yet, remember, creation is instant, creating requires YOU!

The MOST IMPORTANT EVER… delete the “REGULAR" and IMPROVISE! You’ll be surprised with the outcome. Checklists of Research, follow a beaten path, too many have left their “footprints", the edge you have is to BEGIN ANEW and the BIG INNINGS begins with YOU!

Entrepreneur Diaries: VISION is your Perfect Mate ;)

Today’s a light in thought day!

I just realised I had a brand new answer to the “why is someone like you still single?”

Smart Mind says: “Oh just tell them that you’re married to your Vision and that you now have two children, Intertainment & Foundation. That your Vision supports you and your children are still too young for you to have an Extra Marital Affair!

 

The one major lesson you learn as an entrepreneur, especially in the first TRIMESTER ( the first 3 years are the most volatile years) is that the more you become the brand, the brand grows through you and with you. It is a transformational experience both in the way you perceive and how you perceive life in general and work in particular.

A wonderful metaphor for raising your thought to HOW AN ENTRERENEUR should THINK, is to METAPHORICALLY transform your VISION into a LIFE PARTNER, someone you LIVE with 24/7 and may not always agree with or have great success with, yet, appreciate and learn from and learn to live with, over a period of time.

That one moment, when an VISION becomes central to you and you can’t do without it or get cold feet when you need to take action… well that is the moment you make the ultimate commitment, you either MARRY the VISION or ditch it. Divorces in real life, now seem like a sign, that there is a larger community of us who are “relationship claustrophobic” something I realised about myself late last year, and decided to REMEDY with intent in 2013. Fascinated, I am at HOW, one decision to CLEAR the block, has really filtered in many areas of my life. IF ALL OF LIFE IS CO-INSPIRED AND DESTINED, we are called to perspective changes in ALL AREAS OF OUR LIVES.

The Vision creates new relationships, you network, you share, you begin a life together. There is usually not a thought, word or deed, that doesn’t have a connect with your vision. CAUTION: This is the time, when people think you’ve lost your marbles or sold them to the “kabadiwala”, they snigger, they will tell you that you’re dreaming, the world is not a safe place to dream, they want to know how you are really securing yourself financially the most famous question “what is your revenue model”. Everyone, knows your vision, ONLY and ONLY by words, they haven’t met or seen it YET! There are always more reasons to ditch a VISION if you don’t feel like it will give you RESULTS/OUTCOMES/REVENUE and above all, SECURITY! When all of the deterrents haven’t made you change your mind, you are finally and truly committed… and you begin to CREATE with your VISION and that is when the real TRYST with destiny begins! The longer the courtship with vision, the more settled the emotions are… you’ve hated, dated, had your tantrums, been jealous, felt insecure and then comes the BIG MOMENT… Then comes the thrill, you speak, you romance, you make love to the vision, till you begin to feel and know the vision, like it was another person… and ideas are born!

This is the beginning of PARENTHOOD: Vision + You = Ideas

Ideas are like pregnancies, it takes 40 weeks of gestation, then again, there are premature ideas, miscarriages, abortions, surrogacies, 8 month scares and hormonal changes, mood swings, bloating, swollen feet… oh well, this is starting to read like a pregnancy manual! Then again, the truth is, you go through phenomenal changes, when an idea is set to become an identity, in entrepreneurial terms… well, team, revenue, funds, marketing, sales, social media, pr, advertising, engagement, planning and saving up and scrounging! Every tiny detail is felt both emotionally and physically. The fun part is all the ADVICE simply walks in and tears your PLANNING apart, more than enjoying the process, you get bogged down by “CAUTION ALERTS”, so you keep trying to figure out WHAT CAN GO WRONG and WHAT YOU NEED TO DO “IF” it does! You always know, that if the baby is healthy and handsome/pretty, the whole lot of people will love adore and want to adopt it. YOU also figure out, that if anything does go wrong, well, you’ll be the centre of a “pity parade”. It is this moment that you CHOOSE to focus on all the things YOU need to be so that when the IDEA matures and grows into an IDENTITY, the IDENTITY is strong enough to HOLD ITSELF and make you a proud parent.

I must also add here, that as an ENTREPRENEUR in the making, this is the most CRUCIAL PERIOD, everyone expects you to DELIVER and yet, no one can actually experience, what you’re feeling or how you’re dealing with the journey. Everyone, will walk in and congratulate you… they’ll ask questions, expect answers, tell you what you’re doing wrong. Everyone also feels free to recommend doctors and therapies and food and reading material and classes and loads of other “must do”, this is the most stress inducing time for an idea. You tend to get irritable and impatient and the only support you will ever really need though, is in the relationship with your VISION. The ONE most important relationship that gets SEALED is really the relationship with your VISION. When the time comes closer, your vision is the first co-owner, co-creator and co-energy. Your VISION needs you more now, since, the idea, is part of the both of you!

40 weeks is what it takes… and in these 40 weeks, you grow with your idea and feel the idea and breathe the idea and learn to GO WITH THE FLOW of the moment. Whether MALE or FEMALE, these 40 weeks are a given, if you have to GROW your RELATIONSHIP into a LIFE EVENT… a CHILD and GRADUATE from IDEA to REALITY or COUPLE to FAMILY or INDIVIDUALS to PARENTS. This is the time really when you grow from and INTERN to an ENTREPRENUR, a husband to a Daddy or from a wife to a Mother.

Most times, we get so bogged down by the MUST DO’s that we often don’t take time to enjoy the journey! When I look back at the last 3 years of being a parent METAPHORICALLY I am filled with a certain sense of divine intervention of the key “things that happened along the way”

• I courted the VISION of “I wasn’t created to do small things” since I was 17
• Been through many relationships really… from Wizcraft, to Executive Access, to Radio City, to Showtime, a flirtation with Freelancing, and got back to Showtime, then Times of India 360 degrees before I got a surprise promotion to Mumbai with Radio Mirchi! Every relationship taught me to love what I did and learn about what I wanted. The vision wasn’t LOUD, it was just there, lurking, waiting for me to choose to COMMIT. The kind of partner that loves you enough to let you know they will always be around till you CHOOSE them above all else!
• In 2009, I started feeling like I was missing something vital in all my communication I was alone, working everyday towards someone else’s vision. I quit worrying about the future and married my VISION. To take this big step I quit life like I knew it. My VISION promised me everything I ever wanted… a family, friends, feelings and a future. The PROPSAL was simple “hi I am DeePositive, will you MARRY ME!” I said “YES” and the life changes began!
• In Jan 2010: 27th Jan 2010, I quit my relationship with “radio mirchi” and committed to the DeePositive Vision. 27th was the day I returned to Delhi with the DeePositive Vision, in November the same year, our first idea was born, Intertainment! Strangely it took 40 weeks for me to finally Announce the Birth of DeePositive Intertainment on the 15th of November 2010. ( will need another post to tell you about all that happened ; ) ) The thoughts fears, the stress, distress, changes, advice and shattered state of being. The day Intertainment was registered, was when I formally became a Mother for the first time… glad I has my little sister… Prema Evelyn to HELP me consolidate my RELATIONSHIP with VISION and our IDEA into a reality! That was the day I graduated into what I know now as the term ENTREPRENEUR! The first three months of Intertainment were filled with Congratulatory moments of pure joy… by the time Intertainment was 5 months old, my baby had created a ripple… prodigy for a new born… international clients, international events and well a whole lot of national clients and glory. Intertainment walked strong! The experience so wonderful that VISION decided it was time for the NEXT leap in creating and we decided to have a second one, soon, so that the elder one, doesn’t get all lonely, also, before we completely indulged in stressing one IDEA into being all WE knew we were meant to be! It is a “parent patent” to stress themselves planning the child’s future from the very onset, we however, wanted to parent in a very different style, we knew, we needed more ideas to divert our attention from stressing Intertainment to be our only purpose. And that is when WE took the decision to create another idea, with a more global intent and we chose to create of GRATITUDE, the force that brought us together.
• Feb 2011, an idea called “Santa workshop” became our second idea that needed to breathe and Gratitude became our intent for the growth of this idea. This time around, courtesy Intertainment and our experiences, it was a more confident and knowing journey of 40 weeks and we knew, that Santa Workshop would only be the beginning, This second idea, we were co-inspiring and co-creating was meant to be more global, universal, more potent, reach more people, change lives, change perspective and create experiences. The 40 weeks that followed our decision, well, we nurtured ourselves, spent quality experiences trying what it would feel like, to expand Gratitude into an identity and how these experiences will change the world as we knew it. Our world and the world we lived in, how both would overflow with Gratitude and create again, from Gratitude itself.
• 16th November of 2011, DeePositive Foundation was born, proud parents with a wonderful team of God Parents Ashok Singh and Prema Evelyn D’Cruz, our first dedication to Gratitude, “Santa workshop” which we dedicated to Gratitude on the 18th of November and a brand new vision of Gratitude was born, today 18 months later, Santa Workshop is a an overflowing gift of gratitude to us and to those who connect with it. Foundation has created powerful experiences and continues to create through us. Now 18months old and yet, has grown to be known by its own name. Created ripples with Santa Workshop, G.I.V.E, GOLD, L.I.V.E and now with the Intern to Entrepreneur Programme, Foundation has become an identity with its own VISION… and the courtship with Gratitude has become the NEW US!
• DeePositive Vision is Gratitude and a brand new journey has begun, I graduated from an Entrepreneur to a Visionary, just watching my Foundation chart its own path and live out another vision.

oh… this post has filled me with awe… the metaphor… so perfect… As I looked back at how far we’ve reached, Dedicated Enthusiastic Empowered and Positive vision has been a perfect SOULMATE, a LIFE PARTNER without compare! And silly me, I was getting all worked up about being 36 and single! A perspective like this can TRANSFORM into a PERFECT FAIRYTALE, a happy ever after! *sigh*

Entrepreneur Diaries: When an Idea sinks in an entrepreneur is born!

The key to beginning is to really start. Every start begins with a THOUGHT, develops into an IDEA and then the more the idea sinks in, the idea becomes and identity. The process, isn’t like a 9 month pregnancy, where the basics are certain. Every identity is unique and matches the frequency of the originator of the idea. Much like a parent child relationship really… and it’s only the beginning METAPHORICALLY!

Today we begin accepting applications for the Intern to Entrepreneur Programme and to be honest, I have a flurry of emotions that I am going through, hormonal changes… ha ha ha… the role I am now taking on is “Vision” Centric and is embedded in the outcome of watching the seeds (interns) grow into trees (entrepreneurs)… feel like a gardener right now… amazed at the preparation that life has given me, to take to FARMING entrepreneurs! Maybe, just maybe, the point of thought or inspiration, none other than “Farmville” which I played till I began working on brand DeePositive!

The intent is pure and in an environment, where “SCAMS” are aplenty, I wonder if people truly have the mindspace to trust their instincts or follow our history to know we deliver blinders with Gratitude. It is now, a public affair, that will take this programme to its outcome. As the SOURCE of the idea, well, I feel like, it is NOW a matter of CHOICE! People will CHOOSE to either BELIEVE this to be true or to DUMP the idea saying “too good to be true”

Yet, my intent is pure, to CREATE a brand new BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM… a word I learnt while talking to students from different colleges, understanding that their fear to begin, began with the powerful “business criteria” made famous by word of textbooks! Yet, most entrepreneurs of repute will tell you, they followed and instinct and the instincts led them to their dreams becoming realities. They will all also have a story about how they almost gave up till they were so committed to an idea, that they learnt the art of following the INNER LEAD. They met with REJECTION too…. just that the rejection wasn’t as powerful as their instinct… they ALLOWED the PRESENT to BE and focused on the future, taking ONE LEAP at a time… even if it meant, WAITING for the RIGHT TIME, instinctively to STEP AHEAD!

I personally believe, that there is a plethora of people, waiting for the RIGHT moment to TAKE A LEAP, what they aren’t sometimes able to comprehend, is that the leap is in “PERSPECTIVE” and “VISION” not “CIRCUMSTANCES” alone. Then again, who really cares about what I have to say… this is another project that will speak for itself, it is now the people’s verdict.

This is how I also felt when I began “santa workshop” in 2011! History repeating itself with a BENCHMARK set so high, that I wonder if I’ll be able to SCALE IT UP again! What is thrilling though, is opening up a PORTAL of OPPORTUNITY to initiate a TINY CHANGE RIPPLE.

Another new day, being an entrepreneur is a blessing… dotted with experiences and grown with victories so tiny, that it is easy to miss out on them. I guess, I am going to have to watch my weight … and wait to LEAP with Victory… have taken the first step… a LEAP of GRATITUDE… now is when Gratitude will show me the way to the ENTREPRENEURS and THE ENTRERENEURS the way to DeePositive.

and yes, may I add, that setting up an office is a THRILL in pieces!

Another successful day begins at the office…

Entrepreneur Diaries: The Big Inning does have KINKS!

Just watching the carpenters work, is a thrilling feeling, I know that something is happening. This is the beginning of a brand new phase. A little nervous how things are going to turn out and yet I know that there is a divine rhythm in the way things are happening.

When I began my journey to where I am now… 3 years ago, I had no idea, how things were going to shape up. I just knew that there was something I had to do… something, I didn’t know much about and yet, most positively, the only thing I was sure of is the “have to take the risk” part of it! I wasn’t sure of what life would be like without the risk… today… 3 years later… I am so glad I began.

I look back… and the only thing I would’ve done differently, well, I may have started the “Entrepreneur Diaries” as a series earlier! However, I have always believed in Divine Timing of almost everything in my life… so maybe, right now as I begin a brand new entrepreneurial adventure, the time is right again to write again. So, as a gift to all entrepreneurs, I am going to write this column as regularly as possible, maybe, “the thing” I’ll do, just before I leave the office.

Just using the word “office” is a thrilling feeling… every entrepreneur BEGINS with an OFFICE…I have taken 3 years, by choice, to take an “office leap in faith”. I always have felt, that an office is a sacred place where you invest ENERGIES for GROWTH, yet, to this day, I didn’t feel the need to have one. Most of an entrepreneur’s work is really “communicating” and to do that… well, the INTERNET and TELEPHONE SERVICES was all that I have needed so far! Yet, now, with the Intern to Entrepreneur Programme, it is a given, that I need to create a space for GROWTH WITH OTHERS and FOR THE OTHERS that will now be a part of GROWING GRATITUDE really.

It is a given, that in the journey, there will be kinks, an entrepreneur is called to ADJUST the kinks to DESIGN the journey! Most times, this is what we refer to as our “struggle” period and this is the time, when you are more aware of “things that aren’t HAPPENING” for you. This is the phase when FINANCES are your KINK! The kind of KINK, you imagined, you’d sail through, when you began.

Then again, if the VISION is ENHANCED, the KINK is but a STEPPING STONE and I’ve just stepped over a STONE and taken a leap!