Is the stock market going to crash? Is a meteor going to strike the earth? Would Global Warming End Our world? These and many more are uncertainties for which no one has an answer. Time and tide wait for no man – so what will happen, will happen regardless of your view about it.
It is a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world that we live in and still try to cling on to certainty in this uncertain world, that is what creates stress in the first place. We want to be certain of everything around us starting with our families, friends, possessions, etc – we create a comfort zone out of these dependencies and we want them to continue forever and if any event changes it, we are “depressed”. People are going to move on in relationships either by choice, circumstance or death, possessions will be lost/changed/destroyed, this is the nature of things. What is wrong is we willingly ignoring this fact. We ” BELIEVE” that we would be able to carve our permanency, certainty in an uncertain world and cling on to such dependencies as a “comfort zone” and then try to search where we have lost our peace…
The best comfort zone is an attitude of “Come what may, I will be joyful and my actions will be loving”. This comfort zone is possible to develop since it starts with a daily decision to be this way and practicing it over many days would make it your nature eventually. Such an amazing power is within all of us but instead we are chasing people, money, possessions to bring us our peace – aren’t we like the proverbial musk deer
Explorer, Philanthropist, Mentor:
Exploring and researching on practices of Self Realisation
Philanthropist: engaged in projects with social and environmental impact
Mentor: guiding people crystallise and achieve their material and spiritual goals
Background:
Former CEO of Mahindra Integrated Business Solutions- an Advisory and Business Process Management Arm of the Diversified US$ 17 Billion Mahindra Group. Ajit was responsible for transforming a Shared Services Centre of the Mahindra Group into a full-fledged Advisory and Business Process Management Company with products/services spanning Strategy & Enterprise Risk Management Advisory to Digitization and Transactional Outsourcing.
He has over 23 years of experience in the industry as an Entrepreneur. He has built businesses in Music Publishing, Media (Compact Discs/DVD’s) Manufacturing, Logistics and Financial Services and is currently nurturing his own initiative called FREE (Forests, Renewable Energy and Environment) & associated with NPO Trusts/ Organizations and mentoring select people and a few start-ups in his personal capacity.
A Chartered Accountant by Qualification with extensive continuing education in Executive Management Programs @ Harvard Business School, Michigan- Ross Business School, IIM-A
He has pursued spiritual interests since an early age exploring inner facets of self through Vipassana, Isha Yoga, Kriya Yoga, other yogic approaches / meditation techniques An Avid Marathoner, trekker/mountaineer, scuba diver, writer and motorbike traveller, is passionate about exploring the outer world as much as the inner.
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