S4 | E2: How Do You Persevere? +Kavita Narayan

When you get rejected from medical school, meditate in silence for 10 days straight, AND have a near-death experience from a run-in with TERRORISTS, you have some pretty good insight into how to persevere. In this episode, we sit down with Rajiv’s cousin, Kavita Narayan, Director of the National Initiative for Allied Health Sciences in India.

In plain English, she directs healthcare policy reform for the country of India.

We explore:

+How rejection from medical school pushed Kavita into healthcare policy

+Destiny happens on the margins

+Overcoming Commitment Phobia

+Incorporating multiple passions into your life

+The importance of having a mentor

+Treating people you don’t know as friends instead of strangers

+Being your authentic self in everything you do

+Being okay making mistakes

+“A leader means you take responsibility”

+Making a choice to either sit on the sidelines and observe your life, or be on the field playing

+How going into a situation blind can work to your advantage

+Using spirituality to help you on your journey

+Detaching from outcomes

+“We can do nothing more for ourselves than investing in our personal learning and personal development”

+Focusing on human connection

+How to properly set goals that are in line with YOU

+Understanding the WHY behind what you want

+Our failures are what shape us

+Taking an Abundance mindset, over a Scarcity mindset

+Kavita’s personal awakening from a 10-day silent meditation retreat

+Our tendency to subconsciously create chaos so we can make ourselves the hero

+Kavita’s near-death experience of landing in the backseat of a car where the drivers were terrorists

+Understanding the perspective of others before making judgments

+Starting from a place of trust in others, instead of distrust

+The impact of just saying “hi” to a stranger

+Consciousness is the next frontier

References:

Conversations With God - Neil Donald Walsh - http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Conversations-Neale-Donald-Walsch/dp/0399153292/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1460321986&sr=8-2&keywords=conversations+with+god

Find Kavita at:

niahs.org

ahpsforindia@gmail.com

Season 4 Show Theme:

Tia Einarsen - My Bones --https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/overhear-ep/id1078388013

S3 | E7: How Do You Set Goals? +John Schnettgoecke

Arguably one of the most terrifying and exciting words in the English language, it's time we talk about Goals. How do you set goals, and how do you move closer to them?

In this episode, we talk with author John Schnettgoecke about what goes into the goal-setting process, and how we can improve our chances of hitting our goals.

We explore:

+Navigating a quarter-life crisis
+John’s motorcycle accident story that led to him writing his book
+Journaling and documenting your thoughts
+The need for hitting low points in order to force change
+Breaking the addiction to your calendar
+The Motivation Curve
+Stepping away from your routine to see the bigger picture
+John’s Umbrella Goal Strategy
+Treating your goals and aspirations as a practice, not a single event
+Writing the stupid out of your head
+Knowing the difference between your own goals, and someone else’s goals for you
+Being at a mental equilibrium in order to set the right goals
+Creating or joining environments that enable your goals
+Building a Knowledge Squad to feed your goals
+Holding yourself accountable by telling people what you’re doing, before you even start
+Asking for help
+Not everything has to be a DYI

Find John and his work at:

John’s book—Pura Vida, A Thinker’s Guide to Living: www.amazon.com/Pura-Vida-Thinker…ook/dp/B016GYR7F4

Twitter @Schnetthappens
john@epictravelstories.com

References:

Martin and Rajiv as guests on Jason Bay’s GenY Success Show discussing quitting— genysuccess.libsyn.com/rssfeed

Show Credits:

Show theme from Sidewalk Chalk: Lyrically Free -itunes.apple.com/us/album/lyrical…5011?i=508155577