Mounica Veggalam
@mounica_v8
Life and leadership coach. Deeply curious about causing self-transformation for joyful accomplishment.
Mounica Veggalam
mounicaveggalam.substack.com
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
Making sense of experience seems to be one of the
fundamental drives in human nature. This need for meaning is irrepressible and ongoing. Its ranges from the earliest beginnings of rudimentary distinctions that the baby starts to make even in utero up to the most elaborate explanations of why my spiritual path and my guru is superior to other ways... See more
Our role as coaches is to help our clients create B-prime—something that is better than they could imagine for themselves when they began to work with us.
Robert Ellis • Coaching From Essence: Create a Thriving Practice Doing Powerful Work With Clients You Love
Resistance, according to Schelling, is not a separate force, but comes fom the flow itself, and enables the unfolding of what in it is always potentially there; it precipitates the collapsing of its own potential into the actual. He is very clear that this resistance is part of the very same creative force that the resistance is there to resist. Th... See more
The process of cultivating taste is a lot like the writing and editing process. Here’s George Saunders on the revision process. “The way I revise is: I read my own text and imagine a little meter in my head, with “P” on one side (“Positive”) and “N” on the other (“Negative”)... This involves making thousands of what I’ve come to think of as “micro-
The point is to try and step outside of your existing framework for thinking about how you approach (some set of) things, and to perceive how your past experience and existing worldview influences your expectations of how things will go, and how those expectations would then influence the outcome. It can be helpful to do thought experiments where y
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This is describing about the tendency to get trapped in the HOW based on the past. Focus on the next thing determining your current way of being, creates more of the future you want to see. Deliberately stepping out of the local optima you’ve created can result in desired outcomes as a side effect. For me, if I want to coach more awakened tech CEOs I have to assume abundance and that I already can talk to them.
In life design we know that there are countless possibilities but aren’t stymied by that fact. We revel in exploring a few possibilities, then taking action by starting with a choice. Only by taking action can we build our way forward.
Bill Burnett • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
The Taste Discount
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Marriage between two institutional partners
In contrast to the prior alliance, the partners might be expected to share a common meaning for the marriage. Each partner's personal psychological autonomy and distinctness is con-firmed, supported, celebrated; and at the same time each party protects the other against the overrunning of these boundaries.
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