In the face of challenges, comes this author’s musings about how to make life better
Vineetha Athrey
She has no qualms calling herself Sexy, Successful and Spiritual. That’s also the name of her book. Author Vineetha Athrey is gung-ho about reaching out to the world. She believes that rules are meant to be broken. She gave wings to her dreams after giving up on her software requirements as an engineer, to the daily thrills and challenges of being an author, speaker and entrepreneur. The young author who is launching her book next week speaks about the importance of change.
She refers to her moniker, agent of change, and feels that she aims to bring value to other lives and businesses by giving perspectives, framework and tools with game-changing ideas.
“As an only child I was close to my mother and when I lost her due to cancer, I was haunted by this question —when you know that all this is going to end some day, how do you still stay fired up to go out and do the best and stay creatively charged?”
“I read the entire gamut of conventional self-help and motivation literature and nothing worked beyond three days. When everything failed, I looked at the question of creativity, imagination and high-performance through the lens of brain science, the psychology of motivation, and I combined elements from all of these areas to design a unique model,” states the passionate, driven and rebellious girl.
We quiz her on how she decided to write a book and she says, “I was doing well at work and TCS wanted to send me on an assignment to Arizona. But I decided to follow my passion. I quit a lucrative career and started working for a national television channel. I almost got killed tracking the illegal mining scam in Karnataka! While attending a spiritual retreat hosted by The Dalai Lama, I met a French Tibetan Buddhist nun. I returned home really moved. I knew I had a deeper calling and I had to share my model with the world and empower many others to break free of the blinkers, so I quit my job and took to becoming an author and a professional speaker.”
As a speaker, Vineetha talks about a variety of topics which need a lot of research and development of unique perspectives. She’s excited about her plans to do astral travel. “My days are filled with reading, interacting with people and expanding my knowledge-base. I’m also a culture-traveller and tend to focus on the simple elements of daily life in every new place that I go to - food, local culture, language and street shopping. I love beaches! The majesty and the intensity of the sea inspire great ideas and long conversations which I enjoy.
Travelling and reading are the best ways to expand your horizons and see things from a fresh perspective. My book is about how you can stay in the zone of inspiration, high-performance and creativity all the time, without letting the little inconsequential details of life drag you down. I call it staying ‘In The Zone, All The Time.’ Sexy Successful Spiritual is an anti-thesis to everything that has been bandied about under conventional self-help and plain vanilla motivation. You got to keep going after what you really believe in, even if you don’t have a single person on your side,” she says.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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