Welcome to Episode #68 of SEASON 7 of 'Sharing Life Lessons'.  A podcast that brings you stories from around the world to have fun with and to learn from because stories inspire, stories teach, and stories heal!!  We are one spirit; one soul and together we are creating a library of stories and life lessons.

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The target audience for this episode is EVERYONE; especially parents for a crucial parenting tip

Our guest for today is Vineet Saraiwala. Vineet is visually impaired. He is the founder at Atypical Advantage, which is planet’s first talent platform to hire talent, find jobs, buy product & art made by persons with disabilities. He has transformed how people with disabilities shop across India through pioneering concepts like 'sabke liye' which is blend of assistive services & accessible spaces & quiet hour which is a sensory friendly experience for individuals with Autism. He has pursued his post-graduation from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) & strongly believes that generation of compassion is the only way to make the world a better place.

Website: www.atypicaladvantage.in

Key Takeaways:

1. Acceptance is key – accept yourself for who you are- accept both the good aspects of you and your imperfections. More importantly, society should not be able to define perfection for an individual. If we all understand this individually and since we ourselves collectively make up society then if each of us stops exposing our definition of perfection on others or be concerned about other people’s definition of it… then right there we will together bring this wave of change that is so needed in society. Acceptance is particularly important when what we have is not in our control just like Vineet’s condition was not in his control.

2. Gratitude. We tend to focus on the few things we don’t have but we don’t focus on the many things that we have. The beauty of this lesson is that it is coming from someone with no vision, which we all know is no small thing. So really for all of us who have the gift of vision, could we use Vineet as a role model and immediately start focusing on the multitude of things we have? Starting with our breath?

3. For ourselves: let’s not go through life comparing ourselves with others – it will only lead us to despair and wanting more and getting stuck in the never ending chase.  For parents: Vineet’s message to us is crucial – don’t compare our children to other children – it is because we are doing it, they will continue to do it all their lives only because it is what we have taught them. Help them get out of this cycle of compare and despair. Let them be their own individual self and as Vineet said ‘Everyone is always good at something’.

I will bring you the next episode of Sharing Life Lessons next Wednesday. Until then, 'Be happy, be safe and be well'.

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