The Spinning Top - Artist and Writer Shafali Anand's Thoughts on Creativity, Art, and Life.

Episode 9 :: Do you want to wake up early?

Do you want to savor those peaceful and serene moments of the morning, when night embraces the day?

And for achieving this...are you ready to sacrifice the most beautiful part of your sleep?

And if you are…there must be a reason – a good enough reason, that will keep you from falling back into your old late rising habit.

I rise early - and these days, I am up really early - at  3 AM...and I know that it isn't easy - and there are days when I'd rather not leave the comfort o my bed - but on most days, I'm at my desk by 3:30 AM.

In this episode, I share my three-pronged strategy to not just wake up early, but to do it on a sustained basis.

If you’ve been struggling to get the waking-up-early-bit right – then let Shafali talk you into it.

And yes, keep a piece of paper and a pen handy. You’d like to note down the three important steps.

You are, of course, welcome to write to me about your personal successes and failures with waking up early. I’d love to share your thoughts in my future podcasts. Please find me at http://shafalianand.com

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:Episode 8:: Previously, in Episode 2 – The Boss-Monster Part-1, we talked about taming the Boss-Monster by figuring out the skills that you have or haven’t in common with your boss.

In this Episode, we once again return to meet the Boss-Monster and talk about the boss’s behavioral traits. We discuss the two top traits and how we can maintain our sanity while working with bosses who love to take credit for the work we do – or who are nasty and abusive and make our existence at work a misery.

But I leave the micro-managing boss for another episode – because I feel that among all kinds of bosses that God has placed in our path, the one who tests our patience to hell and back, is the micro-manager.

So if you have a monster of a boss – this episode is for you.

You can listen to The Boss-Monster Part-1 at: https://anchor.fm/shafali-anand/episodes/The-Boss-Monster---Part-1-elurfi

Or just scroll back to Episode 1 of The Spinning Top in your current podcasting app.

This podcast by Shafali Anand is her teatime conversation with an imaginary you, in which she talks about her own experiences with life and talks about falling down and then getting up to get going.

In the times of the pandemic, work-from-home causes a bit of tension and stress, but provides a safety net too. As our normal lives stay halted and we remain in animated suspension – it’s important to talk – to inspire and motivate ourselves and others, to handle conflict that we didn’t know existed, experience failures and successes of a different sort – and try to fill our own lives and lives of our loved ones, with positivity, confidence, self-respect, and happiness.

Have fun with it and I’d love to hear from you on boss-monsters.

As I said before – even anonymous venting helps.

Find me at http://shafalianand.com

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I hope you enjoy this podcast and find it helpful, and yes, be a gem and share with your other boss-trodden friends.

Reach me at http://shafalianand.com

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Are you intelligent?

Then you aren’t as happy as you could be if only you were a fool.

I’ve heard that happiness loves the company of fools – and there’s a reason behind it. A fool doesn’t have the cranial machinery to analyze or overanalyze, and over analysis is a monster that feasts on our happiness!

While our wellwishers often speak to us about Analysis Paralysis and tell us not to over-analyze…we seldom talk about why over analysis happens and how we can stop ourselves from overanalyzing.

In this podcast, I talk about how we can be intelligent yet be happy. First, we’ll talk about why we over-analyze, then we take four sample situations in which we over-analyze, and finally we look at a three-step method to stop ourselves from getting onboard the over-analysis train that goes to infinity.

A little about the Spinning Top podcast…

This podcast isn’t a quick pill that promises to take you our of your personal little hell – instead, it’s a 8-10 minute reflection on why we feel and think and behave the way we do. It’s a heart-to-heart conversation with Shafali Anand, who tries to reach beyond the time-window of the podcast and help you pin down your life issues, understand them, figure out why they exist, and leave you with methods that work.

This podcast is about holding yourself up and staying safe as you maneuver through success and failure, through boredom, internal- and external conflict, negativity and negative people, to achieve happiness and contentment – so that you feel better and sleep better.

This podcast is for the intelligent, deep thinking, reflective you – you who want to spin happy and be free of stress and anxiety.

The Spinning Top is available on:

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::Episode 6:: Recently, Mr. Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix said, “Don’t tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to team work is too high.”

Sometimes you come across words that make you do a double take…and when the person who uttered those words is the famous Mr. Hastings, those words come alive and grow wings…and then you see them everything.

In this episode I talk about the brilliant jerks and the faux brilliant jerks who are actually plain jerks, and why it’s a good idea to not sand the jaggy-edges of the brilliant jerks.

The Spinning Top podcast talks about inspirational and not so inspirational topics such as inner conflict management, organizational behavior, emotional intelligence etc. It’s not about inspirational speeches and step-by-step how-to-dos but about building self-confidence, self-respect, and managing, even eliminating issues such as anxiety, sleeplessness, depression and so on.

This episode “Brilliant Jerks” focuses on organizational behavior, creativity and brilliance, teamwork, team-motivation, and how to manage creative minds and addresses the dangers of the not tolerating and getting rid of Brilliant Jerks.

Please follow and like, and don’t forget to click the bell icon for notifications…and do visit http://shafalianand.com

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::Episode 5:: Are you getting into a rut?

If you got up in the morning without a desire to rush into the arms of your day and explore its mysteries, you are getting into a rut.

The rut is unchanging and results in boredom. It is a killer of creativity, inspiration, and happiness – and yet, the rut is necessary too. It’s made of things that you need to do – that you must do, but does it have to be devoid of passion, energy, and optimism?

In this episode, I speak about the rut and how without our consent, the rut cannot overpower us. I also share how we can beat the rut and its evil designs, and spin with happiness and energy.

Tomorrow is Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, and there cannot be a better time to cut the rut and find something that you want to do – something that will help you break the debilitating spell of the rut.

My dear listener, I wish you a beautiful and safe Diwali. May the year bring your happiness and prosperity!

If you’d like to connect with me, find me at http://shafalianand.com or follow me on Instagram at: http://instagram.com/shafalianand/

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::Episode 4:: A smile beats words in its ability to communicate, lift moods, form bonds, establish and repair relationships…and yet most of us never use it the way we should – to make lives better and brighter, to keep and mend relationships, to feel better and make people around us feel better.

Join me in this fun episode as I recount my experience with a smile, and talk about how and why a smile changes things.

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PS: I also talk about Emotional Intelligence, Organization Behavior, and other things…and the next episode is going to be about something that’s been making some brilliant but jerky waves in the corporate world.

The Spinning Top episodes are published every Tuesday and Friday.

Stay tuned, my friend.

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::Episode 3:: Do you cringe when you see lazy, dissolute, and dishonest creeps succeed and get ahead in life?

Do you wonder sometimes whether the only way to get ahead is by killing your conscience?

Have you ever tried to do things that you didn’t want to…and since then, lost your sleep and peace?

Do you want to sleep better, once again?

In this episode, we will talk about the war within. This war is made of battles small and big – battles that we must fight with our value-system. Some of these battles are won, some are lost – but the question that we must ask ourselves is whether the price that we pay for these battles is too high.

It's called by many different names - morality, spirituality, psychology, self-improvement, emotional intelligence - I just think that it's knowing your own self and learning to live with it...happily.

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::Episode 2:: Did you know that it is possible to tame your fire-breathing Boss Monster?

Did I hear you say that your Boss isn’t a Monster?

Oh yeah?

Right, I get it.

This episode is for those bleeding hearts that know what I am talking about – and you don’t have to say a word.

In this episode, I talk about your boss’s knowledge and skills, and how you may leverage them to tame your particular fire-breathing Boss Dragon.

This isn’t about organizational behavior or leadership skills or even about teamwork and team-management! It isn’t about anger-management or self-improvement. It’s simply about ironing out your relationship with your boss and increasing your happiness quotient at work by leaps and bounds.

Have fun with it and I’d love to hear from you on boss-monsters. No names, just some delightful venting! Find me at http://shafalianand.com

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::Episode 1:: Have you ever had a day when nothing went right, and when everything that you did, happened to turn sour? Did you then wonder whether fate was against you – and whether your day was jinxed?

In this episode, I talk about a day when nothing went right for me - when I began wondering if fate was conspiring against me. I then take you through my analysis of why my mind was making me spiral into negativity, and leave you with a logical argument that will help you pull yourself out of your own self-defeating spins.

I hope you enjoy this podcast and find it helpful. If you do, tell your friends and family about it.

Do follow or subscribe and if your podcast app allows it, please leave a comment/rating or review.

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Meet the host - the dented, painted, and slightly cracked spinning top called Shafali. The first episode of this podcast will be published at 6 PM on Friday, October 30th, 2020. Tune in each Tuesday and Friday evening for the new episodes.

Follow or Subscribe to The Spinning Top on a podcasting app of your choice to reboot yourself and redesign your life - not by trying out tips that may or may not work - but by analyzing your life-events and your reactions to them, and synthesizing your own custom-solutions.

You think you can't?

Think again.

You know yourself the best - you know what has worked for you in the past and what hasn't - so shouldn't you trust yourself to create your own plan to motivate and inspire yourself? Shouldn't you be the one deciding your methods of reducing anxiety and stress? And shouldn't your emotionally intelligent self be the one in dialog with your agitated self?

You just need to know where to look and what to find. Remember, self-development and self-improvement doesn't happen without self-analysis. This is why you need to stop spinning for a moment, check the terrain and audit your capabilities. Who knows, you might want to spin your life in a completely new direction.

Connect with your host at a deeper and more emotional level through The Spinning Top podcast.

Find this nutty spinning top Shafali Anand, on Instagram at: http://instagram.com/shafalianand/ or visit http://shafalianand.com

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