It has been almost 8 months since I have blogged. Any way, a lot of things have happened in between, some of which are:
- After remodeling, sold the old house at 1907 Tufton Ct, Naperville. Thanks to aggressive stance of the realtor, good deal offered to her and most importantly wonderful cooperation received from the renter.
- Dropped the idea of buying a larger property as business growth has taken a beating after initial successes in the year.
- Exhibited along with Clinical Research collaborator in 3 major conferences namely BIO2007, ASCO and DIA, but with no results.
- Drifted away from the clinical research collaborator and now seriously considering evolving in to Consulting and Investing business.
- After working for months have finally signed the consulting agreement with the Biotech pioneer for their India initiative.
- Have started Partnership Exploration course with Landmark on June 23rd at Los Angeles. Already attended 3 weekends so far. In 1 of them went around meeting people and companies in Southern California.
- This course is also giving me a lot of insights especially about 'relationships' and 'communication'.
- During the above course, we have to do seminar courses in our home city and hence completed 'Commitment' Seminar along with Vikram Desai at Chicago. A fabulous 10 sessions course over 3 months and learnt a lot about Commitments, especially the undeclared and hidden ones.
- Now will start 'Velocity' seminar from November 28th.
- Have planned to visit India and attend 'Silver Jubilee Reunion' of 1982 Graduating class of VRCE (now known as VNIT). This will be a short but hopefully a worth while trip. I am going there along with family, as due to high school schedules they will not be able to go to India until summer of 2009 after this.
- Will attend J P Morgan Healthcare conference immediately after the return from India in the Bay area.
- Have hired an Intern at Aagami, who is a PhD and now working as clinical Research business development person with me.
- At home front, Kids are doing very well in general in life and they are still well behaved and good; however they both are slipping in their grades BIG TIME. This is a cause of concern to both me and Shubhra.
- Also in July our whole family went to JAINA 2007 in Edison NJ and then attended Pranayam Shibir of Baba Ramdev in Chicagoland. The breathing exercises learnt from Shibir are being practiced by Shubhra and me and are really useful.
- Celebrated Aayami's Sweet 16 on October 26th at Tall Grass Club House. Over 90 people attended. Presence of Aman, Gudiya, Arav, Aditya and Navin Jain family brought a lot of family to this function of Aayami's coming of age.
- Gudiya and Arav stayed 10 days after that also and that was quite satisfying.
- Navin and family visited on September 1st & 2nd and then we visited them for Nishita's Sweet 16 on Sept 8th too.
- Now last week I have attended AAPS annual meeting at San Diego and also CHI Drug Discovery conference in Philadelphia and visited companies in NY and NJ. It was pretty hectic trip and very physically demanding; got really tired. This whole week is going in follow up of all the visits.
The main learnings during this period:
"Whatever Happens, Happens for the BEST" - reinforced
"Life Happens, Live It"
"Play the game of life, full out. Be committed to win without attachment to outcome."
"Results - are the only things, which count in life"
With this, enough for today and with a hope to return soon and more frequently.
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