I am back after 2 weeks. After the Thanks Giving weekend completely immersed myself to prepare for Los Angeles trip starting from Dec 1st for 4 days. Took good number of appointments and kept working on other work and family related issues.
Also on Nov 28th Wednesday started Velocity Seminar at Landmark center in Chicago. The first session was really good and we learned that we could not only produce results but also do so better and faster i.e with velocity. Mike Dilbeck my co-participant in Introduction Leaders program is leading the seminar and is doing a great job.
Also I am sharing the ride from Naperville to Chicago with Dr. Vikram Desai and Carol Anderson. Hence the seminar and Landmark actually starts from 5:30 pm and lasts until 11:00 pm. This way we have converted the problem of driving almost 3 hours in to an opportunity of reviewing the work and learning more.
During that week I worked on getting the Consulting work from Kurve Technologies and also Scynexis. I am happy to report that on Dec 7 we have closed the deal with Kurve technologies and have their assignment.
Also that week I realized that in LifeSciences fields I am still learning. We have made a big mistake in one of the assignments received from BIG biotech. And have started working to fix that.
After the hectic start last week, completed it by participating in 4th week end of Partnership Exploration program at Los Angeles. Some learnings from that are:
- Transformation is momentous while change is a function of time.
- Transformation occurs in nothing i.e. where in there is no opinion on the subject; while change is to make some thing better, faster, more i.e. fixing or increasing or decreasing it.
- Hence if you make any thing or any one wrong, you can not transform that.
- Most of inauthenticity in relationships are caused by 'broken agreements' (which are our expectations/shoulds/cultural or societal view points and not necessarily the agreements others made to us or we made). So either we clean up these 'broken agreements' or suffer.
- The 'Broken Agreements' can be cleaned up by forgiving others and then forgiving ourselves. That too powerfully i.e. accepting them as they are and accepting ourselves as we are and then looking to see what BEST can we do in given circumstances to ACHIEVE what we WANT in life.
- There are 3 categories of conversations 1) Some things we already say - either say now or have said before 2) some things that we don't say but is said by others in the extended originating circle and 3) something which is uninvented - this is not and has not been said by us or others in our extended originating circle. Category 3 has never happened before and not even in the mind. It happens (get invented) in the moment when it is said.
- The course work which we need to do in this course is not for the course but its for our life. I must do it not only for me but for my family and community of 20 people whom I will transform in the process.
Finally we learned about the fifth field that has not yet existed, not even invented, there is nothing in it i.e. no conversation has arisen in it. It exists only in the moment it's created. In all the four fields of conversations - Mother-Child, Father-Child, Playmate-Sibling and Admired-Admirer there is one young person who needs to taken care of, provided for or admired of etc. In the fifth field both are adults as a possibility. What constitutes the conversation in this field is EMPOWERMENT. We start living in the world of our own design which states "I am empowered by every thing you do and say, and I am for your empowerment. And I am empowered by that." We are inventing this fifth field of conversation in this course. We may not even live to see it flourish, but that's the future we are standing for - for the world.
After the course had a good meeting with Mr. And Mrs. Ravi Achar. A very nice couple and good people; looks like I could work with them. Next day Monday was hectic with 4 meetings in Irvine and then some discussion with Gora. Tuesday also had two meeting in Torrance and Willow Brook and then I flew back to Chicago, which was hit by a snow storm, but luckily did not affect my flight.
The remaining week went in to recovering, attending 2nd and very powerful session of Velocity seminar, where in I have created the project of achieving $10 Million target of Aagami revenue by February 20th, 2007. Although it looks next to impossible now, but that is the fun of it i.e. I will have to really play full out for meeting the target.
After that just wound up the week by completing the work started in the week and also taking care of Genentech and other such assignment. As stated earlier we signed up with a new company Kurve Technologies for bringing them investors or partner for their technology.
The possibility I have created for my project is Freedom, Contribution and a clearing for full self expression.
