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Are you ready to live your best life? Using proven philosophies and methods, this four-week class will share an Agile approach to happiness, living a fulfilling life, deepening relationships and accomplishing your dreams. This set of seminars, along with the exercises, will help you gain the skills to transform both your professional and personal life. During the first week of class you will pick a goal that you would like to have completed by the end of the four weeks. This can be anything from losing weight to starting a business to learning a new skill. Each week we will talk about concepts, tools, and techniques to keep you on track. In the final week you will “demo” your goal for the class. There is no failure, only learning. Besides learning productivity techniques to help you accomplish your goals, you’ll learn more about communication, relationships, and emotional intelligence. You’ll learn how to coach…

The year 2020 has seen a tremendous boom in fitness Apps world over! With gyms and fitness clubs shut down, no outings or outdoor activities of any kind and the work from home in full force, staying fit and sane is a Herculean task!

This is even more so for women. WFH has increased the workload for women multifold. Children, parents, husband, siblings - depending on the family set up everybody is putting pressure and demands on her. Hitherto certain workloads like caretaking, childcare ,part of shopping and medical visits were outsourced. Now most of them unavailable and those that are available is glitchy and on uncertain terrain. The woman, the decision maker, has to take on all these additional roles in addition to what she was doing. In the midst of this mayhem, where does fitness fit into her schedule ?

Initially fitness was the first item to b…

This is something bugging me for a long time.

How can we support small scale women entrepreneurs, people who do business from home - like, say, artificial flowers or making cupcakes or something like that? Or say jewelry making or selling from their home?

I am not just talking about how they can sell more stuff nor am I talking about digital organizers or Project Management apps (like Basecamp or whatever). But holistically, how can we support this group of women, who can definitely become a global market force and contribute to both local and national / international economy...

Not everyone is of the Tik Tok generation (and I honestly don't know how useful that is, how much it translates into sales), but what are some ways we can help small scale women entrepreneurs? Any ideas??

"Do you remember the last conversation you had with a friend or family member (happy or otherwise) before Covid hit? What were you talking about? And given how we are now, thinking back on that conversation, how does that make you feel?"

Our conversations everywhere is dominated by Covid and the impact of it on every aspect of our lives. Thought we would throw this one out there to make you think a bit!

AgileVirgin is preparing this year's biggest #Agility enabling fest for the community - AgilityToday, and the very first offering of this fest is it's annual #Mentorship program that's held together by Women in Agile and Tech.

Application forms for Mentors are OPEN NOW, so be the Mentor you always needed, help someone with the skills they need.

Please sign up for the same  https://lnkd.in/dqs-BNn

Aparna Saligrama, the creator of this network, is a great role model for us all!

It was fun to have the chance to interview Aparna Saligrama on my podcast and feature this great network on my blog today: http://www.carpediemday.com/aparna-saligrama-quiet-value-woman/

At the school playground a parent was impressed at my kindergartner tying her own shoe laces. She asked if my daughter could teach her son, which as you can imagine, my daughter was thrilled to show off and help. She asked not because kids learn better from other kids, or he would be more motivated to learn if his classmate could do it, but because both his parents are left-handed and he is not! The instruction set is quite different you see 😊. That’s a simple case of why diversity in your environment is important, but does not need to come in one size or form!

Extending it to the business world, imagine the use cases they will be missing out on when there is too much similarity in backgrounds. Or maybe we don’t have to look too far. We have all seen that health app that was missing the…

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Tech’s discriminatory culture might never change, no matter how many women and people of color are invited into the room.

@Shalini Ramachandra's post Art is in the Eye of the Beholder has an image that reminded me of the article she probably got it from! How many times have we, as a layman observer wondered about pieces of abstract art and joked that it could be a toddler's work 😆

Attached is the Wall Street Journal article that dispels the fallacy and while still confusing to 1/3 of the survey respondents, the inexperienced eye is more discerning of art than we give ourselves credit for!

#wallstreetjournal, #art, #contemporaryart

For all those of you who are not "professionals" with deep experience in any one field, your time has come! At least according to Harvard lecturer Vikram Mansharamani. Read the entire article following the link, or see excerpts I have selected below:

His advice is that the "skill" needed for the future is not really a skill but more an approach, a philosophy and a way of thinking. "Breadth of perspective and the ability to connect the proverbial dots (the domain of generalists) is likely to be as important as depth of expertise and the ability to generate dots (the domain of specialists)." he says.

"To begin, it’s important to zoom out and pay more attention to the context in which you’re making decisions. Read the whole paper, not just the section about your industry. Is your primary focus oil and gas? Study the dynamics affecting the retail sector. Are…