I am sure you heard this question many times and if you start counting your roles, you will be surprised that every time you find a new role, additional roles will be added to your life. So why count? When i graduated from the University with a degree in acting and performing arts, I was so excited to start my career in TV, Cinema and Theatre, whether it was acting, singing or presenting. I wanted to do anything that puts me under the spotlight or behind a camera. My life was so busy and it was a lot of fun. I was playing many roles and enjoying all the stress of the rehearsals, long hours of filming and sleepless nights. All that because i was in love with what i was doing and passionate about exploring my talents in different areas. I was playing the role of an actress that plays different roles, in different places, with different audiences and i was so happy, energized and On Fire! What’s the secret that moves you to do lots of things at the same time and stay focused, balanced, fulfilled, satisfied and happy? And what are factors that can sabotage your happiness and passion? The actor says: I am anything and everything, I am anywhere and everywhere, I am Universe, I am ALL. In other words, I am open to opportunities, I am flexible, I am ready, everything is possible, I can do it, I accept. Those are the beliefs that we want in our life, we want to be the actor who knows how to get in and out of each role without being attached to any of those roles. In fact, what we are doing in our life, is playing all our roles at the same time and we feel overwhelmed, not in control, stressed and unhappy. The actor takes the script and studies the character very well before performing it and even if he or she will perform the same play for 100 times, the acting will remain the same. How many times we don’t know what we are doing? How many times we ask ourselves for what purpose am I doing this or that? It is as if you are in an improv and the director pulls you from the audience and gives you a role and asks you to do it on the spot, it might come out amazing or it might be a disaster. But a good actor who knows how to play will always find ways to blow the audience’s mind. “So why don’t you be the actor in your life?” What if you learn those skills and apply them in your day to day life? How easy and enjoyable would your life be? How happy and fulfilled would you feel? How many hidden talents do you have that you don’t know about and if you knew about you will be On Fire? How many times you stopped yourself from getting on stage and surprising yourself? Being the actor and the director of your life, is being responsible for your dreams and future. Have you ever seen a director allowing anyone to give his or her opinion and change the direction of the play or the movie he or she is working on? Have you ever been in a theatre and saw a random person from the audience stepping on stage and performing on scene? How many times have you allowed that person to change your story and change your dreams? Be the director of your own life-script, chose your players, let them audition for the roles that you have assigned for them and be the actor that masters the art of living! By, Nadine Chammas Bekhaazi, Positive Lifestyle Specialist & Hypnotherapy Trainer
Nadine Chammas Bekhaazi
Positive Lifestyle Specialist & Hypnotherapy Trainer – Nadine Chammas Bekhaazi Known as The Life Director, she received an invitation from the UAE National Program of Happiness and Positivity to take part of their new initiative #1millionactsofgiving that is aligned with the year of giving. The goal of the initiative is to reach 1 Million acts of giving by the end of 2017. Nadine’s influence in the community during recent years made her a leading, positive and influential figure throughout her engagement via different platforms such as her Positive Lifestyle on live TV show, corporate workshops, empowerment talks and Pay It Forward events. Her plan is to encourage schools, corporations, associations and individuals to be part of this initiative by spotting or doing an act of giving and sharing it on social media using the #1millionactsofgiving to inspire others to do the same. Nadine has developed a detailed plan of talks, events and activities on how to reach the 1 Million acts of Giving. She believes that if everyone will do 1 act of giving and ask the receiver to do the same for someone else, the circle of kindness will grow so fast and the 1 Million acts will be achievable. Get in touch with Nadine to know more on how you or your organization can be part of this initiative. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
How to become the architect of your life!
An Architect by profession, actor, dancer and speaker, Priya Telavane is a passionate entrepreneur. She believes in the power of dreams and work towards it to fulfill them to make them reality. After completing her architecture in India, she specialized in interior designing with over 15 years of work experience so far around the globe. Priya founded 361 degrees design solutions to create a design centric commercial interior that truly reflects a client’s brand, style and design 8 years back in Dubai.Having full support from her husband Amol who is also an Architect and partner in the same business and both have been working closely together to grow 361 degrees design solution globally. Her dedication and determination help fuel their drive to transform commercial spaces across UAE. Being a mother of 18 months old son Aaryan, I jugglebetween the roles of being a mother, wife, business owner and networker. To perform all roles successfully with excellent quality of lifeshe willshare her secret …how to be an architect of your own life. “We can’t control the past and future so focusing on present will allow us to achieve many more things in life.” Architect designs and builds the structures while doing this with perfect planning, designed timeframe, desired budget, good quality material, design creativity and unique elements to have a better identity for structure. The end product is good and acceptable by client. Likewise by following above points in day today life we can design life beautifully. Planning– For personal as well as professional goals plan and write it on a paper. Make the perfect planning to follow it day today activities. When you follow the designed layout of your works the goals are easy to reach. I had decided my goals for next 5 years and written in the beautiful book that I love to see every week. Unconsciously my brain, mind, every muscle of my body works towards achieving them. it’s a slow walk towards it and will get there with my hard work, determination for sure. Timeline – for each goal there should be timeframe to be aligned and followed. Always plan your weekly schedule for day today operations. Decide work hours and personal hours with delegation of works very important. Don’t forget to add hours for eating and sleeping. This will help to utilize your day productively. I design my day and week as per the allocated timeline for each activity. Delegating the works I can’t do it works perfect to stick to my timelines. Budget/Finance– Business, work, home functions on the money indirectly. To design your finance well which will help you to build strong base for your future life and take care of your present needs. Profit, loss, savings, future expansions if there is a business mention it on sheet or use software to track it with my partner I make it a point to design our all finances. We take external expert help to plan it better and follow it. Good quality of life– having perfect balance or maintaining balance between work and personal life, me time and time for kids, healthy eating high thinking will give you good quality of life. Remove all negativity around and consistence exercise very important part. I feel this is essential for everyone to have good quality life. Me with my family we follow all the rules to achieve this and try to get there as close as possible. Creativity – Be creative in all works you do…house work, professional work, for your kids, for yourself. The touch of creativity will give different dimension to all things around will make you happy and cheerful. People around you will start appreciating you and will like to be with you for this one trait. As our field of work allows us to be creative at work I try to be creative in the smallest things I do day to day, to be close to your femininity will make you creative and experiment a lot in day today life. Unic element– ladies don’t forget unic you within yourself. Don’t hide your passions and what you are good at for this element of yours people will recognize you…. this will give you own identity .I have been dancing on stage from age of 3 and started acting on stage at the age of 6 years …I do it till date. Have been doing design presentations for multinational companies, which made me develop as a speaker and explain things in a better way. Having said that I love to help other women and believe in women empowerment movement. “Everyone can be Architect of their own life by building it how they wish and it will become wonderful…” Priya
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Be Realistic: Creating a resolution that’s too big sets you up for failure. The first key to success is zeroing in on one goal, not more. Then do a quick reality check. Share your resolution with other people: We’re more likely to achieve our resolutions when we make them public. Tell your best friend about your New Year’s resolution, and check in with her on the reg to chat about it and make sure you’re on track. Better yet, get her on board so you’re both working toward the same goal. Do not ignore the small successes:it’s crucial to recognize and reward the smaller successes along the way. Rather than waiting until you’ve shed all 10 pounds, give yourself a mini “Yay, me!” celebration each time you drop 2. After each small success is achieved, reward yourself with a good book, new music, or a night out with friends. Forgive yourself when you slip up: If you’ve faltered, know that you’re in good company: “Having a lapse is common. What really matters is how you handle it. Remind yourself why you want to make the change: Identify an important reason why you are resolving to change something in your life, and every time you feel like quitting, think of that reason.
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