Modern Wisdom Ancient Roots- The Movers and Shaker's Guide to Unstoppable Success

Email

Whatsapp

Facebook

Pinterest

Twitter

Copy link

DR SRIKUMAR RAO is an elite coach who works with a select group of entrepreneurs. Professionals and senior executives who are already successful and are now ready to make a dent in the universe. They recognize that life is a spiritual journey and wish to imbue that understanding into every facet of their lives.

Dr Rao holds a PhD from Columbia Business School. His work has been covered extensively by major media worldwide. He is the author of Are You Ready to Succeed? Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life and Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful-No Matter What. He is also the creator and narrator of the audio learning course The Personal Mastery Program: Discovering Passion and Purpose in Your Life and Work.

On rare occasions, a teacher comes into your life who shakes up your worldview and upends everything you thought you knew. And from this chaos, you emerge stronger, more polished and more confident in handling any curveball that life throws at you for me, that teacher is Srikumar Rao.

I have known Srikumar for 11 years, and he has become a mentor, a friend and a man who has helped me see the world in radically different and beautiful new ways. He has given me sage advice that has helped me greatly in my role as CEO of one of the largest companies in the world exclusively dedicated to raising the consciousness of a global population.

Srikumar is an elite coach, working with super achievers. He is one of a tiny number of coaches who can intuitively sense where you are and give you what you truly need. This may not be what you want, but it is what truly benefits you-at that moment and in your life going forward. Let me give you a personal example.

From 2013 to 2016, my company, Mind valley, was burning through cash. A series of disastrous events nearly wiped out the business. This three-year period was a battle for survival. One evening, after another horrid day in survival mode, I flopped in distress onto a chair at my kitchen table. I was in crisis.

We are sick! I mean was really sick!

We get all agitated about airplane crashes, even though the probability that we will perish in one is vanishingly small. But we ignore the real sickness that is already upon us, that saps our energy every day, that debilitates us and keeps us functioning at a level far below our best and makes us miserable. It drives us to drink, do drugs and to wild pursuits. It even tips many of us off the ledge to commit suicide.

So bad is this sickness that we have a unique way of coping with it.

We simply label it normal.

I am being dead serious. To help you understand what I mean. I will ask you a question. Think about it earnestly. In the past 24 hours, how much time have you spent thinking about your left little finger?

Got the answer? Good. In the past 24 hours you have not thought about your left little finger at all. Perhaps you polished the nail or clipped it. If so, your attention was on it for a few seconds and then you moved on.

Your left little finger was doing what left little fingers do, and you paid it no heed. And that is as it should be. If any part of your body is functioning normally, it does its thing quietly and does not draw attention to itself.