2013 – Count your blessings
They say that you should be careful what you ask for, for
you may get what you wanted! 2013 was a year like that. The roller-coaster ride
was on a complete high from the word go!
From going back to college (and this time incredibly
finishing) to quitting my job to my book finally getting published it was a
year so busy that it redefined that four letter word (yes BUSY) for me! And...
even if I felt that my time with my children, friends and other family and my
running was compromised due my 26 hours a day life – I still found the chance
to squeeze in a couple of holidays - one with my bestie Geeta to far-away
Norway (sorry dear Japan that you had to be put on the back-burner) and one to
Goa with the family – oh so didn’t want that trip to end!
My heart bleeds for the time I missed with my daughters in
2013 as I know only too well that this time will never come back and Aprajta
and Gayatri are probably at one of their best times of baby-mummy love. But I
love them more than ever now and though I scoff at resolutions (mainly because
I don’t keep them), this has to be the one time that I have to commit to myself
that I will spend more time with human beings – family, friends and
strangers. Sigh – time is flying and I
have les than I had before to do even more things than ever before!
Anyone out there publishing a book in 2014 – let me just
tell you guys that launching a book is a full time job. But let’s not complain
– I got what I asked for. What I wasn’t expecting is the incredible support
that I got from all corners. 2013 made me feel blessed for all the love that
came my way – from a surprise trip by my family to the book launch (my husband
is such a cutie, I tell ya), to those like Milind Soman, Puneet Rajkumar,
Devieka Bhojwani, CII-Young Indians who agreed to share the dais with me. For
the love I got from Goldman Sachs (thanks Vaishali), IIM-B, my running buddies,
the media, the bloggers, the fans and my so very precious friends and family!
Look what you guys have done – I am writing my second book!!
Now that 2013 has faded into the horizon and I am close to
burning out let me just say that I am looking forward to writing my next book,
to chatting a lot with my babies, to getting back my running and to my new
found professional freedom! I finally close the 8.5 year love affair with the
Globus family of brands and embark on a new journey with The Active Holiday
Company – where the script of the story is mine to write, the colours of the
canvas are mine to choose and you bet that I am going to pull out all those
words and colours you didn’t think existed. We all get what we want – we only
have to want it!
So get out there and ask for more from life than you ever
have.. Have a great one folks!!