Ranjana Iyer

Category: Values

  • 52 values exploration – takeaways

    For starters, I am glad that I framed it as a value exploration (as opposed to a challenge). It truly was an exploration and the time frame for each value … Read more

  • Week #51 and 52 – Openness and Celebration

    Week 51 (Dec 17th to 23rd) – Openness

    The preceding weeks made me curious about exploring openness as a value. If I truly wanted to co-create with … Read more

  • Week #49 and 50 – Adventure and Pleasure

    Week 49 (Dec 3rd to Dec 9th) – Adventure

    This fit perfectly with my (first) trip to Sri Lanka, for, it was such an adventure. Traveling the … Read more

  • Week #48 – Moxie

    As I shared in the previous post, I listened to Tim Ferriss’s interview with Whitney Wolfe Herd, the CEO of Bumble. She mentioned that her first choice of name for … Read more

  • Week #46 and 47 – Assurance and Surrender

    Week #46 – Assurance

    I paid attention to how my internal and external reality changed when I focused on feeling assured. First of all, I felt pulled to pay attention … Read more

  • Week #45 – Intention

    I really enjoyed the experiment of setting 100+ intentions per day. I experimented with different ways of saying the intention, just to see if some ways landed better than others. … Read more

  • Week 41 through 44 – Strength, Faith, Imagination, and Motivation

    I’ve realised that September through November is a morose time of the year for me usually (a pattern I’d like to change). Perhaps the season has a part to play … Read more

  • Week #40 – Integrity

    Keeping this value at the back of my mind simplifies things, for the most part, I found. How I should act in a particular scenario becomes clear because I don’t … Read more

  • Week 39 – Rest

    I got more rest this week than I have in the past several weeks (individually, not collectively haha). I slept for more than nine hours almost on a daily basis. … Read more

  • Week 35 through 38 – Pronoia, Discipline, Understanding, and Alignment

    I’m writing this in the first week of November but am going to backdate it to sometime in September so that it appears in the right order on the blog. … Read more

  • Week #34 – Closure

    What a week. It was successful beyond my imagination or definition. I got closure on the subject that’d been bothering me for weeks as well as closure on a couple … Read more

  • Week #33 – Resolve

    It’s interesting how these weeks sometimes pan out. I’ve done this weekly value exploration long enough now to really allow myself to sink into a value from day #1. Of … Read more

  • Week #31 and 32 – Wellness and Trust

    Wellness

    I was unwell during the week of wellness which was ironic. I had a particularly rough PMS followed by a particularly painful period which made a lot of my … Read more

  • Week #30 – Decisiveness

    It was a painful week. As soon as I made this my value of the week, all the things I was putting off making a decision about came to the … Read more

  • Week #29 – Action

    I had a successful week. Took lots of action and got a bunch of things done:

    1. Published 15 low-content books and 14 of them went live as well. I now
    … Read more

  • Week #28 – Fulfilment

    Spending time consciously thinking about what fulfills me was one of the most insightful exercises I’ve done this year. I now have a good understanding of what constitutes fulfilment for … Read more

  • Week #27 – Focus

    This was the right value to start Q3 with. Reminding myself of my quarterly goals every day helped me take action to create momentum in each of them. I set … Read more

  • Week #26 – Clarity

    I chose the week’s value well because it led me to become super clear about my Q3 goals. I feel like I’m all set to have a great Q3! A … Read more

  • Week #25 – Accountability

    The week was a success. My intention was to complete a specific, moderate-sized work project. I managed to do that a day in advance which made me feel great. What … Read more

  • Week #24 – Consistency

    I kept up my promise to myself and did the priming exercise every day. I’m going to keep this up as a part of my morning routine going forward too. … Read more

  • Week #23 – Expansion

    I attended Tony Robbins’ Unleash the Power Within event from June 3rd to 6th. My intention was to be open to any form of expansion it might bring about. The … Read more

  • Week #21 & 22 – Commitment & Appreciation

    It was an intense week but in a good way. I did a work marathon with friends and it helped me complete the most important task on the list I’d … Read more

  • Week #20: Satisfaction

    I enjoyed focusing on satisfaction this week. It was as if I was giving myself the permission to be satisfied. I naturally did more of the things that gave me … Read more

  • Week #19: Harmony

    I’m feeling happy about the way this week panned out. I’d ask myself how I could feel harmony that day and follow through on whatever came up. I ended up … Read more

  • Week #18: Connection

    It was a beautiful week, filled with deep and often touching conversations. It’s funny how choosing a value for the week becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. From Apr 29th to May … Read more

  • Week #17: Compersion

    It was an amazing week. I was surprised by how easy it was to feel compersion even if, at times, that wasn’t my initial reaction. It was fairly easy to … Read more

  • Week #15 and #16 – Openheartedness and Ease

    I’m combining the updates for weeks #15 and #16.

    Week #15 was about openheartedness. It was a really heart-centered week given the value in focus. What I particularly liked about … Read more

  • Week #14: Flow

    I practiced the following steps every day to get into a state of flow.

    1. Form a specific intention for the type of idea, experience, or result you’d like to request.
    … Read more

  • Week #13: Groundedness

    As life would have it, it turned out to be an eventful week. Tuesday was particularly bizarre and I was exhausted by the end of the day. I had to … Read more

  • Week #12: Intensity

    Yup, I got what I asked for. That was one intense week. I guess I should be happy that I survived.

    In all honesty, I didn’t get many work-related projects … Read more

  • Week #11: Fun

    My birthday week was nothing less than a massive roller coaster. And roller coasters are fun, aren’t they? Well, however I interpret it, it’s undeniable that the week was memorable.… Read more

  • Week #10: Curiosity

    I had a fun week. Curiosity, I found, is almost always a great lens to go with. Replace any negative emotion with curiosity and it leads you to a better … Read more

  • Week #9: Experimentation

    I picked the right value for the week. There were a lot of firsts for me which I found easy to embrace thanks to the lens of experimentation. Here are … Read more

  • Week #8: Compassion

    This particular value truly changed the way I related to myself and others. Every morning, I would journal for a bit and clarify how I could show compassion to myself … Read more

  • Week #7: Engagement

    The power of engagement is that it gives us a deeper, richer experience of life. With recent events highlighting the importance of this value in my life, I’m glad that … Read more

  • Week #6: Equanimity

    It was a beautiful week. There are no words to describe how beautiful. What’s more, I felt like I truly understood what it feels like to be equanimous. To be … Read more

  • Week #5: Authenticity

    Week 5 went better than expected. I’ve been feeling calmer and more optimistic, especially since Monday. That’s not to say that I didn’t have any emotional roller coasters; in fact, … Read more

  • Update: How The Year of Values exploration is going so far

    The exploration has been all that I thought it would be and more. I especially like how the value for each week chooses itself. By Thursday evening latest, the value … Read more

  • Week #4: Grace

    It’s been a week of highs and lows. Periods of calm interspersed between periods of emotional chaos. I felt the calmest when I was out on long walks. The weather … Read more

  • Week #3: Vulnerability

    It was a rough week and a lot happened. One thing I can say with certainty is that I practiced vulnerability like I never have before. I have a lot … Read more