What is my ‘Why’?

All we have is today. We must seize it and do our absolute best at making the most of our lives.

I want to help YOU live your best life!

 

What is my ‘Why’?

All we have is today. We must seize it and do our absolute best at making the most of our lives.

I want to help YOU live your best life!

So, Who Am I And What's My Story?

Once upon a time I lived a normal life

I grew up living a normal life. I did normal things that normal people did. School, college, university, joining the corporate world, working hard for promotions and bonuses, and travelling the world. That’s how my life looked until the morning I was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer in September 2012 in the week of my 34th birthday.

The upheaval knocks

Cancer arrived accompanied with tons of uncertainty and fear. For over 6 months, I did not know if I would ‘make it’ to the other side. And so, every single day I made a promise to myself, “If I make it to the other side, I would do everything in my power to live the rest of my life, no matter how long or short it is, as joyously and meaningfully as possible”.

Eventually, I did make it to the other side. Phew! 

I am grateful for surviving cancer because I know that not everyone touched by cancer makes it out alive. 

It is a gift I haven’t taken for granted even for a moment. Ever!

Rebuilding a new life and keeping my promise

In my post-cancer life, the big question I faced was, “How am I going to keep the promise I had made to myself? How am I going to live meaningfully and joyfully?”

Work and success at work had always been such an important part of my life that I decided to find meaning and joy through it.

Coaching seemed to fit the bill because I loved helping people. I had also found coaching life-changing during cancer and when I coached business leaders as a talent manager.

Revisiting life lessons from cancer

I decided that coaching would be it. It would be the ticket to my ‘joyfully and meaningfully ever after.”

I walked away from my talent management corporate career to set myself up as a coach.

But aren’t there a zillion things I could do as a coach? Of course, there were. What the heck would I focus on?

During this period of brain fog, the lessons gleaned from cancer brought me clarity. 

The biggest thing I had learned from cancer was, “All we have is today. Tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone.”

Now, who does not know that? Of course, we all do. I did too. And yet, I had to go through a life-threatening experience to imbibe this lesson wholly. 

Ha! 

Whilst experiencing that tomorrow isn’t promised, I decided to live in a carpe diem way! With a considerable sense of urgency.

But it wasn’t just any life I wanted to live. I wanted to live my best life. And I wanted to live today. Without wasting any time. In a way that brings me joy and meaning. 

That’s how going further faster came into being. Further, so I could be more and do more to make sure I do not live a half-baked life and faster because all we have is today. 

Therefore, when I had to decide what is it I would focus on as a coach, I concluded, ‘Helping people succeed by going further faster in their lives is what I am going to do’. 

We spend more than half of our waking time working, therefore, to live a joyful and meaningful life, we must have a career that brings us meaning, joy and fulfils our definition of success. 

So, that’s what I do now. 

As a coach, I help corporate leaders like you succeed by going further faster in your careers.

By helping you have an amazing career, I help you live an amazing life.

In turn, I get my ‘meaning’, ‘joy’ and ‘success’ by helping you find yours. 

Why I get you?

I am confident that I ‘get’ you. A 100%.

I get that you are a high-achiever who is doing well but you want to do better. Your passion for success and contribution drive you.

I get it when you get impatient with the speed of your growth. 

I get it that you want to achieve success on your own terms.

I get you when you say that you want to make a difference in this world through your work.

I get you when as a leader you want to inspire and influence people.

I get it that you want to have a successful career with high job satisfaction AND a happy life

I get you because our stories about who we are and where we want to be are similar.

I get you because I was you.

 

Parul 💙💜

P.S: Grab a copy of my cancer memoir that has changed thousands of lives all over the world. If you live in the UK, I will be able to send you a signed copy. It would also make a special gift for your loved ones. You will also help a family touched by cancer because proceeds from this book go to a local cancer support centre.