About Me
My Purpose:
- To help people find meaning, purpose and true happiness in life.
My Values:
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Balance:
- To have perspective and balance in the pursuit of everything that is of value to me in my life (my purpose for existence, relationships, health and fitness, wisdom and knowledge, career and work, leisure and entertainment, and material well-being).
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Flow:
- To achieve a state of Flow in everything that I pursue
- To wake up every-day feeling energized about what lies ahead
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Service:
- Only by realizing that to lead is to serve, can a leader fortify his or her position to bring about a lasting increase in prosperity... If you aspire to a position of prominence, the most enduring strategy is to work to raise the tide of your entire community or company, rather than to try to swim upstream on your own. (From the I Ching)
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Exploring:
- To be open-minded, never afraid of trying something new (in the words of Emirates‘, "When was the last time you did something for the first time?")
- To actively experience different cultures and perspectives
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Respect:
- To act in a manner that preserves (or even enhances) people's feeling of self-worth and dignity, especially when I am challenging their belief systems.
(Comment: Challenging people's belief system is a necessary part of my purpose in helping people find true happiness; and this is a value that I have not achieved consistency in)
- To act in a manner that preserves (or even enhances) people's feeling of self-worth and dignity, especially when I am challenging their belief systems.
My Nature:
I am (or like to think that I am) a Change Agent, a Philosopher, a Psychologist, a Globetrotter, a Linguist, a Raconteur, a Technophile, a Comedian and an ENTJ. I am also logical, structured, skeptical, pragmatic, strategic, persistent, perfectionist, strong-willed, pro-choice and optimistic.
Some quotations reflective of my world-view:
Change Agent:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson (A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles)
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- Buckminster Fuller
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
- Thomas Edison
Optimism:
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop the story
Pro-Choice:
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- William Wallace (Braveheart)
Persistence:
We will either find a way, or make one.
- Hannibal
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
- Babe Ruth
Perfectionist:
Do, or Do Not. There is no Try.
- Yoda
Skeptical:
Do not believe in anything (simply) because you have heard it.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
Do not believe in anything because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything (simply) because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
But after observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conductive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it.
- The Buddha (Kalama Sutta)
Psychologist:
Every man hears only what he understands
- Goethe
Basic facts about me:
- Name: Sifaan Zavahir
- Date of Birth: 19 December 1976
- Location: Sri Lanka
- Occupation: Change Agent @ Unleash Talent Inc.
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