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5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Gratitude as Connection | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Maybe it's a friend that you haven't spoken to in a while but has been on your mind. So may your words fill them with warmth and fill you with a deep sense of connection. I truly wish this for you. Until next time, where we will close off November with the simple concept of gratitude as grounding. This is Preetha with five minutes of authenticity. Thank you for tuning in, and I hope to talk to you soon."
2025-11-1607 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Gratitude as Resistance | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Of course, we talk a little bit, and I leave. But yet she takes that time. So that note, to me, is such an act of rebellion. It's a beautiful kind of rebellion where in a world of Russia and transaction, she chooses to appreciate, right? So what happens typically is that we often. It's called hedonic adaptation bias. It's a psychological term. But what happens is we quickly normalize what we longed for."
2025-11-0905 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Gratitude as Attention | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "This is November. It's a special month for me because I was born on this month 55 years ago. And I try and find some way to express gratitude on this during this month. I remember for a long time I would do gratitude posts on Facebook or on some other blogging portal. But what I decided then, that given we choose a theme every month, how about we begin our November series, the Anatomy of Gratitude? And we start with a very simple and a most radical act."
2025-11-0305 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Returning to Your Essence | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "It has given me a newfound appreciation for the medical profession, and it has also taught me a sense of discipline about what I eat going forward and what I avoid. But in all of this, while I was going through this process, and thankfully I'm a person who doesn't really care too much about what people think of what my face looks like. And so I never hid myself. I never had. I never not do selfies. I never not be in a public place."
2025-10-2908 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Grace of Small Steps | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "You know, friends, there is this huge, I want to say, a perception or this, this culture that glorifies this big leap, right? The overnight success, the viral breakthroughs, the dramatic befores and afters. Because we are in an age of instant gratification. And when we don't have that, we are not always associating it with success. We don't always call it as an act of being successful. But the fact remains that transformation or growth does not always roar."
2025-10-2109 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Mirror of Resistance | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And the reason the blood work looked so good is because I pretty much have only anti inflammatory foods now so as to prevent any flares. And so because of this skin irritation, I've had to change my diet pattern like I said. And that is reflected in my blood work, which looked fantastic."
2025-10-1510 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Growth in a Fog | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And it didn't matter which side of what polarity or what. What side you were on. With the masks or without the mask, with the vaccine, without the vaccine. That is not the issue. The issue is that of the fog, of the confusion and all that it entailed. So if you think about your time during, you know, your state of mind during the pandemic, what was it like? I can tell you mine. My mother was in India. She was alone."
2025-10-0708 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Growth: A Quiet Revolution | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "It signifies that it is okay to let go only because unless we do, our branches will not open up to new leaves. Right during this time of the year in India, there is a flower called parijat, which is also my daughter's name. Blooms. It's the most tender, beautiful white bloom with a tiny orange stem. And the only way you can gather sampari jat in a little container is if you shake the tree or if it has fallen gently on the ground."
2025-10-0307 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Crucible of Change | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "So in the Japanese concept, there is the beautiful pottery form of Kintsuki. And what that is is basically the concept where when a vase breaks or anything breaks, it's put together by, by molten gold that, that gilds or holds the pieces together. And what you have and the final product is this supposedly broken glass, but looking phenomenal with the, the gold cracks. The gold in between the cracks."
2025-09-2906 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Surrender as a Superpower | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "The moment you let those tears spill, the moment you accept that this is the best I can do, I cannot keep trying. I have to accept as it is, there is freedom because it, it is kind of a sense of renewal. And then once we have gone through that process, change becomes easier, easier because you have got yourself all clenched up trying to let go. And the moment you release that pressure, you breathe better and you're able to take it in."
2025-09-2308 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The "Awkwardness" of Change | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And he talked about that. He talked about how the goal, the ball hit the football hit, the soccer ball hit the goal post. And he didn't want to face his team, he didn't want to talk to his friends because he felt he had let the team down. But what is interesting in the essay is the way he talks about it and continues on and says, you know what? There is always a next time."
2025-09-1812 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Not to Rush but to Realign| 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "What have I not accessed within myself? You may have set out with certain intentions in the year, no matter if it's a personal goal or a professional goal. And you may have gotten from point A to B, but maybe you wanted to get to C or D. So question yourself is okay. What held me back? Was I my own roadblock? Were there things that were within my control that I didn't quite understand?"
2025-09-1006 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Leaves Know First | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "That is the change, friends. That is external to you. Okay? That is not something you can control. That is something that you are being subjected to. Transition happens when you take that change and decide what to do with it. How are you going to deal with it now? Work situation. If this is a toxic environment caused by one individual in your team, you are a manager. How do you transition?"
2025-09-0409 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Truth Behind The Cringe | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "One of my barre teachers, she's an incredible instructor. She teaches various forms of fitness, and when we stretch at the end, she will often say a statement that has stayed with me and will stay with me lifelong is that the longer we're able to sit in a position of discomfort physically, the longer we can stay with it mentally. And if you remember, the previous episode we talked about was staying with the discomfort."
2025-08-2507 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Sit With It. | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "So, as you know, we have been talking about discomfort this month in August, and the last two episodes focused on what it looks like and acknowledging it. This episode I want to touch back on. The example I brought up in the first episode in the series was about the discomfort that I felt about having a conversation with a dermatologist because of a reaction that I had after taking the second shingles vaccine. Now, without getting into the details of what happened, etc."
2025-08-1807 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Rock in the Shoe | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Give it a name, sit down with it and ask yourself, why am I not taking the time to take this pebble out? Until next time, this is Preetha with five minutes of authenticity, and we will touch upon the some of the things we can do to remove this tension. Probably acknowledge why we have this tension, why we are not able to address it. We will talk more next time. Thank you. Until then, take care. And take care of your shoe. It."
2025-08-1107 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Hello Discomfort, my old friend 🎶| 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Anyway, one of the things she had to do was to memorize monologues from Macbeth and I think from some other place where she had to learn, memorize this Shakespearean English, very different kind of syntax and verbiage, etc. And then recite that I believe in front of her friends or coaches or whatever. Now I am not there, so I don't know what's going On. I'm hoping she's doing fine, but I want to focus more on the discomfort she felt."
2025-08-0208 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Rooted. Connected. At Peace | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "What does that look like? And why are we not there yet? And what is holding us back? And what would make us happy to be there? Right? So in this final episode in the series, we breathe beneath the service of surface of Overwhelm. And like I said, we reconnect with the power of authenticity. So before that, let's just begin wherever you are."
2025-07-2809 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Returning to ourselves - A Conscious Choice | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "The other thing we often face when we face overwhelm is this feeling of being alone in our struggle. And that overwhelm can. That feeling of overwhelm can isolate us, and it can make us feel we are completely alone, struggling through this on our own. And that can be a downward spiral. This is where you have to tell yourself that I give myself permission to seek help and support. It could be just sitting and chatting with a friend or sharing a low day with somebody."
2025-07-2212 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Tiny Interruptions, Big Shifts | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "It's just that, you know, if you look at it, it's these tiny grains of sand, but they keep rising because of the wind pattern, and suddenly there is no visibility. It's in your eyes, in your face, everywhere. But if you think about the tiny grains of sand, you realize they are not huge rocks. They're small pieces of composite actions that we can probably work around that will stop this storm from building up. Right? So a simple example."
2025-07-1508 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Cost of Overwhelm | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "I will give you an example. I decided to be a stay at home mom because I knew that's what I wanted to do. Now, during that time, it was so interesting to see that the moms who decided to work and juggle it all be the best they could be at work and at home, faced a certain kind of judgment. Those of us who decided to stay home often were asked, what the heck do you do all day? Change diapers?"
2025-07-0707 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Weight We Carry | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Hello, ladies and gentlemen, this is Preetha with 5 minutes of authenticity coming to you from Swellcast as well as from your favorite podcast channels. My little Talk is now a podcast on anywhere you find your podcasts. So do, do subscribe and I drop an episode every week, as you know, if you've been following me. And I try to pick a topic every month."
2025-07-0206 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Freedom of Letting Go | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Are you holding on to relationships where you don't align with on a personal level or in a value, you know, according to your values? Are you in a workspace where you are uncertain about making a move out of it because the comfort zone gives you a sense of control and the stagnation is okay because the uncertainty is scary? Yeah."
2025-06-2504 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Struggle is Real | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And they become the reasons where we start to feel uncertain about ourselves, our own will. We start to feel fear of feeling a loss of control, and some of the circumstances are truly outside. What if you had a child or a family member who was suicidal and the fact that you had to face that ever so often, the fear or the uncertainty to live with it is not easy. One cannot deny that. One cannot read books and say it's going to be okay."
2025-06-1705 min
Sarita pramod@lifecoachPritha | leave words of encouragement to someone who may be struggling today.Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "I hope this reaches somebody who needs to hear it. And the only thing I would say is, you're not alone. And this too, shall pass. Whatever it is you're going through, it is a moment in time. Because I am certain that you have had good times that have graced your life, and there have been bad times. Sometimes the bad times seem longer. It's just the way it is."
2025-06-1101 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Circles of Control | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "You want to start on a fitness regime where you want to get out of the house at 5:30am every morning for a run. It's good weather. You can, you know, you've decided this is one of the goals you want to do."
2025-06-1004 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Who's Really in Charge?| 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "So at such a situation, at such a juncture, it is important to understand the concept of the internal versus the external locus of control. If we have lived through a pandemic, we have all seen that little meme that came through all our news feeds, through some social handle or another, where it was very clearly explained what was in our control and what wasn't. When the coronavirus took over the world, we could wash our hands. That was in control."
2025-06-0505 min
Where the Light Gets In@lifecoachPritha | Every dayClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "I speak to mom every day. I wish I could speak to my dad, but he passed eight years ago and we would try to call him as well, every as often as we could. It used to be weekly calls, sometimes bi weekly calls. And then as he fell ill, he couldn't speak much anymore. That's when my calls to mom became multiple times a day, sometimes to check on his health or to check on her."
2025-05-0101 min
Where the Light Gets In@lifecoachPritha | Laughter is definitely a wonderful medication depending on how you use it@LizzIsReading Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "But from a psychological perspective, the ability to laugh at something, and most of all at yourself, enables us to take life a little less seriously, maybe put things into perspective, not feel so overwhelmed and not live in a place of, you know, feeling sorry for ourselves. That said, if laughter becomes a crutch or an excuse to deny oneself what one is feeling, then it is probably not a very good medicine."
2025-05-0101 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Some Practical Tools to tackle Imposter Syndrome | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Something like, I am capable and deserving of my success. I bring unique value to every space I enter. I am learning I am not there yet, but I will be. These are positive, practical, not over the top affirmations that make us feel truly authentic and realistic about our accomplishments and our capabilities. Another tool is to do the stretch zone challenge that I spoke about is, how does this work now?"
2025-04-2605 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Authenticity Antidote to Imposter Syndrome | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "So I will leave you with some, with some thoughts here. And this is something for you to journal and think about is what does authenticity mean to you and when do you feel most yourself? How can you create more opportunities to show up as that version of yourself? Think of the times when you feel those self doubt, those things, those thoughts creeping in. Ask yourself, why is that happening? And where am I blocking my own mindset to do this? I'm writing a book."
2025-04-2605 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Tools to Combat Imposter Syndrome | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "I've, you know, gone through that and it come out stronger on the other side. But what it does, it, it really helps you identify patterns. So that is an awareness tool. Use a journal, keep a journal by your bedside, or keep a journal by you and say the moment you have the thought, write it down. Self compassion tools. That is a big one."
2025-04-2604 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Reframing Self Doubt | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "The people who are deciding this are very intelligent. They are astute. So who am I to question that judgment? Why am I doing that? I have contributed meaningfully in multiple projects. When we reframe from a place of I am not ready for this. This is something again, I speak with my daughter quite often is and something that I've experienced personally when I got into a life coaching role, thinking when I speak to my clients, I've never done life coaching before."
2025-04-2605 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Roots of Imposter Syndrome | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Sometimes they feel once they do that they are able to get the validation they need when they know they have done vis a vis better than someone else. So their yardstick is always outside of themselves. And that is a locus of control thing we will talk about in a different episode. And finally, of course, one of the deep seated reasons is also the cultural and family conditioning that an individual has grown up with. Whether it's be with siblings, with parents, with their environment."
2025-04-2605 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Imposter Syndrome | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "My sole mission in life is to enable my clients work and journey and think about their authentic selves and work towards getting there. Imposter syndrome can be a huge barrier and a mindset that can hold us back from living an authentic life. This was first identified by psychologist Pauline Rose Clance and Susan Ines. And technical definition, if you will, is basically imposter syndrome is the belief that your success is undeserved and that you are a fraud waiting to be exposed."
2025-04-2605 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Your Inner Compass | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "So acknowledging that, knowing that okay this is a curveball but I got this going back to that compass and saying okay where do I need to pivot? What do I need to change and finally trusting the process and trusting oneself and knowing this is my path and I've got this thank you."
2025-04-2605 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Earth Day is every day | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "So whether you are a space traveler, whether you are into science fiction, whether you're an astronaut, or whether you are just a normal mortal residing on this planet like you and I, the Earth is what binds us and brings us home in more ways than one. So Earth Day is such a beautiful day of retrospection of us looking a little bit deeper and trying to figure out what do we do for or to one another that makes this planet more habitable."
2025-04-2204 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Discomfort of Authenticity | 5 Minutes of AuthenticityClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Hey, friends. In the last episode, if you recall, we talked about why is it hard being real? Why does being real feel hard? And we talked about two categories of challenges that we face. Some come from the external sources like social media, cultural expectations, and some come from deep rooted internal mindsets or internal struggles of looking or feeling inferior, unqualified imposter syndrome, etc."
2025-04-1904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Why does "being real" feel hard ? | 5 minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "That we need to get a little bit deeper into this topic because it is something that affects all of us in various points in our life. And that is one of the reasons I've taken a little bit of a pause. My apologies for the delay of posting this one, but I've been thinking about this at length and it's truly mind boggling to me that from childhood where it is so effortless for a young person to be themselves."
2025-04-1904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Under Pressure | 5 minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And there are times when my daughter has broken down. You know, maybe she was upset about something, and she actually said this to me. She goes, mom, you're always on top of things. And I feel I fail in that aspect. And that aspect."
2025-03-2505 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Authenticity 101 | 5 minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "So imagine if a painter was asked to be in a routine 9 to 5 job that led them to do nothing more than enter data or do something that was very mundane but very, very non creative. They obviously would not be living an authentic life. Now, why does this matter so much? Because unless we are living in alignment with these values, we will face a time and moments in our life where we will question that dissonance and go back to asking, okay, why?"
2025-03-2504 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Authenticity Affirmation Prompt | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "We started with the parallels of time and energy when we are focusing on something and how having both these in tandem impact our productivity. And what can we do to make this work for us in terms of the mindset we approach an issue with the next week we talked about flipping the script, kind of looking at things from the perspective of a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset."
2025-03-2304 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The Torque Effect | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Maybe it's a child saying thank you to saying thank you to their parent or a parent remembering to acknowledge the child's work, however small, and telling them, hey, thank you for doing this, I really appreciated you took the time, etc. All right, number four, you have somebody, and we all have such people in their lives who say that I cannot do this or I'm just never going to be able to do this."
2025-03-1705 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Flip The Script | 5 minutes of Authenticity With PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Her ability to perform is often hindered by this appearance of the cough. Now, it is a very sad truth that it does happen together. So the coincidence is sometimes pretty unfortunate. Lately I noticed she has been flipping the script on this because she will say something on the lines of, mom, I'm glad this happened because, you know, I know it will, but it happened the week before I was going to perform."
2025-03-1105 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Time Vs. Energy | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And 15 pages have gone by and I'm thinking, wait a minute, I didn't lean a single word. So what is important is to keep certain things in mind when you are thinking of this balance, set a boundary. Set clear boundaries on where you're going to spend your time and how much of your energy you're going to give. Is this conversation worth giving your time and energy to? Is this worth. Is this going to matter?"
2025-03-0604 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 14 Ways to Normalize Self Love - Part 4 | 5 Minutes of authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Those disciplines can be hard and if you have done that, celebrate that and Each time you do have a self a defeating thought, think about it, acknowledge it, reward yourself and say that, you know what? If I've done this once, if I've done this twice, I can do it again. Now, speaking of reward, reward yourself with not just your time, but also your energy."
2025-02-2805 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 14 Ways to Normalize Self Love Part - 3 | five minutes of authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Because the moment the answer is yes, you have just validated your self love, your compassion for yourself, your kindness for yourself, and guess what? You will do it. That validation is important. On the same token, when you're going there, the next thing to think about is stop blaming yourself for everything that goes wrong. Even with yourself. There are mistakes we make. There are consequences we live for because of those mistakes."
2025-02-1904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 14 Ways to Normalize Self Love - Part 2 | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "If it's a physical pain in some part of your body, if it's something in your heart, if it's something in your mind, take the time to actually acknowledge this and tell yourself, I am hurting and it is okay that I am hurting. I don't have to be strong all the time. I can be vulnerable. Acknowledging one's vulnerability is a huge, huge act of self love. Thirdly, in our series today, replace seeking validation to consciously validating yourself."
2025-02-0904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 14 Ways to Normalize Self Love - Part 1| 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Hello, ladies and gentlemen. This is Preetha with five minutes of authenticity. And welcome back to my space. This is February, as we know, the month of love, kindness, compassion. And this month I am going to follow a theme and it is simply this. 14 Ways to Normalize Self Love. Why 14? Well, duh, the 14th of February is Valentine's Day. So cliched. Maybe, but that is not the point."
2025-02-0405 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Getting Curious in 2025| 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And I feel there is a need for us to be curious at times, a need for us to ask the right questions, ask questions that we often don't seek answers for, and we brush them under the carpet. So in the spirit of curiosity, what are your thoughts? What do you think about curiosity? Is it something that is misplaced, placed, given the old, you know, the very famous quote that curiosity killed the cat?"
2025-01-2904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | C for Control, C for a Change| 5 minutes of authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "What would be those things that you could have let go? You could have, you know, completely turned the other way and said, you know what? I don't need to worry about this. But you didn't. And then question yourself and ask, why didn't you? Typically, the reason why we cannot let go of control because it makes us feel important. It makes us feel needed."
2024-11-1904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Authenticity and comfort zones | Five minutes of authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "What that does is immediately disarm your opponent within quotes because they know you are open minded enough to consider the counterarguments. So what that does is it puts them off the defensive and suddenly you're on the same team talking about the same issue from different perspectives. So think about it. Same issue, different perspectives versus thinking they're two different issues is a huge mindset shift."
2024-11-1204 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | #LifeLesson | A life lesson I learned from a school teacherClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And with that, she left me in charge of 34 students who were looking at me as dumbfounded as I was looking at them. Because here is the girl who doesn't speak, standing in front of the class, being given the responsibility to make sure they are doing their job."
2024-11-1204 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Permission to be | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "What it is about comfort that prevents us from letting go, because we all have to want to let go of negative emotions. We want to let go of things that hold us back, or relationships that seem to take drain as, or conversations that seem futile. But even before getting into those three c's, this last week has given me some reason to think about a very different word. And it is related to this is the word permission."
2024-10-1604 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Three Cs Why We Can't "let go" | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "So sometimes it is hard to let go of a pain, because if we did, we might be less loyal to the person we are grieving for. If we let go of something that deepens our connection to them, even at the cost of hurting us, it holds us back. So there you have it. The three c's. Control, conscience, and comfort. Thank you. This is Preetha with five minutes of authenticity."
2024-10-0904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | You're really not that special, but... | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "We are special enough to know that things that should matter will matter. Things where we are going to make a difference will come to our door and we will be able to impact that. So it was a beautiful synthesis of our ego from the perspective of ourselves versus others. So it didn't, at the end of the day, matter what others thought of you, right?"
2024-10-0204 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Uncomfortably Numb | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "The last time I had spoken about the light and the wound, I am getting a little deeper into that, because those wounds that we referred to last time, the ones that I was talking about, are precisely those times of discomfort, right? Look around you. Look at your own life."
2024-09-2504 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of authenticity with Pritha| How does one make friends around here?Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And I think it is a combination of courage and kindness that ultimately sees us through in this world. Because no matter what choices we make, if they're hard ones, we make them with courage. If there are ones that need us to make uncomfortable conversations, we can do that with kindness. Two middle schoolers in the girl's bathroom had a conversation that lasted less than a minute, probably. But I'm so grateful to my daughter for sharing it because it gives me an insight into our minds."
2024-08-2104 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Five minutes of Authenticity with Pritha | Of Indian Independence and what not !Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "They don't do it for the viciousness and vileness and all of the baser instincts that cannot be defined in the books or in dictionaries. I am beyond appalled that we live at a time where I am raising my daughter to lose her innocence and understand all this when she should not even have to think about it. I am appalled that when we have sons, we are telling them about all of the things that they have to keep in mind when the only word is respect."
2024-08-1504 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Chaos exists when there is control | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "People who thrive under pressure, people who thrive under various life situations do so because that is what drives them. This may be contradictory to many, this may resonate with many, but this is a safe space, so I'm throwing it out there. What are your thoughts? Do individuals who like a sense of control, who like to be in control, find their lives chaotic? Is there a correlation? Have I got this completely wrong, or is there some truth in what I'm saying?"
2024-04-1904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | I 5 minutes of Authenticity with Pritha| used to believe this as a child. I was so wrong...Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Even though children are very kind, they don't always have the understanding of the difference of perspectives, which I hope we can develop as adults. And finally, we're very set in, you know, understanding what moral standards are and what that moral compass is. And as we grow older, we by no means deviate from it, but we understand that those standards or morality as defined by one person may be very different from those defined by another."
2024-04-1904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Miles to go before I sleep...| 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "When they think about their rights, about their responsibilities, about parenting, about motherhood, or the lack thereof, their emotions are the same. When they decide to stay home to take care of a child, or decide to take on the executive role in an organization, they think the same thoughts. They have very similar dreams. They may look different and sound different."
2024-03-2604 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Nice Vs. Kind | 5 minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And they know the people who are their residents or the families from where they come, they think of them as their only option, and they know they have that ability to almost demand this position that they have, and they feel that these families can't do without them. So they are not humble enough or righteous enough to make those changes. Now, why do I say this nice and kindness business here?"
2024-03-2204 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | To hold on or let go… that is the question | 5 minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "You do take charge. That is one aspect of it. The other aspect is being in a position of knowing that you cannot control every reaction. You cannot always control your circumstances. You cannot always control the outcome of an action. So my question then, or my constant inquiry, is that how do these overlap each other?"
2024-03-2204 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with Pritha |Am I no longer credible?Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And how many do you know who are not from the very famous colleges, who probably don't have that great record or standing, and yet the ordinary people, so called, who are not from those prestigious certified league places, seem to be doing okay in their lives because of what they bring to the table and who they are and how they contribute to society, right? So that's my stance on this."
2024-03-1104 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with Pritha | What does a woman choose to forget?Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "She chooses to forget or deal with a memory of losing a child or a spouse or a parent, not in the way that she forgets it, but she puts her ability to live in the present, to embrace the current, to forget elements of the past that bring her down. She chooses to forget all that her race was subjected to for centuries, no matter where in the world she belonged to, and dwell more on what is to come."
2024-03-1004 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with Pritha |Phenomenal Woman #HerStoryClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Hello, beautiful people. This is Pritha and five minutes of authenticity with me today continues with the theme we started yesterday. That is hashtag, her story or anything and everything that celebrates women this month. One of the things I come across a lot, both as woman and as a life coach, is the amount of negative self talk we subject ourselves to. They're almost a permanent prison in our minds that prevent us from being all we can be."
2024-03-0604 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with Pritha | Of Women making historyClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Over the years, I have been blessed enormously, magnificently, to know and know of women who have made such remarkable differences in big and small ways in our lives that have touched us knowingly, unknowingly, sometimes inadvertently, and sometimes we may not even be aware."
2024-03-0603 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with Pritha| CourageClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "We talk about people who were path breaking, who showed courage in various fields of endeavor. And I am glad those examples exist for us to be inspired by. I am glad they exist for our children to learn from. But I'm going to talk about a different kind of courage, the quiet courage that comes with the day to day life and living. Today I had the opportunity of doing a workshop on authenticity in a very reputed organization."
2024-03-0104 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with Pritha | One thing that always fills me with wonder...Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "When my little girl was very little, I noticed that, of course, but I have also, prior to she was, when she was born and even after, and even now, it is so, so disarmingly beautiful to watch a child be in a lot of trauma. You know, whether it's hunger, whether it's irritation, whether it's lack of sleep, whatever it is in their little world, it's a lot of trauma."
2024-02-2704 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of Auhenticity with Pritha | A project that I could not complete...Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "But as I thought of this prompt more and more, I felt maybe that was the reason why the pieces, even though they were forming this beautiful skyline and I could see parts of the city and the lights and everything, something just didn't add up. And I remember my daughter, when she was little, she had a nine piece puzzle of putting the Alphabet together or something like that, and there was a piece that went missing. And so her puzzle had this big gaping hole."
2024-02-2604 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with Pritha| A great book that I read recently...Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And I found this book today which was gifted by a dear friend that I had come across many years ago. But just having it gifted by someone very, very special to me, I thought I should talk about it. So this is a book that I read recently. It is called what do you do with an idea? It is a children's book written by Kobe Yamada, illustrated by May Bessam, and it is a New York Times bestseller."
2024-02-2404 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."| 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "Not many of us have lived through wars. Not many of us have lived through situations that tested us as families, as friends, as human beings at so many levels. It was a time where we went a level deeper into ourselves. And if we were honest, we saw ourselves for what we truly felt and created within that space and time. It was a time where we consciously made choices that affected others in multiple ways. It was a time to be selfless and yet be selfish."
2024-02-1604 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Why am I not able to accept AI ? | 5 minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And then as I look at the texts and the prose and versions of things that are written by AI, say, in my context, the presentation notes of a training manual, or the description for a particular item that I might want to write in a blog, I almost feel that I need to qualify at the end of my writings that hey, this was by yours truly, good or bad, not by AI."
2024-02-1204 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Lines from a poem that I can never forget.| 5 Minutes of Authenticity with Pritha..Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "This prompt can only bring one poem to mind every time I've closed my eyes and thought of lines that have given me every reason to go through a bad day or focus on what I needed to focus on. They are from in Victus by William Ernest Henley. And the lines are, beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade, and yet the menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid."
2024-02-0904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | The best things in life are (not) free... | 5 minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "It is much more than you can quantify, which is why it's priceless. A freebie is often also associated with something that you don't deserve or you cannot earn. You just have been lucky. A freebie is something that is spontaneous happenstance, whatever. The best things in life, if you think back, aren't always a matter of luck. There is an inordinate amount of blessings that you have received at that moment by receiving that wonderful best thing that happened."
2024-02-0804 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | To be or … to do? - 5 minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "It is something that I have always thought about, and just talking to him the other day helped me clarify a bunch of things in my head and thinking about whether we are doers more. And then there are people who want to be. Now, in my life coaching journey, that is a very pertinent conversation that comes up when talking to someone or when they're describing events in their life."
2024-02-0604 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Two types of people in the world - 5 minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "So if you just bump it to someone on the road or the checkout clerk or a random stranger on the plane, I seem to make a lot of friends with random strangers in airports. But I digress. Their stories are phenomenal. One time I remember I was flying from somewhere, and there was this older gentleman. He would have had to been, yeah, he was in the. We started talking, and he mentioned how he joined a running club when he was 65."
2024-02-0504 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | This moment is temporary - 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And so a truly spiritual person is someone who is never truly out of this world with immense joy and completely shattered with immense sorrow, because they have realized that the moment is indeed temporary. As much as the joyful moments can last forever, the sadness will not last forever. The sad moments won't either. And so, on a Monday morning, this was a wonderful reminder with these real life examples to me for a few things."
2024-02-0504 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 12th Fail - #Restart - 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "I love this prompt because I have been wanting to write about this particular movie and I just haven't gotten around to it. But I cried copiously and profusely during and after this film called 12th fail. It is a hindi movie by a very, very reputed, renowned director, Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It is not the typical Bollywood film, but if you have seen slum dog, it's something like that. But the difference is, this is based on a true story."
2024-02-0204 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | Travel Stories - 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "He sang quesarasara in Spanish, and she took that in. And then the older gentleman kind of put his hand on her head and blessed her, and it was the most beautiful thing. So there is never any end of unexpected experiences that happen when we travel, because human beings are so incredible. The last one I remember is of a russian housekeeping lady in our hotel in Amsterdam. And we were talking about the Ukraine stuff at that time a lot. And she stopped by."
2024-01-3004 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | P.A.U.S.E - 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "This is not something just because I've written the article. I don't think I have mastered the technique by any remote chance. But yes, it is a conscious thought in my mind and so I would love your inputs on what works for you, what does not. And also, if you wanted to read my entire article, just check me out on medium. It's under Pritha lal. P-R-I-T-H-A-L-A-L. I've started to write more and more and I'm hoping I will continue the practice."
2024-01-2904 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with Pritha - what is the best gift I’ve received? .Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "They haven't learned to put words so that they are construed or misconstrued in certain ways. They write their hearts. And so this is probably the most accurate description of what she thinks of me or thought of me at that age, and the reason she loves me. Right. And nothing can be more real as a gut check than a list that is from the eyes of a five, six, seven year old. And so the reason this gift is special is because we all grow up."
2024-01-2704 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes Authenticity with Pritha - India On My MindClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "And then there's the wheel of life, the 24 spokes, the blue wheel. And those colors have to be interpreted the way I have always understood them, without any color taking precedence over the other or being misconstrued. To me, India is my home, not because I was born there, because anybody who has traveled there will realize the country has the biggest heart. She is much more than the politics around her. She's much more than her diversity. She's much more than her civilization."
2024-01-2604 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 Minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "You will remain who you are, true to yourself. If you know and believe that you can. You will learn at some point in your life the power of the word manifest. And I'm learning this 40 years later, Pritha, and trust me, it is amazing. You will question this and think, oh, she's got it all. In Hindsight, everything is easier. I'm the one who's struggling. Yes, you are."
2024-01-2504 min
5 Minutes Of Authenticity With Pritha@lifecoachPritha | 5 minutes of Authenticity with PrithaClick here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "They want to feel they matter. They want to feel purposeful. They want to feel that they contribute to whatever they want to contribute to in a meaningful manner. And so this thought grew in my head as I was looking to develop a niche for my life. Coaching and authenticity kept coming back as my word. The thing is, when you live in different cultures in your own country, as many of you might know, India is very, very diverse."
2024-01-2304 min
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2024-01-2200 min