At BrilliantRead Media, we always strive to bring meaningful and powerful stories from India and around the world to empower and motivate our growing community. As part of this endeavour, we invited Dr. Sreeveni V for an exclusive interview with us. Dr. Sreeveni is an Entrepreneur, Leader, Trainer, Educator, Author, Image Consultant, Influencer and Change Enabler. Let’s learn more about her incredible journey, her background, and her valuable advice for our growing community!
Excerpts from our exclusive interview with Dr. Sreeveni V:
We are aware of your contributions to the ecosystem; talk us through your background and your journey, please;
In 2017, there was a trigger in my life which guided me to discover my self-worth. By then, I was 49yrs. That’s when I decided to get my life back, the previous authentic, dynamic and versatile myself as a child who I used to be.
Till then I wasn’t living my life the way I wanted to. I was living by other’s standards. Very duty-bound, compromising, and adjusting always. I was very sincere and prioritized others more than myself. I ended up doing what others in the family wanted me to do since my childhood, just to please them. I completely lost myself.
Upon self-introspection, I realized that I did not know how to articulate my opinion. I realized I am the reason for my stagnancy in life. And that’s when I decided to restart my life. Better late than never!”
The 3 things that I started to implement to move myself ahead are:
(1) To value myself and pay attention to my needs.
(2) I don’t need to agree with what I don’t want to.
(3) Allow people to know who I am and respect me and my time.
And I started to implement it immediately, the very next moment.
By applying these 3 principles, I have started experiencing the transformation within.
It has also resulted in a growth mindset with a winning attitude, which is helping me add value to others as well.
Presently, I am an Author, an Image Specialist and a Transformational catalyst, focussing mainly on Self-transformations.
With nearly 3 decades of experience in the field of education, initially as a Physics Lecturer, now as a Trainer, Coach and Facilitator especially in personal growth and personality development, enabling people to unleash and enhance their true potential to create their best First Impressions.
My Signature Module, “Self-worth As Your First Impression” has made an impact for around 3,500 people to lead a better version of their lives and still ticking on…
As of now, I am empowering people with “Self-Image Management” to become proactive in the process of evaluating and enhancing the impact of their appearance and their interpersonal skills, also enabling people to excel, to develop into extraordinary leaders by enhancing their abilities.
Could you please share with us about your books?
My first book – Self-worth As Your First Impression
This book broadly addresses 3 segments.
Firstly, discover who you are, Your Self-worth!
Tap into your innate qualities through working on the worksheets provided. Unleash your true potential. Your strengths and inherent talents.
Next, get to know about how first impressions are made and learn the ‘Art of Creating First Impressions’ as well.
Finally, integrate the two. Your Self-worth as your First Impression. Project your inner core on the external. Play your Inside Out Game.
In this book, I have also shared ways of enhancing IQ, EQ, PQ, and AQ. What it means by Power Presence, Power Dressing, Power Etiquette.
Work on the worksheets to go ahead and WIN THE WORLD.
As you climb up the ladder, It’s more about your sustenance there.
You will get prepared for ‘SUCCESS’.
Learn the ‘Essentials of Success’
Build on your ‘Inner Strengths’
Create a ‘Visual Aura’ around YOU!
Present yourself the ‘Best way’
MASTER YOURSELF!
CREATE YOUR BEST FIRST IMPRESSIONS.
BECOME A BETTER VERSION OF YOURSELF.
SHOW THE WORLD, THAT
YOUR SELF-WORTH IS YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION!
My Second book – 100 Guiding Tips on Self-worth
Develop a bullet-proof Self-worth, use this pocketbook to create it for you.
Self-worth is the value you place on yourself as an individual.
Self-worth is holding up your head high, regardless of the situations you are facing.
Self-worth is about valuing who you are inherently and not about the outside actions that are dictating how you are made to feel.
It’s about how you perceive yourself.
This book reveals how comparing, evaluating, and criticizing ourselves constantly, attacks our self-worth leading to low self-esteem issues that are not allowing us to progress ahead, and how to overcome it.
This pocketbook will help you progress ahead to break those barriers and thresholds that are holding you back as shackles.
This book helps you build and discover your inherent worth through compassion towards the self, generosity, integrity and challenging your negative beliefs.
This book reiterates that ‘Our self-worth is about our values, ethics, principles that are worthy of trust, we deserve attention to ourselves, our presence to be felt within’.
This pocketbook is an assimilation of my personal experiences in the form of quotes along with an inspiration from my mentors and famous personalities quotes that helped her me shape up.
Practice these as positive affirmations for yourself and see the magic it creates.
How did you discover your passion as an ‘Author’?
As a child, I had this ability of reading and writing skills. I was my English teacher’s pet in school, and I was acknowledged for my contribution and my language-learning skills.
After 2017, when I enrolled into different programs to upskill and upgrade myself for my personal growth, I integrated my life experiences with my certification courses and created my Signature Module – Self-worth As Your First Impressions.
I could see that this module is making a difference in the lives of the participants who are enrolling into my workshops, it was then that I decided to take it to a large scale by expanding in the form of a book to bring more visibility to the empowering idea.
As I was writing my first book, me journalling about my affirmations, inspiring thoughts from my mentors, quotes of great leaders became my second book.
How do you manage to keep going despite the challenges? What drives you?
Yes, challenges are there for everyone. I too faced a lot of challenges, and they continue to be there. What’s life without a challenge.
Yet, the burning desire to go ahead – ‘come what may’ keeps me going ahead. There have been a few pauses in my work, when circumstances did not favour or some family priorities, but they do not deter my efforts to progress ahead. The pace may vary, though.
Ultimately, how you face and deal your challenges is what you become; I vouch from my personal experiences. We are what we are based on our decisions. My future drives me.”
Who do you believe has been the biggest source of motivation in your daily life?
My children are the biggest source of motivation in my daily life. I learn a lot from them. My son 26yrs and my daughter 22yrs.
The way they are handling issues, getting clarity of themselves and where they want to be – pushes me to perform every day.
I love the present generation for the freedom they experience to be themselves consciously. The kind of opportunities laid before them, I feel it is much sorted.
I am happy and have work in progress to get empowered to be on par with the present generation to live life the way we design.
What are some of the strategies that you believe has helped you grow as a person?
> To become Self-aware
> Identifying my strengths
> Working on myself
> Taking the initiative to update and upgrade myself.
> My life is my responsibility, and I am committed to it.
> Belief in myself and owning it.
You are always positive and motivated, what keeps you going?
My attitude towards life keeps me positive and motivated always.
Earlier my thought process was that – I am not good enough. I felt I was a failure.
I realized every failure has a success just beside it and I was not acknowledging it.
The moment I discovered this; my frame of mind shifted to look at things positively.
I have identified my strengths and project more of it. My innate qualities and God-gifted talents. On self-introspection, I realized of what I am capable of and execute it.
I love my me-time, to spend my time with myself. I am never bored of myself. I enjoy the bliss in my company. It keeps me going.
Please share with us, how do you motivate your clients?
By being an example myself. People relate to your story if they can feel it. My failures, upsets are common to my clients and they relate to them.
Next, if I have been able to overcome it – then it should not be difficult for you!
This positive frame of mind helps them to break those invisible shackles and start taking action towards their growth.
What are the business mantras you have embraced as you sought to establish your success story?
– Business is simple, do not complicate it – if you want to be authentic
– Respect every step, own it up and contribute your best.
– Detachment with attachment – be consistent of yourself, do not compare.
In your opinion what are the keys to success?
Success is relative. What success means to each has its own relativity.
For me success is, if I have contributed to other’s breakthroughs and have empowered at least 1% towards their happiness – I consider myself being successful.”
To be successful, one needs to go through the grind of failure, where failure is a part of success. Its not opposite to success. Success happens only when we have taken the experiences of innumerable failures and applied in a different methodology.
As long as we are consistent with what we are committed to with our belief system, success follows. We need not chase success.
What advice would you give students and young professionals who want to have a successful career?
For students and young professionals:
(a) Be true to yourself
(b) Evaluate yourself of your performance
(c) Dig deep into, what’s that you want and go ahead to achieve it.
(d) Identify what you love to do most, see the market value of it and start contributing.
Ultimately your passion to do what you want will take you to places.
Last but not least, what about your journey makes it satisfying/exciting?
From a person who has been blessed with a great family, support system and yet did not know what to do with herself – to a person who can empower people to become a better version of themselves. This itself is most satisfying and exciting.
My transformation is bringing in more transformations in people causing a ripple effect. Gratitude to the Universe.
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