Excerpt from "90 Days to Life"

“You are the master of perfect timing, Arjun. Keep talking. I’ll listen to you instead of the engines screaming.” I grip the armrests tightly. Arjun continues. “She was feeling excellent until she felt cramping in her entire body. Her muscles were breaking down into clumps of cells, like a Lego sculpture decomposing into bricks. Her guts quickly changed shape, becoming narrower, shorter, more convoluted. Her tracheal tubes became bigger than before. The breathing tube that delivered oxygen to her muscles had reattached itself to her torso. Everything in her world was turning upside down.

Does this sound familiar, Lindsay?” “Totally,” I say.

I know that feeling of being turned upside down, like my world is ending. “I’m listening.”

“Yet she was blissful and hopeful. At times, she had her doubts, but she trusted with Discipline and ‘Ananda.’ She believed there is meaning for each and every one of these changes. She intuitively knew that change is the only thing that is certain and it is all part of her emergence. In the ultimate moment of truth, she remembered what her mother had told her. Have a little more Faith. The pain mounted and became unbearable. But she kept imagining being free and beautiful. It was nearly impossible not to give up. And just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, she turned into a butterfly.”

“I had no idea how powerful that transformation was until now,” I say, staring straight at him.

“Fools learn nothing from their mistakes, ordinary people learn from their mistakes, extraordinary people learn from other people’s mistakes. What did you learn from the butterfly?” Arjun folds his hands, and I realize with a start that we have already taken off.

Thanks to Arjun for the distraction.

“Um…there is no substitute for inner transformation? Dreams cannot be fulfilled without dedicated action,” I say, fairly certain this is the answer.

“Yes, you cannot become healthy just by dreaming and walking between the living room couch and the kitchen fridge while binge-watching Netflix. But trust me, I don’t recommend killing yourself with hard work, either. I am all for intelligent actions. Those twenty percent of actions that yield eighty percent of results or fulfillment. As a business person, you have only two types of intelligent actions; high-profit activities and high-impact activities.

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Ruble Chandy is the author of 90 Days to Life – A journey from turmoil to Triumph. He took on his epic journey of spiritual pursuit at the early age of 14 and started his first business at 19. He immediately realized that business and professional success need to be a spiritual success and self-fulfillment; meaning how you succeed must be by positively impacting the lives of others. Chandy Business Solutions was founded to help entrepreneurs, small businesses, and professionals to breakthrough their stress, anxiety and overwhelm so that they can accelerate their business, career or lifestyle. As an author, he saw the ability to communicate through stories and metaphors to accelerate anyone’s journey out of the darkness of learned helplessness to a truly successful career and a joyful life. Hence 90 Days to Life was born.  Buy the book- https://www.amazon.com/dp/1094718556/