Positive Passion

Passion is the keyword for Shivani Gupta. And beware, she may inject you with a very high dose of it when you listen to her. So much so that you might get charged into abandoning whatever you are doing without passion and pursue what you really want in life.

This is exactly what happened to the first publisher who meant to print Shivani's new book Passion @ Work. She read the book and quit her job knowing that she was not meant to do printing.

A business coach, international speaker, experienced board member, Fairfax Small Columnist and TV Presenter, Shivani has just released a book, Passion @ Work, and her new TV series is being telecast by SBS on Wednesday nights at 8.00 pm.

"My TV series has reached .75 million people but my main goal is to touch one billion people," she told Indus Age. This clearly means more books, more TV shows and she is still working on how to achieve this but we know she will because her voice conveys it when she says - "whatever it takes".

She has been covered extensively by various mainstream media: Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Newcastle Herald, Sun Herald, Canberra Times, The West Australian, The Weekend Australian, Lifestyle, The Adelaide Advertiser and 35 radio stations.

In 2002, this successful employee of BHP felt what she was doing was not her calling so she quit her job and just did what she believed in and here we are reading all about it because it became 'history'.

Talking about her TV series she says, "The books was released a day before the first show and it is on a UK-based series for start up businesses. It's about an idea and how it's implemented into a business. I guide, coach and help them to be sustainable."

She says 82 percent of businesses fail during their first three years so they obviously need help in management and development.

When Shivani is doing what she calls work (which does not even feel like work by her own admission), she inspires people, motivates them, challenges them, and tries to transform them into finding their passion.

She is always abuzz with passion and she has got 20 possible titles for her next book. She spoke with Indus Age just before flying out to Fiji for a lecture assignment in front of the Fijian Congress of Accountants, Politicians and CEOs. She can talk about local issues in Fiji, she said her goal is to inspire them to think on a national, or maybe even at the global level.

"I try to change people's thinking, try to find what their paradigms are, why they do things in a certain way and try to challenge them and make them do things in a better way," she said.

Her speaking assignments are more than just speeches, she gets people to think and even makes them unwind with a bit of Bollywood dancing.

She loves to surround herself with positivity which comes from positive people that she keeps in her feel good folder. It holds 154 items so far, with feedback from different people she has seen one on one, who have seen her speaking, people who have gone out and changed careers and quit their jobs to do something different with passion.

"I love it, I absolutely love it, it doesn't even feel like work. A very high percentage of people are not doing what they want to do and my purpose is to help them find their passion," she said.

If you are suddenly feeling passionate about your work, she recommends you hang around with positive people and avoid negative people and do this all the time to re-energise yourself.