Losing weight & what I learnt - Intro
After a couple of half hearted attempts at losing weight, I finally decided to embark on a long journey to lose weight about 3 years back. This time I was very serious, since my extra kilos were causing some health issues. The first year was not so great as I lost only 2 kgs. Over the next 2 years I managed to lose about 18 kgs. Over a 3 year period I came down from an overweight 86 kgs to a correct 66 kgs. This helped me a lot to reduce or resolve my health issues. It also made me feel light. Sometime back, as I sat on the beachfront in Besant Nagar, I started to go over this journey. To my surprise I found a lot of things I learnt as person. My next question was could I translate or relate these to leadership lessons. The next hour at the beach was spent wondering how I could do it, if I could do it, and will it be useful to people. Over the next few weeks, I am planning to write about my learnings. How a journey to lose weight can contribute to learnings for a leader…