Life Principles
Key Principles That Have Shaped Me [My Life]
Life Lessons I Have Learnt Along The Way
1. NEVER LEAVE YOUR ROOTS. [AUTHENTICITY] - Remaining true to where you come from keeps you grounded. Roots keep you grounded. Your progress is not relative to others but it is relative to who you are, where you come from, what was your starting point- your roots give you that reference.
2. LIFE IS A MULTI ACT PLAY. [OPTIMISM] - There will be one more act. Sometimes one failure bogs us down. We start to see this as the only chance we had that we missed. There is always more to life than just one failure. Optimism keeps you going.
3. YOUR JOURNEY IS YOURS, YOUR PAINS ARE YOURS. [HARD WORK] - Your journey is yours, your pains are yours. Success is shared. It is important to have people along with you on your journey, but it is still your journey. Everyone else is dispensable, but not you.
4. QUALITY MATTERS. [EXCELLENCE] - Set your own standards,set your own bar. If you are good, you are good everywhere.
5. IT’S ABOUT PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE. [RELATIONSHIPS] - Relationships are bedrock of your existence and happiness. Relationships provide you warmth and cushion when chips are down, and gives you a reason to celebrate and work for.
6. GIVE. [GIVING] - The more you give, the more you create. Currency in which you get might be different than the currency in which you give. But you will always get. Also, the type you give is the type you get. Give good, get good. Give bad, get bad.
Learner for life, learner of life
We are dynamic beings living in a dynamic world. The day we stop to learn, stop trying new things we will start to become fossiled and the process of obsolescence sets in.
Nav Qirti Bio
Nav Qirti is Chief Executive of Ideactio, a Singapore headquartered Innovation and Service Design firm, and co-founder of School of MetaSkills - school of creative leadership and future skills.
For more than 14 years he has been consulting organisations on transformational projects in areas like innovation, business strategy and service design.
He has extensively worked with Govt agencies in areas like future envisioning, organisational culture, sustainability and citizen activation.
He is an ACLP certified trainer. He is also an appointed Civil Services College trainer where he runs a regular programme on ‘Innovation Sandboxing’ for multiple Govt agencies.
He is increasingly spending more time in researching and developing the new field of MetaSkills through School of MetaSkills.
