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Continue reading →: Day 27 | Joy Is a Renewable Energy Source
In VibeShift sessions, joy often arrives quietly: through shared stories, small victories, and unexpected laughter. It renews teams faster than any motivational speech. In schools, I saw the joy felt during inter-house events and morning assemblies.In one workplace, joy appeared in celebrations and everyday humour that kept the team close-knit.…
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Continue reading →: Day 26 | Let Energy Match Values
Values must be felt, not announced. At Muhyiddin School, dignity is felt in how teachers treat students. At Medica, compassion is felt in how nurses speak to patients. At Damas, respect is felt in how colleagues support one another under pressure. Energy is how values become real. When we value…
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Continue reading →: A Small Moment. A Loud Reminder.
The other at a shop, I heard a shop assistant calling out to a Bangladeshi labour worker in a sharp, impatient tone. Nothing about the situation required it – except that he was a foreign labourer. And that hurt to witness. We don’t admit it often, but this happens far…
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Continue reading →: Day 25 | Kindness Resets the Room
I have seen kindness has reset countless rooms – classrooms, boardrooms, staff rooms, and hospital corridors. In one VibeShift circle, a single sentence “Thank you for showing up today” – dissolved anxiety in the group. In one of my earler workplaces, kindness towards a stressed colleague often turned overwhelm into…
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Continue reading →: Day 24 | Emotional Regulation Is a Leadership Skill
In one of our VibeShift sessions, a participant once said, “When the leader is calm, we feel safe.” That is emotional regulation in action. I remember, in Lhaviyani, there were moments when frustration rose among the team – yet whenever the mood was regulated gently, conflicts dissolved instead of escalating.…
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Continue reading →: Uncomfortable truths are rarely welcome.But they are always useful.
Today I witnessed something that alarmed me – something I’ve seen in many workplaces, and even homes. People avoid uncomfortable truths. Especially those people in positions of authority. Not because they are bad people. But because truth, when it arrives, disturbs the artificial peace they have built around themselves. It…
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Continue reading →: Day 23 | Rest Is Leadership Maintenance
In one of our VibeShift, many said, “We give so much, there’s nothing left for us.” Their tired eyes told the truth: caring without rest drains the soul. Rest is leadership maintenance – not indulgence. During my days at Damas, the most grounded decisions came after moments of stillness, not…
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Continue reading →: Day 22 | The Power of Small Daily Lifts
Every VibeShift session begins with a tiny action: a breath, a smile, a gratitude moment; and it always transforms the room. Small lifts carry extraordinary power. In my years at Lhaviyani Atoll Education Centre, culture shifted not through policies, but through everyday acts: greeting teachers warmly, checking on students, ending…
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Continue reading →: Day 21 | The Grace of Letting Go
As COO, I once carried a disagreement for days – replaying it, personalizing it, letting it drain me. Then, during prayer, I felt a quiet whisper in my heart: “Let it go.” Not for them – but for my own peace. When I let go and moved on I found…
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Continue reading →: Day 19 | Protecting Peace Is Productivity
There was a time I accepted every meeting, every request, every call – thinking that availability was service. I learned, painfully, that an exhausted leader helps no one. When exhaustion is the energy that I carry, every interaction becomes an irritation. I remember such a day when the irritation got…
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Continue reading →: Mission Possible: The Ripple of Reflection
Reflections from Medica’s Mission Possible Journey Sometimes, culture shifts not through grand programs: but through a few quiet moments of reflection. At Medica Hospital, the “Mission Possible” journey showed just that. Each day, team members took a brief pause to read, reflect, and respond to a simple question.No forms. No…
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Continue reading →: Day 18 | Care Is Not a Weakness
Early in in my leadership days, I used to hide my care behind formality – thinking leaders needed to be tough first, kind later. But real life taught me otherwise. I once visited a staff member who lost a parent. I sat with him silently. No advice. No solutions. Just…
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Continue reading →: Day 9 – Lift with Love
Love is not soft leadership. It’s strong, steady, and deeply human.To lift with love is to lead with dignity: to choose compassion over control, understanding over authority, and courage over convenience. It’s what turns a workplace into a community, and a team into a family of purpose. In The Happiness…
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Continue reading →: Day 17 | Presence Is the Best Gift
In the All Hearts Meet-Up, one coach said, “Just knowing you’re really here makes us feel lighter.” She wasn’t talking about ideas – she was talking about presence. Presence is not about the hours we spend, but the attention we give. For many years I was physically in meetings but…
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Continue reading →: Day 7 – From Pressure to Purpose
Pressure is not the enemy. It’s a sign that we care. But without purpose, pressure becomes noise: heavy, restless, and unkind. Every leader knows that feeling: deadlines, expectations, the invisible weight of responsibility. Yet somewhere beneath it all lies a quiet truth: stress is energy waiting for meaning. Shawn Achor…
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