Bob Miglani - Embrace the Chaos: How India Taught Me to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

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In this noisy, fast-paced world, it is hard not to get swept away by the demands, anxieties, and challenges that daily come down upon us. Embrace the Chaos shows us that only by opening our minds and our hearts to lifes wonderful unpredictability can we truly live. It is a wise and welcome book.

Marcus Buckingham, author of First, Break all the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths

Bob has offered an insightful and thought-provoking guide to navigating times of profound change.

Ian Read, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc.

In a world where change, uncertainty, and continual reinvention have become the new norm, Bob Miglani takes us on a powerful and optimistic journey of quite literally embracing the chaos and organically transforming the future from threat into opportunity and optimism. Read Embrace the Chaos and believe it.

Henry S. Lodge, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Younger Next Year and Younger Next Year for Women

Over 2,500 years ago, the Buddha taught his followers about the impermanent nature of existenceexplaining how everything is constantly changing, ever flowing, eternally in flux. But our Western minds crave stability, certainty, predictability, and control. Give it up, Bob Miglani tells us in his new book. Your longing for control is futile. The truth of reality is chaos. Learn to go with the flow. Relaxand dance with the chaos. The Buddha would agree. Therein lies freedom and happiness.

BJ Gallagher, coauthor of Being Buddha at Work

If we are going to continue to thrive in these times of profound change, we must learn how to embrace the chaos. This is a most compelling book that offers men and women everywhere hope, inspiration, and courage.

Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State

We all can benefit from Bobs experience in learning to embrace the chaos of our modern life. This book is enormously helpful to me in navigating the everyday challenges of being a husband, father, and NFL official.

Carl Johnson, the NFLs first full-time on-field game official

Whether were trying to transform education or change our own lives, its about embracing chaos. Bobs wonderful book helps show us how to move purposefully and happily through the complex nature of work and life.

John Katzman, founder of The Princeton Review, 2U, and Noodle

Embrace this book! Bob articulates so perfectly the feelings we all have of uncertainty in life. His fascinating stories and unique observations offer a positive-thinking picture of what we need to get unstuck and move forward successfully.

Lynda Bekore, Managing Editor, SmallBizClub.com , and Huffington Post blogger

Embrace the chaos is not just a mantra for managementits a mantra for life. We can all learn from and enjoy this simple but beautifully written book. It is, without question, worth the read.

John J. Connolly, EdD, President and CEO, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., and former President, New York Medical College

With a jolt, Bobs writing forces us to rethink our lives and transform ourselvesto step back from the daily roller coaster of life, savor every passing minute with a free spirit, and discover unlimited potential in ourselves! An easy-to-read manual of life!

Deepak Ahuja, CFO, Tesla Motors

EMBRACE THE CHAOS

How India Taught Me to Stop
Overthinking and Start Living

BOB MIGLANI

Embrace the Chaos

Copyright 2013 by Bob Miglani

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Paperback print edition ISBN 978-1-60994-825-2

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Interior design: Laura Lind Design. Copy editor: Elissa Rabellino. Cover design: Kirk DouPonce, DogEared Design. Proofreader: Henrietta Bensussen. Indexer: Erica Caridio. Production: Linda Jupiter Productions.

This book is dedicated to all who feel stuck and who overthink about an uncertain future. I believe in the power of our minds and bodies to take positive steps to make a lasting contribution to the work we do, to the people we love, and the lives we lead. I hope the stories in this book serve as a reminder to keep moving forward because our voices, our words, our work, our love, and our actions are needed right here and right now.

Our lives are more chaotic than wed like. And thats not going to change.

Finding meaning in the busy routines of work and life is never easy. Our daily lives often lack a sense of purposea reason to get up in the morningand appear to serve no apparent end. That can change. This book helps us make that change.

To change, we need to push the Pause button, to see beneath the surface to the place where we know not just with the mind but also with the heart. There are steps we can take to enhance our ability to pause and reflect on our lives.

Bob Miglani offers us simple, practical steps that will help us overcome our hurry sicknessbeing stressed out, burned out, or just plain stuck.

But first, lets look at the cost of hurry sickness.

When I reflect upon the necessity for introspection in my coaching work, my clients respond, Who has the time? or Im too busy. That is precisely the problem. Hurry sicknessalways going somewhere, never being anywhereis numbing our conscious awareness of whats really going on in our lives. Our very sense of humanityour full presence in our own livesis being hijacked by busyness.