What is the Goldilocks Zone?

The Goldilocks Zone refers to the habitable zone around a star where the warmth is just right - not too hot and not too cold – for water to exist on a planet.

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How is the Goldilocks Zone relevant to us?

Using Goldilocks Zone as a metaphor, this zone is the perfect combination of conditions where you can make the best of your life. This book helps you make the best of your life on this planet in five steps.

Why get into one's Goldilocks Zone?

There are huge gaps between what people want to do versus what they end up doing. After spending a lot of time and energy, through trial and error, they tend to move to what they want to do. The earlier you get into your ‘Goldilocks Zone’ the better. When you operate in your Goldilocks Zone you will be actively creating the perfect combination of conditions to make the best of your life.

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Why did I write this book?

• For the last few years I’ve been thinking about writing on this topic, which is very close to my heart. The Covid and work from home phase possibly created the right conditions for me to write the book.
• I stumbled on this path of self-discovery rather late in life, in fact, my early forties. I would like to help my fellow beings go through this process earlier in their lives so that they may benefit from leveraging the outcomes for the larger part. The earlier one starts on this journey knowing what they would like it to be, the more fulfilling that journey will be.
• We potentially limit making the best of our life by not discovering our purpose, and not necessarily because of any limitation related to our abilities, capabilities, skills and competencies. Life becomes more focused, motivating and meaningful if we have identified the purpose.

Who is this book for?

• For someone who has completed their basic education and taken up a job / work assignment for a few years (have an idea of what they like and what they do not).
• For someone who feels restless and is missing something in their life.
• Someone who is not sure if they are on the right career path.
• Someone trying to understand themselves better by pursuing more meaning and fulfilment in life.
• Someone trying to carve out a long term path for themselves.

How does this book help you?

• What is my true calling?
• What am I passionate about?
• How do I do what I want to do?
• What is the purpose of my life?
• How do I find satisfaction in my life?

Are these questions keeping you awake at night? All these questions are interwoven. To address and resolve these questions I believe you should operate in your ‘Goldilocks Zone’. This book also provides tools to help you change what you are doing, change how you do it and more importantly, why are you doing it – helping you make the best of your life in 5 steps.

This book helps in not only exploring the purpose of one’s life but also taking the next step of identifying a strategy to fulfil that purpose. This journey is about moving from just making a living to making the best of life, not just having happy moments but instead, experiencing sustained satisfaction.

What are the outcomes / benefits one can expect reading this book?

• The opportunity to reflect, plan, implement and actually lead a more satisfying and fulfilling life.
• The book gives you the opportunity to step back and reflect. Pushes you to think about the purpose of your life, and plan steps to pursue your purpose.
• Helps you in balancing what you need to do and what you want to do.
• Helps you discover yourself and also helps you take support from others on aspects that you identify as gaps in fulfilling your purpose.
• Help you identify your turning points in life that may be the basis for your purpose.
• Helps you plan your implementation strategy in a structured manner.
• Helps you believe that nothing is impossible if you are really passionate about it.
• The earlier one starts on this journey knowing what they would like it to be, the more fulfilling that journey will be.
• Allows you and those in your influence zone to pursue what they are passionate about.
• Helps you assess if you are already in your ‘Goldilocks Zone’ or need to plan to get into.

What are the unique aspects about this book?

• Action oriented: There are many self-help books this one starts by focusing on ethics. While many books focus on helping you find your purpose or passion, this book does not stop there. It goes further to what skills are required, and most importantly helps develop and implement a strategic action plan.
• Research based: The observations in this book are supported with statistics from a custom research.
• Engaging: This is not a book meant to read through and put aside. This book engages you, helps you in self-reflection and self-discovery through worksheets and exercises across the book.
• Surprise yourself: The worksheets and exercises particularly help raise some intriguing questions. Try answering them and surprise yourself.

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About the Author

I am an expert at building high performing offshore operations, a Coach, Facilitator, Author and an Artist. My objective is to support you explore your full potential and discover aspects that help you live a satisfying life. This objective led me to write the book “How to get into your Goldilocks Zone”. This book describes five steps that help one make the best of their life on this planet.

I offer over three decades of experience in providing strategic guidance and operations leadership for off-shoring of shared services (Marketing, HR/Talent, Learning, Finance, IT services, Helpdesk) covering - transitioning, setting up of teams, service delivery/performance management, efficiency improvement, risk & compliance. I have worked extensively with internal and external customers in India, US and UK.

In my current role I serve as Vice President and lead the business support operations offshore delivery center (1,000+ team members) supporting North & South Europe geographies for various shared services. Prior to this role, I have lead marketing teams supporting the US, Australia, Canada and other global geographies.

I am a builder. I am passionate about building large offshore operations from scratch that deliver value beyond the cost arbitrage. In my recent roles I have built an operation of 600 plus team members from scratch in a span of five years. I find it rewarding to improve the efficiency and productivity of the operations. I have also restructured operations from the longer term strategic perspective. I apply my creativity, leadership and ability to navigate complex and abstract problems. My key strengths include understanding customer needs, building stakeholder relationships, engaging teams, delivering to the satisfaction of customers, enabling innovation and operational efficiency.

I nurture and like working in an environment that is inclusive, empowered and encourages continuous learning. I engage with people to support them explore their full potential. I am an ICF certified Coach. In my long career journey I have coached and mentored several professionals, and understand the hurdles people face in being successful. I enjoy drawing, painting, photography, traveling, reading, listening to music, learning about new gadgets.

Paintings in the book

I am also an artist and express myself creatively around Indian culture. You can see a glimpse of my paintings in this book. I have included in the book five of my paintings relevant to the five steps described in this book.