Mind Over Matter- Goal Setting For the New Year With Beniasha Kharas Dongre

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Guest of the week: Benaisha Kharas Dongre
“You make an impression when you have created a brand of yourself and the best way to create this brand is with your image.”

Benaisha Kharas is an Image Enhancer, Inspirational Speaker, and Fashion Style Expert.

She is passionate about helping her clients project an influential, charismatic, and stylish image in their personal and professional lives. She is the absolute expert in the art and science of personal style and image management. In fact, she is the“go-to Image Builder” for women, young adults, corporates, and fashion houses. At IMPA (Image Management Professionals Association), Benaisha is the only youngest Senior Image consultant to facilitate expert classes across India. Fashion Magnet Anita Dongre highly endorses Benaisha’s expertise and has got her entire sales staff sell fashion and luxury, ‘The Benaisha Way’.

She is India’s youngest internationally certified Image Consultant since 2012, Benaisha has inspired and trained more than 2000 people to be Style, Image, and Fashion Conscious.

She has provided personal consulting to more than 250 HNI clients to present themselves with more poise and polish. Being dyslexic, yet incredibly popular in the media; Benaisha does not let her obstacles come in the way of her dreams. At the tender age of 10 when her teachers told her to go to a special school, she chose to become her own hero and fight for her dreams. She graduated with double majors in sociology and entrepreneurship. After receiving a standing ovation for her TedxTalk, she again inspired thousands at ‘Kaggaz’, a forum for the youth and shared her vision of India’s Young Image. Education Times invited Benaisha to speak and motivate their audience on image and career. Gulf Times has appreciated her work done with Qatar Airways and Indian Women’s Association of Doha. Benaisha also made her presence felt on India’s first image management TV show ‘Image Banani Hein’ on Zoom TV.

Benaisha helps her clients on colour, style, wardrobe editing, personal shopping and dressing for those tricky events like weddings, interviews and dating. She also advises fashion houses on creating delightful customer experiences, artistically sell fashion and luxury, and effortlessly convert walk-ins into shoppers. Corporate Clients like BMW, Qatar Airways, Deloitte, Jeena & Co, and many more count on Benaisha for transforming their executives to be their Brand Ambassadors with strong communication, personal image and influence skills. She is deeply interested in working with differently-abled children to inspire them to lead meaningful lives. She has also helped children who suffer from attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, and down syndrome to regain their confidence and enhance their self-image.

Benaisha, an avid lover of books, travel, and fashion; lives in Mumbai India.

Excerpts from the Session

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Since we are coming to the end of the year, I thought it would be a great idea to help you on how to set your goals for the next year and of course, this year has taught us a lot of things- it has made us realize a lot of things, it has made us understand what works for us and what does not work for us and it also taught us many new things that we did not know about ourselves. Over this year, I have understood that goal setting is something which requires proper focus and attention, it is no rocket science. So, if you want to be more meticulous about your 2021 goals then, let’s get started.

A goal without a plan is just a wish. You can’t just simply wish for things to happen because that’s not how it’s going to function. You need to have a strategy/a method to achieve your results. When you jot down a plan and strategies for your goals, you become more accountable. When you only have things in your head, you always lack accountability because you feel that I will remember but you never work on that. When you write something, you make a proper track on how you can achieve the appropriate results.

In the New Year let’s set some SMART GOALS.
SMART means:

• Specific: Be specific about your goals. Whatever your goal is, make sure you jot it down really specifically by stating what you really really want to achieve.
• Measurable: Make sure you give your goals a number. For example, instead of saying I will read more, say, I will read 3 books in a day.
• Attainable: Attainable is something more achievable. For example, you just cannot say I will not watch Netflix anymore and waste my time because that is not really going to happen. So, here you can say that I will limit my Netflix watching to twice a week and mention the days as well. So here you are not only being specific, measurable but also attainable because setting unrealistic goals is not going to help you achieve it. Unrealistic goals are actually demotivating.
• Real: Your goals should be really real. Instead of saying, I will never eat sweets from now on, say, I will eat fruits after every meal to quench my sweet cravings. So, try to figure out how you can alternate your bad habits or your cravings to something lot more positive.
• Timely: Make sure that whenever you are setting a goal, there needs to be a timeline to it. It cannot be whenever.

Motivation can get you going but habit gets you there! So, it isn’t about getting started but goals achievement is all about constantly going forward because motivation will come if you keep on practising the same thing. It will come after a few days when you start receiving smaller results. These smaller results will actually motivate you to achieve more and more. Once you continue to do so, all of it will become a habit and that’s how you will be able to achieve the most of your goals. So, life is not about sitting on a wish list and thinking that destiny is the only thing that happens to us. What we do need is the determination to go through all of these attributes which are in the universe because until we actually don’t put in something into our lives, we are not going to deliver and we are not going to receive from people or the universe around us. So, you might think that you are putting in a lot of efforts but the question is ARE YOU? Are you really putting that kind of effort which is required or are you putting in the effort which you think is the best?
Footnote

Make sure that you are just not sitting ideally and wishing your goals to turn into results. Make sure that you make your goals smartly and then figure out a smart way to achieve these goals. Fill up your 2021 with lots of determination, motivation and inspiration.

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