From the Founders’ Desk

A very happy new year and a loving greeting to you. Our inaugural issue has Love as its theme and there is no better occasion than Valentine’s Day to bring you our quarterly newsletter Tresonance Calling.

Through this newsletter, we will share with you the stories of people who have had the courage to follow their heart, inspirational perspectives around this journey and tips to help you live joyfully and authentically. We hope this creates more confidence and competence amongst our readers to undertake such journeys for themselves and to guide others to do so too.

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So who are we and why are we bringing you Tresonance Calling? And what is Tresonance?

Tresonance Foundation came into being formally in October 2013 as a result of the shared purpose of its co-founders Aparna Mathur, Madhur Upadhyay, Pranavi Jha, Renuka Taneja and Vinit Taneja. This purpose is to enable individuals to discover and manifest their deeper calling in life.

This pursuit is driven by our belief that we create deeper fulfillment individually and a much happier planet collectively, if we can help people to align

1. what they are naturally and effortlessly gifted at, their core proficiency with
2. who they are, their true nature as represented by their passion and
3. how they serve in this world, their choice of profession or meaningful work.

Tresonance is the name we have coined for this phenomenon of aligning one’s ‘thrill’ and ‘skill’ into a ‘drill’ to reveal a ‘will’ larger than ours, perhaps the ordained purpose of our life.

The quest for such a calling is a very personal thing and, in our experience, if triggered mostly by external circumstances and, in some cases, by a persistent inner pull to discover one’s purpose. We believe Tresonance Foundation will be helpful for those who need support during such times.

The uniqueness of our offering lies in the nature of our services and the spirit in which we offer them.

We offer two specific supports to our ‘clients’, called Tresonancees – discovery and manifestation.

First and foremost, we offer a deep listening to the Tresonancee to fully understand their life context and the situation and to start identifying their core motivation – what are they passionate about, and their core competency – what are they naturally, effortlessly and spontaneously good at. We help them to discover and uncover these through their reflection and by speaking with those who know the person from up-close, almost like a 360 degree feedback.

Based on these, we encourage them to figure out the viable professional or work choices where both passion and proficiency can be aligned. Often, our past experience may have given us a proficiency but we ‘don’t much care’ for those assignments or jobs because they just do not ‘make time magically stand still’ for us. So the idea is to discover options where both can be aligned.

We then open up and reach out to those in our collective ‘network’, who appear to be the right fit organizations for the Tresonancee. No commitments are made except to be true to the cause of helping the individual to align their passion, proficiency and professional choice.

We have seen some successes along the line and some of the stories are there on our website.

Our services are offered in the spirit of Giftivism and Pay-it-Forward. Those who are benefited by our service, Tresonancees or organizations that recruit them, may contribute with whatever they have an abundance of – time or money. Or, we simply suggest they ‘pay it forward’ to others using their gifts, thereby keeping this chain of goodness and abundance going.

The Tresonance team of Founders, its Associates and well-wishers contribute their time or expertise as volunteers to keep our hearts beating for this cause. We are in deep gratitude to those who have supported this ad-venture since its conception. Leena, Pranav and Kanika from Xerox for developing our website process flows in their personal time; Ankush for developing our website; Sid Kalelkar for hosting it; Anjana, Pranavi and Deep Red Ink, a digital marketing company, for bringing our newsletter to reality and Channel Technologies for helping us reach it to you.

The inaugural newsletter carries the Tresonance Journey of Minakshi Thakur who has surfed the waves, tasting the salty sea a couple of times in the process, till finally she mastered and arrived at her current point of harmony, at least for now.

We are also sharing in Soul Connect views of Nithya Shanti, an internationally acclaimed Happiness new-age sadhak, on finding one’s calling. This will be a two-part series.

Both these narratives have one message in common. Often, your purpose finds you rather than the other way round. It is therefore important not to get too intellectual about this discovery journey but to prepare yourself so that you can tune into the signals of such a calling and make meaning of them.

Anjana shares her wisdom on loving yourself which is the key to a fulfilling life. She has also contributed some tips on beating stress.

We hope to keep in touch with you and look forward to your feedback to our newsletter. If you have a story about someone finding their Tresonance or being on that journey, do share it with us and we would love to include those in our future issues.

Wishing you well.

Vinit Taneja

Vinit is the co-founder and the inspiring energy behind Tresonance Foundation. His personal journey led to his discovery of the Thrill-Skill-Drill model and the phenomenon of Tresonance which forms the basis of our framework and offering. Besides volunteering time for this work, Vinit runs Tresonance Consulting to help build endearing and enduring institutions. You can read more about him on www.linkedin.com/vinittaneja

How to bring more focus and joy in life

I read an interesting note from Edward Hallowell in the August 2014 issue of HBR titled, “Will Focus Make You Happier?”. Edward is a psychiatrist and Director of the Hallowell centres at New York city.

His key point took off from a study of around 250000 responses from 2200 individuals on their feeling and activity in the moment. According to this research, having sex or being focused were the top 2 contributors to overall higher levels of happiness reported by the respondents.

Lack of focus (or attention deficit disorder) is a common place phenomenon these days. Nature also supports disorder whilst focus brings order. So obviously people are not drawn to being focused.

He provides 2 key suggestions to deal with this:

1. Re-create some space for yourself that the advent of technology seems to have taken away. We run to our laptop or smartphone and start facebooking or texting or surfing or emailing the moment we feel a little stress Or difficulty  because of the focus. His recommendation is to grapple with the problem and persist instead of simply running away.

2. Spend as much time as possible at the intersection of 3 areas: what you are good at (what I often call your skill or your core proficiency), what you like to do (what I call your thrill or your passion) and what adds value to the world and what someone is willing to pay you to do (what I call a drill or a viable choice of profession). At this point of intersection, you have a sense of joy and productivity that can help overcome the inertia or forces of entropy.

I am delighted to see this connection between Tresonance and joy validated through research. For Tresonance is nothing but the alignment of our thrill and skill into a meaningful drill.

Vinit Taneja
Founder – Tresonance Consulting & Tresonance Foundation
vinit.taneja@tresonance.com
My purpose – Enable individuals and organizations to discover and manifest their deeper calling

Do people really like ‘pit stops’ in their life to reflect?

When the universe conspires

Today is a very satisfying day for me. It reinforces my faith and trust in the fact that, if the work you are doing is not yours but you are only a channel of higher manifestation for the greater good, the universe indeed conspires and orchestrates itself to make things happen.

Less than 3 months ago, in early December, I was sitting with my friend Anupam Jalote who had launched his company Greenoil some years ago to use bio degradable waste to generate gas/power with organic compost as a by product.

After receiving some initial money from a few friends who believed in him and an investor, he set about building the infrastructure to eventually build a 1/2 MW alternate fuel power plant in Samode, around 45 minutes from Jaipur.

Because of the shortage of money (as they say, necessity is the mother of invention), he and his father managed to burn the midnight oil and Innovatively design arguably the world’s cheapest waste to gas converter simply because they had no choice.

However, he needed more money to convert this gas to electricity and there was no investor in sight.

When I met Anupam, he had taken an in-principle decision to close shop by 15th January, 2014 because he would not have enough money to pay the salaries of the staff, leave alone invest into capex.

I managed to convince him not to give up. I immediately shot off around 10 letters to people in my network sharing with them a brief business case of Anupam’s venture and asking people to connect with investors who could be attracted to such a venture.

We got many responses from well wishers that led us to 3 warm/hot leads.

Today, I got the wonderful news that Anupam’s final presentation regarding the project had been given the nod by a reputed Angel’s network of investors. And it is a significant amount of investment but under INR 100 million.

I almost did not go to the gathering where I met Anupam. Am I glad that I did make it there.

Just expressing eternal gratitude for the universal orchestration. The power I got in broadcasting Anupam’s plea and pursuing it came from something beyond me. It was fuelled by his passion and the relevance of the project to contribute to a greener planet.

This infested another very dear friend Rohtash Mal who took it upon himself to drive it to its conclusion, in the process becoming a lead investor himself.

Of course the formalities are yet to be gone through but I am sure that will not come in the way.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Vinit Taneja
Founder – Tresonance Consulting & Tresonance Foundation
vinit.taneja@tresonance.com
My purpose – Enable individuals and organizations to discover and manifest their deeper calling

Finding my calling – Child’s play

Last week, I was part of an interesting experiment called ‘Interfaith exchange’. It started as a mail sent to 20 people as a bcc with 2 email IDs given in the body of the mail numbered 1 and 2. Once you receive the mail, you are requested to send a quotation or thought that guides you in life to the first named person in the email. Then, in a separate email, whose text was given (explaining the whole concept), you write a bcc to 20 people you know. In that email, you put the person marked No 2 as No 1 and put yourself as No 2. As a result of this, I received some beautiful quotes and thoughts from strangers who became fellow life travelers within a few exchanges.
One such exchange happened between a 13-year old and me. This exchange truly opened my eyes once again to the fact that age is never a bar to thinking about one’s Tresonance. If your parents are supportive and enable that inquiry, you begin early.
I am reproducing below parts of the exchange. I still cannot imagine she is only 13. Her father and I know each other very well. Her father follows the teachings of Nithya Shanti, a spiritual happiness coach and is a practitioner. It is obvious how much of this has rubbed off on his daughter.
“I know not much about Tresonance foundation, but what I understood is that it helps you discover your passion, the egg of the individual inside you waiting to crack. Well, I am in 8th. Going in 9th this year. So I need to discover my passion, THE thing which will give me thrills for the rest of life. Trying to meet new people, explore about different career options and all those kind of things……‎
I believe you are an extremely successful and satisfied person in life. If you don’t mind, could I ask you, How you discovered what you want to do in life? What you wanted to be? Because being very frank, I have no idea of what I want to do in life. I got to decide what I want to do with my life, soon and quick.
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I always appreciate meeting new people and in making the most of it, and so, it is a pleasure getting to know somebody like you! 🙂
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It is actually papa who planted the seed of awareness in me. He started talking to me about my career last year, wanted me to do internships somewhere etc. but, as any 12 year old would have thought, I also felt that what was the need to do jobs, to start talking to people when you’re just 12 and you have almost 4 years ahead of you to think about those things. Still, he consistently pushed me to get to know more about a thousand different things I can do in life and what it takes to achieve those things, how much you can learn if you talk to new people! He was my first guiding light on what I want to do in life and what I can do. So papa is the one who deserves the credit (for my interest in this area). ‎
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I am not really reflecting on it (finding my calling) the way I should..I’ve just started thinking about it. Not done anything yet. And just thinking isn’t going to really help. After all, we can’t be thinking of what to do and how to do it, all our life..!‎….

Peace,
Name withheld”

Thank you for such beautiful souls on this planet