How to Get into Your Goldilocks Zone!
5 steps to make the best of your life
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. Discover your own personal “Goldilocks Zone” and create a purposeful, satisfying, and fulfilling life with the help of tools and 5 steps described in this book. By starting your journey towards a meaningful life early on, knowing what you would like it to be and pursuing what you are passionate about, you’ll be able to experience true fulfilment.
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. 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.
See the interesting Sand-art depicting the context and relevance of the ‘Goldilocks Zone’.
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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
An ICF Certified Coach with 30+ years of corporate experience, known for his transformative roles in operations and business development, specializing in offshoring and shared services, and currently focused on aiding individual and organizational growth.
Consulting
- He offers consulting services to a diverse range of clients, including organizations embarking on the shared services journey at various stages, from those setting up services to those aiming to optimize their operations or expand their capabilities and geographical reach. His areas of expertise include Business Consulting, Purpose Alignment, Strategy, Operations, Quality, Talent Engagement, Executive Coaching & Development, and Campus-to-Corporate transition.
- With over three decades of experience in strategic leadership roles in multinational corporations, he is uniquely positioned to guide organizations towards growth.
- Expertise in establishing and optimizing offshore shared services, including Marketing, HR/Talent, Learning, Finance, IT services, Helpdesk, Compliance, and professional services.
- Skilled in fostering stakeholder relationships, driving innovation, and enhancing operational efficiency.
- Proven track record in building offshore operations from the ground up, delivering value beyond cost considerations. Lead a business support operations offshore delivery center of 1,000 team members and other large operations supporting global stakeholders.
Coaching
- Holding ICF (International Coaching Federation) certifications as a Life Coach, Executive Coach, and Career Transition Coach, he excels in unlocking individuals’ potential, enabling them to overcome career challenges and lead fulfilling lives.
- He coaches introverts for workplace success, supporting them progress from individual contributors to managerial roles, and further advancing from managerial positions to leadership roles.
- He coaches individuals returning to work after extended breaks and eases students’ transitions into the professional workplace.
- He coaches leaders and senior management, enabling them to acquire invaluable skills, heightened self-awareness, and a more profound alignment with organizational goals. Areas like leadership skills, communication, strategic thinking, conflict resolution, relationship building, goal achievement, adaptability, personal growth, and well-being.
- As the author of “How to Get into Your Goldilocks Zone,” he emphasizes the importance of self-discovery and fulfillment.
Creative and Artistic Expression
- Rohit found that art profoundly enhances creativity in both work and the workplace. By embracing art as a tool for nurturing creative leadership, individuals undergo a profound transformation in how they tackle challenges, foster innovation, and encourage collaboration.
- This approach encourages creative problem-solving, out-of-the-box thinking, innovative solutions, and collaborative brainstorming, enabling individuals to elevate their roles and inspire their teams on a shared creative journey.
- As a passionate artist deeply connected to Indian culture, his paintings convey messages of positivity, optimism, love, and care. Explore his gallery, and if you wish, he can collaborate with you to create a personalized painting that resonates with your soul.
Facilitator, Speaker, Author
- Rohit is the author of the transformative book “How to Get into Your Goldilocks Zone,” offering readers a practical five-step guide to optimizing their lives.
- As a dynamic speaker and experienced facilitator, he conducts engaging sessions and workshops on a wide range of topics, including Finding one’s purpose, Aligning organizational and individual purposes, Fostering a growth mindset, Navigating transitions, Embracing change, Igniting creativity in the workplace, Building meaningful relationships, and more.
- His diverse expertise empowers individuals and organizations to reach their full potential.
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Happy Testimonials
This book is like a friend, like a coach, like a co-passenger who is guiding you, asking you the right questions in your journey of finding the purpose of your life, finding a profession or finding a gig. The story telling and the probing questions will get you to a point where you can get onto a journey of personal growth.
“I am a fitness enthusiast, I love sports, and I was a tennis champ representing the state. I followed my passion of spreading happiness and fitness and making them accessible to various sections of society. Country Club was an outcome of my passion. I feel gratified that we are consistently contributing to support our communities through socially relevant programmes and events. I am glad that Rohit Chowdhry has come up with this book. He has focused on pursuing your passion in alignment with your purpose and principles. Our life is like our company, we own it. I encourage you to think like entrepreneurs and have a sound plan to implement what you want to accomplish. This book will help you in that. Go for it!”
“This is indeed an excellent topic for the current times – particularly with the impact of Covid, work from home, less social and physical activity. The overall mental health is deteriorating all over the world. Step back and think through the 3 stages of our life – Learning, Earning and Giving. This book can make it easy in creating a purpose for our life. We all are striving for Peace and Happiness, which are about feeling good, proud, excited, satisfied and looking forward to tomorrow. This can only happen with inner engineering. Rohit has done an excellent job in simplifying this into 5 steps. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to make the best of their life, bringing together their heart, mind and soul.”
“People often take a long time to “get into their groove” because they need to find that sweet spot where they love their work, make a living, and yet it does not feel arduous – both the journey as well as the destination thus becoming key. This book by Rohit – who I have known for well over two decades for being very thoughtful while at the same time witty – makes this effort within reach. Action oriented with a fresh perspective, the book provides that essential push you need to change ‘your orbit’. Pick it up!”
“Insightful and timely. As our world becomes ever more rushed, using stories and well established theories, this book gives us a means to understand our purpose and navigate our way through life.”
“My journey from being a home maker to being crowned as a model involved a lot of planning, preparation and above all a lot of passion. It wasn’t a bed of roses, as no journey is. I too fell and learnt a lot of important life lessons. I am also dedicated to community development works focusing on helping differently abled kids and creating awareness on health and fitness. How to get into your Goldilocks Zone is a book that will help you to lead a life of satisfaction and content. I appreciate that Rohit Chowdhry has supported his observations in this book with statistics from his research. I strongly recommend you to pick this book, as it will definitely help you in your journey of life!”
“Many of us often end up doing something different from our passion in our career journey. In such a scenario sometimes, mid-life crisis hits earlier in life. This is an opportunity for one’s self to take stock, reshape and restart to explore one’s true purpose and passion. This book does just that; helps take the time in investing in one’s self, and to make the best of one’s life. Rohit has shared the five steps to embark on this journey, in a very effective way. I found the exercises to be very beneficial in self-discovery as you make progress through each of the steps. Try out the suggested tools; I am sure this will inspire you to build a purposeful and satisfying life.”
“The book offers unique insight, combining both spiritual and corporate perspectives on progression and achieving one’s goals. The author shares personal experience to highlight practical steps that can be taken to direction in life using values and purpose to define a new path. Well written and structured it is accessible to all levels of professionals. The author has managed to produce something insightful that is very much ‘of its time’.”
“In the “Social Media” world, many seem to have aspirational values far exceeding the values of self-discipline, commitment and hard work. Values and ethics continue to remain key differentiators amongst those creating a legacy. The 5 steps to get into the “Goldilocks Zone” can prove to be the best mantra to make the best of one’s life. My most favorite pick out of the five would be “principles”. These truly define who you are. I believe this book is relevant as a map. This book hits all the most important aspects that are required to achieve a sense of accomplishment, satisfaction and contentment from a fulfilling career.”
“The Goldilocks zone is a life plan, a strategy for living your best life starting now. Rohit Chowdhry has taken the concept into an in-depth exploration of how it can work for each one of us. The worksheets and exercises have been particularly helpful and I recommend you try answering some of the questions they raise. You will surprise yourself.”
“A lot of books talk about pursuing your passion and building skills. While you put in the effort to discover your interests, it is equally critical to have a plan that helps you understand what the challenges are, the hurdles you’re likely to face and how you should mitigate these. This book emphasises on action, helping you develop and implement a strategy to accomplish your purpose and passion. Rohit has weaved in his wisdom and corporate experience very well in making sure rubber meets the road smoothly for you.”
“In this amazing book, Rohit tackles a question that vexes many of us: how to balance work and life, while finding meaning and purpose in both. As a mentor to so many talented professionals over the course of his career, Rohit now shares his wisdom to help you understand how to channel your God-given talents into a vocation that is fulfilling emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. The “Goldilocks” concept is so appropriate here, as you forge a career path that is both challenging and rewarding over time, without extinguishing
the flames of your passion or flying too close to the sun.”
“Rohit blends seasoned experience and sensitive coaching to his debut work. In all the years, I have known him, his emotional intelligence had shone through his work. Now he distils his insights into a set of practical tools that anyone can apply to his life. In fact, Rohit extends himself by forcing questions beyond work or success. Life’s perennial questions need to be answered around purpose and then measure one’s success in the context of fulfilment. The world of Goldilocks is a wonderful metaphor for people to latch on to the notion that success cannot be divorced from larger ideals one espouses. Well done Rohit and I wish you expansive success for this book.”
“Finding one’s true calling in life is like taking the great leap of faith. It calls for a lot of courage to press the Pause button, and getting off the treadmill of the run-of-the-mill existence that we have become accustomed to, but are not really comfortable with. I discovered my true calling as a writer when I was 55, having spent more than 25 years as a techy. If Rohit’s book was around earlier I am sure it would have nudged me into my true calling much earlier. His book provides the compass to successfully navigate and find the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”
“The world we live in today is busy and noisy and becoming more so every day. Humans, me included, often struggle balancing what we need to do and what we want to do while also being mindful of our mental wellbeing. It’s hard work and can be exhausting. Wisdom and experience certainly make finding that balance easier. But what if we had the tools and coaching available to find that balance earlier in life? How to get into your Goldilocks Zone delivers those tools and coaching through simple and straightforward principles that can be applied immediately to one’s life. Finding that balance is still hard work, but this book makes it easier and can help you find your life balance sooner.”
“Strategic read. I have known Rohit for decades now. He is very creative in his thought process with an eye on the overall strategy, always. This book is for folks who have started to work and are now seeking to channelise their work lives into a meaningful career. This book helps you move to a zone closer to what you would want to do, which in turn will help you make the best of your life. The book shares an interesting 5 point framework to get into your Goldilocks Zone and has interesting self-assessment exercises which lead to a personalized action plan. I highly recommend this book, it is time well invested!”
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