Aparna Gautam • Career Coach

📈 I teach professionals how to overcome self-doubt, get clarity & land dream jobs ♥️Impacted 4000+ lives from 18 countries 🚀 342K+ followers on LinkedIn

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

Recently started using @calm for my daily meditation practice and today I am celebrating my 7 day streak. ♥️
It is absolutely key to celebrate your small wins so that your mind registers it as your new reality. So keep at it & remember, you are doing great. ♥️

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

Tum itni baar haare ho
Ki sab tumhaar haar ki ummeed mein hai..
Is baar aisi jeet laao..
ki tehelka mach jaaye..
bahut uncha karna pade apna sir unhein..
Sirf tumse nazarein milaane ke liye..

You are a rockstar. Your time has come. ♥️🔥

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

When being responsible for others is the whole conditioning, taking responsibility of one's own well-being would seem like a humongous task. Way outside our comfort zone! But let's become stubborn for what we deserve. There is no other option!! ♥️

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

Keep your mobile away & prepare for that interview. Use your laptop for company research.

Mobile is just a distraction & it is delaying your interview success.

- Aparna
Your Career Growth Specialist
16+ years of professional experience
(I am serious about your career growth)

[Dr Palaniappan Manickam @drpal_manickam]

This is my answer to people offended by the video.

• Watch the video fully. I talk about moderate intake of ultra processed food. Movie theater food availability was an example.
• One chicken nugget will not harm you. The problem is you never stop with one.
• Be honest. You are not eating ultra processed food once a month.
• This is not about rare movie treats. This is a pattern in kids and adults. Look at the data on pediatric obesity.
• If you think reducing frequent ultra processed food is BS, I will keep promoting that BS. You can keep eating.
• If you dislike strong public health messaging and prefer complex science that no one understands, fine. May your GUT bless you.

I have emphasized on complete avoidance of ultra processed food as much as possible with the hope that at least people will avoid 50%

About my friend Saravana kumar @theliverdoc . He is very active here. He was a nice guy but poor thing - Now he writes without rationale. Maybe he needs
more fiber for gut brain axis to work again.

I never replied to negative comments until now. I say the same thing online that I tell my patients online. My public health messaging has been strong with significant changes in the general audience. My target is not the PhD’s - my target is general public.

But it is time to rethink. Medical professionals need alignment on social media to avoid mistrust.
Let us work toward the goal of educating people, not fighting each other. I am always willing to work with people and not against.

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

Self-doubt doesn’t ruin your career.
The way you behave because of it does - the hesitation, the over-explaining, the shrinking in rooms where you should be leading.
That’s what makes others lose confidence in you.
Opportunities don’t disappear…
they step back when you do.

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

In your story, you are the lead. The one who decides the plot.
But if you’re exhausted today, it’s because you’ve been trying to earn a main-character spot in other people’s lives…
instead of taking center stage in your own.

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

Attachment doesn’t show up when things are flowing your way. It shows up when they stop. You’re not tied to validation because you enjoy it - you’re tied to it because its absence unsettles your entire world.

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

What will your health look like in 5 years?

Whether you are paying medical bills or enjoying life’s blessings with your loved ones is decided by:

-Your sleep quality
-How nutritious your food is
-How active your days are
-How you feel about yourself
-How well hydrated you are.

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

The biggest reason my generation works out, hydrates and tries to sleep a bit better is that….

We don’t want our children to have to take care of sick parents.

P.S. If you have never taken care of a sick parent (at a young age) , then you don’t know what I am talking about.

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

There is a girl in me who visualises beautiful outcomes before going to sleep every night.

She visualises the impact of her work growing
She visualises abundance & great health
She visualises all her childhood dreams coming true.

Committed to never letting her down!

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

If all the kids from dysfunctional families, decide to go for therapy…

Well…

There aren’t enough therapists.

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

After years of trying & wanting to say otherwise, I have concluded too that:

If you want ‘me time’, wake up before everyone else at home.

Especially the moms.

Hard but so so worth it.

Proof: I am typing this from my morning walking route. I’m all by myself. So peaceful. ❤️

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

Stress and creativity, don’t go together.

Stress and good parenting, don’t go together.

Stress and high impact professional performance, don’t go together.

Stress and building consistency, don’t go together.

I said what I said.

Work on releasing that stress! ❤️

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

Let's normalise not feeling guilty when we choose a slow pace to be more present with what's happening now ✨

rather than being in a constant fruitless chase between securing the future, regretting the past & escaping the current feelings (which is only leading to more anxiety).

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

Y'all are focussing too much on the style, diction, language & content of your communication and not so much on the..

.. timing. ⌚

If you are giving 'practical tips' to someone who is feeling stress at the time (for example), you are doing it wrong.

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

Why are we not talking more about how daily affirmation practice makes it almost effortless for you to make better choices?

It helps you craft your identity towards your biggest goals.

1st Step?

Begin now by watching how you talk to & about yourself. It all depends on it!

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

Speaking of healthy work boundaries,
Dear Remote working professionals,
Do you regularly answer office calls during your lunch hour?

[Aparna Gautam • Career Coach @aparnacoach]

I held the wrist of the person sitting next to me in the meeting.

We were presenting to an international client & just like that, I got one of the worst vertigo attacks of my life. Yes, during the call.

THAT was the moment I realised I had gone too far in the wrong direction.

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

Trust me.