Mind Over Matter- Understand the Power of Passion With Beniasha Kharas Dongre

As a part of our Nmami Life wellness series, we assure you to bring the best of health & wellness experts to help you gain the maximum wellness. Our sole motto is to bridge the gap of awareness when it comes to your health & wellbeing.

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.

What is passion?
A spark that ignites you to do something you love!

Why is it important to have passion?
It is very important for all of us to have passion, as it drives us to where we want to be in life. There are many reasons why one should have a spark, and why we all hear about ‘follow your passion’. Following your passion can help you in finding your purpose.

Passion does not only here indicate about relationships. Passion here talks about anything that gives you joy, clarity and brings you a sense of belonging. Anything that adds pressure to you, or stresses you out will never be passionate for you.

How can I be a passionate person?
Understanding who you really are, and what you are good at.

• At the end of every day, take 5 minutes by yourself and write down things that you are good at, that bring you joy, and try to be consistent at it.
• Your hobbies that you wanted to pursue but didn’t. Maybe now is the time to re-think and try them out as well.
• See what really works for you and what doesn’t.
• Learn new things.

There is a fine line between being passionate and being a narcissist.
Being passionate is about giving. Giving the world what you know and learning from it in return. But a narcissist would say, “I know everything, I am good at everything and I don’t need anything”. That’s not said to being passionate, that’s being self-centred.

You can’t always go with the flow, because there are certain things that are core elements and passion is one of them.

Footnote
Being passionate is really important. It ignites your first and then makes you who you want to be. So, follow that thing that makes you really happy and if you can’t decide what is it that you are really passionate about, follow the above tips.