My 12 Quotes In My Words to Understand Life Better

1. If you want to minimize your expectations to minimize disappointment or pain; try increasing immunity to the given situation.

2. Immunity towards a situation turns into a habit.

3. People, who witness the hardest times, experience the greatest too.

4. Sacrifice, gift, love, appreciation are nothing when you receive them by asking for it, the beauty is when these come on their own.

5. Sacrifices are meant to be made not to be understood.

6. When in love, learn to read between the lines.

7. When you ask something don't expect the answer as you want it to be, that's a masked imposition.

8. If one isn't happy then he/she can't look to be so, as everybody is not an actor.

9. Analyzing a situation or behavior needs a dual point of view, as yours might be a biased one.

10. If you really want to do something, then just do it, only saying is a waste.

11. Hurting someone and expecting them to remain neutral, is like killing and asking not to die.

12. Loneliness is the slowest and the most promising poison.

Take a Stroll for Renewed Focus

“Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas”- J.K Rowling. I came across this quote somewhere, realizing how true it is. I got to remember, strolling with my dad…my friends, and my near ones. That leisurely walk has so much to give – bonding, ideas, peace and a break from a routine state of mind. There are times when we find ourselves going over with the routine. Life is getting too mechanical and we are about to become robots. Many people experience the feeling of not doing something worth, caught up with daily cores, lagging behind, in short unable to reach the desired outcomes.

As I told you, I find a stroll as a way of finding solution for all this bizarre state. It happened with me so many times, solutions to most of the problems, misunderstandings, idea droughts, were found while having a walk. A leisurely walk alone or with someone who you trust.

Have you ever observed your nature of mental state when thinking while sitting and when you do the same while walking? When you sit and contemplate, your thought process is mostly towards negative, making you gloomy.  Whereas, when you walk with your thinking cap, there is a balanced flow of thoughts both positive/negative and this balance drives you towards self-realization, unseen solutions with new ideas pouring in. When you walk with someone you both are on the same page, the ambience is supportive and thoughts shared float freely, unlike in room closed from all the four sides. A walk is fruitful for an infertile mind, so the next time when you are stuck in files staring at screen, nothing coming to your mind, get-up and stroll out in open.

Doing the same thing repeatedly ceases cognitive processes. You get up in the morning, leave for office, attend those lined-up meetings, drafting/sending replies to all the emails, you feel ridiculed, killing your colleagues in your head. Reaching home you have some other tasks and problems eagerly waiting. And what do you do for this state of yours? Nothing I guess; you sleep getting ready for the next day.

Walk out each time these feelings surface making you helpless. Stroll after a meeting;  you will find unconventional ideas coming to your mind and that of your colleagues. This happens as the focus is renewed; brain gets some fuel, making your thinking efficient and creative. Thoughts are reframed and a new light falls on issues you found hard to solve.

Happy Strolling! 

9 Ways To Self Upgradation

1. Competition with the crowd leads you nowhere other than the "crowd" itself. Compete with yourself to stay ahead of your thinking only.

2. Always try to know what you want. Clarity is power. Vague thinking creates vague goals and serves vague results.

3. Remember - Action speaks more than words. Whatever you say look forward to make it happen otherwise it will seem to be merely your non-serious approach.

4. Sport a day keeps the bad away! Life is busy and you are short of time, I know... But a little time devoted to play a sport you enjoy, will make you mentally fit, physically active, and fill you up with optimism.

5. Take a short quiz every day in your area of interest. Small Challenges re-energize your mind.

6. Look for learning new things every day in your area of expertise. Because, “In a world of change, the   learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”

7. When in despair or disappointment, think about the person you admire the most, and try to figure out what he/she must have done in the situation in which you are right at the moment. You will find some clues to the solution.

8. When the day ends, write about how it went and any other thing you feel you should write. This lets you   know where you are going wrong, improve it and record your happy moments to make you happy when   you read it later in life.

9. Don't leave a work to be completed tomorrow, because you know this least happens. Then why not complete it today.  Just like I'm completing this write-up...

Forget BYOD... Ready for WYOD - Wear Your Own Device?

Not much a past incident, organizations worldwide witnessed a trend called BYOD – Bring your own device. The trend refers to the policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smart phones) to their workplace, and to use those devices to access privileged company information and applications. The aforesaid trend was embraced on a fast pace and now BYOD is as common as bringing water bottle or tiffin box to the workplace. Some companies also felt worried with the trend as they viewed it as a threat to security. But the worry couldn’t stop the epidemic like spread of the trend and the IT companies were forced to adopt the same.

And here comes again, a trend that is rapidly rising – WYOD, that is, Wear Your Own Device. We already encountered the invention of wearable technology like Google Glass, wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display. Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format that can communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands. Well that’s old news, you would say. Then here is the new -  people have started to don wearable devices such as Samsung Galaxy Gear smart-watches that can be used to take calls when driving, capture video images, and listen to music when paired with an external Bluetooth speaker. 

Wearable devices can be more risky than the former byod brigade, as they are not very visible having more security implications. Though there are many productive use for businesses if emplyoees wear their devices to the workplace. Joe McKendrick - co-author of the SOA Manifesto – gives some examples of the usages, “a surgeon viewing critical health stats without looking away, or an airplane mechanic having access to every manual and procedure while working. Then there are the more conventional uses, like business messages and photo and videos of whiteboard sessions and more.” On the cons side, WYOD can bring greater threats to the businesses, many unseen.

Companies need to re-formulate their BYOD policies ensuring about corporate data protection and also that if the wearable device picks up some malware then corporate devices can detect them eradicating any risks to company’s data. It would be good if the organizations carve out a strategy for WYOD beforehand to avoid the panic they had during the advent of BYOD. A proactive approach can protect any future threats. Also, firms should look at the trend as opportunity rather threat as they can’t escape the trend which is having some brighter sides too for the corporates.

So let me have your views, what do you think about WYOD – a threat or an opportunity? How will you use it as a blessing for your firm? Have you started formulating policies and strategies to cope up with uprising trend?

Think upon and act on questions like these to stay ahead of your competitors.

Why you should Take-Up a Career Path of your Interest?

The state of education is still the same what it was years ago, and the mentalities related are same too. Not much has changed. Years back children used to study for the sake of grades, competition, for reputable job, money and were compared to their peers, that, “see their child scored that much in exams” , “their son has landed up a lucrative job” ; many more such, to induce in children a feeling of rising higher than others. And it’s all same today also.  Even I would say worse; as now education is all commercialized we pay to remain in the competition and pay more to win over others. No value of self-exploration and real identity. We do work because we were told and taught to do so. We hardly know who we are, we excel in what, where the minds’ sharpness lies, which work we can do sincerely with full devotion; we are nil about ourselves. 90% of us will talk about world crisis, problems but don’t know real us. If someone tries to move towards the path of his/her interest the people around hold them back forcing to follow the legacy.  We are moving into an era of mechanization, performing actions without giving it a thought just like a computer would do.

Why? Why follow this blind path which you yourself don’t know where it will end up? Why not follow your heart and pursue a career with your mind? Why can’t you have a career in which you are good at be it dance, writing, singing, or any kind of performing art or entrepreneurship?  I mean, come on stop behaving like herd of sheep!  Watching the movie “3 Idiots”, coming out praising concept and protagonist will not help you! Ponder over it expand your attention span.

I have listed out some of the reasons to follow your passion...hope this make you dream a little big and bold.

• To understand who you are.
• To not just mechanically do work rather to enjoy it.
• To have a work satisfaction, that is very less right now in service class.
• For being unique among the crowd.
• To feel happy and contented every day when you return home.
• To avoid boredom in your work.
• To utilize your caliber to the fullest.
• To have circle of like minded people who inspire you, criticize and help you improve.
• To become an achiever.
• To get-up each day with a passion for your workplace rather going for monetary reasons or just because you have to go.
• To justify your existence and identity.
• To present yourself everywhere in an excellent way.
• To be honest to yourself, your actions and your work.
• To avoid pretending yourself as who are not actually.
• Escape the state of conflict between the inner and the outer self.

Aren’t these things important for a contented life? We all feel happiness from within when we witness any of the above mentioned states. That joy knows no boundaries.

Don’t stop your child from pursuing what interests him/her. By doing this you are restricting the mental improvement, learning, satisfaction and later life contentment. You are just telling them to indulge in slavery of age old mindset. All the famous people out there, in performing arts, entrepreneurship or any unconventional career, with national or international identity, who followed their instincts, have been mostly college dropouts. I read somewhere that even Einstein used to hate the school system of education. Cultivate brain with nutrients of interest and reap the unimaginable success.