Consistency… Take Home #162

Good players win. Consistent players succeed.

Be in full spirits… Take Home #161

When people are given a choice to accept or reject you and they choose to reject you, next time put all your efforts to make them have no choice than accepting you. Be in full spirits always.

Happiness and Satisfaction…Take Home #160

Congratulating the winner gives you happiness. Supporting the loser gives you satisfaction.

We all are destined…!

We all are destined to be right and wrong at given point of times. Hence it’s never late to speak out either good or bad about anyone or anything unless it does not help anyone.

Express yourself and make yourself clear of all doubts.

People Management… Take Home #159

People management demands a good mix of commonsense and the skill to be disciplined to the point.

Deed left unrecognized… Take Home #158

Be it a mistake or a good job, a deed left unrecognized is the initiating cause for all the mess we have to face at times.

Rejecting people…!

Accepting people as they are makes you live accepting the change in you for them, as the life has to go on. Rejecting people for what they are might sometimes result in change in them. Take risk of rejecting people on need basis for the good you believe in.

Rejection should not be on personal terms instead it should be purely for the good cause.

Excuse is important yet contagious!

Excusing is important. But it’s even more important to accept and implement the fact that none deserves to be excused every time. Excuse is contagious too. You see someone is excused and immediately you start feeling like expecting to get excused next time. This will hence reduce the productivity which is utterly bad for any team to keep up the spirit to deliver its best.

Competition… Take Home #157

Competition will be right there with you everywhere you go. Dealing with it in a healthy way keeps you healthy physically and mentally too.

Friends @ work life

Love makes life beautiful. Friendship makes life colorful.

Early in the morning I’ve become so nostalgic that I miss so many friends of mine here in Pune. More than that the same unanswerable thing that I ‘have to’ miss them makes me helpless and hence more worried. But that’s life. Partying and departing are the two opposite sides of a coin called friendship. Of course, departing stays restricted to the physical distances and not mental ones. That’s hugely relaxing. Thanks to the all mobile world.

As I remember my earlier days in Pune few years back, it was full of fun. It used to be full of friends in the surroundings. I don’t know what makes me roll down tears as I write this. It’s absolutely hurting as I have to accept the fact that we are all bound to miss people in life at some or other point of life; yet it’s very beautiful; those memories, those days, those friends are few of the priced possessions I’ve till date.

Fortunately or unfortunately, in my case, work makes me give attention to those wonderful days in my thoughts, to all those wonderful people, friends, with whom I worked once. Fortunate that I remember them and along with that i feel the goodness once we shared. Unfortunate for the whole and sole reason that those good things would not happen again or I must say might not happen again!

Understanding between friends is very common in college days. But understanding between two colleagues is not rare but of less probable case. Colleagues turned friends are the most missed ones in the work life out of all those whom we have to miss. Usually, the rest stay or not really does not matter much personally. But what my professional life taught me is something interesting and thinkable. The rest are so important that you have to have them with you to identify the very few who might turn up best for you as friends in the days to come, you never know it! After all a bit of sharing and caring at times makes life-time friends.

I differ in opinion with what many people say about friends in work life. I believe we might not have friends all the time with us but at some or the other point of time we end up finding them. This will mean lot of wait for some. And for fortunate people like me they come without much wait. But they go too; I mean they leave, again in terms of distances but not too far that you have to worry.

Well, this write-up has been a great start for me for another day. Looking forward to do the best; Good day all.

Expect, but… Take Home #156

Expect, but only after rightly understanding what is supposed to be expected.

Post:700 - Mom, thanks for the summer...

We come across very few sweethearts. Mom tops the list. I’ve had a wonderful summer with her. Probably this has been the most hectic yet exciting summer I’ve been through since years.

The laziest soul of me turns up when my mom is around. There is no doubt about it. On top of everything my mom’s incomparable discipline makes me look even lazier to myself.

Time runs the fastest. Guess what, do everything that you can do to count the minutes and you end up counting the moments, the moments of memories. I still have the day breathing in my memories when I received my parents here and all of a sudden it feels so lonely again, as if nothing has happened, as if no month of May has passed.

Hectic schedules of professional lives are only to be understood for the perfect relations to keep maintained. My mom, being a dedicated worker herself, demanded not even a single day leave considering my occupancy. May be, that’s not just mom, a working mom!

Especially after returning from the office, I’ve missed the magical smile of my mom which I’ve been used to these days as she used to open the door for me. Smile is smile and mom’s smile is more than a smile.

Every time I give send off to someone, loved one, I realize the power of my eyes to hold back the tears. What you remember is the last face you have seen while departing. I tried to hide the reddened eyes but I need not tell you how mom equally failed in doing so.

Well, all in all, had another good summer. That’s important. Thanks to mom. So, here is the 700^th post dedicated to her.

POST: 699 - Facts hurt, but… Take Home #155

Some facts hurt. Accepting the facts as facts and moving ahead not just halves the pain but improves the concentration too.

Turn the role… Take Home #154

Rather than aiming at an admirable role, turning the role that you are in as an admirable one is the best way to inspire many.

Born for a big cause…Take Home #153

Believe that you are born for a big cause and enjoy the difference in the way problems bother you.

The girl child on the railway platform…

I had an interesting observation few days back. It happened when I had been waiting for the local train.

On the half-crowded platform there were some beggars sitting next to the place where I was waiting for the train. There were two ladies, three gents and one girl child. One of the two ladies said something to the child. The next moment the child started begging by going to each passenger waiting on the platform. Some girls were standing next to me. They refused to give her money. After begging them for a minute or so the child disappeared from there.

After ten minutes the child came running from the other end of the platform with her hand full of coins. By the time she reached her parents they had been drinking something. The child showed the money to them and asked them for the drink that they had been drinking. The woman tried to take the coins from the child’s hand but the child refused to give her unless she was given the drink. Finally, the woman didn’t give the drink.

Meanwhile there was an announcement of the train arrival. As the train arrived, the child started moving away from her parents saying that she would be leaving them still with the coins in her hand. One of the two ladies had to pull her back towards the train as the child kept on rejecting being pulled back. Finally, the woman was successful in pulling her back.

Now, if we correlate this incidence to the regular happenings in well settled families, there comes out some interesting facts.

In regular families, parents usually try to tell their kids if the kids are not maintaining discipline that they would be leaving them behind. Parents try to make kids feel insecure and hence try to align them. Kids follow the parents having no way. In the above incidence the kid’s confidence on her independent living touched me. And that too it was a girl child. In regular families once kids grow up and still parents try to fear the grown ups, parents often fail to make them insecure once the kids attain the confidence required for independent living. Until then its parents’ say in most of the cases of the regular families.

Well, it’s not about making kids independent at early ages and let them leave. All I say is to keep the child’s independent living going on and at the same keeping them all along with the love and affection.

Parenting is a tough job. Cynical thinking and building confidence in kids being the major challenges, some parents come out successfully. Hats off to them.

The beauty of management… Take Home #152

The beauty of management lies in understanding the characteristics of each person and the management skill is nothing but the ability to combine the characteristics of a team of people hence to successfully support the big cause.

Standing right… Take Home #151

It is not important to make right foot steps always. But it is important and necessary to stand right having been in your own shoes and having had enough understanding of your own situations.

Nothing comes for free so as love!

No, I’m not talking about the crazy investments of boy friends in shopping malls, movie theaters or on weekend outings. I prefer to call such money outflow as money invested instead of money spent assuming a marital ending to the pre-marriage love life, excluding all the convincing reasons for the break-up. In the other case, it would obviously be the money spent since there are no returns expected; neither happiness nor love anymore with same partner.

Monetary terms seem play a visiting role in relationships. Monetary needs fit into one of the corners of home rest being dominated by the healthy, habitual and happy kitties.

Nothing comes for free so as love.

Dedication towards the partner being the basic necessity, often costs you time which otherwise you would like to spend doing things of your passion. Commitment towards the partner often costs you freedom of expressing which otherwise you would not afford losing. Togetherness can be built on mutual understanding but staying together might cost you the willingness to carry on with your own life style which might be different from that of your partner. Caring needs a little more consciousness which costs less unless you need to build the never there consciousness.

Everything costs you something so as love!

Nevertheless, some costs appear nothing before the ultimate gains. Love, happiness and peace are the ultimate gains of life. Spending or I must say investing more of yourself into the relationships gives a better shape not just to the relationship itself but to the lives of other people attached with it too.

The way you see is the way it appears.

Some call it compromise. Some name it adjustment. Some believe it love. Whatever, this scenario is nothing different from the philosophy ‘the way you see the way it appears’. Having the convincing reasons is important. Both the people involved must be having the same understanding of the reasons otherwise it would lead to unnecessary and always spoiling assumptions.

Understand the needs of life as well as your own needs. Not all can understand you but you can give a try making the required understand you. It is not hard and fast that every relationship must absorb the above said costs. Some people get accustomed to the needs where as some take time or they can’t at times.

Relationships are built for happy living. There is nothing definite or defined for what does a happy living means. It’s up to the two and that’s the best part of it.

Experience… Take Home #150

Experience, either a good one or a bad one, is always good for future.

People Management … Take Home #149

How you say contributes more than what you say in excelling the people management.

Endurance of life… Take Home #148

Endurance of life is ensured not by the number of years lived but by the number of moments lived.

No Dirty Picture(s) on televisions… Way to go?

SONY channel’s incessant advertisement conveying their upcoming telecast of last year’s successful Dirty Picture convinced me enough to remember the time of its telecast. Having been impressed by Vidya Balan in the recent time, I switched over to Sony right on time. But another program was being telecasted. I quickly ran through the upcoming program list in my Tata Sky to check if there was any change in the schedule. I learnt that it would be telecasted at eight in the night. Again, I waited long but nothing happened instead 3 Idiots was being telecasted. That was so disappointing. At the end of the day the only relief I had was that I could watch 3 Idiots without a single break.

Couple of days later I learnt from news that the telecast of The Dirty Picture was put under restriction until 11 pm in the night. Censor board says not just The Dirty Picture but all the movie of its category should not be telecasted. How far will that rule sustain? Won’t filmmakers fight back? Isn’t it too much for such movies?

More than anything, how much will that be advantageous in the internet prone new generation? Open the ‘you tube’ and you can watch everything that need not be watched. DVDs and CDs are variously available all across. Hell lots of web sites are available from where you can download and watch the uncensored full movie. This being the current scenario, what’s the censor board exactly wanting to do? Just making some meaningless buzz to kill time! People who were unaware of the movie and its coming on the TV have been geared up to watch it next time whenever they get chance.

By the way, even the endless telecasting of fashion shows on the Faison TV could not convince the board to let the dirty pictures carry on. Movie makers now have to keep two prints of the movie ready, one made for the theaters and the other one for the small inch displays. The reason they say is the highlight of the whole moment. Since TV is a medium for family to sit together and enjoy, they say they would not be allowing such telecasts on it. The fact is, most houses these days are fixed with two TVs and more over, family sitting together and watching TV appears to be a big joke of the millennium. As and when they find time family outings are mostly preferred these days. Anyway, sitting together and watching such movies or scenes does not spoil more than watching the blue films alone.

I don’t think it’s the way to go. As long as people know what to learn from what no need to restrict them from watching some specific stuff. The rebellious attitude comes out with this and probe people to watch such scenes more, in private. Instead of creating the unnecessary curiosity in the younger generation, better is to opt educating people to understand what needs to be understood.

Should MP Tendulkar choose to speak for the other Indian sports?

Amidst the guesses of seeing Tendulkar as a future coach, commentator, mentor or a businessman etc, the wildest of the wild guesses has waved its hand announcing its kick-off. Taking all of us, the nation, the cricketing world and his million fans across the globe to surprise, he was nominated to the parliament of India!

And he accepted it! Well, I think the nomination and the acceptance that followed was a show that was shown. I don’t think Tendulkar would have decided on it a day’s time. Having been the person who has planned his career in such a way that he would play longer, starting from changing his shots suit his body to brilliantly choosing the tournaments to be skipped, its least expected that he would decide over it over a night. But if it was done over a night or even over a week, being the person who got inspired by him at many occasions, I sincerely hope his decision would not cost him the stature, his invaluable possession that he has earned over decades purely sweating.

Some people have kept their point of views to themselves on his retirement saying that he would be the right and most deserving person to decide on it. But on his acceptance to become a member of parliament, no one as yet left any words behind in either hailing or condemning it. Anyway, that’s quite understandable for below reasons.

Sachin Tendulkar is no more a person who just owns himself. Rather, he is owned by a country, by his followers, by his devotees etc. His decisions might be his own but no more the consequences of the same, either good or bad.

Anyhow, that’s just based on what he has been so far. I remember telling my friends that I hope he would not do any such mistake because of which his otherwise ‘one in hundred years’ career would all be forgotten or ruined. He is well aware of the fact that people have a habit of remembering a cricketer by his last innings. It might take no time for people to take reverse gear if made optionless. Again, I sincerely hope with all my love and passion for this man that he would come out well.

I believe in living life with versatile careers. After the most successful career which has already inspired many lives, I think it’s worth giving a try in another. Being an MP, Tendulkar must speak for the sports persons, the field which is very much near to his heart. He will need to do it for all the underprivileged sports persons or the sports themselves in the highly cricket oriented India. I do believe even he has the responsibility to do so having been at least some reason for the present situation of other sports in India, with his addicting aura turned the whole nation think and breath just cricket. With the power in hand he must utilize it to speak and do volumes for the passion of sport of Indians which is one of the biggest reasons for what he is today.

Academies must be supported for various sports in India. Coaches, especially Indians, must be recruited more. Fund from government must be ensured utilized well. Under the current scenario we can not expect every penny to be used but to whatever the extent possible it must be made available. The whole scene must educate younger people on sports. He has inspired enough number of youngsters to enter cricket. Now it’s time to gear up to encourage people choose the rest of the sports too. Building career in sports is what many players dream of. And that’s possible only when enough jobs are created under sports quota. That’s not just enough; the income must satisfy them too. After all, we all need money so as sports persons too. All these can not be happen over night. But with the involvement of highly influencing Tendulkar, let’s hope at least things move better over a year. That will be the best reward he can give himself for all his efforts.

Buckle up Sachin, its high time again to start journey towards another greater height. Bat has been your spokes person so far, now you have no option than utilizing your mouth. Taking stand is the least seen in your entire cricket career. It is not possible any longer. Some more such facts will ping you soon. We all would love witnessing you coming out with flying colors.

He comes out well or not, fact is fact. His cricketing career, which would be remembered as the only longest one in the history of mankind, allows him to be wrong at reasonably very less number of times. There lived a man called Sachin Tendulkar will be what the generations to come wondering about after next hundred years. That’s the greatness he has earned, to envy which none alive is even qualified enough!

One line before closing – National Congress Party playing spoilsport with one of the nation’s best sports persons ever lived is the least expected. NCP, mind it!

Right people at right time…

Ensuring the involvement of right people at right time separates leaders from managers.

Most managers concentrate on solving the issues be it through the justified way or another. It’s very important to solve the problem. At the same time it’s equally important to get the right and deserving people aboard. Choosing right way to solve problems is the right way to do things. Appointing right people to solve problem is the noble way.

Well, not just right people but the right time carries equal weightage too.