Determination... Take Home #348

Determination chips in that extra ounce of effort required to keep the hopes of winning alive. Put every effort to find the reasons to be determined. It will make sure your play it in an adorable way. 

Loneliness!

Loneliness is nowhere else!

Its all in your thoughts. 

Engage yourself,

Try your best to escape it, 

And you will escape it.

Loneliness is nowhere else!

Its all in your thoughts.

Learning is equal to the amount of task done!

Learning is of two types. One, learning in the form of the deep down understanding of a given project. Two, learning to be taken forward to ensure that the similar mistakes or rather shortcomings do not repeat while we do another project. Be it mistakes or shortcomings might have resulted out of various steps that we would have followed while trying to accomplish the task at hand in the given time. The amount of mistakes depends upon the newness of the task or the newness of us towards the task. The amount of learning from a task depends upon the mistakes we would have done, the hurdles we would have crossed and most importantly the thoughtfulness of us to find out the learning hidden either in a debacle or in an error near-missed. 

The learning is directly proportional to the mistakes done. The mistakes are directly proportional to the tasks or things done or attempted. Hence, by following the mathematical rule learnt in school, the amount of learning is of course proportional to the tasks done. Do not get worried to know that your list of learning is too long, that your list of mistakes were too many! Be courageous and bold enough to believe the fact that you have done so much, attempted so much, accomplished so much in the given time. Take forward the learning and give your best to implement it at the next best needy occasion. That's how life moves on, that's how work goes on. So as work life. 

Always try to perform your best. Do your duty to your best potential. Do not be too much conscious of not making any mistakes. Let a few happen, don't bother as long as you are taking necessary decisions respecting the time line that you have to follow. Learn from them and move on.

Broaden your perspectives... Take Home #347

Those who do not question may not like to get questioned. It does not mean that the only way to deal with them is not to question. Keeping up the habit of assertiveness in questioning is important for your learning and hence to broaden your perspectives. 

To find yourself... Take Home #346

A job can be given to you because of someone's confidence in you or his/her helplessness in that given situation. If you understand it as confidence, try your best to live up to it. If you understand it as helplessness, perform it your best to gain his/her confidence.

Whichever is the case, ultimately its an opportunity that allows you to find yourself. 

Comeback... Take Home #345

Believe that you can win. At the same time, also be learnt of the fact that you can lose it too. Accept the defeat in all grace; plan and practice your comeback. 

Defeat or win... Take Home #344

Its not the win or defeat that alone makes us happy or sad. Its how we accept and respond to them that contributes a lot to how we celebrate the win or introspect the loss. Also, the importance of a win in the given moment is another factor. Where as, the impact of the defeat in the given situation either strikes us hard or leave us on a casual awe!

When defeat cannot touch you...Take Home @343

In spite of you being involved in the game with all dedication, the moment when defeat cannot touch you emotionally, that's one of those moments you experience the ultimate enjoyment of playing the game. 

Being a rival... Take Home #342

Rather than being an enemy, being a rival is helpful and important. By being an enemy, you will end up planning for someone's defeat. whereas by being a rival, you will plan it for your own win. 

On Job... Take Home #341

The difference between putting someone on job and getting the job done from someone is success. 

Solving the problems... Take Home #340

Pointing fingers at each other in critical times is for no good. Solving the problems collectively has a fun in itself and gives immense work satisfaction. Of course it shall be understood where it started going wrong! Once the problem is resolved, there will be enough time to dig through and find out where and how it all started and how it can be avoided in future. 

Concern... Take Home #339

The concern what a person shows for you in tough times is what the concern that person has for you.

Politeness... Take Home #338

Whatever may be the position that your hard work, talent and opportunities put you in, it must always be remembered that it is important to be polite with people. You may have the point right, but to convey it, politeness is one of the ways with highest success rate. 

Impression... Take Home #337

Trying to change the impression through actions is better than trying to do so by giving an explanation. Belief that you can do it is important while you try. 

Patience... Take Home #336

Patience is what you wait while you fight for your right. Its not the wait that you do, especially in hesitation and fear, before you start fighting for your right. Thoughtful wait before starting the fight is a fair exception anyway. 

Ways to gain the clarity of thought

When in no clarity, people often tend to lose their control over what they say or write. When is comes to telling someone something, it still appears somewhat comfortable. Whereas when it comes to put it in writing, it takes lot of time sometimes and at times, that time never ends. All this is no sin. It's just a limitation of a human being. When thousands of things around you shall be addressed by you, life appears tightened up like never before. You have to buckle up to give your best in that particular situation. There are ways to reduce the pressure upon yourself to some extent. 

Having the mind and body coordination is one of the ways to keep our thoughts clean to some extent such that the target thought appears somewhat clear. Exercising regularly and practising certain yogic kriyas is helpful.

Getting used to think over different dimensions and perspectives to the given thought  is another way to be open in deciding the way forward with full acceptance from within. Reading some self help books adds the writers experiences and hence our experiences while reading those books will be helpful at certain crucial deciding moments. 

Reading autobiographies and biographies is another effective solution that I know and have experienced while facing and solving problems. As we read through the pages and the life stories of the prominent personalities, we experience life for its many interesting dimensions that were not in our vicinity until then.

Like wise, there can be many more ways. I will have to sign off here as it's time to work now. Think about the above. You will yourself be adding different ways to that of the above. It's not difficult, it just that it takes time to spend for yourself, only for yourself. After all, your life is your first aim winning which is the most important to give your best to others or to contribute your best to the organisation or the society. 

Consistency in success... Take Home #335

Performance obviously matters; along with that character does matter too. One of these two without the other, signals no signs of consistency in success.

At the Lords...!

In all excitement and casual hurry I opened the Cricinfo web page yesterday, after I suddenly recollected that the match at the Lords was almost in India's hands after the day four. Last few overs of the first session of day five were going on at that time. India had no wicket yet for the day. The runs required to win for England were just 149 with six wickets in hand and two sessions of play left. Obviously, I shut down the web page and got along with my work. 

One late in the evening when I came to know about the match status again, I quickly switched on the TV and turned on star sports. Team India was already celebrating. Dhoni had one of the stumps in his hand, which is his regular way of signing to the world his happiness after a win. Some of the other young players were ecstatic. Going onto each other, they made the celebrations look enough crazy. 

Ishant Sharma turned this match as one of his life's important matches. Bhuvaneswar Kumar did that trick too, which probably is his career's most important performance and has come at an apt stage of his international career. Jadeja, is a Sir, really. Rahane must be watched out for, in the rest of the tournament. Murali Vijay impressed me this time, unlike after any of his earlier Knocks.

All in all, it has been a good team show. They must celebrate this success, which they might have already done by this time. Keep it up guys. What happened in the last England tour will not be easily forgotten. Please do compensate to some extent at least. All the best. Well done, so far. 

Outperform yourself... Take Home #334

Keep trying to outperform yourself every time you play. Bring out the best game from within. Success cannot stay away from you for longer. So as satisfaction. 

It was Team Germany, to celebrate the last!

Germany was the team to celebrate the last at the Soccer world cup, Rio 2014. It was one of the most deserving wins by a team that I'd seen  in any of the sport tournaments in the recent years. Consistently dominating throughout the tournament,  they had outperformed many a teams during their world cup juncture. During their journey towards the historic moment, if they had done too much damage to any team , that's undoubtedly to the Team Brazil. Whereas its natural for a team to win and another team to lose in a game, what happened during those ninety minutes in the soccer field during that semi final match between Brazil and Germany will remain as an unforgettable surprise to the soccer lovers. Brazil might have to put every effort to achieve back their game and hence glory. Hope they will do that soon, very soon, to make the Olympics a must watch for the Brazilians, if not for anything else, for the Olympic gold in the football event. 

Congratulations to the Team Germany for the awesome display! And to their coach, a big cheers. 

Messi has one more chance in the form of the Olympics to win the most important medal of any sports person's life. All the best to him and his team, the world cup runners up, Team Argentina.

Thank you FIFA for another memorable event. Except the timings of the matches, in Indian Standard Time of course, the aura about the tournament had been fantastic and energizing.

Closing it here, I'm looking forward for the upcoming big sport event, the Commonwealth Games, 2014, Glasgow. Hope it will be enjoyable. All the best to the team representing India at the Glasgow games!

To inspire a team... Take Home #333

Well defined goals, roles and responsibilities among a group of people who work for a common cause allow them to be a team. Now, managing and inspiring such a team to work as a team is easier as well as effective than doing so with a group of people who are named as a team for a cause without having clarity about their roles and responsibilities. 

Wish to be so... Take Home #332

It might not be always possible to be a podium finisher. Being one of the best competitors is important and possible every time if one wishes to be so. 

Be productive... Take Home #331

Out of all the ways to address a problem, only few can solve it in all deserving peace. Whereas its always important to resolve problems, peacefulness is ever productive. Take the least possible time to find out that one way, which you believe, that works for you! Be productive in life as much as you can.

Finally, Rain turns up :)

Rain is finally here at Pune. After all that problem due to the water-shortage, the rain is up again to complete the task of filling all the dams, canals and rivers in the surrounding areas of this amazing city. 

It's been almost six years of stay at Pune for me, yet this time there has been the first of its kind wait for the rain. Water supply has been so low these days that the taps have the flow only for couple of hours in the wee hours of the day. Waking up at five in the morning and completing the regular household tasks has been the routine of mine in the past couple of weeks. If not anything else, this routine somehow made me desperate to wait for the rain, like never before. On the other side, the blackish clouds in the day used to give new hope but the night used to shine in the light of the moon and stars. Finally, couple of days back it all started for this season. Today's promising clouds and the rain confirmed it. The rainy season has started for this year! 

It's going to get green out there. The scenery will once again be back, hopefully. There are many outing places around Pune. One cannot wait more to roam around. Looking forward for yet another green season!

Humiliation... Take Home #330

Humiliation hurts when taken to heart. But humiliation is also something that can hardly be avoided from reaching heart. 

Nevertheless, humiliation is not strong enough to restrict the self-healing power of the heart, which helps people in making some inspiring comebacks. 

PS: Dedicated to the Brazilian soccer fans. Your team will fight back, just give them their time and continue to show the moral support.