Being grateful to someone is a symbol of strength, not weakness. People feel if I’m thanking someone, it’s because I’ve been helped with something I did not possess or was my weakness. So, thereon showing gratitude is accepting my shortfall or weakness on which I fetched some help
No, being grateful is showing courage to seek help. To reduce your trials in obtaining success. And the gesture of gratitude is reciprocation for receiving support in time and motivation for the one who helped you to help you again. And for the others to help you too. Celebrate your gratitude towards people so that more people will be willing to help you.
The life you envy isnt the life that brings happiness to you.
The one you have is envied by someone else. Make the best with your life. Ammend the wrong approaches. Cherish the right ones. Ignore the wrong in people.
Appreciate the right. Life has to go on. Just carry miles of smiles.
We are so fussy about everything. We know only to complain. Election Chaos- Waiting time, crowd, heat of summer, confusions in the poll booth, we have a problem with all of it.
Do we expect a red carpet welcome with escorts leading to air conditioning rooms, cold drinks, cookies when we go to vote? Those days can be the future if we cast our vote in the righteous way today. India being the largest democracy with 140 cr., we are able to manage to conduct elections now without threats, riots and clarity on information to reach the booths. I think this itself is a great achievement. We are fine to wait at restaurants for table for 30+ minutes and at temples for darshan for 2 to 5 hrs. When it comes to casting the vote, why are behaving like doing a favour on our country. We are Indians, we arent guests in our own home to be hosted like one.
The bigger your monetary gain, the more you are motivated to work. Is it true?
Not always.
An entrepreneur needs to work because his monetary gain is higher. He is building an identity for himself and value for the industry. His work hours are 24/7/365. If this is the only truth, why does a laborer work harder, more rigorous, and still earn less? His requirement is only three meals a day and shelter for his family.
Why doesn’t an employee prefer to avail his leaves? Why does he work 12-14 hours daily on many days/months/years to meet client deadlines and company deliverables?
You work according to your motivations. All because whatever reasons people carry – Growth, Money, Career, Recognition, Building a company, Social service, Public service, Basic living, Shelter, and food for the family – all are equally important to the respective people in their different phases of life. The only difference is how they want to conduct themselves to achieve those goals. How committed are they towards progress, betterment, or contentment? How focussed are they on their dreams? What sacrifices are they willing to make? How much do they have to give of themself for success in their endeavors? How much time do they want to spend learning to explore and acquire more and more knowledge?
These are the determining factors. The rich- the poor, the entrepreneur – the employee, and the labor – the manager have their definitive goals and priorities to meet. The luxury of quoting the reasons for being unsuccessful only lies with the lazy and non-focussed people.
Stop giving the reason that people earning more are more motivated to work hard. They only have higher responsibilities and integrities and will execute them at any cost. Also, their mentoring and upbringing in owning their responsibility 1000% towards everything they do add to their approach.
At times, I feel the rich are worrying about everything they don’t need. And the poor are just happy with whatever they have.
The poor don’t need psychological counselling. They don’t suffer from mental health issues. They have a more significant battle – survival.
So, what does it mean?
Are the rich happy after having everything in sufficiency?
So what is essential to be satisfied? Contentment is, being occupied physically and mentally with chores and activities for good mental and physical health. The struggle of the poor towards survival with acceptance towards it is the greatest gift God has given them. The greed to have more with dissatisfaction about everything and the fear of losing even a bit of what they have is the curse the rich have.
And here we are, knowing all these things still accumulate everything – money, property, fame, reputation, finally to leave everything behind.
Then, why are the wiser ones also doing the same?
To give back to society, humanity, and all living beings, and to make a place in people’s hearts.
And the ones who are doing it only for themselves are haunted by discontentment for a lifetime.
You liked something, buy it. You want to visit some place, go ahead and make the bookings. You crave to eat something, order it. Want to take rest, book a resort, spa etc.., Pamper yourself.
We are always unhappy about many things in life. Because we always seek happiness, attention, love, care from others. Parents, Siblings, Friends, Husband, Children. The day we spread happiness to all, the above relations will cling to us. And that boosts your confidence of being a ‘Giver’ than a ‘Receiver’. It conveys a message to self of being self sufficient. Because you share only when you have something in abundance.
And how about receiving from others. You can give all these to yourself because what makes you happy is best known to you alone. Then your quest to find these outside you ends.
New India – A hope. A sense of responsibility. A sense of mutual benefit.
All prevail because of the courage to stand up and own your words and actions, courage to turn wrong into right, courage to show inside out – transparency, courage to make things visible, courage to speak out, and courage to allow deserving and knowledgeable people to carry the baton and run towards the goal. Persistence, Clarity and, sustainability in communication, selflessness motivate the common man to raise the bar in expectations from Govt and bureaucrats.
It’s OK to expect consideration, empathy, responsible and ethical behaviour from others. But it’s more important to reciprocate the same way. And here we are in a world where our expectations are,
We must be forgiven, but we won’t forgive others.
Our ignorance must be permissible, whereas others’ ignorance is a crime.
Our irresponsibility is a natural tendency; others’ irresponsibility is intentional.
Our justification goes like, we can do wrong to others, but no one should do evil to us.
Hypocricy was born deep inside our mind. So all our sins and mistakes were allowed by our mind. But, the basic expectation was others should always behave like God.
Whenever struck somewhere or when things don’t turn out the required way, I’ve heard people saying what I can do and play safe, or less confident or ignorant?
We do not have the same answer when we are dealing with our children or our family. We try to find out solutions through anything and everything. Why do we face a dead end when finding answers in our professional matters? Why do we give up even before trying?
Because of the shortfall in giving ourselves to our work in totality or lack of awareness, willingness to explore all the possibilities or fear of failure and over-commitment. We want to believe in only what is visible. We don’t want to explore beyond visibility. We aren’t strong enough to blame ourselves. We are not confident in setting things right.
After climbing up the ladder in the professional hierarchy, giving reasons becomes unacceptable because you are engaged for the results and not for process or reasons.
Professional or personal – Only approach in life is going full circle to find solutions with infinite % involvement and not giving up ever. It yields results, or at least there is contentment with efforts.
Senior Leaders, Managers, and HR teams who are supposed to carry the ownness of controlling attrition and motivating the teams and employees to stay in an organisation for a long and perform. The highest attritions today are in HR teams, or seniors in the company are changing their jobs at par with juniors. Gone are those days when leaders’ personalities and integrity impacted the team’s thought process and approach.
And why are Leaders unable to stick to the integrities and Company?
Because covid has shaken the trust between Employers and Senior Leaders, the unexpected layoff of seniors for cost-cutting, ill-treating them, considering them white elephants, shrugging them off and keeping them as a mouthpiece to convey only the hard decisions against the employee crowd has created bitterness, taking away the emotional binding with their employers. This has resulted in extreme practicality and ruthlessness.
The industry has to either adapt to practicality or bring back the emotions in relations.
