To Say or Not To Say

The title may give you a perception that this might have something to do with concepts of communication; well it does have a link to that but let me come to that a little later. Let's go to the basic nature of communication, it's about sharing. But what I would really want to broach today is, what do we share?

For which, I would like to trace back to a situation I was in with my friend maybe in 9^th grade, we had just finished our quarterly exams and happened to discuss about how we wrote our papers and the topic came to what score were we expecting in the paper. My friend just stopped the topic and said ‘I would not like to share anything more as I feel saying it would have an effect on the score itself’. Truly, I didn't go further on that topic; what was even more surprising to me was I seemed to totally understand what he meant and felt the same way.

From then on I have been facing this phenomenon all my life, across groups of people that I have come across, friends, family, acquaintances, anybody, I see them having a similar perception about holding on to share about something that might be happening in their lives till the end of that instance. I can even safely say that almost 50% of those groups have displayed such a behavior as if it was a religious fervor in their lives.

My take is, in any occurring there are only 2 possible outcomes “I knew this would work” or “I knew it wouldn't work”. What’s interesting in both these outcomes is the common word is “knew”, indicating that the person knows the outcomes all along subconsciously.

However, there seems to be a better way of handling that knowledge at the end of the situation compared to the start of it. It's interesting to know how such a thought is ingrained in us somehow, that it may not happen the way it we intend it to, just because it’s been 'said', isn't it ;-)

So looking at similar scenarios in an office atmosphere, most of the time we do need to keep all the things informed as a process or a project does need information on a regular basis so we end up sharing that in the form or reviews and presentations. But, in a closed room when a similar question is posed by a colleague, peer or manager, we actually end up not telling them about what is really happening and would wait to tell them all about it after things are done and complete. Familiar? 

Out of sheer curiosity how do you explain this human nature? Let me know, and see how many such unsaid things you have at this time :-)

Tail ended War!

The scene was almost straight out of the most realistic war movie that I have seen, Saving Private Ryan, when Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) barely able to stand up, picks up his red coloured sea water filled helmet and slowly moves to a steel barricade and there suddenly the sounds in the scene dies down and what you can see is Tom Hanks rolling his view around the beach. There is a rain of bullets, bombs exploding and men screaming but he can’t hear a thing and then slowly the sounds come back where his team is asking him for the next command… (here is a feel of the scene)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaS1Jq_DPzs

I was in such a place, I couldn’t hear a thing, my hearing was numb in fear as I grasped the scene, my eyes rolled around looking at all the 4 fierce commanders who were standing in front of me, they were alone, frightened, focused, I could see the fierceness in their eyes. They were sure, they were ready, and their weapons were locked tight in their hands, armed and ready to kill.

My eyes glanced on them individually, the first commander was fearless, did not look like needed a sophisticated weapon to destroy but a blow would kill tens of them at once and maybe a stomp of the leg would raze an entire battalion. The second commander was the strategist, you could see the mind making a million scenarios of how the enemy might show up and how every designated path could be blocked and barricaded. The aim was to wait, corner and destroy. A brief moment I stared straight into the eye of the 2^nd commander and I could hear the breathing, sound of a 100 tonne steam engine. 

The third commander’s war cry itself could vanquish an entire army, and this commander happened to be the commander of all the others, the armed forced and the civilians (like me), who was giving precise information of the enemy’s movements for the others to do their part. The 4^th was the analyst, was overlooking the entire mission, was right behind all 3 of them, was the most experienced of them all and hence had the skills of all ready to unleash even if one fails.

The entire armed forces were in front of me and I was this citizen dragged into war. I couldn’t bare to see the holocaust that was about to happen. Also, selfishly didn’t want the energy and the power of such commanders to be used in a simple mission as this, a “seek and destroy”. The enemy was anyway cornered and only had to be lured for the final kill, I called in the SWAT and asked for one specific commando who was anyway a specialist in S&D missions. He came, he saw, he cornered, he hit, mission accomplished! The tail end of the enemy was in the hands of the commando.

Mission Status:

1 Kill – A mouse

Commando – Veeresh, building caretaker

Commander 1 – Mother in law

Commander 2 – Sister in law

Commander 3 – Wife

Commander 4 – Ajji

Weapons Locked and Loaded – 2 brooms, 2 slippers. 1 plastic broom called for, but unapproved

Weapon status – All unused ready for next mission

The Catapult Theory

Ok! before I even start this, let me inform you that I had a strong feeling that this may not be the first time you may have heard of this so I wasn't sure if I was writing something new. I did my research; google's average search speed is 0.2 seconds and I gave the exact word search as the title above and guess what! Google returned results about only the physics of the contraption called "catapult" but not on a life theory which I had to explain about. So if it's not google then the only option left is... (take a pause here and think for 2 minutes and guess)… 

...it is?

"Rajnikanth". :-)

...but he would have experienced this theory for ‘1nce’ which would be equal to 100 times, so that may not really work for mere beings like us, so who am I kidding! :-)

Anyway, this all started with one of my colleagues who spoke to me about this ever eluding promotion at work. I know him, he is one of those hard workers who has a tough time presenting his work “smartly” which does not give him the edge on his projects when it comes to the Seniors noticing him. The tips and tricks of accomplishing it has been given to him so many times by his mentors, friends, relatives and even the next door seven year old who happens to be a living Calvin saying “Uncle, reality continues to ruin my life, so what’s the big deal with you!” :-)

Before me or my colleague could accept that, I had this best friend of mine who spoke about his ever eluding wish of getting his own home due to mounting commitments from unknown quarters thwarting that very idea just when he was ready with the down payment, my aunt who speaks of her daughter's ever eluding marriage with her meeting that right alliance and getting to the 5th time Coffee Day meeting and then the phone stops ringing or the messages stop coming from the alliance for reasons unexplained.

It's a space of giving up and resigning to the situation... however I feel it need not be!

I see a example to adopt in all this, like the catapult or the sling shot;

(courtesy wikipedia) 

The only way to make these things happen is to have our backs firm against that “leather pad”. When you hold and pull, what you are doing is “storing tension” of the rubber band that is tethered to the pad. The same tension, stress, and anxiety, you are bearing inside you, while waiting for the things to happen the way you want it to. Every instance of that wait only multiplies the “storing tension”, its ok, why? Because this would only mean that you will have, more time to aim accurately at the target, you have more hold on the tension, you are even more settled in the pad before the launch. For, when the launch happens, you are propelled with maximum thrust, with highest velocity and land right in the center of that target, where you actually want to be.

One of my favourite quotes that explain this theory is in a short scene in from the batman series ‘Dark Knight’ where Alfred tells the Batman.

Bruce (Batman): People are dying, Alfred. What would you have me do? 
Alfred: Endure, Master Wayne. Take it.

Well the Batman does it for a entirely different reason on screen, but for us the word is so apt.

Endure!

Just endure that every moment of that wait, which feeds into the tension of the rubber band, without losing the aim, which has been designed only to take you bang on to the target.

“Relax, and enjoy the ride” that’s old.

“Relax, and enjoy the launch” the new :-) 

A Full Moment:

Yes! A picture is worth a thousand words and there are innumerable instances that exemplify that adage. Yet, how many times have you come across a moment captured by you which depicts your entire inner self with the outer world.

Here is mine.

This was in Aug 2011, me and my friends were on a trip to a place called Chikmagalur a city located in the foothills of Mullayingiri Range in the state of Karnataka, India. The city is known for its many hill stations surrounding it and we had been to a couple of them before we came to this city as part of the last leg of the tour. Well this was according to me the most planned trip ever as it happened with not 1, 2 or 10 but 72 email exchanges between 5 of us planning every inch of the road that we would drive on and every sq ft of the cottage that we would stay in :-)

One of them, the Woodway Homestay in Chikmagalur. It was the morning of the fourth day and after a long night’s sleep I had just stepped out of the homestay at 7am with my morning coffee and my inner soul was experiencing this stand still moment in my life, I wasn’t thinking, there was no past and there was no future. It was a ‘this is it’ moment. I was present to “now”.

I was experiencing tranquillity, chillness - that was warm not cold and my life was full, complete and holistic.  

I looked up and couldn’t believe the sight I was looking at, I captured it with my eyes and my lens.

My experience was right in front of me, the colour green depicting tranquility, the misty morning provided the chillness and my life was full as the gleaming cauldron filled with rain water from the last nights drizzle. My inner self and the outer world were in harmony.

Few leaves from the branches above were sliding away their tiny water drops into the cauldron creating the most symmetric tiny ripples on the brimming water. It was bliss!

Every second there is a picture like this passing by.

The moments of the “now”.

Engrossed we are in our worldly pursuits that we let them pass by.

Do you have your full moment… share your harmony here!

Three Faces

"Look Around you…
What do those faces tell you…
Faces faces everywhere…
Faces all around
Different faces I see…"

One of the first ever dance music band… '2 Unlimited' had sung this song titled 'Faces'. 

I had heard this song on MTV in the early 90s when MTV used to air for 2 hours in the afternoons. This song left a permanent mark in my life where I actually sat up to notice how in the 7 billion population of the world, you actually see 7 billion unique faces. How can human beings have so many variations of the face. After that thought the way I looked at the world completely altered.

Out of those 7 billion we have come across thousands but there are a few who leave us breathless and inspired. I would like to illuminate 3 such faces that we may all know… Faces with characters who have created profiles of themselves as they walked, talked, played, acted, mesmerised the entire world, yearning for them, looking up to them, starry eyed as if they were descendants of God. These 3 faces, I'm not sure how they may have impacted all of you, but for me, as a sailor looking to sail the seas of life, they became my compass permanently.

First Face:
I was born… short. To a Brahmin family in Mumbai, India. My mother was working in the Insurance industry and my father was a novelist. I was named after a music director who was my father’s favourite. I attended school at Sharadashram Vidya Mandir and I was as normal as any other kid you would have seen. I loved to play… but there was only one game that I could learn and it was cricket. I wanted to become a fast bowler and even joined the MRF Pace foundation but I was outright rejected as I was unimpressive. I was instead asked to focus on my batting. I learnt the game same way as any normal kid learnt but what I learnt a little different than the others is to be challenged and not be afraid of failure. To believe in me.

The fact that I was able to score a century in every game I played in 1988, did not matter, the fact that I had made 326 runs in a single inning when I was just 13, did not matter, The fact that when I became 14 I used to be the ball boy for the Indian cricket team, did not matter, The fact that I scored my 100th century that no man has ever achieved, did not matter. But 25 years on when 11 of my team members got the ever eluding world cup to the country, made me, who I'm, what I'm.

My Name is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.

Second Face:
Knock Knock… woke me up, I was staring at my computer screen but the screen was blank. I was very sure that my computer was actually speaking to me trying to tell me something… but all I remembered was it had asked me to follow the “White Rabbit” and I did. I meet Trinity who takes me to Morpheus who tells me what I have believed till now is not true and there is something beyond it. He asks me to make a choice, Red Pill or the Blue Pill and I learnt that my world is always made of choices and its left to me to make the right choice every time  all the time. I took the Red Pill and there I was freed from my make believe world that I was living in to the Real World. It wasn't a fancy place but it will remain the only place where I learned to breathe for the first time the feeling of Freedom, freeing my mind.

I was Thomas A Anderson a software engineer, with a respectable software company in the so called make believe world called the 'Matrix' and transformed to Neo, a character who had only one power "belief".
To make the whole world know that all vices of fear, anger, frustration that happen are part of a make
believe world called the Matrix and you have the choice to rise above it by knowing your "real world".

Free Your Mind.

Third Face:
I studied law in London and became a Barrister. Not knowing that when I was born in Gujarat to a Diwan serving the government which was ruled by the British, one day I will be instrumental in leading a 350 million strong nation to oust such a government and provide Freedom to the people. I was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and later knew to be fondly called as 'Bapu'. While I witnessed the oppression that my fellow citizens of the country were experiencing I was not concerned about what they are going to do about it but yes I couldn't bear to see the pain that they were going through physically and mentally getting treated as slaves. If a human being can suffer so much of pain when inflicted by someone he will never learn the pain he would cause if he was to hit back in the form
of revenge. 

I put my belief in Ahimsa and I vowed that I will not let another human being harm any
other human being. I preached Non-violence and the entire nation agreed and abided. When my
mother taught me the story of Harischandra I promised myself to abstain from lying and I have acted
Harischandra to myself over a million times.

Truth prevailed and my country got its Freedom, August 15th 1947.

My fellow human beings, its a start. I have now 3 faces to begin with. I learnt that there is one power that all of them have possessed which is the lifeline of their characters; common to all of them - Belief. I have now 3 faces to believe, to be inspired, in living my life completely. 

Do You?

(Written adaptation of my speeches from Toastmasters)

There is no spoon

It's interesting to observe how various lessons about life comes from different sources which may be from anywhere. For me it was from a movie... well who am I kidding! for me mostly its from a movie :-). So here is one such lesson which I would like to share and illustrate. 

"There is no spoon" - is a famous phrase from the movie 'Matrix'. The script goes like this;

Spoon Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon; that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon Boy: There is no spoon
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon Boy: Then you will see, it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

(You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXtO5dMqEI)

The above conversation if seen in the movie and undertsood a little more you can actually relate to your everyday happenings of life which we see like that of the 'spoon'. A spoon is made of metal and its rigid and it does not change, like the happenings/situations of your life. For you to bend it, it will be you who has to change the way you see it and adapt yourself to deal with it.

Here is that lesson which I 'manipulated' a bit to drive the message across to a group of audience :-)

Illustration: I handed over some common objects (Pen, Pencil, Bag, Book) to 4 random people in the audience (without the knowledge of the others) and I went and stood facing myself to the wall, blindfolded.

While still facing the wall I started speaking,

"I see that A has something with him... please hold it up for others to see... it's a Pen... right?

I hear "yes"


I see that B has something with him... please hold it up for others to see... it's a Pencil... right?

I hear "yes"

I did the same with C and D

The I turned around and said "Wow!! I was right...! Can you do that?" I heard no's from the audience. 

"No You can’t, only I know this trick."

"What you witnessed here is my trick which I have designed and only I know the outcomes of it."

"However what I have demonstrated today is no trick but the greatness of who we all are… men and women and the power that is innate within us. We have these powers for us to use every day, every moment, every second and I want to make you realize, persuade and feel this power today."

"What did I do? I knew I was going to come here today and stand here and tell you what you guys were
holding after giving them to you. I had thought of this when I started preparing for this meeting and
started penning it down as this flow of idea came to me."

"But this right here is my future to the past that I had already thought… imagined."

"I was able to see this future happen as of yesterday and I have made it happen right in front of you
today!!"

"We all have that kind of power to see the future and make it happen as we wish to. Isn't that awesome!"

The above was an illustration to prove how we have the capacity to see beyond us and understand that "preparation" is nothing but already knowing the "future".

You change the way you look at things and you will see that every occurrence has multiple dimensions to it and in those dimensions you will see various new set of actions that you can take. 

Let me illustrate more with 2 more examples;

Do you know that your eye has physical muscles to completely change the way you look? 

If you remember, there used to be this picture game which used to come in various magazines before. There is a colourful picture design in front of you and the instructions would say that you need to stare at the picture for sometime and slowly move you face away from the picture and voila!! You see an image of a beautiful horse or a flower or a car emerging in front of you, in 3D view. Such pictures are called Stereograms. 

You look beyond the design and you can see beautiful images appearing in front of you, such are the experience that lies in little changes that you can do to look at things differently. 

Another simple example; 

Just raise one of you hand in front of you so that you can see the back of your palm. You will see the hand and 5 fingers. Now as you keep the hand in front of you try seeing beyond the hand at any object… now you will see as if more fingers have been added on the palm. A visual illusion yes, but still a compelling point that drives the message that you can see things differently by just altering the way you see it.

So, what we see may not be what we see and we just have to see it in a different view', you may
come to realize, as I did, that you may actually end up seeing only the best things in life.

“There is no spoon”.

(Written adaptation of my speeches from Toastmasters)

Bangalore - A Moon!

"Distance la moonu moonu... moonu colouru white-u", a snippet of the song that went viral on Youtube.

Ah! the moon... in its full white glory has been creating never ending pages of creative comparison to various things on earth, from love... to a woman.. from the writers.. to the poets. 

Look a little closer and you will notice that the white moon is not all that white but it has all these dark patches called the "lunar maria" (basaltic plains) formed from rapid cooling molten rock and so it goes... scientifically speaking. 

Our Bangalore is such a moon, well we don't have rapid cooling rocks but we have our dark patches and that's all the amoeba shaped potholes on the roads. If I were to stand on the moon and look at the Bangalore telescopically I would see the same thing. Only that if I was the citizen of the moon I would be thinking these patches to be craters created by meteor hits on the earth. To come to think of it, it may even look like Earth had a war with the meteors that they really hit themselves so hard on to the earth to make such oddly 
shaped craters and them deep too. 

All of us have been through one of them or all of them during our stay in this Garden city. People have written letters, petitioned, protested or even sued the Govt for this but it has always remained. Me being an ordinary citizen watched to know what the outcome of such flag raising initiatives would be, very well knowing that it has always...remained. 

Everytime when you were over one, you find the shocks of your precious bike taking the brunt or your german engineered suspensions of your car compress to its maximum level, which it may not even have been designed or tested for, figuratively. You felt your bone crunch all the time.

It did for me, and like any other peace loving Indian, I just waited for that patch to be covered by an overnight act of Gods wearing khaki uniform. But with all that crunch I didn't enjoy the bitter feeling I had all the time when I was trying to have a great day either at office or a happy friend's party or a trip to the mall to catch my favourite movie. 

I decided to act, within me. 

All I did was to look at the same things differently. I picked out the best day when I was the best of me and ventured out and passed through all those irritating roads. I went with the belief that I will let go of my misery  and voila! there it was, the wave of positive thoughts which made me see these oddly shaped craters suddenly starting to appear like the countries of the world.

There was Australia, there was China, South Africa, Canada, the 42nd state of the US wow and with my passion to travel, I started travelling on each and every one of them avoiding the mountains and avoiding the deep valleys but picked my plateaus and made sure that my Apollos and my MRFs went through them while I savoured the feel of travelling around the world. Did I hear someone say 80 days? I did that in 30 minutes or 60 minutes! 

My days became brighter, and I had a lot more fun. I was looking forward to see which country I'm going to go through each day and that gave me a simple satisfaction of going through my day with a 'smile'. I may not have figured out a way to change the system but I have surely made a stride in changing me and I will work to make this a habit to make myself 'smile' so that I could spread it to my entire world. 

So let me know which country have you been to today! with a smile! :-)

(Written adaptation of my speeches from Toastmasters)

Who is the Black Sheep?

Who is the Black Sheep?

Yes, even I would like to know this, who is this black sheep? 

That everybody thinks will be responsible for his/her well being, may it be home or at office. Yes, you were a child once upon a time and children generally in their process of thoughtless explorations may not know the obvious dangers and hence require some direction, 'taking care'. But please you don't fall into that category. You are not a momma's boy or daddy's girl anymore, you have learnt to use your radar and you can sense your own dangers. Just start moving forward and quit worrying about a hand-hold all the time.

This may not be true with all the people, but I would like to send this message out to all those people who have their 'expectations' over people and that too at all levels. You have all right to expect, but do not be fooled that things would go the same way as its supposed to. What you have is a wish and not all wishes are destined to come true. I'm writing this not because people haven't understood their expectations, I'm sincerely bothered about the time that they spend on brooding over it before or after and its such a waste of precious human energy. 

If all that energy could be tapped, I don't think we would need the sun anymore and the divine energy of the Sun could be used in some other noble hunt for mankind :-)

Seriously, aren't we surrounded by such people and so many times we end up pacifying them on how their expectations with another person didn't go well and we are saying the same things again and again. I just feel like pouring water on their slumbering self-esteem.

Also me being a member of the HR community stand witness to so many people expecting things from their colleagues, managers or the organisation all the time. Well you have the right to expect and your rights on your expectations are justified but there ends the line that you can cross. How you would want these expectations to work out for you in the way you want it, lies totally on your existence with the groups that you are interacting with. 

Here, lets play a game, I call this 'show me the black sheep' so send me a mail once you know the answers for these questions;

Show me the black sheep...

... who said that its the manager's responsibility to take care of your career?
... who said that your father has the responsibilty to provide for all your needs?
... who said that organisations have to provide for taking care of your economic needs?
... who said that your friend has to take the fall at most situations?
... who said that Sr.Management is only responsible for the company's growth?
... who said that your mother has to defend you at all times?
... who said that your team members should approach you at all times if they are stuck?
... who said that you forward your resume to one person and they should land you in a job?
... who said that your Govt should take care of corruption while you keep giving that extra 10 out?
... who said that you send a mail to one person and they should look at it the minute it lands in their inbox?

The amount of dependencies that you create is the amount of control that you lose. The more you lose control of your surrounding, the more you lose on the control you own. Do begin to realise the structure around you and see how you can create your own destinations to reach. All the people you need are there around, but they will be only till the point that they are interested to provide any help, if you expect things to come on a platter, I wish you all the best for finding the lost Black Sheep - which is YOU!

Inspired By: Ayn Rand - "Who is John Galt?" and Song from Delhi-6 "Kala Bandar"

The Peninsular Boss

The Peninsular Boss

Let me ask you this... if all the working professionals in the world have been given a choice to work with the boss of their choice, how would it be? what do you think will happen.

Well imagine this big land of people, with all the working professionals on one side and their respective bosses on the other. People have been instructed to move around and stand in the same line as the boss they would like to choose and work with.

If you take a aerial view of this event you will almost see a game of human 'Solitaire'. People lining up one behind the other, where the boss himself is choosing to move, under the boss of his choice, huge line on one, little smaller in the other and maybe some of them would choose to pass and go back to the 'deck' waiting for their turn to be part of the line whom they want to work with, boy they might not be able to choose whom to work with but they sure do know whom not to work with :-)

However, I would not want you to look at this event but just rewind your mental thought process and go to that point where people started moving to be part of a particular line. What do you think their prime thoughts were, the moments between the time they were asked to move and the time they moved?

I'm able to see all those people run their entire life experience and reminisce the best instances of all those faces that they saw as their boss, who managed them or maybe still managing them. 

What would these instances be which made them take the decision? If I have to go a little more deeper what did these instances contain?... For me its "emotions".

No matter how unemotional a person can be, at that time, I believe the factors of growth, career, money, future all that came out of emotional impulse from that person.

Now.. wait I'm not here to talk about emotion as a human functionality and how it affects judgement in human beings. But I would want you to focus on the logical flow that specific emotion has created which reached a point of decision for that person.

Being born in a peninsula I guess I had this notion that anything that has a 3 way connection to a entity can be  a peninsula :-). My theory... there are 3 such 'ocean' of factors that draws us 'ships' to the coasts of this 'peninsular' boss that we want to work with.

Ocean 1 - Engage

The boss who knows your true potential and utilises you to the fullest extent of tapping all your interests. He/she will ensure that they have enough task list which will keep you enganged all the time. You may relate to this happening to you now, and may say "whats the big deal, Im buried with work anyway". But I'm drawing your attention to this peninsular boss, who would give you the tasks but you will not know the extent that you are already managing. 

Your work may be transactional, you may be doing mundane things, post man's job, absolutely no time for a breather but in that process you would have come to know the links in the chain and slowly without your knowledge in the pretext of giving "additional responsibilties" you would be handling the responsibilities that they would have been handling, the movement of end-end of that chain. 

You would have learnt how the machine works as you pass through the gears and linking the chains making an entire gigantic process. From then on, any task/project/structure becomes a machine to you and all of you have to do is link them, gear them and create a self-managed overhaul process. 

During this entire journey you would have received your training, you would have handled the unknown, you would now start visioning your next steps, plan, prepare, implement and complete. The best part, at every single stage it would be your signature on the final structure.

Ocean 2 - Nurture

Your working knowledge, your grasping powers, your analytical thoughts, your strengths, your weaknesses all that would have come out during the engagement phase. The peninsular boss maintains his own performance diary, he has made notes (mentally or on a desktop .txt file who cares) all through out and all he/she have to do now is ensure that you are re-charged on all those areas. 

There are so many times when you are attending boring trainings, seminars on topics that are alien to you or endless meetings which are gibberish, but if you would notice the peninsular boss would ask you how it went and spend sometime with you to understand what you have learnt, who you have met, how was the atmosphere and provide you with ideas which you can put back into your work and with every such instance habituate you into putting anything back into your work. 

You will be ready for thinking differently, acting on higher plane which would help the boss place you by his side so that he can create the visibility, the boss ideas will be yours and you would know exactly what to do with them as you know the entire machinery now. 

The process of growth would become automatic, you would be known around the place and what you do. You have been familiarised in the industry... you would have been... nurtured.

Ocean 3 - Enhance

Its time to let go of the hold on your seat as you already have the handle bars straight and you are pedalling away, the road doesn't scare you anymore, you are flying the machine alone and the boss just needs to be on the ground provide you with directions and let you know of the climate.

You get to venture into your own roads or fly into the yonder, by just knowing that there is a line connected and you can always trace back. You have no fear of falling and you know if you do its your own doing. The boss would give you new roads to travel, enhance you to the bike or the car, give you the lats and longs and you would just know where the wind is or how the wind is... to reach there. 

You will be doing things only which interests you and you would get into interesting work even without you asking for it. You remember a song that you heard when you were a child, you might remember a entire movie, but can you tell me one lesson from your 5th grade now. Where your interest is, you would automatically retain it. The enhancement of your interests will be in the peninsular boss's best interest :-)

Even if I had to categroise, in my mind, the enthusiastic natured would fall into Ocean 1, the analytical, cautioned natured will fall into Ocean 2, the mature, independent groups fall into ocean 3 and by groups I mean it could be the boss or employees. Even if one of the above attribute has created an equation between the employee and the boss they would remain inseparable for a long time. These attributes would go to the extent of both groups making all efforts to take care of any kind of factor, may it be in their personal or professional life, not affect this equation and the surroundings would conspire, would crumble for them to stay that way. Retention has been mechanised :-)

So look out for this peninsular boss create the equation. Rest assured, your satisfaction levels on the job will always be recharged, 100%.

Following the White Rabbit!

Like every other child I read Alice in Wonderland too.. like a fable, a story. I enjoyed it every bit as I lived the adventure in my head as I read it. But I never understood the metaphors.

I saw the Matrix and it was instant , the assertive figure of speech of the White Rabbit, the moments of every life, that takes you to the Wonderland, the Life that we live in.

So here I'm following the White Rabbits..'Love'.. my beloved.. tells me I have the gift... 'Reverence'.. her Guru informs me about the path... to illustrate, to write... 'Compassion'... my dearest friends, acquaintances... nudge me to move, to take the step while giving their smiles... 'Affection'... my parents and my family packs me a bindle of their blessings... and I... began with this introduction....

The antipode of my wonderland, My Life.







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