Tip of the day – Beware of where you share…

Be wary of sharing your philosophies with folks you built them on.

Tip of the day...

Stop working if you want to produce more!

If you are so engrossed in working through transactions all day, day in and day out, weeks on end, year after year, that the work you do governs and manages you and your time than the other way round, stop working right now!

Take a step back and reflect on what your work is intended to produce and what it produces now. Challenge the premise of how the outcome is produced and question why it cannot be done any other way. You have the unique opportunity to be the first one to get a bird’s eye view of your own work and what it produces. You’d be surprised how much less work is required to accomplish the same outcome or how much more outcome you can produce with the same amount of work that you put in.

But to be able to do all that, first you must stop working!

Tip of the day – Size does matter.

A right sized ego, a big heart and a small step in the right direction is all it takes to be on your way to success.

Tip of the day – Short-term fence-sitting is fine…

There’s a saying that the grass is always greener on the other side. The connotation of the saying is that this is an illusion. Meaning, the other side appears green when you look at it from where you are but if you were to get there, perhaps, looking at where you now are might be greener.

So what’s new? Everyone obviously knows this already!

The catch is - if everyone, now and in the history of humankind, had taken this saying to heart and at face value, the world would have stayed still. It is the weakness of the resolve to stay put and the strength of the mind to experiment and discover the new and unknown that has fuelled progress. However, there have been many instances of experimentation that has resulted in a step backward or progress with negative consequences.

This, finally, brings me to fence-sitting.

Imagine sitting on a high fence, not the barbed wire kind, with an aerial and panoramic view of both sides of the picture to be able to make a considered decision. If you stick around there forever, procrastinating the making of a decision in search of a sign from up above, well, that is long-term fence-sitting. That is the worst course you could take and the last thing I recommend. However, if you spend just enough time on the fence to get a view and understand the nuances of both sides of an equation, you are likely to be making the right decision. That is short-term fence-sitting and that is highly recommended!

Tip of the day – You cannot make a wrong decision!

We have all mulled over the wrong decisions we have made at some point in the past or the other. Especially when things have not panned out the way we had planned or desired. Haven’t we?

Well. There is nothing called a wrong decision. If there were something like a wrong decision, no one would make it, see? When we find that a decision was wrong, the symptom is the obvious – not attaining the outcome. The diagnosis, however, is that of a wrong decision. And that is incorrect. To see why, we need to understand the anatomy of a decision.

Decisions are based on facts and a hypothesis of what would work towards realization of the desired outcome. Lack of availability of all facts and the lack of soundness of the hypothesis are the only ingredients that contribute to the failure of any decision. However, it is often not practical in life to wait till we have all the facts and hypothesis straightened out before making decision. Hence we take chances on the pieces of the puzzle that are missing by making assumptions on what they could be. If these assumptions are all right, the decision is vindicated. Else, not!

When, at a later point in time, we do have all the facts and have a proven hypothesis to a desired outcome, we end up sitting in judgment over decisions made in the past. And hence the notion of a wrong decision!

Every decision is right at the point in time when it is made. It is also true that not all decisions stand the test of time.

Tidbits – Who am I?

Ever wondered what you refer to as ‘I’?

What you see in the mirror is your image. It is your body, your heart, your brain, your mind, your thoughts, your vision, your soul, your beliefs, your senses…

 If all of these ‘are yours’, then what is ‘I’?

It is in the state of being that ‘I’ can be found, it is the ‘I am’ that defines the ‘I'...

Tip of the day – If you are serious, do not swim across the tide.

You may have it sailing smooth or you could be roughing it out. You may experience accelerated progress because of the elements being with and behind you, or you could be overcoming numerous obstacles on the way. Either way, if you are in serious pursuit of a goal, you ought to be swimming with the tide or against the tide, and you would get there eventually. Swimming across the tide is like pursuing a moving target. Do so and you would meander through life. You would get somewhere for sure because you still have the ability to swim, but you are unlikely to reach the goal you started out with.