Wish list takeway

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Wish Lists are for things we want to get, but what about a wish list for things you want to give? many people (beauty contestants atleast) wish that there was world peace, food for everybody etc. Grand wishes, very nice, but all of us have a lot of personal wishlists too, like a better house, better car, new tv, even a cool new dress or book. What about taking that wish list and reversing the intention.

Create a wish list of things that you can give away. Can be material stuff you have, physical or digital, or even your something you are good at doing, like art, or writing, or dancing, or listening. Share that wish list  on your blog/facebook/twitter, why even have a printed copy on your door.

The Great ________(your name here)'s Wishlist takeaway.

Changing your world is fun actually :)

Opportunity does chug along....but

Trains arrive on tracks, but thats not a good place to wait for them!

  by  superbomba 

UnFire now!

Haven't we all loved to fire somebody because of shoddy work. Or maybe we were fired sometime for whatever reason, what if there was an undo option for that? Or more importantly can we unFire somebody that we have fired in our minds already? I am not even talking abt jobs, I am taking abt people and their attitudes. Isn't it time we gave more people another chance. Lets go unFire somebody now!

the art of humility

The seeker asked, "Master, teach me humility."

"I wish I knew," replied the master.

"Humility," said the master after a while,"is the only virtue, the moment you know you have it you lose it."

Full of Beauty

From a presentation at one of my trainings.

Beautiful = Full of Beauty!

I procrastinate therefore I am ..... good!

It has been a need that has fueled the self help book publishing industry and spawned thousands of people who get us to set up lists, write memos, talk in front of mirrors* and do other crazy stuff. Yes, to help us to unprocrastinate# our lives we have been spending a lot of time, effort and greenbacks.

But why do we procrastinate, lets look at this way. If you are not absolutely sure that you will be able to finish something on time, you will refuse to do it. And what gives you the surety that you can do it, is that you had accomplished the task previously and on time too. If anything this ability to think we can accomplish something in only so much time is a pat on our back for prior good job at the same task.

So we are good at something and we know we need only this much time to finish it. Now since we are "Good", lets up the ante a little bit, how about a rush of adrenaline to kick it in? We push the project to the least amount of time that we can finish it, with a deadline on the corner. why? for the adrenaline, how many times have be huffed and puffed and drew a sweat as we managed to just finish something before the deadline? And the sly smile after we handed it! (Hey i managed and just in 2 hours, what I had all week to do, I am good!).

So we have past accomplishments, adrenaline rush and the finally plainly because we are actually good at it. Yes most of us procrastinate because we are good at
1. The task at hand
2. Procrastinating

So there you have it, stop berating yourself and go dump those books on how to beat procrastination.

The only problem is that good is not great or magnificent. It only is what others are also. Good. Now to go beyond that you have get beyond and get to become enchancers. Get a title that says you are Media Enhancer, Creative Enhancer, Industrial Enhancer.... and go enhance the world. now. i meant right away. Get up and get out.







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* I made that up
# Yeah that one too

Human Touch

I often wonder if we have lost the human touch around us. Today, I was at a restaurant, we were 3 of us, the waiter gave us the menu, and while we were thinking about the order, i mentioned that I needed a coffee urgently, he said one urgent coffee coming right away and left to return with a hot coffee and then take the rest of our order.

Wow! Talk about responsiveness, talk about service quality, and yes "the human touch". Was thoroughly impressed with the fella! We all bemoan bad service, especially in India and we often wonder where the human touch is, if there was something like that. We get  pissed when we are put on hold by customer service (hehehe...), government stuff etc. But the real question is are we providing the human touch, at our workplace, in public, when we commute, when somebody needs help (not just when they ask for it)

Human touch anyone?

Confucious says....

Confucious says, "I did not say that!".

If you are like most people*, you would have waited for the punchline, and expected to chuckle at a random fact that makes "zense", because it comes from yonder time, or you would have been prepared to believe the "Zenism" because, you know....its Zen!

Marketers love packaging stuff (not the package it comes in, thats for later to unwrap...), I am talking about packaging facts, that will make you fantasize about meeting your unmet needs and making your current products obsolete. Its the the packaging of the idea, thats makes our current product feel inferior. Tv screens peaked to around 40 inches, and then came LCD & Plasma, and they peaked and then came LED screens. You can see darker blacks and whiter whites more clearly, except i am not using my tv as a microscope,I just want to watch TV, not dust the speck on a 400% zoomed picture of my face.

(Bigger, Brighter, Faster) + (emotion, slow motion, catchy music) + (like button + twitter) = feel miserable, unwanted, unloved!

Confucious would have said, " i told u so!".

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*humans who believe that they are humans

Human Language

Went to the doctor an ENT(ear, nose & throat) specialist today. We got talking and then it got to the part where she was trying to tell me that something is "blocking" my ear drum, but she could'nt find the word "block" and then finally she said, lets just say your ear drum is not too happy about it!

i loved the expression, made plain sense to me. The medical term would have been fancy sounding, but would have still not gotten the job done of making me understand what my problem was. Wish more people would speak "human languages". just imagine your tech support guy, your architect, your management consultant all speaking human language! but then they would not be able to charge you as much either!

3 questions.

1. where have you been?
2. why are you here?
3. where are you going?

Gives you a reality check on your current life situation. Also helps in answering more of the so called Big problems in our life (so called...because as you know after a while when we look back at the Big problems we know they weren't so Big after all!).