Feedback

Many a time when people ask for feedback, they actually mean, “tell me all the nice things abt this”. The rest, they dont want to hear!!

It is amazing how often people turn protective after you point out a flaw in something (after they asked for feedback).

PS: I’m human, even I do this!

Enjoy the coffee, not the cup!

Source: Picked from the message board in my office. Real source unknown.

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering Coffee to his guests, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: ‘If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.’

Don’t let the cups drive you.. Enjoy the coffee instead!!!

Mere paas ma hai!

The most easily taken-for-granted person in our lives.. mother!

The most easily taken-for-granted thing… her love!

Why do we overlook simple things?

Why do we always ignore or overlook simple things?

Is it because we keep expecting things to be complex?

Here is a joke on the same lines.

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Creating wealth

To create wealth in only 3 steps, you need to
1. Earn more and keep increasing it
2. Invest better
3. Spend much less than your income

I can say with some confidence that I am good in step 3. Step 2 is a continual learning process. I am getting better with time.

But the most important aspect that I have realized now is step 1.

You can’t create wealth without aspiring to continually increase your income. The focus has to be here. Steps 2 and 3 are centred around step 1.

Keeping that in mind, here are a few changes I plan to implement:
1. Invest more time on step 1. That means, as of now, to focus on my career.
2. Stop doing step 2 myself. Let the experts do it for me for a while. ETFs, MFs, debt funds, etc can take the mantle of making my money grow. Free as much time as you can from this step and use it for step 1.
3. Sustain step 3 as it is now and you will be fine.

What to stop doing?

I am a big fan of Jim Collins. I like his book Good to great.

Today a job that I was ran took too much time to execute and I found myself in half-sleep mode. So in an attempt to shake myself up, I did some googling and landed at this site. Found it interesting. This guy had a link to a great article by Jim Collins.

It talks about what one needs to stop doing. I think this is a very vital question to ask yourself. To achieve our goal, we all focus on what has to be done. But very few care to think of what needs to avoided. How many of us have the sincerity and guts to question our own favourite ideas (that are not working) and say “Hey, that’s not such a good idea after all; let’s unplug it and move on to something else (Jim’s quote)”.

Please read the article. (Click on the link and go to Best New Year’s resolution? A ’stop doing’ list) Well, I have something to work on this weekend! To create a stop doing list!