Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Opportunities - Do we realise them?

At times I do get disturb and start cursing my enviornment and surrounding for not giving me enough opportunities and resources to rock the world. I don’t know about others but this man I met few years ago is quite gem of a person. In hindi we say “miti se bhi sona nikal le”, means he is the kind of person who can dig gold even from sand. Such a person he is full of life, always optimistic and can turn any situation in his favour. Yes he is one of the richest people in the city and competes with his father another richest person in the same city. I don’t mean that they have rivalry. They are best buddies to each other. So, the other day I was a bit depressed by the progress of my work and complaining about the resources I didn’t have and could have done better if I had them. I was discussing it with Parth, (the person I have been talking about) during a chat session on facebook. Parth asked me, “Mohit can you please tell me what you are lacking with to get to those resources?” Obviously I said money and opportunites. He said, “Well if that is the case there is plenty of money and opportunities all around, may be you are not able to observe it.” I was a bit confused. Parth said, “Let me share a story with you.”

Around 50 years back there lived a poor boy in a lonely place with his family. This place was hardly 20 KMs away from the town but no one travelled that road much. The only thing good for this family was that their ancestors have left them this huge land with two ponds with a warning that never get depart with this land or we are watching. Tradition followed and now they were having this land which was serving them food and shelter. This boy Jagdish use to spend his time at one of the pond. He used to sit there kill his time and curse that he having such a big land can be billionaire but cannot sell it. He will sit there and throw crystal like stones in pond. It was his daily routine. He was not allowed to go there in night hours or he could have spent 24 hours there throwing stones and cursing his ancestors.

One night he was not getting sleep and went towards the pond. On his way he saw a glow coming out of pond and shining water in moon light. It was as if he was looking at a Shrine. Feeling scared he ran away. He repeated his night visits for some days having the feeling that his ancestors might visit the place during night as it was said that they will be watching. One night taking courage he went near the pond thinking that as they are his ancestors so they will not harm him. He was amazed to see the beauty of shining water and there were no traces of threat. He thought for a moment and went back to sleep. For the first time after he became young he was sleeping with a satisfied smile on his face.

Next morning he went to a furniture shop and looked for few table and chairs. He went to the shopkeeper and asked, “How about you give me these sets of furniture for free.” Shopkeeper was confused and asked why. So, Jagdish replied if you give to me for free I will offer you 20% share in my restaurant. Shopkeeper agreed but said he will deliver it on the inaugural day. The boy fixed the number and left. It was a deal. Now he needed a team which can cook and serve. So, he went to one of the best caterer in the town. He met the owner and said, “How about partnering in a restaurant which is at one best located, within the city yet away from local hustles, which serves the best candle light dinner?” The caterer immediately understood the boys point and asked when we are starting the deal. His percentage was also 20%. From here he straight away went to a nursery and asked the owner, “Do you supply plants for your own restaurant?” “I don’t own a restaurant”, replied the owner. The boy offered him 20% share for plants and some initial finance required.

He invited all the three partners and explained them his proposal. All the three partners signed the deal and Jagdish gave his thumb impression. Now the deal was furniture and maintenance by furniture guy, food and beverages by catering guy, plantation and lightening by nursery guy, idea and land of Jagdish. All four gets 20% each and 20% for restaurant emergency fund. On the inaugural day there were about 100 invitees to attend. They were amazed to see this beautiful spot near the city and away from hustle and soon the word spread out in the town and they started getting the revenue. After some time they started second restaurant on a different theme. They used the emergency fund which was never touched since they have started. 

Jagdish got married and soon was blessed with a boy. Jagdish sent his boy to school, made him educated. His son one day learnt about diamonds and its glory. He was determined this day and went back home straight away went to pond dived in and saw the stones thrown by his father. He enquired about them with his father. Then he went to a jewellery shop to get these stones checked and indeed they were diamonds. With few digs the boy was amazed to find out that he lived over diamond mine. He asked the owner, “Do you wish to be a diamond merchant and move ahead from this shop to a jewellery hub?” The boy and shopkeeper went into partnership. They got the trading license and started a medium diamond showroom with diamonds of all shapes and sizes. Soon they started trading outside the city and then all over the state. Today they are trading diamonds all over the world.

That day I understood that to become successful you don’t need money; you need commitment, dedication and a will to change. And I have all these resources. I repeat these lines to me daily in the morning. Throughout the day I look for opportunities, opportunities to learn, opportunities to implement my learning, opportunities to take my learning to next level, opportunities to bring smile to others, opportunities to forgive others, opportunities to bring meaning to my existence. And many more opportunities. And what I find every day is that world is full of such opportunities and it has been a high time to realise them.

P.S. Think of yourself where you want to see yourself in 2 years from now. You can close your eyes now or you can choose to keep your eyes open. See yourself enjoying that moment, hear what you hear, concentrate on your feelings and intesify them. Think of the resources you need to reach there and pinch yourself now.

P.P.S. Now keeping your resources in mind think of available options and choose one easiest option and implement it now. 

Monday, October 14, 2013

Are you Knocking your own Success

The day I started to understand things consciously I have been listening to ‘There is no key to success’. I thought let’s explore this more and find out key to success. I kept on exploring the Success Mantra, and still travelling on the same path and have found some key ingredients that Success needs. This article talks about one of these keys which can open the locked door of success for you. It is not a hardcore rule or guidelines and you can choose to use this key because you want the open the door to success.

While you are reading these lines think of dress you wore yesterday. Now recall the color of the dress. Where do you see the picture, point it with your hand. That’s right. You know what it is the meaning of being success to you, don’t you? Remember the time when you were really appreciated for something you did really good. Yeah, go back a little and you can see yourself performing the act of success. Bring this picture to overlap with earlier picture of your dress, if it is not already overlapped. Can you bring this picture a little closer to you and make it a life size. Make it a real big life size image. You can do it, that’s right. Step into this person performing the act of success now and you can choose to close your eyes now or in next few seconds and live the same moment of performing the act of success. Yes that’s right you have been good in doing this act and you have seen yourself being successful in the past and you have relived the same moments again just now also you can transform this into habit of success by repeating it again. 

Repeat the same act again or you can choose to relive another moment of success. This time do notice the sensations inside your body. Intensify these sensations. Observe the flow of emotions, yes your feelings are always floating inside your body. Increase the current so that these feelings can flow faster. Make an easy entry and exit and also no entry for other feelings for now. Relive this act of success again now and you can see what you are doing and what sounds you hear and you can feel your feelings floating and telling you your path to follow where you can find your key to success and unlock all your future doors.

Stop for a moment and think of a situation where you want to be successful. Go along this journey with the changed person now you are. See what you see, hear what you hear and relive the same feelings you hae lived few moments back. Enjoy your days with these feelings. 

Repeat this process daily after you wake up in the morning. Repeat it for a week and then repeat it for a month. Keep observing your feelings and keep intensifying them and keep living your moments of success and you will find that in a month you are successful at every thing you do. You will also notice that as your intuition for success will increase at an exponential rate. 

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

If Every Employee is a Businessman


After giving too much thought and asking many persons about the title line, I finally decided to share my opinions. Before you go any further I would request you to comment your thoughts on “IF Every Employee is a Businessman”. Let us see how many employees and Businessman share the same opinion. Go ahead post your comments and come back to read it further.

It started with my talks to owner of an Automation Service provider company (they do mostly international projects). They are a small team of around 10-15 persons and very successful in their domain. Meeting Mr Khanna (name changed), man in his early 50s was a great opportunity for me. So dynamic, enthusiastic like a young man and always carrying a smile on his face. I asked him the same lines and he was like, “how you know that we practise it”. He said to me,”Mohit my company is working for the growth of its drivers. I don’t have employees, every individual in my company is working for his growth and if they help others to grow, they get double growth.” So it was like you help your colleague in some work and your manager see you doing this and he gives you double points. Mr Khanna says if an employee in a company grows it means that company is doing well even during recession. When I checked the moral of the people working there, every one said they are working for others to grow. I was impressed.

I had served three companies is last 3 and half years. During my services I met many dynamic personalities who never sold themselves. They had all the potentials but they worked to earn money only and they were selling their thoughts to all their colleagues. They never think to bring meaning to their company. They even tried to sell their thought to me and I told myself,”if you cannot change your environment then change your environment” and I did the same always.  You should work to bring meaning to what you do. Do you?

Every employee who needs to grow has to do business. He/she has to sell his/her knowledge in order to get the return. Once you sold your knowledge and get the return, you have to upgrade your knowledge to increase your return.


When I ask the same question to my ex-colleagues and present ones too, most of them were like, companies will cease to exist. The list starts from managers to ground level staff. I have heard Guy Kawasaki saying that Steve Jobs always hire persons who have more potentials than he had. In simple words ‘A players hire A+ players.’ That’s one of the reasons for the growth APPLE. Only one of my friends said without giving a thought that in a company where every employee is a businessman the company will never look back.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

The Power of Your Thoughts

Whether you think
You can do it
or you can’t 
You are always right
-Henry Ford

Whoever you are while reading above lines you may have pictured someone doing things right way or you could have heard your internal voice saying yes or you could have felt a sensation in your body, yes I have done it before. Some of you may also get all the three sub-modalities. Sub-Modalities are the outcome of your internal thought process. When I ask you “Define an ‘Orange’? Some may see orange as a fruit or as colour, some may hear the word orange from all sides or some may have felt the taste of orange. Yes that’s right. That is the Power of your thought.

We all have polarities inside our head, i.e. we have two minds. You are a good driver and by this I mean you can be driving a car or a bike or your body while walking. Now, when you are driving how you come to know that it is the right time to apply breaks. You may see some obstacles through your conscious mind, yes that’s right. So, what you do now apply brake but do you press the pedal consciously or you give yourself instruction that now take the clutch and then press the break and release the accelerator. It all happens automatically. Yes you are right, that’s the other mind that works together with your conscious mind. I will term it as sub-Conscious mind, you may have your own terminology for it but the point is it exists. Just like current to flow through a circuit you need a cell having positive and negative terminal and you connect these ends to complete a circuit and current starts flowing. But for constant flow of current you must recharge your battery with positive charge. Negative charging will result in complete disposal of body and no outcome can be obtained. This is how our mind works too. You take a positive thought consciously and keep repeating it to yourself by seeing pictures and hearing voices and feeling sensations and you keep doing it repeatedly to make your sub-conscious believe that it is right. This how your body knows when you have to apply breaks, you have to release the accelerator first and then take clutch and press the brake pedal  not fully but as much it is required because you have to stop at certain point or you may have to dodge the traffic.

So what you can do now is think of a time where you have planned something and have implemented it successfully.  So, the picture that you see is it the same size that you have seen the orange earlier or is it a movie that is going on. What happens if you make this picture bigger and brighter, do you feel more certain that you can repeat it again for other plans too? How about making this picture more colourful and seeing that picture hung in your office or your home and your friends and colleagues are appreciating your achievements and as you are smiling now you can hear all the words clearly and feel the sensation of self-confidence that you have now in your body. What will you do with this confidence, what changes will this bring into your lifestyle? So you can change the world around you with the new powered thoughts. 

Your body now knows how it feels when you are full of confidence and how you can just bring back the same feelings where you are full of confidence and you are bang on target for what all you want to do. You have done it before and have repeated the same thing few seconds back and you have also enjoyed the feelings and you can repeat this activity several time in future to imbibe it with your daily process.

P.S. :You are free now to make plans and you sub conscious knows how to implement it.

P.P.S :Yes that’sThe Power of your Thoughts”.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Being Positive from Inside

          Have you ever wonder, why at certain times you are best while at certain other time you are among the best (Yes in same context)? You are doing the same thing repeatedly and on one particular day you are having a headache or fever or any other health related issues which gives you a reason for not doing your best. If you agree with me till here (most of you will agree), you can go ahead and read out the complete post.

       Well, I am not here to give you a magic wand that will change your life and you will always do best in whatever you do. But I know few enthusiastic personalities who are always at their best in whatever they do and I will tell you what they do inside which is reflected outside in their performance and we take it as their best. I will not say how they do it because it is a very complex equation but it is very simple equation for the person sitting inside us. You may call it unconscious mind or heart or soul or any XYZ component of your body. I am always in touch with this person (also while writing this) and so, you are too connected with this person inside you. And this person always know how to do, we have to only tell His/hers what to do.

          Today morning when I met my niece Aanya, she was having fever and was bit dull. She saw me and came running to me slowly which she doesn’t do normally. I got a signal that something is not right with her; later on I came to know that she is having fever. So I took her into my arms (she is only 1 year old with 6 months of experience) and started doing a little chit-chat with her. This was the same chat that we do daily for sharing our love for each other. It was not like what we do with other patients, like do not worry or you will be fine soon or how it happened or any other bla bla bla that we all talk in these situations. So, Annya was responding to me in the same way as she does every other day and is always at her best and so are all the other kids around us. Later on Annya started dancing which she loves the most listening to any kind of music (and not the noise). So, I was enjoying with her and also wondering that when I used to have fever I always lie down on bed, will take a leave from work, will take some medicine and spent the day on bed. I will hear my family members saying take this you will be ok, do this, and I went to state where I told my inner person that you are not well and you should not work. This person takes my order brings all the weakness inside me and forcefully I have to lie down. But here Annya was enjoying with me dancing, playing and celebrating the beautiful morning with me. Even When I am not well at times and take it as an excuse to rest, when I have friends around me I don’t have to lie down to take rest. I just say to this person inside me that you have to take rest and he knows how to do it.

          So what you need to do as I had pointed earlier that I will tell is to spend your time with kids around you and observe them. Tell your inner person to communicate with the inner person inside the kid. Don’t worry, it may sound stupid to you because it is a very complex equation and your inner person knows to deal with it. While doing so you will also observe that kids are filled with so much positivity which is also transferred in you.

      Also you can do the same observations with your friends, colleagues, boss, family members or any other person you spend your time with (this list should not include your inner self) and you can help them to come out of their negativity without losing your positivity. Or at least you now know when to be not around them.



Bye for now. Happy living.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

A Way To Reach Your Goal - 'QUIT FOR a MOMENT'

The other day I was observing my niece Aanya. She is too mischievous for her age. At the age of just 1.5 years she can play tricks on you and you will be amazed that you fall in her trap. Here is what she did that day...
Aanya and my father were playing. Normally she would not go to him easily unless she gets something specific. This time she wanted his medicine box to play with but my father was reluctant to give it to her, so, he lifted the box high. She started tapping his thighs and shouting in her way asking to give her the box but my father was adamant that she do not get it. So, he stretched his hand to right with box and she straight away went towards it. While she was moving towards his right, he stretched his hand towards left with the box and she immediately started moving towards his left. This activity was repeated several times, moving the box towards left and then towards right and Aanya also moving towards her right and then left. This went on for 5 min and then my father stretched empty hand towards left while box in his other hand. But Aanya's goal was box so this time she was unmoved and went towards box.
After several attempts still she was unsuccessful. So, she quit and came to me and started playing with me. At times most of us also quit after struggling a bit and she was also not an exception. But she only quit for a moment and all this time the box was going in her mind. During the period she was engaged with me, one of her part was attached with the box and one part observing my father and one part associated with me. By this time my father has left the box free and got busy in watching television. Aanya just made her free from me and quietly went towards box, grabbed it and ran out from the room, so that no one can take it back.
I have completed quarter of my life with 2 years of experience and tried to come out of same situations where I initiate a task and leave it when victory is at next step and always regret that decision to quit. But Aanya taught me to quit for a moment but do not quit your goal and wait for the right time and reach out your goal and run away with your victory far from those who were stopping you to reach there or they will take it back.