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good to be a fresher!

It is typical to see an over committed new product development program under tremendous pressure especially ahead of a critical customer demo! A make or break situation – ahead of once in a life time opportunity. Entire team is finding it hard to fix the problem and get it rolling… Architects are seriously debating what would have happened over night to have such a situation. Development and test teams are huddling to secretly find out that they did not cause the error. No clue, except the time is kicking .. fast!

Project Manager, without an option has called for the meeting – to find and fix the issue within no time! No solution, but only suspicion prevails. Senior members do not seem to agree that there is any way they can fix it! Junior most member of the team, a fresh grad – the configuration manager speaks out hesitantly…”Why can’t we switch back to previous stable release – for this demo?” As simple as that – going back to previously known better state is the simplest one can do – any time! if that is possible!

Keeping fresh minds at work is the simplest form of best insurance, a manager should have!

Check this one too…

A large truck was moving through a railway underpass when it got wedged in between the road and the girders overhead. All the efforts of experts to extricate it proved useless and traffic was stalled for miles on both sides of the underpass.

A little boy kept trying to get the attention of the foreman but was always pushed away. Finally, in sheer exasperation, the foreman said, "I suppose you’ve come to tell us how to do this job?"

"Yes," said the kid. "I suggest you let some air out of the tyres."

In the layman’s mind
there are many possibilities.
In the expert’s mind
there are a few!

Many a times, it is the fresh mind that brings the best value – especially in the time of crises when most of minds do not seem to work!

Being fresh at heart and mind will make us proud of whatever we do! 

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Man is mind!

However persevering and persistent you are, sometimes it is difficult to stick to the job until it is fully done! You mostly work steadily along until of a sudden the feeling of weariness sets-in, shouting "enough!” for the time being, and then yield to the impulse to stop!

You can not be immune from the feeling on certain days – leading to not being at your best! It is usual in such days to miss a few appointments! Lagging interest in almost everything – failing to notice or react to issues at work though they are just routine for the capability you have!

Beauty of the fact is that you realize – at heart that if you continue to exert the will and persistently hold yourself to the business on hand, sooner or later you will warm-up, enthusiasm comes back, shadows of clouds disappear and wings start spreading to fly high, as usual! Is this the rest that mattered or power of the mind – inherent drive of persistence?

If you carefully observe, more often, it was not the rest that triggered the action. It is the impulse of some strong desire that carried you over the threshold of inertia!

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, 
And Man is Mind, and evermore he One_Mind_calligraphy[1]takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:—
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.

(~ James Allen)

It is truly the power of mind – desire to perform and be counted!

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Don’t change, Repurpose!

I was neurotic for years. Anxious, depressed, selfish. And everyone kept telling me to change.

And I resented them, and agreed with them, and wanted to change, but simply couldn’t, no matter how I tried.

What hurt the most was that, like the others, my closest friend kept urging me to change. So I felt powerless and trapped.

One day he said “Don’t change. I love you as you are.”

Those words were music to my ears: “Don’t change. Don’t change. Don’t change. I love you as you are.”

I relaxed. I came alive. And, suddenly, I changed!

Now I know that I couldn’t really change till I found someone to love me whether I changed or not!

Is this how you love me, god?

(~ Anthony De Mello)

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Natural transformation like that of a caterpillar is sustainable. Everything else is just yet another attempt to please someone!

If we can’t change naturally, it might be worth repurposing – finding new meanings, application or value for what we are/have, right?

Repurposing is sustainable!

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