Is there a place in the world you never want to visit? Where, and why not?
This is the second time I need to announce the place which I dislike or scared of.
So I am sharing the post Destination Anywhere!!! which I wrote for this prompt way back on 08-Nov-14.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Playlist of the Week.”
1- Monday begins with it just another Manic Monday -Bangles
2-After heading home its like” lts been a hard Days Night and I have been working like a Dogs”- Beatles
3-Someday will be Saturday Night – Jon Bon Jovi
4 -It’s a miracle Hysteria – Def Lepard
5 -NewYork city shaking and everybody breaking Stayin Alive – Bee Gees
– What’s Your take 5 –
It was Friday, a weekend, I had a many commitments on hand to accomplish.
In no means I wanted to have a bad day ( because of Friday and a weekend) however because the fixtures of the day meant a lot to I and I had worked day and night for this day.
I left for office and the car stereo played Another Brick On the Wall – an amazing Pink Floyd number which I love for their guitar work.
I had an hour to go for the meeting, it takes me approx 15 min to reach work, so an hour’s time was well enough to go ahead and plan my day.
The conference was well ahead the start of the business and people around the globe were to dial in, it was organized by me and the who’s who from my client was involved. It was considered rude if I was unable to make up for the call.
We can only plan, but we cannot plan unplanned activities, at times plan B doesn’t work at all.
As I steered I ended up in a log jam and a traffic mess, and the clock started to tick like a time bomb.
This song turned out to be an omen for me, I won’t play it again.
I had 45 minutes in hand, and things seemed worse, there was indeed a lot of speculation in my mind, do I leave my car and in the mess, do I call or send a cancellation?
I waited in the log jam, took a deep breath and decided lets steer, if I clear the 600m in next 30 mins then still I will be able to make it.
I finally made it to office and started to line up the meeting, to my surprise an email popped up with one of the board of directors saying to reschedule it, and I was like Argghh….
I was not rushing hitherto to get it postponed, however I thought I could drive it and change directions.
I called him up to explain that I had managed to get the time of many on board and it would again take another decade to line up all of them, he agreed with me and we had the call as scheduled and all went well.
Why am I sharing this bit with you, I wanted to make you realize that the movie is not yet over, give it your best and stay positive in adverse situations, this will lead you out as a winner.
Don’t start blaming and creating myth, this song is cursed for me, this road is bad luck avoid it, won’t wear this shirt again.
We can always plan for events, create a plan B however not for unplanned events, unplanned events are surprises thrown our way, it is us by our experience and ability to manage unplanned activities are at test.
When in deep shit, don’t get bothered, remember this is the worse and now it is going to be better forget everything and take a deep breath and take some time to think, recollect your facts and previous experience, there are no thumb rules in life.
So at the end of the day all’s well that ends well and always believe in the saying:
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
I believe you had a lovely weekend, make it your best.
To end despite all odds I believed in myself and all was right in the world.
Today I discovered a natural phenomenon although I and almost all of us has heard this many times before.
So my wife insisted that we go in the nearby shopping mall over the weekend, she wanted jacket and winter wear, it’s spine chilling cold here after all. So I agreed and we were soon at the mall.
To my surprise the mall was so crowded and I saw people buying stuff like crazy.
It led me to conclude:
Women were doing the shopping as if it were the end; there won’t be any stuff available after this day. The jackets, pullovers, bedsheets, tops, bottoms, skirts all are going to be extinct from tomorrow. It’s in the female DNA to shop till you drop.
As a counterpart when it comes to the other sex: Men who hang out in the bars and booze they keep on repeating this is the last one, as if this is the end of the holy liquid and they will be deprived from tomorrow. So they would take until they cannot hold themselves, break the crockery, mess with people and puke.
So what alcohol is to men shopping is to women.
This reminds me of another snippet:
Man texts his wife who is away from the last 2 weeks and here is what happens:
Husband: Darling, how you doing?
Wife: I am good, are you missing me.
Husband: Yes
Wife: And what do you do when you miss me.
Husband: I eat your favourite choco fudge ice cream with extra nuts and watch your favourite movie, and do you miss me.
Wife: Yes
Husband: And what do you do when you miss me.
Wife: I take 4 shots of Johnie Walker, complimented by 2 Marlboro and then I don’t remember what happens thereafter.
This post was intended to be written in humor, with no allegations to any male/female/alcoholics/smokers/shopaholics and to husbands and wifes.
My wife is going to kill me after she reads this … Enjoy your week ahead.
What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?
I wish everyone drives the following benefits out of my blog. Happy reading and posting.
1- Light up the life of others by my posts. Generate more wisdom among everyone.
2-Ability to scale higher altitudes in Life.
3-Follow and believe in your inner reflections.
4-Enjoy your life to the fullest.
5-Shine brightly like the red cherries.
6-Sail smoothly in your life.
It is the time of the year again when we are about to close and reconcile all that occurred in this year. So it’s again time for a fresh beginning, a time to make new friends, dreams and resolutions.
I would like to focus on resolutions and goal. People might be on a different note when taking the start of the New Year as an ignition point of achieving new heights, chasing dreams, becoming best, take resolutions and might argue that the whole year is the opportunity to do so. Why wait for the year-end to start something new. Folks, do you agree with their logic, I do. No time is good or bad enough to make a new start.
Indeed as I was about to write this post, I read an article by Sarah H which is in contrast to what I am about to write. It talks about to follow your calling and to believe “I want you all to realize every day is a new day and every minute is a new minute.”
So why am I or many others up to the spree that we make New Year resolutions and goals, has it become a doctrine over the years which we follow driven by the sub conscious mind. Personally, I am of the opinion that we should use this opportunity to make realistic changes we want to achieve, driven in a proper way and time boxed. This implies we can use this opportunity to carve initiatives, milestone and plan our road ahead with a road map and importantly attach a time line to it.
To emphasize just follow these basics when laying the foundation stones of resolutions or goals for the coming year:
Looking forward to hear from everyone, your views; what else you believe can be added to the list and share your experiences around this.
We are on the last day of the year as I write this post; I would like to extend my thanks to everyone who made me smile, taught me, and supported me and to everyone who is part of the blogging world. Thanks for reading and appreciating the posts, following my blog and for the critical suggestions provided. Enjoy your year ahead and may God fulfill all your wishes.
Wish you all a blasting 2015 …..
When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?
As I write this post I am forced to ask myself a simple question this post has stirred up ” Have I really grown up” or I have learned the art and craft of what’s called a grown up.
Speaking the heart out I felt grown up the day I left home after my grads and decided that I am the creator of myself, good, bad or ugly all decisions will be mine and I am proud of them today. It is like taking a stand and taking care of yourself and everything around you. You need to master the art of what’s good and bad and move ahead, this is the best way forward in the teaching by life. The more dependency you have the bigger problem you create for yourself.
The takeaway from this is that be responsible and start owning things, sooner the better and be your own decision maker. Hold on, I am not asking you to be a dull rudimentary person, I strongly believe in the phrase Work hard, party harder. So at times go with the tide and relive as a kid, after all we all have a hidden child in us.
Having a lovely kid and wife and to take their collective responsibility makes me feel the reason enough to be a grown up. It is always good however to brood in the past and relive your childhood days, now I do this with my kid and do become a kid as and when required.
I seem to enjoy my present, love my past and believe I will make a wonderful future…..
To end up I am not that bothered much about my being grown up but how fast my girl, daddy girl is growing up… Daddy’d girl she was now she goes another way….
Although we grow up with our parents chanting the lines that honesty and truth is the best policy yet we are destined to contradict it as we grow wise.
Even today before leaving for work I asked my 6 year old daughter to be true, honest and humble.
So what happens as we grow, are these feeds baseless which we give to our children, when we as adults are aware that we need not speak the truth at office, to friends, while socializing etc. So why we are chanting this rhyme to our kids. The answer is that we want to imbibe moral values in our kids and let them decide later how to use this based on the circumstances.
Ask me personally there is no harm in it, I can say a lie to make people happy, to bring a smile on their face. People don’t like to share the truth with others unless required and the other person is not an acquaintance . You may praise the dress a distant relative of yours is wearing in a meet up, you just would not like to turn her head up on heels by saying it sucks.
This is noting strange but being smart, you create a space of respect for others, yourself and avoid conflicts.
If you could permanently get rid of one worry, what would it be?
If really I could get rid of one worry, that one would definitely be “What If”.
What if the deal is cancelled, what if it rains and plays a spoiler, what if I get late for the show. What if I take too much of calories, what if I go for a log drives and my car has a break down and the list goes on and on and on….
Half of the world would be free from worries if the what if analysis is left only for the MIS guys. the MIS, Sales and marketing teams use What If reports to forecast and take conclusive decisions which could affect the business outcome in a positive financial direction.
Live a life that is outburst and have a Plan B for when plan A fails, so in short don’t do a lot of analysis on every aspect of life as it leads to paralysis.
Let us give our life the tangent to swing high and be free from the What If’s and put the last nail on it now.
Happy Posting Month #NaBloPoMo
Life is too short to keep cribbing over small things, be content with what you have and enjoy it to the fullest.
People who always crib about what they don’t have, about their job, about office, about the neighbour, of not being given opportunity should refocus on their attitude towards life.
Life is too short either keep on cribbing and cursing your life or stand up, create the opportunities, chase your goals and be what you want to be. We all are blessed with 24 hours and God has given us enormous gifts, these gifts lie within us, it is time we realize that we are always in a much better position than millions, stay positive and explore our best potentials which are hidden within us. Imagine its like you receive a gift and you don’t use it – Gifts are not meant to be kept wrapped, so unlock your wrapper and explore the gifts within – your power of creativity, wisdom, leading, presentation, drawing, singing, cooking, whatever you are best at and win the world.
Stay surrounded with positive people and good friends. Once I was having a chat with the Vice President of an MNC who had a quick rise to success. He narrated since he started his career and climbed every step of the corporate ladder he had many hands(mentors or coaches) which he could hold to climb up. It was for him to decide which hand he needs to hold to get to the next level, He was fortunate enough to hold the faithful hands and climb the ladder efficiently. We can rectify our destiny by our choices and unleash a world of opportunities by taking the correct decision. This is only possible when you are content and having a peace of mind which in turn enables to do the next level of proper planning and execution.
So lets stop cribbing and remember:
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi