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Reverse Engineering of a Vision

Reverse Engineering of a Vision

The importance of having or developing a Vision in life can’t be overemphasized. A vision is a specific destination, desire or distinction you want to achieve within a finite time in your life with a definite game-plan and/or strategy. This is how it is different from a mission. A mission is an ongoing process which will continue even after your death. For example – “towards a better educational system” is not a vision, but a mission – as the work of further...

Don’t complain, move on – problems will be there

Don’t complain, move on – problems will be there

We see a Culture of Complaining pervading all through our society and community. Everyone has complaints against everything and everyone else. We have complaints against our college, our teachers, our principal, our city and municipality, our government, our state and complaints even against a prime minister. Please don’t get me wrong. We live in a democracy and everyone has a right to voice his opinion and hence complaints too. What I am talk...

Accepting Responsibility [vs.] Taking Responsibility

Accepting Responsibility vs. Taking Responsibility

Sound similar? They are not. In fact these are two vastly different themes of leading a life, with significantly different results.

They are as different approaches to life as chalk and cheese. They make the difference between a leader and a laggard. Accepting responsibility, as the name itself suggests, is when you accept that which comes you way, whatever life presents to you. Many times we have no choice whether or not to bear a responsib...

Towards a better Higher Education System

After visiting many colleges of Chhattisgarh during the “Ajeya Bharat” mission, after interactions with various professors, teachers, students and university officials, I am fortunate to now have a good outsider’s perspective of the education system in the state. The invitation to the workshop on Higher Education Policy [from honourable ministry secretary Mr. B.L. Agrawal] was a great chance to hear the stalwarts of the state discussing on various challenges and possibilities faced by the col...

Look for a big problem to solve

Look for a big problem to solve
“Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.
In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age,
so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.”
[Timothy 6:18-19New International Version]

Note the words – “take hold of the life that is truly “life”. Zig Ziglar has beautifully dichotomised the human population – one he calls the “Wandering Generalities”, and the...

Lesson is more important than the Loss

Lesson is more important than the Loss

“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
Winston Churchill

As humans we have been conditioned to strive for perfection and let’s face it, no one likes being wrong.Not everything that we try or attempt can turn into a success story. Be it a personal relationship or a business venture, we keep landing on failures, losses and mistakes despite all plans and precautions. Sometimes we even land on a landmine, with huge losses of time,...

“Leap before you Think” – Mental Framework for Pioneers

No. It is not a misprint. Nor have I lost my marbles. Contrary to what we have been taught, I am suggesting exactly the opposite. Our life is nothing but a series of choices and decisions. From major decisions like choosing a career to daily decision of which vegetable to make for dinner, out life is mired in a series of decisions and choices. And traditionally, we have been taught to –

~ take “calculated risks” only

~ think of possible consequences before making a decision – “Soch samajh kar...