Friday, 17 July 2020

Lockdown - Time to Update your skills

The current situation  is really bad, lot of people lost their job,  People who are having businesses are also in a great loss. We can utilize this time to update our skills. Let's first see a small story.

Once upon a time there was one company in business of selling woods. So in that company two wood cutter were working named as Bill and Jeff. To get the more woods cut Company's boss have arranged one competition between Bill and Jeff. The rules were simple—whoever produce the most wood in a day wins.

So the next day morning both of them took the positions and started cutting trees at the great speed. After Half an hour Jeff suddenly stopped. When Bill realized that there was no chopping sound from opponent's side, he thought "Ah ha! he must be tired already". And he continued to cut down his trees with double speed.


The Quarter of hour passed and Bill heard his opponent chopping again. So both of them carried on synchronously. Bill was starting feeling weary when the chopping from Jeff stopped once again. Feeling motivated and smelling victory close by, Bill continued on, with a smile on the face.


This went whole day, Every hour Jeff would stop chopping for fifteen minutes while Bill kept going restlessly. So when  the competition ended, Bill was absolutely confident that he would take the triumph.

But to Bill’s astonishment, Jeff had actually cut down more wood. How did this even happen? “How could you have chopped down more trees than me? I heard you stop working every hour for fifteen minutes!”, exclaimed Bill. 

Jeff replied, “Well, it’s really simple. Every time I stopped work, while you were still chopping down trees, I was sharpening my axe.”

So moral of the story is we are working restlessly like Bill throughout our life. without a break. we are so much busy in our daily schedule that we just forgot to update our skills and keep on working with old skill sets. This will reduce your productivity at greater level. so Lockdown or Break is time to sharpen our axes.

Tips for People who lost their jobs:

In this crucial time it's very difficult to stay focused and update your skill set Because I can not imagine the pressure you guys are having. When you are stressed you will not able to concentrate. But still we need to make our mind strong and update the skills to get the good opportunity.

Tips for People who are having loss in Business:
You can find out different ways to be creative and have innovation in business. For example, If you are having restaurant you can try making a unique dish which is not exist in the market. For other businesses you can make a unique product or think of any idea using which we can increase productivity, we can reduce the cost of operations.This can be a life changer if you are having good luck. 

Please remember we don't have control over current situation. So we have two options 1) Having Pressure / Stress /Tension in our mind for things which we can't control. This will end up situation even worst. It will decrease your creativity and productivity 2) Calm down and try to utilize the time to the fullest. Because anyway we don't have control over current situation.

Although we have learned lot of things from the Lockdown but One major lesson we learned is we must have at-least 6 month to 1 year savings with us to survive in difficult time. There is one nice quote "Save the money, Money will save you one day".

Please remember that bad time doesn't last for long. You just need to keep your mind strong in this bad situation. And Let's hope that we come out of this situation very soon.

Friday, 10 July 2020

Honesty is Best policy

  • I want to dedicate this blog to my dad. Whatever I am expressing in this blog, I have Learned that from my dad.
  • I am going to showcase my father's life in few words. Throughout his career he was on a path of honesty. He faced many challenges in life, there are multiple attacks on him by corporate world to deviate his path from honesty but he fought every battle like a warrior and stick to his path like a rock. And he retired as a proud honest employee. Trust me, I think that No one in the world is having more will power than him. There are lot more things to learn from him, blog will become shorter and it will be difficult to explain in words.I am proud that I am also in a same path of honesty.
  • Stick to path of honesty is the most difficult thing. If you deviate from this path you will end up your life in corruption, Corporate politics or cheating others or criminal Activities.
  • We will first understand root cause of corruption, Corporate politics or cheating.
    • First and most important reason for this will be in back of the mind these people are feeling insecure or having anxiety or Fear about future. 
    • Carving of earning more money / Grabbing higher position.
    • Surroundings / environment of the people.
    • Lack of education
    • Shortcut to earn more money.
    • Shortcut to grab certain position. (Using word Grab here because position must be earned.)
    • Due to Current Situation of person he might need to do wrong things again this is also debatable topic.
  • Appraisal Process by GOD based on your Karma(Your doings)
    •  All doings(karma) of any person is recorded by GOD and based on our doings(Karma) GOD will give us results either in the same birth or in the next birth. So if you are in trouble today than it can be because of your bad karmas in the past.
    • If people are doing Wrong things like corruption / Corporate politics or cheating others and if they feel that it's not known to anyone other than them than they are wrong. GOD is recording all person's activities and these activities are called your karmas. so based on person's wrong activities the person will be in trouble and GOD will punish them one day. And People who are doing good things will never have to worry at all, because these people have nothing to hide, they have feeling of proud and not guilt.
  • How India can become Super power?
    • India is having population of 130 million and if each and every person in india do his work honestly than no one will stop india to become a super power.
  • There is very good message given by Shri Krishna in Geeta "कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते माफलेषु कदाचन" . This means that just do your work / Karmas don't worry about the results. In hindi it means "कर्म  करो   फल की आशा मत रखो ".
  • So do your karma everything please leave it to GOD.