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.