shrug, sigh, wonder why
what's beyond the yonder sky,
mercury, venus, moon and mars,
countless galaxies and infinite stars
shrug, sigh, wonder why
forever thinking about who am I.
the immortal self that dwells within,
or the body clad with an aging skin
shrug, sigh, wonder why,
there is a strong desire to run and fly,
from the farthest mountains to the sea
to fulfill the purpose of being born free
shrug, sigh, wonder why?
a rekindled spirit to touch the sky,
a renewed purpose to rise and shine
with an intent to redraw the broken line
shrug, sigh, wonder why?
when cometh the day I die,
everything with a beginning has an end
except the one without a second
Friday, May 8, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Lessons from a few readings
Of late, I have been reading books on time management and self development. It appears to be helping me with prioritizing my goals and also with developing my sphere of influence. There are two concepts, one from each area, which i feel is immensely helpful to keep you doing the right things at the right time.
One of the essential items in time management is to make a written list of all things that need to be done each day. Start off each day by working with the item which is considered most tedious or difficult but the completion of which is important. From the list, identify the top 3 things you want completed and work towards finishing it fully. Completing a difficult thing upfront is very motivating. It is the first level of satisfaction or fulfillment. A difficult task needs to be sliced and diced until it can be broken into simpler sub-tasks and taken up one by one to complete. That way, the overwhelming thought of not being able to complete a huge task is replaced by working on finishing smaller tasks and achieving them.
In the area of self-development, a key attribute is being pro-active in outlook. Now, this holds true for situations in life as well. The idea of being pro-active is to take responsibility for outcomes. In contrast, being reactive would mean to assign causes of outcomes to the external environment. The need to be pro-active is very important. I am coming to realize this. The idea here is the level of control or influence one has in managing a situation. A proactive person would look at a situation as a consequence of his own actions rather than the intervention of the environment. A reactive person looks at a situation as a making of external factors outside his control. Therefore, a proactive person takes responsibility for failures. That forms the first step in identifying the areas for improvement. On the other hand, a reactive person is a product of his environment. Failure is assigned to external factors, and mistakes are on everyone but him. This is taken more as a justification for having failed. While a proactive person looks at every situation with a view of self-improvement, a reactive person looks at it with a view of rationalizing his present state of existence.
One of the essential items in time management is to make a written list of all things that need to be done each day. Start off each day by working with the item which is considered most tedious or difficult but the completion of which is important. From the list, identify the top 3 things you want completed and work towards finishing it fully. Completing a difficult thing upfront is very motivating. It is the first level of satisfaction or fulfillment. A difficult task needs to be sliced and diced until it can be broken into simpler sub-tasks and taken up one by one to complete. That way, the overwhelming thought of not being able to complete a huge task is replaced by working on finishing smaller tasks and achieving them.
In the area of self-development, a key attribute is being pro-active in outlook. Now, this holds true for situations in life as well. The idea of being pro-active is to take responsibility for outcomes. In contrast, being reactive would mean to assign causes of outcomes to the external environment. The need to be pro-active is very important. I am coming to realize this. The idea here is the level of control or influence one has in managing a situation. A proactive person would look at a situation as a consequence of his own actions rather than the intervention of the environment. A reactive person looks at a situation as a making of external factors outside his control. Therefore, a proactive person takes responsibility for failures. That forms the first step in identifying the areas for improvement. On the other hand, a reactive person is a product of his environment. Failure is assigned to external factors, and mistakes are on everyone but him. This is taken more as a justification for having failed. While a proactive person looks at every situation with a view of self-improvement, a reactive person looks at it with a view of rationalizing his present state of existence.
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