Month: June 2010

 

I remember Nitesh sending me a text with just this when I was ill a long time back, and it stuck..

Very apt.. and very nice.

Thanks Nitesh!

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Nitest has developed a very cool hobby – building up Wallwisher.com – a very cool piece of technology that allows you to post sticky notes online.. :) All the best to him!

This is from an excellent Tony Robbins talk. Nice to have this summarized by Brian Johnson..

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Tony likes to say we have six fundamental needs. The needs for 1. Consistency; 2. Inconsistency; 3. Significance; 4. Connection/Love; 5. Growth; 6. Contribution.

Now, all of these needs are present and important. The question that’ll shape our destiny is, which are our top needs?!?

Is it Consistency? If this runs the show, we’re afraid of change and can’t dare to take a new step.

Is it Inconsistency? If so, we need to always be at the edge and can’t relax.

Is it Significance? If so, we’ve gotta look good at all times and impress the world.

Is it Connection/Love? If so, we need to feel connected and loved above all else and may sacrifice our authentic selves if turned up too high.

Is it Growth? If so, we need to feel the sense of expansion and evolution into our highest selves.

Is it Contribution? If so, we need to feel that we’re giving our greatest gifts in the greatest service to the world.

Again, we want to work with and master all of these, but what’s running your show these days? In your most freaked out moments? In your highest moments? The ideal two or three to lead the show? Growth, Contribution and Love. Lead with those and then the rest will flow…

“Who will you have to become to achieve all you want?” ~ Tony Robbins

It’s been a rather long 24 hours.

The first part was great – up all night with a friend trying to understand views on insecurity, life etc..

-> I learnt that I see a big difference between being aware about a problem and accepting a problem. In my book, that’s like the difference between thinking and execution as change comes only after we accept something..

The next parts not so. After a couple of hours of sleep, I was woken up to seeming crisis calls and here were a couple of struggles –

-> ‘Hear both sides before judging‘ – This is soo difficult! Especially when one side is a near and dear one telling you plainly and explicitly that there is a problem with the other. I tried, though, to live up to this. Not sure what the result will be (as it is likely that the near and dear ones are absolutely right), but atleast I had a taste of how difficult it is to this..

-> View a problem as it is – This was the other factor I was struggling with. This is sometime so difficult. Take a friend who has missed an appointment. Now, that is a problem as you lost 2 hours of time.. the reason it becomes worse in our heads is because we think back and look at all his past faults and find someway to link them all together and that’s when the trouble begins..

Not easy to view something in isolation. I tried..

Also amazing how things cascaded –

-> Went for noodle lunch to meet with a friend. Was already irritable as I went late, ended up losing my cool with a watchman who was annoying me about parking space..

-> And surprise surprise, I landed up with a stomach upset..

Interesting day, it was! Lots of take aways. As far as the crisis situation goes, tomorrow will shed more light as to the outcome. That is bound to be interesting as well..

Yeah, that’s just about right! :)

Good morning.. and have a nice day! :)

Photo courtesy Sandhya Aunt.. who was describing the number of hoardings that have been put up by groups of people supporting their favorite international team.

*Kerala is the southernmost state in India – for the uninitiated.

Imagine what it would like if India made it.. whenever that is! :D

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In less than 24 hours then.. :D

Secret of their longevity?

Loved the idea..

They only get better..

Good morning.. great day ahead! :)

Nice one.. I loved it.

To trying then!

Have a nice day! :)

Pleasure working on this version.

And nice work on making it work well on Google Chrome as well! :)

Just as I finished up a great 2 odd hours of football followed by a bout of the usual delicious lime juice, I was thinking about Mom’s remark of exercise being torture. (She feels so strongly about it that she wrote a poem about it here).

I just realized that I had 3 PT Teachers to thank – Sam Kutty Sir and Subramaniam Sir at DAV Mogappair and Balaguru Sir at DAV Gopalapuram for always always encouraging us to play. There were times in both schools when the teachers were not keen, the weather may not have been the best, the principals were against letting us out.. but they made sure they fought for us just for us to get out.. and play!

That made a huge difference because we spent the best part of our school days on the field playing.. And I remember Sam Kutty Sir telling me many a time that the right amount of play in a day would mean a much better ability to focus and concentrate on work. ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy‘ after all.. And what was great was that all these teachers made sure we kept up the habits – playing throughout..

It’s something I’ve taken forward into university and thanks to them, I love sport. I may not be anywhere near professional.. but it’s been a nice learning curve these 4 years with football, and tennis of late.

Long may it continue.

To all those looking to lose some weight with exercise, I’m hoping you don’t lose hope on day 1.

Going down to the ground to play football with a new (unknown) bunch works like this –

1) First, you join them. The first couple of days is just spent running. It’s unlikely you’ll get too many passes (trust etc..) but you’ll run.. and you may just come back disheartened.

2) Slowly, you’ll make friends and suddenly you’ll have a couple who’ll connect with you..

3) Before long, you’ll be invited to all their games and you’ll HATE missing even a day of football.

It works the same with all exercise. Like anything, it’s a challenge at first and then you can’t do without it!

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On further thought, I also realize that my grandmom was immensely supportive of any play even if it meant walking in with the white school shirt and shorts brown and wet – which also happened many a time.. That helped too.. :D