Author: alearningaday

1000!!!!!

Wow!

This was the 1st post..

MONDAY, MAY 12, 2008

A learning a day..
The name says it all – Its just what the blog is intended to be. To help me re live some of those meaningful learnings. Hopefully, I will be able to keep up writing one a day.

(PS: I tend to have weirdly long days sometimes resulting in the next day being understandable short(36 hrs and then sleep through the next for example). So, the definition of day can be a bit..well.. shaky..

(PPS: That’s just me making excuses! Hoping to make it happen..)
POSTED BY ROHAN RAJIV AT 7:01 AM

Ha ha ha..

Well, its in my daily celebrating life mantra to ‘Celebrate small wins’ and I will do it Oscar style..

I have a few people to thank –

1) Nishanth and Tejasvi – for keeping up with me for a few months in the start of the year with their own learning blogs..
2) Ankur and Eugenia – for also doing so last year and for encouraging me throughout! :D
3) Nash and Stephan – as above..
4) Eli, Vikram, Sudu, Bhanu, Bipasa and Nirupama – for following, checking it out once a while! :)
5) Snigdha – for sparking the idea with her ‘every day i get better’ post its in Nov’07..
6) For KD – brother and loyal follower of blog! :D
7) and last but not the least.. to MOM.. one cool dude to beat them all.. ha ha ha..

and 8) to everyone else I have missed out because just like in the Oscars, I have but one minute to say what I can say.. :D

Thank you! Its thanks to all that I’m a thousand small steps better than I was on May 12, 2008.. :)

Self Analysis and Reflection..

Today was a good day, no, not just a good day but a GREAT day. A lot of things fell into place. It’s very important we celebrate wins.. I remember writing a blog post when I had a really bad day with 8 rejections coming in the same day from different firms..

1) Sparkz is beginning to work out. I won’t go into details but a big break through happened and things should get finalized tomorrow..
2) Another positive move forward – Sparkz related.. meant a big deal in calming anxiety..
3) The above 2 were timely as I was beginning to get pretty frustrated yesterday and felt very alone as most of my team are on vacation, those here were either stressed or uncontactable so basically it was all me. But, as they say, we should never quit as it is those times we are on the brink of unprecedented success..
4) My FYP Prof today didn’t ask for a 40 page report which I was dreading.. small joys of life..
5) I had a nice chat with a respected Prof who I’ve shared a great relationship with and have a possible opportunity of giving back to the university and he also had lots of advice for me in choosing my career..
6) Re-discovering a relationship with a close friend..
7) Got an unexpected call from a friend in India who I’d tried to be there for when she was going through a tough patch..
8) Big one this – A big breakthrough could be on its way.. again, not possible to discuss here.. :(
9) I’m going home in 3 days and things seem to be wrapping up! :D

Now, 8 months ago, I would have been on a crazy high and gone around feeling big and mighty but I think the biggest lesson I’ve learnt is to be aware of myself when good things happen to me.. I go on a high and all of a sudden when there is a setback, I press the panic button..

I press the panic button way too easily. I used to rush through everything and I get rushed through the panic process as well…

I’ve slowly seen myself reacting this way and am consciously trying to slow down and be more balanced and learn to take things calmly and with a pinch of salt. I also tend to talk way too much when things are going too much and go inverse when things are not.. learning to experience ‘triumph and disaster and treat both those imposters the same'(From ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling. :))..

It’s a nice process.. learning to take things more calmly. Not easy.. especially when the natural reaction is something else…