The Alerts.

Hello readers good afternoon!

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

-Leo Tolstoy.

Some time back, I was on my way to a place was riding my moped the weather also was beautiful,  suddenly I could sense something unusual was happening with me, and just trying to understand this unusual feeling, which never flashed to me as to what was wrong? Finally I just ignored it and reached my destination.

Later that day I realised that I had left my documents at home which I was supposed to take to that meeting, it was too late and I could not go back home and get it,  somehow managed the meeting without the essentials.

But what amazed me is that the warning signal which was given by my brain when it sensed that I missed something at home and was driving me towards what I had missed like a compass which guides a sailor, but since I did not pay attention or did not show much interest, my brain got confused and thought may be everything is fine and stopped those palpitations.

Our body is a chemical and electrical factory which is controlled by hormones and neural impulses and electrical signals and the brain is the decision centre for all this. It is a leader which decides which force has to deploy at what time in each second of our life.

I was reading this amazing book by Daniel Goleman on Emotional intelligence which reveals some amazing facts and correlates our actions and  body physics with our emotions, I was very happy when I read this example: when you are hungry the brain fills your hands with strength as the early man used to used his hands to kill or hunt his prey and then eat it, in the same way if you are in fear your brain gives you more strength in your legs so that you can run from your predator.

The most amazing part is that even though we are the most evolved species and most intellectuals but our bodies,  still follows some pre-historic logic which is surprising.

Even thinking and our actions work in the same way, you sweat when you are scared or you get worked and up and strong when you are angry.

All these actions that the brain initiates was not learnt by you but, you were born with it and it has taken many years to evolve over a period of time.

We must all read about this relation, which will help us understand our own actions which we will surprised to know about.

The famous scientist William Harvey who discovered blood circulation in the human body said that, the better we understand our bodies the better we live.

So let us start understanding our body and behaviour which will help us solve our stress related issues which we suffer as result of our mechanical lives.

Thanks for your time.

The smile.

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing great.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

They say that soldiers are very tough people who are the least emotional people in the world. But has anybody realized the sacrifices he is ready for, yes his life is what he is ready to sacrifice and he is the most emotional person in the world because he takes all the risks in this world for the sake of his mother land, and I think that is the true test of a person’s emotional quotient.

So emotions, do they play such an important role in our lives, the answer is definitely an yes, you know man is called the most advanced species  in this world only because of his ability to think and express feelings, I want to narrate a small story today which will help us understanding  the importance of emotions in our life.

Once upon time in India there lived a man called Mr.Smiles even though his name was smiles the irony was that he never smiled and he was the biggest moan of his time.

Many happy people ground him always tried to make him feel happy or lure him to laugh at the best jokes possible but were not successful.

OK…. about Mr. Smiles well he was not a poor man at all he had a large estate and a loving family he was well educated as well, but still he could not smile. The secret behind his miserable face could not be cracked by almost all the people around him.

His family were always unhappy that, He was the only person who was not happy with anything. Fed up with his behavior his wife met their family doctor and asked him if her husband was suffering from any psychological disease or was he a lunatic.

The doctor replied that he was fine both psychologically and physically, but he is still trying to figure out the reason behind his sadness. The doctor thought of a solution as he too felt hurt seeing the anxiety on the face of Smiles wife.

So the next day he sent a press reporting team to meet Smiles wife, at the same time he had instructed his wife about what to do next. So this is what happened after they met each other.

Wife asked the press team to come inside and called Smiles and told this interview would be published in this week’s issue of a an eminent magazine, Smiles was as usual in his sadistic mode, Then one of the journalist asked Smiles “Sir we would like you to take an interview with you today” smiles was surprised and answered in a polite way “certainly can we start now?” so the interview started.

Interviewer asked some general questions like how does he spend his day, his eating habits, his likes and dislikes and so on, and the interview went on well.

When it was about to end, Smiles was asked the most awaited question by his family. “Why are you dull and gloomy always”?

Smiles was confused and surprised to hear to this question and replied, “ is it so?, I don’t think so from my childhood I have been like this and till this day no one asked me this!

So the interview asked him “ Dear sir people are very much dejected with you and have tried all possible ways to make you feel happy and make you smile but that never happened, so again I am repeating the question why are you not happy?”

Smiles told that he never felt that he has to smile as he knew that this life is a cycle, when we peddle up it is birth and when we peddle down it is death why should I be in this illusion of just feeling happy for the misery I am going to suffer on the day on this earth, so I have prepared myself for my death since my birth.

The reporter was furious and replied “I never knew that you were such a big a fool! In that case why are you living and wasting the resources of the earth if you know that you are going to die one day let that day come today, and suddenly tried to strangle Smiles who cried for help, at that moment the interviewer stopped and asked Mr. Smiles “did you realize how much you love yourself? If you love yourself so much why you don’t show it on your face. Hearing this for the first time in his life Mr Smiles, smiled and was amazed by the feeling for him it was like coming out of a dark tunnel.

There are many Mr.Smiles around us who don’t know how to react with people who act simple grumpy with everyone and crying inside for wired reasons and assumptions which they are only not sure about actually that is illusion.

What is the point of acting indifferent with everyone around you? Each day is very precious we have to aim to be happy and make people happy around us, that is the only to make your soul happy and we consider our souk as God himself, so let us make that change and be happy and make your family and friends happy, try to keep rapport with all the people you know and the least fights possible.

All the best in this effort and have a great weekend.

Something new.

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well.

Do something as if you were to die tomorrow, you will never fail.
-Steve jobs.

OK! Here comes 2016, I would like to wish you all a good year ahead.
Though there is a buzz on this new year, partying and the celebrations to be frank I don't feel so hazy and  jubilant about it, because what really matters is that how we could contribute to this world as well as ourselves and make it a better place to live in.

The word 'new' brings hope in everyone, when I was young if someone gets me a toy or a something like a book I used to sleep with it that day. I am sure many of you would have done that.

It is a fact that we see, hear and learn something new reach day approximately twenty new things a day, this may include an incident, or you learnt to reach a place through a different road, what is this something new?

I was reading a book on word power, in this book it says that there are some words in the world hearing which there will be a out-burst of neurological impulses in the brain, these words may be cheerful ones or the sad ones .I was surprised to find out that the word 'new' holds the record for highest the impact it has on the brain.

We all like doing something new in life, and we need to start doing it as early as possible.
We should all understand and be aware we have only one life, let us put it to the best use towards spreading knowledge, happiness and helping the deserving.
Many words prefixed with new bring a smile on our face.

We also become mentally stronger and more interactive with the environment and people when we try to venture into unknown roads.

New creations and innovations have made this world a very dynamic place to stay in, let us innovate for good and try to make this world a better place to live.
In the mood of the holiday season I wish you all success.

I pray the almighty and thank him for the beautiful earth he gave us and request all of you to please start thinking about our part in saving the little left natural ecosystems and habitats.

Welcome to 2016!

Thanks for your time have a great weekend ahead.

The voice that matters.

Hello readers’ Good Morning!

Hope you are doing good, merry Christmas and a happy new-yearJ

"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."
- Chanakya

The new-year is just five days away, so it’s the time to start writing or rather list the resolutions and try again to understand the meaning of our life and try to improve it and making it more meaningful.

So when we talk about voices they are very important in our life, we all definitely know what is a voice, it is that sound produced in the larynx and uttered through the mouth.

OK, let us do a small exercise I will give you some words just think about them and tell me the voices that first strikes you when you read these words: Leader, Teacher, friend, enemy, music, motivator, and argument.

I am sure you guys would have got your own names, these people first strike your mind because they have made an impact in your life these voices can be of your favorite actor or an actress or even a news reader or anyone.

But there is one universal voice that can break you or make you, and that is your own voice and this voice I am talking about is not that you use to speak or communicate with others but this is the voice which is always silent and only you can hear it but I can assure that this voice keeps speaking to you all the time and you always hear or rather listen to it.

We talk to our voices in every moment of our life, suppose you want to eat something and you see that when you are passing by near a random hotel that sense of jolly feeling rushes out from inside and someone says: Dude you love that stuff go grab a bite!

We always say we are directed by our mind, which I totally agree with but, we are aware that the mind talks to you and the tone has a meaning? You know this field is called mind narration which is a very advance branch of science I recently read about on mint, first time in USA a group of scientists and doctors defined this term, and devised a method to track down the thinking process of criminals.

From the above study they also found another good use of this research that even common men’s minds can be understood, so that they can think better and live better.

For example if you take a situation that you are walking on the road and you see one of your friend passing by, but unfortunately before you even could call him he tripped on the footpath and injured himself, so initially you were happy seeing him and was eager to meet him , but now after he fell you got a spark of sympathy and the voice changed inside and it sounds more protective which will reflect in your actions as well, so you make sure to go and help him and drop him home

Next time when you are suddenly face a situation, try to observe your own voice you can easily find out your thought process and how you are planning to overcome that problem and the whole process explained by the voice.

We are the best judges for ourselves we can cheat any number of people in this world but we cannot cheat ourselves as the voice already knows that what you did was not right and it is already in remorse for what you did.

When our actions are good this inner voice of the mind talks to you boldly at the same when we err the voice is submissive but tries to defend itself just to make you feel comfortable and that defense is being propelled by your own ego which always fools you by saying you’re always right. But at that moment when your voice was pale and not bold you have already erred and accepted your mistake.

This voice which is not heard by anyone in this world except for you is the best judge that you can depend on because it knows all about the actions you do and gives you the judgement each day.

Listen to your own voice, respect it and always consider The Voice before your next action.

Have a great weekend. I would like to thank each one of you for reading my blogs that motivation has made it possible to reach my first tiny milestone of 100 blogs.

Thank you all J

Rewind.

Hello readers

Good morning hope you all are fine.

It’s not the years in your life that counts. It’s the life in your years.

-Abraham Lincoln

We live in the present always that is what we believe but, there is fact that most of us are aware, the light that we receive from the sun is old they call it a billion year old light since it is shining since then.

How fascinating it would have been when the scientists concluded this? Just put yourself in that lab, you will jump in joy.

I had recently been  to a historical place in Kerala it is called Kannur it is located on the west coast of "God's own country" I was impressed after seeing the forts built by the Portuguese and how it was forcefully taken away by the Dutch, the royal history of the Arrakal family and so on.

St. Anglo Fort Kannur, India

 I was thinking all the time when I was seeing all these relics’, old buildings.

So what was I thinking? Well my first thought was these guys who came all the way from faraway countries who discovered the sea route  had great strategies in place, they were very enterprising and also clever business men who started taking control over our kings who were just money minded and very much in negotiation with the foreigners which we can see even today.

This is the time when India had become the trade hub and also an ironical war zone. I call it ironical because wars were fought between foreign countries where Indian soldiers where involved without no good motive.

The culture of working for others had begun at this time, so don't crib if you are working for an MNC now, well that was on a lighter note.

Then came an empire which just looted India in the name of East India Company.

So history is a brilliant subject to read and enjoy, keep rewinding back in time read about the managerial models followed down the time line that would help you to lead a better life, let us all become pilot archaeologists, and start understanding and unearthing unknown historical facts.

When you go back and read history nothing is unfair or fair because that moment is over and what happened was bound to happen and all the forces made that to happen, but there is a take away here, we have not been able to go back in time till now, but we can always learn from history and not repeat those mistakes made.

All the best and have a great weekend.

In Sync.

Hello readers

Hope you are doing great.

Maturity comes when you start making excuses and start making changes.
-Anonymous

There are certain places in this world which always needs workforce and literally works 24*7 it takes lot of courage to be in such jobs and the person who are employed in such places are certain to feel negative about their job at times, as a matter even I work in such a work culture but at the end of the day deep down my heart I feel happy and I get that one step ahead in maturity and understanding the situation.

When we talk about maturity, remember I have written about it earlier but, I would like to write a refresher on this looking it from another end of the room.

It is actually a very important value or component in a person's life.

We know the process of germination, after a farmer  sows the seeds his job is done, what happens next is pure chemical biology, which no technology can beat and this earth has the most advanced technologies built by nature which we can never fully replicate.

Now if we take the example of the germination process, the plant that is born after the seed you planted is already pre-determined like an algorithm it grows as if someone had programmed it to do so.

Similarly a person's nature is predetermined and to certain extent his view towards others, the way they solve issues and their cognitive view of this world.

So are we in sync?

The sync I am talking about is understanding people around you, sometimes I see people complaining about their peers that he will never understand us what is the problem with him and so on.

Whatever position we are Life we should have the skill to read people and understand them.

I see lot of misunderstandings that is happening in families where each person has his own interests and fails to show sympathy and empathy when needed; come one man is called the social animal I think that says it all.

I feel we should all develop this power which is already programmed and stored in our brains that ripens as we grow old and we call it maturity.

we need to understand our world around, and believe me if you first understand your world you will also achieve your goals easily as you are in sync :)

Thanks for your time have a nice day.

Ground-Zero.

Hello readers 

Hope you all are doing great.

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something not even me.
-Chris Gardner.

Another week ends at corporate; to be frank each day is a challenge here that makes me realize how much we are dependent on technology and other paraphernalia.

Sometimes I feel Mr James Cameron's imagination was right when he directed the movie judgement day or Terminator 2 as it is better known by us.

Hmm... So ground zero it is, I first heard this phrase on discovery channel in a documentary about building a space shuttle. It means the actually state or level of progress of the space programme.

The part that amused me was when I heard a scientist saying "ground zero is what I think about my project which is in the basic stage now just above the earth and I need to send it to the moon, rest of it which the public knows is what the PR manager thinks it is". After hearing this I was questioning myself so what the PR claims to be ground zero is actually not the actual truth, but the same time I cannot say that it was lies but I can say it is the way may be it should be reported.

The next I thought that shook me is that are my ground zeros' matching with my current situation in life? And I am frank enough to tell you that it is not all the time. So now if you think that “OK so this guy admitted today that he lies to people" I am sorry I don't lie, but my answers would have differences because of legitimate reason and would be justified.

For instance if you know that one of your relative will not make it and you have another member of your family, who is ill and you know he cannot take such a terrible news, so when he will ask how is that relative's health you cannot say he is about to die, you would have replied, well he is improving.

But there are certain other situations where people assume your ground zero and make statements which are only sweet to hear like when you say you are working in a big firm people think you would are happiest person, but you know the ground reality, which may be matching with their assumptions or it is a sad story where you realized it was mistake joining that job, and you absolutely hate it. 

Yes life challenges all of us with these confusions where your hold yourself in not telling that actual experience of how you feel about. But you know that is actually normal, because everyone has their own prescriptive and you need to leave them to experience themselves and find out the ground reality.

I feel you should explain your actual experience to some people for whom it is helpful, for example you are working for a long time and a final year college going student is your friend so tell him how you feel about your job, you can tell him the truth, and reduce his rough ride in his career to certain extent and you will be contented that you helped someone today and all that years of hard work did help someone. 

We all know the ground-zero of whatever we are doing and the most essential party is when you compare your own ground zero situation with your PR which I compare it to your own brain the answers should always match if they don't it is very unfortunate and shows you’re just cheating yourself.

Hope you enjoyed the discussion.

Thanks for your time have a great day ahead.