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what a coincidence!
Today I was to accompany my colleague for a meeting at 4 pm, which I did. We reached there on time and were waiting for the client. He did show up and apologized as he had a surprise visitor he had to entertain. So we took off, but somehow my colleague spotted a eatery and we ate a few things there.
After eating, we were too bored to walk to the train station which was few minutes away, so we decided to catch a cab and chose a station which was slightly away from where we were. It was so that the cab would be ready to come.
I came out of the cab, and started walking towards the station. I saw a friend, and we had not met in last few years at least. It was really a pleasant surprise,and I just could not believe at the number of events that had to occur so that we two could meet.
I believe in omens and such coelho stuff, not completely but enough to think about this as an omen or a signal. I am changing, and I have noticed that my universe is changing too. The people I used to bump into are changing, the friends with whom I used to meet up are changing,and it is helping me get what I am craving for.
I have had this sort of experience before as well. If you truly wish to achieve something or get something, the universe helps you in unexpected ways. Just one caveat though, say yes to the offers made to you. say yes when someone asks you to hang out, say yes for a trip you would normally say no to, say yes, and the universe will work its magic for you.
Take care…
of the culture, of my past, what my father has passed on to me, his beliefs and practices… timeless wonder. Yoga, pranayam.
I was a regular in not doing various breathing practices, although i had always benefited immensely when ever I did it. The mumbai air is a potent mix of assorted pollutants and sadly nothing is being done about it. The effect on me was frequent colds and throat related issues when ever the weather changed. It took only a couple of weeks of proper practice of “kapal bhati” and “Bhasrika” to rectify this problem that was my companion since childhood. I then started a great routine of yoga and exercise while I was in engineering. It not only changed my physical health level, but also gave me a emotional balance and added an edge to my already strong mental descipline.
Then I went to MDI, for my MBA, and all these practices I had went for a toss. The reasons are not to be thought about now, but to say the least, I suffered because of it.
Now again I have started the practice, tentatively as of now, trying again to regain that mastery that I had in those days. The results are quick to show. My nasal passage has cleared up from all the choking I had due to the erratic monsoon.
There has been quite a proliferation of yoga across the globe, and the media has as always helped immensely to spread exactly the wrong sorts of things that kill a good idea before it becomes mainstream. Rediculous claims and rumors add to the downfall of this beautiful free form of health maintainance tool.
Yoga in itself tell us to feel comfortable. In all the positions one must feel utmost comfort, not only physical but mental as well. There is no such thing as a perfect posture, it depends on person to person, and it is to be found by oneself. People count the number of breaths and watch themselves in mirror to attain “THAT EXACT” position. I feel the journey is more important, and when you are near enough then the destination might just jump at you!
I believe that everyone can do yoga and everyone must do yoga. For physical balance, mental balance and emotional balance.
Take care…
and I am writing in at a weird time of the night as well. Not entirely alien to me though, but my life has taken a turn for the routine i guess.
Life fluctuates, and the problem I am thinking about is the future, and my mood swings. I am at cross roads now, and I need to choose. Whether to take the route which will lead me to a happy, satiated life with a cute, caring wife with a kid or two. A cozy, comfy job and a routine, planned life. Or I can take inordinate risks, change career track, do the weird stuff and gather experiences and memories.
Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing bad about any of these paths, and both are equally tempting for me, but the second one calls my dark side out. The lure of the unknown, the temptation of the exotic, the charm of variance.
I really don’t know whether I can gather the courage and shake those responsibilities and reach out for my true destiny. It remains to be seen as and when it will unfold.
All I need is belief in myself, and my knowledge of myself. Rest can be learnt on the way.
Take care…
gone by already, and I have made no long lasting change in the life.
Sure, I have prepared great plans, read through many self help books and read them again, drew up lists and visualised and chanted, and did all the tricks they tell us. It hardly made a difference.
Now I realize that there is no feedback mechanism. Either I was too strong on myself, or too lenient. Both approaches end up in disaster.
To make the changes that stick longer, i need to use the method I used quite successfully in engineering days.choose one habit, and convince myself that if I don’t do this, I will die. Not a physical death, but a social one, or mental one or emotional one. I have found that it is the only way to create leverage for me which actually works. I must put myself under so tremendous a stress, that I start getting sleepless nights and stomach trouble. For some days. Then, habit is internalized. Stress can be taken away, and then miracle happens. I change the habit in such a way as to perfectly fit my personality.
Now is the time to start just that. Create enough leverage. Switch off the brain, that will stop the excuses. Become automaton for that part of the day or month or life.
And so as to justify my absence from wordpress for so many days, I was busy having a life.
Take care…
when I am supposed to just be lazy, and be lazy I was that day.
Nothing of notice happened on last few days, except on a personal level. Nothing I could share on a blog.
Did not exercise for quite a few days, hogged around a lot more than I should, and the fat has immediately started to show. Working out is the only feasible option it seems. I will also have to incorporate the eating raw at night habit, but my mom is impossible, so unless I take up all the preparatory part on me, its not going to get done.
I ahd a very difficult month end professionally. Most of my work over month end consists of updating the client portfolios manually. Manually because my office still has not quite understood the concept of using a software to automate such processes. So we take the data from various websites and type it in excel. It is criminally stupid, but I am too junior to fight it. All I could do till now is to automate some parts of information collection by using excel web queries. And to think I never worked on excel. Sheesh, some offices just need an engineer MBA combo I tell you. As the days will go by, I swear I will make enough changes to make the organization competitive at least at the local level. I mean, clients cant even see their own portfolio real time on the net. Every time the person handling the stuff has to pull down the information, confirm about all the transactions that have occurred from various sources and then pray to the god of portfolio updation that the portfolio is without any mistakes. How my company gets clients is a question to me. Maybe because the services and personalized attention that we provide is not matchable in the industry till now. So, luckily we are ahead of the curve.
Enough cribbing. Got to go to work and make some value add tomorrow.
Take care.
