Think it over

You can't expect a good day, everyday. It is like extracting water from a rock.

However, you can make a good day of every day,

with your attitude (a good and a great one),

by reflecting and responding to situations

converting a bad mood to a good one

turning a bad situation yo an opportune one

and/or even

overcoming a conflicting situation,

rather than reacting to it.

The difference between the mature wise and the not so immature wise, is in knowing this truth.

~ Raman~

According to the statician

E. F. Schumarker, "Any intelligent fool can make simple things complex and confuse people to show that he/she is better endowed, which they do, more often than not. It takes just a touch a genius and a lot of courage to go in the opposite direction to make even complex things simple and make everyone feel they too accomplished something worthy.

22/05/2019, 16:02 - Raman Bharadwaj: In the present race of being competitive and for survival, everyone is wanting to prove that

he/she isn't ordinary, trying

to show he/she is more than ordinary

 and

is actually extraordinary, everyone

unfortunately is

looking foolishly same. 

All

hustle and bustle is getting them

to nowhere from nowhere, going

from nowhere to nowhere.

A great boss

- shares information

- takes care that every hire is

  a good one

- celebrates looks for

  occasions and celebrates

  every event, every win

- respects everyone

- respects everyone's time

- respects everyone's

  privacy giving space

- respects individuality

  though loves collective

  achievements

- celebrates others

  accomplishments equally

- is empathetic

- is thoroughly accountable

- doesn't miss any chance to

  "thank"

- is a good communicator

- creates leaders of

  tomorrow

- doesn't  ever forget that

  people have a life outside

  work too and that their role

  there is an important one    

  as well.

Raman Bharadwaj: Work on a framework

3 - 4 - 7

meaning finishing at least 3 tasks completely everyday, learning 4 new things every day and applying the new learning 7 days a week.

At the end of the year calculate the amount of tasks completed and new learning acquired/applied. You'll be surprised with what you've accomplished, because it has now become your habit.

The beauty of a tree is to sprout new leaves.

The beauty of a mind is in igniting brains of creative minds.

The beauty of life is to redirect the path of focus into creating something newer.

If only people can apply these simple principles, transforming lives of others becomes a sacred act that everyone will appreciate.

07/06/2019, 08:29 - Raman Bharadwaj: Spiritual Maturity

You are said to be Spiritually Mature, when you...

...stop wanting.

...accept people as they are.

...stop trying to change others...instead focus on changing yourself.

...understand everyone has the right to their own perspective.

...learn to let go.

...stop comparing yourself with others.

...drop all expectations from our relationships, and give for the sake of giving.

...understand whatever you do, it for you alone and for your peace.

...stop showing off to the world how intelligent you are .

...don't seek approval, from the others to live your life.

...are at peace with yourself.

...are able to differentiate between your "needs" and "wants" to be able minimize your "needs" and let go off your "wants."

And last but the most meaningful aspect of "Spiritual Maturity," is when you stop attaching "happiness" to "material things and gains."

Be Blessed.

This is a compilation from various sources exclusively for the members of this group R3 - Raman's Random Rambling,

YOU ARE DOING WELL, IF..

Every morning you are presented with a brand new start, make the best and most of every moment of the day.

YOU ARE DOING WELL, IF...

YOU...

Have proof above your head

Have loyal friends

Have food to eat

Can stand and sit by yourself

Can breathe

Can see

Can hear

Can smell

Can speak

Care about others

Treat everyone with respect, not just those who you need to impress

Strive to do better

Have running water at home...

No matter what, you get up, show up, give it all you've got - and never ever give up ever, then you are still a star player in the game of life. Everyday is a gift, make it a masterpiece.

Be Blessed.

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Raman

Ways of Being

In the world we live, there are just 3 ways of being.

Positive 

is being

active, aware, involved, mature, patient proactive, responsible, relaxed.

Being -

absent, asleep, disconnected, immature, impatient, irresponsible, passive, reactive, uninterested you are deemed as Negative.

You are Transcendent, means - you do not accept things in the world as it is, but, work to transform it).

So, when you are alert, committed, curious, disciplined, engaged, intrigued, planned, resolute, serene, strategic, you are Transcendent.

12/06/2019, 09:15 - Raman Bharadwaj: Positive Leadership Attributes

A win-win problem solver,

communicative, courage, courageously decisive, dependable, dynamic, encourager, executor, informed, intelligent, just, motivator, planner, punctual, optimistic, team builder, trustworthy.

Not Positive

Asocial, abusive, dictatorial, egoistic, egocentric, irritable, irrational, loner, non-cooperative, ruthless, selfish, unjust.

LEADERSHIP

Influential Attributes

- Attitude

- Courage

- Caring

- Commitment

- Determination

- Optimism

- Self Confidence

- Self Control

- Self Discipline

And the way these attributes are related are through E's

- Education

- Energy

- Environment

- Example

- Experience

- Evaluation

13/06/2019, 22:19 - Raman Bharadwaj: Moms will be Moms...

doesn’t matter who you are...

Here is some Mom talk :

Issac Newton's mother:

"But did you wash the apple before eating it?"

Archimedes's mother:

"Didn't you have any shame running naked in the street from bath to home?  ...and, WHO is this girl Eureka???”

Thomas Edison's mother:

"Of course I am proud that you invented the electric bulb. Now turn it off and get to bed !!!"

Abraham Lincoln's mother:

"Now that you have become President for heaven's sake get rid of that shabby tailcoat and stovepipe hat and buy yourself a decent outfit."

James Watt's mother:

"If you just keep watching that damn lid lifting and dropping, rice will be burnt. Turn off the stove now."

Graham Bell's mother:

"You have installed this new silly thing in the house alright, but I do not want girls calling you at odd hours."

Galileo Galilei's mother:

"What use is seeing that goddamn moon with your telescope if it does not help me to see my mother in Milano."

Samuel Morse's mother:

"Make sure your school report card doesn't have only dashes and dots.”

Mona Lisa's mother:

"After all that money your father and I spent on your braces, is that the best smile you can give us ?"

Michelangelo's mother:

"Can't you paint on walls like other children ? Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that stuff off the ceiling ?"

Albert Einstein's mother:

"But it's your senior picture. Can't you do something about your hair ? Use styling gel or something...?"

Bill Gates's mother:

"You keep browsing all day long; watch out if I ever catch you on any adult web-site."

Danial Fahrenheit's mother:

"Stop playing will boiling water and let me make tea."

Georg Ohm's mother:

"I don' like you resisting everything I say."

Robert Boyle's mother:

"If your volume is really inversely proportional to pressure, you must be having a constipation. Take a laxative."

Alessandro Volta's mother:

"It is shocking to see you all the while dipping those copper and zinc rods in that beaker.”

Andre Marie Ampere’s mom:

“Apart from fooling around all the time shall you ever find time to glance through your current books!”

Socrates's mother:

"If you keep drinking from any cup, it is not necessary that you will also survive like Meera Bai."

Christopher Columbus’ mother:

"I don't care what you were busy discovering and where, you could still have dropped a two line letter !"

Inner Chatter

Whether we know or not, whether we want it or not, whether we like it or not, there is an inner chatter within all of us.

The difference is seen with the way we behave.

If the chatter is high, we show it out with our losing our temper, showing anger, yelling etc.

If it is not with high decibels, we may not get excited soon, but, there's no guarantee that it will not erupt when feeling get accrued.

Very wise are those, who know how to channelize this chatter to churn out inspiring stuff. They rise above all the others and become extraordinary. Emotionally intelligent people.

Ordinary people display a lot of emotions  they act, react, recover, sober down, repent, apologize etc.

The truth is, chatter begins very early in life and stays with us till the end, so learning how to tame the chatter, channelizing them to results of positive energy, optimism, achievement, success etc., is what separates the ordinary and the extraordinary.

Think about this and make a difference.

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Raman

Get Your Priorities Right

We live in an age of information overload and excessive pressure, which often plays tricks with our minds and our perceptions.

They destroy our sense of priorities and make the line between what is really important and what is not, blurry.

We often give trivial things importance they do not deserve and make make mountains of mole hills.

Concentrating on the important priorities first is the key to good performance.

The story below about big and small apples illustrates effects of high and low priorities on concentration and performance.

An apple farmer once asked his two sons to sort out the stack of apples into piles of big apples and small apples weeding out bad apples. His sons worked hard all day long and when they finished the job they called their father to show him their work. The impressed father congratulated them and asked them to mix the two piles - the big and the small ones again.

The boys were furious because they thought their time was wasted. Anyway, they did as he said.

The father then asked about the other small apples piled up near by. They said, those were bad and rotten apples which they discarded. "Very good," said the father and added, "If I told you to remove the bad and rotten apples from the entire pile, you'd have missed some of them, but, now because you looked at each apple carefully you were able to check if was big or small apple, and in the process you didn't miss out on the bad ones and we're able weed out the unwanted.

Prioritise first, performance will improve by itself with the clarity that prompts action.

The point is High Priority items are the ones that determine action, and Low Priority items, however, shouldn't be ignored, they must be taken into account too.

Enjoy the festival. May the Almighty Bless all of You and Everyone Yours -ABUNDANTLY, GENEROUSLY, and INFINITELY.

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Pressure and the Mind

Pressure can either be a friend or a foe. In the right proportion it can lift performance to great heights, but, if it gets out of hands it can mess up everything including health and a career. The ability to cope up with pressure usually separately great professionals from the others. It is also true that even great professionals sometime succumb and fall victims to chronic pressure.

In life, we constantly play two different, but, interrelated games - a public one (outer game) and a private one (inner game). The outer game is played in a way everyone can see. It needn't be only against opponents. The inner game is played in our minds, it is against us. An unseen game in which there is constant interaction between our thoughts and feelings, our goals and fears, our confidence and our doubts, our strengths and our weakness. Many of us fail to either recognise or acknowledge our vulnerabilities. We play this game all the time without being too aware of it. Formal instructions, mentoring, training, or education usually do not address the inner game as such, hence playing the outer game becomes difficult. Coaching helps get a "mastery," of our inner game. Champion professionals, play both these games well, therefore they are Champions.

This is not to say it is difficult, it calls for a high amount of Discipline, Dedication, Hard work, Integrity, Practice and Zeal.

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It is Within You

We are ruled by our limiting beliefs Too often we believe we are not good enough; something is not working for us and it needs to be fixed; something is missing; and something special needs to be added to make it worthwhile. These limiting beliefs often hide the wealth within.

This story will explain...

A young man inherited a statue of clay, which was in the possession of his family for ages. He was feeling ashamed to show it up proudly to anyone. Wished it was of gold, so when he did earn some wealth, he had the statue gold plated, as it was made to look the way he wanted.

Over a period of time flakes of gold started peeling off from the statue. He began to spendore and more time and money on maintaining it. Was growing very frustrated.

One day his grandfather him, the young man showed him the statue, feeling rather embarrassed and ashamed because of it dishevelled appearance, of clay somewhere flakes of gold somewhere.

The grandfather who knew the statue well, recognised the statue and started to rub it with aoist cloth. After roving the clay, he said, "Many many years ago, this statue must have fallen in mud and clay, to cover it up completely and they must have forgotten to wipe or wash it, and so it must have become covered. You wouldn't know."

Saying this he began to rub the statue even more vigorously and as he did so he began to remove the stuck clay and the bright yellow metal started to appear.

"The grandfather then told the grandson, "Underneath the clay statue has been one of solid gold from the beginning. You didn't have to put more gold on it. From now on all you have to do to show up gold is to remove any clay or dust that settles on it."

Like the clay on the gold statue, poor vision, limiting beliefs, negative thoughts, self doubts, poor excuses and habits hide the wealth within which undermines our desire and ability to perform well, to succeed. These obstacles are like the anchor at the bottom of the sea, holding up everyone we make. Removing them sets our inner resources free.

Performance is better more often by understanding ourselves well from within, and from constantly - learning, unlearning, relearning, being curious, creative, innovative, being interested and by being present 100% every moment.

What are you waiting for them, start unearthing the gold lying hidden inside each of you.

Scripted specially for members of this group in R3 - Raman's Random Ramblings,

by

Raman