Branding Essentials..

When we shift from meaning "everything to somebody" to meaning "something to everybody" - we actually end up being "nothing to anybody"

Void

A huge and deep void in my life on 6th of December 2009. I lost a friend who never spoke much.

Exercise..

I heard my services marketing Prof VS Mahesh say this, "As you grow older, the only exercise you do is jumping to conclusions.."

Profound!

10 Million Points!! - A True Hypocrite

A certified 'Hypocrite': "One who restrains the senses of action like hands and feet etc but remains thinking in his mind about sense objects." - Lord Krishna in The Song of God.

Value

They say "value of something is not relized until that 'something' leaves us". Well applies to monetary economics also. A 100 rupee note is as good as a junk note or a 5 rupee note in our wallets until it leaves our wallets. We have to let go of currency notes from our wallets to realize their actual value.

Don't Hoard. It's useless.

Linda "Good"man

If Linda Goodman had abstained herself from documenting "The Sun Signs", I believe there would have been a world of good to the mankind. I have seen people constantly compare their traits with those in the book and consciously try alter their behavior mechanisms to match their confirmation biases attained in this process.

No wonder, market experts claim loss of originality and innovation....

Envy and Inspiration

Jealousy depends on success/happiness of Others.

Others here is a regression of proximity to the successful individual, the level of acquaintance with the individual. And yes, it is upward sloping! If the values of these dependent variables are insignificant, the resultant regression function is ADMIRATION (or) INSPIRATION.

Note: I admire Sachin Tendulkar but Vinod Kambli might be jealous of his pal's success!

Sshhhh..

"Silencing others does not mean convincing others."

"Net"-working

Networking is like Love. Can't be thrust upon. Needs to happen naturally..!

Do a Jonathan Seagull.......

If I am not worth the salt that I am supposed to have been so far, then what exactly is my USP? Need wings to fly away and realize my potential. Tired of constant function graphs - effort vs results....!

Common Sense

If common sense was a basic prerequisite for a successful individual, it makes more common sense to implement a pedagogy on Common Sense. I really wonder there are none in any B-schools across the globe. The desire of Common Sense to be prevalent still remains a desire....

Disclaimers

"Just Kidding" - One of the most abused disclaimers of modern day etymology. Just Kidding.

Theory of Compromise

Compromise has become an integral parts of our lives, at least for many of us. I feel that there are two parts to that reaction of ours - substitution and reasoning for the substitution. Compromise in itself is a necessary evil. Often, people have the tendency to reason out their substitution ( either by chance or by choice) based on comparisons. Comparisons that transcend temporal limits. We are aware that any two arbitrary scientific experiments are compared if and only if the two experiments follow the same procedures/methods under the same standard environmental conditions.
Consider the event that person A desired to succeed in B. However, that did not happen at time t and resigned to fate and moved on to C. Assume he succeeds in C. The normative claim of A would be - "Thank God, B did not happen otherwise I would not have succeeded in C. " This might hold true for events that are serially dependent. For cases that are mutually exclusive such a reasoning appears to be a little distorted from my FOE's perspective. Lets say A's success in B meant him tying nuptial knot with his heartthrob. Failure in B implies A might have resigned to fate or was led by destiny to have a successful marriage with another person C.
Given such a scenario, how appropriate it is to compare persons across time at different situations? Time in itself is dynamic and ever changing that envelopes the entire creation as well in its change. We compare our moods, mind sets, reactions, physical, economical, mental statuses at two different time periods that encompass huge magnitudes of chaos within themselves. Our reactions and moods at time t1 are not equivalent to those at time t2 because, for them to be compared, we as individuals should have undergone the same set of reaction experiments at similar conditions,which is infeasible.

There is a deep inclination of people to regard their current position as the better when compared with the foregone opportunities. In the above case, there is a tendency to claim that C is better of the B. But who knows and who could validate that claim that A probably could have been a lot better off with the success with B. Thoughts on these lines are believed to channel negative connotations of our progress and life and we have resolved to the system of accrediting the current situation as the better against the foregone desires. Lest, we cant move on. This is a famous school of thought and my FOE's intention here is not to debate the resultants but the reasoning attached with the school of thought.

By merely comparing two events that are so unique in themselves, it is as good as comparing oranges and apples over two different time periods. Preferences evolve. Let us resign or accept the fate and let us move on, but let us not compare the results of two totally turnkey events of our lives. Turnkey as they seem because, their results change the path of lives and not judging the efficacy of one of the events with incomplete results and data is merely being foolish. At times hypocrisy.

Abyss

When you have hit rock bottom, the best option available to you is to LOOK UP..!

Discovery

I will have to give this to my very dear friend Krish, a strong lateral thinker. Should confess that he has been an influencing personality in the evolution of my thought process. Of the many things that he emphasized, he touched upon self discovery in a subtle and yet effective fashion. He retorts often with his signature statement - " Vish, when was the last time you did something for the first time.."

Reflect on that positively, you for sure will begin to realize more of your unknown self... Thanks mate!!

Pain

Pain is a direct function of reaction.