YOU are the possibility!

suggested names for trust

Suggestions by b.singh:
Suggestions of few names for the NGO foundation : 1. Atmajyoti The name Atmajyoti in Sanskrit the meaning of the name Atmajyoti is: The light of the soul.2. Anarghya
The name in Sanskrit the meaning of the name Anarghya is: Invaluable, priceless.
3. Bishanpal
Meaning : Raised by God
4. Aakaanksha

Meaning : Wish or desire
suggstions by few others:
kalpataruvu
arunodaya
abhyudaya ( by pallavi)

This moment is complete!

PUT THE GLASS DOWN

On Putting the Glass Down

Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see and asked the students "How much do you think this glass weighs?"'50gms!’..... '100gms!' .....'125gms' ...the students answered. 

"I really don't know unless I weigh it," said the professor, "but, my question is: What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?"

'Nothing' …..the students said.'

Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?' the professor asked.

'Your arm would begin to ache' said one of the student"

You're right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?"

"Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle stress, paralysis and have to go to hospital for sure!" ….. ventured another student and all the students laughed.

"Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?" asked the professor.

'No'…. Was the answer.

"Then what caused the arm ache and the muscle stress?

"The students were puzzled.

"What should I do now to come out of pain?" asked professor again.

"Put the glass down!" said one of the students

"Exactly!" said the professor.

Life's problems are something like this. Hold it for a few minutes in your head and they seem OK.Think of them for a long time and they begin to ache. Hold it even longer and they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything.It's important to think of the challenges or problems in your life, But EVEN MORE IMPORTANT is to 'PUT THEM DOWN' at the end of every day before You go to sleep..That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh and strong and can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!

'PUT THEM DOWN' is the other word for detachment. Detachment doesn't mean that I am not involved. It just means I am not carrying my pains and failures or any such psychic impressions with me to the bed and thereby am fresh and strong enough to handle the situations of life the best possible way the next day.....

Let our new tag be "Am i carrying junk?" from today to remind others of the 'put them down' need....

An interesting reflection: Slow Down Culture

Patience - An answer to lots of our issues

It's been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working for them has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple

and brilliant. It's a rule. Globalized processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general sense of searching for immediate results. We have come to possess a need to see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold endless meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end though, this always yields outstanding results.

Said in another words: 1. Sweden is about the size of San Pablo , a state in Brazil . 2. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants. 3. Stockholm , has 500,000 people. 4. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, Nokia are some of its renowned companies. Volvo supplies the NASA. 

The first time I was in Sweden , one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their cars to work). The first day, I didn't say anything, neither the second nor the third. One morning I asked, "Do you have a fixed parking space? I've noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot." To which he replied, "Since we're here early we'll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be in a hurry and need a place closer to the door. Don't you think?" Nowadays, there's a movement in Europe name Slow Food. This movement establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week. Basically, the movement questions the sense of "hurry" and "craziness" generated by globalization, fueled by the desire of "having in quantity" (life status) versus "having with quality" or the "quality of being". The French, even though they work 35 hours per week, are more productive than the Americans or British. The Germans have established 28.8 hour workweeks and have seen productivity driven up by 20%. This slow attitude has brought forth the US 's attention, pupils of the fast and the "do it now!". 

This no-rush attitude doesn't represent doing less or having lower productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress. It means re-establishing family values, friends and leisure time. Taking the "now", present and concrete, versus the "global", undefined and anonymous. It means taking essential human values, the simplicity of living. It stands for a less coercive work environment, happier, lighter and more productive where people enjoy doing what they know best how to do. It's time to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of products and services, without losing the essence of spirit. 

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists. We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in what each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". Congratulations for getting to the end of this message. There are many who would've stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this "globalized" world.

Patience is a virtue highly under-rated in today's world but yet worth possessing and practicing....

start working on developing this quality to better the quality of our lives......

When God's want to punish us, they fulfill our wishes!

Am I asking the question from the centre of wanting a solution or from the centre of belief that says “This is how it ought to be in the first place”.?

We don’t believe what we see, we see what we wish to believe.

Impernance

Nothing stays for ever..........

May be this was the key to success and I lost it as I named it a problem....

What started as a fancy turned into a obsession along the line...am i aware of it?

If this is where I wanted to be yesterday, why am I uncomfortable being here today?

Completeness or emptiness....

We have dealt with various aspects of Financial Abundance in our lives….and that completes our topic of FA…

Emotional well-being, physical and FA – all these topics have already been dealt with…Please Go through the older posts the days I don’t post any thing new…


“Will I want anything the moment I am complete?”

As long as I am empty (dissatisfaction is just one of symptoms that state that I am empty ), I’ll try to fill that emptiness with all the things and people of the world which I presume will fill that emptiness and give me happiness in life….but “andhe kuve mein kitana bhi paani dalo, who bhartha nahin hai”….emptiness is like a Blackhole – it sucks everything that you give it and still would be empty only….so, a person who operates with the Belief “I am empty and need to fill this emptiness with the things of this world and ONLY THEN I will be happy will never be so even after having the world at his feet..” Hitler, Alexander, any successful and powerful person who was operating from emptiness will prove this for you…..

On the other hand, a person who is fulfilled and is complete from within still may try to work for the things of the world but they will reflect his completeness….
his is complete and happy and to express them he will dance…
to express his joy he will sing, paint, work etc
to express his joy he will love…
his every act will be an act of expression of his state of Being which is complete and fulfilled….

The empty person says “I want to be happy so I dance”
The complete person says “I am dancing because I am happy”.

That’s all is the difference….sounds simple and is so too….

What is the purpose of my THIS desire?

Is my want coming from emptiness or completeness?

अब बेजार होके कहते है के मर जायेंगे,
लेकिन अगर मर के भी सुकून न मिला थो कहिये किधर जायेंगे....
In desperation i say 'i wish to die'
but if I don't find peace even in death, then tell me where would I go?

Character

Character is the back-bone of every abundance in our lives - more so financial.

Every WEALTHY person has a strong, inspiring and a value-based character in him.

Person's and with him nation's downfall starts the day character becomes ill-fitting on him.

See what the India was at 1835......

Lord Macaulay's address to the British Parliament 2nd Feb 1835

"I've travelled the length and the breadth of India and I have not seen a one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country. Such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would conquer this country, unless we break the very back-bone of this nation which is her spiritual and cultural heritage and therefore I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them a truly dominated nation."

History is not to be repeated.
History is not to feel proud about and forget the present.
History is to understand our follies and not to repeat it again.

This simply states the importance of character and how it reflects in our well-being and the nation's automatically.

For this simple reason we are working on our follies, mis-givings, short-comings so that we come out as strong individuals with sound character because our lives depend entirely on our character only.....

May this simple understanding bring abundance into your lives.....

Attitudes

Family comes first....


Charity and attitudes with regards to spending and earning are the qualities that I need to develop not with FA in mind but with an awareness that I need to give back to the society from which I got so much.

Atleast 10% of my earnings should be earmarked for charity. That should top the list not be at the end. Charity is 'now' or 'never'. So, if one waits till one has more than sufficient to do charity that day will never come. This has already been dealt with many times - refer previous blogs for this aspect.

India in good olden days had abundance with regards to everything and still there was peace and happiness. Now, money comes with a package of tension, heartburns and what not! Why is it so? Then 'People used things but loved people' but now 'we have ended up using people and loving things'. Just a small shift has made all the difference in our lives.....

Reflect on this story....

F A M I L Y

I ran into a stranger as he passed by,'Oh excuse me please' was my reply.He said, 'Please excuse me too;I wasn't watching for you.'We were very polite, this stranger and I.We went on our way and we said goodbye.

But at home a different story is told,How we treat our loved ones, young and old..

Later that day, cooking the evening meal,My son stood beside me very still.When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.'Move out of the way,' I said with a frown.He walked away, his little heart broken.I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.While I lay awake in bed, God's still small voice came to me and said,'While dealing with a stranger,common courtesy you use,but the family you love, you seem to abuse.Go and look on the kitchen floor,You'll find some flowers there by the door.Those are the flowers he brought for you.He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes.'

By this time, I felt very small,And now my tears began to fall.I quietly went and knelt by his bed;'Wake up, little one, wake up,' I said.'Are these the flowers you picked for me?'

He smiled, 'I found 'em, out by the tree.I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue.'I said, 'Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;I shouldn't have yelled at you that way.'

He said, 'Oh, Mom, that's okay.I love you anyway.'I said, 'Son, I love you too,and I do like the flowers, especially the blue.'

FAMILY - Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days.But the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than into our own family,an unwise investment indeed,don't you think?

As we are working for our comforts and our near and dear ones are we enroute making a shift unconsciously that gives importance only to our work and not to the ones for whom we are working?

We should work so that we live comfortably.....we should not live to work.....reflect on this as i do my own self-check....

Just love your work!

Coming back to attitudes that I need to develop to experience FA in my life….

Love for work spills over in the form of commitment and perfection in the work that I take up to do. And anything perfect is immediately appreciated and valued more than the imperfect one. The value is also long lasting. Take any example of old architecture, old paintings, and sculptures – just about anything. Wherever a person was in love with his vocation, there genius was born and out of his love spilled a perfect piece of art admired and valued even centuries after the person is gone and sometimes forgotten too…

Love for my work makes me do ‘ordinary things in an extraordinary way’ and that exactly is the key to success story written my way in my life. Follow the following fact file to see how an ordinary work can be converted into worship or an art work. Also notice that the Japanese farmers just did it for the love of it but soon were noticed all over the world and the tourism that developed because of it brought extra revenue for the entire community. Just love what you do. Forget about the results. It’ll follow for sure.

A Japanese story

Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan .
But this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted.

Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead, different colours of rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.

As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.

A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants, the colours created by using different varieties, in Inakadate in Japan The largest and finest work is grown in the Aomori village of Inakadate , 600 miles north of Toyko, where the tradition began in 1993.

The village has now earned a reputation for its agricultural artistry and this year the enormous pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horseback, are visible in a pair of fields adjacent to the town hall.

More than 150,000 vistors come to Inakadate, where just 8,700 people live, every summer to see the extraordinary murals.

Each year hundreds of volunteers and villagers plant four different varieties of rice in late May across huge swathes of paddy fields.

Napolean on horseback can be seen from the skies, created by precision planting and months of planning between villagers and farmers in Inkadate Fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife Osen appear in fields in the town of Yonezawa , Japan And over the past few years, other villages have joined in with the plant designs.
Another famous rice paddy art venue is in the town of Yonezawa in the Yamagata prefecture.

This year's design shows the fictional 16th-century samurai warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen, whose lives feature in television series Tenchijin.

Various artwork has popped up in other rice-farming areas of Japan this year, including designs of deer dancers.

Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan such as this image of Doraemon and deer dancers

The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru roman variety to create the coloured patterns between planting and harvesting in September.

The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square metres of paddy fields.

From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work.

Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew out of meetings of the village committee.
Closer to the image, the careful placement of thousands of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen

The different varieties of rice plant grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces

In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year.

But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.

In 2005 agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art.

A year later, organisers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.

They did it all for the love of it and became famous, rich and successful and not to mention the joy of being recognised for the labour that they put in...they didn't stop doing their profession .... they just added a little bit of variety in it and they got name, fame, success and all - just for the love of doing their job well....

If you want success coming your way either pick up a profession that you love or end up loving the profession you are in....

no man became successful inspite of disliking his office/ job/ business...

think about it.... and sleep tight on this idea and then dream on your way to success...only to get up and work your way to your dreams....