Progress is life

Just to represent growth

Can we define life without progress? No, isn't it.

Let us take an example. When we plant a tree and then we see growth in it. The day it stops growing, we assume this is it's maximum height. Does it mean all tree from same type seed have same height. Why some tree of same seed grow more and some less. This is all logical but here my objective is to focus on human life.

As a human, we take birth. During initial days, we live on support system and the support system need reduces with time. We attain an age when we don't need support more or less. Then we prepare our self to support others. Say we create a baby and we provide support. and till the end of life we do the same and support more people. Grow society, family.

Also as a human, we have several vertical of growth, like personal relationship, caring for self, social relationship and professional growth. Many of the successful sportsman, always repeat that we can learn from everything. But what is the benefit of learning. Learning is no learning until we apply it.

The question pops up is where to apply our learning. In most cases, we read, see, listen and experience to get learning but we don't apply. Even if we apply it is in very minor quantity.

The prime reason is our current state. Knowing how you are working is half success. When we apply our learning, it transform our life. But the main reason why most people don't transform is afraid of knowing themselves, careless about their future, they believe it may come at a large cost, or they were told that now your only responsibility is to take care of your wife and kids.

It is very important to note down our current state, In every vertical how we handle the situation, we should first write down. Then we should continuously put innocent effort on it. We should note down what can we do better to make things better.

Taking an example we go to meeting. Generally many people go with blind idea. They don't have any idea what to expect. What could be their question?

Many people struggle with asking good question is only because they prepare for meeting. They come blind and then what they learn they forget within few days. But if you do two thing like noting down what the intention of the meeting and second what my question should be. Few meetings agenda you may not be aware but most of the meeting agenda and what to expect we know. I think when meeting is planned ahead, you must prepare well to draw best out of it.

Finally I remember the tag line of Reliance i.e. growth is life. What is your intention in your life. Think and comment.

Taking Ownership for Happiness

This is how people react when not owning responsibility

I own a house. How do we feel when we say this sentence. We get two kind of senses:
1. Feeling of enjoyment or proud or feeling valued
2. Sense of responsibility

There are above two part of everything we have. We can use the home for sleeping, for celebrating any function, we can use for cooking and many other. But at the same time, if there is any damage into home, we have to fix it. We have to be serious about it otherwise the consequences we will have to face. It is not that we feel sad when we do repair. In fact we feel happy to fix it. and consider it as our part of life.

In corporate world, everyone want to be seen as good, successful, or a person who never makes mistakes or always take correct decision, do their work on or before time. Is it really possible to be a person doing work without doing any mistake ever. We all are human being. We are tend to make mistake. 

If we make mistake who will own it. Since most people work in a team, they get a scope to blame others or deny their mistake. But just think if you are head of your family, can you deny your mistake. Why don't we accept mistake and then correct it. If we don't acknowledge mistake, we can never fix them.

The problem with not taking ownership is, we never feel attachment with work. We always look for our last day salary. When we do the work, our only intention is to throw the ball in others net. This way you never get the happiness since you are not attached with work. But if we take ownership of work, the magic will start happen.

We will feel very happy when we complete our work. When you leave office there will be sense of satisfaction. Your work which contribute a large part of time your spent, will be highly utilized and you will feel highly satisfied. if you make mistake you can accept your criticism and you can understand that rejection of your suggestion is merely rejection of your idea rather than you. You will be open for feedback. Open for positive criticism.

When we start taking ownership, we start looking at problem from different perspective. You try to learn some new skill even if it doesn't fall in to your work scope. You approach all other share holder and bring them on table. We try to share our learning with team so that team can perform better. Your approach to problem will be different. You don't want to put any burden on others for your work. You become open to suggestion and help.

In fact our small steps like not doing litter, urine, throw garbage in public place. These baby steps have power to transform India. But for that you need to attach yourself with India as your motherland and you are responsible to keep it clean.

Dear reader, please share your comments.

Objective for making India#1

Nobel prize winner Kailash satyapathi has once said, "India has hundred of problems and millions of solutions." Our team TOTAL always believe that we can contribute solutions to problems India has. So who are are and what we are doing and why?

Ian faria is our common factor among us. We joined Ian faria to learn how to grow in life. In between we thought of a group to make changes in the society. We formed the TILT group which stands for the Indian leadership think thanks. Our only intention is to MAKE India #1.

Out of the all people who have common belief that making India #1 is their sole purpose formed the GROUP TILT. Out of this group we have a team of few people and highly intellectuals who are interested in self growth in the group TOTAL. Forming the group was the first step for growth. Next we decided to grow each other.  The group consist of people from various vertical. they belief that we growth based on what kind of society we have around.

It all started with setting goals for the day, week, month, years. I thought it is just another goal settings exercise but it brought miracle. There was someone in the group who is your friend and following up on your goal. Also we shared so many inspirational video showing the importance of having goal settings and then completing it. In between when I was discussing with my manager about my drawback, He told me about ownership. That open my eyes again. I heard this word before but never thought about it. 

Now whatever I do, I take my ownership. It is building mutual trust. In between I read article by Kayan on of TILT Group member, talking about challenging yourself everyday. Awesome article. You see we have so many layers to support our growth. First me, then my team total and then tilt group finally Ian. All people are doing awesome in my life. One of our advantages is that we have a leader who is countless times better than us that is Ian Faria. He is open to share his experience and learning. Do you think what motivate us is our self growth? No. We are bound by commitment to grow each other. We are following word of Martin Luther king where he says if you can't run, crawl. We are committed for making small/big goal and then achieve it. We are ensuring if we can't change society completely at least we will go for small improvement by all ways possible.

There are two ways to grow, either you push someone and other is to pull someone. Push is something like lecturing. In our early days of our life when our elder will say that if you don't this, you won't get this despite the fact that they were not in a position to lecture. At that point of time, I use to belief them and not 100% convinced. But when you grow and reach mountain, you can always pull people at base of mountain.

Here in this group I feel that the only objective is grow India. We want to follow the concept of pulling our fellow citizen. We don't know if we will pull everyone but we want to pull at least one and that is my concept of India#1 To make it happen, we need to activate our intellectual sleeping cells of our brain.

Finally I would like to thank my team lead by Venkat and Nila for their contribution in my life.