Importance of small things:

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse, the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider, the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle, the kingdom was lost
All for the want of a horseshoe nail.
-Benjamin Franklin

We always dream of bright future and big success. Whenever we plan about our life it is full of only big things created by those big dreams. Life indeed is made up of small things, ordinary and small events. Julia Fletcher Carney said, “Little drops of water, little grains of sand make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land; so the mighty minutes, humble though they be, make the mighty ages of eternity.”

The truth is real happiness, a true happiness come without expectations, is in these small things not in big achievements. Smile of a three year old baby, the warm feeling of a small kid’s palm when it holds our finger, a small meaningful tear in the beautiful eyes, a small smile in the lip, a butterfly in a garden, few exchanges of trust and beautiful words with friend and dear ones also gives happiness. Such happiness does not take permission from us to enter into our life, they just enters and make our moment beautiful. Sometime towards a complete stranger also we share our happiness with our eyes, with a small smile and few beautiful words like thank you and good day. Some small things are more beautiful when we exchange it, small is so easy to exchange; negligence that enrich its value.



When I left my home for higher study my goal was to get degree and job, which is the big thing. Today I got what I wished and working for the new wishes that I will achieve one day. But when I went back to those days the things that make me smile in a lonely evening is those small things. Small fight with tutor of the hostel, interesting story of our senior, evening walk with friends, and pulling lacks of dear ones, those joke and those fun mixed up with little adrenaline. Those small moments makes my life more beautiful. “Friend in need is friend indeed”, how true the statement is but many people don’t understand the real meaning. It may be because of the negligence; negligence due to small. All those small moments are not sweet in test, some bitter and spicy moments make the life more beautiful. It is like small amount of salt and chilli enhances the taste of curry. The memory of those small moments of friendship is the most important moment in life and that makes our life wonderful.

Few small and meaningful word of my teacher and respectable people makes my life meaningful, those small moment spent inside library and those small books I read and those small moment spent inside the classroom make this life more interesting. The small mistake in my Hindi brings small happiness to my friends and colleagues, and their happiness is my memory, a memory that will bring smile on my face when I am alone.
Fear of exam, excitement of result, an unknown feeling when we wear new dress, increases in heartbeat rate because of some wonderful reasons, beautiful eye contact and those small words. These are the small things that make our big dream meaningful. So many small things I want to share, many are just to feel, unable to share. I know you are also feeling those small things and happiness created by it........

Good day..

From my unexpected job profile...

Life is full of unexpected things, and in every unexpected happening there is some expectation hidden inside. These hidden expectations once realised people started learning more. At last he realised most of the part of learning is realisation. Realisation of what he knows already. Common sense is so uncommon in common life.

One guy did MBA with not expectation of what he is doing now. Does it hurt him? It did but vanishes when he found the expectations inside the unexpected happening. Every coin has both head and tail likewise every job has both positive and negative. Sharing positive increases positive and reduces negative. The greatest art is converting negative into positive. Convincing self is tougher than convincing a customer. Learning is the best tool for convincing self. Realising the learning is the result of self convincing. Realising is an art, the art of telling what I have learnt. This art is a continuous process where many dots have to connect. I am working like a teacher that I have never expected. Oh! The word “teacher” the most respected one, but most pain to me because it is not what I have expected. But there is something that people cannot see, the challenges that look easy but most difficult.

Being a teacher is not teaching, it is learning indeed. In a class thirty students learn from one teacher, but the teacher learns from 30 teachers. Every student teaches something, they collectively teach many things.

A class room with thirty students means thirty different people with different levels of understanding. The biggest challenge is defining what actually I am teaching. Is the Logistics or Supply chain management? Or is it teaching how to learn Logistics or Supply Chain Management? Why should they learn? Being a teacher, is it my responsibility to answer the question why should they learn? I do not have the answer but for making them understand what I am teaching, growing the interest of the subject inside them is necessary.
There are some attribute to be possess for being a student manager, I prefer to use student manager, since I am not yet a teacher.

The first quality to be possessed for being a student manager is ignorance. Like unlearning is harder than learning, ignorance is sometime very difficult. The most difficult is to identify what to ignore and what not to.

Second attribute is forgiveness, forgiving someone is really tough job. And students do many mistakes, knowingly and unknowingly, since mistake is a part of student. Ignorance may make it easy.

Third is balancing ego. Every day is a test; every class is an examination hall where many examiners are there to judge my performance. Their body language tells how I am performing. That makes me happy, that makes me sad too. All the examiners are not alike, some are too bad, that hurts ego. How to handle it is an art, most important skill to possess. Ego sometime hurts the most and wounded person is a weak person.

Fourth is empathy, without that I cannot understand them. A tool to understand for giving best is empathy.

The fifth is, loving my job. Loving my job make me feel good, a good mind is a happy mind. Happy mind is a productive mind, since happy is unconditional; the unconditional mind work in right brain that put my work into my day dreams. That let me visualize, visualization is a mental practice. And practice make perfect.

Learning is easy; expressing what I have learnt is difficult. Easy things forget soon, difficult things are difficult to forget. What I have expressed is just a small part of what I have learnt. Since tomorrow is there, I will come again to express more.

Everything changes with time, the meaning of lesson I am learning today will also change. But still let me realise that change.

A journey...

I was kind of reserve guy, did not roam much. My current job’s profile is contrast to what I was to be. Travelling is a necessary part of my job profile. Even though there are both pros and cons for travelling, I started loving it. Difficulty, once it become familiar, vanishes.
Journeys are filled up with many exciting experiences, half of it covers with day dreams. The most painful situation is when train was late by 12 hours. Whom to blame? Cursing on faith is what we do. And at last convert it into smile and share with friends. One benefit out of 12 hour late is, at least we have a story to tell to our friends. Looking outside the window and dueling with dreams is what I often do while travelling. Apart from it, looking the small world existing inside the train is also a wonderful thing to see and enjoy. The loud sound of “chai and coffee” makes the place lively. If a newly born baby travel in Indian train, the first word comes out from his mouth would be “chai lelo chai”, not mama and papa.

Every place has its own uniqueness. Uniqueness is nature’s law. What to do? We have to live in uniqueness. Uniqueness is the only thing that is not unique. Our wondering mind starts roaming very fast, thousands of new pictures captured. Many got erased and many saved. With lots of question and predicted answers, life goes on. New place become old place. New stories create and old stories kept in memory folder. And I keep travelling to new places and new situations.

Even though the purpose of the journey is to reach the defined destination, real meaning of travelling lies in the journey. There is fear due to newness, worry because of unknown. It is natural, it is okay to fear, and it is okay to worry because happiness lies next to fear and worry. I know where I am going but I do not know where exactly my destination lies. Auto driver can only assist me; it is I who has to decide where I am going exactly. World is so big, too many confusions, every road looks alike. My trust towards Indian railway, bus driver and auto driver helps me to reach my destination. Every journey consists of both pains and happiness. The importance is, in what I give more emphasis, happiness or pains. I feel pain when I start thinking of more about obstacles rather than the beauties of journey. Problem in journey never ends and we find more if we start searching it. What we get is what we searched. When train is late by 12 hours we were still calm with the hope that we will reach definitely. What would happen if we knew we cannot reach our destination? The belief and trust we possess make us calm, that is where our patience work and build our self confidence.
Journey of life is not much different from travelling to new places.

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A simple thought!!!

I can’t sit idle, idleness is not my profession. Life is like bicycle, the day I stop moving life will take rest forever. The question is where I am moving and where I want to go. Everything changes with time, so is it right thing to predict my future? I am born unknown, how can I identify where I am strong at. But the place where I have interest I would be good at that. People run behind the opportunity, some got through hard work and some through the ladder kept by his parent’s hard work. The only difference is the opportunity and environment where they born. The most difficult question is how can I analyse my SWOT?
There are thousands of youth who are in career dilemma, especially those who completed MBA. Desires of the people cannot be fulfilled, it can be controlled but. The lack of determination shows the confidence level. Why did I choose marketing, is it because I thought I would get better salary? So money was the reason for taking that decision but am I happy with the decision I had taken. I am interested with human science, the behaviour related subjects, and even though my core subject is marketing I know more about human resource. There is something inside us who is more knowledgeable than us, I mean no superstitious word, what I mean is the unconscious mind we possess that is more intelligent than us. We are living in an incomplete world, the complete information we cannot possess. Our foundation is made on beliefs that was implant on us when we born to this world, we are like a computer who has little more freedom than the man made computer. This incomplete information we posses forced us to take decision, take the either way but not both.
The most difficult thing in life is to take right decision. And the second most difficult is to change wrong decision to right one. How we take decision? How some people are very good in taking right decision? What are the characteristics they posses? What kind of behaviour they posses and what an all supporting factor they got?
They are visionary people. They do not fear from the surrounding. They are committed to what they want. They are open minded but cannot change their mind so easily, means they are difficult people. Their confidence level is so high that big storms of life cannot shake their foundation. They are not behind short term pleasure they work for tomorrow and they are self motivated people who dare to change the game if they are found to be in wrong place. They do not live in fear and they are highly internal locus of control. They believe in themselves. Most importantly they were not considered as good decision maker until they reached their goal.