A thing of beauty is joy forever
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
preparations for new project and me
i have been assigned the task of visiting the client's place and study the systems over there. i don't have prior knowledge in this area. my experiences in the previous organisations is limited to accounting, rather than these kind of exercise.
the way, my organisation is preparing me is not so impressive. i feel people who are dealing with the client is not having a structured migration progress. the way situation is being handled is haphazard and is confusing me. even the way they are organising my travel arrangement...well...i have the least to mention about it.
my friend who is visiting UK this weekend...is not sure about the trip until the moment he steps on to the plane..
well...i m having my fingers crossed...let me see
anyways here is a site which is a sort of search engine..a big bandwith might be helpful to load this...
http://www.msdewey.com/
the way, my organisation is preparing me is not so impressive. i feel people who are dealing with the client is not having a structured migration progress. the way situation is being handled is haphazard and is confusing me. even the way they are organising my travel arrangement...well...i have the least to mention about it.
my friend who is visiting UK this weekend...is not sure about the trip until the moment he steps on to the plane..
well...i m having my fingers crossed...let me see
anyways here is a site which is a sort of search engine..a big bandwith might be helpful to load this...
http://www.msdewey.com/
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Dennis behind me...
My son is more willing to do the job for me than allowing me to do it myself. he is interested in moving the mouse around and typing the letters for me. when he was in the womb i prayed that he should be like the comic character Dennis the menace...and my prayer was answered. even now he is shaking the mouse and pulling out the cd-rom. now when i shout at him...he kind of shows fingers and sticks at me threatening me to dire consequences. frankly i have to learn from this kid...he has lots up his sleeves. the magic he spuns around the neighbours...the charms he exhibits on the strangers...the smile which will cool the sun...and a lot. he comes out of any kind of situation..thats my son...the creativity or working knowledge he exhibits with little knowledge. he surely knows my weakness....
Monday, October 16, 2006
Break or laziness
well, it was long, long time since I have visited this site to post my musings. matter was that there was no musings all thru' these day, since there was lot of changes happening in my professional sphere. going ahead, i expect some paradigm shift inside me. days are fast approaching for me to prove a point or two to myself. my work culture now involves lot of discipline and the ability to grasp things as fast as possible...with this knowledge i m approaching with greater vigour...i wish myself 'best of luck'
well, the above was not the reason for lapse in posts...it was due to laziness...talking about discipline...
well, the above was not the reason for lapse in posts...it was due to laziness...talking about discipline...
Saturday, October 07, 2006
I try...no I will
Everyday i try to be new, stronger person,
everyday i try to battle it out...
everyday i believe the struggles
i m going thru' is worth the effort...
everymorning when i open my eyes..
i expect the positive rays of sun will
wash away the negative of yesterday..
everyday i try to control the pain..
i will not let it control me..
as it did a few months back...
i am in control...i am in total control..
and i will not allow anybody into my inner sanctum..
b'coz i know they will leave one day and also
it's a place no body can handle..
i will keep trying to win the impossible odds against me.
i will... i must...
Thursday, October 05, 2006
favourite quotes...
This is my take on favourites quotes...condensed from another site with my won inputs....
01. Love. —The Prophets
Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha. All the world's religious saints and prophets hold love as a central value, the glue that anchors the universe.
We hear, "Love makes the world go round," and "Love heals all wounds." These are familiar themes: love of friends, ideas, and self. Love of God and of country. Even love of life itself. If I could only have one word for all eternity, love would be my choice.
2. Know thyself. —Socrates
In career development, self-knowledge is everything. In a career, you can be two or three degrees off course and walk into a wall, instead of through a doorway. You don't have to be far off to have it fail.
Career unhappiness often results from lack of focus, and lack of focus stems from limited self-knowledge. But self-knowledge takes time, introspection, and effort. So it's easy to avoid. I am quit bad at it.
3. Inches make champions. —Vince Lombardi
Making that extra move that other’s failed to do….that makes a lot of difference. I have my own experience of instance wherein I had given up and a last thought asked me to travel an extra inch to achieve the unachievable.
4. Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost
Now CAREER = CHANGE. You'll have five careers in a lifetime, maybe six. Perhaps you'll do part-time, project, interim, or consulting work. And even if you're in your ideal dream job today, that might change tomorrow. Nothing gold can stay. Change is constant thing with our life. In these era….good things come in small packages.
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY — by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
5. Work is love made visible. —Kahlil Gibran
About 80% of people are unhappy at work, and 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one's gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We call that "being in the right place," "finding a good fit," or "making the best use of one's talents."
High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It's not that we shouldn't seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we're doing. That's the realization of our highest calling.
6. No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus (A.D.200)
We live in a McDonald's culture. We want everything instantly and without effort. And we bristle when others around us appear to be getting more, sooner. Waiting for rewards or results is out of favor. It is so uncool.
The sudden ‘puliotharai’ or ‘briyani’ is not equal to the laboriously prepared ones by my mother. They are adequate, functional, or practical improvements. Greatness requires thought and time, effort and sacrifice. Especially sacrifice.
Stellar careers aren't built overnight. Think about Edison, Einstein, or Galileo, or anyone else you might admire. None of them got there overnight.
Great careers are built upon hundreds of thousands of small efforts, undertaken daily, that eventually grow into a series of satisfying wins. An ad for Paul Masson Vineyards picturing a bottle of wine said, "Nothing good happens fast." I framed it, and hung it in my office.
7. Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin
This is a variation on "Actions speak louder than words" and on Shakespeare's superb quote, "Talkers are no good doers." An executive search consultant who recruited 500 bank presidents told me, "There are two kinds of candidates: tap dancers and superstars. Tap dancers go through the motions and superstars get the work done. I recruit the superstars."
8. No wind favors he who has no destined port. —Montaigne
The cliche, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there," is valid. And many careers are broken by lack of direction. Corporations define this concept as having a mission or vision, and organizations lacking vision usually flounder. "Career Planning" speaks to the idea of creating a blueprint for your future. That is, having a goal, a destined port—fulfilling your destiny. Stephen R. Covey said it well in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People when he advised us to "Begin with the end in mind."
9. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. —Seneca
I've been there. You've been there. Sometimes life is hard. You hit a career roadblock or dead end. Nothing seems to be working. You're fired or laid off. Or worse yet, you and your spouse are both unemployed. It happens. And it happens more frequently than you might imagine, to good people, qualified candidates, because of circumstances beyond their control. I like Churchill's words, "Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." And I especially like the quote by Edmund Burke, who said: "Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
10. Do first things first, and second things not at all.—Peter Drucker.
It's so easy to do what's familiar, comfortable, or fun. It's so difficult, sometimes, to tackle the highest priority. And sometimes it's difficult to even know your top priorities; hence, the phrase, "I can't see the forest for the trees."
We suffer from over-choice: 67 varieties of toothpaste, 487 styles of shoes, 186 brands of cell phones with 137 telephone companies. We demand more variety than we could possibly need or want; and as a result, we get lost in options, opportunities, and choices. There are 87 varieties of lawyers, and 75 specialties inside medicine. The world of work can be a confusing landscape.
When you're flooded with career possibilities, or "swimming up Niagara Falls," it's good to spend time answering questions like, "What is the best and highest use of my talents?" and, "How can I make a bigger impact?"
If you can't establish clear career priorities by yourself, use friends and business acquaintances as a sounding board. They will want to help. Ask them to help you determine your "first things" and "second things." Or seek an outside coach or advisor to help you focus. Because if you don't know what your "first things" are, you simply can't do them FIRST.
Your friend,
vinukv
01. Love. —The Prophets
Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha. All the world's religious saints and prophets hold love as a central value, the glue that anchors the universe.
We hear, "Love makes the world go round," and "Love heals all wounds." These are familiar themes: love of friends, ideas, and self. Love of God and of country. Even love of life itself. If I could only have one word for all eternity, love would be my choice.
2. Know thyself. —Socrates
In career development, self-knowledge is everything. In a career, you can be two or three degrees off course and walk into a wall, instead of through a doorway. You don't have to be far off to have it fail.
Career unhappiness often results from lack of focus, and lack of focus stems from limited self-knowledge. But self-knowledge takes time, introspection, and effort. So it's easy to avoid. I am quit bad at it.
3. Inches make champions. —Vince Lombardi
Making that extra move that other’s failed to do….that makes a lot of difference. I have my own experience of instance wherein I had given up and a last thought asked me to travel an extra inch to achieve the unachievable.
4. Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost
Now CAREER = CHANGE. You'll have five careers in a lifetime, maybe six. Perhaps you'll do part-time, project, interim, or consulting work. And even if you're in your ideal dream job today, that might change tomorrow. Nothing gold can stay. Change is constant thing with our life. In these era….good things come in small packages.
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY — by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
5. Work is love made visible. —Kahlil Gibran
About 80% of people are unhappy at work, and 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one's gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We call that "being in the right place," "finding a good fit," or "making the best use of one's talents."
High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It's not that we shouldn't seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we're doing. That's the realization of our highest calling.
6. No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus (A.D.200)
We live in a McDonald's culture. We want everything instantly and without effort. And we bristle when others around us appear to be getting more, sooner. Waiting for rewards or results is out of favor. It is so uncool.
The sudden ‘puliotharai’ or ‘briyani’ is not equal to the laboriously prepared ones by my mother. They are adequate, functional, or practical improvements. Greatness requires thought and time, effort and sacrifice. Especially sacrifice.
Stellar careers aren't built overnight. Think about Edison, Einstein, or Galileo, or anyone else you might admire. None of them got there overnight.
Great careers are built upon hundreds of thousands of small efforts, undertaken daily, that eventually grow into a series of satisfying wins. An ad for Paul Masson Vineyards picturing a bottle of wine said, "Nothing good happens fast." I framed it, and hung it in my office.
7. Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin
This is a variation on "Actions speak louder than words" and on Shakespeare's superb quote, "Talkers are no good doers." An executive search consultant who recruited 500 bank presidents told me, "There are two kinds of candidates: tap dancers and superstars. Tap dancers go through the motions and superstars get the work done. I recruit the superstars."
8. No wind favors he who has no destined port. —Montaigne
The cliche, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there," is valid. And many careers are broken by lack of direction. Corporations define this concept as having a mission or vision, and organizations lacking vision usually flounder. "Career Planning" speaks to the idea of creating a blueprint for your future. That is, having a goal, a destined port—fulfilling your destiny. Stephen R. Covey said it well in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People when he advised us to "Begin with the end in mind."
9. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. —Seneca
I've been there. You've been there. Sometimes life is hard. You hit a career roadblock or dead end. Nothing seems to be working. You're fired or laid off. Or worse yet, you and your spouse are both unemployed. It happens. And it happens more frequently than you might imagine, to good people, qualified candidates, because of circumstances beyond their control. I like Churchill's words, "Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." And I especially like the quote by Edmund Burke, who said: "Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
10. Do first things first, and second things not at all.—Peter Drucker.
It's so easy to do what's familiar, comfortable, or fun. It's so difficult, sometimes, to tackle the highest priority. And sometimes it's difficult to even know your top priorities; hence, the phrase, "I can't see the forest for the trees."
We suffer from over-choice: 67 varieties of toothpaste, 487 styles of shoes, 186 brands of cell phones with 137 telephone companies. We demand more variety than we could possibly need or want; and as a result, we get lost in options, opportunities, and choices. There are 87 varieties of lawyers, and 75 specialties inside medicine. The world of work can be a confusing landscape.
When you're flooded with career possibilities, or "swimming up Niagara Falls," it's good to spend time answering questions like, "What is the best and highest use of my talents?" and, "How can I make a bigger impact?"
If you can't establish clear career priorities by yourself, use friends and business acquaintances as a sounding board. They will want to help. Ask them to help you determine your "first things" and "second things." Or seek an outside coach or advisor to help you focus. Because if you don't know what your "first things" are, you simply can't do them FIRST.
Your friend,
vinukv
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