Reactivate Yourself

                      It Gets Going                         With ‘‘Me’’                                                                                   Photo Credit-lovepanky.com  Suppose I am asked in an interview to deliver a picture perfect 15 minutes presentation about ‘ME’? I will presume that I am an expert on ‘ME’ and start with my name, qualifications, job experience etc. But if I am stopped and told instead to give full accurate appreciation of ‘who am I’, ‘how I am’, and ‘how I am viewed by others’, I bet I will be anxious to begin with and may not be able to give a satisfactory presentation about ‘ME ’ and may fumble. Today having grown in age and professional maturity, I have realized  the significance and worth of defining and evaluating ‘SELF’ and being fully ‘SELF AWARE’. As it is said that, “The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self”. I bet most of us have never ever thought of Self-assessing themselves except may be little bit here and there when we may repea

                                                    Looking Beyond                                                              Our Nose                                                                       Photo Credit- Medium.com I grew as a self-seeking child and was always under the grueling eyes of my two younger sisters. I recall being too possessive of my late father and would always be around him.  This often created displeasure between us during our childhood. Once in college/university, my being self-possessive grew as I was somewhat popular since I was a Supreme Councilor of Delhi University Students Union for two years. Once a career professional, the possessiveness started declining because of professional hazards as I had to manage human resources as my functional responsibility. As a result, the façade of self-cantered behavior was the last thing employees would tolerate. My consort Rita often cautions me when I would keep talking quite a bit about me and my university

              Action  Vs.  Reaction                    My Take on the Quote  The need to feel higher to others is a major cause for some of us who try day in and day out to put our friends/colleagues/neighbors/ family down. As per Psychological studies, people who have such thinking patterns may feel rightly/wrongly superior and they try to assert their dominance. Unfortunately, they don’t comprehend and realize that they themselves may sooner or later undergo similar treatment whether in the organization/relationships or elsewhere. Well practically speaking, some people mistreat others for no reason or may be for fun sake, insecurity or even jealousy. There are times when some people like projecting their competitors /subordinates that they are not good enough and attempt to hit so hard that breaks concerned individuals and possibly tear them apart.  Looking at the above picture, I feel it is paradoxical when neither the person behind nor the one in front can escape falling down if ei

                                 Is It For Me?                           Positive Personal Impact                                                       Photo Credit-Vinicius Altava (Pexels) How often do we contemplate why some people have challenging and captivating persona? They go up, above and beyond their qualities out of nowhere to distinction and have speedy career steps forward. Some of them we spot delivering talks at the business schools, addressing professional conferences and industry meets and are often covered by the media. They are usually spotted sharing their success stories on the social media. Are these individuals just well-groomed than the rest? Or do they have a ‘Midas’ touch in their approach that we may not be familiar with? On the contrary the reason so many of us fails to generate satisfying inner and exterior self to find out how best to “connect the dots.” Regularly most of us at some point of time in our lives look at someone who seems to have an aura along

                What Comes Easy                                         VS                         Won’t Come Easy  Photo-Pexels-Pixabay I feel the following quote is a reminder to all those who look for shortcuts in life to achieve their family/professional goals. It is also an inspiration to all the have-nots who keep working hard for accomplishing their cherished aspirations. But often talk to their mind’s eye why existence in their case plays seek and hide. They often regret that living is never smooth as it is for those who stay in palatial houses and drive swanky cars. I do visualize the thoughts they undergo day in and day out as to “why the hell I am not lucky enough to shorten my wait, get rid of hurdles and hunger”. When on road to accomplishing objectives, we often feel is it really worth to endlessly wait to achieve the purpose?  From times immemorial most people continue to be hungry and keen for instant satisfaction and fulfilment if possible yesterday. Whether they d

                                         Social Comparison                      Thief of Contentment                                                 Creater-Lryna Bort(2012 Book.lardbucket.org) I recall as a child, I would always gaze at big bungalows, foreign made cars and teenagers wearing wrangler jeans, riding Jawa motorbikes. Once I along with my late father was walking through a posh locality. Finding me rotating my head around couple of times, he stopped and said “Bhushan why are you looking up to those palatial houses, look at the hutments. Otherwise you would fall in the pit”. Today I realize how true is that our life journey is good times…bad times…changing times. If we happen to spend some time observing mind-sets of a cross section of ‘have ones’, we would be amazed how in-spite of having all materialistic comforts yet most lack contentment. Their monkey mind always craves for more and more. Similarly take a look at some middle class families; they are habitually comparin