Passionate Thinking, Passionate Listening, And Passionate Doing

Passionate Thinking, Passionate Listening, And Passionate Doing

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill         

In all my seminars the first question that I ask is—how does change happen? By listening or by thinking or by doing? Most of the participants say by doing. Let us make one thing clear—just by taking actions or making efforts we cannot achieve the target. It will be like arocking chair. We will act but we will remain in the same place. If listening and thinking are not involved, then making all kinds of efforts will not
fetch any results. There are many people who think a lot but never take any action.

I have met many people in large cities who were aware of happenings of Russian and Chinese economies but were not aware of the basic needs of their own families. How does it help an individual and a country if this discussion has no impact on their decisions? Unless you keep on thinking, listening, and congruently taking actions, nothing will change. For shaping your destiny you have to think, listen, and act congruently. Many people spend years in thinking and do not take any actions. Even in the corporate world many companies waste a lot of time and money on meetings but they fail to translate their efforts into reality. In one of my seminars, a very senior executive came up to me and asked, “Can you get me a job where there will be some work to do rather than just attending meetings?” Such people really want to work rather than waste time in gossiping in the name of meeting.

 Now the question is, who will decide what is opportunity? My father used to say that every individual gets a chance at least once to show his strengths. An opportunity is a chance unless it is converted into luck by some kind of strategy. It never happens unless we start with massive action. At times we have to eliminate something to achieve and shape our destiny. Just look at this story:

Once upon a time a very famous king told a sculptor that he wanted to see how an idol was made from stone. The sculptor started cutting stone from all sides right in front of the king. After some time the king asked him why was he  destroying  the  stone? “I  had  asked  you  to  construct an idol and not to destroy the entire piece of stone”, he said. The sculptor replied politely, “Sir, I do not make idols. A beautiful idol is hidden inside this piece of stone. I just have to eliminate
the unwanted part of the stone and subsequently the idol will emerge.”

MEANING OF LIFE

MEANING OF LIFE

     

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human.Being living humanely is like. She is a person who understands, values, and develops her body, finding it
beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and finds ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of old that is
                                    still useful and discarding what is not.

Virginia Satir

He was travelling in his Mercedes Benz fromChandigarh to New Delhi. It was drizzling and there was a light wind blowing. The trees on both sides of the road seemed to be dancing with the wind. Just a day earlier this man had given a seminar for British Council in Taj Hotel, Chandigarh. While the car was moving, he started recalling the event in which everybody shook hands with him, considering themselves lucky and expressed their joy at meeting this man personally, whom they had only seen on television earlier. How can an average person, with a cost accounting degree, having no background in psychology make a successful mark on human psychology?

How can he make every participant walk on a burning bed of fire? How can a man, who ten years ago had no money to have food, to buy clothes, who was actually fighting for survival, now help the top companies to survive in tough times? For somebody who completed his education by borrowing money from his friends, no w to become a powerhouse for executives and CEOs of top business houses was a great achievement. Success does not entirely mean what I have done. This is not the benchmark of success.

Success means different things to different people, but everyone has a dream. Some follow their dreams strongly by working towards them and some just dream and don’t take any action. I always remember what the former President of India, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, had said, “Dreams are not which are seen in sleep, rather dreams are those which don’t allow you to sleep.” Life always gives you what you look for. There is a way to look at a dream and that is what exactly I teach in my seminars. I will share with you all the tools through which every individual can achieve his goals and can reach the zenith. To be a leader it is not necessary to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth. If an individual changes his understanding of the external world with the internal thought process, then success is bound to come. One has to have an attitude to bear the pain happily and counter the challenges of life at every stage.

Today, anyone in blue jeans can form a company. We have so many shining stars on the business horizon, e.g. Bill Gates, L. N. Mittal, and Sunil Mittal, to name a few. Cosmos has same impact on everyone. We need to understand the language of the cosmic world. Life always gives us what we desire. The day you think that you have not seen any beggar for a long time, the very next moment you will find a beggar around you. It is as if you asked the cosmic power to show you beggars. This is also known as reticular activity system. When you do an activity you find everyone is doing the same thing. Suppose you are constructing your house, you realise that many houses are being constructed at the same time. Cosmos does not discriminate whether you are from India, China, USA, Russia, or any other country or city.