Education

Education improves my social status, understandling of life improves the personal status.

By understanding of life we educate ourselves. our reaction to situation comes down and we start responding to the situations which yeilds in better results.

Larger than Life

Career has become larger than life. To be precise, the age period between 22 – 30 has become extremely important and is the deciding factor for the next course of life. We all put our best efforts to see that we give our best and tries to achieve what has been set a milestones or goals. May be on the personal front or may be on the professional front. If it is not balanced with the proper perspective of the life the whole act becomes unbalanced and stressful.

The key is to try to put life in proper perspective by understanding the basis of all the things happening around/within us and trying to understand the reasons behind it. Once we start doing to this act then automatically our perspective starts increasing about the life. This helps to decide how importance should be given an event or situation.

Today what’s happening is we are trying to understand life through a window which has small opening hole called as career or professional world. But this should have been vice versa. The symptoms of this are sooner we get bored with the life and start looking for change.

Let’s take an example, in the age period of 16 – 22, we have goal’s to get proper education so as to get job and earn money to become financially independent. By the time we start understanding the professional world, we start running for growth and for stability in personal life. By end of this process we must have crossed age 27 – 30. And then the life goes on in paying bills and insurances etc. higher the bill amount higher would be the satisfaction of growth and success.

During this process if someone understands what he wants to do in life then it’s ok otherwise most of the time we try to give meaning to the experience’s we get and create our own impression about life and proceed. This is called as seeking life’s perspective through day to day working, career growth etc.

During the initial period, if we put enough efforts to get understand the past events and meaning of their life & simultaneously figured out the understand the philosophy of life, then the day to day activities will have different meaning which will lead to different life. This act will teach us to evaluate our own actions and how much importance to be given for each.

For example, if you are earning 10 lacks Rs per month but working for 15 hrs & later on you learnt that whatever efforts you put you will get only 6 lacks then how much effort you will put in? Is it worth?

Suppose we you learn that there is better of leaving and still achieve and enjoy the same status as of today then is it worth relooking?

The difference is whether we are looking towards life from day to day activities or our day to day are derived from proper meaning of life.

Proper prospective of life increases the Efficiency during work.

We see what we want to see

Normally we see what we want to see, depending upon our interest or stakes in the subject.
Our thinking is very much flexible and is always guided by the inner wish or our interest. There are very few people who have the art of getting into the details of the subject irrespective of their interest. Those who have nurtured this art are always ahead of time.

In a group discussion if we are interested in the subject then we will evaluate all the possibilities from all angles. We will listen to all points and understand the others point of view. Example, if we are not interested in the buying the house then we hear or see only those things which support ‘reasons for not buying this house’. We may not even look at the opportunities that may turn up later. And if we are interested then we may look for all the reasons for why it should be bought.

This fact is worth examining because if we understood this then the frustration levels will come down drastically (if any). The point is that our focus or our attention is deeply governed by the inner wish or where our interest lies through perception. It may works sometime but, most of the time this habit will stop us looking into the reality as is and secondly we may not look into the opportunities we may have in front of us. This also reflects in our day to day life and day to day discussions we do.

Other way of putting this is that we perceive things (based on our interest & understanding) and then try to give them a meaning. If this perception is close to reality then we will see the reality as it is and the results of our action would be better. In this case the chances of mistakes are less. But when the influence of perception on reality is very high, the information flow is diluted and things turn out in wrong direction.

First things are to validate above statement with experience.
· Try and observe the way our discussion progress. If the same point is being discussed for more the required time,
· Then check whether influence of your perception on the reality. If you find reality is different than correct it for yourself.
· If No, then try to understand the perception of the other person and help me to clear it.

Boundaries of our world are our thoughts.

If we ask ourselves what is our world? It would be bit confusing question to answer. There is one phrase, "In which world you are living?" This suggests that our world is limited or expanded by our thoughts.

Try the following,
At the end of the day try to memorize what were the thoughts throughout the day. Do not include thoughts related to office or technical or pure project related work, Try to avoid them as far as possible.

You can recollect what topic you have discussed with your friends or colleagues, about whom you have discussed. It can be complaining or crying about the situation or it can be encouraging discussion on the budget or economy or picture or how somebody is fool in office, friends, family problems etc.

While doing this process we will understand that majority of our spare time is getting engaged in these thoughts and our actions follow them.
If you do such activity and try to see for more number of days & weeks, you will find that a particular pattern will emerge.

From the pattern we can very well find out our how life is emerging.(other than work) And I am sure that if we have enough things in mind the pattern would turn out to be positive and energetic.

This is one of the simple ways to know about our world. Our world is nothing but the projection of our thoughts and this varies from person to person.
When the work and inner inspiration matches, then there is positive resonance and 24 x 7 one would find the thoughts related to the vision and that person never ever gets tired or gets bore in life, because he expands his thoughts to all the possible directions in this world to get needed information. It becomes his own world, his vision.
The idea of this exercise to make us realize do we have any such world which is very near and dear one to ourselves and would preserve and expand it for life long.

Objective & Purpose

Incidentally yesterday one of my friends forwarded this to me and the above insight flashed to me that this is what we are doing through this blog, trying to reach close to our inner voice

"What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development." - Joseph M. Dodge

One of belief which I carry is that the people who are very close to their inner voice or intuition, always found the purpose in life & which is larger than life. Few people are fortunate, that their job and life purpose matches & they prosper.

How to identify the purpose? – Initially we can start with concentrating on all those activities in which we lose the sense of Time, space & cause. We get so involved in such activities that we lose for how long we are working, where we are working and so on. Validation this with you own previous experience.
The observer and observed becomes one.

Guiding Principles – Part III, Cause & Effect

Last two sessions we have seen the guiding principles at global level. Now let’s bring them to personal level.
Any action or physical appearance is the outermost form for our belief system or assumption. This means guiding principle are the CAUSE and our actions or thoughts are EFFECTs. Similarly our belief/assumptions are the CAUSE and our actions are EFFECTS.

Basic assumption – guiding principles or belief system is the last cause of any Effect. Eg -Tree is the effect and seed is the cause. Seed can be called as last cause of the EFFECT. If stone is thrown in air, it will fall down. Gravitational force is CAUSE and falling down action is EFFECT.
Let’s see how from global principle we can come to personal level.

Write down all the belief systems or assumption. For example write down, I believe in ……………………..
· Believe in God
· In the quote that “everything is fair in love and war”.
· Life is Game
· Believe in Love marriage
· Not believe in non violence
· Etc etc
We can write down ‘n’ number of such assumptions and belief systems. And eventually you will find that our decisions are governed by these belief systems.

Now second step is to analyze how we behave relatively or take decisions relatively in different situation. The above are one level below our conscious and impact our day to day life decisions and opinions. These systems work perfectly ok with normal situation, but in critical or but if the belief systems are based on the illusion then in difficult situations they fumble down.

These beliefs and assumptions actually operate and govern our life. If we analyze our decisions taken in the critical situation, then we can understand that our decisions or behavior was based on this of assumptions and beliefs.

Please think on the belief systems and start thinking of CAUSE and EFFECT. Once we have learned and understood this mechanism then we can find answers for the questions related to performance, why it happens only with me, & will also help to get directions from our life.

Guiding Principles – Part – II ( Example Tree)

To clarify further the importance of internal parameters let’s take an example of Tree. Any Tree can be classified as below

·Trunk- the main stem of a tree
·Branches- any woody extension growing from the trunk of a tree

·Leaves - any of the flat, think expanded organs, usually green, growing laterally from the stem or twig of a plant
Represents strength /foundation of internal parameters
·Root-the part of the plant below the ground; it holds the plant in position; it draws nourishment and water from the soil and stores food

Trunk, Branches & leaves deals with external factors and Roots deals with the internal parameters. A root develops strength and gives direction to trunk, branches & leaves to deal with external factors. E.g. the trunk is getting bend due to heavy wind, then its better to strengthen it from inside rather giving protection from outside.

For better understanding we can divide ourselves in two parts
· Parts which deals with external factors - 5 sense organs, qualification, understanding of situation
· Second is, parts which deals with internal parameters – mind, mechanism which produces thoughts, intuition, belief system etc.

We have to work on the parameter which holds us in right position and draws nourishment like “Roots”. The internal wisdom helps us to march in right direction with right attitude.

If we become aware of this fact and start working on it consciously then it will lead to,
· Better results in our day to day activities
· Should take us closer to our inner voice, our Intuition
· We will be operating very close to our CG point; hence the mental fluctuations will be very less.
· Right attitude towards work life balance.


To be Contd………….