What a Wonderful world!

Hey there,

Ever heard rod stewart while it was raining out there, and you see a couple just trying to walk under one umbrella. Or as the trademark song from stewart goes, seen the babies cry and wondering if you learnt more than them.

Just every once in a while, one feels so positive about being alive and looking at the beautiful world around us. And then you start thinking about all the less fortunate and more courageous people who live on this planet, without all those amazing abilities many of us normal people are gifted with.

And I tell myself, why cant this be motivation enough for me to go out there and try what I want to do in my life. Why should I only be bothered about my CV not being shortlisted for some company, why didn't some person not respond to a genuine attempt to make conversation, why should I have to take care of drains getting blocked.

Hmm. . when you consider all these daily issues, you wonder how life could be beautiful, right! But I guess it comes in a package. Most of the days are more of running assets than storable possessions. As cliched as it may sound, like sand on the beach - the more you try to hold it, it runs out. So the right attitude is to fix your focus, because that really is the only thing you can keep consistent. Even your personality traits change with time. To some extent one could argue, even one's own beliefs and values.

The other alternative is to fix what you enjoy. Identify what makes you happy, and make sure that it is not dependent on anybody or anything, but your own perception of it. I think my biggest challenge is to remain cheerful and excited about life. While I work at it most of the times, pressures to achieve somethings seem to take my mind off it. Life in all its complexity, is simple. It simply a pursuit of happiness, happiness from new and old things and from people, you love and respect.

so much for today,

cheers,
satish.

P.S.: Wonder if I was born for something - or as my best friend says it, whats my calling!

Celebrating the festival of colours in Singapore 

All in a Day

Hi there,

Just want to write to put together some semblance of stability to the day. Besides having lost the concept of a home, I just seem to be conveniently losing the idea of finishing tasks through the day. You know sometimes, how you just wonder how the world floats by around you, while you just seem to be a spectator, chained in your own thoughts.

I think to some leve, I was struggling today with physical exhaustion. And yet again, when I give it a second thought, it just seems the exhaustion was mental. Probably trying to build too many chess games with too many scenarios. And since the opponents of the many games (most are non-existent) dont make their moves in tandem, you just keep wondering and waiting.

Anyways, am glad could atleast finish the one thing I wanted to today. Was pretty much a challenge to finish the mid-term case in corporate strategy, further worsened by the innumerous irrelevant pieces of information of the case itself. Just wondering that in real life, you would get cases and probably be dying to have information - and then thorough analysis might not even be possible.

Just so tired now, that just want to get of the school right now. Go home, pick up my unfinished Jeffrey Archer, and doze off reading it :) Hmm. . would have liked to cook some food, but alas, the kitchen at my current apartment is pathetic.

Which reminds me that, I felt really good yesterday after a very long time. Had some home cooked food with some homely people. And whats more, the lunch was by invitation, so added tremendous value to the food part itself. Sometimes, start believing if the way to a man's heart is through his stomach ;-) I surely got to be kidding myself. It is not the case - I can vouch for it from experience.

Will keep it so much for now.

40 days to graduation!

Satish

Leadership & Potential

Hi there,

Just want to put down my thoughts on these brilliant and abused words. Probably inspired from the close brush I had with them over the last couple of weeks.

Leadership to me is a thrilling experrience. One that puts a person in the role capable of changing the world, or atleast changing the context and rules for those around. But leadership is also a talent generated from two abilities:
1. The ability to take people into confidence.
2. The conviction to do something in a certain way.
And the above represent 2 sides of the coin, one relating the talent to the situation and environment, and the other, relating to the person's innate ability to generate faith and conviction in a goal or target. The latter arises as much from motivation as intellectual rigour.

Leadership Potential or potential for leadership though is not necessarily a reflection of only leadership. It also takes into account a certain frame of mind that an individual carries and the hunger for success and the fire in the stomach to achieve greater things. I think leadership potential is an attitude that the individual has and should be measured by opportunities seized and created by the individual, for herself and others.

For the uninformed, I was nominated for the leadership award at the business school by fellow students, and certainly was thrilled to be there. Didnt win the award, but what its worth, I still am fully excited about things that need to be done.

Cheers,
Satish