Staying Positive

At one time, I was a very avid blogger, I probably got into a hole where I wanted to write, but wasnt in the mood to pen down and there has been a lot of gap. But one thing I have learnt is that it has got me great friends, it has got my friendships strengthened, it has opened up new avenues etc.

Now these days, I am very much bogged with whats happening within my office. There has been small, medium, large issues with each teams. One of our friends used to say that - what your power is determined by how many number of issues you can face head on in your daily life and still continue to go ahead. Life hasnt been great these days with so much tension - all of course related to business - with competitor being very aggressive and trying to eat into our business ( this is the pain of being small - that you cannot counter the biggies aggressiveness every step of the way), taken by surprise by these attacks, recruitment pressure, operations pressure - Oh life is so sweeeet...................... isnt.

But all this is teaching me the value of remaining positive - if you are positive, nothing shakes you for long, you get back to your form very quickly, think of what steps to take. I am pretty sure that I wont lose my business however much the other party tries. I am a very firm believer in the Supreme Power - the love of God for me is so great that HE is taking care of my every step with infinite gentleness, protecting me from pitfalls, making me grow, and also have Peace within myself. At my core,I am calm. What more do I need.

Isn't this what The Secret teaches you - isn't it what Law of Attraction is all about. I want to shout from the top of the hill that It is for you to Ask and there you get it (whatever it may be). So make sure to ask the right things.

The final take is " Believe in Yourself and Be Positive all the time - Only Good things will happen to you.

ewit monthly program

Here is an invite for the next program for ewit(empowering women in IT). What a wonderful topic it is.

eWIT invites you to a networking event!
Date: 30th September 2009
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue: Benz Park Hotel
No. 62, Thirumalaipillai Road, T. Nagar
Chennai,
Chennai - 600017
Get Directions 044 28159999
Topic : ‘Making Relationships
Work'

More About The Topic
Have you cried at work
because your boss was unhappy with your work?
Do you feel that your co-workers are hostile towards you?
Do you feel respected at work?
Are your ideas heard at work place?
Do you find that your relationship at home
is weakening because you spend a lot of time at work?
Do you find it difficult to distinguish and identify when a 'professional relationship' at work
starts and when it gets 'personal'?

Making Relationships work. Women are extremely good at people skills, especially understanding/empathising with others and even counselling. Yet, they run into various problems and are not able to leverage their people skills at the workplace. Men often see them as emotional, weak decision makers etc. Handling relationships at home poses challenges for career women. In this context, what challenges do junior and middle level women face in their career? How can they make relationships work to their advantage?

eWIT has planned its next networking event with a guest speaker who is an expert in addressing the above issues and much more.

Program
4:00 - 4:30 - Tea
4:30 - 6:00 -
Speech

by Dr. Vijay Nagaswami on ‘ Making
Relationships work'
5:30-6:00 - Q&A

Women and Men from junior and middle
levels of
management are welcome

For More Information / Confirmation
Please call
or email
admin@ewit.co.in

No.
6, Kalakshetra
Avenue,
2nd
Street, Tiruvanmiyur,
Chennai
- 600 041, INDIA. Ph
- 42964029website : www.ewit.co.in

Secularism

The other day when reading the news paper about the Chidambaram Temple and its administrative takeover by HR & CE department - I thought about what secularism means.

On searching the google - I found this explanation in wiki

Secularism is the concept that government or other entities should exist separately from religion and/or religious beliefs.
In one sense, secularism may assert the right to be free from religious rule and teachings, and freedom from the government imposition of religion upon the people, within a state that is neutral on matters of belief, and gives no state privileges or subsidies to religions. In another sense, it refers to the view that human activities and decisions, especially political ones, should be based on evidence and fact unbiased by religious influence. In its most prominent form, secularism is critical of religious orthodoxy and asserts that religion impedes human progress because of its focus on superstition and dogma rather than on reason & scientific. Secularism draws its intellectual roots from Greek and Roman philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius and Epicurus, Enlightenment thinkers like Denis Diderot, Voltaire, John Locke, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine, and modern freethinkers, agnostics and atheists such as Bertrand Russell and Robert Ingersoll.

The following questions rose in me immediately:

1. Each person has his or own reasons to believe or non believe in anything - who are these people who can say that my beliefs are based on superstition. If I believe what my parents told me about my culture and its practices, these people believe from their experiences. What gives them the right to say a practice is a Superstition.
2. Atheists always ask - Can you prove the existence of God. My question to them can you disprove that there is no God.

coming to the opening lines of my post,

1. Is there any country in which a majority who believe in God's existence is ruled by a person who is an agnostic.
2. In our state, we celebrate Telugu new Year, Malayalam new year, but Tamil new year which was always the start of the first month of the Tamil calender is no more the Tamil new year start, but is based on Thirvvalluvar calender. Where else will this be passed as a law expect in our state.
3. The HR & CE takes over some of the temples stating that the administration is not proper and the temple's assets are misused. - Taking this to be a true statement - does that mean that all other temples which are privately maintained are proper in their administration or even go to the extent that the those temples that are maintained by HR & CE are perfect examples of administration.
4. In our village there are 2 temples under this department care - we as villagers provide for the upkeep of the temples - what does this department do -apart from officiating
5. Why should they take over only cash rich temples
6. Why only Hindu temples are taken over by the government - why not the other religious community places of worship

Though I am a Hindu, I have faith in all religions as I believe that God is one and can be called by any name, but such acts by Government makes me upset.

According to me Secularism should be treating all religions whether it has major following or minor following, but I am getting a sense that saying we are secular, we are over protective of the minority religion.

Would love to hear all your comments

ITSME AGM & meeting Invite

Austerity drive by our Government

so much has been talked about the economy class travel by flight, train etc by our politicians. - But my question is what is there to talk about at all. When there are other issues that are more critical for the country, you and me - why should this take all the limelight.

If these people are going by Economy class, it is good and need of the hour and that's that. Why create a publicity out of it. Is the intention for these people to travel by economy class to reduce cost or to invoke publicity. If it is the first one, then why should they let it be known to the press/public and get portrayed as martyrs " sacrificing personal comfort" for the sake of the country.

It is the media that needs to be blamed. If they leave all such small things from getting so much media attention and take up critical issues - they can focus on say a particular locality in the country and talk about what is good that is happening and what is not happening, etc, and ask people to comment on how to improve, something good will come out rather than asking people to cast votes about whether the politicians should travel by economy or first class. Privately if you ask me, with all the publicity that is being given to these people travelling by economy, it is a pain for the other travellers who are forced into further security checks, etc.

I dream of an India, where the local MLA, MP, Minister, Chief Minister, Prime Minister, Governor travels in a car without the flashing lights for whom the traffic is not regulated and nobody is bothered about these people at all.

Looking forward to the day my dream will become a reality.

Workshop on Profitability through Innovation & Creativity

My rotary club, Rotary Club of Chennai thiruvanmiyur is organizing a one day workshop on

"Profitability through Innovation & Creativity" on 25th September Friday at The Accord Metropolitan TNagar Chennai. This workshop is being done by Dr Rekha Shetty, the Corporate Director, who is the MD of Farstar Distribution Network, a unique consultancy company devoted exclusively to innovation and creativity under the brand name Mindpower. She has an Ph.D from Madras University on the subject of Innovation.

This seminar is for the Line Managers and HR managers who are holding responsible positions with deliverable in strategic initiatives to create an innovative culture conducive to talent growth.

the workshop aims

• Demystify innovation & creativity
• at breaking through the barrier to innovation and creativity
• convert ideas into profit
• find new business opportunities & stimulating ideas from employees
• Make it happen - Maximise the chances of success
• Sustain innovation in the organization

For further details, please contact President, Rtn P S Rajkumar, rotary club of Chennai Thiruvanmiyur, at rajkumar@yahoo.com

See you all there at the Seminar

Schools for coaching...

I promised myself that I would write about America and my impressions while on travel, but probably, I am getting old and travel schedules are catching up with me that I couldn't honour my promise.

Here I am in India, got bogged down with routines and trying to cope up with the day to day work...

Anyway breaking free of the shackles, I am back to this blog write up. I wanted to share the funny coaching schools that have sprung up in US, atleast one in particular, about which I read about in Newspaper. There is this school which is for the first timers - guess what... The first timers to the jail and lock up. Nowadays with the white collar crimes increasing this school teaches or takes the enrolled students through - what is jail, what to expect out of it, how to be prepared for the hard life, the dos and donts, etc.

As soon as I saw this newspaper article, I burst out laughing forgetting for a moment that I was in the airlines lounge with other passengers nearby. Look where the world has come. Not only that the school was boasting that there were a lot of sign ups for the classes.

Looking away from the tragic situation, I realised how somebody had an entrepreneurial and innovative thinking to start something which is the need of the hour. How smart isn't. Forget about what this school is all about, look at somebody working at solving someone else pain point. Isn't this what all business are about.

With this question, I am signing off this post.