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Has your greatest fear ever come true?
Once an unhappy young man
came to an old master and told he
had a very sad life and asked for
a solution.
The old Master instructed the
unhappy young man to put a
handful of salt in a glass of water
and then to drink it.
“How does it taste?” – The Master
asked.
“Terrible.” – spat the apprentice.
The Master chuckled and then
asked the young man to take
another handful of salt and put
it in the lake. The two walked
in silence to the nearby lake and
when the apprentice swirled his
handful of salt into the lake.
The old man said, “Now drink
from the lake.”
As the water dripped down the
young man’s chin, the Master
asked, “How does it taste?”
“Good!” – remarked the
apprentice.
“Do you taste the salt?” – asked
the Master.
“No.” – said the young man.
TheMastersatbesidethistroubled
young man, took his hands, and
said, “The pain of life is pure salt;
no more, no less. The amount
of pain in life remains the same,
exactly the same. But the amount
we taste the ‘pain’ depends on the
container we put it into. So when
you are in pain, the only thing you
can do is to enlarge your sense of
things.
Stop being a glass. Become a
lake.”
DECISION MAKING
M
ajority of us waste a
lot of time because of
indecision state. We
are not able to decide. Decide
means de-cide. Eliminating all
other options and sticking to one
is called decision. Whenever
we have options and we are
asked to choose one. It leads
to confusion and we are not
able to decide. Until we take
action we haven’t truly decided.
Whenever we take any decision
there is always a probability
that it can go wrong. There is
no error proof decision making
process which can ensure only
right decisions. If we had all the
information required to take any
decision then it will not be called
a decision. It will be a foregone
conclusion.
The biggest challenge we face in
decision making is how to filter
our emotions from logic. As you
must have also experienced that
majority of our decisions are
emotional decisions which are
later on justified with facts. I am
still to come up with any idea as
to how not to get emotional but
one thing I can tell you and that is
use some tools like Six Thinking
Hats, Paired Comparison Method
before taking a decision. These
tools help us to remain rational as
much as we can.
Stop Being a Glass, Become a Lake
Excerpts from Suresh Semwal’s Book -‘WOW In Life’

If you want to go east, don’t go west. - Ramakrishna
W
hy do we fill our home
with junk? Why do we
so passionately collect
stamps, watches, rare piece of art
and artifacts? We get so attached
to those collected things and
junks that we struggle a lot to part
with them.
The reason is endowment effect.
Richard Thaler did an interesting
experiment: he distributed coffee
mugs to half of the students and
told them they could either take
the mug home or sell it at a price
of their choice.
He asked the other half of the stu-
dents, how much they were will-
ing to pay for a coffee mug like
that. What Richard did here is, he
created a market where fifty per
cent students were buyer and the
other half were seller. Expectation
was at least fifty per cent of the
buyer group students would buy
those mugs. But it did not happen
that way, very few students were
willing to buy.
The reason is the average owner
of the mug was not ready to sell
the mug below $5.25 and the av-
erage buyer would not pay more
than $2.25 for a mug.
This explains our irrational at-
tachment to things where we tend
to overestimate the value of ev-
erything even if they are junk.
So ask yourself: are you attached
to some old but negative friends,
some disabling habits? Only be-
cause you are attached does not
mean that you operate from a
closed mind. Think rationally and
get rid of those. Think there must
be some better way. Simplify
your life.
Choices - Alisha JainWhy do we fill our home with junk? - Tapas Dasmohapatra
A disappointed salesman of Cold
drink company returns from his
Middle East assignment. A friend
asked, “Why weren’t you suc-
cessful with the Arabs?”
The salesman explained, “When
I got posted in the Middle East,
I was very confident that I will
make a good sales pitch as Cold
drink company is virtually un-
known there. But, I had a problem
I didn’t know how to speak Ara-
bic. So, I planned to convey the
message through 3 posters…
First poster, a man crawling
through the hot desert sand… to-
tally exhausted and panting.
Second, the man is drinking our
Cold drink and
Third, our man is now totally re-
freshed.
Then these posters were pasted all
over the place”
“That should have worked,” said
the friend.
The salesman replied, “Well, not
only did I not speak Arabic, I
also didn’t realize that Arabs read
from right to left…”
Disappointed salesman of Cold drink Company

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. - Ramakrishna
C
ommitment - Depth of
a character and Quality
of your commitment
are always mapped the way you
initiate and complete things...
May it be a conversation or a
task, it doesn’t matter how well
you started but it does matter
how well you concluded it! ...
“
It’s human to fail, but
never abandon your
commitment to conclude
well”! (By Paremvir)
A
quite look around us or
even inside within will
help to understand a
wonderful fact of life... why do
people loose their credibility??
The answer though very simple
but is rarely acknowledged
and it is one’s commitment!
W
e live in an
i n t e r d e p e n d e n t
world often called
as family, society, team or
that matter organization
wherein we are always
interconnected and supported
by each other in pursuit
of happiness and success!
T
his is world is also called
being in a relationship
and relationships come
with roles and responsibilities,
wherein like yours, everyone
else’s happiness is directly
linked to your timely actions or
support! This scenario brings
us to situations wherein we
promise things that we will
take care of... this promise
is commitment that we are
talking about... we can also
define commitment as a
positive energy / orientation /
focus leading to deployment
of available resources at
hand to accomplish a desired
objective / goal... as strong and
C
onsistent this positive
energy flow is so are the
possibilities of success
toachievethedesiredobjective.
To feel this point better let me
take you to those moment when
you were successful against
all odds, if you dive deep to
understand the reason it was
your commitment indeed!
N
ow how does it
demonstrate your
character, very simple!
people when they depend on
us for their success they are
always cautions and observant
as their happiness is also
at stake, thus if we display
poor commitment levels by
way of poor workmanship,
excuse orientation, flight
from the scene, low energy
or disinterested forced efforts
it actually and naturally
triggers a sense of desertion
in them and no living being
appreciates such behaviour
which lets them down.
M
ostly relationships
slowly die a
unfortunate end just
because of this one factor, thus
don’t commit if you are not
interested or ready as yet, don’t
start things just for the sake of
it, don’t pretend if you don’t
have it in you to complete !
Thebeautifulpartofthissubject
is people are ready to accept
happily a failure if you gave
your best committed efforts,
thus give it your best always!
{An Article contribution
from one of our readers
Mr. Paremvir Malik}
Quality of Commitment = Character - Paremvir Malik

We do not need ACTS but Action. - Narendra Modi
Life’s Lesson!!

Mind is never a problem, Mindset is. - Narendra Modi
CREATE YOUR S-E-L-F-Insight-Explore - Mahak Vaish
Oh yes!! Why to go back
even few years back, lets
follow the latest trend of the
era - A Selfie Era. One of the
most fun filled and enjoyable
acts everyone is following
these days. You smile - a
selfie smiles, you cry - a selfie
cries, you pout a selfie pouts
, giving you back something
for forever, exactly of what
you have given it for few
seconds. Have you ever
thought that if your mobile
allows you to take a selfie
of your soul, of your mind
or of your heart, would you
like to post it? Would you be
comfortable in showing the
real you to the world? May
be not. A selfie is no doubt a
real outer of you but not the
inner you. But yes everybody
have those lenses which can
capture the real ‘I’, you need
to make an insight of self to
explore you. I am sure that
there are so many things
inherit within you, which are
less focused but yes if given
a chance you can absolutely
do something about it. If you
really notice our most of the
time is consumed in thinking
what, how and why others do
this and that and we hardly
give a thought on what,
how and why are we doing
certain things. Do we have
any purpose or agenda of
doing the same? May be not.
Exploring self really helps
you to develop as a person,
to polish the workable areas
inside us. Criticizing of what
you don’t have can never
help however exploring
your insight can definitely
helps you in creating a kind
of person, what you want
to be and what you can
become. Make sure of one
thing – “The day you be fine
in sharing the selfie of your
soul to the world, you can
celebrate that day because
surely you must have created
something commendable
within you”.

As Long As I Live, So Long Do I Learn - Ramakrishna

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