#MissionInspire1Million

When you purchased your new LCD TV, you dumped the old loyal one without a moment’s hesitation. Didn’t you? The TV can take consolation from the fact that your mobile phone, laptop and GPS system had met with the same fate. All these “Once valued and wonderful” equipment were shown the garbage chute not because they stopped working. They got overthrown simply because something sleeker and better suddenly appeared on the horizon. Before you feel that I am beginning to sound like a techno geek, let me throw the million dollar question at you. When will you be replaced by a better informed, better skilled new kid on the block?
I learned that companies in US are now trying rehiring. Resumes are solicited for well filled positions and candidates are interviewed. The so called 10 year experienced person (10 years experience or 1 years experience multiplied 10 times; god only knows) would be watching his prospective replacers strutting in and out of the recruiters office. Once terms and conditions are fixed, the experienced associate is asked either to upscale his skills or downscale his package to match the services extended by the newer and better substitute waiting in the wings, pen in hand to sign the contract. Most of the time, the humbled, humiliated and much wiser older associate complies, and gets rehired….
If you don’t want this to happen to you, start acting now. Open your eyes and look around. When was the last time that you read a book, attended a seminar or Training or got a certification? Brainstorm and come out with a KASH up gradation policy that will improve your CASH reserves. The former being (Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and Habits); and the latter… well you know.
It is said that knowledge doubles every 2 years. So you are getting obsolete at a rate of 50% per year, if you are not upgrading yourself. So get this straight…. When you stop learning, you stop growing and the only way to learn more is to earn more

1: Discover the purpose of your life
2: See that outrageous dream
3: Convert your dream into SMART Goals
4: Visualise your success as many times as possible
5: Share your dream with everybody
6: Act out your moment of success with dialogue and actions
7: Improve your strengths and address your AFI’s
8: Schedule tasks and do them every day
9: Build up a good network of friends
10: ASK, ASK, ASK for all the support you need
11: Dont give up till you fail 1000 times
12: Help others succeed

As horrifying news about a communal riot was droning away on TV, a bewildered 9 year old asked his dad, “What is the difference between a religious man and a communal man ?”. The wise professor was always ready for questions, and his answers provided answers to many other questions that his son never had at that point of time.
“You are religious if you believe in god, pray, observe rites and do good”, said dad. Now that’s nice, the son thought. Such people wouldn’t go around killing others with Trishuls and Bombs. “So who are the communal ones “, the son persisted. “If you do three things in a particular way, then you are communal”, said dad. He went on to explain – “One- If you choose your friends solely on the basis of religion. Two- If you make financial decisions solely on the basis of religion. Three- If you make political decisions solely on the basis of religion”. The son didn’t understand the last two. Judging from his arched eyebrows, the professor continued. “When we want to buy gold for your mom, do we insist on going only to ******** gold or do we go to *** Alu**** or Bhi***?”, dad enquired. “We have gone to all three”, the son confirmed. Now that’s it, said dad. So we are not communal, are we?. “During the last elections, did we decide to vote for that young fiery politician, because his surname sounded like yours or was it because his promises indeed sounded promising?”, asked dad. “The Latter”, the son agreed.
Thus he learned the difference. His close friend was Ganesh, He purchased groceries from Rakettan’s shop and his dad voted for that weird looking man in the last election. Thank god, we aren’t communal… the son mused and proceeded to complete his afternoon prayer. And he prayed for all the little ones orphaned by the rioters… regardless of what their names were.

A Proffessor’s palm gets chopped off. It is indeed the worst of times. Ever since prophet muhammed (PBUH) started his revolutionary mission, he has had a string of insults and physical attacks hurled at him. I beleive that a similar situation exists now. Watching TV, Getting on Twitter and making potshots at the prophet seem to be the in things now. But does this call for the hand to be chopped off?. If we are following the prophet as a leader and a mentor and trying to do what he did and would have done….those daggers would never have been unsheathed. So the sword slingers were definetely following another map. Period. When the brain gets washed, the laundered RAS (reticular activation system) accepts and beleives only that which it things must be beleived. No wonder some young guns are seeing clarion calls for violence even in the holy quran and the prophets life.
While I am crystal clear about my stand as of day, my mind goes on auto rewind at times. Isnt there a clash of values here ?. Freedom of speech is paramount- I learned this as an adult. But I was told by my grandmom at the age of three that I must not hurt the feelings of others. So have these adults forgotten their grandmothers?. Now thats shameful. Value 1: You can say anything you want. Value 2: Dont hurt sentiments of others. can we choose to exercise value 1 on sundays and thursdays and value 2 on the rest of the days. Or can we choose to have a Value cocktail every day?

A British MP declines to meet veiled women. Covering of the face is not acceptable, he says. Can someone refuse to meet a nun or the pope by saying that covering of the head is not acceptable. Where does the head end and the face begin and where lies the contour of acceptability?- There it goes again- The clash of Values.