You have great Potential!

You have great Potential!

If you are interested in creating great things in your work or life, please focus on the things which are explained below...

I'm not telling some imaginary stories or fictions, presenting facts. Here is the awards link which I have received for my contributions in Corporate! [Click to see: My Awards] All my awards are unexpected, because I have not done things to get awards. I have done as I was experiencing joy by doing it. [No force, No Passion, just a Joy!]

Every individual is born with great potential and possibilities. Due to bad surroundings, environment, and people. Either you are demotivated or wrongly motivated.

Many a times you need someone to tell you, about your capacity, about your potential. Later you attempt and get success. If you are self-motivated and believe in yourself? You can create wonders. Let me explain these 4 real time stories:

Story 1: Magic of thinking big

This is taken from Preface of book: The Magic of thinking Big, written by David Schwartz. He motivated me to read the 360 pages book after reading this story..

Several years ago, I witnessed an exceptionally impressive sales meeting. The vice president in charge of marketing for this company was tremendously excited. He wanted to drive home a point. He had with him on the platform the leading representative in the organization, a very ordinary-looking fellow, who earned in the year just ended just a little under $60,000. The earnings of other representatives averaged $12,000.

The executive challenged the group. Here is what he said: I want you to take a good look at Harry. Look at him! Now, what's Harry got that the rest of you haven't? Harry earned five times the average, but is Harry five times smarter? No, not according to our personnel tests. I checked. They show he’s about average in that department.

And did Harry work five times harder than you fellows? No-not according to the reports. In fact, he took more time off than most of you.

Did Harry have a better territory? Again, I've got to say no. The accounts averaged about the same. Did Harry have more education? Better health? Again, no. Harry is about as average as an average guy could be except for one thing.

The difference between Harry and the rest of you, said the vice president, "the difference is that Harry thought five times bigger."

Then the executive proceeded to show that success is determined not so much by the size of one's brain as it is by the size of one’s thinking. That is Magic of Thinking Big!

Story 2: 480 test cases executed in a day

In the year 2010/11, I was working as Sr. QA Engineer. My manager assigned some tasks by sharing one Excel file with Test Cases. I examined and started executing test cases written in that excel. It was a task to certify travel insurance application with and without airlines bookings. Using the Mainframe terminal, I need to execute them and after the execution, I need to collect the output of each test case and save it in the same excel as a proof.

After receiving that task, I decided to complete that on the same day, having known that it takes more than 8 hours’ time.

I rarely stretch my work hours or I complete my tasks within 8 hours. Since work was more on that day, I stretched 20 to 30 minutes extra and skipped one of my tea breaks. Completed 480 test cases execution in a day, sent an updated excel report to my manager. Next day morning, my manager came to my desk and she was in shock. She asked me how you completed that? It was estimated to complete in 4 to 5 days. I told her, as I decided to complete it in a day, so I did it.

Normal Estimation for that task: 4 to 5 days, which was designed and defined by French colleagues. [counterparts] Initial days there (French colleagues) 8 hours estimation, I used to take 12 to 14 hours to complete. Later days, I broke their estimation with my potential. Their 8 hours task, I used to complete in 4 to 6 hours. 

Sometimes work and estimations doesn’t matter, what we decide, that matters!

Story 3: Delivery of Automation Project.

This happened in one of my previous office. I was performing a QA Management role. There was a complaint from the past 6 to 7 months on an Automation project which was not delivered. My director explained to me about the project, its criticality and resource issues. When I joined that organization, I was occupied in understanding products, teams and client. Weekdays I didn't get time to look into the automation project. 

One weekend I spent time developing an automation framework (Using Java, Selenium, Maven) and automated 8 test cases of one product and demoed to the team. Given initial days mentoring, it helped my team on their automation problems. We were able to deliver automation of API (2 projects) and GUI (5 small projects) within 4 months. No change in team, no new automation resource, just my dream and determination, it made me see those results and delivery. Off-course my team's tremendous cooperation, efforts and dedication helped in that success. 

By demonstrating that, we won one more project from the same client. Trust me it was not that easy [First time we are experimenting GUI, API integration with Allure reports, Jenkins Email compatibility and so on]. I made my team to understand their potential and capabilities. They proved it!

Story 4: 500 sit-ups within an hour

During my college days, in the hostel, I did 500 sit-ups. It was a challenge with friends and I successfully completed by giving a few minutes gap for every 100 sit-ups. [in-fact I was having 1-week calf and muscle pain in later days] Now I can correlate Mohammad Ali sit-ups which are explained in Arnold's video. Stop having plan B. Stop doubting yourself, it's dangerous. From plan B you are cutting yourself from the success.  Reference Video: Arnold Schwarzenegger This Speech Broke The Internet AND Most Inspiring Speech- It Changed My Life. 

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In the year 2017, I visited Himalayas. I completed the trucking summit of 15,700 feet above sea level. My friend who invited me is a professional trekker asked me to practice and get ready for the summit. Before 15 days of the Trek, I started 1-hour walking practice, in Girinagar Swami Vivekananda park, Bengaluru. My friend was laughing, we are going for such a big event, you are practicing in a small park. He told me it's not enough for the summit. I told him, that is more than enough, I know my inner potential.

I'm not a professional trekker, that was my first trek experience.

Finally, we started climbing the Himalayas, it was more difficult than what I imagined, but I decided to complete it. I did it. (Detailed story I will explain in my future blog, it is very interesting and mysterious). One of our professional trekkers was disqualified before the last day of the summit, but I did it.  Click to see my Trek Summit Certificate

Remember, your thoughts have great powers, use them consciously and correctly to experience your real potential!

My Himalayas Trek Photos Link: Roopkund Photos  and Videos Link: Roopkund Video and Patar Nachauni

Hindu Sanskrit scripts says: "Aham Brahmasmi" This is one of the main Mahavakyas from Upanishads. It translates to 'I am Brahma' or 'I am divine'. Like God you can also create mysteries. 

Unfortunately, most of humans have not experienced their full potential. Here's what Swami Vivekananda says about human potential:

Never say, 'No', never say, 'I cannot', for you are infinite. Even time and space are  nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty.

If you look back on your own achievements, there are so many mysteries you witnessed in your life. You might have considered them as coincident or luck. Remember, nothing is coincident in this universe, everything is a perfectly designed incident. To understand these facts, increase your awareness and enhance your consciousness.

Nowadays people are busy in their own personal interests. So, don't wait for someone to motivate you. Take in charge of yourself, drive your life, win your dreams. You have great potential!

Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)

• Kannada Blogger

Thank you to all the readers and supporters of my earlier blogs, I love your comments and consider them with great respect, and continue to give my best.

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Author Disclaimer:

I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being.   

Power of GOAL

Power of GOAL

Unfortunately many people live life with no specific goals, whereas some people have goals but not specific. Let's see what is advantages of having specific goal?

Assume you are a skilled shooter and have bow and arrow in your hands. I will ask you to shoot. Where you will shoot? You can't shoot as I have not given any target/goal. Similarly having skills wouldn't help you, unless you have specific goal or targets set.

Goal without specification looks like this, you have bow and arrow and you are shooting at East side. What is the use of shooting towards East side when there is no right target set?

Goal should be like this: In the forest, once tiger decided to catch one specific deer (in group the group of deer) and runs towards that, if on the way any other deer comes closer to it, it will just ignore and move towards the targeted one, it's ready  to run additional kilometers to catch the deer,  and never compromises from the target and its goal.

Here is one of the Harvard Business school research:

In 1979 Harvard asked one specific question to MBA students. "Have you clearly written goals of your future and prepared any plans to achieve them?"

Only 3% students had written goals and had plans. 13% students had goals but not written. Other 84% had not set any goals and they were very much interested to enjoy holidays after academics.

After 10 years in 1989, researchers surveyed the same students. 13% who had goals and not written on papers were doing ordinary jobs, and earning two times greater than 84%. Whereas 3% who had clearly written goals were earning 10 times greater than the 97%

Above research clearly explains that one should always have clear and specific goals, not only goals, they have to write down them on a paper.

Let me give my own example, I decided to get a job in 2 months. I marked the end date in calendar and started looking at it and working towards it. I got the job before reaching end date or deadline. It’s not my only story, all of you look back and see, in your life; most of the achievements you have achieved when you set specific goal and target dates to it.

Why my goals is not becoming a reality?

Answer is you might be having goals, those goals may not be clear or specific, and you have not written on paper or you have doubt on your set goal or you are not working towards to achieve them.

Remember, one should have believable goals. You can't have a goal which you yourself can't believe in it. Example: I want to become a Prime Minister or President of the country. It's impossible because you set that goal but your core inner feelings says that it's not possible by you. Having these unbelievable goals and not having any goals are almost same.

Steps to set goals and achieve:

1. Have possible, believable and achievable goals.
2. Once you set goals, start doing research to achieving them, prepare plan, analyze about goal requirements and acquire skill set for that and work on those areas.
3. Once your goal requirements are clear, start working on them. Assume if your goal requires 10 different things you need to be master on, prioritize 10 things and work on one at a time. If one of requirement is too big? Break them into pieces and apply divide and conquer rule.
4. Identify and eliminate what negative actions or thought are blocking you to achieve your goal.
5. Stop blaming others, take all the responsibilities on your shoulders.
6. Forgive all the people who disturbed you in the past, invest the same energy towards your goals.
7. Believe that there is a solution for every problem and assume nothing stops you to achieve your goal.
8. Have good relationships with every member of your family and work environments.
9. Assume you have no limitations and have infinite energy to achieve your goals.
10. Set goals with target dates. For bigger goals, split and set the target dates and deadlines to achieve them.
11. Measure your goal and it's achievement like sports score board by tracking with percentage of accomplishment.
12. Have courage and believe that you have all capabilities to achieve your goal.
13. Question yourself who is preventing or what is preventing your goal achievement, find the preventing reasons and work towards to fix them.
14. Make learning is a habit, daily invest some dedicated time to learn on your subjects.
15. Set time to train, set time to perform and achieve your goals.
16. Practice reputedly and perform brilliantly.

[Reference Book: Goals. By-Brian Tracy]

Power of achieving goal using power of subconscious mind:

Education, Experience and Eligibility does not matter, only GOAL matters! If you want to achieve something, set believable goal and write down on the paper, and work towards it.

Each of us have about 60,000 thoughts on an average day. By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important that the remaining 59,999 other ones. Your mind will then start to seek out all opportunities to realize your destiny like a guided missile. It is really a very scientific process. Most of us are simply not aware of it. [Reference Book: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. By Robin S. Sharma]

Universe has everything, one who achieved is the one who have GOALS. In your city, check your neighbors or strangers whoever is settled in 30X40 house had GOALS of having 30X40 house, and who settled in 60X40 house had goals of having 60X40 house, similarly villas, and mansions and so on.

Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)

• Kannada Blogger

Kereya neeranu Kerege chelli

Author Disclaimer:

I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being.