Achievers Secret

Achievers Secret

All are having only 24 hours of time in a day, why some are getting success and others are not?

There is a thin line difference in time investment and looking things. If you understand that, you will be part of the achievers group. Please read this article till the end to know the secret of it.

Since childhood we have known one thing that is; hard work brings success. It's not true, only work will not bring success. There are other factors involved.

To cook one curry! You need vegetables. You can't call vegetables itself as a curry. It requires spices, grains, chilly, coriander, curry leaves, salt, water, fire and so on. Now consider hard work in place of vegetables, salt in place of time management, self-discipline in place of chilly, water in place of communication, curry leaves in place of innovation, and spices in place of fire and so on.

If you cook curry without salt or chilly or any one main ingredient, it may not be 100%. It will satisfy your hunger and may not be delicious or healthy or complete. Similarly doing your work alone wouldn't bring success to you. Curry without curry leaves may not give that fragrance or attraction. To get success in any field, he/she must be an all-rounder.

You may have feelings like; I'm poor in communication or other things, but I'm very good at working. Is that enough to get success? No, you must work on the areas to improve where you are weak at.

Sachin Tendulkar served decades in cricket not because he is a best batsman. He served as a bowler, fielder, captain, and many roles. In fact, he brought victory to Indian cricket team by his best bowling and fielding’s also. You may say I'm not a Sachin Tendulkar, he is lucky. Remember, luck will never come and help you, it comes after your victory.

How will your problems help you?

Let me give my own examples. In my childhood I was a very shy person and used to be afraid to speak with others and strangers. Now I'm giving motivational sessions to the masses. During my studies I was very weak in computer programming language and used to mug up programs. Now I am able to build framework and suggest solutions or algorithms to the software products.

After my studies, I was struggling to get the job in software industry. Now I'm helping 100s of students to get job in IT/Corporate industry. I was suffering from frequent health issues like, ulcers, throat infection, cough and so on, now I am became health coach, helping many and cured chronic illnesses. I started business and failed heavily, now I'm doing business mentor job. I got many personal and professional issues in my life, now I become a life coach.

Why I have mentioned those many things about me, just to let you know, once upon a time; I was poor/weak in many areas. Now I have become a master in those areas. Reason: instead of thinking about my problems, I focused only on solutions and considered every problem as an opportunity and learning experience.

All my weaknesses or problems helped me to grow bigger and wiser. Every problem and disturbance made me put lots of efforts into learning and understanding more in that field. Now, my attitude towards problems is different. I welcome them with red carpet and with full heart, those are the only options for us to enhance our capacity, knowledge, and strength in our life.

How to become a master on one subject?

You have great potential to acquire any new skill or knowledge, this requires your planned efforts. Here is what Swami Vivekananda said about it:  Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is a way to success. 

If you are following the above guidelines as suggested; you can be a master on the subject which you want to be.

How to invest time in a meaningful way?

Above is the pictorial representation of the Circle of control and Circle of concerns. Choice is yours, in choosing which circle to ignore. If you invest a few hours every day in watching TV and other things which are in the outer circle, it directly affects your inner circle development.  So, invest most of your time on the inner circle than the outer circle. Circle of concerns are not in your control, if you spend thinking or speaking 3 to 4 hours every day about “Circle of concerns” it simply wastes your time. If you invest the same 3 to 4 hours on “Circle of control” it takes you to the next level in your chosen field.

What is self-ignorance? In my opinion it is ignoring the  inner circle and thinking or investing time on the outer circle. Be conscious of your time investment.

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.   

Easy ways to Get Success in corporate!

Easy ways to Get Success in corporate!

Success in corporate! It’s easier than you imagine. Trust me and please read this till the end to get hints and clarity on it.

Every field and sector has lots of competitions. Compared to other sectors, corporate is very easy to get success. In other sectors 90% people are in race, remaining 10% are just out of race. Here in corporate 90% people are out of race, only 10% are in race.

Let me explain how: in cricket 90% of all the players try extra mile, extra innovations, extra effort to get selected or to get success. competition in cricket is very difficult. Whereas in corporate 90% of the people are doing only their given job. Only 10% of people do something beyond their job (doing extra). If you consider this %, only one or two people in your team can give some competition in the race. Remaining are not in the race. In corporate, you don't need to run, just a brisk walk itself makes a difference.

Corporate Success Laws:

1. EGO: Delete your EGO, you are here to help the organisation to make more profit. Don't bring your personal interests. (Example: you are skilled at one paid tool, but using a free tool brings revenue to your organization, just go for it. Nokia is the best example, it stayed with symbian OS or Microsoft by not moving to Android)

2. Dress Code: Follow the office dress code. You may feel casual wear gives you a better look. But organizations don't care about our personal interests and is interested  about its image across the other organisations and clients.

3. Emails: Write every email, as if it gets reviewed by your company CEO, no casual or friendly emails. You never know at what time, which of your emails get referenced to clients or higher management due to the project needs.

4. Hair Style: Yes, it matters. Archimedes and Einstein looks are good for architect or scientists kind, because they pay less or no attention to their looks. But in corporate except scientists, others are expected to be in professional haircut and styles.(Ref: Hair style matters)

5. Time Management: Be on time and punctual, it requires no extra effort, it’s just a time management skill. This will save organisations money. Assume: Team meeting gets delayed by 3 minutes because of  you, as you are running late. 10 of your teammates have to wait, you are wasting 30 minutes of the organization time, time is money in corporate.

6. No Favourites: Have no friends or relationships when you are at work. Because this kills your personal reputation and organisation's discipline. This creates an entry point to gossip and internal politics.

7. Be Transparent: Be totally unbiased when hiring new talents, don't bring: cast, religion, colour, gender, or anything. Organisation trusted you and provided a hiring opportunity. Consider all the quality parameters before recommending anyone.

8. Help all: If your team or other teams approach you for help, just jump in and help them in the most respectful way. It's an opportunity for you to create value to the organisation and you never know when you will need help from them.

9. Respect all: Respect every individual the way you respect and treat the billionaire or wise. It indirectly increases your respect and visibility in the organisation. Never discriminate people by their years of experience, gender, skills and position. Everyone is a very important asset to the organisation.

10. Self-discipline and self-control:  Self-discipline helps to improve your organizing and prioritising skills. Self-control is a great asset; it's based on your emotional intelligence. If you are master in dealing with your emotions, you are good at dealing with others. Humans are emotional creatures, dealing with them is nothing but dealing with their emotions.

11. Be Honest: if you want to build trust with your teams and clients, try being honest. 

12. Learn to accept mistakes: accepting your mistakes requires courage and self-confidence. By accepting mistake, you increase your trust level. It also shows how transparent you are.

13. Learn to say NO:  Never over commit and under deliver, it’s always good to under commit and over deliver. Learn to say NO and have right reasons to justify your NO.

14. Appreciate and Thanks: Today all are busy in getting appreciation, but no one is appreciating others. Find a reason to appreciate someone for something and never forget to say thanks.

My Salary Hike:

Don't ask for a salary hike and promotion, organisation should recognise and give. Why? Let me give my own example.

When I was working in my first organisation, after 2.5 years. My manager called me for a one-on-one meeting. He told me he is going to promote me as lead. I rejected his offer. And said no Sir lead role requires a lot of patience and management skills. By giving my manager (Prabhakar Chigateri, he is my role model) example, I want to be like him to take that role. He did not agreed! He said; No you are already doing a lead role, by observing that only I'm offering this to you. He gave me 3 days’ time to come back and tell my opinion. After 3 days again I denied his offer. He forced me as; how many years you wanted to do what you are doing right now? It's a time for you to move forward and take up the responsibilities and don’t worry I'm with you, accept and move on. I finally agreed.

I don't know how many people do this self-evaluation, before taking roles and responsibilities. I witnessed many are getting a lot of stress and tension to get promotion in their job.

You don't believe, in my career only once I asked for a salary hike in our appraisal meeting. My manager (Prabhakar Chigateri) asked me why are you asking this. I told him, during the weekend meeting with my friends, I got to know; we need to ask and fight for hike in appraisal meeting. (Yes, it was a very transparent answer by me) My manager told me, Vishnu don't get influenced by your friends and others. Be true to yourself. I understood what he meant, till today I never asked for any hikes in any of the appraisal meetings.

Even at the time of recession also, I received a 30% hike in the same organisation. How? As I said, in corporate you don't need to run, just a brisk walk brings you a victory. Because there is no race.

I don't think Sundar Pichai is fighting with his manager to get hike and promotions. Don't demand hikes and promotions, your deliverables and skills should command them.

My Job Promotion:

Only once I suggested myself for promotion with my manager (one of the previous offices) in a very polite way, as I was doing some management role, that was about to get delivered from the 2-level senior designated people than me. To justify my role, I requested that. In a day I got recommended for the promotion and I got promoted as well. But I felt very bad about it. As I said, one should not demand for promotion, their work should command it.

Flowers look beautiful when they bloom on its own. It will look ugly if you forcibly tear and make it blossom. Fruit is tasty when it ripe naturally. If you put chemicals you make them ripe early, it will not be that tasteful and healthy.

Story from Katha Upanishad: Nachiketa (young boy) answers Yama, as Yama offers some money and Wealth to Nachiketa as an exchange to compromise. Nachiketa says to Yama: One is supposed to get, what he is supposed to get in his life. If one earns undeserved money or wealth, it will not stay with him. If one not earned due to injustice or politics or any other reasons? No need to worry, he will surely get them, in one or other way. If you understand Katha Upanishad story, you don't need to worry about your earnings or losses.

It’s very important, one must follow office policies and guidelines:

My office policy guides me to wear collar neck T-shirt. One day I was with round neck T-shirt my HR head pointed that (just kidding way), I was feeling guilt. Never repeated that again. My office suggested to use one email signature, but I like different signature. I just threw out my personal interests and started following the suggested one. You may question, why we need to follow all the offices suggestions or policies? I'm doing my work perfectly; I don't follow other things. This is absolutely against the corporate culture. You never know, your organization is respected and recognised based on their set standard, by denying them you are disrespecting your organization and spoiling organization’s reputation.

How important is it? Assume, one of your most important festival or ritual you have not followed dress code as per culture (ex: your marriage you go with half plants). How the entire community is going to treat you. Same way one should bow down to the office policies or procedures. No corporate ever introduced impossible things in policies.

Again, following all these policies are easy, fact is 90% of them are ignored. Following these itself you make a difference, no extra effort needed. Here you don't need even a brisk walk, just a walk itself makes a difference.

How to treat office work?

Treat your office work, the way you treat your personal work. Assume you need to get passport, they ask your ID proof, photo and so on. If you don't have all those, you go to the places where you get them and act to obtain all required documents. If the photo studio is closed, you go to another one or another one till you get photo. Because it's needed for your passport. Similarly, when office work comes, simply don't throw it into others plate by saying it’s their job and so on. Sometimes it's your duty to follow up and get things delivered.

You may say as, I'm following all the rules and instructions very sincerely but success is to far for me. Remember, following all the examination rules will not get you pass results. You must create value to the organisation. Again, it's not based on how many hours you work, it based on how much value you create from your work.

Again, you may say, I'm 100% disciplined, punctual, hardworking, value creation person. Unfortunately, due to office politics and favouritism, people like me will never get any growth. Here is a solution: Negative thinking and Negative vibrations will push you down. It's a metaphysical fact, [some call as law of attraction] our thoughts are very powerful tools. If you use them to destroy yourself, they will destroy you. Being ambitious and thinking positively will create different frequencies and vibration's in you, they will take you to the success path. Stop complaining and learn to improve your required skills.

If you are blaming or in the company of blaming people, you have no possibility of getting any success or growth. How management supports the people who are throwing negative comments and a lot of disrespect to their own organization. Stop gossiping and keep distance from gossiping people.

By following all the above, still if you are not achieving success in the corporate. Just chill! Real success in life is, one should live a peaceful and joyful life. Examine the life of teachers, doctors, and daily labourer's; most of them are serving only one job and one designation till they get retirement. They are doing wonderful service in their given job. That itself is a success, have no desperation towards success in job, that will lead you to depression and chronic health issues. Being ambitious is not wrong. Make sure you are just celebrating every moment in life.

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.   

Screwup the honest

Screwup the honest

Is being honesty good or bad? Many in corporate tell its bad. One of my friend I recently met asked me with a little confusion – Vishnu being honest is good? I was not surprised by the question, because so called dishonest people will quote works of Chanakya to justify dishonesty and it is more viral in internet. It goes like this: A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. (I’m not sure, if it’s really said by Chanakya and why and in which context).

If the above stupid statement is true why to follow Kosha, Shiva Purana, Bhagavata, Bhagavad Gita, Tripiṭaka, Agam Sutras, Guru Granth Sahib, Bible, Tao Te Ching, Quran, and other religious books and teachings which addresses the subject of integrity and honesty.

Unfortunately, every dishonest, cunning, and unethical person are misusing the above Chanakya quote to justify themselves.

Most of the people fail to remember as to, why till today Jesus is treated with great respect? He being truthful was never worried of being nailed and went on to forgive those who troubled him.

What makes Gandhi a Mahatma? if he followed that stupid so called Chanakya statement, there is no possibility that, we have Gandhi and Freedom to India.

Some people renamed “fraud” as being diplomatic, every fraudulent thing they are justifying as, its diplomatic.

Of course, Everyone is honest with their own definition. One says stealing 100 is fine, you should not steal 1 million, another person who is stealing 1 million says as; stealing 1 billion is not good.

Similarly, one will say; one rape or one murder is fine. Hundred or thousand are not good.

What are the reasons for immoral and dishonest behaviour in the society?

Now people are running behind the money and materials, they are least bothered about values and ethics. Reason for all these are; fear, worry, jealous, too much of selfishness and so on.

The deeper desire of money and position is slowly eliminating honesty and morality from the humanity.

Now there is a need to bring back the honest and moral values, else the human beings will become wild or like animals, as Swami Vivekananda said: The secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice, Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God.

I just remember of my grandfather's age, if you ask someone to take care of your product or property, they were doing it like the owners, in those days giving word to someone was more than a bond agreement. Now if you request? someone to take care of property/product, he may himself call the thief and get percentage or commission on it and forget about words. These days agreements are also re-created and violated.

In my early days there was some specific time to broadcast crime stories (in TV), now every 30 min either in breaking news or in scroll text, they are showing many scams, crimes and stealing.

How to bring back those golden days of morality and honesty in Humanity:

There are few areas we need to focus on:

1. Govt sector: In all the government sectors, recognition of honest and moral should be showcased, every ministry of state and central government should have practice of recognizing bureaucrats and general public. Every heads of Govt office should initiate honest recognition program by identifying honest people and rewarding them in occasions and gatherings.

2. Corporate sector: every corporate should introduce some surveys or events to identify and recognize the honest and moral people, they should give some benefits to the honest, to encourage other employees.

3. Education sector: every school and colleges need to introduce more successful moral stories in their academics and teach benefits of being moral.

4. Home: Home is a first school, its parent’s responsibility to teach kids about: morals, values, good cultures, service and sacrifices, as APJ Abdul Kalam said: Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

5. Media: media should stop projecting criminals as hero’s or leaders, instead they should go beyond money and TRP; they should bring all moral and honest people into the limelight.

As per my opinion Implementation of morality and honesty makes difference between human and animal, else both look similar.

Identify, Recognize, Respect, Reward and Award the people with integrity and honesty, else your own children or grandchildren will eat, what you are sowing today.

Dharmo Rakshathi Rakshitaha - it means that following a righteous path will save your life.

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.