MOP 3: Appreciation is to people what water is to flowers. Pour it on and watch them grow.

I have this amazing desk calendar that just seems to know what i need to every week. It motivates, advises, punishes, and more than anything else - teaches!.
The title of this post is what it was for this week. (02/02)

In difficult times like these when there is overall pressure in organizations and people - what really keeps everyone going are optimism, confidence, a strong sense of duty, passion. And for someone who has the responsibility to motivate a group - this is good advice!

This is the time for digital

Are the advertising gurus listening? Interesting video by Sir David Ogilvy.

Resource for Social Media Marketers

If you are a social media marketer, you need to read Groundswell and also look at the resources available online. Click for the Groundswell site

Brilliant piece of online marketing involving the brand ambassador

Check LetsGetGoing.in.
A great way Compaq has leveraged its brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan.

MOP 2: Steady state is of happiness!

Worldspace has a channel called Art of Living. It features devotional songs and regular discourses by Sri Sri Ravishankar.

Here are a few of his views that I feel should be part of a Mind opener post!

1) You don't need to try hard to be happy. You only try to be sad. Our natural state is of happiness. Look at children - they are always happy. Look at babies - you dont need to teach them to be happy. They are happy even looking at their own fingers. Frankly - we as a race seem to be working hard to be sad!

2) Enlightenment is a personal experience. Like pain. You can never explain it to others. Seek it for your own self.

MOP 1: On Children

I had an opportunity to run a session for students at Inventure Academy, a new school in Bangalore whch follows an education system based on Multiple Intelligences.

I chanced upon these words by Khalil Gibran on children.

These do make an impact on the minds of parents. Specially those like me who constantly try to do their best in doing the right things. There is no right, or wrong way. We do things based on our experiences - with our parents, and what we hear around us.

Parents will definitely enjoy this.


On Children. By Khalil Gibran.

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Mind Opener Posts

Every experience we have in life teaches us something. It dawns on you when you think about it. I would assume the challenge is to try and learn all that we can from experiences around us. So i thought of writing down experiences that i could single out. Calling them "Mind Opener Posts", thats what they are!

And somehow, the experience comes with answers that you are desperately seeking, much like clues being given by nature!

Cheers