Wayne Dyer says, ''Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.’’....
After my first article on employability, which gave me lot of encouragement from Sri K P Acharya and many of my friends and well wishers, I am now presenting you some ideas I have collected on my way to Motivate people.
I do regular Motivational workshops. In fact, I used a comparison in my latest workshop at Anjani Cements for their marketing team. I told them the story of SEETHANVESHANA in Ramayana where Hanuman and his team finds out that Seetha has been abducted by Ravana and taken to Lanka across the ocean in his Pushpaka Vimana. Though hanuman through a curse forgets his capability of flying across the ocean, Jambavantha mentors him and explains him his additional capacities of flying which Hanuman had not realised. I told the Anjani Cement marketing team that I am that Jambavantha, who has come to transform the Hanumans of Anjani Team to be the Mighty Anjaneyas.
There is a saying that when you fall, don’t see the place where you fell, instead see the place from where you slipped. Life is about correcting mistakes." Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere".
Ayn Rand says, ''The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.''
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Says, ''Even if you are a sweeper, sweep the floor so well, that angels passing by from above will stop for a while and say, wow, what a sweeper!!!''
Life is ten percent what you make it - and ninety percent how you take it!
This is explained by this small story-
‘’One day I hopped into a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean he was really friendly. So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!"
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call "The Law of the Garbage Truck." He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you.
Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the street. The bottom line is that successful people don't let garbage trucks take over their day.
Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, "Love the people who treat you right. Forgive the ones who don't."
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbour. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.
Are we going to take some time to think where we are up to?
This brings us to the point of philosophy and the profound truth of the almighty.
If God exists - Why so much pain and suffering?
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said, “I don’t believe that God exists.”
“Why do you say that,” asked the customer.
“Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn’t exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can’t imagine a loving God who would allow all these things.”
The customer thought for a moment but didn’t respond because He didn’t want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just as he left the barber shop he saw a man in the street with long, string, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkept. The customer turned back and entered the barbershop again and he said to the barber, “You know what? Barbers do not exist.”
“How can you say that,” asked the surprised barber. “I am here, I am a barber and I just worked on you!” “No!” the customer exclaimed. “Barbers don’t exist because if they did there would be no people with long dirty hair and untrimmed beards like that man outside.” “Ah, but barbers do exists! What happens is people don’t come to me.”
“Exactly,” affirmed the customer. “That’s the point! God, too, does exist! What happens is people do not go to Him or look for Him. That’s why there’s so much pain and suffering in the world.”
Instead of trying to correct the problem …
Many years ago, while on a visit to America, a wealthy Chinese businessman was fascinated by a powerful microscope. Looking through its lens to study crystals, he was amazed and most fascinated at their beauty and detail. So with great delight he decided to purchase one and take it back to his homeland.
Back home, this businessman was thoroughly enjoying using the fine instrument until one day he so happened to examine some rice he was planning to eat for dinner. Much to his dismay, he discovered that there were tiny living creatures crawling in it.
Since he was especially fond of this staple food in his daily diet, he wondered what to do. Finally he concluded that there was only one way out of his dilemma; he would destroy the instrument that caused him to discover this very distasteful fact!
So in his denial and dismay he smashed the microscope to pieces. Yep, just broke that thing into scrap and there was nothing left but broken parts. "How foolish," we might say.
But many people do the same thing with their own discoveries about themselves and about life.
So often the heart of man will refuse an obvious truth and instead of trying to deal or correct the problem and make things better with their knowledge or discoveries, they attack, break and destroy the instruments that somehow enlighten or help bring them a very clear insight to the real problems.
Sometimes a friend becomes our microscope! Sometimes our mates are those instruments!
Maybe a teacher or a relative magnifies our hidden problems and we refuse to see. But we have all in our own way, helped destroy the instrument of enlightenment and refused to correct the problem!
I have provided some food for thought in this issue.... Till next issue, Live your life KING SIZE, like there is no tomorrow, and today is the first day of the rest of your life.
AMARNATH RAO.
Amar.rao.06@gmail.com
