New Year 2013!!

Let’s Welcome the New Year with a Resolut (e) ion

                 As sun sets on yet another year of the millennium, it’s time to welcome 2013 which promises to be a “Phoenix year” after Mayan’s predictions of 2012. People of all walks of life still believe a world exists for them and their future and therefore continue to march ahead with the resurgent hope and refurbished belief. As any New Year approaches, it’s a tradition to plan for making a resolution, but since this is a special year, a positive resolut (e) ion is the need of the hour.

            The year of 2012, was a messy mix of more negatives and less positives on an overall perspective. The basic ethical human qualities of self discipline and spiritual goodness were litmus tested and to everyone’s notice it failed miserably. Hence there are a lot of resolute aims and measures which needs a major tinkering together with some major reforms which will form a pre – requisite for the phoenix year to begin well.

            Being responsible, moral, believing, spiritual, disciplined, compassionate, well – mannered are the traits which can be utilized as ingredients to make 2013 a super successful year not only for oneself but for the entire community around.

             

“This day of the year, we create

A life, designed to celebrate,

With the glory of God, friends and family,

We promise to bring harmony

By imbibing culture, virtue and value

To a life that is about to be revalued!

Let’s welcome the Year of Phoenix

To enjoy a blissful time ahead!"

What to Learn from a sport Like cricket!!

What to learn from a sport like cricket!

                 

Fresh from the gangnam Gayle celebration – which is a prelude to the festive season ahead – it’s time to look back on how certain necessities can create an invention and therefore a trend. West Indies Cricket – rising from ashes – has proved that it is the circumstances which can make or break a progress and thus a success story. The so called cricket pundits might not have even had the weirdest of thoughts of WI making it all the way! Their imagination would have been refueled when WI did not win even a single match in the group stage. But the bottom line was they qualified and had the self belief to make it to where they made it!

Freaky accidents sometimes lead to an invention and thus a new phenomenon. Virendar Sehwag made his debut as a middle order batsman in Test matches in SA and scored his century (105) in Bloemfontein. But his promotion and experiment as an opening batsman made by the then Indian captain Sourav Ganguly paid rich dividends in reaping bountiful rewards. Sehwag (the only Indian who now) holds the record of two triple centuries in tests and one double century in ODIs. Every team fears even an out of form Sehwag because he generally does not depend on form to score but just follow the simple “see ball, hit ball” philosophy.

Funny experiments do yield rich dividends which might result in an ultimatum. But if you do not try you are not doing anything. Experiment of giving the last over to Joginder Sharma (with one over in the bank for bajji) in the T20 final (2007) when Team India had 12 runs to play with might be the funniest move ever made by MSD but as they say rest is all history and we were the deserved winners of the World T20 in its first edition. Even now when we see a tight last over to be bowled we ask ourselves where Joginder is! It’s the same case even in the 2011 final when MSD came up the order to smother Murali’s spin (as Murali has played alongside MSD in IPLs for CSK). It’s that brave move of coming up before Yuvi (Player of the World cup) which proved to be a masterstroke which made Sachin proud of becoming a complete cricketer.

From a psychological point of view, necessities and timely moves might be either accidental or incidental. But if one can live with it, persevere and take the responsibility of why it was implemented, it might result in a new inspiration for the years to come! If you succeed you will become the leader and if you fail you will ultimately be the guide for others!

Being Tech Savvy - Ctrl + Alt + Delete

BEING TECH SAVVY – CTRL + ALT + DELETE

Beyond the Maslow’s Hierarchy of psychology – The theory of Human Motivation, there is a limelight now in the modern era, which foresees adding “Technology” in the list of common NEEDS for common man! The buzz word is no more a distant dream or possession. It has to be within you or with you to connect yourself to the world or even to your neighbor (sitting beside you) – every time! The avatars of “technology” has widened its horizons from being a simple walkie talkie to a mind boggling IPhone5 (releasing this month).

Being tech savvy is an honor in its own where anyone who “speaks” to his Galaxy or “listens” to his iPod is considered a geek. Any information is just a click away and “Google” has become everyone’s best buddy. There were times when a whole middle class family lived in a single room and now it’s most common to see that most of the family shares a single domain – namely the “Facebook”. Meeting friends and talking to them has become wireless and virtual as video chat rooms have taken over the royal reality.

Blessed with the techie makes, there is always a tinge of sensitivity thought in everyone – Are we lonely? The answer is a big YES. Life needs a point of intersection where work style and social life has to coincide. A member of social networking site does not ideally make one a social person. Mere acceptances of an invite for a marriage or house warming from your close buddy cannot bring the real joy and satisfaction than when you are present there physically. A reality check is the need of the hour wherein each individual has to analyze his own self and think of where he is and what he wants to be and devote his time equally in the things he perceives to bring him ecstasy.

Becoming the best in everything is an aspiration. Unlocking your system with the appropriate password every time gives the refreshing space for the window of happiness and excellence in thoughts. Being technical in job is a credential but being mechanical in life is a bane in itself. Let’s try to live life the way it has to be and start to socialize – in a real way!