Tie that knot

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

 

The quote is attributed at various times to various personalities.Whosoever may have first said it, suggests to not give up when things are going wrong. Giving up never made anything right. It’s only when you hang on and keep doing what needs to be done, you are likely to get there. 

 

However, to ‘hang on to the rope’, we need something to hold. That’s where ‘the knot’ comes in. You must find one thing that you can specifically hold onto. It will provide for the hope to hold on to at the end of the rope.

 

It could be an accomplishment or a task you have complete control of. Something that you can grab with both hands and feel like you’ve made progress or maybe just stop falling!

 

Try breaking your to-do-list up into actionable and achievable knots in the rope. We must re-focus on smaller tasks and avoid the overpowering overwhelm when you find the rope running out. 

 

When at the end of the rope, tie that knot and hang on

Many little things contribute to make the success song!

- Pravin K. Sabnis

 

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On Time!

‘Better three hours too soon than a minute too late’ - The phrase is said by a character in William Shakespeare’s ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’. It can be applied to any situation when you need to take a chance to change things. 

When you do something on time, you do it right when you should. If you're always on time, you're punctual. You can be depended on to arrive when you say you will. 

 

Punctuality is about fulfilling a commitment before or at a previously designated time. If we do not honour our commitment to be on-time, we must not accept others to value our time. 

 

Some cultures have an unspoken understanding that actual deadlines are different from stated deadlines. In cultures that value the commitment to be on-time, being late is seen as disrespectful of others' time. 

 

Quite often, we are late as we do not factor for delays on the way. Hence, we must move to defeat the deadline and reach before time. It is better to spend time waiting than miss the chance to honour the commitment.

 

No excuses are justified for being tardy and late

Be always ‘on time’ or before the deadline gate!

- Pravin K. Sabnis

 

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Normal

The word came from the Latin ‘normalis’, which means ‘made according to a carpenter's square, forming a right angle.’ Normalis had a number of extended meanings, such as ‘according to rule’.

 

In present day, ‘normal’ is most often used to mean ‘conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern’. But types, standards, regular patterns or what is considered ‘regular’ undoubtedly shift, and even when static are largely subjective things. 

 

‘What is normal?’ is a question that has been posed innumerable times in rhetorical and non-rhetorical functions. The role of this question is to show how certain widely accepted concepts are merely recent social constructs, and that what is considered ‘normal’ is a fluid sort of thing. 

 

Lexically, the definition of ‘normal’ has continued to change and grow, and today may also mean (among many other things) ‘occurring naturally’. Hence what occurs naturally is normal and we should accept it as such.

 

Too often, too many of us are judgemental in deciding what is normal. We see things around in a restrictive view coloured by conditioning. We must learn to accept everything (and everyone) that occurs naturally as normal.

 

We must learn to be inclusive towards diversity. And for that we have to stop looking at ‘normal’ as a prejudiced view. We must accept that both, the different and the new, is as ‘normal’ as the similar and the old.

 

Let ‘normal’ be a fluid sort of view

Don’t deride things diverse & new!

- Pravin K. Sabnis

 

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Reunion

 The term comes from the Latin root ‘unus’ or ‘one’ and the ‘again’ prefix re-, so reunion means to ‘make as one again.’

 

Since a union is a state of togetherness, a reunion is when people get back together after some sort of separation. At high school and college reunions, people see friends they haven’t seen for years.

 

Efforts for a reunion start with a remembrance of the joyful times with the person. The desire to relive and recreate those memories, leads us to actions to search and find whereabouts of the ones we have lost touch with.

 

Interestingly, reunions are about connecting with times when motives were not materialistic. It is about times when joys were in simple things and success included little achievements and new discoveries. It is about times when we were children and so were most around us.

 

We must strive to create reunions with the child like attitudes and approaches that made us happy so easily. We must reconnect with simple joys and eager excitements. We must reunite and reclaim the child in us.

 

Recreate the good times and relive happiness again

Reunite the child within with the friendship domain! 

- Pravin K. Sabnis

 

Resolve

‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ - Mahatma Gandhi

 

Some years ago, at the New Year’s eve family get-together, the children organised activities. One activity was for everyone to pen down, at the stroke of midnight, personal statements on two charts. One was a Wish-List; the other was a list of Resolutions. A few seniors questioned the distinction between the two, but the children had got it right! 

 

One may wish to be healthier and fitter, but it would be better to resolve to make the lifestyle changes necessary for the transformation. One may wish for peace, harmony, friendships, relationships, success, worthy causes… but it would be better to resolve to create and participate in processes to make the wish happen. 

 

What we wish for and what we resolve to do are as different as just craving for a desired destination and creating a road map to get there. A wish is just a thought, a dream. A resolve is a commitment, a mission to actualise the dream.  A wish is an imagination. A resolve has to be real. A resolve is about making choices and backing them with action. 

 

While we put together wish-lists for ourselves, our families and our communities, we must move beyond desire. Let’s resolve to make the wish happen by our commitment, determination and persistence. May our wishes be well meaning and backed by the resolve to be the change that we want to see in our world!

 

Let’s fully back resolves for action

Wishes fly on wings of dedication!

- Pravin K. Sabnis

 

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