tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35758309999170518332024-03-18T08:04:40.213+05:30monday muse written by Pravin Sabnis since first Monday of 2004Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger823125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-56227349980670987212024-03-18T08:03:00.006+05:302024-03-18T08:03:59.143+05:30Falter<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">If something, say a table, is not steady, we say that the table wobbles. If a child sways while moving, we refer to it as wobbling. While it may seem a problem, the learning is in the wobbles!</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As children, we learnt to walk and ride a cycle through a long process of trial and error, of falls and repeated efforts. Our enthusiasm and encouragement by others made us stay at the task until it was accomplished.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The child keeps stepping ahead despite the falters. However, as adults we are swayed by failure. So often, so many of us resist the time to learn something new because we don’t like wobbling.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We must give ourself the permission to falter. Failure is an important part of the journey to success. We must choose to accept the faltering, learn from it and do what is required to correct the wobbles. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The wobbling table can be set right by putting something under the legs. The wobbling child can learn balance by trying other ways. For the result to alter to a positive result, we must address the falter!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Move beyond the falter<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The outcome will alter!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Pravin K. Sabnis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse21stYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-42987284428954197722024-03-11T16:45:00.005+05:302024-03-11T16:45:53.620+05:30Perseverance <p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ernest Hemingway was in Switzerland, on assignment as a correspondent. Journalist Lincoln Steffens was impressed with Hemingway’s writing and asked to see more. His wife carried all his writings in a suitcase from their home in Paris. She lost it in the train.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">At that point, nothing of Hemingway’s fiction had been published. Now, there was nothing left as his wife had packed both the originals and their carbons. Only two short stories survived the disaster. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">But when he lamented the loss to poet Ezra Pound, Pound called it a stroke of luck. Pound assured him that when he rewrote the stories, he would forget the weak parts and only the best would reappear. Hemingway rewrote the stories and became a major figure in literature.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Indeed, with the loss of the manuscripts, and with time pressing to replace those vanished words in his bid to become a respected writer, Hemingway may have adopted and adapted the lean prose style for which he became famous.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Perseverance and failure cannot coexist. Failure happens when you quit. We can instead learn from it. We can unlearn the unnecessary and rewrite our efforts afresh. Perseverance can turn failure into an opportunity. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b>Don’t get stuck at failure’s gate</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Perseverance scripts your fate!</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Pravin K. Sabnis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-73651571964379218502024-03-04T18:52:00.002+05:302024-03-04T18:52:17.238+05:30Null Set<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I</span></i><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">n algebra, a Null set refers to an empty set. A</span></i><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">teacher mentioned the Indian woman astronaut as an example for a null set as until then no Indian woman had become an astronaut. One girl exclaimed, 'one day</span></i><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">this null set will not exist!' The girl, Kalpana Chawla went on to fill the set!</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">In college,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">she</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>was the only girl to opt for the aeronautical engineering course. During admission when asked to state her second option, she replied that she had none!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">During counseling, teachers tried to dissuade her as aeronautic engineering had limited job opportunities in the country. Most girls had opted for electrical engineering. Kalpana stuck to her passion. This was the first step to much greater achievements of India’s first woman astronaut. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Imagination is important, but it is not enough. To be better, it needs to be transformed into a clear vision and backed by a motivated mission to achieve it.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Null sets get filled when dreams are empowered by steadfast belief and committed actions. Indeed, it took courage of conviction for a small town girl to become the first Indian woman to straddle outer space. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b>be better at achieving every desirable vision</b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">null set gets filled with committed mission!</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Pravin K. Sabnis</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse21stYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-58965430556036236502024-02-26T20:27:00.000+05:302024-02-26T20:27:10.968+05:30Horizon<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Speaking at an event of JCI Alumni Club at Goa, Ashrafali Nizari spoke about the horizon. He pointed out that the horizon gets wider as we go higher. His message was to stretch out and rise up to see newer horizons.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The horizon is the line at which the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet. It is also used to refer to the limit of a person's knowledge, experience or interest. Hence, our perspective is wider as we rise up in any team.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The word originates from Greek as ‘horizōn (kuklos)’ which meant ‘limiting (circle)’. The visible horizon represents the edge of what is known or manifest. But when go up in life, we tend to see things in wider outlook.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Even though we see it way off in the distance, the horizon is not the boundary. It’s not the limit. It’s just as far as we can see in the moment. But the possibilities are always greater as our horizon turns wider.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Where we are now is not the limit. Even if it feels that way right now. When horizon is based on a limited self-definition, with concepts that are false, then our horizon is artificially adopted. We must move on to the real horizon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we come to the completion of a project or a vision of ourself, we must choose to expand into a new direction. We must opt to tap innate abilities within that we have not yet realised. New horizons bring along new frontiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Stretch out to rise to newer heights<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A wider horizon will come to sight!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Pravin K. Sabnis</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse21stYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-17065590574746493222024-02-19T22:46:00.000+05:302024-02-19T22:46:04.927+05:30GUERILLA TACTICS<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The legendary Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was an exemplary leader with high values, lofty vision, earthy humility and endearing responsiveness. One of many leadership lessons are his strategies for battle and governance. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He maintained a small but effective standing army. Aware of the limitations of his army, he knew that conventional warfare methods were inadequate to confront the big, well-trained cavalry of the Mughals, which was equipped with field artillery. He chose and mastered guerrilla tactics.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">His guerrilla tactics perplexed and defeated the enemy. He knew that the most vulnerable point of the large, slow-moving armies of the time was supply. He utilised knowledge of the local terrain and the superior mobility of his light cavalry to cut off supplies to the enemy. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He refused to confront the enemy in pitched battles. Instead, he lured the enemies into difficult hills and jungles of his own choosing, catching them at a disadvantage and routing them. He used several methods to undermine his enemies, as required by circumstances, such as sudden raids, sweeps and ambushes, and psychological warfare.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Looking at the limited resource he faced, he chose effective utilisation of people and natural resource including warfare material and weapons. His method has been trigger for military related and governance related topics of research, besides competitive strategies in business as well.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Learn the lessons from Chhatrapati Shivaji’s life <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Guerrilla tactics can overcome every tough strife!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Pravin K. Sabnis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse21stYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-3718283706157065942024-02-12T23:19:00.004+05:302024-02-12T23:19:25.234+05:30Impartial<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">'Kabira khada bazaar mein, mange sabki khair<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Naa kehu se dosti, Naa kehu se bair'<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">(Standing in the public square, Kabir wishes all well<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">No friendships with anyone nor any enmity as well)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sant Kabir's doha (couplet) urges an impartial approach in public space. While we may have friends or enemies in personal space, in public we have to rise above petty positions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">So often, so many of us are consumed by an arrogance of power that emerges from the public position we hold. We allow the dust of our personal prejudices to affect the need to be fair and just. We end up being non partial.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is said that 'with great power comes great responsibility'. The ability to have the right response, never mind the stimulus, is responsibility. The person before us is the stimulus but our response should not be affected by who the person is but what is the right thing to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Avoid rigid perception to be fair and just<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Impartial is the way to be, sans any dust!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Pravin K. Sabnis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse21stYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-79190450131782092302024-02-05T19:31:00.001+05:302024-02-05T19:31:04.229+05:30Mistakes Allowed<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Goa based, Ethernet Foundation organised its first edition of VAA! – Vivekananda Angel Awards on 2 February, birth anniversary (as per Hindu calendar) of Swami Vivekananda. The inaugural award was conferred upon Rudolf Schwartz, Goa’s guardian angel from Germany.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">77 year old, Rudolf</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> facilitated skill development of underserved students through his initiative:</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Indian Students Educational Aid Foundation which now runs 3 technical training schools, an Open School, a Nursing Bureau besides providing scholarships to over 3000 students for higher education.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He was 44 when he set off on his mission. He paid from his pocket for multiple trips to Goa to follow up with the local team. He convinced over 500 active sponsors from Germany. His consistent efforts bore fruit because he and his team believed </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">that ‘it is allowed to make mistakes’. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Many of us believe that errors are unforgivable blunders, fostering a culture of fear and stagnation. Mistakes are learning experiences. We must shift focus from the mistake itself to the decision-making process that led to it. We must understand that not all decisions will yield the desired outcome. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Decision-making is primarily an act aimed at an uncertain future, making all decisions prone to potential error. If the thinking was sound but the outcome unfavourable, it is still regarded as a valuable decision in the quest for progress. Hence Rudolf says, ‘it is allowed to make mistakes’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Efforts are important, Outcomes may break<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Remember, it is allowed to make mistakes!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />- <b>Pravin K. Sabnis</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-38117122153468990452024-01-29T23:07:00.006+05:302024-01-29T23:07:44.807+05:30Tie that knot<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When at the end of the rope, tie that knot and hang on<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Many little things contribute to make the success song!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />- <b>Pravin K. Sabnis</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse21stYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-39258241214693058252024-01-22T20:13:00.003+05:302024-01-22T20:13:55.244+05:30On Time!<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">‘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.</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">No excuses are justified for being tardy and late<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Be always ‘on time’ or before the deadline gate!</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />- <b>Pravin K. Sabnis</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse21stYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-42671843944604188632024-01-15T18:09:00.003+05:302024-01-15T18:09:22.710+05:30Normal<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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’.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">‘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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Let ‘normal’ be a fluid sort of view</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Don’t deride things diverse & new!</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />- <b>Pravin K. Sabnis</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse21stYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-41670917540703397222024-01-08T16:36:00.006+05:302024-01-08T16:36:37.589+05:30Reunion<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The term comes from the Latin root ‘unus’ or ‘one’ and the ‘again’ prefix re-, so reunion means to ‘make as one again.’</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Recreate the good times and relive happiness again</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reunite the child within with the friendship domain! </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />- <b>Pravin K. Sabnis</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-78305361797044889452024-01-01T18:47:00.000+05:302024-01-01T18:47:04.682+05:30Resolve<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ - Mahatma Gandhi</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Let’s fully back resolves for action</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wishes fly on wings of dedication!</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />- <b>Pravin K. Sabnis</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse21stYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-40957761968960096242023-12-25T17:56:00.006+05:302023-12-25T17:56:42.872+05:30Merry<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This old fashioned word for ‘happy’ is popular in December when people say, ‘Merry Christmas.’ To be merry is to be happy, especially in a fun, festive way. Parties and celebrations are merry, and so are the fun people who attend them. </span></i><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">To be merry is to be happy and ready to frolic. A group of people laughing as they walk down the street is a merry gang. Anything merry is festive, often involving games, celebrations and parties. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A merry-go-round makes kids happy as it spins them around. Smiling and laughing are signs of being merry. If you go along your merry way, you walk away happily, maybe even dancing.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Festive wishes are two things. Firstly, it is a choice triggered by the occasion: a choice to be happy. Secondly, it is a wish for others to be happy, too! Festivals are about collective happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">For everyone to be merry, we must share what we have with the ones who have little or none. We can share love, concern and little gifts that we can afford to give. The biggest gift is to spare and share our time. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sharing is not just about giving, it is also about receiving. Being merry, is about being together and sharing joy. That is the spirit of Christmas and every festival that seeks to bring people together in the happiness loop.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />May everyone be merry and full of cheer<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">May the festival bring us closer and near!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b>- Pravin K. Sabnis</b><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse20thYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-75549454724715044122023-12-18T23:48:00.005+05:302023-12-18T23:48:56.898+05:30Make It!<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Steven Spielberg was 10 years old, his father gave him an electric toy train as a gift. He would have fun creating train wrecks by ramming his miniature trains into each other and eventually they would break. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The first time, his father repaired the trains but warned him that if he broke the trains again, he would take it away from him. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The young boy had the idea of using his family’s home video camera to shoot close-up shots of his trains crashing so that if they eventually broke, he could relive that moment by watching it over and over again. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He became increasingly ambitious in his productions and eventually started filming narrative movies that he would show off in school. As an established director and producer, he would say, ‘You shouldn’t dream your film, you should make it!’<br /><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are many who conceive what they want to do, but often do not cross the stage of ideation. We must implement the idea we conceived. We should make the film, we dreamt about.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Not ‘making it’ can have many excuses but there is no reason to hold back the act of implementation. We must move beyond imagination to ‘make it!’ <br /><b><i><br />Don’t be at ease after you ‘Think It’<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tre success is when you ‘Make it!’</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b>- Pravin K. Sabnis</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse20thYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse</span> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-89056011609060197262023-12-11T22:23:00.005+05:302023-12-11T22:23:44.241+05:30Greed<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">To arrest marauding monkeys who invade homes, a bottle with nuts is used. However the opening at the top is just big enough for the monkey’s hand to slide in. </span></i><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The lured monkey grabs the nuts and forms a fist which cannot pass through the small opening. The monkey has a choice to let go of the nuts and escape. However it continues to hang on to the nuts. <br /><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The monkey gets captured because of its greed. So often, we behave like the monkey. We grab beyond our need. We grab without bothering of the implications of choices fuelled by greed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The lure of grabbing blinds us from the consequences of such actions. We hang on to what we grab, even if it results in our freedom being compromised. <br /><br />We hold on to old things and ideas that can no longer help us to succeed. We refuse to change. We are comfortable with where we are and what we have, so we prefer to be held hostage there. <br /><br />To be unfettered in life we have to let go of greed. Success does not come by grabbing possessions. It is realised by securing liberation from unreasonable greed that blinds and eventually binds us in a bind! <br /><b><i><br />To be truly free, do not grab more <br />Ignore greed and learn to let go!</i></b><i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b>- Pravin K. Sabnis</b><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse20thYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-44775313306334398162023-12-04T16:02:00.006+05:302023-12-04T16:02:57.506+05:30Encore<p><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Once, there was a man who visited foreign lands. When he returned, all he could talk about was the wonderful adventures he had and the great deeds he had done.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">One of the feats he told was about a leap he made in a city called Rhodes. ‘The leap was so great,’ the man said. ‘No other man can make such a leap. Many persons in Rhodes saw me and can prove I am telling the truth.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">‘No need for witnesses,’ said one of his listeners, ‘Imagine that this city is Rhodes, and show us how far you can jump. Encore!’<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Encore is a French word meaning ‘again’. Audiences often yell, ‘Encore!’ if an act has been particularly good. The request to repeat is actually a confirmation that the performer has the capacity to replicate the performance and often make it better.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">So often, so many of us take pride in past deeds, but cannot repeat the act. It’s the deeds that count, not the boasting words. Yesterday may have been the best… Today we must be as good or better. We must be deserving of the Encore call.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><i>Do not boast of deeds done yesterday <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Be worthy of the Encore calls of today!</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b>- Pravin K. Sabnis</b><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-51906493178478693012023-11-27T16:57:00.007+05:302023-11-27T16:57:54.660+05:30JOMO<p><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The opposite of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) is JOMO, which stands for Joy of Missing Out. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">JOMO is the feeling of contentment and satisfaction that comes from choosing to disconnect and not participate in certain social activities or events. It involves embracing one's own interests and priorities, rather than feeling pressured to constantly be engaged in social activities.<br /><br />Although JOMO is defined as the convenience of letting go of something, it cannot be interpreted as an excuse to be unproductive. Because to fight the existing fear (FOMO) is not by avoiding or breaking away from the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is important to walk the middle path of not allowing others and social media to decide the choices you make. People and values are more relevant than superficial toys and artificial games. Follow your heart and do what it says.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><i>Do not allow others to decide your true joy<br />Embrace JOMO… let go of the needless toy!</i></span></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b>- Pravin K. Sabnis</b><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-14103884954336297042023-11-20T22:52:00.002+05:302023-11-20T22:52:18.887+05:30Rope<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Trained elephants are often held, in their enclosure, by a small rope tied to their leg. No chains, no cages. Obviously the elephant can, at any time, break away from the bond but it does not. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When they are young, the trainer uses a small rope to tie them. At that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><br />The animal can at any time break free from its bonds but because it believe it can’t, it remains stuck right where it is. Like the elephant, we get held back by overpowering bonds of initial conditioning. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We go through life hanging onto a negative belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before. Initial failure often tends to weigh heavy on our belief systems and prevents us from recognising our own potential. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We must not allow failure to blur our attitude towards our aptitude. Failure is a part of learning and growth; it cannot become flimsy reason to be held back in life... the conditioning rope has to be undone by holding on to hope inspired attempts to transform the situation!</span><br /><b><br /><i>Do not allow failure to hold back hope<br />Choose to break the conditioning rope!</i></b><i><br /></i><br /><b>- Pravin K. Sabnis</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">#mondaymuse20thYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-52084617494272797422023-11-20T20:26:00.000+05:302023-11-20T20:26:02.495+05:30HIGHLIGHT 13 November 2023 <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A king, with one leg and one eye, was generous and competent as a ruler. In his palace, portraits of his ancestors adorned the hallway. He invited painters across the kingdom and asked to paint a beautiful picture of him. </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Most painters were confused about how to make a beautiful picture of the King. Only one painter came forward. He painted the King sitting on the horse with one leg visible, holding his bow and aiming the arrow with one eye closed. </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Everyone was pleased to see that the painter had creatively highlighted the King’s positive characteristics but not the deficiencies.</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />So often, so many of us keep an eye on what is lacking and ignore the prevalent positive. We must learn to highlight the constructive and escape the tendency to be destructively judgemental. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">To highlight is to attract attention and emphasize the important. The important is always the positive in another person. And we will evolve into positive personalities by highlighting the positive in others<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b><i>Instead of loitering in the negative<br />It is best to highlight the positive!</i></b> <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Pravin K. Sabnis</b> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-78253629004558134402023-11-06T23:03:00.008+05:302023-11-06T23:03:51.224+05:30Downtime <p>Downtime refers to inactive time between periods of work. It is also used to refer to unforseen time required between time slots.</p><p>So often, so many of us plan for time management for every detail but end up forgetting downtime. And then we are suprised by the delay caused by the time required in between.</p><p>For instance, in a program of multiple speakers, we allot time for each speaker but often forget the gap between one speaker completing and the next starting. Sometimes it is the walk to the lectern. Other times it could be unavoidable distractions.</p><p>Even if this downtime is of miniscule duration (maybe under a minute) but the cumulative of various downtimes ends up as a substantial amount.</p><p>You may have factored just a couple of minutes to fill up your fuel tank but the lines at the Petrol pump may lead to further delay. Now the extended downtime will undo your time schedule.</p><p>Hence for good time budgeting, we must factor for downtime, considering possibilities as well as surprise challenges. </p><p><br /></p><p>In time management don’t ignore the obvious</p><p>downtime can make the best plan superfluous</p><p>- Pravin K. Sabnis</p>unlearning unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891855262194075566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-56559247986020661622023-10-30T22:46:00.000+05:302023-10-30T22:46:02.058+05:30NÃO COMPREENDI<p>Pawan joined a course to learn basic Portuguese. On the first day, his teacher insisted to speak only in Portuguese in the class. This would help learn the language better. And if someone had difficulty in understanding they could say, ‘não compreendi!’ (can’t comprehend)</p><p>Pawan struggled to comprehend what was being communicated in Portuguese. However, he could keep the conversation going by saying ‘não compreendi’ repeatedly till he understood. The teacher would use simpler language or body language or even speak in English to make him understand.</p><p><br /></p><p>So often, so many of us do not reveal that we have ‘not understood’ what was told to us. Some worry about displaying their difficulty and be branded as a person with limited comprehension ability. Some feel that they will understand in due course. Some believe that the incomprehensible may not be of great significance.</p><p>When we don’t ask for help, we will not get it. We must be transparent about disclosing our difficulties in comprehending the communication. When we do so, we can be helped by explanation or clarification. We also display our interest in the conversation.</p><p>There is no shame in declaring our inability to understand. We must know what we don’t know. And we must not pretend to know. We must show (tell) that we don’t know (understand). We must ask for assistance in our sincere efforts to comprehend.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don’t pretend to understand the difficulty</p><p>ask for help by saying ‘não compreendi’!</p><p><br /></p><p>- Pravin K. Sabnis</p><p>#mondaymuse20thYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse</p>unlearning unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891855262194075566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-2426999666214946002023-10-23T20:25:00.005+05:302023-10-23T20:25:28.408+05:30Brood Parasitism <p><br /></p><p>The cuckoo bird is known to lay its eggs in the nests of other birds, usually crows. The cuckoo does not make its own nest. Hence, it lays its eggs in the nest of crows and ensures that the crow takes care of her eggs and young ones.</p><p> During the course of evolution , the eggs of the cuckoo have evolved to resemble the eggs of the crow in size, shape and colour. This prevents the host from detecting the foreign eggs and eliminating them from the nest.</p><p> The cuckoo bird exhibits a form of parasitic relationship called Brood parasitism. It is a behavioural pattern of brood parasites, that rely on others to raise their young. The brood parasite manipulates a host, to raise the young as if they were their own.</p><p>Some organisations try to hatch their activity ‘eggs’ in the activity ‘space’ of other organisations. While they may pretend it is collaboration, the parasite knows it is hoodwinking a gullible or unaware host.</p><p>Of course, collaboration is a good thing, but brood parasitism is about intentional manipulation of others and a clear-cut pretense. If we are sincere in our cause, we will avoid brood parasitism.</p><p><br /></p><p>Brood parasitism is a bogus pretense…</p><p>Distant from ethics, it has no defense!</p><p>- Pravin K. Sabnis</p><p>#mondaymuse20thYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse</p>unlearning unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891855262194075566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-81091793871891130042023-10-16T19:02:00.006+05:302023-10-16T19:02:33.510+05:30Charisma <p> Monday Muse (of us are influenced and impressed by charismatic people. We seek to possess charisma that can influence and impress others</p><p>Charisma is a special quality of impact personalities whose principles, purposes and powers differentiate them from others. To be called charismatic is considered a valuable compliment!</p><p>Many of us believe that charisma is a trait that cannot be developed since it appears to be a deep-rooted personality characteristic. But, it is pertinent to note that it is a quality that can be acquired and learnt. </p><p>For example, being enthusiastic and emotionally expressive is a major ingredient for dishing out charisma – and surely, it is possible to learn to become emotionally expressive.</p><p>Look around at people whom you find charismatic. You will notice that they smile easily and seem constantly enthused. Notice that their ever eager energy is very visible.</p><p>They do not hold back their actual feelings. The best method to develop charisma is to express feelings more assertively, openly and freely.</p><p>More importantly, charisma is about transference. Others must validate our charisma. And they will do so, only if it impacts them positively. </p><p>The way to acquire charisma, according to Dan Reiland is, ‘Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you.’</p><p>to acquire charismatic effectiveness</p><p>choose responsive expressiveness</p><p><br /></p><p>- Pravin K. Sabnis</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>unlearning unlimitedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891855262194075566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-11509030116289466462023-09-11T19:17:00.003+05:302023-09-11T19:17:52.175+05:30Fanaticism<p><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘</span></span></i><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Sectarianism, bigotry and its horrible </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: 0.133333px;">descendant</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">, fanaticism, have filled the earth with violence</span></span></span></i><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">… </span></span></i><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now</span></i><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">…’ </span></span></i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">- Swami </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Vivekananda on 11 September 1893, at first World’s Parliament of Religions at Chicago</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Fanaticism is an extreme and often unquestioning enthusiasm, devotion, or zeal for something, such as a religion, political stance, or cause.</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">A</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">cross the world, </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">fanaticism</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">has already destroyed countless lives.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">It starts with supporting your team or sect. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">B</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">ut when it turns into hatred for the opposite team or sect, the </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">extreme beliefs </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">often</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"> lead to unreasonable or violent behaviour</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">. Fanaticism fuels anger towards the ‘other’ often based on prejudiced perceptions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Swami Vivekananda in his famous address hoped </span><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘</span></span></i><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.</span></i><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">’</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Hence the need for platforms that bring together the </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">diversity of cultures and communities. A true sports lover can fully support his team without wishing death for the opponent. </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">F</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">or the larger game is humanity and it should always win.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">D</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">o not let fanaticism consume your humanity</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">B</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">e open minded to heed and accept diversity!</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">- </span><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Pravin K Sabnis</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">#mondaymuse20thYear #pravinsabnis #since2004 #motivation #blogging #MondayMuse</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575830999917051833.post-60852722110902415372023-08-28T18:10:00.006+05:302023-08-28T18:10:51.867+05:30POOKALAM<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> </span><i style="color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Onam is the harvest festival celebrated </span></i><i style="color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">in</span></i><i style="color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Kerala</span></i><i style="color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></i><i style="color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">to mark the arrival of King Mahabali</span></i><i style="color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. The ten day festival includes many activities including the </span></i><i style="color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Onam Pookalam which literally means Onam flower rangolis or the patterns made with flower petals.</span></i></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">T</span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">he </span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Pookalam is </span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">generally </span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">round in shape and then filled with intricate detailing with colourful flower petals. </span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A</span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> new outer circle is added every day to t</span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">he </span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">pattern </span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">made on the first day of Onam till the</span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> tenth</span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> day or Thiruvonam.</span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></i></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Besides the beauty of the</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> diversity of seasonal flowers,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Pookalam represents many learnings. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">T</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">he most pertinent to add something to the effort of the previous day.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">W</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e start initiatives which are overwhelming due to their immediate magnitude. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">H</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">owever, if we do one step at a time, and keep adding fresh effort every day, we end up creating an impressive transformation by the last day.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">O</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ne circle at a time and add another on subsequent day</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></i></b></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The final stage will impress, t</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">he Pookalam seems to say!</span></i></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></b></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Pravin K Sabnis</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e4d78; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></b></p><p class="gmail-p" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #073763; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0