Take a chance

 Most of us tend to lead a routine life! Knowingly or unknowingly our days just pass like any other normal day! I was one among many, who was totally involved in my daily routine life! This continued for months together. Few of us work for a job that we were always passionate about and few others just fit into wrong job and get used to it. We don’t choose to do something different nor do we take some time out of our busy schedule to do things that we want to do.

 Recently, as I was lost in my own world at office work and personal stuff, I received a call asking me to conduct classroom training for a batch of people.Now this was something that I was never involved in before and training was never my job. A new challenge on my way. Who cares, I just wanted to say a “NO” and end it up. However for a change, I decided to say a “YES”. I  wanted to try my hands on something new that I have not tried so far.Now I knew that saying a yes,means there was a lot of extra work that was going to come my way and I wanted to give the training as a proper trainer and not end it up for the heck of it. Dates were fixed, huge participants were added as invites, classroom was dedicated for whole week to me and my students.

 Before the training started I had to be thorough on my preparations ,first few days of my initial preparation went for a toss because of my project workload and I was a little lazy,I usually don’t do things until its sitting right on top of my head with deadline :P I had just one week left to start my  training.And I had to start plus finish my preparations as a trainer.I had to be 1000 times more confident on my subject than the participants who would be present there.I dedicated my entire time on my preparations pushing everything else aside including the holidays plus weekends. I felt confident on what I had to speak during my training.

The first day of training, my intention was to make everybody present there very comfortable,so that they feel free to shoot all their doubts at me.From second day till last day went with complete training material subjects in detail.Making everyone interact was part of this ! On my last day of training,I saw myself as a trainer, having the best feeling ever.The entire effort of day and night that I had put in this training felt worth it. To make this memorable I just gave a sheet of paper and asked every participant to scribble positives and negatives of me a trainer.Positives would build up my confidence and negatives would let me know where I should improve on.And these sheets went directly into my diary.I revealed on the last day that this was my first experience as a trainer which surprised all participants.

The last day of my training, when everyone had vacated the room, I was standing there feeling happy and good. We tend to loose ourself very often in this fast phase of our life doing things what we regularly do.Try to explore yourself whenever you get an opportunity to do something different.Dont fear to take a chance.Because every chance taken gives you a learning.Thats when you will know the better you.

Do what you Love AND Love what you do

                        Recently we had graduated with  Master degree. To celebrate the last day of our study life, a bunch of friends decided to wear same set of Tee’s on the last day of our exam. Our intention was to have a similar design on all our tee’s –So the concept  of design was something that could relate to our Master degree course , and this tee would  be kept with us further as a memory of our course days! Now the whole concept had to be approved and liked by everyone who will be ordering for tee. Finally we came up with a design which made some friends very happy and kept some others just convinced.

                        The next task was to print this designed tees – It was a job for me and my friend to find the best place to get this done!Using  a little contacts, and taking few suggestions from many around we chose to goto a place.After having lost ourselves on wrong roads multiple times we called the number of this organization, where we got guidance to reach our destination.

                         Little hesitant and confused, thinking if we were at the right place we parked our bike infront of a small gate.There comes a young guy outside the gate asking “Are you the ones who just called few seconds back asking for direction?” We nod our head with a “yes” and he welcomes us inside. It was a small house.We entered  inside and all we could see was 10-12 computers around.Each one were sitting infront of computer,music on with headphones, few youngsters with laptop, few with cup of coffee,few were enjoying their break by playing little games.A small house converted into an office with an environment similar to that of a house.We were then introduced to a man who took care of the whole office.After listening to us,he made us meet his colleague who could help us.

                          When we explained our concept and thoughts to this guy,he replied  “I understand what you want, I don’t enjoy designing this concept,its not my cup of tea.Would you mind If I make you meet my another colleague sitting over  there at the end whose passion is such concepts.I promise he will make your design much better than what you expect from us”. – He called a guy and said “Beta,we have a concept here and you need to design as per the concept!Please listen to their concept and see if it makes you happy?If yes , take it as your work!” Me and my friend were surprised.So you actually have the liberty to choose your work, You have a choice to say a “NO” to things that you are not interested to take up and choose only those which passionates you!This guy listened to our concept and said “I would love to design this”.He quickly designed multiple designs on our concept infront of us and asked us to choose the one we liked.He actually wanted to know if we would need some modifications on the design so that he will do it for us,but trust me he had already designed the best.

                         These few lucky set of people who worked here enjoyed their work.They dint have time constraints of login and log out.They can come and finish their work anytime they would love to.A bunch of young people were given a chance to show up their creativity in designing. They were free to design what they love and their designs will make wonders.These designs would be on tee’s which would then be on sale.Designing and colouring.This office dint have boss and employee concept,instead had a concept of 'you are your own boss'.You wear what makes you feel good and confident,You come in the time you feel great to work,you design what makes you feel complete, you take a break whenever you want to,and most of all you be what you are!

                          It was a treat to talk to these set of young people,they were very happy in the place they were. They said “when you do what you love and you get paid for it,what more can you ask for in life!”

                            There is a saying – “If every day morning when you get up from bed ,you are dragging yourself to work not being happy, then it’s time to move out of your current job and get into a job that you would have always loved to do” !- Do what you love and Love what you do

Dreams -Chase it !

Every person has the right to own a dream. Dreams are never an easy catch for everyone. One need to pay the price for his/her own dreams. Sometimes it’s the easy way and sometimes it’s the hard way.

Each time you chase your dreams what if your dreams are pushed to “The end”? Who on the earth will you blame?

‘You’                   – For being too slow and late in running behind your dreams

‘Dreams’              – For being crushed just when it bloomed

‘Destiny’              – For the twist it brought just when you realized you are a step closer to your dreams.

Mind will be in too much of a whirl to make sense. If you say “It’s all over”, then you may always regret about the things you dint finish. On one end you might try to make sense out of life but on the other end you might sound very sensible analyzing the present. You may feel that you have jumped into a carpet bag.

You are not doomed. It requires guts to get up and chase your dreams again. Remember when the road to your dreams gets blocked it always means that there is another way out! Find it out and you will definitely see it!

So what are you waiting for? Get up and start running behind your dreams! Never ever give up until you reach it! Good Luck!!!!

I wanna slow down ..!!

Oh Crap!! My days are running like hell.I am hardly realising it either.All that I know is I open my eyes and then I am off to office ,by the time I am back to my room its time to sleep and my eyes are so damn adamant that they never agree to keep itself open after some point.I am totally out of this world..Damn this routine life.

Every morning I wake up saying today I will be “ME” but Nah, I still miss being me!

I have many interests in line one behind the other ..so many things I wanna do,learn and live with,enjoy with  and I feel time is too less,but  for now I wanna write for gods sake,Gimme a pen and a paper…I will Scribble is what I felt when I was busy with my keyboard at office  solving some issues at work.Its been  a total hectic month for me.I know I had to enjoy what I was doing,I had to enjoy my work, I also know I need to concentrate on the work  that I do at office.But since its been days that I dint write anything (Not even my diary)I was totally restless.This happens to me everytime when I miss to write something . A kind of disease I guess…I  really don’t know what can I name this disease.It takes my senses off until I write my heart out .I  feel totally relaxed once I finish any write-up.I feel the joy within.

  

I was trying  to grab every  single minute where I get a chance to write.Since past three weeks it was not happening on a regular basis for some reasons. I used to think daily that I would write something today and would sit awake late night, finish off few lines and then i would find myself lying my head on my book instead of pillow next day morning ! Weekends I had commitments that I couldnot dare to miss.I felt like carrying a pen and my book everywhere I go and start writing though its some function, party, traveling, etc.But yeah I cant do that for obvious reasons.Thought to buy a laptop only for writing purpose too..Atleast it would help me to write when i travel if not other mentioned occasions.But that dint happen either.I was away from reading too due to busy schedule.All I could manage to do was a quick copy paste of random blogs from Channel W in Microsoft word at office and manage to read it by EOD.I could not even comment on those blogs what I read..Such a pathetic state I was in. :( I wanted to slow down the running days of my life.

After a gap of three weeks without writing, today a Friday evening at office I put a complete full stop to all my priority work and before I could go completely insane without writing,I made sure I scribble at least few lines on notepad. And that’s how this blog came up.

Not worth posting but still I did post.