Freedom at work

After reading following tip, I would say freedom to operate makes a big difference in how you enjoy work. Clarity on your goals/success and being empowered to pursue your goals will make a big difference.

One of my favorite quote when it comes to Management when rephrased will be like this: “Set realistic goals for your employees and then get out of their way”. I don’t remember the original quote.

Want to Be Happier at Work?
Take Ownership

A recent Gallup Healthways report showed that business owners outrank others in terms of overall well-being. And, autonomy, influence, and a sense of meaning are all associated with lower stress. If you need to find more joy at work, take on a new project that will improve your job, division, or workplace. While you may not have the same degree of freedom that an entrepreneur does, you can find ways to set the agenda and exert ownership over tasks and projects. This ownership will likely improve your job satisfaction while adding an important accomplishment to your resume.

Reference URL: http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/managementtip.php?date=011810

Audio Lectures

Visiting Rama Krishna Math and listening to evening lectures on Sunday was a routine for me when I was living in Chennai. I have been visiting the website to read latest issues of magazines published and recently I was glad to see that the lectures are now uploaded to the website

I am not missing some of my favorite things thanks to the growth of connected world with all media included. I am sure this growth will continue and enable to attend any live event though staying miles apart.

Link to Audio Lectures: http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/Audio_Player/Play.aspx

New Year Wishes 2010

May this new year
- give you OPPORTUNITIES that you seek
- help you achieve SUCCESS through the goals that you have set for yourself
- take you a step closer to your higher ASPIRATIONS
- help you have FUN with people that matter to you most
- let you have the FREEDOM to be yourself
- give you PEACE that you want in your life.

Wish you all the best

Free of regrets

Life involves going through variety of experiences. Some of them are spontaneous and some of them are planned.  We also start to develop a strong desire towards specific experiences. While we tend to ignore them for sometime, they continue to persist.

For anyone being free of regrets is liberating.  We experience sense of satisfaction and positive energy when we accomplish that we have been postponing which is likely to become a regret.

Make a list of regrets you have. Think of excuses you have made for not getting to items on this list. Make conscious effort to get those things done.

Quote: Open to possibilities

Leave the Door Open for That Which Is New

Without being aware of it, many of us tend to base our sense of what’s possible now, in this present moment, upon what has or has not happened in the past. But if we want to be spiritually liberated, indeed if we want to be an expression ofevolution-in-action, we have to dare to look beyond everything we already know. We have to leave the door open for the unimaginable. We have to stop weighing and measuring what’s possible now by what has already happened. We have to let go of all the conscious and unconscious cynicism that has become habitual in our way of thinking

- Andrew Cohen

The above quote reminds me to remain open to possibilities without getting burdened by past.

Web Site of ABVYM

Being a participant of Vivekananda Mahamandal while being in college, I have read through some of the literature published through Akhil Bharat Vivekananda Yuva Mahamandal.

I was glad to see online presence of this estimated organization and some of the material available on line.

Visit the website using this link: http://www.abvym.org

Blog Link: Six Questions

I have been catching up on my emails and this particular article caught my attention.

It was a quick refresher on lessons you learned and motivating.

1. Do you have the capacity to be completely honest with yourself?

2. Acceptance of people, places and things as they are, not as you would have them, opens deeper understanding of how the world works

3. Script and build better character traits based on service to others instead of self enrichment.

and 3 more..

Read the full article here

Have a leadership plan

If you are working to develop your leadership skills, develop a plan.

Identify the following:

- Where do you have opportunities to display leadership?
- How will you be show leadership?
- What kind of legacy would you like to leave?
- How do you distinguish yourself?
- How do you avoid falling into a trap and become a bad leader?

Following is an example of how you can brain storm ideas and develop one for yourself.

Tip: Now or Never

For past few months I was planning to write a new tip on time management. Title of the  tip was meant to be ‘Now or Never’ and what I will be writing in this tip kept resonating in my mind but didn’t make it so far.

Hectic work schedules, information overload, lack of attention, numerous distractions have turned me (may be some of you) into a busy bee  and now I suffer from ‘Now or Never’ symptom.  What I need to do keeps coming back to me at various times, but before I get to it, something else comes to my mind.

I have abandoned paper based planner because I am equipped with mobile device like Blackberry. But I find myself re-writing goals on my computer/blackberry which I had in my paper based planner. This is good news because my goals have not changed.

How am I planning to deal with this ‘Now or Never’ problem?

- Focus on at least one Important tasks instead of only Urgent tasks everyday.
- Schedule specific backlog clearance effort during weekend
- Clear at least one item from backlog every day.
- If you can do it, DO IT NOW and ignore possible distractions at that time

One thing is for sure, I am going to post this note TODAY as soon as I have written it instead of planning to reword and send it another day (or NEVER?)  and I DID IT by successfully ignoring a new instant messages I was getting while posting this message.

Favorite Authors and Appealing Book Titles

I think we cannot rest till we have latest/unread book by our favorite authors (once you see them) in our hands. Over last one week I have acquired three books that I need to finish.

- Excused Begone by Wayne Dyer
- Foreign Body by Robin Cook
- When Everything Changes Change Everything by Neale Donald Walsch

I am sure I will enjoy them and hope I can share some words of wisdom I learn on this blog.

Meanwhile, I also wanted to share some book titles that tempt me a lot. It is because I believe in those action words and talk about them at work. I feel that I must read them.

Titles are

- Practice What you Preach
- Sense of Urgency
- Hit the ground Running
- Helping People win at work

I already have first two and completed reading them. I am hoping to get to other two after I finish what I already have waiting on my reading table.