Planning is what helps us to do more in the available time we have and save us from surprises that peep from the corner. But there is also a certain adventure with not planning things. A certain love affair with the unknown surprise that makes its way to our life.

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How does someone feel complete? On December 31st one more day and you step into a new year. Your one year is complete and you used up another year of your life. Do you feel complete? what does complete mean? Does it mean different things for different people?

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We went through 5 things to think and do yesterday.. there is 5 more in my mind.. After this don't ask me if you do all these... not daily but very frequently I keep doing these... But I wanted to capture these here... Don't have to feel stressed and overwhelmed.. but there might be one or two that might resonate with you and that is all my intention here.... It is also a reminder for me on a few things....

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Life is like playing cards, we have no choice on the hand being dealt, but we are in control of putting up the best game we can. If I was to put down 10 things to think and do that can fit into an everyday routine... what would they be....? I will do 5 things in this post and the next 5 tomorrow.

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Here is a message I got from a fortune cookie during my Lunch a while back… This Fortune Cookie message is a Japanese Proverb Nanakorobi yaoki which literally means, “Fall seven times and stand up eight” Let us try debugging that.. just for fun....

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A person leaving your team is something we all have faced in our work life. Many times we have been able to negotiate them back. Yet we all have worked in teams where people leave. It is a fact of work life. Every team loses some people over a period of time. The question is how we cope both as a team and as a team member

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Transparency can be a very useful tool.. especially when you work in teams. It helps us in building a connection between team members. Transparency will also bring the abilities and inabilities or the team to light. But if the team has been formed with a common goal in mind then team members help each other to succeed.

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I think we all know that 'Finding Fault' is not a much appreciated trait but knowingly or unknowingly many do get quite good at it over time. To be honest we all might have sometime or other fallen into that trap of blaming someone else. Sometimes we genuinely believe that the other person is at fault, but the glory of a professional is in working towards not being trapped in that blame game.

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Can someone copy your resume..? Can that resume end up in your hand... less possible.... Can you end up interviewing that person.. No.. Way... But it happened... to yours truly a few years back....

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There is a quote by the scientist and 11th President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.. “Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.” True in all sense. But the thought I want to put before you today the need to make a hole in your dream. A hole in the dream? you might think... Yes a hole in your dream.

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