Continuous Improvement

Yesterday, I met a childhood friend, who used to study with me at Air Force School and we spent good amount of time catching up on the lost action.. it was great fun.

During our discussions, we realized that it has been 30 years, since we last met.. surprising.. time just moves so fast..

Later on, when I was back at home, I tried to visualize those last 30 years, it was an indeed a Great Journey of Life for me, starting with six Great years of Hostel Life (OMG..) and then 24 years of career, in which I traveled a lot and met hundreds of individuals / personalities, who had shared their thoughts with me and many of them did left an impression, always to be remembered.. 

All those individuals must have shaped my thought process and somewhere.. somehow.. in between without realizing much..  I started leaving an impression on others.. unbelievable.. I am not sure, how and when.. but yes, its true and I believe it happens with almost everyone. When individuals grow with responsibilities, they tend to accumulate wealth of experiences and those experiences help them to solve puzzles for others.. it looks to me as a natural process.

With experience, individual grow and get more n more  responsibilities and one of the task at their hand is setting Goals for others.. even I do the same in my current set of responsibilities.. but the task which is very close to my heart is setting goals for myself. 

I do it regularly and try to achieve all these goals within set time frames. One of the my ongoing goal, always remains is "Continuous Improvement". Somehow, I had grown a habit of following this practice of Continuous Improvement, its very easy and very helpful to achieve New success in Life. This practice can be applied on any task, any project, any field.. and this helps you to manage the changes going on in your Life.

Follow a few simple steps to follow this practice. Just try to break down any project or task in smaller steps, to understand the Workflow. Go deeper with each of the smaller steps to understand the details and with each dip, you will realize a few pointers wherein improvement is feasible. You work to carry out the improvement, without getting disturbed by an idea of failure.. yes.. there is no formula to get 100% success.. just try.. and keep on trying.. ultimately you will find success.. you will reach a feeling of achievement, may be small or may be big, depending on the change/improvement you bring to the project. With each visit, such small improvements are possible, an individual just needs a will to drill down the details and another set of will power to knock down the problem areas, however small they may be.. it works.. it brings the change.. it brings the improvement.. it brings the joy n the taste of success.. its possible..

Try and Enjoy the mantra of Continuous Improvement and it can also easily help you to master Change Management. Enjoy the Life..

Building Relationships..

As Life moves on, everyone of us faces n number of turmoil.. creating moments of uncertainity, sometimes even bringing Life to a standstill.. wherein it becomes difficult to make decisions as the road to the future seems foggy..

In my opinion, in such scenarios, we should stick to a basic fundamental of Life, i.e., Building Relationships.

When we talk of any Relationship, be it with your family or friends, a wife.. a husband.. son or a daughter, parents.. or grandparents, friends or colleagues.. an individual is able to feel the emotions of the other person easily, be it the moments of happiness or sadness, the success or failure.. An individual can easily understand those emotions in a Relationship and always Enjoy the Happy moments and try to find solutions to suppress the  sad moments for the other individual. An individual easily takes the role of a Solution provider and try to use all his or her experience to help the relative in distress..

So, its always fruitful, to build more n more Relations, be it with your Neighbours, distant Friends, more n more Colleagues, with all of your official Business Partners n Clients.. with anyone n everyone, with whom you interact regularly, either in your private moments or in official terms.

Once you start building these Relationships, you start to understand the thought process of the other individual more closely. It becomes more n more easier for each individual to understand the needs and desires of the other individual. It brings more Solutions to the table than conflicts. It creates more moments of Happiness n Joy in Life. It creates Harmony in the Society..

It helps.. try and Enjoy the Life!!!

Understanding Priorities

Venue - Home, Dwarka, New Delhi, India; Time - 2.08 pm; a laid back afternoon.. Its a Saturday, wife at office, son at his Fiitjee classes, me - no task at hand.. what to do.. already through with unlimited cups of coffee..

While browsing through mails, networking sites, News columns, somehow I reached my own Blog space.. surprisingly the last Blog was posted in Feb 2011..its been 2 years now..

The time just flows..when I looked back, I realized that I got a new responsibility at office during Mar 2011, it was a challenge and to fit in..I dropped my anchor and announce my arrival by changing my routines from 10-5 to 5-10, starting at 5 am in the morning and normally working through 10 pm in the night.. 

It was time to list out the priorities to succeed in the challenge and unconsciously I dropped off activities, which were low on my priority list at that moment..I never realized it or even I never regretted doing the same..writing Blogs is one such activity. It was close to my heart but really not important in the scheme of things to succeed..

I did it..anyone can do the same to succeed in Life. 

A human can multi-task but there is a limitation to do the same. Even a PC runs slower when some applications start at the background, like any Windows update or some Virus Scan activity or anything.. same is the case with Humans. If they try to attend to hundred of things at one go.. there is good chance, they fail in completing many tasks, they can not stand by their commitments at many times..

So, its always better to list out your priorities, choose the important few and focus only on those important ones.. leave behind the ones which can be left... don't be over-committed.. Its a safe way to accomplish your commitments and achieve success..

Try the same n Enjoy the Life!!!