Friends, today I am going to share a little incident from an organizational training that was conducted by me.
The training was being conducted for twenty leaders of an organization. On the second day of the session, a participant walked up to me and struck a conversation. Interestingly, he was the only person who remained quite throughout the program and didn’t participate with enthusiasm. Apparently, he wanted to share something with me.
His concern was that he was stuck at the same position in his company for the last 7 years. On the other hand, his juniors were getting promoted and this was making him unhappy.
I enquired and asked him if there was any particular reason for this? Initially, he blamed his manager, colleagues, policies of the company and the list goes on. After a lot of probing he finally opened up and said that poor communication skills might be something that was keeping him away from progress.
At this point I just asked him a simple question – What actions have you taken to improve your communication skills. I wasn’t surprised with his answer, he said – Not a single.
Friends, most of us suffer from the same thing. We want to achieve many things, we want a prosperous life, and we plan some of it too. Eventually we end up doing nothing and come up with every possible excuse for it.
Tell me, if you have an early morning exam and while preparing for the same you end up sleeping late, will you not get up and appear for your paper? Of course you will! You will go to the examination hall no matter what because you know it is important and your future depends on it. When your life depends on something you work for it without coming up with excuses because somewhere deep inside you know that you might suffer great loss. In a nutshell, you overcome your ‘Inner Resistance’ that keeps you from doing things.
Mr. Raj Mali (my teacher) has given me a beautiful mantra to overcome one’s inner resistance. It is called- "No Mercy With The Self". When you want to do something that might help you move ahead in life but don’t have the time to do it, or the energy (...and the list goes on), just follow this simple rule that I have shared with you.
Do you want to suffer same loss like the gentleman at the training? Then what are you waiting for? If you want to speak English fluently make sure you dedicate half an hour every day for the same. Practice it daily and remember, show no mercy to yourself. You will see miracles’ happening as someone has rightly said,
Convert "You Should" into "You Must" and your dreams will become a reality.
Have a happy week ahead.
Lots of Love,
BSR
The training was being conducted for twenty leaders of an organization. On the second day of the session, a participant walked up to me and struck a conversation. Interestingly, he was the only person who remained quite throughout the program and didn’t participate with enthusiasm. Apparently, he wanted to share something with me.
His concern was that he was stuck at the same position in his company for the last 7 years. On the other hand, his juniors were getting promoted and this was making him unhappy.
I enquired and asked him if there was any particular reason for this? Initially, he blamed his manager, colleagues, policies of the company and the list goes on. After a lot of probing he finally opened up and said that poor communication skills might be something that was keeping him away from progress.
At this point I just asked him a simple question – What actions have you taken to improve your communication skills. I wasn’t surprised with his answer, he said – Not a single.
Friends, most of us suffer from the same thing. We want to achieve many things, we want a prosperous life, and we plan some of it too. Eventually we end up doing nothing and come up with every possible excuse for it.
Tell me, if you have an early morning exam and while preparing for the same you end up sleeping late, will you not get up and appear for your paper? Of course you will! You will go to the examination hall no matter what because you know it is important and your future depends on it. When your life depends on something you work for it without coming up with excuses because somewhere deep inside you know that you might suffer great loss. In a nutshell, you overcome your ‘Inner Resistance’ that keeps you from doing things.
Mr. Raj Mali (my teacher) has given me a beautiful mantra to overcome one’s inner resistance. It is called- "No Mercy With The Self". When you want to do something that might help you move ahead in life but don’t have the time to do it, or the energy (...and the list goes on), just follow this simple rule that I have shared with you.
Do you want to suffer same loss like the gentleman at the training? Then what are you waiting for? If you want to speak English fluently make sure you dedicate half an hour every day for the same. Practice it daily and remember, show no mercy to yourself. You will see miracles’ happening as someone has rightly said,
Convert "You Should" into "You Must" and your dreams will become a reality.
Have a happy week ahead.
Lots of Love,
BSR
