When Your Best is Not Good Enough

At times your best is not good enough.

You simply fail.

And that's just it.

You might think that it's the end of the world.

It certainly is not.

You can't do everything in life.

You can't get everything in life.

You can't be everything in life.

You are all too human, too fragile, too weak.

Failure is not the end of the road.

However, failing to learn from failure is the biggest failure.

Maybe you are not good enough.

Maybe you are not made for certain things.

And that's alright.

You are not perfect.

That's perfectly alright.

If no one ever failed, the word failure itself would not have existed!

So no worries.

Celebrate your failures.

Celebrate your not being perfect.

Celebrate your weaknesses.

Celebrate your fragility.

Celebrate your mortality.

Celebrate the finite nature of your life.

Celebrate the uncertainty of life ending at any moment.

Celebrate certainty of death at the end of life.

Do your best, always.

Your best many not be good enough, however.

And its fine if your best is not good enough.

The Clowns and the Con Masters are Back from the Silly Expedition

For some time the organization was blessed that the clowns and the con masters were away. For good.

With the clowns and the con masters around, such organizations are nothing but a zoo full of dangerous and slithery snake like characters.

Alas, the clowns and the con masters are back from the silly expedition.

They can again be seen doing the same old, stupid stuff!

You again get to see their holier than thou attitude.

You again get to see their sense of superiority.

You again get to see their utter lack of competence, maturity and professionalism through the facade of falsehoods and sham.

You again get to see the same silly smirk on their faces.

You again get to see them get the same special concessions and privileges.

You again get to see the non-stop repetition of the same stuff.

The clowns and con masters behave and project a smart-ass image of themselves whereas they are nothing but asses with holes.

Their conduct is very childish, comical and nonsensical but that is what it is.

The guy handling overall operations is a dyed-in-the-wool hypocrite. He talks big but has small thinking. He operates through his coterie. He acts like a head boy who is more childish than a small kid. He operates a gang of trusted henchmen who have only one answer to any question asked to them, "yes sir". For this funny guy only loyalty matters. In some sense he is like a slithery Anaconda.

The guy handing human resources and people practises is a third grade man who is highly manipulative and harms others in a slow but steady manner. He carries a sick smirk and funny expression of "I am the smartest of them all" on his bloody face. In some sense he is like a slithery Python.

The guy handing computing infrastructure is a complete nincompoop who carries a chameleon like demeanor and stings others when he is challenged. He has a cat like smirk and grin on the face. He portrays being a genuine guy but is full of falsehoods and deceits. In some sense he is like a slithery Viper.

The guy handling delivery operations is a highly incompetent cartoon character who is a silent killer. He has this sick attitude of "I am part of the coterie and you are not". He has his set of loyalists who lick his feet and what not. And he likes that very much. He has got certain vestigial organs around who are there but who have no value addition just like himself. In some sense he is like a slithery Black Mamba.

The guy handling money is a funny man with tonnes of attitude problem. He walks with his neck turned on one side. In some sense he is like a slithery King Cobra (he is no king but an ass-licker of the king, the Anaconda.)

The guy handling sales to customers is like a stealth missile. You won't know and the damage is done. In some sense he is like a slithery Krait.

The bull dog and his puppies are going on a spree

The plan is ready, hotel rooms have been reserved, the tickets have been booked, and stupid things have already been said and done.

Who is going? And why?

The bull dog and his puppies are going on a spree.

There is a sick camaraderie that oozes out of every stinky orifice of the bull dog and his puppies.

 The stink surrounds the stupid bull dog and his puppies in an envelope of back-room dealings, deep-rooted manipulations and smart-ass pronouncements.

The bull dog and each one of the puppy is an obnoxious specimen in its own!

For the spree it seems like no one is paying from their pockets.

When the bull dog is going with you and office is home and home is office where is the need to pay from one's own pocket?

Its an all-expenses-paid spree on the house.

The place of work and house for such retards has no difference.

Whether you are the Bada Lala or one of the Chhota Lalas or the Chamchas in such an organization the feeling and thought process you carry is the same.

For such characters, professionalism, is a word that means zilch, a big zero.

For such characters, manipulation is all that matters. In fact, the only thing that matters.

They have created a cartoon of an organization with them playing various cartoon characters.

What will happen to such an organization?

Only time will tell.

The risk is very high though.

You are headed for disaster.

May day! May day May day!

Brace! Brace! Brace!

What Work Should I Do in My Life?

"What Work Should I Do in My Life?"

This is a crucial question staring at any student who is about to complete his or her schooling.

The reason above question is a crucial question is very simple and fundamental:

"After you are dead and gone, you would only be known by what work you did in your life!"

Like Warren Buffett would be known for being an investor.

Like Barack Obama would be known for being the President of the United States of America from 2009 till 2016.

Like Sir Donald Bradman would be known for being a cricketer.

So obviously, "What Work Should I Do in My Life?" is an important question.

The work one should do in one's life should depend upon three factors primarily:

• The work is something in which one is reasonably good at
• The work is something in which one is passionately interested in
• The work is something that makes good enough money for a decent life

Let us talk about the above three in detail now.

The work is something in which one is reasonably good at

• Ideally speaking, the work should be such that one should literally be able to do that work in sleep also!
• Finding what one is reasonably good at is a matter of doing experiments in one's own life.
• Trying different things would certainly be very useful in understanding one's inherent and innate capabilities and competencies.
• Choosing a work that aligns with one's inherent and innate capabilities and competencies is the right way to go.
• Of course, one may need to really work hard in a determined way before one can conclude either way about what work one is good at or not.
• This is important because if one is good at something, one can easily find some job in a related area.
• Not being good would mean one may not even be able to find related work!

The work is something in which one is passionately interested in

• Ideally speaking,  the work should be such that one should literally enjoy that work so much that one wouldn't want to sleep and would want to do it even if one doesn't get any money for doing it!
• The above aspect is essentially related to job satisfaction.
• If one is good at something, one can surely find a job. However, one will not be satisfied and happy. One would in some sense drag along in life while doing work one doesn't passionately enjoy in the real sense.
• An acid test for finding this out is to imagine that one is super-rich and has all the money one would ever need in life.
• So in that case one wouldn't need to work for money at least. And if money is not a criteria then what would one want to do?
• It is better to find an answer to the above and do that work.
• One has to blindly assume that one can earn enough while doing the work one would want to do based on above test.
• An of course, one could be totally wrong in making that assumption.

The work is something that makes good enough money for a decent life

• All said and done, money has its importance. It may be the case that one may not live for money but one would certainly still need money to live!
• This is the third leg of the stool of a life lived well.
• One chooses to do something one is good at. One also chooses to do something one is passionately interested in. But is that enough?
• Not really, since for a life lived well, one would need to able to take care of one's physical and material needs and comforts.
• And money is very very important for assuring that. So choosing a work that pays well is equally crucial.
• One should take care of this aspect also while trying to decide what work to do in one's life.

So the question "What Work Should I Do in My Life?" is definitely an important one.

The answer to this question indeed defines and is related to the very purpose of one's existence.