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Dear reader,
Thank you for visiting my blog.
I would value your readership and wish to have a meaningful interaction in future as well.
I have moved my blog to <ringroundthemoon.wordpress.com>.Same blog, hopefully a better presentation. Do visit as you have done in the past.
Sincerely,
Vipin

Our response to problems is flawed..

Our response to everyday problems is flawed. And this time our genes are to blame.
After many many years of evolution, we are still driven by a primordial response to a problem.
'Fight' or 'Flee'.
We allow our brains to perceive all problems as 'threats'. The conversation goes like this:

Us - "oh no! oh my god! I have a problem"

Our brain - "You don't worry. I know what to do with a threat when I sense one. I will go into a panic mode and send your body on an adrenalin overdose, blunt your comprehension, mess with your body mind balance, and send you up into the ozone hole"
Us - " but Mr. Brain, every problem is not a threat. Problems come in different shaped and sizes. Failures, traffic jams, missed opportunities, money loss. Do you understand?"
Our brain - " No I don't. Do you?"
Our brain plus wisdom - " If you did, you would not think of all problems as threats. you would not follow the same cycle of fear, panic, fight or runaway. You understand the transience and weightlessness of a problem but you react as if this was your last minute on earth"
Us - "Oh, then am I the problem?".

Our brain is hard wired to react to a life-threat. But we can train it to use patience and not panic, to treat problems lightly, not as life threatening moments but as mere 'situations', some expected and some not.

How we react to a problem will determine whether we surmount the problem and get it out of the way or succumb to it and languish.

Never too late

It is never too late to change. Improve, learn, amend something. There is always a better way of doing things, a shorter route to reach a goal or a more economical solution to a project. How can we expect to better an outcome if we close our minds and hearts and bodies to learning?
There was never a dearth of learning or never will be. Have we opened our senses to such hints and signs?

Think progressive change. Today.

Form and content are so intricately linked

Form and content are so intricately linked to each other, it is unimaginable to see a good product if the content and it's presentation are not balanced in a mutually complimentary way. A good product and good packaging. A good book and a good cover.Form and content are the same side of the coin.

In the war between form and content if one loses the other loses too.

Dreams

Dreams are like clouds. Far away, yet very personal. Like clouds dreams have no beginning and no end. They are here now and not here another moment. They change form, from fairy like to menacing. They uplift, depress, frighten, give hope, bring flashes of great insight, churn souls. Dreams, like clouds can contain fluffy nothingness or a hundred fear dragons hiding behind bolts of lightening.
Everyone has one private cloud. Like one dream. The problem is this cloud never remains the same. It is ever changing. Looming round the corner with a new unknown face.

Dreams are real, dreams are unreal.

A job done well

Difference between good and great performance is this.
When you do a task, a task gets done. Just that. A mere tick off the list. A contractual obligation delivered, to put it crudely. Expect no standing ovations. Meeting expectations is nothing great.
However, when you accomplish a task with a touch of excellence, you over deliver, you set new standards, create new pathways, invent, innovate. You are super duper. In your own eyes and those of others.

That is the biggest joy no wealth can match. It stays with you forever.

Homecoming

When there is a whiff of pure joy and a warm feeling in your soul and your heart is so peaceful, you can be sure that your child has come home.