Reaching There

When Hamlet said "To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come", he was referring to the pains an afterlife might bring. There was no way he could be sure whether there would be a relief from the sufferings he is in now. However he was sure that "To be, or not to be: that is the question". Now what is the purpose of bringing up probably the most famous soliloquy ever written in English literature? The reason is simple it portrays two emotions which we all go through in our lives at some stage or even throughout our lives. The first emotion is the desire to bring a change in our lives and second the indecision that follows it afterwards. So what can we learn from Hamlet's soliloquy? The answer lies in his thought process. We can learn something from his thought process and use it in our daily lives. For Hamlet it was a question of life or death. For us it may not be so severe but the effects of our decisions ...

This would be my theme picture for my blog header. It is about a man standing next to a door, looking into the vastness of nature in front of him. The question is what is he thinking? Or is he waiting for something? Or he is just simply enjoying the stillness of beauty in front of him? These and other questions alike keep us haunting in our minds continuously. The mind is like a fly inside a jar it is continuously buzzing around probably unable to understand what is it should do. So it is time we slowdown and relax a bit. Try and watch the beauty and marvel of simple things around us. Then perhaps when we are able to enjoy small thing we may enjoy bigger thing even better. Take a deep breath and for a moment try and feel the happiness inside your mind.

After months of procrastination I finally joined a local fitness center to get myself in a better shape. I have always been on a leaner side but a desire to improve my posture has always been there. But that is another story. The reason I am writing this blog is during the past few weeks I have learned a few important lessons during my workout sessions. I have tried to generalize these lessons and here they are: You always have to start small and gradually build up strength. You can't expect yourself to bench even few tens of pounds from the start itself. You have to start small and gradually push your way to higher levels. The qualities that help you during this course are such as patience, honesty and self-consciousness. The reason for patience is obvious you have to go through it during a course of time; instantaneous results are not always beneficial. The reason honesty is there because you have to continue with these efforts during this course of time. You can't expect to ...

This post is inspired by a movie called " Dead Poet's Society ". In it Robin Williams inspires his students to bring more randomness in their lives and he tries this through poetry. All of us sometimes feel this urge to break out of the shell that seems to have blanketed us and made us apathetic to the beauty & wisdom of the world around us. But how do we get rid of this blanket and cry out loud to the heavens to shower us with this mysterious rain of emotions and discovery? The feeling does not lie in feeling the felt, reading the read, seeing the seen but going out of our limits that we have created for ourselves. We have to bring forth the little Einstein or little Whitman or little Lincoln or little Premchand or little Presley inside of us and let it flow free for at least some time during the course of our mostly mundane lives. Only then can we truly enjoy what we're doing and create/achieve something new in our lives. The more frequently we make these small ...

Here is a small exercise you can do to find something relevant (or totally irrelevant!) about yourself. Interested? Here's what I want you to do......write ten line each on the following topics: Your childhood memories Your school/college memories Your profession memories so far Your aspiration Remember just ten lines each. Now copy the stuff you've written. Now go to a website called http://www.wordle.net/ and paste it in their " Create your own." section. Now see what words stand out among the word cloud your words have created. Here what my words made: Please do read about their privacy notice before publishing your wordle on the website. It would be better if you just take the screenshot for you records. The website agrees too!

I recently participated in an online discussion on why engineers resist change? Almost everybody agreed that engineers don't resist change, in fact they are the one who suggest change in the first place. So was the topic of the discussion an incorrect interpretation of an engineer's mind? No, I don't think so. I believe nobody resists change but everybody resists the desire to change. I am assuming the change here is in the direction of betterment (like the trees shed their leaves, but in a beautiful way; that's why the picutre if you have been wondering!). How many of us agree that we should be in a better physical change? But most of us resist the desire to workout and give various reasons on being unable to do so! So we can all agree that change is inevitable and most of the time uncontrollable. But it is not unmanageable! We can always deal with the change in the most beneficial way. The management of a change decides how we will get through it. I can think of two p...

Hi, I made a presentation on Effects of Globalization & Risk Management on Supply Chain a while back. One of the most interesting topic in the current economic scenario. The reason being realizing and increasing visibility across a company's supply chain helps to remove unwanted waste and improve quality as well. It encompasses every activity which originates from getting the raw material till delivering the finished goods to a customer. Another concept which is emerging is managing the demand chain. Think of it as the other side of a scale. Unless both the sides are not balanced the scale would always be tipped to one side. This would lead to unnecessary waste and reduced quality. After all we all seek for balance in our lives as well! Let me know what you think! Thanks. Supply Chain Globalization View more presentations from pbajpai2 .