Thought of the Week – 27th February 2023 (3)
Month: February 2023
Thought of the week – 27th February 2023 (2)
“`I found this analogy interesting:☕
I am holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into me or shakes my arm, making me spill my coffee everywhere.
Why did I spill the coffee?
“Well because someone bumped into me, of course!”
Wrong answer!
I spilled the coffee because there was coffee in my cup. Had there been tea in the cup, I would have spilled tea.
Whatever is inside the cup, is what will spill out.
Therefore, when life comes along and shakes me (which WILL happen), whatever is inside me will come out. It’s easy to fake it, until I get rattled.
So we have to ask ourselves.. “what’s in my cup?”
When life gets tough, what spills over?
Joy, gratefulness, peace and humility?
Or anger, bitterness, harsh words and reactions?
I choose!
Let’s work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation for ourselves; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.“`
( contributed by Mr BalaSunder)
Thought of the Week – 27th February 2023
Thought of the Week – 20th February 2023 (2)
Commander’s Intent is a statement that defines the mission commander’s vision of a successful outcome: It must be clear, concise, and easily understood. It’s the mission’s big picture, the logline. The Commander’s Intent should be easy to identify. First, it answers the five Ws: who, what, when, where, and why? Second, it’s repeated at the beginning and end of the briefing. And third, it begins with the statement: “The single most important thing we must accomplish is…”
Brevity clarifies, and clarity inspires.
The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the Worlds greatest salesman by Carmine Gallo
Thought of the Week – 20th February 2023
If you are too engaged with your intellect, you will not find time to be engaged with your total being. If you are too much in your head you will miss much that is available. The way can be known only if you deeply participate with existence. It cannot be understood from the outside, you have to become a participant.
Osho
Book of the Month – February 2023 : The Buddha Said : Meeting the Challenge of Life’s Difficulties
Osho, one of the best-known and most provocative spiritual teachers of our time, presents The Sutra of 42 Chapters—a scripture compiled in the first century C.E by a Chinese emperor. Using wonderful anecdotes throughout, Osho weaves his own unique insights into this profound ancient wisdom and expands its meaning for our time. As we travel with the Buddha on a path of radical wisdom, we’ll laugh or shake our heads at the folly, the ineptitude, or the goodness of the characters in the stories—and gain knowledge and understanding at the same time. Osho engages us at every level to help us experience the Buddha’s teachings and take in their timeless truths. A powerful, inspirational gem of a book.
( Recommended by Mr Maharajah)
Book of the Month – February 2023: The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey
A phenomenon when first published in 1972, the Inner Game was a real revelation. Instead of serving up technique, it concentrated on the fact that, as Gallwey wrote, “Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game.” The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played not against, but within the mind of the player, and its principal obstacles are self-doubt and anxiety. Gallwey’s revolutionary thinking, built on a foundation of Zen thinking and humanistic psychology, was really a primer on how to get out of your own way to let your best game emerge. It was sports psychology before the two words were pressed against each other and codified into an accepted discipline.
The new edition of this remarkable work–Billie Jean King called the original her tennis bible–refines Gallwey’s theories on concentration, gamesmanship, breaking bad habits, learning to trust yourself on the court, and awareness. “No matter what a person’s complaint when he has a lesson with me, I have found the most beneficial first step,” he stressed, “is to encourage him to see and feel what he is doing–that is, to increase his awareness of what actually is.”
Practice Self Compassion
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about your self”- Maya Angelou
There’s a humorous office sign that reads “The beatings will continue until morale improves!” We laugh at the sign, but many of us carry an idea that the harsher we are to ourselves, the more likely we are to change.
The opposite is true. Research shows that people who are compassionate toward themselves are better able to take on feedback, grow, and change. They find it easier to adapt because they’re already comfortable with themselves.
They’re less fragile because their whole sense of identity isn’t on the line. They know that what they did isn’t who they are. They can open up, connect, and learn.
Self-compassion doesn’t mean glossing over your failures or challenges. It means supporting yourself while you’re putting them right.
How to Stop Rescuing Other People to Feel Good About Yourself By Andrew Cain
Thought of the Week – 6th February 2023 (2)
“The only way to experience truth directly is to look within, to observe oneself. All our lives we have been accustomed to look outward. We have always been interested in what is happening outside, what others are doing. We have rarely, if ever, tried to examine ourselves, our own mental and physical structure, our own actions, our own reality. Therefore we remain unknown to ourselves. We do not realize how harmful this ignorance is, how much we remain the slaves of forces within ourselves of which we are unaware.”
― William Hart, The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S. N. Goenka
Thought of the Week – 6th February 2023
ONE TUSK 