It’s
been a wonderful start to the New Year 2016 and I want to wish you a very Happy,
Exciting, Adventurous & as you make it to be; year. Every year we go through a cycle of
how our life is, and sometimes we inevitably go through the same cycle and realize that nothing really changed except the days and months on the calendar. Maybe if we
introspect we’d find that there are a lot of learning’s we go through each
year, if we take time to ponder, we will see how the learning impacts us and how it fosters newness in all that we do and how we approach our lives. The
previous year has been a good year of learning, a lot has changed, not just my
place of residence but also life’s perspectives and I’d like to list my top
learning’s of 2015.
·
Be Open
to Change: At the beginning of 2015, I was still in the old, trying to
reinvent the old and survive. But if you want to thrive and not just survive,
you got to be open to change. They say
life happens to you while your busy making plans, and rightly so, I was in
midst of a meeting pitching for a project, when an sms with an opportunity
appeared on my phone, I don’t know why but something drew me to it, I call it
the Grace of God, so I politely changed the course of that pitch as listened to
the voice of my heart and I am so glad I did. Change is hard in the beginning
and it does get messy in the middle, but I can truly vouch for this, its
glorious in the end.
·
Stop Running:
We are often caught in a trap of a race and we all seem to be running without
knowing where the destination is. Even if we know the destination, it’s the
journey that we need to look forward and pay attention too. It’s not necessary
to live life chronologically, we are humans and not machines, but life seems to
be programmed and we are doing things either based on our age or circumstance. We
need to do the things we want to do and we’d love doing. We shouldn’t blame age
or circumstance for it, for the same boiling water than hardens an egg, also
softens a potato.
·
Benefit
of Doubt: Many times most of our understanding of a situation/person is
based on our perception and hence there will always be a gap unless we are
angelic and have in us divine wisdom. As human as we are, we are going to err,
therefore it is only reassuring not just us but to every situation/person we
interact with to give me them the benefit of doubt. In doing so I found that
situations and people stop getting complex and life becomes much more simpler.
· Let go:
I don’t quite remember the name of the movie, but I very clearly remember the
dialogue, in which Aamir Khan’s character blurts, that we as human live with
one leg in the past and one leg in the future and all we’re doing is
piddling on our present! and how true is that. We got to let go of all that
was in the past; it rightfully belongs where it is, from past relationships to
old resentments to grudges. We got to learn to let go of all the could’ve have
and should’ve and free ourselves of past burdens we cannot change.
·
God is
Good: I saved this for the last,
cos this had to be a show stopper, I mean we all pray to God, but do we in the truest
sense really know who God is; perhaps most of us don’t cause if we knew who God
really was, then we wouldn't hurt so
much, knowing full that God has our best interest and has placed where we need to be. To me this year has been a year of knowing, trusting and having a deep
relationship with God, I didn’t do it on my own, it was His Grace and the
people around me that help build it. But it all began because I took the first
step. It is said seek and you will find, which is so true, All you have to do
is seek him and once you come to know of him, you too will say God is Good.
I
hope this sharing inspires you to make 2016 a year that you want it to be, may
this New Year give you ample opportunity to make it a better than your previous
one and my prayer for you is to find motivation, courage and strength to seize
those opportunities!
Cheers
& God Bless,
Ash