Category: Starts again

If someone already takes credit for your work, then you must consider this

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Are you failing in life? Are you putting in a lot of effort? But someone else takes the credit.

I was facing this problem in my life. And recently, I met a complete failure. Failure is not due to a lack of skill, knowledge, or ability to present. I failed for only one reason. Let me explain a little detail here.

Being frustrated, I start searching. On all books, blogs, and YouTube videos, the same things I found

  • goals and planning.
  • hard work.
  • Accept failure with an open heart.
  • perseverance and persistence.

If you apply these things, one day you will succeed.

I am getting frustrated at not knowing why I failed.

The idea came to mind: what about Chanakya? What he taught his student to build a kingdom And why still, some ancient knowledge resurfaces.

When I searched for Chanankiya, I found that we did not know much about him. Being Pakistanis, we have a very bad impression of Chankiaya. I heard he was a very clever man. Not even a single publication on Chanakiya In Pakistan.

Even When I searched on the Internet, I found that only “Radhakrishnan Pillai” wrote some books in the light of the wisdom of Chanakya.

I feel the knowledge and wisdom of Chanakiya have been lost. We are unable to place him like Plato and Socrates.

Thanks to Amazon, I purchased one book, “Think Like Chanakya,” as a kindle.

I used to purchase books on my kindle, and the Amazon kindle app on Windows is a replacement for reading these books.

“Think Like Chankaya” writer Radhakrishnan Pillai sahib mentioned that according to Chanakya, four things are required as subject matter experts.

  1. Right thinking. You are capable of making the right decisions.
  2. Knowledge of the Vedas. The Vedas are knowledge of that time. At the moment, I consider it mastering the subject. Bookish knowledge of your field
  3. Knowledge of the economy. What will sell, and what will not? Demand and supply
  4. Knowledge and science of Politics.

I discovered the first three points. I am a knowledgeable person. I have already implemented it in my personal and professional lives. The only thing missing is Politics.

I was left behind due to Politics.

Plato: One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.’

Without politics, you cannot get ahead.

So every task has two parts.

  • Do the task.
  • Show the completed task.

You cannot be successful until you are able to show your work. Showing your work requires a lot of concentration. We can compete with others only through office politics.

And this is reality.

Previously, I thought politics were bad. But now that I think either is bad or good, I have to learn the art and science of politics. This is the way to go.

Relations with others are result of relation with self

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One of the biggest challenge, I am facing now is building relationship with others.

I realize that the relationship with others are result of your relationship with yourself.

Whatever is inside, reflect outside.

Now question is how can I make good relationship with myself.

Answer is to understand yourself. Accept your past, hope for future and overcome your fear. It is a starting point for me. For this I start to give answer to following points.

Who am I.

What are my achievements.

What are my failures.

What are my strengths.

What are my weakness.

What motivates me.

What discourage me.

More importantly why I did things in a way. What was my motivation. What was my intension.

I have to understand my weakness and failures. So they will not become hurdle in my success.

Sometimes, the idea of failure stops us to move ahead. I failed that time, this will repeat again. I will fail again. To control this, we  have to accept our failures. Remember, whatever we resist, persist.

So control on it.

Understand weakness, is important, so we work on it. I know, start working on it.

For example, I used to delay things, but when dead line reach near, my start to panic. And as result nothing happen. I start working from day first. So panic situation never happen. I start to control that I have enough time. I have start working on day one. In this way, I overcome the weakness.

My greater weakness is communicate. I understand, what I spoke. I start spoke about my work. I found that I am unable to bear the criticism. So I check my sensitivity. And start understand, it is just other person opinion. Take it or not take it. Just listen. And ignore.

I found that my documentation is not good, due to grammatical mistakes. My sentences are similar to speaking. Not professional writing. So after writing, I start using Quillbot, Grammerly or Notion Ai.

You have to understand, What motivates you. For example, fear of failing. Motivates me. Ability to learn new things, motivates me.

You also notice, what demotivate you. Reason for that, when that situation happens, you can handle the situation. You can take proactive action.

My friends, whatever the failure happens, you have to accept that. Let it go for all past actions.

Start a better relation with yourself. And slowly it will come out and reflect in your relationship.

Do you have right mindset.

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Nothing easy in life. Life throw misfortune and misery on us. There are failures we have to face. But this is not end. There are also successes, happiness and moments of joys. For these situations we need right mindset. The right mindset, helps us face all possible challenges life throw at us. Best solution to all negative is right amount of positivity, Believe me it is best counter to doubts, fears and discouragement. We have to learn from failure, We have to accept them and then study and improve and move forward. But too much positivity is also not right. Being to much positive makes us careless. There should be room for negativity. That helps us to prepare for obstacles, challenges and failures, Before hand preparation to deal with them. Right mindset have both combination of positive and negative.

Putting first thing first

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Life is all about priorities. Where we focus it grows. Where we ignore it dry.

Truth is we can not do everything. But we can do something. That something is based on priorities.

When we set priority, there are two things need to concentrate. Urgent and Important.

For example currently I am over weight. It is my second most priority. My first priority is my office work. Then I focus on my health. Walking, Exercise, diet control and controlling my hunger is my second priority. Third priority is my family and their needs. And forth priority my blog, youtube channel.

Ik Alif parho chutkara hayee. Focus on one task

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I read the book from Qasir abbas. Main Ishaq or Woh.

After that my understanding of sufi peotry is started to change. Why these sufi couplet from 100 or years.

Something inside it. people love it. These couplet have some deep meaning. We translate or try to understand it according to our perception about life. Some thoughts they talk about god. Some times they talk about some lost love.

While travelling to office, I am not using mobile. Most of people I saw using whats app or wathcing movies on youtube or ticktock. That 30 minutes I started to observe my environment. Start to living in present moment. And the same time, My mind start to think. who am I. What I am doing. How I can improve my work. How things will be better in my life.

Couplet of baba bulleh shah came to my mind.

Ik Alif parho chutkara hayee.

Muslim consider Alif is for Allah. The first alphabet of Urdu, hindi, farsi. But some sufi saints talk Alif for Ishaq. they did not start Ishaq with Eyen Alphbat. They started Ishaq with Ialif. In arabic. Alif is used for First alphabet. But some they used Alif for infinite or million.

I am not going to discuss this as word used for Allah or not go into religious discussion.

I am considering it one task at time. When you doing something just focus one task at hand. If you did not have focus on one task. Possible you lost. In million task. Every task become distraction for other.

So Baba Bulleh shah, talks about one thought at time. Focus one idea at time. Focus on one thing at time.

Ik Alif pharo chuttkara hayee.

Means, if you want to achieve something or true liberation from stress. Pick one task and complete it. Forget about all other task.

One by one you finish all task. But the Idea of one is amazing.

Everything starts form one. It means, if you deliver something successfully, more work starts to appear.

Maktab ishaq a dastoor nirala dakah,

Usye chuti naa mili jis naye sabaq yaad kaya.

Interesting. What I learn from professional career. That When you do and complete some task with full concentration and able to close it or finish it. More work start to appear.

Ik Alif Pharo Chukkraa hayee.

Take the name of One. You will be liberated.

You can also found this on apna org.

https://apnaorg.com/poetry/bullah/8.htm

Ik alif parho chutkara he

Ik alifon do tan char hoyePhir lakh karor hazar hoyePhir othon bajh shumaar hoyeHik alif da nukta niara he

Ik alif parho chutkara he

Kiun parhnain gadd kitabaan diSir chana en pind azabaan diKiun hoyian shakal jladaan diAgge pinda mushkal bhara he

Ik alif parho chutkara he

Hun hafiz hifz quran karainParh parh ke saaf zubaan karainPer nemat wich dhian karainMann phirda jion halkara he

Ik alif parho chutkara he

Bullah bhi borh da hoya siOh burjh wada ja hoya siJad barch oh fani hoya siPhir reh gia bi akara he