RESTART...!

 

This is our moment.

We cannot turn back time. But we can grow trees, green our cities, rewild our gardens, change our diets and clean up rivers and coasts.

We are the generation that can make peace with nature.

Let’s get active, not anxious. Let’s be bold, not timid. 

Join #GenerationRestoration

Resilient...!

"...resilient people are really good at choosing carefully where they select their attention. They have a habit of realistically appraising situations, and typically, managing to focus on the things that they can change, and somehow accept the things that they can't.

This is a vital, learnable skill for resilience. As humans, we are really good at noticing threats and weaknesses. We are hardwired for that negative. We're really, really good at noticing them. Negative emotions stick to us like Velcro, whereas positive emotions and experiences seems to bounce off like Teflon.

Being wired in this way is actually really good for us, and served us well from an evolutionary perspective..."

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, 

but from wanting to control it.”

― Kahlil Gibran

Let us give our best to change WHAT WE CAN and

Let us ACCEPT WHAT WE CAN'T and in any case

Let us STOP WORRYING and start WISHING...

Way to go...

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PS - Don't miss to watch NOMADLAND, particularly if you seemingly have reached the end of the tunnel and not sure where to go next...

Leadership...?

The difference between a King or an Emperor or a Boss and a Leader is a Leader can never be authoritarian, dictator or self-indulgent to the level of being indifferent to other’s pain and sufferings. Quality of Leadership is directly proportional to the Human lives one touches and uplifts… it has nothing to do with the Position or Power, lest the Propaganda! Besides, a Leader has an unwavering Vision and a dignified Mission higher than self-worth that can never be compromised...!

"The only variable are the conditions inside the organization, and that's where leadership matters, because it's the leader that sets the tone. When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen..."

"If you think about what being a great parent is, what do you want? What makes a great parent? We want to give our child opportunities, education, discipline them when necessary, all so that they can grow up and achieve more than we could for ourselves. Great leaders want exactly the same thing. They want to provide their people opportunity, education, discipline when necessary, build their self-confidence, give them the opportunity to try and fail, all so that they could achieve more than we could ever imagine for ourselves..."

"It's not the numbers. It's that they have violated the very definition of leadership. They have violated this deep-seated social contract. We know that they allowed their people to be sacrificed so they could protect their own interests, or worse, they sacrificed their people to protect their own interests. This is what so offends us, not the numbers. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people..."

"Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank. I know many people at the seniormost levels of organizations who are absolutely not leaders. They are authorities, and we do what they say because they have authority over us, but we would not follow them..."

Way to go...

Lifecode...!

The only human (?) emotion or feeling that is being nurtured lately is of being competitive. And this competitiveness has nothing to do with the competency, mind you, but being successful. Moreover, this Success is hardly measured by quality of life or being happy, it is about the possessions. These possessions have to be branded, hence expensive and to possess and maintain all of those, a lot of resources are required. The resources would be generated by bagging more and more work by hook or crook, then working hard to keep the work coming and finally keeping the customers ‘happy’ even if their demands are illogical, unjustified to the extent of being indecent or immoral.

This is what is called as vicious circle in which you can get in quite easily, you know, because the whole (value?) system is designed and developed to facilitate your entry into it; but can’t get out of it… ever, forget easily, only your spirit (?) might escape it, God knows! It goes round and round and as the basics of geometry has it – a circle doesn’t have a start or endpoint, only a center and quadrants… at the most Tangents, if you choose to be one, but then you are not the part of the circle anymore!

Had it been a personal matter of individual interest, there was no need to pay any heed to it; however, the very structure of a civilized society is weaved with individuals that cannot be isolated and left to live in silos. Every human being is connected to the other and the bio-system and the ecology, in one way or other and can make its environment stink just like a rotten fruit that can spoil the entire basket, because the self-centered and ‘possessive’ competitiveness is no healthier but is full of ignorance, even worst, hatred towards others. The winning in this competition is all about 'I, Me and Myself!' This selfishness knows no limits as it, not only takes for granted, but completely underestimates the others forming the pyramid on top of which the privileged ‘I’ stands.

This obsession for self-growth and apathy towards everything else is terminal to the humanity and to the nature by and large. Why, because it is fundamentally against the nature’s law of circular motion. A seed gets sown into the soil and the groundwater helps it sprout. Once it breaks the ground to emerge as a plant, Sun, Rain and Wind do their job to facilitate nature taking its course and a huge tree is born. Once the foliage is full-grown, it generates flowers and fruits with the essential elements to develop a seed that will go into the soil and a new cycle will begin. A shrub, plant, creeper or a tree, irrespective of its size and family, follows the circular motion and keeps the nature’s law circulating. A tree, no matter how big and old, serves as the home for innumerable insects, birds, animals and many other species, bears fruits as per the season and even becomes a shelter for the passer byes, but never boasts its riches or expects anything in return, even 'privileges' for being a privileged huge old 'cultured' tree!

Except for every saleable commodity that humans can extract from the trees and the jungle, when would we return to the jungle and see a tree to take some life lessons...?

Humanity is dead, long live the nature...!

Transition...!

I have been a great fan of TED Talks and followed all of those ideas spread through this platform, religiously. The very idea of spreading ideas that are worth spreading fascinated me and the non-religious, non-corporate and apolitical character of TED made it my favorite for all these years. TEDsters – Started as a For-profit Conference by Richard Saul Wurman went through a transformation in 2002 when TEDTalks became a not-for-profit volunteer-led endeavor.

Chris Anderson the TedTalks Custodian – as he likes to call himself addressed the audience wherein he narrated this transition frilled with his own life experience of a roller-coaster ride. This talk, which is not a typical TED Talk but something very fundamental to the very idea of TEDTalks, might be almost 2 decades old, but the situations and the life-changing experiences are more relevant today than ever with the life-threatening outbreak of pandemic that the world has witnessed, we are still not recovered fully from the aftermath of it!

“And the reason I'm telling this story is that I believe, from many conversations, that a lot of people in this room have been through a similar kind of rollercoaster -- emotional rollercoaster -- in the last couple years. This has been a big, big transition time, and I believe that this conference can play a big part for all of us in taking us forward to the next stage to whatever's next. The theme next year is re-birth.”

And something more deep to ponder on…

“And I think what disgusts me more than anything, looking back, is how the hell did I let my personal happiness get so tied up with this business thing?”

Let us reorganize rest of our lives by focusing on what matters most to our own self...

Can we...?