This is not a post of tips on navigating the first week on a Job. Just to celebrate the several first weeks we all have had many a time in our career. And to post a flashback of an interesting ‘first week’ in my career. . gone are the days when people joined a job and retired in the same job/company. But we all still … Continue reading First week on a new Job – Observe and Ask Help……..
The decision for me to read ‘Abundance’ had a reason. But once I started I was wondering why was I so late in reading it. It was released 6 years ago, in 2012 and in that 6 years I have had so many bouts and even long spells of pessimism and the sense of scarcity and lack of belief in a future. I was more … Continue reading Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
With ‘Give and Take’, now I have read all three of Adam Grant’s books. I started with Originals. Was impressed and I started following him on LinkedIn and Twitter. Then I read Option B a few weeks back which he cowrote with Sheryl Sandberg and I have also been a regular listener of his amazing Work Life Podcast. And now Give and Take which I … Continue reading Givers, Takers and the insight into self and people we work with
OK… so I gave my resignation. Not today.. I gave it two weeks back and yesterday was my last day at work. Heading for a new adventure on Monday. Yes… A weekend and then anew onto a new role. I sent my farewell email with a Trey Parker quote.. “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we … Continue reading We all get better (only) by getting better at embracing change
Today is the day I was born… Today is also the day my Grandmother passed away. I am told she died the exact same time I was born. I think I was in 5th or 6th grade back then. No, this fact that the dates coincide, does not bother me at all. Because there is no relevance to things like the time when a person … Continue reading When your birthday coincides with your Grandma’s death anniversary
Mark Manson’s book ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ was not my first choice to read. But there was so much promotion on it. I saw people posting pictures of it on Social media. People talking.. yes.. people were literally talking about books for a change… And it was displayed in the bookstores (yes… bookstores.. they still have a few of them with … Continue reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
some dreams, were shut down. nightmares that never existed, came true. fantasies survived, and now life is short…. no more delusions.. just a few steps into an unknown. possibilities have no limits and imagination has been set free fly, try, fall, fly -Vinod- Continue reading fly
I was watching an interview with Philip Levine as he remembers his life in the Ford’s River Rouge Plant. As he talks about his life there; a time when his young self never knew if he would ever have a way out of there and not even in his wildest dreams did he think it would be poetry. As he says that the interviewer asks … Continue reading Learning from Philip Levine on – What Work Is
Walking into one’s inner cell wearing the uniform of a rainbow unicorn yet feeling naked to say the least. I wonder if this will ever end Inside there is a sense of peace that the outside will never know. And a pain that can only be savored when you inside-out you Aha! yes there is the cap And now I can close the bottle And … Continue reading The Personal Genie – #6 of 365 Poems
Just finished reading the book Option B. Felt very connected with it as I could see many personal strands of me come back to life… Some books start revealing itself more when you put them down. Option B is one such book. Thanks Sheryl, Thanks Adam! I lost my dad when I was 16 or 17 and my sister was 11 and I could relate … Continue reading Looking back at Life after reading Option B
Vinod Narayan 