My Thought For This Friday (12/27/19) - Patience

Patience during difficult times is not confidence that it is all going to turn out ok. It is simply knowing that panicking is not going to increase the odds of the making the outcome a positive one.

My Thought For This Friday (12/20/19) - Problem solving

If we avoid greed and ego, most problems in our lives and around us will be solved.

My Thought For This Friday - Doing the right thing

Doing the right thing will involve making the hard choice, which may ruffle feathers of some. But it should not be forgotten that for the person making that decision, it may be the only thing left.

My Thought For This Friday (12/6/19) - Hard Work

Most of the times, there is really no substitute for hard work. 

My Thought For This Friday (11/29/19) - Nostalgia

Nostalgia sounds great because Time has served as a filter to remove others and retain the best. Time has also served as a zoom feature to put memorable happenings in context and provide clarity. 

My Thought For This Friday (11/22/19) - Giving

The beauty in giving to others lies in its magical ability of reflecting what ever emotion the receipent shows; if they are content, we are. If they are happy, we are. If they are moved, we too melt. 

My Thought For This Friday (11/15/19) - Being grateful

Being thankful to people who helped you achieve something is important not because you can go back to them for more help without guilt next time around. Instead, your gratefulness demonstrates that you value and appreciate people who helped you when success was not certain. 

My Thought For This Friday (11/8/19) - Honoring achievements

My Thought For This Friday (11/8/19) - Honoring achievements 

Achievements recognized by others when you are younger is a reminder to give more effort in future for one’s own development. 

Achievements recognized by others when you are older is a reminder to give more effort in future for others’ development.

My Thought For This Friday (11/1/19) - Leadership skills

The job of a good manager is not to pinpoint members’ weaknesses, especially to them, as they are likely aware of them already. On the contrary, rhey  should mention strengths, as they may not be aware of their strengths due to many reasons including impostor syndrome. 

My Thought For This Friday (10/25/19) - Reminder

Don’t apologize for the reminder email. It may be the magical crane that pulls the buried original out and place it on the top of the heap. 

My Thought For This Friday (10/1919) - Accountability

If you are willing to be held accountable, most likely you will be sincere in your efforts and succeed in the task at hand.

My Thought For This Friday (10/11/19) - Leadership

A good manger would be aware of team members’ flaws but will delegate work to them based on their strengths.

My Thought For This Friday (10/4/19) - Punishment

Goal of a punishment should be to reinforce accountability and not inflict maximum pain possible. Otherwise, it will not have intended effect of change in behavior. 

My Thought For This Friday (09/27/19) - Do or say something

It is not enough if you think right, have good thoughts, and wish only the best in everything around you. Doing or saying something is necessary when you see injustice, notice bad deeds by others, and obvious suffering around you. Otherwise, your good thoughts amount to nothing and only self serving. 

My Thought For This Friday (09/13/19) - living in the present

Living the moment is important, as it is short lived. Just like the sunset.

My Thought For This Friday (09/20/19) - Assumptions

As a teacher I learnt that the negative result should not be used to conclude that it is due to lack of hard work by the student. 

I also want students to learn not to expect hard work alone will yield a positive result.

My Thought For This Friday (09/06/19) - Remorse

Feeling sorry or showing remorse about a mistake is the first essential step in learning from that mistake.

My Thought For This Friday (08/30/19) - Birthday

Every birthday is significant and never discount any of it, either for you or others, because although you can count how many have gone by you never know how many are left.

My Thought For This Friday (08/23/19) - cheering up

Cheering typically focuses on strengths while being judgmental focuses on one’s weaknesses.

My Thought For This Friday (08/16/19) - Fairness

Fairness is key in every argument we make to every relationship we keep. Only then they both can be sustained

My Thought For This Friday (08/09/19) - Sprint

Mangagemrnt of a long-drawn out project also requires some intense phases. Just like even in a marathon sometime one has to sprint. 

My Thought For This Friday (08/03/19) - wrapping up

I tend to complete pending work at rapid clip when leaving out of town. A clean point of transition tends to take on the role of a deadline, perhaps. Alternatively, not wanting to worry about pending stuff during travel could be another reason. 

My Thought For This Friday (07/26/19) - Fairness in praising

Fairness is important when praising some one in front of others. Ensure that you are not doing it at the expense of others, not selectively praising one for the same thing you did praise another in the group, and over doing it beyond what is deserved. Such unfair praising causes long-term damage to others in the team for the short-term gain in lifting one person in the group. 

My Thought For This Friday (07/19/19) - Compliments

Compliment someone as soon as possible. Many times it is not that we don’t want to do it. We are just so busy that we tend to forget. Later, you don’t want to regret that you will never get a chance to share that with that person. When I hear people speak in a funeral or reminisce in an obituary, I always wondered, if they got to say this to that person when he/she was alive.

My Thought For This Friday (07/12/19) - gaining and loosing

Money: gaining it is hard but expending it is easy

Calories:  gaining it is easy but expending it is hard

My Thought For This Friday (07/05/19) - Crying

An incessant crying child in a transcontinental flight reminded me that we do indeed cry less as we age. Perhaps the ability to speak replaces crying as we grow up and we save it only for those situations when words are not within reach. 

My Thought For This Friday (06/28/19) - Worrying

The most important thing you should worry about is whether you are worrying about the thing that is worth worrying about and whether you can do something about it. 

My Thought For This Friday (06/21/19)- virtues of travel

If you want to know some one better, travel with them. Because travel gives a chance to see how they react in situations that are not preplanned and scripted. 

My Thought For This Friday (06/14/19) - Goodness in people

Never underestimate, underappreciate and take it for granted the goodness in people. It is the most precious thing in life. And it is the most uncommon trait in people. Doing so also is the most unfair thing you can do to them. 

My Thought For This Friday (05/07/19) - self confidence

Sometimes the root cause of impatience we show in executing task is low self confidence

My Thought For This Friday (05/31/19) - Learning

As long as you are willing to accept that you could be wrong, you will continue to learn. 

My Thought For This Friday (05/24/19) - Reducing Consumption

Avoiding single-use items, as much as we can, will be a great first step in reducing the negative impact on this planet. Think before using every napkin, every plastic bag, every ziploc bag, every coffee cup, everything you use. We can make a difference.

My Thought For This Friday (5/17/19) - Starting early

The problem with starting to do something late is that even if you are good at doing it, there is simply no time to refine and review and finish it in the best possible fashion. 

My Thought For This Friday (05/10/19) - learning

There is nothing more noble than teaching someone, as it is done without any expectation and because it helps multiply the benefit of knowledge. 

My Thought For This Friday (05/03/19) - Judging

Judgemental  - Concluding even before data comes in 

Judging - Conclduing using the data after it comes in

My Thought For This Friday (04/27/19) - Expressing gratitude

Expressing gratitude for a favor should be about effort and not outcome.

My Thought For This Friday (4/19/19) - mentoring

An important lesson you learn from mentoring some one is that you learn to be patient even as you ask them to persevere.

My Thought For This Friday (4/12/19) - Saying sorry

One of the most courageous and hardest thing to do is to say sorry to someone, unsolicited and after self-reflection. 

My Thought For This Friday (4/5/19) - Onion

Life is like an onion. At the end of the peeling there will be nothing. But what you found along the way is the point all along. 

My Thought For This Friday (03/29/19) - Silent self evaluation

You voluntarily go for an evaluation, get critiqued, get complemented, get told what to do and what not to do. And all the while you are wide awake, yet you can’t speak or defend yourself or be defensive. Your silence makes you be reflective and make you perform honest  self assessment. Such an evaluation happens only during a visit to the............................................Dentist

My Thought For This Friday (03/22/19) - New beginning

'Something is small' should not be the reason why you don't start something new.

This thought came to my mind on the third anniversary of this blog. I have never done anything else this consistent in my life for this long (besides essential). 

My Thought For This Friday (03/15/19) - disappointment

One way to overcome disappointment is to look back and focus on all that went right and feel content that entire effort was not a waste. That is, feel disappointed only when all what you did was a wasted effort. 

My Thought For This Friday (03/08/19) - Curiosity

Curiosity is not only important to learn but also to trouble shoot a problem. It is the driving force behind having a passion to solve a problem.

My Thought For This Friday (03/01/19) - Problem Solving

The first and most important step in solving a problem is to make sure there is actually one to solve.

My Thought For This Friday (2/22/19) - little & big things

The habit of enjoying smaller and less important things in life gives us the skill to handle bigger and more difficult things in life. 

My Thought For This Friday (2/25/19) - still relevant

Sometimes, certain things may be old but that does not mean they are obsolete.

My Thought For This Friday (2/8/19) - Odds

If you ask, you may get it sometimes but you also may not get it sometimes. However, if you don't ask, you will not get it for sure anytime.

My Thought For This Friday (2/1/19) - Accountability

Before you hold someone accountable, ask if you made clear to them your

expectations. If not, it is time to hold yourself accountable first before you do that unto others. 

My Thought For This Friday (1/25/19) - Feeling anxious

No way to describe the anxiousness you feel when you have been very busy all week and still have nothing to show for it. 

My Thought For This Friday (1/19/19) - Lessons learnt

It is important to not learn the wrong lesson from success, as it will only ensure failure next time around. 

My Thought For This Friday (1/11/19) - Kindness and rudeness

Since others are not obligated to be kind, it is important to treat people right when they are kind to you. It is equally important that you don't have to respond in any fashion to someone who is disrespectful, as they don't have the right to be rude to you. 

My Thought For This Friday (1/4/19) - Kindness

Doing something solely for others without expecting anything in return is the supreme form of kindness. There is no comparison to the supreme satisfaction one can get from doing such a kind act.