Backstreet Boys

Show me the meaning of being lonely
So many words for the broken heart
It's hard to see in a crimson love
So hard to breathe
Walk with me, and maybe
Nights of light so soon become
Wild and free I could feel the sun
Your every wish will be done
They tell me...
Show me the meaning of being lonely
Is this the feeling I need to walk with
Tell me why I can't be there where you are
There's something missing in my heart
Life goes on as it never ends
Eyes of stone observe the trends
They never say forever gaze
Guilty roads to an endless love
There's no control
Are you with me now
Your every wish will be done
They tell me
There's nowhere to run
I have no place to go
Surrender my heart, body and soul
How can it be you're asking me
to feel the things you never show
You are missing in my heart
Tell me why I can't be there where you are

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils

is still choosing evil.

My dear readers,

Almost always, the simplest are the most profound. Some simple reorganisations!

A place for everything and everything in its place: If somewhere you have to keep it, then, might as well keep it in a specific place. 'Anywhere' or 'only here' both take the same time to keep a thing; but at the time of retrieval, 'only here' makes all the difference.

A time for everything and everything in its time: Time can be managed only through discipline and not through tools. A fool with a tool is still a fool. Anytime is no time. Wednesday evenings are for review meetings, first Saturday of every month is customer meet, Sunday mornings are for satsangs, 6 to 8 are study hours with my children, no TV on Mondays, last weekend is 'free from technology' family time, my first hour is my yoga hour, my every year will begin with my spiritual retreat, etc…

And, outside my disciplined hours everything else that's not disciplined can happen. To discipline what's important, to scheduled time-slots and not risking it to convenience, will make all the difference. Not only during schooling, but also with adult life, a timetable can make a world of a difference.

Anything that can be done, 70% as efficient as you can, must be delegated: Stop screaming, “Me, me, me,” for everything, and learn to delegate. Good is good enough. People will rise to the occasion. Trust your team and let go. Delegate. Never do what others can do. Get others to do what others can do, so that you can focus on what you alone can do. And that will make all the difference.

Anything that repeats must be systematised with a checklist: Are you a frequent traveller? There must be a travel checklist. Do you perform stage shows? There must be stage management checklist. For the janitor at work there must be a housekeeping checklist. As a HR manager there must be one checklist for induction programs and one to manage takeover and exits. When the logical sequence of anything that repeats is committed to paper, your mind becomes free to think. When paper or technology does all the remembering and your mind is free to think, it does make all the difference.

After every mistake, correct the system that allowed the mistake: Systematic Error Management will ensure that there is no repetition of mistakes. On project completion, audit the loopholes that allowed things to go wrong and correct the system. Before acting against the man behind the misappropriation, first act on the system by improving controls. Turn scars into stars by using every mishap as an opportunity to make the system foolproof. We cannot avoid mistakes; but we can certainly stop repetition of mistakes, and that will make all the difference.

When we shift from, “I can live my life any way” to “I will live my life only this way,” you will see that it makes all the difference

Yours
N. Santha Guru

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