Saturday, August 8, 2009

Parenting ( My Children) - Eating habits

As a routine the mother of my children used to run after them for taking their food. They kept their strength always. The race ends in highest shout and their tears. Many times they take their bed without food or leave a lot behind unfinished.

During the day also it was very hard to make them for proper meals. As their mother has to do a lot other things and rare have a fix spare time to invest for their eating, it was taking a routine for not having proper meals.

One day keeping my basics right, I call upon my young champs. After hugging and making some fun, I ask them about their dream to grow strong and intelligent. As usual the reply was yes.

I have asked them, “Do you like to have a secret?” The secret was of my childhood. The success mantra, which was disclosed to me by my mother and their grandmother. They accepted. I have told them, it is all about the eating. I will tell you one time one secret and than another when you follow the first one.

The food is the blessings of God. We should wash our hands before eating, offer it first to God, thanks Him for his love, eat at one place, don’t talk and view T.V. in between. The food is to be chewed and keep your mouth closed. When you chew, your teeth become stronger. Take the only those dishes and in such a quantity that you can finish, because after offered to God it become ‘Prasadam’, and it can’t be left unfinished. After food wash your hand and mouth, dry your hands.

I have taken one week to make the secret unfold in full. After that they were with their previous way again, but now following some of the secrets told to them.

Every time I appreciate for what they have done and try to ask them what’s missed. I have encouraged them slowly and with the efforts of two months, it’s their habit now.

Some interesting changes develop in me too. I have stopped taking my calls in between the food now. It may of any importance because it’s the question of my children’s life. No T.V. even if there will be an important match or serial. Sorry!

Really we also learn with our children. It’s winning together.

Parenting ( My Children) - I

“My Daddy is the best”. When the sweetness of these words enters to the ears, this moment always have a great feeling. A feeling of an achievement. It always keeps me alerting. A direct ask. An ask of keeping me on toes. It asks me to be the role model of my children.

A wonderful experience to play an important role. A role of a parent. A role of ideal. An opportunity to draw a portrait. A portrait which will keep my child always progressive. Whenever my child feels something missing, indecisive, in a position of dilemma, this portrait will be the reply for all.

A write up of a character. In this character actor-director, both is me. It may not resemble to any reality of my life but it will be a reality for the life of my child.

It requires changing some basic habits. Developing which I feel right. Which is time tested and based on the natural laws. In simple I am impliedly coaching my child without saying any words. The senses of my child always work as an input device and create a strong base in the memory. The number of stories will be created in the mind for each activity. These stories will drive the whole life thereafter.

The basic habits of the parents like getting early in the morning, caring health, time share for family in a day, one time meals with them, everything have a place and everything at the place, facing truth and doing the right always. Others are like keeping words, staying with their decisions, taking their responsibility, always be a part of solutions and a lot many same skills and intellect.

Readings shows that the entire thesis, it may of medical science and psychology, are unanimous on the effect of childhood on the development and success for rest of the life. Parents are the source of first and the lasting effects.

Some important things should be taken care off, in the presence of children. The relations of parents should also be soft. The respect, regards, affection, understand, love and care between parents are of special importance. Especially for their mother, children are very sensitive.

This will keep on continue… This is winning together.

A Decision

One day I was going to my younger brother’s house on a rickshaw. As per my nature, I asked him, ‘is this rickshaw your or on hire?’

He replied, ‘on hire sahib”.

After having a chat with him, I came to know that the rickshaw has a daily rent of Rs.15 and the cost of it is about Rs.6000.00.

I ask him, why don’t you buy it, instead of paying something daily? His replies was surprising, His reasons where not less than taught to any business manager in any standard business school.

I am not here for permanent. For temporary use, why should I buy?

I don’t know whether this will work for me or not.

The general wear and tear is of owner. I only pay if damage is asking for a big cost.

The insurance is bought by the owner.

I don’t have any financial liability on me for it. I am stress free.

The rickshaw doesn’t have a good re-sale value. After a fixed period I have to buy a new one.

It requires a place to keep, when I don’t work. The responsibility of it will be mine, if I buy.

I wish to grow in life, and this can never be an asset for that. I can earn my livings by efforts on it, not the life.

I have congratulated him. He possessed a right understanding and power of explaining his point of view.

A little learning a day from anybody can develop a man to great heights. Learning can be from anybody and at any place. They either strengthen my basics or provide me new way to look at the things.

The appreciation and encouragement have created a wonderful smile on his face. I felt winning, winning together.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Praying Winning Together

In the journey of success and reaching mile stones of achievements, many people contribute. While sitting in my prayer, talking to my God, I requested Him to bless all those people with happiness, peace, relations and with a lot may things in addition to the source to live.
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He asked me to name all the people. I named my family, my friends, my teachers, my neighbours, my colleagues. Than when I searched something deep, I requested Him to bless those also whom I missed. He told me to be specific. I requested him for my transport, my vendors, my customer, the rickshaw pullers, service providers at my hotel stays and a lot many.

He asked me, “Is it over or still remaining with some people?’

I replied, “I feel I am complete.”

He whispered in my ears, “You missed those, who provoked you to do something beyond the bars, the people who had hurt you deep, deep inside your self esteem, to make you stand high. There are people who haven’t supported you, on your expectation, to make you vigil about your strengths. Count them my son.”

The name of all those people can be counted on fingers. The count was very less than of first category. I realized that many of my achievements are only due to them.

The lesson I got from my prayer:

1. The people who helped me are numerous as of those who have not.

2. The people of second category were of much greater importance in many of my achievements.

3. The realization of, what I felt is my achievement, does always owes to many people.

4. The same responsibility I always carry for others, although to be in first category.

I prayed for the blessing for all the above people. This is praying for winning together. This is wining together.

Friday, July 3, 2009

4 A'S - BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN CHILD


Ask More
A child went to a zoo and started giving nuts to the monkeys. A care taker stops him and asked, “Haven’t you seen the sign Board?” The sign Board was “Do Not give them Eatables, it harms.”

The child replied, “Have you asked them”?

Yes, really we live in perceptions. We Don't ask. Don’t try to understand. Don’t anticipate. We force our likings and understandings on them. We live in symptoms not the reasons. Understand your child by asking. Asking not investigating. Encourage your child to share reasons with you.

Accept their reasons
Accept absolutely. Accept in full. Accept the reasons whatsoever given to you by your children. It gives them courage to share with you. Your role is to correct and understand them what you have done and why. You purpose can never be the fault finder. Never jump to conclusions. Accept them every time.

Accept them as an independent identity
Accept them as an independent identity. Always count them. Count them when you hiring seats, buying items per person. Ask them to order their menu. Ask for their choice. Give them space to choose their dishes for lunch, the type of milk etc. It will give not only make them the confident but also a sign of responsibility on actions.

Never compare them with anybody.

Take them from their Age

Taking the children from their age is very important. It’s like coming to your knees to dress them. To let them eat from your hands. To knelt down to listen them. Same way be a child when you listen them. When they share with you. When they do mis-take. When they fight or experiment.

The Confidence in your Child is your winning, Winning Together.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Be there always...

Though we read and repeat about it, but miss to give due importance to very little – little things. It may, to carry children to their school bus, to receive them on their return, to attend their parent teacher meeting or school function etc. Returning back to home after the pressure day work, rarely allow to attend the children regularly. Ask them to share their day or school with you.

Once it was Sunday and I have decided to attend a function of my younger daughter. I have promised her as she was in preparatory school and a participant in three programs.

I feel ashamed for not attending the previous times, when I saw her stepping up on the stage and was keeping her eye to locate us in audience. After finding us, her smile and confidence poured me with tears of joy.

It was the first time I have understood her school, teachers and their vision.

From that day onwards I understand that “Be there always” when their eyes are looking for you. When they are searching for your ears to share their feeling with you.

Now I try to take them to school bus. On weekend I propose myself to wait for their bus. The way the lift their bags, the dust on their clothes and faces. The art on their hands. Their innocent and naughty smile. It takes me back to my childhood.

They show me their bags and working at school. The remarks on their notebooks. I got the chance to understand them and correct it whenever I feel it necessary.

I respond them, first I listen properly and than I reply them complete. I am getting myself in, into their life. They have started feeling their importance in my life. They are making my feelings important for them.

Their morning starts by hugging me, kissing me on my forehead with the morning wish. Their day end and sound sleep require my arm to put on their head upon or my presence with my hands in their hairs.

I can earn more money than I need or expect but can’t get the childhood of my children again. My childhood in them again. Rightly said, “Any success outside cannot compensate the failure at home.”

My stress doesn’t require any management now. To be very honest, it vanishes just with the feeling of their presence. I never miss my goal now. I know for what I am working for.

I have started winning, Winning Together

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Eating Habit

As a routine the mother of my children used to run after them for taking their food. They kept their strength always. The race ends in highest shout and their tears. Many times they take their bed without food or leave a lot behind unfinished.

During the day also it was very hard to make them for proper meals. As their mother has to do a lot other things and rare have a fix spare time to invest for their eating, it was taking a routine for not having proper meals.

One day keeping my basics right, I call upon my young champs. After hugging and making some fun, I ask them about their dream to grow strong and intelligent. As usual the reply was yes.

I have asked them, “Do you like to have a secret?” The secret was of my childhood. The success mantra which was disclosed to me by my mother and grandmother. They accepted. I have told them, it is all about the eating. I will tell you one time one secret and than another when you follow the first one.

The food is the blessings of God. We should wash our hands before eating, offer it first to God, thanks Him for his love, eat at one place, don’t talk and view T.V. in between. The food is to be chewed and keep your mouth closed. When you chew, your teeth become stronger. Take the dishes which you can finish, because after offered to God it because ‘Prasadam’, it can’t be let behind. After food wash your hand and mouth, dry your hands.

I have taken one week to make the secret unfold in full. After that they were with their previous way again, but now following some of the secrets told to them.

Every time I appreciate for what they have done and try to ask them what’s missed. I have encouraged them slowly and with the efforts of two months, its their habit now.

Some interesting changes develops in me too. I have to stop taking my calls in between the food now. It may of any importance because it’s the question of my children’s life. No T.V. even if there will be an important match or serial. Sorry!

Really we also learn with our children. It’s winning together.

Monday, June 29, 2009

A Child

The mother of emotions, innocence, nature, relations, life, trust and so on… A feeling of being a family. A feeling of pride of being a creator. The creator of a life. A blessing of God. The incarnation of God in your family. The good wishes of many. A plain canvas, an opportunity to draw an image of future

This is the Child. A full of festivals. The beginning of new relations. A chance to celebrate the life again. To forgive the past, a chance to welcome the future. A ray of new hopes.

This is the time of responsibilities also. A responsibility of a farmer. A responsibility of a mentor. To de learn all; start learning again with the child. To call upon your memories. An opportunity to search your childhood. To pay regards to your parents. A chance to understand what they have given all our life. To understand the sacrifice. To enjoy the fun. To live with smiles. To be in arms. To love for the sake of loving only.

This is what we get when we bless with a child in our family. Something incomplete gets filled with. The feeling of completeness. With the thought of a child the rainbow of feelings come on the sky of our life. It’s too colourful to express the colours of nature.

Life is really calling for our abilities now. This is the first test taken by the nature from us. She is asking about the learning and alerting for the begining of another phase of our life.

When I try to see a lens image, I found myself standing at the balance of career and family. At one side the earnings were calling for me and from another my family, my loved ones. I try to get some more hours in a day. I succeeded. But, money and other a like have snatched that time also. I have started living two lives, one the real and another of justifications.

I decide, no more justifications, please.

The responsibility of my child is mine. It’s jointly and severely with my wife.

The smile of my family, smile of my child is my best winning. The winning together

Friday, June 26, 2009

An Artist

To Develop a Nation the need for character building is more important than that of any other education. The overall development of a child is not in books and theories but in the practical aspect of the learning. The test is only the purity of his thought and reason for doing any particular act. The synchronization in the thoughts and longevity of them.

Meanings and Synonyms are taking a 360degree change now days. The certificate is taken as qualification; the job is taken only from package with zero loyalty. We are running towards the western countries blindly, not learning from their results and acknowledging their efforts and social system. The politics is more a seat battle than building a nation.

Something is missed somewhere.

The seed is somewhere in history and purely with the development of a child. Something is missing in the primary education of the child. May be earlier where parent leave their 0-3 years child with somebody else or don’t have time. Somewhere we find it difficult to get the middle and higher students practice the right habits. Somewhere we are making employee and managers instead a leader and entrepreneur.

Somewhere a woman, the only mother to humanity, is developing like flood, not as a river. She is running fast to achieve the shoulders than from the heart and head. Somewhere a feeling of respect and family is diminishing in the cloak of freedom, equality and recognition.

A definite mistake of man somewhere had led the society to present position. Somewhere he had used the women as commodity. Today is feeling fearsome and incompetent to her. “Every successful man has a woman behind” was repeated many times but missed to understand. Somewhere failed to protect her or earn livings for family. Failed to give her proper attention and respect.

Somewhere passing age missed to handover the legacy of their experience to present and future. They missed to encourage the reasoning power. They missed to encourage them for experiments and innovation, with protecting them by their presence only.

Somewhere ethics, relations, emotions and humanity having started fading their colour for money and money bought things. We forget that the sleepers we keep outside the house, in society, are always taken back to home by our children.

The picture of future is looking really scary. But still have many fresh canvases. Many brushes can still loose their colour or can be dip to new colours.

The affirmation says, “I am the only artist who will paint the beautiful image of future. I will use the brush of my habits and colours of my thoughts to make it the most beautiful painting, ever.”

I will make my win, the win of Nation and Society, means Winning Together.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Emotions and winning together

Think of a stage where you have been awarded and there were a lot of cheer up for you, but you don’t recognize any face there.

You are walking on a crowded road and slipped, there is no one who can give you a hand.

Your heart is full of emotions but no one to hear or call upon.

You are in tears and no one to see them.

You were eating and nobody to offer you a glass of water. You have cooked first time and nobody to taste it

You have won a marathon, nobody there to wave you hands.

You were to a party and nobody there welcomes you. Nobody ask you why you were there.

You are in hospital or bed ridden and nobody there to visit for your health.

Life exists in relations and lovable touch. The most precious gift given to the living beings by the God. It’s free for all. You can give it in plenty. You can expect it in plenty. Create a strong emotional account. It increases with giving more.

In you routing life there must be some people in addition to your family, who have right upon you. You have the right to be corrected by them. To ask for the guidance. To have the ointment on your wound at your fall. Your eyes can see towards some faces, when you were on stage, have been awarded. Your lips looking for some ears to whisper.

There must be someone whose voice can be recognized by your ears when you will be wrong, you will be on wrong side. Some hands to pull you, when your path doesn’t have your destination.

When your dictionary misses the word I because you always feel we. More you have more you confident. It is not about interference or dependency it’s like a huge roof with many invisible pillars, a sky over the earth. A safety net with many threads. And all created by you.

Rights are the unlimited responsibility on the shoulders of others. It says that I am yours. It’s me who controls all by giving the control in the hands of others. It’s unconditional love with people, trust so much that other can destroy but have faith they don’t.

The emotions are always strength. They are blessing of God when in purest of form. They don’t walk along with a week person. They look for the heart like Gandhi ji to be kept in.

May God bless you with this strength to win yourself internally and world externally!

This would be a win of worth, win in life and after it. This is winning together.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Belongingness

A girl first time visits her parent’s house after two days of her marriage, and she says, ‘there, it happens like this’. The same girl when came after two months, she says, ‘it happens like this in our side’, and after six months the words changed in ‘we do like this at our place’. This is called belongingness.


Do we belong to ourselves?

Whatever we do, we speak, view or hear, do we belong to the same? The girl in example has taken six months for belongingness. How much time would we take to belong to our dreams and our lives?

Being in working for some period now I have always seen people discussing about the targets and their review with the seniors. It’s a real fun. All returned back to their schools, where they imagine wonderful excuses for facing their teachers and mother respectively for every mistake or error. For every incomplete task or delay. The person at the receiving end knew the truth of the event and the event manager both. The best prize is for the person who can surprise the other with unexpected.

One day I realize today I am one day older than yesterday, is there any excuse for being aged without holding that day in me as a person? A person of experience. A person having something to share with my present today and succession tomorrow.


Really the picture which mirror shows is fearsome. A pure threatening. I do waiting for the time, the right time, which is most limited and beyond my control. Do I belong to this time which I am passing by now?


As the day starts there is no end of the thread. One corner is in past and I left the other for future. Nothing accomplished full. If the life is to be lived on daily basis, “Can anyone say this is complete?”


Every moment we live is a gift of God and our life. Fill it full with happiness and beautiful memories. Count them as an experience of your life. A day of loud display, demonstrating, “This day is a count of my life! The life could be proud upon!”

Does this day belong to you?

Are you winning, winning together?

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

COMMUNICATION IS AN ART

Communication is an art of expressing yourself, understanding and caring others. When I was infant and unable to speak my mother understands everything, till date she does. It’s always a perfect communication.

In my school days, whenever I missed the homework, my teacher understood from my face and by looking at her hands I had always started rubbing my hands, we never failed. Whenever our father came from tour, we had always checked his briefcase and he never missed to hide a cotton bag in his other hand. Neither had we missed to hug him nor him, to put something in our pockets. We were communicating.

When my elders used the anger I understand that they want me to obey as it is. They don’t make me understand, as many a time they also don’t know the reply. When I used my tears it means I don’t want to understand. We were communicating.

When the climate was adverse outside, my elders / seniors protect me, they had always kept some umbrella or pullover for that right time. When they handover it to me, we were communicating.

When it was a time like a Dark Ocean, we were in a piece broken ship, all were strengthening theirselves and holding each other very strongly. Telling each other very frequently, we will be reaching the seashore soon. We were telling I am right, you keep fine. We were communicating.

Why in the time of recession, I am only communicating with my natural family? Am I not responsible for my working family?

How could today we master of this art, failed? Do we require learning this art from outside?

We may be missing purpose, the destination - where ‘we’ want to reach. And when it is ‘we’, than two people me and you. Sometimes I am missing from and many a times you.

The presence of only both is pure communication - ‘Winning Together’.

In the time of recession, the dark ocean let’s communicate more, strengthen our values and hold together to enjoy the future - Winning Together.

Monday, February 9, 2009

winning together - Be a Friend

Winning together – Be a friend

To win in to-to body mind and soul.


Winning is to win something, someone. The control of something, someone. To own something, someone. Winning is achieving a plan or a success. Winning in total, from inside -outside.

To be winning physically means to see the happening from the eyes. To touch it, to see it, to hear it, to smell it. When we feel the winning physically is a physical win. When the win reflects in your material achievements. You achieve your physical goals, name, fame, your assets, your loved one, and your dreams.

The winning by the mind is a prior to the physical and after the physical. When your thoughts believe and feel you are winning. You are winning. When the win is important for your life. It has some purpose in your life. When you win your habits, your thoughts, your behaviour. When your win is above you. When you make a win happening, it’s winning by mind.

When your win based on integrity, integrity of yourself, from inner and outer. The something, someone is always you in both win and in control. It’s the win of you on yourself. The win is of long term, a win of freedom on fear, a win of tear on tear, the tear of happiness on the tear of pain, when the win is from sweat and blood. When the win define a path of success to others. When the win has no short cuts. When your win takes you high without letting others low. When the win is a proud matter of all.

When you can feel proud from body, mind and soul, the win is from body, mind and soul. That win is ‘Winning Together’. You are winning together.

Be a friend of yourself.