Life is like a game, you can play it safe and be good or you can take a chance and be great!
How many times we all have come across such incidences in our life? How many times we have met people who want something big/great from life but are hesitant in taking the chance. What if? plays a very big role in all our lives. We are pioneers in thinking about a future, which has not yet taken shape. Our actions have equal reaction, but in our mind we assume other persons reaction as per our thinking, and our perspective and then we shy away from taking a chance on any opportunity, which takes us away from our comfort zone.
Imagine at work place you get an opportunity to take the lead of the project. You have a boss as a supervisor not a leader. Now the question will arise, will my boss be okay if top management has given me a chance to lead? This is one question i see everyday with mid management. They are diplomatic with their supervisor and afraid to take a chance of shinning in the organisation if they have a control freak boss. They will toil away but be afraid of showing their true potential. Our mindset is if someone is enthusiastic and coming up with ideas, we don't want a change, we want a status quo. Lets not shake the boat, as things have been going fine till now as it is.
Companies hire new talent to get fresh ideas, as without this we become just another company, but not a company with great ideas and vision to excel.
At my work i see this often. In events its all about new innovations and ideas, this gets us to win the pitch. But many times we let a good idea pass, as the one deciding is insecure and does not want to train talent but wants to control talent. We assume what the client wants and give same tested ideas which would be given by others too. Its about playing safe, and when asked we can always say we went ahead with what the client wanted, maybe it was our costs or creative which made us lose the pitch . In truth we don't want to move away from our comfort zone and let someone else take the credit.
Often i have seen that good talent when restricted moves to another company. Same person who was good for nothing (as per the manager) is delivering great stuff in the new organisation. This makes me think, that its not the organisation but certain individuals who stump the growth of any organisation. Our mindset about our own companies at times make us not take a chance.
In our personal life we do the same. We are not equipped to shake the boat even when we know that certain changes in our own life will give us an opportunity to live our dreams. Life moves on, with or without us. We at times have no option but to decide our path or life decides for us. Question is would you like to pave your own path or walk down the road you don't like as you didn't have the courage to change the path?
Sometimes we must make a choice, to take a chance, or our lives will never change.
Meditation has helped me to focus and transform my mindset. A decade ago my job was everything, today its the side effect of who i am. When priorities change and holding a job by wearing a seatbelt sounds ancient, thats when fear takes a backseat and one can take a chance. I do know that my epitaph will definitely say " No regrets"
Living your life by your terms, and not living other person's dreams is what gets us out of the What if? circle.
"In the end what we regret most, are the chances we never took"
How many times we all have come across such incidences in our life? How many times we have met people who want something big/great from life but are hesitant in taking the chance. What if? plays a very big role in all our lives. We are pioneers in thinking about a future, which has not yet taken shape. Our actions have equal reaction, but in our mind we assume other persons reaction as per our thinking, and our perspective and then we shy away from taking a chance on any opportunity, which takes us away from our comfort zone.
Imagine at work place you get an opportunity to take the lead of the project. You have a boss as a supervisor not a leader. Now the question will arise, will my boss be okay if top management has given me a chance to lead? This is one question i see everyday with mid management. They are diplomatic with their supervisor and afraid to take a chance of shinning in the organisation if they have a control freak boss. They will toil away but be afraid of showing their true potential. Our mindset is if someone is enthusiastic and coming up with ideas, we don't want a change, we want a status quo. Lets not shake the boat, as things have been going fine till now as it is.
Companies hire new talent to get fresh ideas, as without this we become just another company, but not a company with great ideas and vision to excel.
At my work i see this often. In events its all about new innovations and ideas, this gets us to win the pitch. But many times we let a good idea pass, as the one deciding is insecure and does not want to train talent but wants to control talent. We assume what the client wants and give same tested ideas which would be given by others too. Its about playing safe, and when asked we can always say we went ahead with what the client wanted, maybe it was our costs or creative which made us lose the pitch . In truth we don't want to move away from our comfort zone and let someone else take the credit.
Often i have seen that good talent when restricted moves to another company. Same person who was good for nothing (as per the manager) is delivering great stuff in the new organisation. This makes me think, that its not the organisation but certain individuals who stump the growth of any organisation. Our mindset about our own companies at times make us not take a chance.
In our personal life we do the same. We are not equipped to shake the boat even when we know that certain changes in our own life will give us an opportunity to live our dreams. Life moves on, with or without us. We at times have no option but to decide our path or life decides for us. Question is would you like to pave your own path or walk down the road you don't like as you didn't have the courage to change the path?
Sometimes we must make a choice, to take a chance, or our lives will never change.
Meditation has helped me to focus and transform my mindset. A decade ago my job was everything, today its the side effect of who i am. When priorities change and holding a job by wearing a seatbelt sounds ancient, thats when fear takes a backseat and one can take a chance. I do know that my epitaph will definitely say " No regrets"
Living your life by your terms, and not living other person's dreams is what gets us out of the What if? circle.
"In the end what we regret most, are the chances we never took"
