Purpose of Life

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

We search for the meaning of life, and through that we try to understand our existence. The Why, how and when does not make a difference in our life, if we do not learn to follow our passion and find our joy of doing things.

Once a wise man was asked, What is meaning of life? He replied... Life itself has no meaning... Life is an opportunity to create a meaning.

We often ask this question and we get a mind fog as to Where we come from? Who am I? What is my destiny? For centuries we have asked these questions, handed down through our peers and we spend our entire life trying to find the meaning of life and our role in it.

Imagine... Life as not hard .... but Life as beautiful. When we feel life as a gift, given to us without us asking to be born .. we manage to live it as we wish it to be. Maybe life as such is not complicated but we tend to make it so. 

We talk about simplicity what comes to mind? 

To me, Being simple means accepting ourselves as we are, and then being grateful for being given an opportunity to create what ever we would like to,  by being non-judgemental about everything around us. 

Our passion drives us to better ourselves, from what we were yesterday, and live in this moment... Now. Every today will become yesterday and every tomorrow will become Now. Sometimes it's all about looking within and understanding what makes us happy and what we would like to create from our life.

For few years i have been debating about my purpose of life and i kept going back in past. My work and what i could do with it. It's been challenging , my very own existence and what i want from my life. But deep down within me, i realised i loved my work because i travelled and created amazing events. It was all about meeting new people, travelling and creating something interesting. Beyond that it did not define me. 

We do get stuck in our past or in our work without understanding what next we would like to do. Human mind always needs a challenge for it to grow and create new connections. It appears that Challenging our brains...  for example , like learning a new skill - leads to actual changes in the adult brain. Diversity in learning and work increases our chances of living life with passion.

For me i worked in events for more than 2 decades with all my passion. The day i woke up in morning, and felt compelled to go to work, i was no more interested in pursuing the same work. For more than 2 decades i felt every morning i was going to have fun. And work was fun that time. New learnings.. new ideas and concepts. Once i realised there was nothing more to learn other than introduce new technology over and over again in the events it became from fun.....work. And that's when i decided time to do something different.

But then mind fog hit me and i struggled for couple of years to understand what next will excite me. I was going in circles... tried to keep myself busy with travel, exercise , watching lots of TV and just mundane stuff. Maybe i didn't want to address the issue as it made me uncomfortable and best way to avoid emotions is to do mundane stuff and keep oneself busy.

Then 2020 happened and thanks to lockdown, i has no choice but to address this mind fog which had completely engulfed me. Personally i don't have a depressive bone in my body and if some incident happens which is not to my liking... i feel upset for sometime and then let it go. Time is the most valuable asset we have, more valuable than the riches in this world and frankly i don't like the idea of wasting my time on external factors which try to effect my joy. 

It was during this period, i realised the new skills i would like to learn, and how i can use these skills for benefit of myself and others. It felt strange initially that at age 50 i was learning new skills and changing my work field. But then i realised when Mr. Munjal at age of 60 years had started Hero Motors and this gave me reason enough to believe in myself and what i am planning on doing. 

I will not say that my experience of 28 years is wasted, in fact thanks to my previous work profile it's easier for me to understand my new skills i am learning. It's the foundation which i already have, is helping me build my new purpose.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. the purpose of life is to give it away.... to share your gift with others. 

What's your Life Purpose?

Draft folder

 Sometimes we put our soul in a draft folder to be reviewed at a later stage.

Ever wondered where does our fearless spirit go before it adjusts to this world of compromise ? We are all born to be free and fearless without boundaries and by the time one reaches 8 years our DNA is already mapped and genes are harnessed to ensure we doubt our very own existence.

Welcome to the word!! of unlimited possibilities and restrictions. We are groomed to be clogs in the system. No one knows when this started but the end result is always the same.

People fear someone who has nothing to lose. The choices we make, makes us and we have no control how we would react genetically as our core is defined but yet some find a way to break from this non existence and live life.

The suppression of human mind has been going on for centuries and nothing will stop this. But the resilient human spirit always finds a way to rise.

I believe one cannot know about love if one has not faced heartache, one cannot know about trust till betrayal has not been prevalent, one does not know how to dance till the time soul is not free. We make our own destiny by our choices. We have nothing to fear other than ourselves yet we choose to stay under this cloud of fear which hampers our growth.

We choose the right words to be heard, we choose to power dress for an important meeting, we choose to let go of ourselves when we taste a little power without understanding that we just mirror our innate desires which were a part of our grooming lessons. 

Patience is the virtue of the wise. Is this true? or just a thought put across in our mind to ensure we control our inner power. I have always believed that each one of us is a miracle and part of the cosmic energy which the religious fanatics call God. We hold the power to make things happen in our life and yet we choose to leave it for an unseen power to judge our belief and fearlessness.

What if tomorrow you wake up and you find yourself devoid of any fear. Emotions play a huge role for us to be fearful . And the best part is it all manmade. The only emotion which actually exists is unconditional love without any expectation. How many have experienced this? Its an aphrodisiac which few have managed to get in their lives and they don't talk about it.

When someone does harm to you, what do you wish? Revenge or wish the best for that person. This one question will answer how to conquer your inner demons. We all have our fears and the trick is to become friends with them. No one sells their soul to devil by making a trade of wishing for something and giving something. It's an age old tradition in white magic to pay the price if you create a miracle. But it's forbidden as human being succumbed to their desires and forgot about being a miracle.

We follow traditions as sheep with out even understanding the origin of them. We are the sheep and no amount of talks will change this one aspect of ours. We are conditioned to be obedient. The question is do we want to be conditioned? Do we want to be fearful? and the most important question is when did we stop believing in ourselves?

Life is not a test, neither is it complicated. Life is beautiful and what you think you create that. Love conquers all and a heart filled with love flows the soul to dance with energy as no one has ever seen. Be the energy to make your soul dance.

I know this year has been tough of all of us. Financially, emotionally and physically but then this also allows our soul to be awaken and be one with the energy. We have been chasing a dream of i don't know what. All of a sudden everything has come to an halt and while economically we are trying to reinvent ourself but i feel emotionally we need to be strong to over come our fears and truly live the life we were destined for.

We may be born in different societies or income's but in truth we all have same amount time and resources to make it happen for us. Some might say that the privileged have it on platter for them, i do agree as they don't know half the struggles which rest of the world goes through. Yes they have no clue of what is it to fend for every day, what does it mean to travel miles just to go to school, or sleep without food or what poverty means. But the whole point is we don't choose our parents but we certainly are the captain of our life and we can choose to make our life better by finding the opportunities and working towards the future we envisage.

I have always believed that there is 'No free lunch" everyone has to pay to make things happens. Hard work had never hurt anyone. Discipline makes us who we are and persistence and resilience to make our dream come true gives us an opportunity to make our future . The question is are you willing to walk that mile without any expectations to ensure that the end result is as per your desires?

Life can be many things as we judge it harshly but in the end its all about how we react and choose.

Love unconditionally and live the life you are meant to. No one knows the future other than the choices you make.

Let Go to see What happens

 "Sometimes you have to just Let GO to see What Happens"

Often we say this to ourselves and other's to Let Go! What does this mean to us? It"s a question i have asked myself and yet the answer is not there for me. I have heard truth sets us free, don't overthink just let it go, accept what is, let go what was etc etc... all motivational quotes. But seriously what is it we Let Go?

Few days back i had a funny conversation with my Chiropractor. While holding my neck to remove the crick he said Let Go as my body was somehow in antipicitaion was putting up resistance. This has been the case always and i could not stop laughing. I told him, Doc if you ask me to relax you might get the correct response from me. It's all about our conditioning and words we sub consciously respond to. He thought it was funny that i was making a suggestion to a professional to use some other word.

But in truth i was helping him to understand my mindset. With relax i have a trigger mechanism to trust and see what happens but with Let Go i am tensed as i am not sure what to let go.

Communication... the mother of all evil. I have trained teams to be the best in their fields in marketing and with more than two decades of being in marketing i personally have not used these words to myself or my colleagues. If we lost a pitch, i did not say Let Go, but i asked them to go within and figure out the weaknesses which existed in the plan proposed and strengthen the weaknesses for next time.

The new mindfulness Guru's / speakers / life coach ... the list goes on all use this word and i would love to know what's it ; that needs to be Let Go. 

When i teach meditation , i ask the person to feel as one with the energy. Our past defines our choices of present and future. It's the patterns which ones needs to observe and then slowly harness the energy to plug in the holes. Our healing only starts once we face our fears and our weaknesses which makes us who we are. Most of us are not even aware of the strength which we possess within ourselves. 

There is a forgiveness and death meditation which i teach. Both are important for us as individuals to evolve and to me Let Go is all the pain and hurt which we feel in our life. It's go nothing to do with not living our life the way we want. How we transform our mindset and look at the brighter side of how we as a small speck of energy in this wide universe matter is one of the most beautiful feelings one can have.

Why do we need to condition people to forgive and forget. If one goes through a transformation then the first step is to understand why we keep repeating the same mistakes again and again. We are humans born to make mistakes. Not be a robot to the society. 

This year has been super unique. With the pandemic having it's fun and we mere mortals going in lockdown so that we can save ourselves and others, many have developed e-personalities. Being constantly connected on net removes the human contact and we as a species need that the most. How are we mentally with this physical distance which is required for us a species to survive? Can we Let Go of who we are? It seems more to me like a police state world wide for us to be something we are not.

For me personally i need my creative thinking and travelling which is my passion which energises my soul. To be in my my own pod and not be "Selfish" for my wants and needs is not how i envisage my life. A lie well told is what my mind tells me and i am not willing to Let Go of my life.

I have heard this one sentence so many times that i don't know whether to laugh or feel pity for all the people in this world. Repeatedly i hear people say "We live only once". Well spoiler alert, "We live everyday, we die only once".

So my question is " Do you want to live on morsels fed to you or you want to fetch your own food? 

I am not a strong believer of feeding any human, to me teach the human how to fish so that the person can fend for themselves rather than giving them alms or feeding then to be under your control . 

Look around and thats what is actually happening. High paid corporate jobs, with all perks... yeah we are the kings and rule the world. Do you actually rule it or are you a mere clog in the wheel to make it move? Do you have free will to leave it in an instance... no wait you have to to invest and save for your plan to retire. Right Let Go as so many people say but no way can you Let Go.

So i come back to my question What does Let Go mean?

We all believe we are power houses and in control of our life. But in fact we live with this delusion our entire life. If i have to Let Go, then i have to let go of this motion that i am important, i have to understand that life is unpredictable and no amount of discipline in my life will change this fact. But the only thing which will make my dreams come true is my resilience to any outside forces and my belief and conviction of who i want to be. We become what we believe in. Positive attitude makes us humble and we accept our mistakes while arrogant and egoistic behaviour will always blame someone.

So is Let Go meaning give up old beliefs, practices and live the life you want to? Don't bother about what society has to say. If you are an outcast because of your individuality and beliefs so be it. As being a human is feeing every moment which this life offers and if your dreams and goals don't match which the what the so called society wants, do you care? Eventually i know the universe bends and love the stubborn heart. Be yourself, don't let anyone define you.

Well all i can say is that I've reached a stage where my brains goes from " You probably shouldn't say that." to "What the hell, let's see What Happens".

Have a lovely week folks and do think what does LET GO mean to you.

Game of Chance

The best way to win at game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

This year has been unique 2020, to me this year sound more like a game of chance . We all are given a dice to roll and have a 50% chance of winning or loosing. A virus which is randomly choosing its victims, or its planned i don't know. Companies which have made huge profits all through decades suddenly going bankrupt? Automation which was suppose to be next level is already in place thanks to this pandemic and many people becoming jobless and frustrated with this situation. To make things worse worldwide there seems to be tension and violence erupting with so many issues arising.

This brings me to one question which has baffled me always, When we have no where to go , Why do we Humans resort to violence?

"Violence is the last refuge of Incompetent " beautifully put across by Isaac Asimov.

Through out our history mankind has lived with violence. This makes me ask myself why do we project such violence and what pleasure do we drive from this? Is it that we are savages who have cloaked our violent desires under the non- violence and every now and then the animal surfaces within.

It's disheartening to see how life is getting wasted and we have nothing but words to console us. We do peace talks, we talk about how life matters but in the end are we changing for ourselves or subjected to a purpose with the euphoria hitting us? This is the question i keep asking myself. 

Why do we have so much of animosity and why are we subjective to emotional bursts of anger? Why is our DNA so emotional and violent? or have we been conditioned in such a manner? Questions with no answers yet we choose to be objective to something which has no meaning or purpose.

In 21st century it's shame on humanity to think about a particular sect of lives matter. To me all lives matter. So we have become diplomatic and keep away from such issues as they are everywhere. But now i see people being violent as frustration is setting in. Therefore this makes me wonder, we are violent when we are frustrated, jobless with no purpose and yet we choose to believe in peace when things are good for us. This is us and how ever hard we try to change ourselves our core competence of being violent stays.

War makes few rich and powerful, the one's who actually fight it either become martyrs or poor, very few are given the opportunity to join the ranks of the rich to enjoy. Still in name of nationalism and fascism we fight these wars. Emotional Violent DNA abused at its best. I personally have never seen any elected leader of a country standing in the front lines of this war other than giving big speeches. So we always get played and yet like fools we let these politicians play us for their agenda. 

Our need to be powerful, to feel superior and our need to feel special is something which pulls us to create societies which are conducive for our purpose of survival. Why did we even accept society rules in first place? To make people adhere to such laws violence was the key used to break down our resilience to be free and we created monsters who chose to rule us and create islands in our society with no bridges for any to cross. Is this what we thought was our Utopia? or was this the Utopia of few who felt privileged? Guess we will never know why this all started but it's time for the game of chance to be prevalent and let it take its own path. 

This year 2020 as i said earlier is unique, its breaking our old norms, its challenging us in ways we never thought our societies or our way of life would be challenged , yet why do i feel that this orchestrated pandemic is turning the tide still towards a few to make money while rest of the world is twirling towards an abyss which we have no clue about? Why are we letting go of our privacy in the name of this pandemic? Why are we letting the surveillance state take over? Why are we so disjointed in this?

Together we can make tide turn but violence and age old conditioning is not the key. Fear our oldest enemy and our oldest tool to make societies bend and the human will to be conditioned is right now used to its full potential and we yet again are getting played. Maybe we will never see the bigger picture because we are not meant to but we can transform our thinking to look at the bigger picture if we choose to. 

Violent DNA will get us nowhere, neither waiting for some miracle to happen, will work for us. We are the miracle and we make our choices in our life to make it happen. 

As rightly said by Steven Redhead " Fate decides our future if we don't intervene"

Homo sapiens to Humanoids = New Normal?

Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere! quote by Albert Einstein

We as homo sapiens evolved when we discovered Imagination. We have created a world full of our imaginations and our future is always evolving as we surge forward everyday with our resilience to imagine a better life for ourselves.
We have advanced beyond our imagination in last two decades. Technology changed our perception to look at life and our future.We made discoveries which were only in minds of script writers and books as a future faraway. Yes we Homo Sapiens have technologically advanced and are forging a new future for ourselves.
Our new idea of Artificial Intelligence is creating a new future for all of us. Our next level of evolution is here. Soon we will be re booting ourselves to upload our new version. This is what we imagine or someone has imagined our future.
Things were going great for us. We are the biggest consumers of anything and everything that is made for us on this planet. We did not bother to stop ourselves when scientist kept shouting global warming, oil prices kept surging up, pollution at its peak everywhere, water scarcity creeping in but our insatiable desires kept asking for more. Every one was moving forward to make a better future.
Then came one microbe, no one knows where its origin is from. Some say it comes from bat and on consumption of the bat jumped into us. While some have a theory it's made in a lab. Frankly with all our technology we are struggling to understand this one small little virus. Maybe the one's who created it know more but are not sharing the information or maybe it's meant to do what it's doing as wrath of nature.
No one knows but yes this has definitely brought us humans to a halt. This is strange in 2019, the Amazon burnt, we felt bad as we call the amazon forests lungs of earth but never stopped. Same year bush fire in Australia, one billion animals dead, again we felt bad but never stopped and finally one little virus which can actually harm us and we stop everything to sit in our cages called home to save our ever precious life.
One small microbe which we call Covid19 has stopped the world.
So our imagination which started from caves has brought us back to cag(v)e's.

Now we have apps to track our movement voluntary agreed by us to check our body stats in case we come in contact with some one with covid19. Companies are already tracking whether we are sleeping better than before, how is our heart rate etc ... our fitness gadgets which we so proudly have displayed in past is tracking how our reactions are to this worldwide lockdown. Mattresses which have sensors as we love technology is sending back data of how much sleep an individual is getting.
What otherwise would have taken companies couple of years or even a decade to understand human nature is now available due to our fear of contracting this virus and fear of losing our life.

We are already going away from our norms being a social animal to social distancing. As said, being in a community or socially active increases our happiness quotient, so with this change, how are we going to behave ? We are already working from home, the fine line which we had between personal and professional life has merged, many people who worked as daily wages are jobless and this is increasing globally to create a new class of jobless people. It's like a acceleration of events which were predicted by 2030 of millions of people being jobless with advent of technology.

Maybe now is the time to learn new skills and re-boot our thinking and perspective to where and what we want to be next. Maybe now is the time for companies to rethink their strategy to survive.

Fear the most powerful emotion can move mountains and here we are driven with fear and being the lab rats finally which these companies wanted but due to our human rights could not openly do their experiments. Now we have given our rights up to be lab rats and we are all ok.
So future is here already, what next? is this our new normal? Living scared, waiting for a vaccine which will be forced on us after creating so much chaos. We will never even know whether that vaccine will be again another experiment? We have opened the Pandora's box and given our future away to politicians and bio tech companies now. We have now eventually given up our privacy and rights ; to stay alive. What a price to pay to be kept alive and for how long?

Our imagination as i said can take us anywhere! Power and imagination is the most dangerous tool and if you add chaos and fear to this equation... well we are seeing this in real time today.

As rightly said by William Irvin Thompson " For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture".

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Moral Question

Integrity is what we imbibe within , character is what we showcase.

Both go hand in hand. A person with integrity with surely have a character which bonds with the value system of the individual. Why is there so much fuss about integrity? What is integrity and why do we look for this one trait in an individual ; be it a relationship, hiring someone for a job, to do business with ... list goes on. Our trust is related to integrity of an individual.

A Rose in any language is called a Rose, similarly a thief is any language is a thief. We have defined certain boundaries in which people live in harmony. An outsider is one who breaks any of these small stones which we have placed for these boundaries. I use the word stone as for the opportunist and con people we are all stepping stones for them to reach their objective. A person with values never sees these well laid boundaries of trust as stepping stones.

Trust is built through years and so is Con. The choice is always ours which route we would like to take. Work hard & Work Smart will reap in its benefits. Con people, to make a quick buck is also a way of living for many. But then with money there is an old saying Easy come, easy go.

Our moral compass is always on alert mode when we see opportunists who try to blend in. I remember when i was a child, my mom telling me integrity and values is one thing which makes or breaks a person. Either you imbibe it or you don't have it. There is no mid path with it. One cannot have one set of values for family and another for professional. How ever one tries to mask the cunningness, it shows through the cracks.

Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain.

Do ask yourself this one question : Are my decisions and actions biased?

Logical decisions are hard and cold but long term, while biased and emotional decisions are short term gains. Therefore what does our moral compass tells us to do? We are engineered to create needs and wants and this is our persona. Take the wants and needs out of the situation, then we will be mechanical. But great legacies get created by people who choose to live life as per their value system and create a sustainable environment.

The debate can be that each person can have different set of values and how do we define the right and wrong. Some would say the boundaries for such moral values needs to be followed. Each has their own opinion and the chaos which we create with these different opinions is what makes us Human.

Therefore What is Integrity in this Modern world?