Don't Delay in What You Intend to Do

 

‘A Single day is enough to make us a little larger. Each day affets all the ones that come ater it. Today is a turning point in life. The things we accomplish the people we meet,  the direction we set today, will have consequences far into the future.’

Any change that we deem fit for our self growth should be implemented without delay. The life is too short for us to postpone all that we intend to accomplish.

Go ahead and pick the book that you want to read; meet the person you have been waiting to meet; call the  person you were looking forward to speak to; make your you tube channel that you wanted to from many days or years and record your songs, dance, thoughts and post them; buy the canvas upon which you intend to paint and paint upon it; compliment the people around you about the things you like in them, for life will not give us another opportunity to do these things again.

Try to Become a Thinker than Merely a Good Worker

There are two kinds of failures:

The man who will do nothing he is told;

and, the man, who will do nothing else.

The first kind is utterly useless for any organization and sooner or later will get replaced, The second kind come under the obedient workers category. function well in their presence but they are always at the risk of loosing  on innovation and creativity which can both uplift the organization and also make it unique among other competitors.

What an organization needs is to have people who can 'think' and think out of box too. 

Let's Not Weaken Our Children

 The tree that never had to fight for Sun and Sky and Air and Light, That stoodout in the open plain and always got its share of rain, Never became  a forest king but died a scrubby thing. 

Good timber does not grow with ease. the stonger the wind, the stronger the tree.

When we shower too much of love upon our children and provide them with all that they need without even their asking or desring them we are doing more harm  to them than enabling them to become useful and strong in their lives. 

We weaken them by being there with them for solving all their issues. We don't provide opportuntiy to them to face the world with boldness and find solutions for themselves. We deprive them of practice ground to sharpen their life skills.

The Child Has His Own Future

 The greatest obligation to our children is; to prepare them to understand and deal effecively with the world; in which they will  live and not with the wrold we have known, or the world we would prefer to have.

Khalil Gibran has so beautifully expressed these feeling in his famous book The Prophet. When the Prophet was asked by the people to comment upon 'The Children' this is what he had said:-

“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness.
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable.”

He says that the soul of  the children dwell in the house of tomorrow. The children have to life in future that we as  their parents or grandparents can't even imagine.

The philospher emphasises the fact that we should not force our opinions upon our children but at the same time he also lays emphasis that the parents need to ensure that the child becomes both strong and discilplined in life and for this if required he needs to be strong in handling them.

Pressure from Within Begins a LIfe

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

It is well said that pressure for outside breaks an egg and thereby ends a life. But on the other hand when the chick from withing the egg breaks open the egg shell and comes out the pressure from within begins a life.

Similary unless and untill we reach the level of self improvement, unless and untill we develop a desire to excel no outer pressure  can help us attain our set targets. 

Purify from Within

 Possessing a sweet tongue but a rotten heart will not do us any good. 

Gurbani says that we may speak sweetly with the people around us but within our hearts we carry negativity and bad thoughts will be like trying to churn water for butter. 

The ultimate aim for all of us should be to purify ourselves from within. 

There's no other way to attain salvation.

How to Teach Compassion

 Normally it is seen that when a child trips and falls off or gets hurt from an object and starts crying, mother comes rushing towards him and not only picks him up in her lap but also starts hitting the floor upon which the child had fallen or the object due to which the child had got hurt. This she does inorder to pacify the child so that he stops crying. But in doing so she iinvariably creates an impression in the mind of the child that whatever or whosoever  hurts you should be punished. She sows the seed of, "Revengefulness" in the mind of the child for his entire life.

Only if the mother can react by both picking up the child in her lap and simultaneously  caress and cajole the floor upon which the child had fallen or the object with which the child had got hurt or wounded the child will develop to look around him with compassion and care.