Today

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is AUTHENTICITY.

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody as I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it RESPECT.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it MATURITY.

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment, so I could be calm. Today I call it SELF-CONFIDENCE.

As I began to love myself I quit steeling my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it SIMPLICITY.

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.Today I know it is LOVE OF ONESELF.

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is MODESTY.

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where EVERYTHING is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it FULFILLMENT.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But As I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection WISDOM OF THE HEART.

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know THAT IS LIFE!

Charlie Chaplin.

Assessment

It has been a long time since I last wrote any blog. I would say that this happened not because of lack of intent to write the blog but because of lack of my willingness to sit down and capture the flow of expressions, ideas, emotions or feelings in words. This lack of willingness was not there only in writing the blog but as i reflect i see that it was there in many activities that i undertook but abandoned because of the lack of this will power to proceed beyond a point and take it to the end. This has harmed me in many ways which could have been avoided. The point here is that i should have been more disciplined then i was and should not have let the external environment influence the reason I exactly was here for. The deviation from my goal has come because my being weak and getting influenced by many things which i would not like to revel on a public platform. Though my reasons or logic may not be supported by many but in my head I know that they exist and are true for me.

My weakening is reflected in more than one way. I did not get the kind of grades as i should have and also went on to have a deteriorating state of health which is most undesirable thing to happen to any wise person. Though I have a good understanding of things i believe but the same is not reflected in my grades as the weak health forced me to stay off the class which resulted in losing valuable marks which were up for grabs, for free, just for attending the classes.

Another thing which resulted in lower grades was my hesitation with numbers. I find myself uncomfortable with long and complicated numbers. Had I not feared the numbers and had worked on them systematically in time there would not have been any reason for me to be uncomfortable with the numbers.

Another weakness with me that I find is that I exaggerate things sometimes which people certainly do not like. Though the information dissipated is not wrong but certainly some of them is the castle built on thin air kind.

I am certainly working to improve on these weaknesses of mine. I hope to improve, certainly on few if not all. The first step towards is to discipline my thought process and to structure my thinking in a logical way. The second step would be of execution of these structured thought in to action or to align my existing action to these structured thought process. I, at this point of time do not want to say any thing more than this. I would first like to put these two things in place and hope that many other things will follow suit.

Admissions @ IWSB

I m thrilled by a series of new experiences at IWSB. Last sunday I was involved in the admission process for the second batch of PGP for IWSB and the whole experience was amazig and nostalgiac. It reminded me of all the admission processess that I went through at different colleges but IWSB stood out in all because of its unique process which does not involve the same noisey and chaotic group discussions and boring interviews which does not try to test the potential manager in you. Instead of GD we have the concept of group task where in the group is given a unique task which they have to complete working in a team and interviews try to find the kind of person you are and the hidden potential manager in you.
This time we had a very good response for the admissions and those appeared had a very good diverse profiles, some with work experience too. The camdidates were really good and they too had a very good over all experience. They had the opportunity of meeting the current students of IWSB and freely exchanged their views on IWSB. We too had the opportunity of sitting in the panel for interviews and it was a refreshing experience. Our interaction with the candidates prior to interviews made them feel relaxed when they saw us on the panel. Though we had to survive on just two pieces of sandwiches and a couple of cup of coffee for the whole day.
It was a good learning experience as whole as i got to know how and what kind of students should be selected by a B school.

meeting the global entrepreneurs

We at IWSB got our first global exposure when we had entrepreneurs coming from big international companies like oxfam and bayer etc. Thanks to our management for arranging such an enriching session with such industry experts who were like management school in themselves. They were some people who had stood the test of time and had fought back most difficult of situations and came on top. Our group of 9 students got to meet Dr. Azita Owlia- vice president, regional marketing of bayer material science of asia pacific region. She insisted on respecting the diversity of employees in a multinational and we should attach the emotions of people in leadership which would throw open the huge unfolded potential infront of u specially in a diverse country like India. Prof. Subi Rangan of INSEAD of strategy an American Indian guided the guests to show how the human capital is developed in India with the most basic of infrastructure available to them.
I hope they were amazed and it was a great learning for them as well. Those guests were also impressed by the warm welcome they got by the student community. We also made them plant tree saplings at our campus which many of them were doing for the first time in their lives.