The other thing I love about the Sunflower analogy is that it needs the sun, just as we need the truth.Imagine a sunflower shielded from the sun all its life. An entire field of sunflowers, germinated, sprouted, and shielded from the sun.Can you see the ugliness; the lost glory, the weed that...
The You Tomorrow
We were coerced, were we not, into leaving our mothers womb. We wept. We fought. We struggled to remain. We were coerced into leaving our mothers teat. (For some of us, first day at school was a nightmare.) Puberty. Somehow, we find it so hard to believe that we are to change to become who we are...
Facts Are Not Truth
Facts are not TruthWell, we want to think we are continuously dealing with reality.So we say things like “Hey! This is reality!! Suck it and continue. I’ve got a terrible boss, idiotic colleagues, stupid income, nincompoops as relatives—nothing can ever change!I don’t hate my life but I’m...
Master And Slave
Change or Be ChangedHave you noticed change having this characteristic? When it occurs without our design and management it usually disables or robs us. When we architect it, more often than not, change benefits us.We will change. That fact is inescapable. The choice we have is this: will we...
Transformational Rot
Fundamentally there are only two types of people: Dull & Alert.One places trust only in the tangible, the other invests in the intangible.Dull businessmen, for example, are those whose desire is solely to make money.Alert businessmen are always striving to create a market. They strive to call...
Glory – For Adults Only
Colluding with Circumstance.Are you finding it easier to spend money than spend emotion? Are you finding it easier to give your daughter a career, than find her a husband?Sometimes we tend to blow everything out of proportion to escape the...
BMW's in Cycle Shops
So what is it that we actually don’t know already? What is it, that we’re so ignorant about, that if we could somehow get to know we would be more successful?So many people go about mouthing the blandest clichés and market these vociferously, with a rapidity that perhaps no machine-gun can...
Second Chance
Have you noticed that work doesn’t seem to reward us equally? That there appears to be some magical way of working, which produces greater reward, and some other way that produces lesser?I differentiate these two types of working as: Hard work & Hard labour. They simply do not produce the...
Yearning. Passion.
When I look into the mirror I see a small man. Not because I’m Dravidian, but because of the person I’ve mostly been.This is not a law, but have you noticed that we have the tendency to hate in others, what we ourselves are weak in?It’s almost as though, we’re hiding it from ourselves, and...