Vijay For Victory

One evening a scholar was addressing the participants on the concept of work culture. One of the participants asked the following question;

“I am a senior manager of Materials Department and I joined an organization 25 years ago as an Engineer Trainee and over the last 25 years I have gone through every experience in the organization.

During the initial part of my career, the job was very challenging and interesting.

However, all those exciting days are gone since I do not find my joy any more interesting because there is nothing new in my job. I am now feeling bored because I am doing a routine job.

However, Sir, I am living in the same house for over forty years, I am the son for the same parents for over forty five years, I am the father for the same children for the past ten years and the husband for the same lady for the past twenty years !( the toughest job!)

In these personal roles I do not feel bored Please tell me why I am bored of the routine in the office and not in the house?”

The response from Scholar was very interesting and convincing. He asked the executive the question:

“Please tell me for whom does your Mother cook ?”

The executive replied that obviously the mother cooks for others.

Then the Scholar said that the mother “Serves” others and because of this service mindedness, she is not feeling tired or bored. But in an office,we “Work” and not “Serve”. Anything we consider, as service will not make us feel bored. That is difference between Serving and Working.

He asked the executive to consider his work as service and not merely a work !! This was a very interesting analysis!! Whenever you put a larger context around your work and see a broader meaning for your work, you will take interest in your work and it will make a very big difference in your internal energy.

Attitude Matters !!!

A priest, a doctor, and a software engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.

Software Engineer: What’s with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!

Doctor: I don’t know but I’ve never seen such ineptitude!

Priest: Hey, here comes the greens keeper. Let’s have a word with him.

Priest: Hi, George. Say, George, what’s with that group ahead of us?
They’re rather slow aren’t they?

George: Oh yes. That’s a group of blind firefighters. They lost their sight while saving our club house last year. So we let them play here anytime free of charge!

…………..(silence)

Priest: That’s so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight.

Doctor: Good idea. And I’m going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there’s anything he can do for them.

Software Engineer: Why can’t these guys play at night?

Friends of Women:
A wife was not at home for a whole night. So she tells her husband, the very next morning, that she stayed at her friend’s (girl) apartment overnight.

So the husband calls 10 of her best (girl) friends and none of them confirm that she was with them.

Friends of Men:
A husband was not at home for a whole night. So he tells his wife the very next morning, that he stayed at his friend’s apartment over night.

So the wife calls 10 of his best friends and all of them confirm that he stayed at their apartments that night; 5 among them are claiming that he is still with them.

Moral of the story : This is called friendship.

Visiting the psychiatric ward, a man asked how doctors decide to institutionalize a patient.

The director said, “Well, we fill a bathtub, then offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient, and ask him to empty the tub”.

Visitor replied “I got it, a normal person would use the bucket because it’s the biggest”.

“No”, the director said.

“A normal person would pull that rubber plug that is there at the bottom of the bathtub”.

There was a man who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money, and was a real “miser” when it came to his money.

Just before he died, he said to his wife, “When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife with me.”

And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart, that when he died, she would put all of the money into the casket with him.

Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there – dressed in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, and just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said,”Wait just a moment!”

She had a small metal box with her; she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down and they rolled it away.

So her friend said, “Girl, I know you were not fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband.”

The loyal wife replied, “Listen, I love him very much; I wish to fulfil my husband’s last wish”. I promised him that I was going to put that money into the casket with him.

“You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!?!?!?”

“Sure I did,” said the wife. “I got it all together, put it into my account, and wrote him a check…. If he can cash it, then he can spend it.”

For those of you who have difficulty understanding the current world financial crisis and how it evolved, the below story should help. This story is further to “Learn Banking and Finance in easy way” post.

Once upon a time in a village, a man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10.

The villagers seeing there were many monkeys around, they left their form work, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10, but, as the supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their efforts.

The man further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to $25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now act as buyer, on his behalf.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: ‘Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when he returns from the city, you can sell them back to him for $50.’

The villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man or his assistant again, only now the monkeys were everywhere!

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Here is a story to illustrate, What is effecive communication?

After the prayer, Raja and Ram are returning from the temple. Ram wonders whether it would be all right to smoke while praying.

Raja replies, “Why don’t you ask the Priest?”

So Raja goes up to the priest and asks, “Priest,may I smoke while I pray?”

But the Priest says, “No, my child, you may not. That’s utter disrespect to our religion.”

Raja goes back to his friend and tells him what the good priest told him.

Ram says, “I’m not surprised. You asked the wrong question. Let me try.”

And so Ram goes up to the Priest and asks, “Priest, may I pray while I smoke?”

To which the priest eagerly replies, “By all means, my child. By all means.”

Moral : The reply you get depends on the question you ask.

For Example : Can I work on this project while I’m on vacation ?!?