Sometimes you can predict your colleagues behaviour. Here comes another resignation. When you are heading a team it is better to keep this in mind and plan for attrition.

It is funny --- we postpone things forever and then just doing one of the action items that will create a movement that will create sufficient momentum to move things forward to completion. I think I need to use this principle more often, consciously.

I completed something I had kept on my list for months. What this means is profound. Putting something on the list can be counterproductive. Just find a time and do it. Let me explore this principle. It flies in the face of many who advocate lists.

Start an activity and you get the momentum. Slogan --- Just start.

How about a commitment/contribution dashboard? What do you think are the areas each one should focus on? Are there areas that are common to everyone? How many areas can you foucus at a time? These are questions you need to ponder over.

How much commitment do you have for various areas of your life? If you examine the results you are getting, you will get a clue. Is life lived good about achieving everything on your list or is it about contributing in areas where you can contribute?

May be we need a commitment meter that warns us that we are running low. Relationship ---warning low---exercise--- warning very low. Think about it. Examine the various areas of your life.

It is so easy to forget. Take exercising for example. How about creating advertisements for yourself? How many of our bad habits are influenced by ads in some form or other?Even other people can be "living ads" for some bad habits. Smoking is an example.

How about creating an environment conducive to your new habits? Think about it.

If you want to change yourself, you need to take one step at a time. I started exercising today. My goal is to get to my ideal weight. For a while I am going to focus on this one aspect in the physical realm. How many changes can one handle together? Too many can cause stress. How ever we are adding changes to ourselves whether we are realising it or not. We make silent decisions that go unnoticed even to ourselves. Do these changes cause us stress?

We develop bad habits like overeating, lazing around, watching too much TV etc which can cause stress too. But the changes are always downstream with some pay off that keeps us going after the bad habit. Over a period of time the pay offs become addictive. Think about it---

I have updated my blog. It took sometime to come back to it. What did I learn today? I learnt that you need to spend time alone and write down your thoughts. Just let the thoughts flow. You may be surprised at what you have written. Experiment it and share your find here.

Today I have started writing my new book. I am also on a Life style changing mode. I will write about this daily.

Today I decided to apply the 80/20 rule. Let us see what happens after one week.

I am back again --- I will write from today. Lots to write.

Never let anyone feel they are indispensible. Especially in the workworld, while dealing with subordinates.

I am back. I will write again soon. May be tomorrow, but definitely this week.

I saw an exellent movie today --- Aquamarine ---. So cute. Well I have a long weekend and again I didn't plan anything. I need to do a reverse shift in all the dumb things I am doing. Let me try this in the Weekend. WIll post my experience

So, I am back---. Been busy. but no excuse not to learn. Well--- today's learning- Check your complacency rting on a scale of 1 (low) to 10(high). I was 2 today. What about you?

Back after a long time. I start doing things and then get distracted. Consistency is a priceless virtue.

How is it that I make a small mistake and it is taken out of proportion. I was late for a meeting and it got escalated to get an instant feedback.

email is a very dangerous medium to communicate. Processing it and replying is very important. People take for granted that they have made the full communication after they have sent an email and presume that it has been understood.

Since we get volumes of these emails and calendar invites, it is very easy sometimes to miss something.

You need to be careful and process every email, pause, determine the response and the next action. This was a very important learning.

To be non judgemental about people is the fundamental key to build relationship and having friends. This doesn't mean ignoring their misbehavior. Such behavior can be corrected through effective critiquing.

Being non judgemental means not attaching labels to people and writing them off.

Let me try this along with giving respect for a week equally to all ---. I will record my experience here.

How much respect do I give to people? Sometimes, I feel, I give it selectively. I need to get into the habit of giving respect to everyone equally.

What does this mean? It means valuing every person as a priceless opportunity to be a friend to. Perhaps the person may reciprocate or may not. To be able to do this, I need to be humble and acknowledge the greatness of the other person I talk to.

Let me try this for a week from today ---. I will record here my experience

What are my commitment levels for excellence in various areas of my life? Sometimes I find myself swinging from 9,9 to 1,1. Which style do I use most of the time?

It is important to be conscious of the commitment levels in all areas of life. I think I will do a pre-critique and a post critique after every situation and incident.

Let me experiment to raise my commitment levels to 9,9 for a week in all that I do. When do I start? -Tomorrow.