Approaching Work

Here comes my way of dealing with new things, I hope it will be helpful:

1.       Finding Motivation

To ensure that you make the most of your capabilities, you need to find some real life motivation to do that specific job. Without being motivated, you cannot ensure 100 % success. If you are a leader, you have to find motivation for others too. A very interesting process; you would certainly enjoy.

2.       Objective

Many of us miss this very fact that before we take the first step for any of our initiative, we should know the reason for it. Without specific objective, we cannot ensure our plans to have a focus, our vision to approach the right direction and our success to meet our efforts. Everything write, is always black and white.

3.       Research

Hardly will you come up with something that’s not inspired by something else or aka copied in simple terms. Therefore, since someone has already done this, why not benefit from his/her experience. Go search out what the Google has stored in for you and add more of your personal imagination to the foundation you find up on the internet waves.

4.       Imagining

You are not the best man or woman unless you can dream with your eyes open and turn them into reality. That’s what Abdul Kalam said about entrepreneurs and that’s what you can practice at a perfect student organization.

5.       Everything Right? Black and White

Speaking from experience, only a plan written and shared well is practiced well. You need to write your work distribution, plan of action, flow charts, responsibility distributions and deadlines at least once by hand and then feed it up in to computer. This will help you identify if you missed anything.

6.       Speaking Numbers not Adjectives

Engineers, scientists, business people…. For heaven’s sake speak with facts and figures and not adjectives like “heavy”, “huge”, “great”. The other person there is expecting you to come up with complete estimates and quantities, don’t talk up in the air. When you speak, you should have a justification and calculation to stand along your words.

7.       Sharing and Discussion

Discussion helps you unveil the perspectives you couldn’t have bother much about but they are very important. You may decide the concentration of your discussion circles but it has to be around people with diverse energies and disputes. This helps you get one mind one direction edge like no other.

8.       Dividing and Ruling

It’s not about dividing people, it’s about dividing responsibility, delegating powers and entrusting authorities within your team. You alone cannot master the game unless and until you keep a few focuses to your head and all the rest to the better ones out there.

9.       Summarize or Elaborate

You should be smart enough to summarize long things and elaborate the short ones. To be an effective manager, this art will help you learn and earn a lot.

10.   Give Value, Be valued

You cannot win the game without winning the hearts of the people you are working with. This is important because the most successful people in this world had the most successful teams behind them. Don’t miss this fact.

Let Go…

“It ain’t easy,” realized I seeing the face again on my friend list.

“But it has to go they way it is,” responded the other side of my mind.

Between the two poles, I was somewhere. Stranded, alone, confused. Which path to opt for and what choice to decide for. It wasn’t obvious few time back. We used to be friends. Good friends may be… No one could imagine things would turn this way that we won’t even be left to speaking terms. And then there was “must to happen” mistake. Whatever you name it was done and nothing could be done to improve things except to ignore it. But the option wasn’t available. But when did I ignore stuff with others when I could… not at least in the first place. So expecting this from others would be unfair, unrealistic and unexpected.

Left with no other options, what my mind could perceive the “let go” policy. This means more work? more hectic schedule? more occupied me? I know I can’t afford much at this stage. To get free of these thoughts all i need is a distraction and to be distracted I’m going home. Back to my place, my people!  Ten days! Peace 😀

No tax no smile!

Through the journey of taxes from sales to general sales and then to much debated reformed general sales, we realize there are still many things in life for which we don’t pay for!  We still have few assets which do not have to be shown in our bank statements, neither do we get any fees charged for them through electricity bills like PTV.

But the new world order of relations and returns, wants things to be other way round. The stars on sky want you to compensate or quit. Financial experts want you to either stand in queue for tax submission at revenue office, where a sign board says: “No tax, no smile” or sleep!

Your Story ends here…

Stage is weird, isn’t it? It reflects so much of life in itself. Acts, situations, dialogs; they are all so real! In fact the entries and exits too.

For some part of story, once upon a time, there was a character, lead in the role. Right in the spot light but back in to darkness! Center of attention to many but drowned in to hollowness! Brought to the limelight, though with much of his own efforts but in a very short time, doing all his acts well. There were entries and exits by others but the lead staying. Continuing the act till the very end.

Similar is our screen of life. We stay at our own pace of acts, while others make their entries, deliver their dialogs, perform their role well till the Director of life shouts to them: “Your Story ends here…” and they leave our stage of life.

Their exits though are depressing but the fact to remember is that our story continues and our act has to be delivered till the Director shouts again: “Sir, Your Story ends here…”

U need a break!

There is always an interior to an exterior of a car

Life is much similar to traffic on our roads. Never calm, often jam and sometimes a mix of both. There are speed breakers, there a U turns, there signals and there are multiple ways to select from! Life is a maze, a game to played, a challenged to be taken, a task to be handled and a time to be spent by U yes you alone!

There are accidents on way, there are confusions with sign boards, there are over takes, dodges, races, passions and much more that relates to the pace of our daily life. Like, long driving hours need breaks, your life needs one too, to move smooth! You may or may not be two, but you need a time to rest, refresh and resile. U need a break!

P.S. dedicated to a friend whose appreciation brought life to this blog again! Thank you!

10 reasons i don’t go for relationships

May be a real come back after two months n ten days. Talking to a  high school junior and seeing her situation in to what world calls “relationships”, reminds me of this topic and 10 excuses which make me run away from them:

1. Possessiveness: Things are great till you are friends but they disappear when u start labeling it “A RELATION”. Most sagas start and end here. Sad! huhh! 😛
2. Freedom: I value my freedom! My life, my way! I want it to continue as long as it could!
3. Time: Ok fine! do you got really that time to think and text your U-KNOW-WHO! Sorry i don’t! I have a long list of  to-be-done things.
4. Formalities: I like things the way they are. not they way someone expects them to be! Why be what we are not? Why do things special way?
5. Dialogues: Ok yes! I’m not good at it! I can’t say 3 words in a variety of ways! Deal with it 😛
6. My Mom: I know my supreme court got no second appeal! So better do out of court settlements.
7. My Dad: “Better options are always there and we can see them better than you do” 😀 I love u dad 🙂
8. Memories: Oh yes! The crappiest things about it! even if you r out of it, your r never out of your past! there are reminders all life.
9. After Effects: Once it ends, things are never the same! You are never friends and there’s a long silence and complete absence.
10. A Quote: “You can’t get anything except for getting hurt”

Seasoned Slaves

With airing of coke studio’s last episode for season 3, named Realization, and Amanat Ali’s performance to Ae watan k sajeele jawanon (the famous Noor Jehan’s national song), it is re-confirmed that we, our actions and our attitudes are all subject to the seasons going on. The episode aired on August 1, starts the month we got independence from British but not from ourselves. The first half of the month witnesses a high level of patriotism in the bloods flowing in our veins and the rest is an extreme silent like the other entire year.

A much used display picture on social networking site 'facebook'

With the month just set in, we’ll be seeing emotional facebook statuses and related youtube recommendations as this is the Independence season. Our display pictures would certainly go green with our hearts still black and dark deep inside. TV channels and anchors will start speaking good and expressing optimism about the country, as it would become the public demand. Purpose-attended programs and shows will be aired, logos would turn green, everything will get so good about this country, for just fourteen more days; and after that everything is back to ‘normal’.

We are not what we from inside, but more of a show off. We tend to follow Quaid and give examples of Iqbal but practically are miles aways from their footsteps and teachings. It is possible that the Amanat Ali’s song was more of a marketing tool to hold for of audience for the rest two weeks. We’r so much ‘touched’ by the prevailing time sequences that our expressions our modified and ruled by them. We are not independent but more of season slaves.

Realizing Ethics

With a statement release by an honorable MPA and first minister of country’s largest province that politicians holding fake degrees are well justified of governing the nation as both 2002 and 2008 assemblies had members with fake degree, came to me as a huge disappointment.

Honorable minister insisted that a degree has nothing to do with capabilities of a politician and was just an implication by a dictator. Well said sir but long ago in our nursery classes, we were told that telling lie and cheating is ill… Not only this, I even remember teacher infusing us to say sorry for each wrong we do.

Instead of feeling ashamed about lying and cheating their way to parliament through such unscrupulous practices, many of these politicians are actually hindering the Standing Committee on Education’s investigation. According to news reports, Chairman of the Standing Committee, PML-N MNA Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali is now facing fierce opposition from his own party members, who feel that he has betrayed them by exposing their educational fallacies. This is in addition to the alleged pressure from members of the ruling Peoples Party, who also have fake degree holders in their midst. High Education Commission is in a similar situation, with rumors of DG Accreditation to be sent on leave or transferred, to bring the process to pause.

According to former Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan Kunwar Dilshad, the number of parliamentarians with fake degrees stands at 148, with not a single political party receiving a clean chit. (Tribune, 2010)

We like our politicians have been avoiding the ethical aspect of the issue. If it had been Britain or Australia, the political career of one-third of the parliamentarians would have come to an end. But realizing the fact, this is Pakistan, and we are still on our way of realizing ethics!

The other side

We as a community have developed a feeling sided more towards pessimism… more close to the darker aspects. We don’t go for the other side of our lives. We don’t realize that life is beautiful, it is worth enjoying… worth embracing and worth loving… All we need to realize is to see “the other side”.

Times may not be so good,  situations might not be favorable,  colleagues may not be friendly and boss might be too bossy BUT there’s always a better look to see. A better perspective which gives you happiness and confidence to live, to smile and to stay in. Yes! Start taking things the way life doesn’t want you to! Don’t go on the dark way people want you to! Be happy! Be optimistic! Don’t let zeal slip away! Life is surely not easy. Difficulties are everywhere but what’s the fun if it goes plain? Take it as a learning; as a priceless experience! As something which guides in darker times of futures. Don’t give up the struggle, We certainly don’t want that to happen. Do we? 🙂

Disowning Heritage

After partition, people who had migrated from Mumbai  brought precious marine artefacts with them and laid the foundation of the museum in an old building, previously known as the Seafood Café (Karachi Fish Harbour). Several kinds of sea life found in the Arabian Sea have been preserved along with skeletons of different kinds of fish, including a 74-feet blue whale, which constitute country’s largest collection of marine species and fauna (Tribune, 2010).

Housed at a decades old building, the Natural History Museum is now struggling for its survival as the Karachi Fish Harbour Authority (KFHA) authorities want its administration to vacate the land as well as pay the rent for using the space since 1974 that amounts to Rs2.3 million. (The News, 2010)

The Zoological Survey Department, which runs the museum and comes under the administrative control of the Federal Environment Ministry since 1995, tried to move the museum to Safari park and not Islamabad for the benefit of people at large, but no positive response ever came. CDGK was also taken on board but the “change” of rule was may be more important those days.

Unfortunate are we the beings, who have maintained a habit of disowning heritage for our own personal benefits. The museum, which is not only a asset  but also an important source of study for researchers. KFHA could have maintained the museum rather issuing a notice just for a piece of land. Sadly, we have been unable  to develop a sense of responsibility towards priceless assets we own.