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No matter what they speak every decision is based on the profit/result/benefit of the company and rightly so. Even if a company is established without profit as its priorities would seize to stay in the long run considering the amount of competion and the choice available to consumers. Hence the company has to maximize profits with what every customers they could get which meant a small raise in prices and decrease in the cost would increase the margin of profit. The reduction of costs would mean reduction in captial which would effect the raw material and labour costs. Since the raw material cant be reduced in size and quality this reduction in capital would impact the labour costs which is exactly where the employee comes in. Reduction in labour costs meant lesser hikes and expecting better performances out of them all the time. This leverages the amount spent on labour. Since perks are a priority for an employee it leads to attrition.

Mistakes and learnings in the last year/couple of years.

All these years of my academic career I have been an avg/above avg performer and once in a while wondered what it takes to achieve excellence.Thanks to some of the myths this always remained a secret to me. I always used to think how can a person enjoy his life so much and even then excell in studies so much and decided that it is his talent that makes him successful and since I have always felt that I am not a genius(i still believe now)  and hence had the job of clapping for some one else most of the time.
And these two years in chennai and a couple of years eariler I tried to compete at the highest level and failed most of the times and the suceess which everyone wants has eluded me.
But on reading a wonderfull book and noticing a few ppl who have excelled in various walks of life I have realised a pattern that most of them follow.

• The achievers did what they did for the right reasons.

              Most of the time we do things just because some other people have done it and succeeded, my be because it is easy or may be because it was forced onto us.
             All these years I have noticed that the ppl who have succeeded have always loved what they did and not because of some one else's opinion.

• Even though any pursuit is to reach a destination doing something and expecting a result can cause problems.

           No matter which field it is there are always more ppl and less number of resources which are covted.So it goes without saying that there will surely be a few ppl in fact a chunk of people who cannot make it no matter how much effort they have put in. Since doing a work needs skill and knowlege. The former takes considerable amount of time invested by practising regularly. So it is rest assured that result might take time as there will be people with same level of knowledge who are more skilled at using it just because of the amount of time they have already spent on it.
          So the result orientation which has been the way of life for a long time will not work and patience is necessary.

• A humanbody and mind has a limit of its own.

            No matter how good a person is every human has a limit and it has to be accepted and should always be used in the best possible manner and accept the result that comes along and move on.

• The attitude.

           I think by this time everyone knows that attitude is key and all but how exaclty it should be is not clear. Here is what I have observed. The object/place of pursual is the most important thing and at the same time not so important. In the other words we have to give ourselves the best possible chance of getting the result by preparing as much as we can and yet leave the rest and believe that the efforts will not go waste and there will be a day where we have acquired the required skills and knowledge to go through.

• Preparation

           This is the most important part  of going through the finish line. The best preparation is to keep playing in the conditions as close to THE day as possible and kept playing there. This will make ourself adapt to the regurs of the day and helps us handle it better. So the best way to coup with hot sun is to keep staying in the sun as much as possbile and as regularly as possible to adapt to it.
            Preparation has two parts viz., planning and execution. The planning is something which has to be done based on the real senario considering all the things that might come up, the odds against and should give a clear picture of what needs to be done and at the same time should give flexibility to the target achieved which gives space to any unplanned activity which might creep in. Execution is as important as planning as without execution no matter how good a plan is, is a waste. So while executing the plan which has taken into consideration all the odds should be stuck at all costs and failing to execute in a good percentage of the targets will result in a result which is not good enough!

Cheers!

New year - celebrated with euporia; life moves on anyway!

New year is a time where people generally typically call up long time friends,well wishers,relatives to wish them. Many of them welcome the new year with nostaligic feelings of the year went by and excited about the next one.New wishes, desires,resolutions are set with great joy.
Life becomes normal the next day,people go back to business. Cellphones ring lesser and wishes even lesser.The resolutions made are followed by some,may be in parts and some leave them as desires and make them up the next year once again.
At this junture, I would like to set a few things for myself and let me see how I move as the year goes along.This year being by 25th year is really important for me professionally and also personally,for I have a aspirations to start with and I would like to move towards in a more organised way.And personally I have always been my best when I'm living in the present and never worry about the result and following this for the last couple of years has been anything but easy.
So here are the things that I would like to follow in the next couple of years and hope this works.
Time - I have is very precious and so I would like to reduce my activites so that I can spend quality time on the few things that I have to do.
Health - Since coming out on my own, concentration on health has taken a back seat and the results have come out last year despite some effort it imporved a little but I feel they have to reach better standards.
Activites - I like interacting with a lot of people,know about various personalities,follow sports.I would like to increase my reading time and start writing more for I have started writing very recently and I see myself getting better at this in the time to come. I somehow have to break things down into smaller ones which I see quite closely like a weekly basis and measure how things are going at the end of the week also identify them. I would like to involve myself only in some particular activites and avoid social media as much as possible.
Finally I want to conclude saying that I have to keep things simple and be more optimistic! The year 2010 has been extremely tough,2011 eased out a bit and by mathematical logic,common sense and optimism in me concludes that 2012 would be even better!
Cheers!!