Moving between cities has always been a pain in the derriere for me. It’s Friday evening, and I am thinking of all stuffs I need to take care of so I can transition this smoothly. To top it all, I have an upcoming client presentations of prime strategic importance in just about 4 weeks. Sounds really easy, but trust me it’s not. My wife has to move to Bangalore on Sunday, find a house, text the address, and I have to initiate the shifting before I can leave Noida – all this in a span of 2 weeks. Then I have to fly to Bangalore, set up my home, wait for my logistics partner, set up the house and be ready just in time for the client presentation which HAS TO GO GOOD! While telling all of this to my little niece who isn’t very happy I would be going far away, she has this to say “Why don’t you plan and prepare your activities well in advance? It will only be difficult if you just keep worrying about it with no actions”
Wow!! Not so little after all, right? On thinking about it, I have the project plan, no what’s expected – all I have to do is to just beat my deadlines – and that’s way less painful than to worry about all those things going on in my head. This struck me hard – we have complicated our existence to way more than what it ought to be…. and I was a proponent of hopeless optimism at one point. Where has that person gone?
Thought for the day: The most complicated problems in life, often have the most simple solutions.
This reminded me of my boss in previous organization who used to say … if you cannot explain your ppt to a 6 year old – it’s not good enough. Adios! See ya tomorrow.
Taamasya 