What have your tatooed your mind with?!

All of us keep seeing body tattoos on the youth icons of the day, and also many youngsters seeking to convey a message or even trivia….  Body tattoos are in vogue and indeed a fashion statement all over the globe… But what we tattoo on any part of the body for others to see is not as important as what we tattoo in our minds….  And positive, successful, energetic mind tattoos are a must to attain success… 

The story goes, as I read somewhere,  that Dr Norman Vincent Peale was walking by a tattoo shop when a confused looking young man came out of the shop with a tattoo in his right arm that read “Born to Lose”. Dr Peale asked the tattoo artist about it and the tattoo artist replied…. “ I did ask the young man if he was sure that he wanted to state “Born to lose” in his arm and the young man was pretty stubborn in that. A surprised Dr Peale asked the tattoo artist – “Is’nt that surprising?” For which the artiste replied “Not really! Much before he tattooed it on his arm, he has firmly tattooed it in his brain, and his body tattoo act is just a reflection of his mind tattoo”. 

That brings us to our topic, the power of mind tattoos’. Every single act of us, big or small, positive or negative, winning or losing, good acts and deeds or otherwise are a sheer reflection of the cluster of small and big thought tattoos we keep etching in our mind, be it consciously or unconsciously,  And this mind tattooing process is the most powerful in determining what the outcome is in reality. 

So, it should be our conscious and subconscious endeavor to keep tattooing our mind with thoughts that are ONLY about winning, what we want be, want to reach, want to achieve, that perfect day as desired,  and about that ideal job/career and all that wealth that we would want to accrue in our lives….. ALL THAT IS SOUGHT BY US FOR A GREAT LIFE. 

Call this positive mind tattooing…. And our effort here MUST BE to continuously and consciously strive to tattoo our mind, ONLY all that is desired in reality…. And what else do all of us desire than the very best in all walks of life…  Let us tattoo these desires in mind in as much positive detail as we can….   With the smell of victory, with love and affection for the near and dear ones, for winning at the work place, and for recreating the hearts’ desires to the mind… and creating an ideal life in our own terms….. 

While doing this positive mind tattooing, it is quite but natural that in the mood swings we have, there will be situations when negatives get tattooed in the mind too…  The easiest way to persist on our terms of life is to quickly erase this negative mind tattoo with a more and say bigger positive mind tattoo. And when we perceive the negative tattoo is close to affecting our success/life agenda, we have to be ruthless and aggressive is working on creating positive mind tattoos, only resting when we are thoroughly convinced that the positive tattoo has erased and prevailed over the negative. 

All of us are born to ONLY win, and none of us are here to lose in Life.  If anyone of us is losing it is because we are etching our mind with unnatural negative tattoos, rather than etching it with positive tattoos, which are natural, easy and a part of the flow of life….. 

Now on, be a consistent positive mind tattoo artist… not only for you but do that bit of positive mind tattooing on all those around us…  Inside each one of all us, there is a spectacular positive mind tattoo artist…..  

Cardinal LIFE rule.... Family first

In all of our facets in life, the most ‘taken for granted’ side is our relationship with those in the family. A lot of times, the need for each one of us to ‘behave’ or ‘conduct’ ourselves in a professional or social situation is compelling – due to the position held, power perceived, and also the compelling need to be ‘correct’ in these facets of life.

All of us take for granted one crucial and most vital facet of life – the family and the relationships there… Our life, sure I am true is littered with instances, where we vent all our frustrations and feelings to those in the family – the loved spouse, the wonderful kid, and the most precious father and mother to whom we owe so much for being what we are in the social milieu.

Family, for today’s hi-flying pro, is the place to rationalize the most disgusting and condonable behavior, in the guise of being stressed at work… and also the lack of the ability to assert at the work place and draw lines with bosses, peers, subordinates, and make reasonable demands with all the professional stakeholders!

And as a result, one exhibits irrational, unacceptable, and downright disgusting behavior, with our own families… little do we realize that the bedrock of our happiness, wellbeing, prosperity.. is the Family….

It is essential for each one of us to realize this, and display the best of behavior, conduct; with all in our family – to the loving spouse, great kids, parents and everyone at home… it is only they who accept us unconditionally, day in and day out! Lets redeem this commitment to the most precious place in the world.. our home!!

Whats you life page today, looking like?

Look at each day as a notebook in the page of YOUR LIFE. The notebook is yours and you are the author of every single page in the notebook.

You may chose to leave the page blank, scribble it and fill the page with pictures that are not clear - but you also can fill the page with great things you do, things you stead-fastedly remain focused on, a make it a page that you will look up to.

Either its a page you have chosen to waste or its a page you create with love, dedication, and fervor - making every note worth its stroke.

The thing is - everything in that page is what you consciously wanted to be; yes they may have been influenced by events outside of your, and people who came across you during the day; BUT, unless you chose to give a place in the page of life, NOTHING can get into your page!

Fill the page of life with love, joy, happiness, great thoughts, good work, great relationships.

And seldom give anything negative - be it people, things or events around you - a chance to get into your page today!

You create the page of your life today and everyday. Only YOU. Do it in a way that it a a great work of art and love, and a page which every other page yearns to be!

So, how is your page going to be, now and today??

Art, in progress...

For each of us, life is such a unique and wonderful journey, filled with a series of unique events, accomplishments, challenges, and joy unplugged! The emphasis here is on the word 'unique' - because no two persons are alike in the creation of God - each one of us is such a wonderful work of art.

You must have heard more often that each one of our lives is work-in-progress. But, I would take it one step ahead and say that each of our life is a wonderful work of art-in-progress.

While God or the super power, whichever your belief be, has given us the wide canvas unique in itself, it is we, as creations and individuals who perfect the art canvas by our unique brush-strokes - every single action, deed or decision in life being one stroke of your brush.

Every artist worth his brush will only have one mission in life (in doing every piece of art) - make sure that each stroke of the brush adds value to the painting - add beauty to the canvas given to him, one stroke at a time.

There is so much qualitative difference in seeing yourself/your life as art-in-progress, compared to seeing as work-in-progress. Work can remain same between two or more people - but art cannot.

Every work of art is the accumulation of a series of unique and one of its kind brush-strokes. So, every single journey of life, is the accumulation of a series of unique deeds (brush-strokes), deeds that have no parallel anywhere, in anyone else's journey.

Like the artist striving to perfect each single stroke, better than he did it the last time, each one of us must strive to improve on our own acts, in any facet of life - it can be at home, at work, in our creation.... the goal must be to create a 'unique brush-stroke'.

And the artist seldom spends time looking at how some one else's art is shaping up - that results in him losing his decisive focus on each of his strokes. The singular focus in each step of the journey of creating your life's painting, is to better and better your brush-strokes.

So, as your life artist, what are your brush strokes for today?

Make the journey of life wonderful, and as unique as only you can. Life is nothing but ART-IN-PROGRESS.

Cheerleaders... and lessons for life and happiness!

In this wonderful journey of Life, there are lessons to learn from anyone whom we all come across...lessons from sportsmen, businessmen, CEO's and cheerleaders.

Cheerleaders are said to be a small crowd across the globe, and it makes them very special and unique for what they do - fly across continents to be at sports venues just to spread cheer, warmth, positive energy, smiles and laughter. So, wherever they cheer, they are an epitome of what all of us aspire to be... just plain happy within and outside.

The power of their presence is felt when you see them cheering the crowds - you and me included. Does anything cheer you more, bring more joy, more vivacity during these matches than these cheerleaders? They dance and giggle through you TV screen irrespective of how the match is poised. Whichever team you and me may patronize in the game, we are all on one-side - the side of the cheerleaders...... and happiness!

These cheerleaders are not just bone and flesh, pretty and chic.... In each of them is a teacher, a nurse, a corporate executive, an airline hostess, a travel guide, an architect...but above all, they are cheer-leaders and their goal is to spread as much joy and cheer cutting across color, creed, and continents. This is the power of positive energy at its best. If each one of us, above all we do in our lives, decides to imbibe cheerleading, this world will be a greater place than it is now.

Each of these cheer leaders have their own set of problems, they have overcome many hurdles in life than any of you and me, they have their successes, failures and setbacks, and in some cases even insurmountable tragedies.

BUT they are a determined lot - put all of their personal life aside, and be here and now, only to make you and me smile, laugh, feel happy, feel good, be a bundle of positive emotions. Believe me, even the critics of these cheerleaders, get infected with their joyful emotions. THAT is the power of spreading positive energy, smile, happiness, and joy. We all must imbibe a little bit of cheerleading in our daily schedule.

Amongst them, each of these cheerleaders invests so much of time and energy in staying and looking to be what they are.... Be it keeping their good and happy looks, an ever smiling disposition, a strong mind and body to take them across countries, and make a million and more spectators reciprocate the same positive energy and joy. I don't think there could be any other small group akin to these wonderful cheerleaders. Cheerleaders are power packed positive emotions their best. They are teamwork at its best. Each one of these cheerleaders is from a different place, nation, speaks a different language, has a unique set of life goals and career aspirations.

But when it comes to their 'here and now' goal of cheering, they are the best team, move as one, dance as one, and smile and make you smile as one...a cohesive and close-knit team that performs only to accomplish the group's goal to cheer. These are great management lessons in how teamwork ought to be.

Cheerleaders spread joy and happiness not to one sport... They do the same for cricket, baseball, football and any other sport which would want to get them to cheer the crowd. That is an example of a vision statement, irrespective of what is done... a vision to spread joy and cheer, and positive vibes for a huge audience. So, here we learn the power of having a personal or corporate vision.

Let's all benefit from a few good life lessons from these cheerleaders!