Inheritance? Complacency? Rich!? Inactivity kills!

 

A mouse was put at the top of a jar filled with grains. He was too happy to find so much of food around him. Now he doesn't need to run around searching for food and can happily lead his life.

As he enjoyed the grains, in few days time, he reached to the bottom of the jar. Now he is trapped and he cannot come out of it. He has to solely depend upon someone to put grains in the same jar for him to survive.

He may even not get the grain of his choice and he cannot choose either. If he has to live, he has to feed on whatever has been put into the jar.

The story ends here.. However, this is not much different from the corporate groups. Once you join a new job with a hefty salary, you keep working for those deliverable, forgetting that we are getting trapped in the jar. Later when we wish to move out, it becomes very difficult and growth in the same company now depends not on your skills but more on management wills.

Hence, never depend on a single source for your well being. Keep developing your skills outside your job so that whenever you wish to leap there are opportunities available and you are not at the mercy of one employer.

Life is Simple! Don't Complicate it! - Toothpaste production line!

Life is Simple! Don't Complicate it!

A CEO Spends $8m And Hires A Team Of Engineers To Solve A Problem. But The Solution Surprises Everyone...Except The Engineers.

A toothpaste factory had a problem: they sometimes shipped empty boxes, without the tube inside. This was due to the way the production line was set up, and people with experience in designing production lines will tell you how difficult it is to have everything happen with timings so precise that every single unit coming out of it is perfect 100% of the time. Small variations in the environment (which can't be controlled in a cost-effective fashion) mean you must have quality assurance checks smartly distributed across the line so that customers all the way down the supermarket don't get pissed off and buy someone else's product instead.

Understanding how important that was, the CEO of the toothpaste factory got the top people in the company together and they decided to start a new project, in which they would hire an external engineering company to solve their empty boxes problem, as their engineering department was already too stretched to take on any extra effort.

The project followed the usual process: budget and project sponsor allocated, RFP, third-parties selected, and six months (and $8 million) later they had a fantastic solution — on time, on budget, high quality and everyone in the project had a great time. They solved the problem by using some high-tech precision scales that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box weighing less than it should. The line would stop, and someone had to walk over and yank the defective box out of it, pressing another button when done.

A while later, the CEO decides to have a look at the ROI of the project: amazing results! No empty boxes ever shipped out of the factory after the scales were put in place. Very few customer complaints, and they were gaining market share. "That's some money well spent!" – he says, before looking closely at the other statistics in the report.

It turns out, the number of defects picked up by the scales was 0 after three weeks of production use. It should've been picking up at least a dozen a day, so maybe there was something wrong with the report. He filed a bug against it, and after some investigation, the engineers come back saying the report was actually correct. The scales really weren"t picking up any defects, because all boxes that got to that point in the conveyor belt were good.

Puzzled, the CEO travels down to the factory, and walks up to the part of the line where the precision scales were installed. A few feet before it, there was a $20 desk fan, blowing the empty boxes out of the belt and into a bin. "Oh, that — one of the guys put it there 'cause he was tired of walking over every time the bell rang", says one of the workers.

Three Wishes of Alexander

Three Wishes of Alexander
Alexander the great had three wishes on his deathbed:

“My first wish is to have my physician bring my coffin home alone. After a gasping for air, Alexander continued: My second wish is scatter the gold, silver, and gems from my treasure-house along the
...path to the tomb when you ship my coffin to the grave. After wrapping in a woollen blanket and resting for a while, he said: My final wish it to put my hands outside the coffin.” People surrounding him all were very curious, but no one dare to ask the reason. Alexander's most favoured general kissed his hand and asked: “My Majesty, We will follow your instruction. But can you tell us why you want us to do it this way?”

After taking a deep breath, Alexander said: “I want everyone understand the three lessons I have learned. To let my physician carry my coffin alone is to let people realize that a physician cannot really cure people's illness beyond a point. Especially when they face death, the physicians are powerless. I hope people will learn to treasure their lives. My second wish is to tell people not to be like me in pursuing wealth. I spent my whole life pursuing wealth, but I was wasting my time most of the time. My third wish to let people understand that I came to this world with empty hands and I will leave this world also with empty hands.”
You don't even carry yourself leave alone anything else!!! Some one has to carry you !!!

My dear friends, yesterday I was at the funeral of a very close person to my heart. I have always silently appreciated his resilience in life and in facing his illness. He was a great soldier of the Indian army and served for 41 years. He died of old age. Finally he made the supreme gift of donating his body for medical research.

This act epitomizes the reality of our existence. As you read from the life of the great military achiever, Alexander the Great, out of emptiness we come and into emptiness we return. It is in this brief period, which is insignificant in relation to the existence of the cosmos, we seem to focus our energies entirely on a very temporary agenda.

Physical death is inevitable and our body is a temporary vehicle of our consciousness. Nothing material can accompany us beyond this existence. Instead of chasing one’s own shadow (the physical body) with a view to grasp its nature, focus on the Self which is the real you.