Why Saying No Is Important

Well everyone of us has been there. I'm sure there's not much contradiction here. It's very very difficult to say no, immaterial of how difficult it is, one must practice the art of saying no.

While a lot of you who have a sales background might be familiar with the funnel of conversion from lead to deal, might well relate to this post as to why a no, a genuine no serves as a bliss.

Be it an interview result from a recruiter, a sale deal from a customer, an approval from a parent, a decision maker plays the most important role of saving time of the negotiator who's at least following up a minimum of three attempts in order bring the deal to a close/drop.

A sales person will very well be aware of the fact that from a 100 contacts a bare minimum of 3-5 deals might strike. But to judge which of the 100 calls might make it to a deal is a strenuous task.

A lot of us, are unable to say no; merely for the sake of not possessing the courage to say no or merely for the sake of being nice. If our true intention is to be nice, the best thing to do is to genuinely say no, thereby save their valuable time so they buckle up and track down the next prospect.

A lot of time and energy will be saved in terms of negotiations, if we merely possess the ability to say no.

Love,

The Beauty of Being Disconnected

Eight days without a smart phone might sound like less than a luxury for many of you. But if one chose to be without it, and experience the beauty of it, the realization strikes that it indeed is a luxury to live a life without it.

My temporary phone didn't support me to download the most popular chatting application. I was disconnected from a lot of you, including this blog app I use to write to you all time to time.

The first day was really restless, I continued to unlock my temporary phone time to time to check notifications and felt disappointed to see nill notifications. It took me two whole days to detoxify myself and fully realize the mental state we currently are in. How restless have we become in terms of constantly checking notifications and texts.

The third day and subsequent days were spent in a whole lot of peace of mind, an unexplainable calmness took over where I began to stop being constantly being distracted to my phone in the name of being connected with loved ones.

The days of being disconnected from my smart phone, allowed me to connect to  myself more deeply with a calm and peaceful mind. I fell asleep much quicker these days without waking up to random chats and notifications.

Life indeed was beautiful to stay disconnected this way. While it's too difficult to stay that way forever, I believe such a short term detoxification is necessary time to time.

While a lot of you out there might get ready with a lot of moderately acceptable abusive comments to write below, try  once to have a digital detoxification.

It's worth giving a try!

Love,

One never knows it all!

One of my friend makes a remark that it's time he leaves his current organisation, with less than a year experience. An article from Harvard suggests that the current job hop rate is at 4.6 years per organisation. And the article also recommends strong reasons to decide when it's time to switch.

The one point not pointed out, and that as an excuse for my pal to switch is probably the most ridiculous of all I've ever encountered. I'm told, there's nothing more to learn. I've learnt it all. I need to switch to another organisation to improve my learning further.

To know, is to know you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Socrates

I guess the context of my post is revealed with the above saying.

Now for those of you who are patient enough to read the rest of the post gets a chance to read a personal experience which made me get my thoughts even more stronger on the above lines.

I traveled to Singapore recently and I did everything possible to have my home work about navigation, food etc. Since this was a trip all by myself, and to a new country, I covered as many details as possible in order to be well prepared.

I guess the incident occurred just to make me realise my ignorance levels. My first local bus trip on my first day of landing turned out to be the epic embarrassing moment for the rest of my life. The lady who drove the bus didn't know English and I didn't know Chinese. We exchanged sign languages which didn't help and she couldn't even read my phone which displayed texts in English.

It was quite a scene before the whole crowd until a local lady stepped up to translate for the two of us.

No matter how prepared we are, how much we have learned, there's still so much more left that is even beyond our imagination.

Will someone tell this to me friend?

Love,

Women, Go!

It's heart warming to see women rise and break conventional stereotypes. There are more women leaders at Pepsi, ICICI and the SBI.

Hillary Clinton is getting stronger in the USA and Theresa May is to replace the PM in UK.

There's this old saying educate a man, and only he benefits, educate a woman, the family benefits.

I do hope that the above gets an analogy and stand a chance to prove, empower a man and he benefits; empower women and the nation benefits.

With more women leaders, I'm sure there might be more empathy and deeper relationships among countries.

Go, Women!

Where are we heading? - 2

As I turned the TV on at my hotel due to boredom, I happened to see the image of a DNA and subsequent images were that of a pig and a human positioned next to each other. The curious still alive biotechnologist within me wanted to continue watching it.

The show was about Gene Editing. The further visualisation and about three to four case studies were showing human progress. But were highly disturbing.

Organ Development
The male human sex cells called the sperm are fused with a female ovum cells of that of a pig and a human embryo is developed and placed within a pig. The growing cells are altered and made to develop a certain portion of the Human body. This way a human pancreas or lungs or heart or kidney and any other crucial organ can be grown externally within a pig and then transplanted to a human being.

While the advantage is it kills the current thriving organ trade black market, and put an end to illegal organ stealing in certain hospitals, what matters is the ethical concerns. The pig being a creature of low stature being a secondary concern, the primary concern is that of how could human beings enter territories and take control over to such great extents?

Cure for HIV/AIDS
The rising concern of HIV and deaths being reported has lead to the cure of HIV via gene editing. Altering the sequence of genetic information in our DNA, HIV could be cured.

Baby Design
What was shown in Super Man in the planet of Krypton where natural selection and human birth was replaced by artificial baby Design, seems to be taking a true form. The rise of human genetic engineering has grown to design genetically rich alpha males and females.

Where are we heading to?

With pigs turning in to human replacement for a woman's womb, and fall of HIV, indirectly leading to less deaths and continuing births and population explosions, and design of genetically superior humans, are humans taking the right path of progress? Humans seem to be taking powers beyond what were given to him. What does a parent do when it's child misuses something that was given? A responsible parent takes it away. It won't be long before nature takes that call to wipe away human progress or the human race similar to dinosaurs that are no longer present.

Sure many of you would have a lot of contrasting thoughts on this, do write your comments below.

Love,