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Bhaavin Shah
Is Success about the Left Brain or Right Brain?
Spontaneity is the key to success. If you are too planned in your work life, it robs the freshness in your approach. For example, imagine spontaneously calling a client to ask about his health and in return ending up with a fresh order vis a vis calling him for an order itself and not getting one. The odds are better in the former case. In the latter case, you are already weak in your knees since you have rehearsed the picture in mind before you call and lost the freshness. The latter is a poor proposition also because there is an element of desperation involved.
Having said this, I would like to add that the flip side of spontaneity is poor time management, which needs to be balanced out. When it comes to time scheduling a person should have a planned approach and not a spontaneous one.
How much money can you ask for?
I feel a person should be comfortable asking for money, even big money – whether it be charges against one’s services or donation for some cause or a wife asking from her beloved husband or whatever. One should be child-like while asking. Asking requires one to shed his sense of somebodiness, sense of identity.
Introverts have a worse time asking for money than extroverts. It’s a limitation they should learn to get over. I am one and so I speak from experience. While I have come a long way, I have a long way to go yet. My current role model as regards this aspect is Osho.
My Courageous Master
Tears flow down my eyes whenever I choose to write about my master. What a divine being he was. Just as the word ‘water’ cannot quench a person’s thirst, any amount of depiction of my master’s personality cannot come even a few shades close to experiencing him first-hand. But anyways, words is all I have, to work like fingers pointing to the moon.
It could be a lucky stroke of randomness or result of the spiritual merit that I earned in my past lives; but meeting this giant of a man and being with him just like a son would be with a father is undoubtedly the most profound gift that existence has blessed me with. Upon thinking about him, his whole figure stands bang on my mind’s eye. Anybody who knew Guruji Rishi Prabhakar well can testify that he had the most wonderful set of eyes in the whole world. Replete with love, drenched in stillness and adorned with a sparkle that signified a life being lived in total contentment. He had a set of eyes that any man would lust after.
Live Logically
Before we take any action, we should pass the decision behind the action through the sieve of appropriateness. There should a meaningful basis, a measuring thought that decides whether or not an action is in alignment with how it should be. Even if it requires us to experiment to decide the correct way to go, we should take up the experimentation. This is what distinguishes a mature man from an immature one – the presence of a constant guiding light.