जाने क्यों – Jaane Kyu

तुम्हे देखा तो तुम्हारी आँखों से
तुम्हे सुना तो तुम्हारी आवाज़ से
जाने क्यों मुझे प्यार हो गया !!

तुमने पुकारा तो तुम्हारे होठो से
तुम पास आई तो तुम्हारी सासों से
जाने क्यों मुझे प्यार हो गया !!

तुम्हारे बाल लहराए तो उनकी लटो से
तुमने कदम बढ़ाये तो तुम्हारी पायल से
जाने क्यों मुझे प्यार हो गया !!

तुम शरमाई तो तुम्हारी अदा से
तुम मुस्काई तो तुम्हारी हसी से
जाने क्यों मुझे प्यार हो गया !!

तुम्हे पहचाना तो तुम्हारी हस्ती से
और तुमने धमकाया तो तुम्हारी धमकी से
जाने क्यों मुझे प्यार हो गया !!

सपने देखना मत छोड़ना – Sapne Dekhna Mat Chhodna

सपने ऐसे देखो जो अम्बर से करे बात
लेकिन कभी धरती की पकड़ ना छोड़ना !
चाहे जितनी बार खानी पड़े मात
लेकिन सपने देखना नहीं छोड़ना !!

 

अपनी तरफ आती हर मुसीबत
को हिम्मत से सीखो लड़ना !
जब उम्मीदों की हर दीवार दह जाए
तो भी सपने देखना मत छोड़ना !!

 

Don't Dream your Lives, Live your Dreams

Don’t Dream your Lives, Live your Dreams

शरीर या बदन के थकने पर नहीं
काम पूरा होने पर ही दोस्तों बैठना !
अगर रात भी काम करने में गुजर जाए
तो भी सपने देखना नहीं छोड़ना !!

 

चाहे दिन, माह और साल निकल जाए
बेशक निकल जाये खून, या बह जाए पसीना !
मंजिल की तलाश में अगर कुम्भ भी निकल जाए
तो भी तुम सपने देखना मत छोड़ना !!

 

इस रस्ते निकल पड़े तो वापस नहीं मुड़ना है
क्या कर सकते है हम इस दुनिया को दिखाना है !
पर्वत चट्टानों से भी आगे हमें जाना है
हर कदम पे नए सपने देखना नहीं छोड़ना है !!

3 Simple Secrets of Love

Life is simple, very simple indeed. But we humans take great pride in making it complicated. I think it is because we get our sense of worth by doing something tough, solving some complex problem or achieving some goal. So the idea of life being simple is very difficult to grasp for most of us.

Like life, the solutions or secrets behind solving most of our problems are also very simple. In this article I want to point out three very simple secrets for love. When I say love, I mean love between any two human beings, and not necessarily romantic love. It could also be love between two strangers, but the secrets are the same. Also they are nothing which you don’t already know or something which I have ‘discovered‘, they are plain old undeniable truths which we all are aware of, but rarely practice in our lives.

Here they go –

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

1. Delight at Sight

We all must ask ourselves a few questions here –

  • How excited are we on seeing our parents after coming home from work?
  • How happy are we on seeing our colleagues daily at work?
  • How joyful we become on meeting our friends over the weekend?
  • Do we smile and wish our neighbors when we crash into them every now and then?

Delight at sight means a feeling of absolute delight on seeing another human being. The delight of knowing that we have parents to care for us, friends to share a beer with, a spouse to share our life, and colleagues to work along with. Do we smile, run towards them, and wish or hug them with a big smile on our face?

We all know a few such people in our lives, and if we look deeply we will know that how much love they give and receive. If you have no human examples, look at your dog or cat and observe their behaviour. Can you see the “Delight at Sight” secret in them?

2. Marshal People By Example

Giving a lecture is so much easy than acting ourselves on what we are lecturing about. Just like writing this article is a lot more easy for me than to actually practice this stuff daily. But love spreads from sacrifice and compassion towards another, by teaching something by example. By doing something ourselves, and making ourselves a 10x better example of what we are trying to suggest/teach to the other person is the only way to sow the seeds of love in any relationship.

I can see my father as a perfect example of this. And I am sure we all can see the same in our parents. And it is a very hard process, as you have to continue practice living your life as an example, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, and so on. And if we want to preach a principle, we have to live our lives at least a 10 time multiple of that principle. It takes a BIG man to do that…

3. Heart to Heart

We should aspire to live more from our heart than from our brain. We should tap into the emotions and feelings which make us human (but not be driven by them) because the strongest human connections and love always originate from our hearts, and never from our brains. We should show an endless stream of compassion towards our fellow beings as each one of us is fighting very similar battles. Support people instead of criticizing, forgive them instead of holding a grudge and love them instead of judging them.

However, this is not something we should (or can) fake. Heart to Heart means being true to our feelings and never lying about how one feels. If you are sad – cry, if you are angry – shout; but get over it soon and pour out compassion for yourself and for others too. Do what you want to do, and give others space to do what they want to do.

Three More Steps to take as an Entrepreneur for your Employees

Last year I wrote an article about three small steps in treating our employees that can make a big difference as an entrepreneur. Great teams are made up of employees who help each other, know their roles, set aside personal goals, and value team success over everything else. I want to expand those steps and add three more very simple things we can do –

Your first few employees will make or break your company

Your first few employees will make or break your company

4. Be the First to Take the Blame
Whenever something goes wrong, as it will many times, it is the boss’s duty and responsibility to be visible and face the music from inside and outside. Otherwise, anger, upsets and blame can set in and make things worse for the future. While taking blame, you also have to be honest about what is happening and efficient in dealing with the repercussions.

5. And the Last to Take Credit
Always give credit to the team first, because any success you have is actually theirs. That doesn’t mean discounting your role which you should always acknowledge. But your success is not only yours, and that’s why you should pass on every credit you get to the people behind, who normally wont get much visibility. Make sure they know their part in the success and importance in the company.

6. Make Sure Your Employees know how much They Mean to You
If someone is working a weekend for you, make sure you are there too. Otherwise, do something to let them know how much that means to you. Nobody wants to work on a weekend, and it is your duty to acknowledge their effort and responsibility to make them feel thanked for their contribution.

Building a New Floor

As I was completing my third round of jogging in the neighborhood park, I suddenly stopped at the sight of a new house just across the park.

“Something is different today.“, I said to myself, as somehow it caught my attention. It certainly had been under construction for some time now, and I remember seeing it on many previous morning jogs too. After pondering for a few minutes, I got the difference – the support beams were gone. The house was standing on its own.

If you are building a new floor, you will need support.

If you are building a new floor, you will need support.

Over the past few weeks, as I went passed this house, it was all messy with wooden logs or beams supporting each floor as it was built. There was mud, rocks and all kind of construction material outside the house, and inside there were only walls with red dirty bricks, and a few workers in dirt filled clothes going about their chores. Everybody walking on the street looked at everywhere but this house. Very frankly, it was not a pretty sight and people turned away from that side of the road while walking.

But today, the beams were gone and there was a layer of cement and white paint on the walls. The front entrance was getting cleaned, and much of the machinery and construction material was gone. Sunlight was coming in from the side and the new floor and walls were reflecting it illuminating the house, giving it a very different look from just a few days ago. And everyone walking on the road couldn’t continue without stopping and glancing at the new beautiful house, admiring it and wishing one for themselves.

Isn’t that the way of life and nature? Everything beautiful ever built was once messy and needed support. I guess the same holds true for great human beings and relationships. As we make different new floors on our life building, we will need the support of beams, we will look like a mess from the outside, and people will look the other way.

But once you finally complete the new floor, everybody will stop by and ask how you did that? Some will say you are lucky, and many will stop and admire you for creating your life the way it looks like. And they will wish they could do the same.

And they can. Everybody can. But then they have to take support of the beams. They would have to be OK with a little mess now and then. They would have to be OK with people seeing the other side when they most need support. Every dream has a price to be paid for. The only question is – are you willing to pay the price for your dream home, or your dream life?