Dear Readers How should we welcome 2014? Let’s celebrate it as the year of mistakes. Yes. Mistakes. When we make mistakes, we make new things, we try new things, we learn new things and we keep changing our outlook towards the world, society and above all towards us. Let’s say YES to our BAG of mistakes: Big mistakes Amazing mistakes Glorious mistakes Whichever mistake we may commit, let’s also resolve NOT to repeat the mistakes. Let’s learn vigorously, aggressively and with utmost honesty. Start MAG – My Actions Game from mistakes. whY not! Cheers, Rajiv Khurana Editor rajiv@rajivkhurana.com 9810211256.

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Making mistakes is not a mistake

Introspect ‘Why and How it happened?’

Seek feedback. Set room for improvement.

Take stock of the alternatives overlooked.

Assess changes needed to avoid same goof-up.

Keep a log of ‘lessons learnt’ for future use.

Enthusiastically correct the course. Take charge.

Smile and enjoy new mistakes

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Right from the nation wide political parties to small size board rooms, we all make RESOLUTIONS. Each beginning of the New Year, these resolutions gain great significance for every executive and non-executive. No one bothers to re-look at them once the euphoria dies out in a fortnight. Resolutions are resolutions…they are meant to be broken. Not any more. This year I have resolved to give you resolutions, which you will love to nurture and sustain. I am opening my heart before you. Pick and choose these random outflows: - • This year I will increase my weight by

another 10 kg and waistline by 3 inches. I dislike wastage. Waistline is a small compromise for the food on the waste-line during every corporate party.

• This year I will fall sick more often or

at least pretend to fall sick more often. I do not like my medical entitlements going down the drain. Tax laws and my company do not bother to give me medical fitness allowance. I have to live with medical sickness allowance.

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• This year I will spend at least one hour every day during my 15 minutes tea/coffee break. How else can I cope up with so many things happening the world over in politics, hollywood, bollywood, neighbourhood etc. All efforts made by persons like Osama will go waste if we do not take note of them.

• This year I will spend more time admiring Miss

Dilruba Dilwali who has now shifted on the same floor where I work. Keats said, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” I do not know why people in management do not follow this with poetic heart.

• This year I will deliberately give wrong and

delayed information to my superiors. How else will they understand my significance and the conditionality within which I work? Low or no increments only lead to low or no performance.

• This year I will be more competitive. Even

though KBC has gone down, there are other competitions, which keep emerging. I am told that now the web based competitions are also starting in India. Great news for competition buffs like me! Sitting on my computer, I can always pretend to work while surfing to upgrade my general knowledge. I will also continue doing my kids homework this way.

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• This year I will act as a great communication network link amongst my colleagues during office hours. I will maintain a live and active database of who is seeing whom, who ate with whom, who dropped whom etc. etc. I will try to have at least one transmission every hour through net or through phone. People will bless me for this service.

• This year I will use office stationary and

photocopier more often. These days, book stores don’t sell good quality notebooks for children for rough work. Our office stationary is much better. My children will save a lot of their time through my little efforts of copying their notes on the office photocopier. As usual, I will continue giving the office erasers, pens, pencils etc. as return gifts on my children’s birthdays.

• This year I will use the corporate

entertainment card more often. My wife has been complaining a lot that I have not been taking her out quite often these days.

• This year I will apply a lot of butter to my

boss. Poor old man has been suffering from arthritis for quite some time. I hope a bit of lubrication supplied regularly by me can boost up his mental and physical self.

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• This year I will complain more about my

colleagues to my superior. In my last program, the trainer talked about building ownership. I must own the responsibility of informing my superior about what my colleagues do, should do or do not do. My colleagues have become quite complacent of late. They should start living and adjusting to the environment of un-predictability and increasing stress.

• This year I will give some more tough time to

my customers. They have been thinking too high of themselves of late. They should realize that American scenario couldn’t be super imposed in India. The ford in America has to move at the speed of ox-ford in India.

• This year I will devote more time to Indian

cricket. What can these boys do if the general public is loosing interest because of their poor performance? How can performance boost up if there are less viewers in the stadium or before the TV? Large viewer-ship means large modeling roles means large money means large possibility of field presence and performance [provided some actress is not waiting in the pavilion!].

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• This year I will talk a lot. The great Indian past time needs strengthening. At least something should emerge stronger from India. Big talks, Big promises, Big vision, Big noise etc. can go in a big way to boost our credibility. So what if no body listens, people in any case do not talk because others have to listen.

• This year I will be a proud Indian. I

have always been. I will always remain. Lip service is not expensive. So what if I do not help the accident victim on the road, so what if I do not pay my taxes, so what if I do not work enough, so what if I believe in ‘chalta hai’. Things keep moving because of ‘chalta hai’. I will also keep moving.

• I liked what somebody said, “Better to

get up late and be wide awake, than to get up early and be tired all day?” I sometime wonder, “In this fast paced world, who are we racing against?” No one but our own fears. Shed them. Sit down. Calm down. Life will not change drastically for you within a year. Why worry? Extinguish your fix. Don’t become a spent force.

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CONSTANT AWARENESS No Zen student would presume to teach others till he had lived with his Master for a minimum of ten years. Tenno, having completed his ten years of apprenticeship, acquired the rank of teacher. One day he went to visit the Master Nan-in. It was a rainy day, so Tenno wore wooden clogs and carried an umbrella. When he walked in, Nan-in greeted him with, “You left your wooden clogs and umbrella on the porch didn’t you? Tell me, did you place your umbrella on the right side of the clogs or on the left?” Tenno was embarrassed, for he did not know the answer. He realized he lacked Awareness. So he became Nan-in’s student and laboured for ten more years to acquire Continual Awareness. The person who is ceaselessly aware: the person who is totally there each moment: behold the Master!

THE FORMULA The mystic was back from the desert. “Tell us,” they said, “what God is like.” But how could he ever tell them what he had experienced in his heart? Can God be put into words? He finally gave them a formula — inaccurate, inadequate—in the hope that some might be tempted to experience it for themselves. They seized upon the formula. They made it a sacred text. They imposed it on others as a holy belief. They went to great pains to spread it in foreign lands. Some even gave their lives for if. The mystic was sad. It might have been better if he had said nothing.

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A new year is unfolding--like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within. - Unknown

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. - Brooks Atkinson

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instil in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey

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