Memoirs of GB Episode 88 : Building your Home(of)Work

As you progress in the professional journey, you will build a Home (of) work in your organization, you will also build a body of affection, with the people you’ve helped who’ve helped you back. The ones you meet now, who will notice you, challenge you, work with you, and watch your back. Maybe they will be your strength during tough and good times

2021 -taught me the following Top 10 Work-life lessons

 1.      Never text a harsh feedback or criticism to someone past midnight. No one should wake up reading a negative thought or doubt unarmed with a robe of optimism.

2.      It takes great courage to decide what should last a lifetime and what should leave immediately. You will have to summon that courage every now and then to stay balanced.

3.      When life offers you an opportunity to be brilliant negotiate to be memorable as well in addition to be brilliant.

4.      People are mirrors. Be careful of which ones you are looking into.

5.      You always have an extra minute to be nice to someone. Try to give a hug instead of a selfie. Memorise the name of people who work for and around you. Greet them by their name.

6.      'Journey' is a buzz word, 'experience' is addiction. Try to trace your way back home. Some arms are growing old, they need your warmth to belong.

7.      Don't romanticise inspiration. Build the mood, create the vibe, do the doing. The muse always shows up when your intention does.

8.      You are not a dictionary. It's okay to misspell certain words. Mumble through some pronunciations and pause to pick the right word in a conversation. As long as you are authentic, you'll learn.

9.      It's amazing to be loved. But is even more amazing to be forgiven and then to be loved. Try to seek that and build along the way.

10.  Don't be harsh on yourself. A new year is here to fulfil your purpose in life, look forward to everyday with a positive and progressive outlook.

Brace yourself, we are moving to the creamy-chocolaty part of life.

If you can… fall in love, with the work, with people you work with, with your dreams and their dreams. Whatever it was that got you to this organization, don’t let it go. Whatever kept you here, don’t let that go.

Believe in your work friends. Believe that what you and your friends have to say… that the way you’re saying it — is something new in the world. You are creating something productive in this world.

Find something more important than you are, and dedicate your work towards that goal.

One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. A lot of the time our ideas about what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They’re sucked in from other people. And we also suck in messages from everything from the television to advertising to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.

The most important thing a successful person can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do, and what you are not.

The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The odder pills you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.

Quoting what Steve Jobs said "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So, keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle."

Godspeed,

Dinesh Chandrasekar DC*

P.S: All views expressed here are my personal views and opinion and have no bearing to the organization I work