Live to Love...Love to Live!

Leadership is about maturity and not position. I remember a well-known line that says the power that comes with position goes with it. I want to further add that the real power lies in ones character. Authority should not attract self-pride. People who use their authority to get things done are simply weak enough to win the confidence of people. Discipline can never be enforced on people; it works only if it is inculcated in their minds. A leader is not a dictator. Only he who can understand people can lead. A leader should use his strengths to motivate people, remove indifferent attitude from their minds, foster sense of equality, belongingness and liveliness in the team. People who are self-centered cannot be good leaders. Leadership demands to be one with people. If you don’t understand the strengths and weaknesses of your team you can never lead; if you don’t understand their likes and dislikes you can never lead. Leaders don’t just create followers, they create able individ...

It is said that anger, hurt, stress and pain are ones own creation. They don’t come through situations or people’s behaviour. I choose to be unhappy; no one compels me to do so. We always get trapped in the clutches of our expectations. We tend to define terms for being happy. May that be about the way in which someone should treat us or a desire about the outcome of the work we are doing, the list is just endless. We just keep wishing, expecting and hoping for something to occur and then be happy. And any deviation of reality from our expectations makes us feel unhappy, lost or at times even miserable. It simply means people and circumstances control us and our happiness. And in such a case we will never be able to remain happy. Happiness is a state of mind, our own mind and we have the power to be happy under any circumstance. It is possible that things will continue to go wrong, people will continue to cheat us and situations will continue to go unfavourable. But, it is importan...