What can we get from the companies we are working for?
What can we get from our jobs?
What can we get from our clients?
What can we get from our relationships?
What can we get from everyone around us?
We are always obsessed with this GETTING attitude that we often forget the other side of the coin...GIVING.
What are we giving to the jobs we are doing right now?
What are we giving back in our relationships?
What value are we adding to the people around us, and more importantly to ourselves.
When we focus on getting something from someone, we are dealing with something which is not under our control, which is out of our influence zone and which may not give us a sustainable happiness but when we focus on giving we are dealing with the only thing which is under our control in this world...OURSELVES.
It is not just about benefitting from the surroundings, it is not about running a never ending greedy race, it is also about giving, it is about leaving a legacy.
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there." ~ Ray Bradbury
What can we get from our jobs?
What can we get from our clients?
What can we get from our relationships?
What can we get from everyone around us?
We are always obsessed with this GETTING attitude that we often forget the other side of the coin...GIVING.
What are we giving to the jobs we are doing right now?
What are we giving back in our relationships?
What value are we adding to the people around us, and more importantly to ourselves.
When we focus on getting something from someone, we are dealing with something which is not under our control, which is out of our influence zone and which may not give us a sustainable happiness but when we focus on giving we are dealing with the only thing which is under our control in this world...OURSELVES.
It is not just about benefitting from the surroundings, it is not about running a never ending greedy race, it is also about giving, it is about leaving a legacy.
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there." ~ Ray Bradbury
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
Thank you for reading.
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
Thank you for reading.
6 comments:
Good post again Srikar. I loved it.
even though this was something out of ur league u made it look like u were pretty much in to it .. gud work !!!!
nice work and a gud philosophical idea and true meaning of life...........
nice post
@jasho: edhaithe enti niku nachindhi adhi chalu naku :)
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