It’s been two months in my new job and it’s been an exhilarating and a new learning experience every day. I recall the most important thing I learned which is very applicable out of office also.
I’m handling setting up of processes for the most premium niche of customers of the bank. The crème de la crème basically. To adhere to their extraordinary demands, I have to make demands likewise from supporting units in the bank which sometimes feels unrealistic and unfair to me. I discussed this with a colleague of mine and will never forget what he told me
‘If you feel your customers are not worth it, everyone else will also feel the same. And if you believe they are worth it, you can demand the sky and no one can refuse you’
It all lies in what you believe and the world will believe the same.
We grow up with a very positive self esteem, I know I did. Our parents make us believe we are the best, nothing is unachievable, no one is better. So we set standards for ourselves because we believe we deserve the best.
Somewhere through life, we start compromising. Due to family, jobs, peer pressures, others’ beliefs in what we are or what we are not capable of, we change our perception of ourselves and start lowering our expectations from life. We aim for or settle for less than the better. We believe the best is not for us but for someone else and so the world also accepts that.
We reduce our own worth in front of the world. We choose not to give ourselves the best that is out there.
If you look at a child, they feel they deserve the moon and will go ahead and ask for it. My one year old nephew knows no boundaries, no pain, no fear, and no limits. He is all over the place, climbing over all the furniture, talking on our mobiles, getting into our cupboards and our clothes. To him, he is worthy of everything. Demands everything and we usually give into him – Why – because he won’t give up till he gets what he wants.
Let’s all become kids again. Believe we are the best and proclaim it to the world out there. Throw tantrums till we get what we want.
Because no one deserves it more than us. We are the Best. We are worth the best.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The Best Of Reading
- Mistress Of The Game - Sidney Sheldon
- Every Second Counts - Lance Armstrong
- White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
- Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
- The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
- The Day Of The Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
- Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - Robin Sharma
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R Covey
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- Maverick - Ricardo Semler
- Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
- Prisoner Of Birth - Jeffrey Archer
- Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
- Genty Falls The Bakula - Sudha Murthy
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- The Catcher In The Rye - J.D.Salinger
- The Winner Stands Alone - Paulo Coelho
- Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
- Tell Me Your Dreams - Sidney Sheldon
- Interpreter Of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Zahir - Paulo Coelho
- Best Laid Plans - Sidney Sheldon
- Rage Of Angels - Sidney Sheldon
- Nothing Lasts Forever - Sidney Sheldon
- Windmills Of The Gods - Sidney Sheldon
- Master Of The Game - Sidney Sheldon
- The Other Side Of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon
- Memories Of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon
- Shall We Tell The President - Jeffrey Archer
- The Prodigal Daughter - Jeffrey Archer
- Changes - Danielle Steele
- The Testament - John Grisham
5 comments:
Without a doubt, each of us deserves the best life has to offer and of course, if we have a strong conviction in what we're asking for, then nothing or no one should be able to stop us from achieving that......To a certain extent though, I feel sometimes making compromises are inevitable.
It's great to be childlike and think the world revolves around us, but it's also a fact of life that we outgrow our childish ways after a point and we start thinking and acting like grown up's. I guess that's what we call 'Experience' and it teaches us to look at life from a very different perspective, as compared to the way in which we viewed life as children. So,I just feel that while the thought in your post is brilliant, sometimes there's virtue in exercising restaint as well.
Lovely article! When I tell people that I want to be a kid they never see why I keep saying it, finally someone understands. Lots of benifits to being a kiddo :). I believe we should remain kids at heart , so that every small thing in our life seems like a miracle from God.
YEah Oswald and rochu...I agree...I believe there is difference between being childlike and childish.. the only difference being the latter lacks experience. Being a child at heart makes such a difference to life...even if experience teaches us that we can't have everything we want and that the world is not all good...still I think you need not give up on having hope and believing that the best is still out there for you. You need not give up being pure at heart. And children are always so quick to forgive and move on and will still believe in the best...
So i agree with you two.... and I'm so glad that both of you have got it :)
Remember the saying....'Unless you become like little children...( you know the rest)'
Hey Oss ... u right man ... we all have a child in us that does not doubt anything n wud want to be him or herself... but we fear to get him/her out , wondering as to what others wud think...... but not all of them understand this ....rather, be ur true self .
Nice article Rochu....( done up well )
Just wondering...maybe many ppl start compromising and questioning their self worth, thinking that the "best" is for someone else, because thats the order of the universe..thats what the forces and the energies dictate, cause imagine, if all of us believed in ourselves and were totally uninhibited, wouldnt it affect the natural balance of affairs?...I mean..SOMEONE has to be second best.
Post a Comment