How optimistic are You?

In my recent venture to nominate myself to be part of a global organization, we had two other comrades, who were of a African and a native from Middle East unfortunately we had elections and I was the odd one out, but for the good or bad, I realized, that even if I don’t win, and if I cannot do what the organization is expecting, then my fellow comrades, will definitely do a better job, I realized, doing matter who does doesn’t.

We were having a discussion at work place about how optimistic are you? When it comes to managing things and keeping that brave mindset, despite all odds, I believe optimism comes when you understand what actually is happening around yourself and you hold a sense of belonging and hope it’s going to be okay! And that positivism just keeps things pushing.

What matters in today’s context is more self aware and that you actually needs to know, who you and what your sense of purpose! Going back in life to our previous years we may have set an expectation and a resolution that this year is going to be my year! And we move about re-aligning to the other expectations and by the time we realize its end of the Year.

Being optimistic doesn’t really mean that there in life, you can’t always be there uplifting your soul, yes as a matter of fact, we fail and move forward, but optimism is all about body language portraying who you are and how it is going to reflect your inner self to the outer society.

I believe, we may have seen the last ball hit out to the stadium by Captain Cool lifting the world cup by India after 28 Years, is all about optimism and the body language that you hold in moments that define who you are.

So let’s come to a little bit of science where optimism can help, thinking that is focused on the future and how the future will unfold. It helps improve our lives and make us happier.  Numerous research studies have confirmed the benefits of optimism which include better health, longer lives, faster recovery from illness, and even healthier babies.

Let’s now unfold what is takes to be optimistic in life, be it our moments in life or be it the situations that define us! I would say it’s all about how good that oneself is in his situation an how he handles not losing his calm matters, being optimistic can help.

When we are optimistic, life looks a little bit more interesting to new avenues, challenges and thoughts can be more impactful and that we don’t have any second thoughts about where are we heading with this!

I believe that one can practice optimism all his life through various methods and strategies, but I still feel and believe that there’s more to life and this attribute that can help you doesn’t need any a tool but rather self understanding that positivity can help to survive better day’s forward.

Optimism isn’t a big thing- it’s all about a word or a sentence or may be intent of oneself in his quest of success and the intention or a help he/ she does to anyone.

 

 

 

Joseph Kamal Francis

BEHIND THE SCREEN DURING COVID 19

I love vacations, it gives time to travel to new places away from the city where I can connect with nature, meet new people, learn a new language and taste new food. Luckily, as far as I remember I’ve utilized all my vacations for the last 6 years to explore new places on the map which in return holistically taught astonishing lessons for life. People living around a natural environment similar to trees and plants, mountains and forests, rivers and waterfalls, animals and birds reflect great human qualities as like as Nature. Once I reach my home, I would cherish the memories and implement the lesson learned for life. Mostly it makes me wonder how diverse the earth is and the relation between everything around me.

After the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan city in late 2019 no one predicted it would become a global pandemic which let the entire world into quarantine mode for months. Followed by the lockdown global economic and stock market slowdown, breaking news and popular leaders addressing the nation, lack of medical resources and fear of increasing causalities around the globe, poverty and mass migration, family time and work from home trend, emerging rumors and conspiracy theories.

In-between all theses, there is one thing which made me so happy and gave hope to millions who think similar to what I’m thinking right now. Yes, it the nature recovering from a century of human exploitation. Yes, I was able to breathe clean air since there is no road and air transportation, able to see the empty forest without human disturbance due to lockdown, zero noise pollution, no plundering of earthly resources and a pause to violence against animals and birds.

Surprisingly I was able to see new birds around my house, wild animals roaming around without hesitation or fear, Massive drop in the greenhouse gas emission, quick healing in the ozone layer, quite an ocean floor with flourishing ocean life, the earth was actually glowing from the international space station. This is how an idea of balanced life looks like.

In the last three years I only use public transportation which reduced my carbon footprint level, started to carry my own cloth bag when I go for shopping, I stopped using plastic pen and began to use a fountain pen so that I can stay away from plastic ending up in the ocean, I buy my grocery from small scale vendor, never allow light or fan to run when I’m not in my room, Learned basics of waste segregation, and started to carry a handkerchief instead of tissue paper.

Well I should admit this, in the beginning, it sounded very strange and Impossible but after a month I feel like giving up but with a lot of practice in living a conscious life, I was able to reduce my carbon footprint. What if we learn to live a need-based lifestyle with a lot of consciousness where we won’t disturb any other life forms like how no other life forms disturbs us. Why not we adopt a sustainable lifestyle from a small step and live a life full of positivity. Three years ago, it looked impossible yet a small try brought me this far. This lockdown has shown the beautiful color of nature and how it’s striving without human disturbance. Let’s help the nature and help the future generation to enjoy the beauty of the earth. I’m not stopping here, I will find more ways to reduce my contribution in bringing down my carbon footprint and help planet earth heal, join me!

Mr V.M Ebin Navis

Dept of Sociology

Loyola College

Why Manners are still relevant today?

               I  was on a lift the other day rushing down to work as I was late the other night was a long night watching Netflix and was a little tired and I was eager to get in the lift and was eager to get into to lift and clicked the floor that I am supposed to go, meanwhile there was another gentleman who stood by to catch the same lift which I didn’t realize and he stepped inside and started blasting at me, by speaking , aren’t you aware that if somebody’s coming you should hold on to see them and then wait for a moment and carry on, mate!! We are all in a hurry, but manners do matter!

               I t took a great leap to understand how important it is to understand the simple act of random kindness and what it is to keep your manner even if it’s in your busy schedule.

                In a more simpler way we realize that manners are more important as we hold a certain etiquette for the art of life despite wherever we are, we tend to realize and understand that we may grow up as much in knowledge but having good manners holds the key to complete formation in growth.

                We may move our job online, career to online, shopping online and what more but I challenge we cannot move our manners online understanding the fact that every young kid has everything he gets but I believe that art of manners is still a dream to go about and it’s a great challenge for our education system cause we tend to target more on the quantity of knowledge but not the quality of life to learn and experience.

                As a kid who moves from this stage to his college and that’s where he/ she fails big and then its move forward to happen in their worklife which finally leads to a simple incident like what happened to me in the lift.

                No matter who you are or what you do, become, manners that form in your life matters most and it will have a greater impact in the life you wish or want to become.

                Today’s generation is in a crisis and that we need to accept the fact that we have buried this art which is simple and we move on to look into more and more bigger problems but the solution is this.

                Manners have changed a lot over the years and are still changing, many countries have their own set of distinctive manners they follow and I suggest you to try some.

                Manners are very important, because they speak before you speak.

                Build some manners, transform and transfer the world into a better and never forget to transfer to your young ones!!!

Joseph Kamal Francis

Understanding US!!!

I am grateful and thankful that I work, these days, coz that’s where I find myself a little happy because of the wonderful people I have come across, in this journey and also few bitter moments to pass by, all for good of something, we now are a part of Team of fourteen, leaded by a hardcore Indian Leader , as my daily work also the team’s majority work is to manage the daily operations of various inflows and outflows and projects that take place along for the good of the organization.

We moved our Journey as a team, but the understanding, that the leader needs to accept everybody as one and carry on, still happens but to a greater extent the bonding mattered and the ship slowly started sinking, which led me to a greater amount of reflection to understand, what’s that been lacking and I couldn’t figure out where are we heading! So I took up to understand a little bit of understanding WE!

Leadership as defined, by wise men, who defined, your defined who you work for!! And not by whom you work under!! Growing as a team, since being the most number of team across, having the most number, we felt that we worked under clusters under various domains, which felt that the team had to struggle and understand that there is to much in the taking when it comes in the taking! I’m referring to the stretch and the man- power hours to take control and the accountability that mattered, but here comes the idea, of the responsibility to recognize the fact the people who work for long hours!!!

Now that recognition, takes a long way to come, because, you now come to the picture of daily operations taking in the manual way, which includes lot of manual labor, realizing the fact that the art of responsibility lies with the leader, which need to be addressed, which is a long way in the picture, because of the reality that the leader doesn’t understand the real picture.

Now, where are we as a team!, work happens, and move on, people tend to forget their value of being recognized in a team, and they still tend to understand that, survival matters and that the problem of  getting behind fingers pointed at one’s face becomes a fear and that the bond of the team is finally lost.

At this juncture, what now matters wasn’t a life time of experience but a simple value of empathy, that encourages oneself to accept the art that even the other is slow, there is still that saying that we are part of a great team and that’s when the team is reborn to do something good for everybody!

Being a leader of the 21^st Generation, we still need to accept times have changed and not look up to accept what life was back in the generations that passed by, we are a team and only when the leader leads the team is built.

A successful team isn’t determined by the output each individual delivers but the amount of group photographs the team smiles and accepts to take together, will determine the family!

The world is rapid and it’s time to understand that reality must not be just a dream but in practice!

Cheers 

Joseph Kamal Francis

To be continued!