Holi. Holi in, with N. Colours. Laughter, Love, Spring. Song, Dance. New beginning. Renewal. Success, Victory.
Better prompt leads to better output in AI. AI is growing. Can we learn, and master prompts? Prompt engineering?
Most poor, vulnerable and marginalized, particularly women, are in SHGs now. SHGs are ubiquitous; offer their members an identity; confirm solidarity; follow Panchasutra – meet, save, lend, repay, and record – in their own ways; access resources; take up works, services, programs, and resources for State; reinforce agency, with abilities and resources, willingness and spaces; are federated upwards, at higher levels – upto state level and beyond; are taking charge of their livelihoods, well-being, lives, and destinies. Taking their men along slowly.
How do we make education, schooling and beyond, more relevant for most of the people? How do we keep them in the life-long learning journey, with benefits continuing to accrue to them? Do the students and teachers have the agency for the same – abilities (data, knowledge, tools, skills, and resources), intent (willingness, motivation, and inspiration) and the space (time, architecture, scope, relevance, policy, choices, access et al)? We need more and more bright and competent hands in teaching. The ‘school’ should take us to 7L – life, living, livelihood, linking, leading, learning, love. In and with nature. Can we work towards this? Can we have more and more examples of this? Can we move beyond slogans? Can we add tools and skills to ourselves? Can we act, do and make these slogans real? Can we invest time, energy, and resources, for change? We must.
Can we increasingly go towards impacts, effects, results, rather than structures and activities? Can we not leave these structures, activities et al to the ‘agents’? Can we be more sensitive to and support evolution? Can we appreciate and understand employment including entrepreneurship, with reasonable returns? Can we improve the ‘returns’ for them? Can we also better their portfolios of works, and engagement?
Let us not look at the benefit of the transition in isolation. We need to see from the entire chain and associated – from the pre-transition area, transition area, and upto the post-transition area, till it reaches the logical end. People have to be involved in this appreciation, making choices and following-up.
Can we control our emotions, impulses, desires and behaviours? Can we resist instant gratification for a long-term meaningful end? Can we have self-discipline? Do we have will power? Do we have emotional, social and spiritual intelligence, apart from the analytical? Even in food? In day-to-day living? Are we tough, sharp and strong, mentally? If we decide not-to-do a thing, can we stop doing it? And vice-versa. Can we do things which we hate, if we decide to do them? Can we have focus even in temptations and stressful situations? Can we perform fine despite our excited, and sad emotional contexts? Can we fast? Continually, to some rhythm?
We can change in governance only by voting. We need to gradually eliminate unsuitable leadership by our votes. Otherwise, we are no longer be in-charges of our lives. We may end up as ‘idiots’. Politics is there in every aspect of our lives – family, society, culture, profession, business, religion, et al. Can we get ready?
Are we recruiting people for their past, not for future possibilities, and results? Can we reverse, chase, catch, hold on? Can we go for future vibrancy? Refresher? For improved relationships, resources, and new usefulness?
Can we be in the moment? In the flow? Can we maximize focus? Can we make choices relevant, important to us, taking control of our time, energies and priorities? Can we spend time with and mentor our teamers? One-on-one, away from meetings and firefightings? Can we enslave our tech tools? Silent, mute, and out-of-sight. Can we find ways to focus within the ‘open’, unplugging, and having breaks? Being, thinking, saying, and doing.
Yes, we can. If we at last wander into nature together. Often. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of living, and loving life in nature – abhyaasayoga for 7L.
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