Youngest World Chess Champion Challenger, Candidates winner, D Gukesh, 17 years, with 2750 points. A new era starts. Viswanathan Anand gives way.
Hanumajjayanthi after Rama Navami. Rama and Rama Bhakth Hanuman.
World Books. Copyrights. Strasbourg, World Book Capital of 2024. Can we read, write, and take notes?
263,000 Panchayats. 73rd Amendment to Constitution, 1992. For their self-governance, decentralization and self-reliance. Can we build the agency of Panchayats? For public services. Livelihoods. Sustainable inclusive development. Ease of living. Ease of doing business. Can we build the agency of citizens to govern the panchayats?
Elections move. To Phase 2. NDA campaigns step up. Maybe intelligence sources are telling it is not doing well; or they are being more cautious, and do not want to take it lightly.
We are an essential self-employed and enterprise country. We are in it because we are in the family enterprise; we got pushed into it; we liked it and started it; we are there casually; or we have no other way. 90%+ of us are called wage workers, piece workers, gig workers, and not called entrepreneurs. Technically, we should be. We take risks. We seize opportunities. We meet demands and needs. What is missing – mindset, passion, and drive? Enterprise model, business model or plan? Making, and exercising choice? Reaching out? Perseverance despite all odds? Network, and partners? Pitch? Exciting, inspiring, and satisfying? Human, socal, and spiritual connection? Multi-talent, and capacity team? Appropriate abilities, intents, and agency? Towards peaking? Body language in sync? Goodwill and branding? Entrepreneurial mindfulness, reflection, and mediation? Right people around?
Apart from commensurate pay for work, we want interesting and decent work; we want appreciation, recognition, and reward for good, excellent, and extraordinary work; we want to be included in what is happening around. Can we celebrate our little achievements? Can we have deeper connections? Can we have thriving informal collaborations? Can we have a cohesive and purposive team culture? Can we keep fighting on the ways, means and nuances, and still be together? Can we continue to be with the shared purpose, vision and values? All of us – teams, colleagues, co-opted volunteers, advisers, board members, communities, well-wishers, friends, guides and philosophers. We have destinations. We have vehicles. Roads? Can we develop pathways, and roadmaps? Can we influence laying roads, tracks, seaways, airways, and knowledge ways?
Do work, and life go hand-in-hand? Work to live, and live to work? Can we be useful? Can we be free, and peaceful? We are not multi-taskers. We do one task after the other. Maybe with change every second, minute, hour, day, week, month, season, and year? Can we focus on that ‘little period’ of the activity? Can we be generalists, with high mastery of at least one item? Can we do our work with our pace, and terms? Can we read, discuss, write, keep quiet, think, and reflect? Can we dedicate a few minutes a day alone for meditation, reflection, and solitude? Can we apologize if an error happens by omission, commission, or otherwise? Can we be polite even if we are right? Can we appreciate that ‘common’ person sees the obvious better than the experts, professionals, and the experienced? Can we see through false and fake urgency that does not lead to meaningful usefulness? All work cannot be urgent. Can we see the important, and prioritize? Can we declutter spaces, works, and ideas?
Yes, we can. If we keep flowing to live, and work in N? In the flow of N. In gathiyoga for 7L.
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