Is 405 East, 42nd Street, New York relevant? Is the United Nations relevant globally? Is its Security Council getting restructured? Will India get a permanent seat, and will it help anyone? What is this veto power, should it be there? How can we keep using it to block going ahead with some solution(s)? Can the UN reinvent itself? Can the new world order do this, or allow it?
World War has not come, but 110 armed conflicts so far. Right now, the Gaza War is going on. Some 50,000 casualties so far. 300,000 displacements. The Ukraine War is still going on since 2022, with a million killed or injured severely. Notwithstanding, some Terror organizations and leaders get hit, here and there, now and then. Including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and team. Peace is elusive but the war economy is growing. Some say it is more than trillion dollars.
Can we write? Write well? The beginning, the leads. The middles. The ends. The threads. Interconnections. The whole story, narrative, article, blog, and piece. Precise, but complete in itself. Not more, not less. Repeat for emphasis where required. Maintaining writing style, tone, and tenor all through. Doing the piece with homework, extensive. Deep enough at the same. It applies for writing, speaking, presentation et al.
Are we fit? To contribute to living fully, usefully; to the family, team; to the organization, network; to the society. Always. At least up to humanly possible extents. With physical, mental, social and spiritual stamina. For this, preparations, routines, exercises, and diets have to be crafted and practised. For the body, mind, and work itself. Most of us, other than sports persons, peak during 40-50 years, with the peak lasting 10-20 years, and the slide starts. We need to be conscious. We need to keep opting out item by item. Hours of engagement may have to be reduced. Days of work may have to come down. Gradually, over 10-15 years. Indicatively, the slide starts from 50 onwards. Maintenance hours of 70 may need to be increased slowly to 84; available hours for work and related may remain 45-50; leaving some 34 hours for ‘doing what we want’. From 60/65 onwards, this may further change towards 98, 40-45, and 25 hours. Let us get ready for these changes, shifts, transitions, and transformations.
If we overwork, maybe more than 50 hours a week, continuously for several weeks, it could lead to burnout. The remaining time has to go into learning, writing, speaking, hobby, passion, conversations, catching-up, relationships, networking, exercises, yoga, meditation, reflection et al. Early burnout symptoms include exhaustion, overthinking, palpitations, body aches, gastric symptoms, and restlessness. 60% are reporting these. Burnout can be a killer. Longer work hours in spurts are fine, but not chronically. Working on urgent issues always adds. Mediocrity, low capacity, and insecurities aggravate. Difficulties in switching off after long hours of work add. Our culture adds.
Can we really dedicate time for maintenance, full 10-12 hours a day? Can we disconnect these 12 hours a day? Can we be more disciplined, efficient? Can we also meet more people, other people? Can we use our 20 hours a week for doing what we want? Can we be in the communities, conversations? Can we care about our nutrition? Can we work to a schedule, timelines? Can we do every day – read, write, do crosswords, do numbers, listen to music, do some dance steps, see micro life, be with nature, reflect, meditate, converse, be with cohorts, communities, enterprises et al?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flow with new co-flowing life. In N? kaalayoga for 7L.
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