Wagging your way out of the pandemic!

 The act of never giving up is one that needs to be nurtured from an young age. There are several times in life when things can go wrong, the best solution is wait it out and try again! Don't worry about what others are thinking about you. Your efforts and attention matter the most! The most activity happens when you are on the verge of giving up! You think this will never work and suddenly that sparkle of light lightens your life and you are moving in forward gear! So always believe in yourself, be courageous and active! Some feel good things to always remember: THANK PAST, SOAK NEW 1. Train Having courage, you are the best! 2. Acquire skills 3. Never give up! 4. Keep trying! 5. Practice gratitude for what you have. 6. Acknowledge errors 7. Sparkle your way! 8. Train your mind 9. SOund off the nAy-sayers 10. Keep going with courage and fortitude. 11. NavigatE through with toughness 12. Welcome new future!  

  As the picture captured from the ASQ quality progress publication above shows, the most difficult part is standing through criticism at work. Things can go wrong, the most important aspect is how do we bounce back. Resilience is bouncing back from a difficult loss or failure.   There are multiple ways to develop resilience. Long distance runners and professional athletes have loads of resilience built into them. It takes a lot of mind training to reach the point where you can effortlessly blend the task of acceptance of loss.  As you know the Pareto charts are used by quality groups in an organization to track the well being of the project. In the cartoon skit above, the pareto head is humanized to teach soft skills to users. There comes the problem! A human can accept and discuss the flaws of lot many people around him, but find it difficult to accept one's own flaws and shortcomings. The world is a mirror and you are surrounded by people of your own kind for the most part. It

I cannot stress enough the importance of sleep at the end of the day. The week is so eventful that we need the well-deserved rest everyday. Sacrifice the sleep and spoil your week ahead, just like "Spare the rod and spoil the child". The difference a well-rested sleep can do to our bodies is difficult to measure but easy to experience. No more grumpiness and anger! It controls mood fluctuations and tiredness. The advantages are as follows: acronym ( FEELING ) 1. F eeling deeply rested and fresh 2. E nthusiasm to take up the most difficult tasks. 3. E xtra drive to finish tasks. 4. L ess frustration when a task is not completed. 5. I nspiring others to be energetic. 6. N eeding no stimulation to continue through the day.  7. G rasping what is new. The following steps are recommended: ( NEW ) 1. N o devices during the sleep. 2. E qual periods of rest each weekday. 3. W eed out bad thoughts during the day. Make sure your body gets the recommended rest daily at the same interval

 The question that has been plaguing us for the past year "Are you vaccinated?" will finally be a thing of the past for most people by end of this month. Being vaccinated does not solve all the problems. As per the diagram above gathered from the US census data from 2010, it is clear if we get 70% of people vaccinated completely, we may have less chance of infection and seeing another wave. How do we get the millions of people to go back to work fearlessly? This will be an uphill battle unless we have strict rules followed at the workplace and keep checking for new infections and strains of the virus. But between "U" and "I" we can reduce the incidence and the risk by following some simple hyegenic practices.  1. Wear a mask   2. Wash your hands   3. Use minimal resources to minimize the trips to the store.  How do we change the mindset to believe in the abundance and the courage to mingle? The human mind is conditioned to think that my friends and my re

 I attended the Women Transforming Technology conference today and it would be right to say that times have changed! The pandemic forced us to adapt to the new environment of being socially distanced!  Everybody logged into the app "Whova" and made the connections relevant to them. Things have changed dynamically and people are adapting to the change. That is how growth has happened in making new connections. The first step is to connect to the app and identify attendees from your area. The messaging enables you to chat with the people in the list. A notification is sent when a new person joins or you receive a message in the chat. Bonus points are awarded based on the number of sessions you attend. :-) An act of "Bring your work to life" was demonstrated as part of the conference.  There were several sessions on 1. Tips for career growth 2. Strategies to thrive in a male dominated environment. 3. How to get your resume noticed and land that interview. 4. Rock your