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My main aim these days is to create leaders in Magnet. It’s been going great for the last 4 months and we have the whole team taking on leadership now.

And I learnt: trust your team, give them freedom, but follow up and support them as required. That’s how they will learn and grow. That’s who you can learn and grow!

I experience peace and freedom while floating in my bathtub! It’s actually pretty amazing, especially when I close my ears and go deeper. That time, my breaths create waves in water and the only sound I hear is the smooth soft flow of the water.

It feels really light and free. No worries, no external disturbances, no other thoughts too. Just completely present in the setting and enjoying it.

I now look forward to doing this anytime I get a chance!

When you have an argument with somebody, do you hold onto your principles or let them go?

I was in debate over a small thing with a colleague today. He wanted a better share of revenues allotted to a particular employee because the employee had worked a lot, and I said it would happen based on the contribution made to the overall project. The difference was small, but the arguments kept on flowing.

I was confronting myself. Should I hold onto the principles? Because the system is designed for the purpose of idetifying an individual’s contribution to the project. But then, the person may have made higher contribution if he worked on some other project. So shall I make my colleague happy and give out additional share?

Both of us finally said it’s no point fighting over such a small issue. Both were ready to accept another’s view point.

If I keep on the principle, there is the question of generosity and being right. If I don’t, it’s about looking good and giving up.

What say?

Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader. His leadership style and principles still inspire people around the world.

Gandhiji said:

Eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.

And Einstein said:

Future generations will only hardly believe that someone like him was born and walked the earth.

You can learn more about Mahatma Gandi on Answers.com or get a wealth of audio/video/text/photos on the Gandi Serve website.

Got this email today as a forward:

As I was passing the elephants, I suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.

I saw a trainer near by and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” he said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”

I was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were.

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?

How many of us are being held back by old, outdated beliefs that no longer serve us? How many of us have avoided trying something new because of a limiting belief? Worse, how many of us are being held back by someone else’s limiting beliefs?

Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve!