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Only a Slow Pace can Improve Your Productivity

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When we talk about productivity we always measure speed. By the word productivity most of the people understand how fast someone can do something; but few people count how well something is done. I have an obsession with quoting Einstein and I feel very tempted to do that here also. The great mind said: Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. When you are at work, often you feel tempted to look at the quantity and ignore the quality. Like we writers are often asked how many words we can write everyday. I understand that it is a standard measurement of the industry. But when I answer someone, I say how many words I can write really well. Suppose I can write 3000 words per day; but I always keep it to 2000, because I want to write it really well. And I know that with time I will attain a speed of writing 3000 words really well per day. But I would never like to chase myself with that goal. I have been learning Indian music sinc
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The Bhagabad Geeta and the Philosophy of Work

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In workplaces, be it domestic or corporate, we seldom find philosophy. In most of the cases, workplaces are dominated by politics. People often say that 'I do not like workplace politics' or 'I cannot get on with it'; but unknowingly they also take part in some kind of politics. Why does it happen in this way? Before explaining that I would like to mention what the Bhagabad Geeta, a prime Hindu religious text says about work. Though the Geeta is a religious text, it does not talk about moralities or rituals; it is packed up with rich philosophy that can be applied in real life. In Geeta Lord Sri Krishna says that "Do your work but do not worry about the result". Most of the people will find it non-sense because they would never understand how can someone do a work without thinking about the result. If you observe your own actions you will understand this. While you are at work, whatever it might be, you keep bothering yourself about the outcome. When you
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Practise Exorcism to Boost up Productivity

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Exorcism and productivity…? The title sounds too weird. No logical mind will ever believe in bad spirits and exorcism kind of things. But here I am not talking about bad spirits in its conventional sense. I am talking about the bad spirit that stays within us; and that is FEAR! Yes, fear is a bad spirit in itself. Often it has been found that fear creates hallucination and shows spirits. And it is quite true in a practical sense. You may not be seeing a shadow figure, but ghosts can come in many forms. The ghost of being unproductive and jobless is a terrible ghost; isn’t it? Once I read in a newspaper about a girl who lost her job but kept 'going to work', because she was too afraid to tell her parents about it! They discovered the truth after one and a half month! Fear is a thing that actively changes our psychological state, making us do what we are not supposed to do in a normal state of mind. Fear makes us feel less secure and we become too selfish, even inhuman so
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How to Handle Random Thoughts

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Often random thoughts disturb us and affect our concentration while we are at work. This is a common phenomenon which happens to everybody. How you can manage your mind and its random workings defines how productive you can make yourself. Thoughts often flow like the wind. This is a phenomenon of the mind. While you are working beside a window, even a gentle breeze can scatter the papers on your table. What would you do then? You will not struggle with the breeze. You can close the window but it will give you a suffocating environment. The best thing to do is to use a paperweight. The same thing we have to do with our thoughts. If we struggle to stop them it will be the same as closing the window. If we pay attention to them they will disturb us. The right thing to do is to do nothing; neither pay attention, not struggle to stop. This determination of doing nothing functions like the paperweight. If you practice meditation daily, you will learn to observe and handle your thoug
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