Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Get out of the garden of security, comfort and laziness!

Ever since the foetus is conceived in the womb, it is a world where all the richness, abundance, prosperity, growth, comforts, security are experienced like no other world. For nine months, the foetus lives in the womb of abundance, richness, comfort and security and the foetus grows at its own speed and time.

Once the baby is grown up and ready to face the real world, the baby is thrown out in the real world where he has to overcome many challenges, where his mission in life becomes to find the same richness, comfort and security that he experienced in the womb.

In the book of Genesis in the Bible, God throws out Adam and Eve from the garden of Gethsemane where all the abundant fruit, comfort and security was available. They did not have to work rather they were provided with. But God never wanted his creation to live in laziness, and undisciplined life because the humans would never learn, grow and expand. God then decided to commit themselves to mistakes and thus they were sent out of the garden of abundance, comfort and security and gave a mission to find the promised land of abundance, comfort and security for the rest of their life.

Outside the garden they had to look for that same abundance, comfort and security that they had in the garden.

The story gives us a message that we have already lived and experienced abundant, comfortable and secured life in our mothers’ wombs just before being tossed into the real world to find the same abundance, comfort and security outside.

Therefore the goal of human beings on earth is to find the abundance, comfort and security and live in that world, which is within our reach.

Guide Coach Mentor
Alwed Ekka

Monday, June 21, 2010

People Master Their Skills Through Repetition!

If you ask me what is one of the best ways for people to improve their skills? My reply would be: Repetition. Human beings learn important life skills through the art of repetition.

Right from the early childhood to full maturity, people learn to acquire skills by means of repetition. A child learns to hold an object or throw a ball not once or twice; the baby continues the process till he or she masters it. In other words, repetition is the mother of all learnings. There are other ways people learn too but here I will focus on just repetition.

The FIFA world cup 2010 is being played presently and probably you have been watching the match. There are great and best soccer players competing with each other to win the cup for their respective countries. And these best players didn't become a great player overnight just by kicking the football once. These great players mastered their soccer skills by means of repetition. They learned to kick and dribble the ball many times. They repeated the same process of kicking and dribbling the ball accurately and as a result they became best players.

Almost all best sportsmen from any sports acquired their sporting skills by repetition and repetition happened by practising over and over again. So it is quite clear to note that things don't just happen by chance. Miracles happen when something is done regularly.

The same way, singers or musicians improve their musical skills through learning over and over again. The best singer masters the skills over a long period of time. It requires continuous efforts to become the best singer or a musician.

If anybody wants to become something or somebody, he or she has to repeat the process of learning over a long period of time, till he or she qualifies by acquiring those skills. Anybody can acquire any skills provided they invest enough time repeatedly.

People encounter failures in businesses and relationships too. But these failures have positive strength to make a man or a woman expert in business or relationship. Expertise comes when people experience certain things more often. So never ever give up when any setback attacks you. You must know that the events occur only to strengthen you.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Sunday, June 20, 2010

The great Inventors sowed the seed of inventions and have enriched human life on earth

Six thousand years of recorded history, one thing stands out tall is the inventions of the great inventors who sowed their seeds (mind, intelligence, talents) to enrich human life on this planet deserve our thanks, appreciation and respect. They planted the trees and we, the present generation are reaping the yields and enjoying them.

We were not there to witness how our ancestors coped with very hot and very cold weather, but we can know through the use of our imagination that life wasn't easy to survive. They had to face many types of unpredictable weather conditions, storms, heat waves, sickness, hunger etc.

In contrast to old times, today we have air conditioners to cool us in the extreme hot weather and heaters to warm us in cold weather in the comfort of our own house. This one simple invention has made our life easy and comfortable. We have incorporated this invention in several usages of human life. When we step out of our home and office or when we board the plane we use this invention. We may think today it is a luxury to have all that and enjoy such benefits because of our great inventor Willis Haviland Carrier who received his 'flash of genuis' while waiting for a train and thinking in his mind the problem of temperature and humidity control. By the time the train arrived, Carrier had an understanding of the relationship between temperature, humidity and dew point.What a great honour to thank and respect him.

Take for an instance how the invention of computer, telephone, aeroplanes, medicines etc. have enriched human life today. All these inventions were not available for our ancestors but the dedicated efforts of those inventors have made it possible for us to live a better life today.

All the inventors deserve our heartfelt thanks, appreciation and honour. What we need to do today is to invent or use our mind, our imagination to make human life a blissful one for all.

Guide Coach Mentor
Alwed Ekka

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Capital, Technology and Education are the solutions!

What should a huge capital investment, technology advancement and improved education do in this 21st century? What is its authentic purpose? There are many questions that come to our minds when we think of capital investment, technology breakthrough and widespread of education system. What must they do?

Capital, technology and education have to perform their biggest duties of feeding billions of people all over the world and not only in developed nations but the developing and under developed nations. I think this is the main purpose of capital investment, technology advancement and education.

The schools, colleges and universities all over the world follow their missions to educate and create world class human beings through intensive courses, debates and research & development programmes; but how many of those finest intellects are intensively involved in the mission to alleviate global health care crisis, food crisis, housing crisis and environment crisis?

Couldn't we say that today we are better off million times more than before financially, technologically, mentally and demographically? So why not use the capital, technology and education to improve human condition at the grass root levels. When new technology is invented or new software is designed, we become so excited about it but why don't we get excited upon the idea to make the world a better place by working upon the complexity of providing better health care facilities, food supplies and housing facilities for all those people who have been left behind in the developing and under developed countries at affordable cost?

I am sad to say that despite technological advancement, large capital investment and improved education services we haven't achieved the goal of a harmonious co-existence. The purpose of technology, capital and education have so far remained as profit making entities whereby the focus is always individualism.

We have already stepped into a brand new century and with it comes new mission, new vision, new responsibility and new ways to look at the reality. Let's not see the world as some of our ancestors did rather try to look at the world differently from new angles. May be we can imagine of a world where we grow, live, multiply and thrive on this earth as a family of human and animal creatures. Our future generation will appreciate for having corrected or redesigned our purpose or vision.

I am quite optimistic though that it is within our resources, intelligence, technology and education to discover ways to solve the complex problems of human beings. One day we should not be ashamed of that though we had everything at hand to create a better world, we didn't give a thought to it.

So let's understand that capital, technology and education are the keys to solve the problems of human existence. It is possible if all the scientists, doctors, thinkers, entrepreneurs, investors, visionaries, teachers, workers and governments assemble together to start a collective campaign to provide better living conditions for all.

Today, capital, technology and education have marked a great progress but still a lot of progress has to be made in many aspects of human life.

Guide Coach Mentor
Alwed Ekka

Friday, June 18, 2010

A Good Health Helps You Achieve All Your Dreams



The points that I would like to discuss is: How a good health can help you achieve all your cherished dreams? A good health should be your first priority in life for many reasons. First you can realize all your dreams and then enjoy it as much as you can. With a good health you are sure to achieve all that you desire however in the absence of a good health not even a god can assist you in achieving your dreams.

The choices you make today can alter your life and bring about a great change, a great transformation which will benefit you largely all the time. The choice to be healthy always will not only increase your confidence and blessings but it will also make you a healthy person to enjoy the goodness of life.

Today, the world is not what it used to be; it is a new world with great technological advances in all areas of life that you couldn't have imagined in your lifetime. There are still many significant changes going to happen shortly which will define the lifestyle in an unimagined way. Moreover people would never be able to pace with its speed of change.

There is one prevalent reality that is existing in the world and that is: people have lost a control over their lives. People have been herded like a flock of sheep to eat, drink, live, work and die one type of defined death. You can predict today easily how people would die in the world. It seems that the health is nothing in front of Profits or wages today. Today, everywhere in the world, doctors and health centres are flourishing because over 6 billion people in the world are consuming foods that are meant for living cloned robots and not humans.

On the other side, the Govt. and the corporations will never tell the whole truth. They just mind their own business and nothing else. They seem to be caring and having a great concern for humanity but they don't.

The only choice is the Self, one own self. Nobody is in control of your health and well being except the humans themselves. Therefore you should assume 1000% responsibility for your life. If you take the control of your health, you can go on to achieve all your dreams without any complaints or excuses. Your poor health will not come in the way of achieving your goals instead if you have a good health, it will go an extra mile to see that you get what you want in life and enjoy it.

Look around you today and examine for yourself that your colleagues, your employees, business partners and your organisations are suffering from poor health issues. The poor health issues are standing as obstacles in the way of making profits, in the way of achieving the set targets, in the way of clinching a great sale or business deal etc. The great product sales, new business deals, better employee productivity, and substantial profits or goals could be easily achieved if there is a good health.

The logic is very simple, if you don't have a good health to enjoy all your successes and achievements; what bliss do you get? There is no profit or gain if you lose your soul meaning health while acquiring a great wealth for yourself. There is a huge profit and gain, when you keep your soul active, alive and fit to enjoy the fruits of your hard labour. It is a wise decision to keep the soul and never lose it.

If you take full responsibility for your life you can achieve all your dreams and thereby enjoy your life to the full. So decide today that before wealth and happiness, before profits and fun, there is always a good health. Protect your good health just like you protect your wealth. You can't deposit a good health in the banks as money, but you can keep it in your own body by eating healthy food - first vegetables, fruits and organically produced grains. The vegetables, fruits, organic grains and daily walks or exercise will act like a bank to save your soul- your health. Always first choose to have a good health and then enjoy the best of life.

Guiding Coaching Mentoring

Alwed Ekka

Monday, September 7, 2009

A Small Action weighs more than a library of Information

Great men and women who made themselves successful in their chosen fileds became great because they understood the law of action, the law of taking a small action at a time to achieve any degree of success they could imagine. They made a strong decision to take one precious step at a time.

A small action indeed weighs more than a library of information. A library of information is certainly needed to help change one's programming, but it is not enough. It doesn't serve the whole purpose of life. A small action to act upon the acquired information determines one's success in life.

I like the quote by Friedrich Engels, "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

Bill Gates, for example, learned to take a first small action and then he went on and on to refine and update his skills more and more and we know what that small action weighs today in the world.

The world population today is over 6 billion and we can know for certain how many take that small action to begin with. It is a hypothetical statment to say, if those 6 billion people took a small action everyday towards making a dream come true, we can at least believe that a goal or a dream can be easily realized.

Today, Internet has become one of the most effective tools in reaching out to those 6 billion people, but that one small action proved the internet a great success. The small action by the inventor or visionary led the internet empire to spread all over the world making life easier and accessible.

I think the message is clear for all of us to educate ourselves to take that small action on daily basis and if we keep that rythem, life on earth can be a promising one.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor