Recently I read the famous book “The Secret” after getting it from my friend after a long wait. The author, Rhonda Byrne, wants to put forth one point & in my view, the essence can be summed up by what Paulo Coelho said –
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
(A variant of this being made famous by SRK in OSO –itni shiddat se maine tujhe paane ki koshish ki hain, ki har zarre ne mujhe tujhse milane ki saazish rachi hain). In both the cases, the premise is that you are in charge of what you want. But sometimes you also become in charge of what others should do (read others’ actions which you want to influence). The scenarios are plenty – You are a teacher, you are a supervisor or may be you are a parent or you may be a leader of a team. In all these cases and more, you are the one who decides others objectives so that your wants are satisfied. Now the case arises where you do not have complete control over your wants. Strange isn’t it? But even here, a positive way of putting things will give better results. So now we will see how people usually react while donning these hats and how it can be done in a better way.
Don’t drop the catch. (Catches win matches)
See to it that you are never seen with those friends of yours otherwise you are going to face dire consequences. (I think your these friends have lost their way a bit and you better be careful and spend less time with them)
It would show up in your appraisal if you don’t do this job properly. (The team and individual objectives would be fulfilled and your confidence will grow if this job is done on time)
Though these comments may not bring the desired results all the time but at least will send out the message that you really care about them and not being ignorant of their needs. It also shows that you are giving legitimate reasons why you want them to behave in a certain way. Also indirectly you are focusing on what you want. So the chances of work getting done increases. I think its becoming too philosophical :) So I will keep my further opinions to me :)
2 comments:
Hey there is a documentary also on this, "The Secret" which has some of the very successful people in the world talking about the universe conspiring to make those things happen which we think about constantly.
Their point is that even negative sounding thoughts can fructify even though ur thought originally is positive! So saying "peace" is better than saying "anti-war"...
Bingo!!! the book is written after d movie was a hit :)
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