APPRECIATION

बस कह दें शाबाश

ज्यादा कुछ नहीं चाहिए, जो मुझे बना दे ख़ास,

इतना सा ही काम करें, बस कह दें शाबाश!

कभी कोई छोटा सा ही काम अगर कर दूँ,

किसी की झोली में बस एक ख़ुशी भर दूँ,

मेरे नन्हे हाथ चाहे एक लकीर ही बनायें,

चाहे इनसे उलटे-सीधे ही रंग भरे जाएँ,

चाहे बस एक ही कदम बड़ा मैं पाऊं,

चाहे हर कदम के बाद मैं गिरता जाऊं,
पर मेरे फिर से उठने का दिलाएं एहसास,

इनाम कोई ना दें मुझे, बस कह दें शाबाश!

अगर कोई गलती मुझसे कभी हो जाए,

जो आना चाहिए वह परिणाम न भी आये,

पर मेरे काम करने की चाह ज़रूर देखिये,

जो भी समय लगाया उसे व्यर्थ न होने दीजिये,

मेरी हर एक कोशिश को न अनदेखा कीजिये,

आगे बढने की आशा को उड़ान दीजिये,

 एक “वाह” भी बड़ा सकती है मेरा आत्म-विश्वास,

और न दे कुछ मुझे, बस कह दें शाबाश!

जीवन के मुश्किल मोड़ पर गर जाए कोई फिसल,

ऐसा नहीं कि फिर वो सकता नहीं संभल,

पस्त हुए इरादे भी, फिर हो सकते हैं प्रबल,

आपके चंद शब्दों में ही है इतना बल,

गर सही कदम बढ़ता कोई, तो रखता है वो चाह,

मिले उन्हें शब्द आपके वाह-वाह, वाह-वाह!

हर कोई कोशिश नहीं करता केवल इनाम के लिए,

क्या वर्षों की मेहनत बेकार एक परिणाम के लिए?

न होने दें किसी के प्रयास का परिहास,

बंधी रहने दें सबके दिलों में जीत के आस,

न दें पायें कुछ ज्यादा तो ना दें,

कंधे पे हाथ रख के, बस कह दें शाबाश!

Mom, I missed you!!

Hey friends,

Does anybody remember going to the school for the very first time? No? Please go and ask your mother, because she is the one who must be remembering each and every detail of you not leaving her to go to the school. This is a very difficult time to let go off your mother for those three hours. It is not that you didn’t want to go to the school that you cried the holy shit out of you, but this was because that you were not habitual of staying away from your mothers ever. You ate with her, slept with her, watched TV together, stood with her in the kitchen and looked at her doing all that kitchen stuff for hours. You even had showers with her because she couldn’t leave you behind in the lobby or the room to get hurt. You also enjoyed being in her lap while she was doing other house chores to prevent you from crying out loud without any reason in particular. And all day, since morning till you slept, she and you stayed together.

And all of a sudden, a day has come when you are going away from her among the strangers, who are trying to please you, even helping you to pee and trying hard to make you feel at home. But in your heart of hearts, your eyes are gradually looking at each and every corner of this strange building for the one and only. Where is she? Why has she left me here? Is she ever going to take me from here or not? Does she still love me? When, when, when is she going to come? Three long hours seem like infinity (because I am two-year old who cannot compare two time units with each other).  I am crying like I will never stop. Only her face can give the relief to my suffering of separation.

Now, where is this strange young lady taking me to? Oh my God! A few more little people who are crying like me. Hey, someone arrived through that door, to whom I want to run and hug tight. I want to again feel the same warmth of her arms around me that was always there. I want to question her “why you left me here”? “Will you do it again”? And in all these questions running in my mind I only hold her tight, crying and not looking anywhere else as she is my world that I lost a few hours back and after a lot of pain and suffering I found her back. Constantly speaking with lisp “I will nevell do bat thelle (I will never go back there).”

But this beautiful lady, whom I call mom, makes me understand that she also went through the same pain while she left me in the school ALONE, but she had to do this for my own good, to make me an independent person, to make me a rising soul. I don’t understand what she is saying to me, I don’t understand those big words like doctor and engineer; I only want to stay in her lap forever.

However, she will again send me to this strange place called school for my good (she says so!). Perhaps, some day I will understand what she meant. Till then, I am enjoying her love!

Love 

Sonam

For he has better plans...

Hey my lovely friends!

Through my posts till now, you all might have observed that most of them include experiences from my life or from other peoples’ lives. This is because I feel that we can learn and absorb the learning better from the live examples. Here also, in today’s post I want to share a learning of mine through various examples of my own life.

We seem to plan a lot about our lives; some things go well according to the plan and some do not. The things that did not go parallel to our plans disappointed and sometimes even depressed us. Because that was what WE planned for OUR OWN GOOD and to succeed! But then, who plans to fail?? All of a sudden, a storm comes; something very different happens that was not there in that very PLAN of ours.

However, if we go back and compare what we planned with what actually happened, we seem to be relatively happier in our present conditions. And mind you! People who are happy with their present state are the ones who experience the presence of ALMIGHTY with them. We may question HIM, fight with HIM that why did HE not help fulfilling our plans but as the time passes and gradually HIS answer is revealed and we are convinced that HIS plans were better, rather THE BEST.

To elaborate my point, here is my story. Plans, plans and more plans were there in my mind as I saw my friends making plans for their future. One of them was planning to be a doctor, another and engineer and one was planning to be what her parents were planning her to be (duh!!). Lagging behind in my planning strategy, I chose to be a doctor (because one of the people who influenced me in school wanted to be one…humbug!!) also, I couldn't understand history and economics, so for me my favorite subject science was left and dream of becoming a doctor also became concrete (kind of). I toiled to clear the PMT (pre-medical test) day and night but couldn’t (no wonders) and took up Biotechnology as my subjects in Bachelors. It was kind of a compromise and also my so-called PLANS to be a doctor were crushed.  Gradually, I started enjoying studying biotechnology and my plan was now to be a BIOTECHNOLOGIST. Moreover, the term ‘biotechnologist’ itself charmed me than that lame, old-fashioned doctor (psst!!). I then did my Masters also in the same TERM and came back home BLANK for I did not have any idea which companies to apply for job. Therefore, to pass my time I joined this really nasty gymnasium somewhere near my house and tried very hard lose those extra kilos.

Guys, here came the turning point of my life (oh please, I did not lose weight and became a supermodel). I met this girl who offered me a job as a communication trainer in their institute which I joined to make some money. Viola!! All of a sudden, I was an independent rich girl with peanuts (my salary) in my pocket. Day by day, I started realizing that this is what makes me happy – meeting and interacting people from different walks of life (let me tell you all, I trained from school kids to police inspectors to HR managers and who not (chuckles)).

And now my heart was completely into training and public speaking and not at all in biotechnology.  I DID try after sometime in a few pharma and biotech firms but either their profiles didn’t interest me or sometimes they were not interested in an ancient biotechnological animal like me who did not have any updated knowledge of new researches. Hence, I stayed here (FIRM AND STRONG) as a soft skills trainer, motivational speaker, poet and writer. I realize it now that my potential could only be completely utilized as a trainer and not a biotechnologist. Now I am a constant learner and also an avid reader (as I mentioned in my earlier post). I have also worked as a copy editor where to pass an exam I could use my knowledge of those concepts that I learnt in the institute where I worked earlier. Here, I got the catch that everything in our life is interlinked. Now, I know why I failed in PMT and couldn’t pursue biotechnology as a career. Because HE wanted me to be happy and I AM happiest with this field that I am working in.

So you see why I don’t like to plan things? For my plans are always proved to be smaller than HIS. Hence, I love to go with the flow.

In the pics below, you can see me pursuing my passion and not plan - training and motivating.

Folks, my coming posts shall be the series of this one (Gosh! It is the era of sequels) where the point “his plans are greater” shall be elaborated more.

Till then, go with the flow

Love

Sonam

Stronger the mind, stronger you are!

Hi folks,

Time for something new and fresh from my curious mind. I keep on thinking about various topics to write and share with everyone, however, when i sit to write it all goes out of the mind and then i start thinking what to write. SEE, this is the power of mind. Thoughts, thoughts and more thoughts keep coming and going. Have you all ever wondered where these thoughts come from and where do they all go?
Have you ever paid heed to why every second our mind is speaking something to us. It never stays quite. While reading this article too your mind is speaking something. It can be anything intelligent or crap. It doesn't matter but it is speaking to you something right now. Just pay attention!!
 Yes, you got it! it is not mum, it is speaking blah, blah, blah... and so on.

Friends, It is these thoughts what make us or break us and nothing else. Think about it (again I am asking you to do something that you do involuntarily) that whenever you are happy everyone around seems to be good and when you are sad everyone seems to be a monster. Our own mind plays games with us.
Sometimes, it does happen that we feel dull, sad, laid back and then we say " I am feeling feverish." but the very next moment if you get to do something of your interest, you just jump to go for it and suddenly the fever, the pain in the body is gone. You see, it is all in your mind.
Lord Buddha said, "You are what your mind is." YES PALS! it is true. Let us see how!

Let us take any example of any successful person. Look into the details of his/her life history, you will see that the person had been positive all his/her life. Try to explore through his/her interviews. You will see that they are the ones who see the opportunities in calamities. I only suggest to explore Sachin Tendulkar's and Vinod Kambli's career graph. They are the contemporary cricketers, but if we see the difference in their perspectives, we get to know why they are there where they are!!
Three words define our success "THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS."

All these positive talks and motivating theories, all come from our HOLY BOOKS.. It is nothing but the new polished language of what has already been said by our saints and gurus. For instance, It is clearly said in Guru Granth Sahib, "Mann ke haare haar, Mann ke jeete jeet", that means If you think you shall win, you have already won the battle and vice versa. In Holy Bible it is said, "We walk by faith, not by sight", Bible, 2 Corinthians v. 7. Here arises a question ,What is Faith? It is nothing but a positive thought towards something. If you think positive about some person, you have have faith in him and if you do not, you do not have the faith. In other words, if you think positive about yourself, you have faith in you to accomplish anything. And hence you proceed to do something, and your affirming thoughts are going to help you achieve your target. What is it called??? Hey, isn't this called SUCCESS? So what else success is? The sense of achievement of your desired target is success. Did you notice it is all in the mind. Think positive, show faith in yourself.

Clearly written in The Holy Quran, "Successful indeed are the believers" Surah Al-Mu'minnon 23:1-2.
What else is needed to be a positive believer. Every Holy Book is telling you to BELIEVE, believe in HIM, believe in yourself who are the creatures of HIM. Just Believe, have faith, have thoughts that are positive that shall lead you to your target - success. Replace your negative words with positive and you shall see the change in the thoughts and hence the change in your life.

Be positive..God is with you.

change your mindset

Dear Readers,

Click here change your mindset to view the May 2012 issue of "Success" - the e-magazine by Craetive Learnings.

I shall keep posting the coming issues of this e-magazine  by Mr. R K Arora (Team Leader -Creative Learnings) every month.

Happy Reading!

Love all..
Sonam Bhatia Saluja
Trainer and Motivational Speaker
Team member
Creative learnings
Contact: +91 9811739397
Web Site: www.way2success.co.in

Success (saflata) - Hindi quotes

सफलता

1.    न इसकी तरह, न उसकी तरह,

कुछ कर गुज़र खुद अपनी तरह!‍

2.    एक कांटा पाँव में जहाँ चुभ गया,

मंजिल की राह का वो मोड़ लुभ गया!

3.     खुद अपनी हस्ती मिटाकर है जाना,

क्या होता है जहाँ में अपनी हस्ती बनाना!

4.    न होश की थी हिम्मत, न जोश का था सवाल,

चीर जाए जो फलख, वो बस एक सरफ़रोश की मजाल!

5.    एक निश्चय, एक लक्ष्य, एक तेरी हो धुन,

केवल आँख देख लक्ष्य की, बन अर्जुन, बन अर्जुन!

6.    मोहिनी मंद-मंद मुस्काने लगी,

धीमे-धीमे जब वो मुझ तक आने लगी,

भूली थी नींदें भी जिसे पाने को मैंने,

वो सुन्दरी सफलता अपनी गोद में सुलाने लगी!


लेखिका: सोनम भाटिया सलूजा

My self-composed motivational poem

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