Happiness - A State of Mind

What is happiness? A question arises in mind. How can one define happiness. Another thought comes as an answer "it is a state of mind". When we think that it is a state of mind. Can states change, definetly it can change. That means it is in our hands whether we want to be happy or not. Let us take an example.

If there is a cat in my house and a rat is eating away all my important documents. If this cat eats that rat, then I will feel happy because I feel that cat is helping me by eating the rat which is destructing my documents.

If the same cat eats away the food arranged for me, I feel unhappy and also feel like beating the cat, because it had eaten away my food.

Now lets take the both the cases and analyse the situations

Case1 

            cat is eating    object ::  rat    result :: Happy

Case 2 

            cat is eating    object:: food   result:: Unhappy

Now in the above cases, cat is doing the same thing, the objects are different and the results are different. With respect to the cat it is doing the same thing eating its food, whether it is a rat or another food item. Then what caused the result to change. Its the state of mind and the attachment which we had to those items.

In the first case we were attached to the documents and somebody else were destroying it, so we felt happy when the cat ate the rat and in the second instance we were attached to the food and when cat ate the food, we felt unhappy.

Now the question arises, how to convert this unhappy result to the happy result. If we become detached to the food and change the mind state we can become happy.

We can become broadminded and think let the cat eat the food, maybe it is hungry. Let me get some more food for myself. If somebody can think in this manner and get detached to the food, they will feel satisfaction that they have fed a hungry cat, they can feel happy. So it all lies in the state of mind whether we can be happy or unhappy.

If someone gets easily irritated they can never be happy. If someone thinks narrow they can never be happy. People who doesnt know how to smile or laugh can never be happy. If one wants to be happy forever, they should help others. The satisfaction and happiness which they get when they make others reach their goals, the happiness which they get when others are fed, the happiness which they get when others go satisfactorily are boundless and unexplainable.

Some one can only feel them and experience them. Words are very less to explain them. If one practices  to change his state of mind, then he can be happy always.

Let there be happiness in everyone's life.

TeamWork and its importance

Teamwork reflects the ability to work together as a group towards a common vision or a common goal. What is the importance of it. If a person thinks that when he is capable in doing certain task, what is the necessity for him to be a part of the team. Maybe a person is capable to do certain things individually, but for sure he cant do all the things individually. For some tasks to be done, he needs to be a part of the team. He should know the importance of both individual as well as team goals. Then only he will become successful. And as experience grows and when the person starts interacting with lots of people, he should be well aware of certain things which can make him successful. First thing he should have the right attitude. Next how to be a good team player.

When a person has a right attitude, he will definetly look at the positive side of everything which in end will make him to be a winner both individually and as well as teamwise. The famous quote "winners dont do different things, but they do things differently" indicates how a person with right attitude will look at any problem or a task coming his way. Even in bigger organisations they look for people with right attitude who can be part of a team in achieving the goals. As someone said teamwork means "more we". The day when a person realises the importance of "We" rather than the importance of "I", he can goto greater heights in his life. What a person cant achieve individually can definetly be achieved with the help of a team. This can be applicable to person's personal or professional life.

Personally when a person is conducting any event, it requires involvement of lot of people, and if they are not properly coordinated, the event can become a flopshow. Every one involved should have the right attitude for the event to become successful. This can be the same in any organization or any project or anywhere where it deals with lot of people working together for the result of some task.

Teamwork involves so many things like having right attitude, listen properly, communicate clearly, better coordination with other team members, be accountable, delegate things, having good knowledge about the work to be done,  follow the leader or team head. If a person can improve his capabilities of being a good team player, then at some point of time in his life he is definetly bound to be successful and be a winner.

Learn to become a good team player and know the importance of teamwork.

Some quotes regarding Teamwork

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Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.  ~Author Unknown

No one can whistle a symphony.  It takes a whole orchestra to play it.  ~H.E. Luccock

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.  ~Vince Lombardi The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.  ~Margaret CartyMany hands make light work.  ~John Heywood One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites.  ~Jin Kwon  

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.  ~John Donne

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.  ~Virginia Burden Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.  ~Kenyan ProverbComing together is a beginning.  Keeping together is progress.  Working together is success.  ~Henry FordNone of us is as smart as all of us.  ~Ken Blanchard

EGO - 3 Letter word ruling the world

Ego a small 3 letter word. Appears to be small, but plays a major role in the lives of humans. Every person will have ego, and nobody wants their ego to be hurt. But in the game of satisfying their ego's humans cross the barriers and their limits. It appears that probably this small 3 letter word make humans blind, ruin relationships and what not.Probably it is only ruling the entire world. 

If we trace back the root cause of any problem, it will definetly lead to the ego of some person who was the cause of the entire problem. It may be between two nations or between employee and employer, or may be between a wife and a husband or it may be between friends or any other relationship. Definetly, the root cause for a rift between them will be an ego factor. If a wife and husband are getting divorced, the cause might be very simple, everybody wants their importance and individuality wherein the process, they want their ego to be satisfied and in the race they forget the basic principles of life and hurt others in the process which finally leads to a separation.

History has proven that people who have followed the path of ego have ruined their lives and the lives of people who followed them. Success , completeness in a human being is accomplished only when they follow the path of love. Some one who spreads love and follows the path of love will be definetly successful and also bring goodness to the lives of people who follow him.

When observed carefully why some people are always suffering and why only very few people are happy and successful, it can be concluded from their lives, that they happiest people have not given undue importance to their ego. When a person is not having any ego, definetly he is bound to be happy. Happiness comes in a state of egolessness.

Now comes the question. Is it really possible to be egoless. Is it really possible to be happy. Yes definetly it is 100% possible. Let us take the case of small children who are just born or who are infants and who doesnt know the tricks of this world. We can see how happy they are playing in their own world, having no fear and no ego. They smile a lot and are always happy. Is it not evident that they themselves are very happy and who ever are seeing them also feel that happiness and forget their troubles.

So what does this indicate, purity in thought,  having no fear, having no ego these are the qualities which we observe in a child. If anyone can implement these in their lives, definetly like an innocent child we can also be smiling a lot and can be really happy.

As the old saying goes and various researches have proven "Laughter is the best medicine". A person who is pure from inside and have no worries or troubles, have no fear, have no ego can have a whole hearted laugh and he will smile a lot. Smiling and laughing are the indications that a person in happy. Only a happy  person can bring the change in the atmosphere - make others happy. Even if someone looks at his cheerful face forget their troubles and get relief.

Lets not spread the distress, problems , fears, ego etc we have to others by keeping an unhappy face, rather try to be happy and make others happy.

Smile a lot. Laugh a lot. This will make you a happy person.