Success & Failures

 

#success #failure

By:Sashi.Prabhu
Have been on a vacation since 6Jan 23 & my last stop is my (Late) Parent’s home SREE-NIWAS (built1987) @ Kaloor Ernakulam. Rummaging thro stuff, found  logs of interactions with Dad.
logs revealed themselves at a time when I have been reflecting about the way ahead.
Dad left his masters at BHU to go to Aden  (1952) to pay off family debt & raise money . I was born in 1965 & we were back in India by 1969 as refugees from war-stricken Aden.
my learning of my interactions with Dad from my logs.(1977-2017)
Dont forget ur Origins
I come from an orthodox GSB family, usually docile folks. Successfully fleeing from Aden with 2 suitcases & seeing my Dad start afresh & work his way the corp ladder kindled the seed of revolution & evolution in me early
Reading my success & failures and some logs of my journey from 1979 .Nostalgia
From Scrubbing decks at Vasco port for Rs 5/ hr.(1979-81), selling  comics(1981-83), peddling wares @ flea market(1983-86) to my first professional apprenticeship: nov 1986 at GAAL Honda, my hustle to make money in the earlier 3 ventures was successful until I got addicted to  pay cheque  I realized only too late.
Dad  guided me whenever we had  conversations on the journey ahead from 2000.
To be a child of war to where I have reached, have come a long way but both my daughter’s feel that I have underachieved.
Life Journey UPs & Downs
Success at times made me overconfident. Dad  advised me on how not to take success for granted & how it can never be a destination but a journey, still unfolds to me even after he has ceased to walk the planet. I  reread the lines where Dad tells me not to believe that one is not as good or bad as the last performance. But to believe inGod, act with humility& confidence
Looking at Success
Contain joy during success. Avoid excess pride & loss of humility. He kept reiterating not to be thrilled at  achievements (2000-17, he passed away in May 2017). He imbibed in me how to
appreciate the fact that many other could have to cut back on basic needs of life. Hence be considerate & humble in personal relationships. In professional relations too be considerate as long as they do not clash with  orgz values. I kept up to his advice till date.
Looking at Failure
Understand sadness of failure. Learn from it. Analyze failure. Look for lack of knowledge, not a well thought out idea, bad strategy,challenging task taken lightly or complacent behavior. He was harsh on complacent behavior whilst on the other he always said there is room  for improvement. For complacency he said ppl do not learn from failures & continue to fail . I must be aware.
February 2017 logs revealed dad’s advice on how moving from failure to another set of failures without loss of enthusiasm is success. His last advice to me in April 2017 at 84 yr of age was failure is not the opposite of success but a climb stone. Control your response it will all end well
#mystory
#whatsyourstory
#sashtalks
zeauoxis. blogspot. com

#success #failure
Have been on a vacation since 6Jan 23 & my last stop is my (Late) Parent’s home SREE-NIWAS (built1987) @ Kaloor Ernakulam. Rummaging thro stuff, found  logs of interactions with Dad.
logs revealed themselves at a time when I have been reflecting about the way ahead.
Dad left his masters at BHU to go to Aden  (1952) to pay off family debt & raise money . I was born in 1965 & we were back in India by 1969 as refugees from war-stricken Aden.
my learning of my interactions with Dad from my logs.(1977-2017)
Dont forget ur Origins
I come from an orthodox GSB family, usually docile folks. Successfully fleeing from Aden with 2 suitcases & seeing my Dad start afresh & work his way the corp ladder kindled the seed of revolution & evolution in me early
Reading my success & failures and some logs of my journey from 1979 .Nostalgia
From Scrubbing decks at Vasco port for Rs 5/ hr.(1979-81), selling  comics(1981-83), peddling wares @ flea market(1983-86) to my first professional apprenticeship: nov 1986 at GAAL Honda, my hustle to make money in the earlier 3 ventures was successful until I got addicted to  pay cheque  I realized only too late.
Dad  guided me whenever we had  conversations on the journey ahead from 2000.
To be a child of war to where I have reached, have come a long way but both my daughter’s feel that I have underachieved.
Life Journey UPs & Downs
Success at times made me overconfident. Dad  advised me on how not to take success for granted & how it can never be a destination but a journey, still unfolds to me even after he has ceased to walk the planet. I  reread the lines where Dad tells me not to believe that one is not as good or bad as the last performance. But to believe inGod, act with humility& confidence
Looking at Success
Contain joy during success. Avoid excess pride & loss of humility. He kept reiterating not to be thrilled at  achievements (2000-17, he passed away in May 2017). He imbibed in me how to
appreciate the fact that many other could have to cut back on basic needs of life. Hence be considerate & humble in personal relationships. In professional relations too be considerate as long as they do not clash with  orgz values. I kept up to his advice till date.
Looking at Failure
Understand sadness of failure. Learn from it. Analyze failure. Look for lack of knowledge, not a well thought out idea, bad strategy,challenging task taken lightly or complacent behavior. He was harsh on complacent behavior whilst on the other he always said there is room  for improvement. For complacency he said ppl do not learn from failures & continue to fail . I must be aware.
February 2017 logs revealed dad’s advice on how moving from failure to another set of failures without loss of enthusiasm is success. His last advice to me in April 2017 at 84 yr of age was failure is not the opposite of success but a climb stone. Control your response it will all end well
#mystory
#whatsyourstory
#sashtalks
zeauoxis. blogspot. com