Every goal that you set for yourself, is like a relationship. This means that just like any other relationship, the relationship with your goals, needs constant nurturing and evaluation. Now this may seem a little out of the way. Lets take some real life examples

Relationship with your spouse
Your relationship with your spouse is a multi dimensional exchange. Here are a few points you obviously take care on a regular basis

1. Giving your personal best
You have to work on your relationship and provide regular nurturing in terms of love, care and support

2. Feedback
You have to constantly seek for feedback, sometimes it could be direct whereas sometimes, it could be intuition, either way, you have to gain feedback from your partner and modify your actions accordingly

3. Gratitude
Always be grateful for whatever the other person does for you and thank in whatever ways possible

Let's now see how these can be applied to your goals as well


Relationship with your goal

If your goal is to be fit and build a great healthy body, again that becomes a relationship for you. Note that this can be applied to any type of goal, that you set for yourself. Lets see how the points above should be applied to your goals as well


1. Giving your personal best
You regularly work on your goal, spending your time, money and energy.

For example, I am heading to the sports shop now to get a pair of dumbbell rods, so that I can put my 5 Kg plates on that and start my biceps routines again. Now I have been reasoning myself to be content with 4 Kgs one that I already have, so that I don't have to spend this additional money. But guess what, its not helping me.
Although one might question the benefit that 1 additional kg could make, I believe its worth the money I am about to spend, considering the results I will get.

2. Feedback
Here the feedback comes from my body itself. I get to see what works, and what does not. What pains and what tares and so on. If I keep a regular note of all these ( how much did i gain? etc) and act on it, it can bring tremendous results.

3. Gratitude
I should always thank God ( Universal power/ force / Life giver or whatever you may name) for giving me this great body and also the opportunity to work with( and not towards) my goal to achieve what I want. Also being thankful for the support system that you have, and in my case that would be websites, forums, Facebook friends, twitter friends, fitness videos, and books

I am sorry if this sounded too philosophical, but this is what I had in my mind. God bless you.

Labels: acs, fitness, health, inspirational

Got a chance to learn the latest and the greatest features of Visual Studio 2010 at the training that was conducted at Microsoft Campus, today.

The details
Venue : Embassy Golf Link park, from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Speaker: Abhimanyu from iMentor

It was the first time, I got a chance to have a peek inside one of the companies that I wanted to work, back in the days when Microsoft was the new Google (or the new facebook?) So when the day for nomination came, I made sure that my manager did not miss out my name.

Getting up was a bit difficult but was made super easy, by that someone special. I reached the campus by 9:00 AM and was a cool 30 mins ahead of the scheduled time. I liked the building and the office space. All in all, it was a great training session, and I really did feel that Visual Studio 2010 + Team Server might actually turn out to be a pretty interesting combination. I got a chance to learn about how developers, database programmers, testers and architects could collaborate and work on the same platform. Since my exposure other suites is limited, I might be a bit biased here ;) Kindly excuse

There are 2 more training sessions, that I plan to attend. So take away for me is : Even if you hate meca-shaft as a company or their policies(Ballmer - Linux is a cancer), don't hate their ideas. May be you could learn from that and find other softwares that does the same thing, or even think of implementing it, in your own way. Needless to say, companies that ARE good at product making, might continue in that direction for some more time to come. So until then, leverage that.
Happy programming !

Labels: acs, microsoft, training

Its been a while, I have been to blogging, actually its going to be a year . . . Some amazing things have happened in this short amount of time. And I would be all glad to share it with you.

• May: First and foremost, my brother was blessed with a sweet little baby girl in the month of may

• June: I got the chance to work with some amazing people and be part of a major delivery of our project that had to be delivered in July. Completely changed the landscape of my career.

• July: The project we all had been working so hard, was completed on the planned day. Great celebration everywhere ! Chance to move on to the next project

• Aug: Completed another year @ ACS, A Xerox company, thereby totaling 2 successful years, by the grace of god. Got official laptop and wireless net connection !
  

• Sep: B'days of 2 most important people in my life :)

• Oct: Got some new responsibilities at work. Work/ personal life going great.

• Nov: More people joined our team, seeing lots and lots of growth opportunities here.
  

• Dec: Saw the new house dad bought in Trichur, its really HUGE, with 5 bedrooms and attached bathroom for all those bedrooms. Spacious hall, sitout and a garden. Met parents and had a great time for the 5 days, I stayed there.

• Jan 2011: New year comes up and I Got chicken pox ! But learnt the breadth and depth and the true meaning of relationship and love. Got some amazing books to read, esp on personality development and never had to look back ever since.

• Feb: Enriching my work/ personal lives. Learned a lot of new stuff at job. Daily expense + month estimation going great. Starting implementing lot of stuff, I have been reading, seeing some amazing postiive results. My favorite books now are : 'Cup of Comfort - BIG book of prayer', '7 habits of highly effective people', 'The monk who sold his ferrari', 'You can win' and many more

• March: Got back to blogging :)

A small note of thanks
I want to end this post, with a small note of thanks.
A BIG thanks to all those people who made me who I am. A BIG thanks to God, my personal savior. And all those amazing books which helps me see the world in a brand new perspective. And for my organization, which is helping me take my career to all new heights and the amazing people I got a chance to work with.

Hoping to see more challenging and enduring results in the coming year.

Labels: acs, blog, job, reflection, xerox

Tomorrow (Aug 11, 2008)is my joining date as an official employee of mulinational company ACS, and I am very much proud of it. The interview and selection process was really cool and I enjoyed every bit of it. Its a really good feeling to be part of $5bn company, and to know that whatever you learned could be put to use in the following days.



I just want to thank all my friends, teachers and especially my parents who stood by me, and helped me get this job. Thanks for your prayers and blessings. Love you guys

bye


Other news

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My brother and my sister in law, would be reaching trivandrum, within a few hours. They will be spending some days at trivandrum.

Swaroop's dell laptop is half-way through shipment, and when it arrives, it would be the 3rd Dell laptop in our place where we are staying. Mine was the first!!

Came to know about hudson from Java posse podcast(Java posse is a really cool awesome java podcast). Its a continues integrations system. Hudson helps you to build/test software projects continuously and automatically. You can find more about Hudson here and to see hudson used in a live project visit the status of Continuous Integration Builds for NetBeans Projects site.

Labels: acs, java, job