A brand new year is here. 2008. Time for new years resolutions, dreaming, goal setting, noisy drunken parties, and all the other things we do on 31st December.
And yeah time to wish the people in your life "Happy New Year".
As I write this, I am sitting in my room working up my goals for 2008 (Goals, not new year resolutions J ) with yet again the firm resolve that "This year I will do it". I just had this "instinct" to pull out one of my favourite books and give it another read. "SuperSelf by Charles Givens". This book is supposedly out of print. Not available in bookstores. I don't know why.
The very first chapter talks about this principle. "To design and control your future effectively, you must first let go of your past". And that gave me the idea for this blog entry: "What better time to put this into practise but on 31st Dec 2007."
So, before we step into 2008, there's one more important thing to be done. "Let go of 2007". I don't mean to be disrespectful to and disregard all the good things and the tragedies of 2007 (like T20 World Cup and terrorism).
But I mean ...well, yeah, I know, you know what I mean.
So, lets begin with a clean slate...
And a Happy New Year 2008!
Monday, December 31, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
Landmark Education
Participating in the Landmark Forum and Landmark Advanced course has been one of the most life changing days I have ever spent ( next only to Vipassana meditation).
I first heard about Landmark I think 4 - 5 years ago from a collegue when I used to Work with Wipro. Landmark was conducting some courses for Wipro employees. He attended something which now having been through Landmark I guess was the Introduction program. He came back and told us something like "They make you come on stage and tell your personal problems in front of everyone". I was immediately put off. "Why in the world would anyone want to do that ??". I decided Landmark does something weird and it was not for me.
5 years later, sometime in Aug/Sept '06 one of my very trusted friends from Mysore, Nimmoo spoke about Landmark. I parroted the same opinion that I formed during Wipro days. I was surprised to hear something different about Landmark from her. She recommended me to talk to another friend of hers Rachana in Bangalore, who had done the entire Landmark "Curriculum for living"(the core set of programs of Landmark education). When I spoke to Rachana I was immediately struck by the power in her language. She wasn't speaking like yet another "you can do it" motivational speaker. Her language really was powerful and hit me real hard. Moreever, this was the first time I was talking to her. And I felt as if I knew her since ages. I realized that maybe there is something about Landmark that I have missed. I immediately decided to do the program. The very next day I met Rachana and did the registration for the next Landmark Forum in Dec 06.
During the Landmark Forum, I really understood what my collegue was talking about 5 years ago. Firstly, I realized, when my collegue was talking, I was not listening. I was busy making my own "interpretations". Secondly, he was talking about these awe-inspiring "sharings" people do during the Landmark Forum. (IMO, One of the most powerful aspects of the Landmark Education) They share the breakthroughs and immense benefits they get out of participation in the Landmark forum. They share what they were going through in their lives and how participating in the Landmark forum helped
them overcome it. And now that they have won over the problem what great possibilities have opened up for themselves and for the people in their lives. This not only is a remarkable display of courage on the part of the participants but also acts as an example and inspiration for others. "If he can do it within the Landmark Forum, I can do it to".
So, looking back, participating in Landmark has been a very very good decision, one of the best investments I ever made in myself. I wish I had done it 5 years back itself.
I also made another decision afer talking to Rachana. Now on I will never close my eyes to a new idea that comes my way based on first impression. I will be ever grateful to Rachana and Nimmoo for bringing Landmark into my life.
Stay tuned .. more to come....
I first heard about Landmark I think 4 - 5 years ago from a collegue when I used to Work with Wipro. Landmark was conducting some courses for Wipro employees. He attended something which now having been through Landmark I guess was the Introduction program. He came back and told us something like "They make you come on stage and tell your personal problems in front of everyone". I was immediately put off. "Why in the world would anyone want to do that ??". I decided Landmark does something weird and it was not for me.
5 years later, sometime in Aug/Sept '06 one of my very trusted friends from Mysore, Nimmoo spoke about Landmark. I parroted the same opinion that I formed during Wipro days. I was surprised to hear something different about Landmark from her. She recommended me to talk to another friend of hers Rachana in Bangalore, who had done the entire Landmark "Curriculum for living"(the core set of programs of Landmark education). When I spoke to Rachana I was immediately struck by the power in her language. She wasn't speaking like yet another "you can do it" motivational speaker. Her language really was powerful and hit me real hard. Moreever, this was the first time I was talking to her. And I felt as if I knew her since ages. I realized that maybe there is something about Landmark that I have missed. I immediately decided to do the program. The very next day I met Rachana and did the registration for the next Landmark Forum in Dec 06.
During the Landmark Forum, I really understood what my collegue was talking about 5 years ago. Firstly, I realized, when my collegue was talking, I was not listening. I was busy making my own "interpretations". Secondly, he was talking about these awe-inspiring "sharings" people do during the Landmark Forum. (IMO, One of the most powerful aspects of the Landmark Education) They share the breakthroughs and immense benefits they get out of participation in the Landmark forum. They share what they were going through in their lives and how participating in the Landmark forum helped
them overcome it. And now that they have won over the problem what great possibilities have opened up for themselves and for the people in their lives. This not only is a remarkable display of courage on the part of the participants but also acts as an example and inspiration for others. "If he can do it within the Landmark Forum, I can do it to".
So, looking back, participating in Landmark has been a very very good decision, one of the best investments I ever made in myself. I wish I had done it 5 years back itself.
I also made another decision afer talking to Rachana. Now on I will never close my eyes to a new idea that comes my way based on first impression. I will be ever grateful to Rachana and Nimmoo for bringing Landmark into my life.
Stay tuned .. more to come....
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