Anand Bihari Mishra_BLP027_Self Leadership_Sep'11

Self Leadership: Whenever I heard this word, something starts happening to me, this words may looks small in respect of number of letters, but it sensitizes my soul, my heart and body. I joined SOIL, specifically for leadership sessions and SIP. Leadership sessions are being taken by Anil Sir itself, who is the founder and chairman of SOIL. The session is not as usual as other sessions. SOIL emphasized on leadership and the five pillars, Ethics, Compassion, Mindfulness, Diversity and sustainability. To become a leader these five pillars are the base.

As said by Anil sir, leadership is not about to lead others, its all about to lead yourself. We did immunity X-Ray in the process of knowing ourself and we got to know about the real sense of our “HABIT”

In HABBIT, If we remove H (Hard to get rid of from something), still there is A bit

Remove A (additional, like heart says to avoid but), we still have Bit

Remove B (but body doesn’t allow), we have It

Remove I (Igo), the real change happens and we learnt Transformation

So the thing is, we actually want to do something but somewhere our body, our heart or Ego comes in our path as obstacle. To overcome on this we need to transform ouself. Power lies within, start leading our body. Think one aspect you need and want to change. And what do I do actually to move in that direction? Assumptions behind the hidden commitments. How can use my strengths?

After doing introspection, I realized, there are many things I am doing for no reason.

Impact and learning from the session:

1.    Setting goals in life not to get luxury, not about the job I do. I started thinking about the meaning of life. Purpose of life. For what I am made? What can I do for others? How can I help others? The joy of giving…. Happiness increases in the directly proportion of how much I give.

2.        Be daring take initiative, be wiiling to fall down and fail. Get up again and fight.

3.        Be like kid to learn, appreciate others ideas, discuss in detail. Question them like, is it so? Be curious

4.        Make “why not” as key point, if someone else can do then why not me.

5.        Everything has to be start from zero, till the things are not done, it looks impossible, once it is done it becomes usual thing. But the creator creates its utility.

6.        There are some things that you don’t take liberty with no matter how innovative you are when you lead. To be ethical to do the right things.

7.        Believe that beauty exists in everyone and then go about finding it. And it will surprise you, as now you are left with little to invent and many more things to showcase

8.        Thought works like magnet, what you will think, it will give back the same reflection. Be optimist and think positive.

9.        Love unconditionally and it will give you more than expectation and you will become passionate about that.

10.     When you are inspired for higher purpose, strange things start happen to you

Anand B Mishra_BLP027_One more Singham

Just finished the movie singham, anyways I am fond of hindi movies especially based on some touching issues, I liked Ajju's Gangajal and now Singham, Its really based on ground reality, if we as people of the nation really commit ourselves to stop corruptions, or to invade people like Jaykant Shikre (A Character in the movie), we really can do but nobody is coming to take initiative, I know the power of one and have decided that i will not allow to anybody to exploit others, till I can fight or protect.
On the Kargil Vijay Divas, we had a great lesson on courage, I think when a short guy can face a mob of hundreds of people who were really there to kill others during 84's riots, then why cant I???? a big question mark on myself...............  

Anand B Mishra_BLP027_learning review 19 July 11

We started our day with Financial Management headed by Prof Neetika Batra, learnt about present value, future value, PVIF, FVIF. We solved numerical based on above and annuity.

After the lunch break, we had session for social innovation project, this was headed by Kanupriya, Ipsita and Parul, today the participating NGO were Care India, Khoj Foundation, Sulabh International, Gene Campaign. It was interesting to know that there are so many NGOs working for women empowerment and children education, but its so unfortunate, most of the Indian are still living below poverty line and literacy rate is not upto the mark.After having the conversations with NGO partners, most of us are in dilemma in opting an NGO, because all are doing well and sounds interesting to work for, since SIP is graded program so we can not opt more than one. But the fact is, most of us have been sensitize enough to give back to the society in some way. i hope this will remain in our soul and will surely put in all our efforts to make it a success.

Finally, we heard inspiration story of Mr Anshu Gupta, a social entrepreneur, who is the founder of "Goonj", he has done tremendous job to help poors, he took initiative and started collecting discarded clothes from society, got them altered and distributed among poor people, he also helped tsunami victims in year 2006. Apart from this, Mr Gupta made people aware how they can help themselves to become independent.

Anand B Mishra_BLP027_First Post

My dear friends,
It was a nice learning so far in SOIL, it has been a month now and 1st term is over. So today we decided to have some learning with fun and organized a learning review session headed by Prof Shri Kant Gupta