About Fatigue

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Fatigue monitored in MH370 search:

The Royal New Zealand Air Force says it will be swapping its crew searching for Flight 370 again this week. It's been nearly a month since contact was lost with the Malaysia Airlines plane and not a single bit of debris has been found despite dozens of planes from around the world being used in the search. Wing Commander Andy Scott says the RNZAF crew scouring the southern Indian Ocean for debris was doing "very well" and were "still motivated", but admitted there were "highs and lows" for the team. He said a third New Zealand crew would come in and take over from the current team this weekend.
"As you can appreciate it's very intensive, they're very long days, and they’re working 16 hour days....so fatigue is certainly an issue we're monitoring." Read here: 

Fatigue (also called exhaustion, tiredness, languidness, languor, lassitude, and listlessness) is a subjective feeling of tiredness which is distinct from weakness, and has a gradual onset. 

Many life factors can cause fatigue, which can be difficult to recognize. It's important that individuals and organisations work towards reducing it. How dangerous fatigue at work place is: video:3:43mts

Drink some water. Dehydration can make us tired and sluggish. Water can refresh us. Don’t keep that water bottle on your table. Take a walk to the water cooler or to the pantry.

Often this is all you need, especially you have been sitting all day and your blood is pooling up in your butt and legs. You need to get that blood circulating! Go outside, walk around,

Have a glass of water, go to loo,  look at people, and think about your day and your life and the people in it.

Do an errand. This can either be in the office -“Where’s that high lighter gone missing I’ve needed all week? Search for that) or outside the office (“I really should buy some CDs today!”). It gets you moving, it gets you away from the scene of your boredom, and it accomplishes something useful.

Play Sudoku. Perhaps not the most intellectual game of all time, or the most exciting … but I still find it a lot of fun. I only played it a little while and didn’t get addicted like other people I know, but I have to admit it’s a fun way to get diversion from the boring routine.

Improve your skills. Along the same lines: choose a skill that needs sharpening, and challenge yourself to get better at it. Whether that’s computer programming, writing, working with AutoCAD, or whatever. Perfect your skills — you can use it to further your career, get a new job, or become self-employed. Or just have the satisfaction of knowing you’re the best you can be at that skill.

Do some breathing exercise: There are six ways of doing it. Do the simple one.  “Alternate Nostril Breathing” – This is not a difficult one.  Method is explained in the pic:

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So in short: just find things to entertain yourself. Keep your mind busy. Challenge yourself. Talk to somebody. Break out of your routine and boredom.  

This small exercise also an insurance to improve the working efficiency of your heart, lungs, and muscles,” Many life factors can cause fatigue, which can be difficult to recognize. It's important that individuals and organisations work towards reducing it.

On Leadership-1

Dammit! Why do these bad things always happen to me?

Problem: Bad things happen to everybody. If we dwell on them, they frustrate us and bring us down.

Solution: See bad things as part of the ebb and flow of life. Suffering is a part of the human condition – but it passes. All pain goes away, eventually. Meanwhile, don’t let it hold you back. Don’t dwell on bad things, but look forward towards something good in your future. And learn to take the bad things in stride, and learn from them. Bad things are actually opportunities to grow and learn and get stronger, in disguise.

You can’t do anything right! Why can’t you be like _____________?

Problem: This can be said to your child or your subordinate or your sibling. The problem? Comparing two people, first of all, is always a fallacy. People are different, with different ways of doing things, different strengths and weakness, different human characteristics. If we are all the same, we would be robots. Second, saying negative things like this to another person never helps the situation. It might make you feel better, and more powerful, but the truth is it hurts your relationship, it will actually make you feel negative, and it will certainly make the other person feel negative and more like to continue negative behaviour. Everyone is loser.

Solution: Take the mistake or bad behaviour of others as an opportunity to teach, show them how to do something. Second praise them for their behaviour, and encourage their success. Last, the most important, love them for who they are, and calibrate their difference.  

Your work sucks. It’s super lame. You are moron and I hope you never reproduce.

Problem: I have actually gotten this comment before. It feels wonderful. However, let’s look at it not from the perspective of the person receiving this kind of comment but from the perspective of the person giving it. How does saying something negative like this help you? I guess it might feel good to vent if you feel like your time has been wasted. But really, how much of your time has been wasted? A few minutes, A few hours! And whose fault is that? The blogger or yours? In truth, making negative comments just keeps you in negative mindset. It’s also a good way make friends.

Solution: Learn to offer constructive solutions, first of all. Instead of telling someone their blog sucks, of that a post is lame, offer some specific suggestion for improvement. Help them get better. If you are going to take the time to make a comment, make it worth your time. Second, learn to interact with people in a more positive way – it makes others feel good and it make you feel better about yourself. And you can make some great friends this. That’s a good thing.

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Insulting People Back:

Problem: If someone insults you or angers you in some way, insulting them back and continuing your anger only transfer their problem to you. This person was probably having a bad day and took it out on you for some reason. If you reciprocate, you are now having a bad day too.  His u.problem has become yours. Not only that, but the cycle of insults can get worse and worse until it results in violence or other negative consequences – for both of you.

Solution: Let the insults or negative comments of others slide off you like Teflon. Don’t let their problem become yours. In fact, try to understand their problem more – why would someone say something like that? What problems are they going through? Having a little empathy for some not only make you understand that the ir comment is not about you, but make you feel better about yourself in the process.

I don’t think I can do this – I don’t have enough discipline. May be some other time.

Problem: If you don’t think you can do something, you probably won’t. Especially for the big stuff. Discipline has nothing to do with – motivation and focus has everything to do with it. And if you put stuff off for “some other time”, you will never get it done. Negative thinking like this inhibits us from accomplishing anything.

Solution: Turn your thinking around: you can do this! You don’t need discipline. Find ways to make yourself a success at your goal. If you fail, learn from your mistake, and try again. Instead of putting a goal off for later, start now. And focus on one goal at a time, putting all of your energy into it, and getting as much help from other as you can. You can really move mountain if you start with positive thinking. 

Read the part-1

I am not saying following this is an insurance to success. But definitely saying not following this step towards failure. 

Insurance to Win-1

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

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10 Deadly Sins of Negative Thinking:

I will be happy once I have ______ (or once I earn X amount)

Problem: If you think you can’t be happy until you reach a certain point, or until your reach certain income, or have a certain type of house or car or office, you will be never happy. The elusive goal is always just out of reach. Once we reach those goals, we are not satisfied – we want more.

Solution: Learn to be happy with what you have, where, and who you are, right at this moment. Happiness doesn't have to be some state that we want to get to eventually – it can be found right now. Learn to count your blessing, and see the positive in your situation. This might sound simplistic, but it works.

I wish I were as____________ as (a celebrity, sportsperson and businessman).

Problem: We’ll never be as  pretty, as talented, as rich, as sculpted, as cool, as everyone else. There will always be someone better, if you look hard enough. Therefore, if we compare ourselves to others like this, we will always pale, and will always fail and will always feel bad about selves.  This is no way to be happy.  

Solution: Stop comparing yourself to others, and look instead at yourself – what are your strengths, your accomplishments, your success, however small? What do you love about yourself? Learn to love who are you are, right jow, not who you want to become. There is good in each of us, love in each of us, and a wonderful human spirit in every one of us.

Seeing other becoming successful make jealous and resentful:

Problem: First, this assumes that only a small member of people can be successful. In truth, many, many people can be successful – in different ways.

Solution: Learn to admire the success of others, and learn from it, and be happy for them, by empathizing with them and understand what it must be like to be them. And then turn away from them, and look at yourself – you can be successful too, in whatever you choose to do. And even more, you already are successful. Look not at those above you in the social ladder, but those below you – there are always millions of people worse off then you, people who could not read this article or afford a computer, in the that light you are a huge success.

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I am miserable failure – I can’t seem to do anything right:

Problem: Everyone is a failure, if you look at it in certain ways.  Everyone has failed, many times, at different things. I have certainly failed so many times I cannot count them – and I continue to fail, daily. However, looking at your failures as failures only makes you feed bad about yourself. By thinking in this way, we will have a negative self-image and never move on from them.

Solution: See your successes and ignore your failure. Look back on your life, in the last month, or year, or 5 years. And try to remember your success. If you have trouble with this, start documenting them – keep a success journal, either in a notebook or online. Document your success  each day, or each week. When you look back at what you've accomplished, over a year, you will be amazed. It is an incredibly positive feeling.

I’m going to beat so-and-so no matter what – I’m better than him. And there’s no way I’ll help him succeed. – he might beat me.

Problem: Competitiveness assumes that there is a small amount of gold to be had, and I need to get it before he does. It makes us into greedy, back-stabbing, hurtful people. We try to claw our way over people to get to success, because of our competitive feeling. For example, if blogger wants to have more subscriber than another blogger, he may never link to or mention that other blogger. However, who is to say that my subscriber can’t also be yours? People can read and subscribe to more than one blog.

Solution: Learn to see success as something that can be shared, and learn that if we help each other out, we can each have a better chance to be successful. Two people working towards a common goal are better than two people trying to beat each other up to get to that goal. There is abundance rather than scarcity.

There are five more to come in the next blog. I am not saying following this is an insurance to success. But definitely saying not following this step towards failure. 
Read the part-2 also:

The Action Plan

--> Too often some action takes us to inaction — the small doubt in the back of our mind and trying too hard for perfectionism and distractions by a phone call and an invitation to something that stops us from moving forward.

And while I’m no proponent of a whirling buzz of activity, I also believe people get lost in the distractions of the world and lose sight of what’s important, and how to actually accomplish their Something Amazing. A little self imposed  little rules of action can help to overcome from  this inaction— just some small reminders, things I’ve found useful but by no means invented, common-sense stuff that is often not common enough.

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Just start: All the planning in the world will get you nowhere. You need to take that first step, no matter how small or how shaky. All long journeys started with a small step. My rule for motivating myself for morning walk is just jump into my track suits and lacing my sports shoes. . Instead if you think when to start, at what time to go, shall I listen walk or jog, while jogging shall I listen to some music, etc.etc.  only lead to inaction. Take it from me you will never go for that morning walk. Best is Start moving and plan while moving.

Kiss off the perfection: Perfectionism is the enemy of action and a friend of inaction.. Shoot it down immediately. You can’t let perfection stop you from doing something important. You can turn a bad draft into a good one, but you can’t turn plain paper into a good draft. So get going.

Deliberate your move: Be deliberate. Action doesn’t need to be done fast. In fact, that often leads to mistakes, and while perfection isn’t at all necessary, neither is making a ridiculous amount of mistakes that could be avoided with a bit of consciousness.

Step by steps. A small step always works.  Trying to chew off more than you can choke you Same way trying rush it up kill the action. Like a many little steps eventually scale the mountain.  And each step is a victory, that each one will compel you to further victories. 

Talking isn’t action. Well, unless you’re a television broadcaster or your job is talking or the action you need to take is a presentation or speech or something, talking usually is just talking. Communication is necessary, but talking is not the substitute for action.  

Get rid of Negative thinking:  Seriously, stop doing that first. Kick off  those thoughts. Well, OK, you can be distracted for a little bit, but you get the idea. Positive thinking, as corny as it sounds, really works. Self doubt, a feeling at the back of the mind  to quit? Keep remind  yourself that it’s OK to be distracted and that you can always get to it later? The self-assurance talk or self=talk we keep tell ourselves has a unique ability of turning thoughts into reality.

Planning/Meeting isn’t action. Sure, you need to plan and discuss. . Do it, so you’re clear about what you’re doing and it is conveyed to your team also in the meeting. . Just do it and finish it as quickly as you can. Get into the actual action as quickly as you can.

Reading about it isn’t action. You’re reading a blog about action. Ironic, I know. But let this be the last one. Now get to work! Yes reading an Insurance policy, is not going to insure your life, you have to take the insurance policy. 

Anti Smoking

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I am an IT professional from Pune. I just read your article on 25 things that happen in your body when you smoke, and found it really interesting. It is hard to imagine the effect of smoking inside the body. I can see most of the facial changes like darkening of lips in myself. I want to know about two things:

1. Will quitting smoking now make all the things that have gone wrong go back to as it was before?
2. How can I quit smoking

Quitting smoking is the very first step to regaining your health. While not everything may be reversed or cured instantly, your body will slowly start regaining normalcy. For instance when you first stop smoking, you will notice that you will be able to taste food better, be more sensitive to smells, not have a dry mouth and be free of a sore throat.

According to a study, quitting has a number of other immediate and long term benefits. Here is how your body will benefit:

Within the first 20 minutes your heart rate and blood pressure drop down to normal levels. In the next 12 hours the carbon monoxide content in your blood becomes normal, and in the next two to twelve weeks the blood circulation to your lungs will increase and become better – improving the overall functioning of your lungs.

After a few months, this is what will happen:

Within one to nine months incessant coughing and shortness of breath will get better.

And finally, after a few years, you’ll notice changes in all your body’s functions. For instance; within 1 year your risk of coronary artery disease goes down by half, in 5 years your risk of suffering from a stroke reduces by almost half and after 10 years your lung cancer risk falls to 50% when compared to a smoker’s risk. Moreover you will also be at a lesser risk of suffering from cancers of the mouth, throat, oesophagus, bladder, cervix and pancreas.

And in 15 years you will be as healthy as a non-smoker. This time line — although general – can be bettered by making alterations in your lifestyle. You could start exercising, eating healthy and being stress free.

As an added bonus, the earlier you quit the better for you. A study found that if you quit at about 30 you can gain almost 10 years of life expectancy.

Now that you know how you will benefit, here is how you can do it:

Quitting is easier than you think – if you follow a simple plan. All you need to do is follow these five D’s of quitting – Delay, Distract, Drink water, Deep breaths and Discuss. Read more about the 5 D’s to start you on the path to quit smoking. 

original post from: yahoo:

http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/quitting-smoking-reverse-damage-done-052705022.html

See my video on advantage of quitting smoking:(3:54sec)

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employee Performance Review

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March is here and so are those much-awaited appraisals. Better Desig + Better Money = Happier, more productive you. But what if your appraisal isn't worth smiling at, leave alone laughing all the way to the bank? Can you turn things around to your advantage? Find out.

1. Your salary goes up from peanuts to a few more peanuts. You’re likely to: 
a. Approach your boss when (s)he's in a good mood and assess your worth, contribution and commitments together.
b. Be glad it didn't stay the same.
c. Sulk, swear to mess up all your projects on purpose and start looking for a new job.
2. While your colleagues get a promotion plus a pay hike; you genuinely feel like you've got a raw deal. You:
a. Have an honest chat with your team mates. And knowing them (some of them, at least), they're likely to take up the matter with the big boss.
b. Decide not to mingle with them during work hours and lunch/smoke breaks.
c. Spread gossip about them and ask to be transferred to another department.
3. The love of your life scores more brownie points at the workplace than you do. You: 
a. Have a fun bi%$#ing session about your boss with him/her.
b. Don't talk about your appraisal, till (s)he does.
c. Start having second thoughts. About your job. And him/her.
4. The best part of being your own boss is:
a. Being able to work at your own time and pace.
b. Calling the shots.
c. No more appraisals. Yay!
Mostly As: You really can handle an unfavorable appraisal and even change things to your advantage. Good going.
Mostly Bs: Stop hesitating. Speak your mind at the right time in front of the right person; you'll be surprised at the difference it could make.
Mostly Cs: What are you so petrified of? Why take a bad appraisal — especially one that you haven't done anything to deserve — lying down? And enough with the negativity, pal 

Original Source Can You Make the Best of a Bad Appraisal? from Yahoo.com.

http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/best-bad-appraisal-045700002.html

P.S: though the blog written in lighter vain. but appraisal is serious issue.

P.S.S: every year our company does appraisl  to the tune of 700+ employees from our clients workplace. 

Goal Setting

On a recent management course, about goal setting.  

Asked one of the employee to volunteer, Told him “Stand here and your task is to 
throw as many screwed-up pieces of paper as you can into that
waste bin close to his feet. 

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The employee stood up and, rather embarrassingly, screwed a few
pieces of paper up and threw them in the bin. 

After one minute, asked “Had enough?”, to which
the person said “Yes thanks!” and gratefully returned to
his chair. 

The person had managed to screw-up and bin 12 pieces of paper.

A second volunteer was requested. This manager, a lady, was given
her task.

“Your task is to throw as many pieces of screwed-up paper as
possible into this bin in one minute, and your target to beat is
12, The lady went about the task with enthusiasm and scored 15.

Then asked for a third volunteer. Addressing this person,
and said, “OK, you’ve seen what the others achieved. Do you
think you can beat them in one minute?”

“No problem!” said the third volunteer, and he began when the
trainer started the stopwatch.

He managed 21 pieces in the same time as the other two.

The first volunteer objected to this. “That’s not fair…you
didn’t give ME those rules!”

The second volunteer also voiced her opinion. “Yes, it isn’t
fair, because you didn’t give ME any choices, other than to
beat one target.”

Then I had asked the third volunteer for his opinion.

“It was very fair”, he said. “I knew what I had to do and
by when, and I got a say in what target I thought I could meet. I
saw what was possible, set myself a higher target and knew that I

could achieve it. And I did!” 

In goal-setting, we very often just set the target and expect
team members to achieve it. But how many of us are asked to
achieve a task without being involved in the big picture, or
fully understanding ‘the rules’? Or we see any insurance or compensation

in the whole idea. What might our team be
capable of if they were allowed to set targets they thought were
stretching and achievable? How much more ownership would they
experience if they were involved in the goal-setting up front?
Goat setting is your insurance to better compensation. 

Inspirational Women

To all Men

A mother was out walking with her 4-5 year old son. He picked up something of the ground and tried to put it in his mouth. Mother took the item away from him and asked him not to do that.

Why? The boy asked.

"Because it’s been on the ground; you don’t know where it is been, it’s dirty and probably has germs. Mother replied.

As this point, the boy looked at his mother with total admiration and asked, Mom, how do you know all these stuff. You are so smart. 

Mother thought for while and replied, All women know this stuff, it is on the Examination, all mother  have to know it, otherwise god doesn't allow any women to become Mother.

The boy asked,  if you have not answered the question? Mother doesn’t have the answer

Both walked in silent for couple of minutes more, boy pondering the new information, and said Oh… I got it; he beamed, so if you don’t pass the test you have to be Dad.

EXACTLY! Mom replied with great pride and big smile. Please keep the same innocence and respect WOMEN.

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When you've finished laughing, send this to all women colleagues in your OFFICE or Workplace. 

How to Manage People

Do you have someone who at work consistently triggers you? Doesn't listen? Takes credit for work you've done? Wastes your time with trivial issues? Acts like a know-it-all? Can only talk about himself? Constantly criticizes?

Badri Narayan entered the office literally to a roaring welcome by the stentorian voice of his Administrative Officer Ranga Bhashyam. (Ranga)

RANGA:  “You are late again, Badri.”

Badri was painfully aware that it was no mere rhetoric.

Badri:     “Sorry, sir.”

RANGA: “What is it today, your great grandfather expired?”

Badri:     “Sir, bbb…bus broke down.”

RANGA: “Www…why don’t you buy a two-wheeler?”

Badri:    “I will, sir, when my loan is sanctioned …”

RANGA:“So, until then your highness will attend office when convenient?”

Badri:    “Nnn…no, sir.”

RANGA: “This is the third time this month. Next time you will be typing your résumé. Got it?”

Badri:“Yyy…yes, sir. It will not happen again, sir.”

RANGA:“OK. What happened to the …”

That was another routine day in the official life of Badri Narayan. Read full story:

Pompous jerk, annoying nudge, or incessant complainer, an insufferable colleague can negatively affect your attitude and performance. Instead of focusing on the work you have to do together, you may end up wasting time and energy 

Chances are, in your job, you will have come across at least one type of person that you've found it difficult to work with. Here are fourteen types of difficult people you may meet at work and advice for understanding and getting along with each one.

Let’s be clear on one thing, difficult people do exist. Even it is not in a a form of “Boss” like Ranga, but always appear as “Friend”, “Colleague” or “neighbor”. Chances are, in your job, you will have come across at least one type of person that you've found it difficult to work with. Here are seven types of difficult people you may meet at work. There is no Insurance cover to escape from this type   people or not going to get any extra compensation for handling them better. 

The Bully: Bullies can be rude, aggressive and negative about people. They blame others and never take responsibility for their own actions. Usually bullies are very insecure. Like Ranga on the above story.

The Gossip: The gossip seems to know everything about everyone and want to share it. They can be the cause of arguments because a lot of the time the information they spread is false. One minute, they talk to you about other colleagues and then the next thing you know you’re the subject of the gossip. 

The Complainer: There’s always one person who can never find anything to be happy about. They keep on whining about their heavy workload and can’t complete their projects quietly because they keep procrastinating and complaining.

The Agreeable One: Your agreeable colleague just wants to be liked and will agree to anything but then fail to deliver.

The Criticizer: Criticizers criticize others to make themselves look and feel better. Typically they are the ones who make fun of others e.g. who is the worst dressed. They seem to pick fights for no reason and disagree just for the sake of disagreeing. 

The Telltale: Telltale story tellers  are very good at discovering every little mistake you make made at work and then telling on you making them look good and you look bad. 

The Backstabber: Back stabbers tend to be nice and helpful on the surface but they do this to gather ammunition and then use it to cause trouble. If you make a mistake, they will be the first to let everyone know. They can cause damage to you and your reputation. 

In the next blog let us see how to tackle these king of people. Till then .......buy.

How to Engage Employees-1

It is a common phrase that Rome wasn't built in a day. But what’s more important is the fact that it wasn't built by just one person, and the same goes for any major corporation.

From my experience, people tend to fail when they aren't inspired. Jack Welch, 
former CEO of General Electric, said, “No company, large or small, can succeed over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.”

To your employees, you represent the company. The more you prove your worth to your employees, the more they will respect you and that is a major step towards building loyalty.

Yet, all too often business leaders and managers spend an inordinate amount of time addressing performance issues with “high maintenance, low producing” employees. These individuals can be toxic to a company’s culture. However, we continue to spend time, money and energy trying to spur a course correction by someone who either isn't a good fit for the role / organization, or is unwilling to embrace real change and growth. The consequence is that the organization hobbles forward with an ailment that isn't properly addressed, and overall health and capacity suffer.

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A caveat here: My intent is not for you to label a difficult employee as high maintenance and therefore un-coachable. Sometimes, an employee is a bit of a “diamond in the rough;” someone who has hidden exceptional characteristics and/or future potential, but lacks the final touches that would make him/her truly stand out.

Be honest with yourself here: It’s not about having a charity project because you have a big heart. In the end, enabling or pitying someone neither demonstrates true respect nor aids in the individual’s or company’s growth. When in a situation with someone who has a history of being challenging, choose to interact differently with the person – break the pattern and form a new contract with new expectations.

Have a plan. This may sounds rudimentary, but more often than not, good employees are left to their own devices. Track and communicate tangible progress. Connect the organization’s goals directly to the employees’ work so they can see how their actions produce results. People like to contribute and be a part of something bigger. Progress begets more progress.

When you give attention to an employee with potential, you set the tone that at the company, personal and professional growth is expected and performance is rewarded.