Friends
I could not communicate since about a week thru this blog because I had been out of this country. Visited Singapore and it was a very pleasant business trip. I tried to write from there but could not succeed. However now copying some thoughts. Rest I would take further soon.
"Dt. 24th Morning:
Dear Friends
Landed Singapore today at 7am (Local Time) i.e. 4.30 am IST. I can understand why the Singapore Airlines is amongst the best airlines in the world. The 5.30 hrs. flight journey was quite comfortable. This is really a wonderful city country. A very small but highly developed nation with great emphasis on discipline, traffic rules and cleanliness. It changes the whole attitude of the citizen of any country.
The economy of this country is very much liberalised and in last 2 decades it has become business hub for most of the asian countries. Culturally, I would say it is fusion of India and china cultures.
I have come first time to this country and it is great pleasure to see certain roads named on Indians, even a portion of Singapore is called little India. One of the temple here was constructed long back dated 1927. It is really surprising how long is the history of India Singapore relationship. In those days people would be travelling by sea and each journey must be of minimum one month. Doesn’t it mean that we all have to travel always for success and there is no stop. I don’t know any one who is just sitting at a place and growing. Probably travelling is the basic requirement of all of us once we jump into the field of earning.
cpjain"

"Dt. 25th Sep.:
Friends
One Class , same teacher for all the 40 odd students, same educational course still 20% are in A category and 20% in D category, Why?
One profession, same education level, same degree, same training still only 5% of them earn very high and almost 70% struggle for survival, why?
Parents having 3-5 kids, give same to every child but not all fare same, why?
These are the general questions and answered by almost every one in their own way but no answer can be satisfactory for every one.
cpjain"

Friends
Today I had to rush to Delhi and after finishing couple of meetings, I returned to airport bit early. And when you are free the mind works over time. Today I had an opportunity to meet one of the director of a large real estate fund based out of USA. The person , handling about 50 bn. USD and operating through out the world, was so simple and down to earth that I was virtually shocked to meet him. The assistants to this guy were calling him by name ( not as sir, like in india). The gentleman had just come from Mumbai at 2am in the morning ,reached to hotel at 3 am and before he slept he was thru with all the mails coming from USA. By the time he went to bed it was 5am and here he was in meeting at 10.30 more fresh than any body else. Top of that he remembered every thing about my proposal. I was so impressed by the hard work of this man at the age of more than 55 yrs. Similarly if we analyse the daily routine of most of the successful persons, it is found that they never complain about the lack of time and they use every minute perfectly. Mr. Anil Ambani is on track by 6am in morning, M. Amitabh Bachchan too by 6am at gym, Shahrukh Khan says for him 4 hrs sleep is more than sufficient. I am sure most of the successful people dont sleep much and also have very stringent time management. All these people are successful and visible in public life. Still they find time for them selves, for society and for family. These people have habit of reading and have great memory. They are highly humble, soft spoken, fresh and disciplined. I never heard them complaining for time unlike we people do. I fail to understand what makes them different from rest of us. Probably they have clear mission of life and what ever they have achieved it is because of consistency and persistent efforts in right direction . We need to really learn from them. I believe the success to these people is not because of luck only. Of course luck is an important factor but in my view, its share is not more than 20%.
cpjain

Friends
When we were kids, as usual parents put us into education. In old days there used to be joint families and many children used to live together. Every parent used to dream that kids get good education, get some good degree and be a successful. Whenever kids get good marks they distribute sweets and feel happy. Then some kids study and some left behind. About 20% get good education and rest fail in between. Now those who got good education are forced to leave the place, find new job, struggle at various locations and by the time they become matured they are almost cut off from their roots. Even they would not be available in need because of distances . Similarly their kids would not be into strong bonding with original roots and gradually cut off from the basic place. Even when such persons who gone out feel loneliness and in need they depend on friends and neighbours.
Where as those who fail in getting good education are put into business and always remain within social set up. No dislocation, no struggle in unknown place, enjoy social ceremonies, functions and build good reputation in society where they hold the flag from the parents. Their kids continue to enjoy the same set up and reputation. And in most cases such people build bigger empire then those left in the search of job. I was just thinking who gets better deal? One who gets good education or the other ones. Sometimes I feel probably failure at the initial level is better than success. I don't know but this seems to be conclusion so far.
cpjain

Friends

Today is Kshamawani Parva and with folded hands I beg kshama for all the mistakes done by me knowingly or unknowingly which may have hurt any of you.

In Jain Shastra it is said that "Kshama Virasya Bhushnam" meaning that forgiveness is the tool of brave people only. I agree it is very easy to say sorry or beg kshama but it is really tough to forgive. As a human being it is easy to say than done. When some unwanted incidence happens, and we hurt some one deeply. We just say sorry, but it does not heal his wounds fully so I believe it really needs brave heart to forgive.

Still I beg kshama from all of you.

with love

cpjain

Friends,

Since last couple of days I am getting one thought again and again. And here I am trying to share with you. In last 45 years of my life and particularly in last 23 years of professional life , I must have met a large number of people. Sometimes we meet but know about them much in advance and then we say wow what a personality? or we get just mild reaction that ohh this is such a normal guy? The views and expression about a person , his achievements, career, thoughts and all make him unique and inspiring to all of us.

The thought that travelling in my mind is " what makes people so successful and different"? A human body simply 5'8" height +- couple of inches, weight also about 65kgs +-5kgs normal physic, normal age and still much ahead then those with good physique. Just see the personality of Mahatma Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Aditya Mittal, L.N.Mittal, Ambanis, Kumar mangalam Birla, Naresh Goyal, Capt. Gopinath, Ruias,or most of the renowned personalities. People say it is their knowledge, attitude, positioning, grooming, education, daring, vision etc., which makes them ahead of any one else. Honestly I fail to understand fully the reason behind this difference. The source of thought was the recent news about Aditya Mittal, CFO LNMittal group addressing 700 senior executives of the group, Anil Mukesh addressing thousands of shareholders in public, Rahul Gandhi addressing lacs of people at a time. Every one wants to be like them but still vast distance .......

I leave it up to you to find out the real factors and share with me plsssss.

C.P.Jain

Friends'
What is the meaning of simple life? Some people say they live simple life by living in small house, with few clothes and travelling by train or buses (cheaper modes of transport), and with normal vehicles at disposal like two wheelers or cheaper cars (mostly used vehicles) . In general conversation they would always say that they believe in simple life and never go hi fi. They criticise people who live luxury life, travel by flights and roam through out the world. They would also criticise their( rich ones) sense of saving and wastage of money and show offs.
So the question in my mind is what is simple life? Whether the person living life on its own with every comfort at his disposal and have full utilisation of time. He who can go anywhere any time at his choice , available for any crucial issues , donates huge amount to the neediest and visits more temples than any one else.
Or the simple life being lived by ones who plan to go by trains before 60-90 days, always think of saving money instead of earning, criticise the rich people, cant afford luxury cars, servants and all. Those whose family cant demand much at a time and buy one costly thing in a year. Those who always analyse how to save pennies and pressurise family members to plan every expense much in advance. 90% of their time is used in analysis and planning for saving the money. They who use mind for keeping records of various routes and timings of trains and buses , burden themselves with lot of schedule memories .And ultimately transfer their failures to luck.
I do not mean one should not save but I believe one should focus on earning to become rich.
Tell me your views.
CPJain

Dear Friends
Again in Delhi now. It seems terrorist doing Bharat Yatra and government is just watching them. They would say 2-3 comments every time like 1) We will contain / remove terrorism; 2) Keep Peace and 3) Government would not tolerate terrorism. What a funny this government is. Can't they reenact stringent laws and specific courts to deal with this. Till when we people of india would suffer in the hands of politicians just for want of their vote banks.
I know this is not the time to blame each other but at least this is also not the time to just have peace. I pray to the god for the peace to the soul of the deceased innocent people, kids and loved ones.
cpjain

Dear Friends

Today ,I want to share with you about certain ongoing issues . There are three burning issues in my mind today:

1. Tata's has announced to rethink to take away the Car project from West Bengal to some other location.

2. Raj Thackrey and Bal Thackrey have come out heavily on Bachhans.

3. L.N.Mittal in interview today said that the projects in Orissa and Jharkhand are delayed by two years and cost over run is about 50%.

In all the above incidences there is one similarity. Indian politics has gone so low that they don't care really about the people. In Bengal ,Tata had put in every thing but he found himself sandwiched between the various political parties. He had no option and announced to go out. Till he was quiet, every political party was exploiting his project and tried to take more and more mileage from the incidence. Now even Governor is mediating to bring him back. The parties now think their vote bank would get annoyed because of job losses. So they are now singing different tunes. Similarly two projects of LN Mittal group worth Rs. 90000 Crs are delayed due to permissions and approvals from the government. He said it is already costlier by 50% i.e. Rs. 45000 Crs. more. He did not say any thing negative but I could read in between the lines a clear cut warning that if political parties don't change their attitude, he would scrap this project. Again lacs of people, who could find jobs may not get this opportunity. I wish political parties would now run after him to get the projects through. It is not worth mentioning about the reasons of delay in giving approvals and permissions. Now friends third incidence shows that smaller parties are after certain people to get the mileage at any cost. And surprisingly all the parties are quiet. No one wants to loose the vote bank and those suffering are just suffering day by day. I agree Mumbai is the center of entertainment and finance industry. But who are the people making the city so proud? The thekedars should understand that If Amitabh Bachhan announces to go out of mumbai, and industry looks for any other location out of maharashtra, then where these thekedars would go? What feeling outsiders would have in mind? Will any other industry survive with this attitude? Then where these so called marathi gods would go?

It is really painful to see such situation in our country and more painful is that national parties like BJP and Congress are just spectators because they don't want to loose their vote bank. I think we indians require some new political set up with written code of conduct.

Wit Love

cp

Dear Friends
Recently I came across to some situations where the earnings of an uneducated or less educated persons was much higher then those who are professionals or well educated. What are the reasons for this ? Some times people who are either less educated or not professional feel that they do not have good academic degrees and hence remain poor, where as lot many times those with good academic qualifications, people just float but don't become rich. Even parents insist that real mantra of success lies in good educational qualification only. Some times we also feel that those born with silver spoon in mouth can also become rich? But is it true? I have read about the life of many people who are very successful today but they do not possess great academic qualifications nor they born in rich families.
I believe we all just find the excuse of less success or failure either in luck or qualification or the family where we born. May be the real reason lies in our attitude, relationship, focus, hard work and flexibility in behaviour.
Late Shri G.D. Birla (Birla Group), Late Shri Dhirubhai Ambani (Reliance), Shri L.N.MIttal (Arcelor Mittal Group), Mr. Bill Gates (Microsoft), Shri Azim Premji (Wipro), Shri K.N.Singh (DLF), Shri Ravi and Shri Shashi Ruia (Essar), Mr. Subhash Chandra (Zee group), Mr. Naresh Goyal (Jet Airways group) did not held great academic qualifications and still would always remember in the history for their achievements.
Believe me most of these people did not even born in rich families also. It means there is some thing else which is required for success. I do not mean that education is not important, it is very much important but not the only way to success. And thus those (including me) find reasons in some thing else for less success(in luck, degree etc. etc....) are wrong.
With Love
cp

Dear Friends
I just finished "The Last Lecture" by Mr. Randy Pausch. It is really a great experience to read this book. I salute the courage and attitude of Randy. One side he knows the death approaching towards him every second and on the other side he is not only facing this truth, going through a huge challenge and also with strong positive attitude telling the world how to live life. He mentioned that he is lucky to have pancreatic cancer because had he been having heart attack or some accident, he would have never get the time to plan his family's life.
It is easy to say then face such situation and rarely any human can have courage to face the uninvited death coming day by day. He has shared his experiences and reading this book tells the harsh truth of life and certainty of death. We all are aware this certainty but no one accept that this is going to happen any time. Randy viewed that live life whatever you have and don't waste time in complaining, criticizing. He mentioned that we should allow our kids to Dream. Certain quote by him, I have mentioned in the "Quote" section.
Fortunately I got another Book "The High Performance Entrepreneur" by Mr. Subroto Bagchi (one of the promoter of Mind Tree Consulting). This Book I read but had to leave incomplete due to some other books in pipe line.
With Love
cp

Friends , I have posted list of certain Books I recommend. I would add some more names during the course of time. Meanwhile I invite the list of books you all recommend. Further I have also created new space for links worth visiting. I request you all to send me the valuable links we can interact with in our friend circle.
Regds
cp

Friends, these days I am reading a book titled "The Last Lecture" by Mr. Randy Pausch. One of the best book I came across in recent time. I recommend it is really worth to read this book. About the contents of the book, I would write after couple of days once it is finished.

I also request to all of you to come out with the books you recommend worth reading. It would help me to gain some knowledge and also our friends would know from this platform.

Regds

cpjain

Dear Friends
Recently I have been travelling a lot amidst bad weather and turbulence in the Air. Sometimes it becomes quite tense but anyway, we need to move on always. I was just wondering that how perfect is the technology which makes movement so fast.
Thinking all this Icame accross to one story which narrates that in most of the crucial issues, we depend on some one else whose capabilities we are not aware. Mostly it is Just by hearing we put the faith on them. The story is like this:
"There happened one plane crash and all the passenger died except one monkey who was also travelling in the plane. The black box was also untraceable and hence the investigation was not leading to any conclusion about how it happened. Ultimately, the agencies interrogated the Monkey. They were helped by some veterinary specialist to understand the body language of the monkey. They asked Mr. Monkey what the passengers were doing when the plane crashed? The monkey could not speak human language but he replied by signs and body movements that they were eating some thing. Then they asked what air hostesses and Stuarts were doing? he said again that they were also eating, then what the assistant pilot was doing? he said he was also eating some thing. Then finally they asked what the captain was doing. He again said indicating that he was also eating. Deeply frustrated agencies asked him by the way what you were doing Mr. Monkey? He replied (I mean by way of body signs only), that he was driving the plane."
What a fantastic story. The moral of the story is that we put our life under the control of some one whom we do not know. Does not it happen in every part of the life? In business too we take risks on the basis of assurances by some one else. We rarely check if the person we are depending on would be capable enough?
I request to all the friends to share some event when we put faith on some one without knowing his capability to deliver.
cpjain