Failure and success two sides of a coin

It is human nature to be happy and celebrate the success while cursing failure. Generally the ratio of failure and success is 10:90 meaning that number of failures are 9 times more than success . It may be lesser too like 05:95. If we recount failures and success of the life, we will notice that a successful person will be having success ratio of 05:95 or may be lesser . We get frustrated or depressed even if the success ratio is as high as 10:90. In fact, we expect success in every action which can't happen. 

What makes the successful person different from others is that they are happy with ratio of 05:95 but the volume of their efforts makes number if success higher. This mantra of increasing the efforts and taking more failures is known to every one but we don't take it when failures knocks us. Rather we curse the failure and get depressed instead of greeting failures . Success can not come alone it has to come with failures and hence despite poor ratio gives immense pleasure whenever we get success. If we getting failures and efforts are continue, believe me success is just very near and can come any time. 

The key yo improve the success ratio is only and only  one and that is more failures. Every failure takes you towards the success. People get frustrated when they continuously get failures and leave the efforts but one should not forget that if the cluster of failures is knocking down us, many success are approaching you if you are continuing the efforts. 

CP

Mental Slaveness

Friends, I wish to share with you my views on current situation of  " Mental Slaveness" . It is a situation where the mindset, thoughts, views, concepts of a person are changed remotely. 

Initially physical human interactions were only source of knowledge sharing which used to affect the thought process. Later the remote tools like print media, books etc became major source of thought process of human beings. Today, electronic media has surpassed all the other methods of thought process. Electronic media laced with lethal electronic gadgets rules the contents, informations, knowledge etc. Electronic gadgets were invented for the benefits of the humans but now these demons have taken away the peace and privacy . These gadgets are integral part of the electronic media who knows every thing about you and immensely affect your thought process. 

It is said that if a false thing is repeated 100 times,  we will start believing it. Most of the humans became slave of media who decides what we should watch, think and behave in life. This is a perfect situation of  "mental slaveness" of the humans . It changes your attitude, character, thoughts, opinion etc.

Last 8-9 months of pandemic has added fuel to the fire of this slaveness. There are lots of restriction on interactions and knowledge sharing which has given immense edge to the electronic media to build the clout. 

The mental slaveness may be a dangerous phenomenon which may affect the humans life adversely for Long period. It may be misused for radicalisation of masses and  change the thought process and mental state permanently for complete generation. It's wide reach and deep impact is lethal for the human beings. This may have irreparable damage to the human societies. 

If you ask me the solution to this than I concede, no idea. I can only suggest for lowering dependency on these gadgets, more and more knowledge sharing and more human interactions with open mindedness and humility. 

CP

Teachings of Ramayana

Friends
In this lockdown period we are watching Ramayana & Mahabharata epic serials daily. While watching these serials I noticed following 10 teachings from Ramayana Epic:

1. Time is Supreme: There is no King, Raja, Maharaja and all. Everything is Time. Life travels thru a different phase of time. Whether you are King, Prince or Bhakta there is no smooth route of this journey. You may have born in palaces but end up in Jungle . 

2. Never Give Blank Promise ( Vars given by Raja Dashrath) : Whatever you committing , be specific  about the offer and time too. even if it is your spouse. You may end up with life and Sons in Jungle. It may cost dearly to the whole family.

3.  When in trouble no planning works: Troubles are alone rather they  come in flock, whereas the Happiness is always alone. It is said that troubles are Baratis and Happiness is Groom. Whatever be your planning, how so ever strong one may be , things would not in your control You may be lured to hunt a fake golden deer and end up losing your wife. No Laxman Rekha will be useful in bad time.

4. When in Need, the support will be from unknown sources: One may be most powerful but when in trouble, he may not access to his support system. Nobody will support you in worst time, it is your fight , you win or loose. Bhagwan Ram could not get support of powerful Ayodhya when Mata Sita was kidnapped by Ravana. Even no human being came forward to support him. However, when he got the support it was totally unknown sources i.e. Monkeys, Beers etc. Lord Hanuman , Sugreev, Angad, Jamvant etc. were not human but still came forward and fought wit Ravan in  the battle. Hence take the support from anybody when in need. 

5. Dharm is Most important Factor: If you doing something wrong, cruel, unethical or any Sin, you would definitely loose the battle despite you may be most powerful person on the earth. It may take away the family, society or nation too. Ravan was most powerful person with a large team of great warriors but could not sustain long against Bhagwan Ram. His ego and manipulations destroyed the whole Lanka.

6. Believe in yourself not in the Public: One should be firm enough in own belief else the advisors and public will force you to abandon your soul also. Never ever think what others would say , else you will be finished soon. The world is full of scoundrels eager to crush you if chance given. Bhagwan Ram should have not let Sita go in jungle just because public partially was viewing against her. 

7. Never Underestimate the Opponents : Howsoever small the opponent may be, never underestimate them. Shatrugna, Laxman and Bharat underestimated heavily Love & Kush and got defeated. Unless we have full information about the opponent, never plunge. 

8. Move towards mission, Solutions will flow: Bhagwan Ram did not know where is Lanka and when they came to know it otherside of the Sea , there was no solution to cross the Sea. But he went alongwith his army till the shore and found the solution where the bridge was built with floating stones. We should not abandon the mission just because it looks impossible. 

9. Don't support blindly: Ravan did wrong but except Vibhishan every body else in Lanka stood with him just because they were quire near and dear to him. One shall not support blindly to anybody for any cause just because of relation. 

10. Tough Time may Lasts for Long too: It is said that "Tough Time never lasts but tough people do" but there may be exception to this. For Mata Sita , tough time remained for very long period. Hence be ready for tough time too even if it does not lasts.

CP

Big Opportunity for India Post Covid19

Friends
"Covid19" has proved actually "disaster 20" for the whole world. It started from China and spread across the Globe. Yesterday there was a News that there is no patient in Wuhan, China which was the origin of Corona Virus. Many nations are blaming China for this pandemic and trying to take action in their own way. China will never accept this but it has definitely invited ire of many developed countries. Now people feel that China has virtually freed itself from Covid19 and others are still facing the heat of this pandemic. Lakhs of people have perished and there is no end in near future. It may increase substantially.

So, the anger of various nations is justified to some extent. The repercussion of this anger is decision of shifting certain industries from China to other countries which are suitable and viable locations. The decision by some companies originally from Japan and South Korea may be further followed by various other Covid19 sufferers. Options to these shifting can be many Asian countries providing similar or better work environment at cheaper cost. Generally an industrialist weigh the option on the basis of - a) Ease of doing business; b) Infrastructure; c) Environment; d) Tax structure; e) Stability in government policies; and f) political safety among other factors.

India, meets most of the above required criteria but still there are few crucial factors which need to be improved to attract these companies.
1. Eased of doing Business: This is the most crucial factor for a business which depends on legal structure, government approvals & procedures, level of corruption, tax authority attitude etc.
  In my view we need to improve this a lot because in our legal system the recovery of money is time consuming and the decisions take too long time. IBC 2016 has helped in improving the global rating in ease of doing business but this still need to be improved. Infact there are rumour of relaxation in the Code to help the borrowers. If this is given the new investors will afraid of their recoveries in the current legal system. Also the taxation policies should be long term without retrospective effect.
2. Environment : This is also another factor which is crucial for business to select the country for shifting the base. Important ingredient of this is political environment. If we can assure of the cordial atmosphere amongst various communities without fear or favour, it would be a good attraction for the investors.

We are a democratic country with stable political setup, it is good time to attract the industries willing to shift form China resulting into huge employment and economic growth . Our country is well positioned to get success in this with some minor improvements.

CP

Ten Best Quotes, I came across in Life So far

Friends
We are in Lockdown state since 36 days. Though we are getting mostly depressing and negative news mostly, here I wish to share some of the best quotes I came across in life:

1.  A mind is like a parachute: it only functions when it is open-Annonymous
     I don't know who said it but this represent the fact of life. If we are biased or judgemental, we can not move forward. We need to keep mind open which can allow fresh ideas and views. 

2. Everyone who shits on you is not necessarily your enemy, Everyone who gets you out of shit is not necessarily your friend and, if you are warm and happy in a pile of shit, Keep Your Mouth Shut.
   A beautiful quote which hits us to the core of heart where in we become biased, suspicious, cautious and blind to judge a person. 

3.  Love yourself. Flirt with your understanding. Romance with dreams. Get engaged with simplicity. Marry genuineness. Divorce the ego. That is a good life.  
    If you cant love yourself, dont expect others to do that. Self gratification is key to good life.

4. Don’t place your mistakes on your head, their weight may crush you. Instead place them under your feet and use them as a platform to view your horizon. 
    Learn from the mistakes and move forward never allow the mistakes to stop your actions. But if you dont learn from the mistakes then better let them crush you.  Those who learn from mistake of others are much smarter. Choice is yours. After all Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later collection of mistakes is called experience which leads to success.

5. When God solves your problems, you have faith in his abilities; When God does not solve your problems, he has faith in your abilities.
 Hence have faith in God and his decision to put faith in you. 

6.  We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next 2 years and underestimate the change that will occur in next 10 years. Dont let yourself to be lulled into inaction-Bill Gates
  A  famous quote by Bill Gates where in the vision og long term is always considered as unattainable dream. 

7. It's never a good idea to wait to do anything; given the uncertainty of life, just get going." - Warren Buffet
Who else can prove this quote except Warren himself. More analysis will lead to paralysis and hence move on continuously.

8. If a problem can be solved, no need to worry about it, if a problem can not be solved, what is the use of worrying.
 Hahahh. This is the fact of life but never practiced. We are more worried about the first category of problems.  Later these worries cost you too dear to afford. 

9. Whoever you are or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it is because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. A mysterious force would show the way to get it.
    This quote was later filmed in a Shahrukh Khan film. Of course it is fact of life. 

10. Don’t be afraid to take a big step when required; you can’t cross a chasm in two small steps.
      Thus, every big step is cluster of many small steps. Don't worry start it, push it at the end success will be yours. 

I wish you wd like these quotes and try to follow in life.

CP

Corona Pandemic & Lockdown

Friends

The killing wave of Corona started in our country when there was an announcement of the Address to Nation by the Hon'ble Prime Minister on 17.3.2020. The address to the Nation by PM was on 20.3.2020 followed by Janta Curfew on 22.3.2020 and further complete lockdown on 25.3.2020 for 21 days i.e. till 14.4.2020. At that time it was opined or misunderstood by the people that after 14.4.2020 the corona effect will fade away so the cost of lockdown can be afforded to save the precious life of my countrymen. Unfortunately, the situation was same or worse on 14.4.2020 which forced the government to extend the lockdown by another 19 days totalling to 40 days till 3.5.2020. Period of 40 days is quite pious for the Hindus and it is expected that some thing good will emerge by that time. I remember, for a lady who just delivered any infant has to live in 40 days lockdown before coming out of the house. Now, I can feel the pain our mothers had to go thru when we were born. 

In this lockdown life has come to complete halt with no activity beyond the house walls. Every body across the world these days is having similar job profile ( doing household chorus), same clothing (informal bermudas, nicker, pyjama or lungi) , in depress mood with hope of revival of the situation in a very short period. The day starts with reading covid meter, newspaper (mostly online) and surfing social media on whatsapp/facebook/twitter etc. Common factor in all these information channel is the number of cases, death etc which further kills the hope to revive. The routines have changed drastically filling the office hours by meditation, sleep, reading or surfing the Net. These have their own limitations and can not be replacement for the long period. 

It is already 35 days of the lockdown but there is no chance of Corona extinction. Rather, general mood is to accept this pandemic as part of the life for the next 6-9 months till there is any vaccination or medicine produced for the human being. The cases are increasing day and night and further expected to grow. Only consolation is that lockdown has so far saved our country from big catastrophe due to high vulnerable situation of our country. 

The economy is put on back burner and the cost of reviving it may be tremendous. People in lockdown with no activity for such a long period will take some time after the situation gets normal. Economic engine will need lot of support and time to restart and come on the track. While the lockdown is in process, i have some serious questions related to this pandemic i.e. Whether this will leave many people unemployed/ whether certain sectors like Hospitality, Entertainment, Tourism, Beauty Parlours, Malls, Airlines, Taxis, etc. will survive this ? How & when the economy will be back on track? How people will react to the situation post lockdown? What cost we will pay for this lockdown vis a vis life saving of millions?

Only time will give the answer to these tough questions.

CP

Challenges to Small business people post Corona Pandemic

Our country is mainly driven by self employed people which include small business people. This constitutes more than 200 million in numbers. These people are professionals, shopkeepers, retailers, small factories, carpenters, etc. Etc. The families of self financed people is dependent on day to day businesses. They also generate job to various people thus supporting larger part of the Indian population. To sum up more than 800 million people are dependent on this segment. 

Corona pandemic is going to change the current business fabric drastically in near to medium term. There is lock down of 21 days, later it will be relaxed but that will be beginning of the problem for this segment. On one side there is Disaster Managemnt Act forcing the entrepreneur to pay the salary/ wages for this period and on the other side their will be no revenue for some time. Also the fixed expenses of their establishment  like interest, rent etc. will continue  to be charged to them. Even the taxation burden will be tremendous to these people. Major challenge to these people will be from the realisation side where the customers may not pay them in time crushing the whole cycle. I can foresee this that huge recovery problems are going to damage the small entrepreneur badly where in every one will use the corona as shelter to defer the payment genuinely and non genuinely too. Another challenge will be to restart the business particularly with labourers who may have moved back to their villages far away from the work place. This will impact the supply chain badly affecting the business operations. 

So far there is no major support announced to this segment which firms maximum part of a over all working population . The protection and support to this segment is immensely needed for the survival of Indian economy and grow further. The damage to this segment may have cascading effect on various other sectors like real state, infrastructure, autimibile, gem & Jewellery, textile etc. I wish there will be certainly some boost to this segment and GOI is working relentlessly to take care. This segment can also be called as basic pillar of Indian economy which is badly affected by corona pandemic. 

CP