My Reflections on this Day…

On the eve of my birthday a plethora of thoughts are floating in my mind…28 January…What is special about this day? What is that for which I must feel happy and rejoice??

Lying on the bed, these questions are knocking on my head and I am relying on my heart to provide me the answers…and the answers do come, giving me an immense amount of peace and relief.

This was the day I got life and thus this day brought happiness to my parents and Family. After that each year when this day came, more and more people who have been associated to me have become a part of it.

When they are excited, when they are happy and when they wait for this date I am amazed by their love and affection. It is this happiness…the happiness of my parents, my family and my dear friends that gets reflected in me. It is their happiness that runs through me and it is their emotions which makes this day special for me.

I thus take this day as an opportunity to thank all of them for their selfless Love…which I would never be able to pay back ever.

I also take this day to make a promise to myself to work harder to make my parents happier and my friends too in every way I possibly can in the times to come.

God has been extremely kind to me to give me such wonderful parents, great life and such loving buddies. I can’t thank him enough for this.

I seek blessings from almighty GOD as his child to give me strength and capability so that I take the right path in future and can be of help to as many people as I can.

Forgive me god for all my mistakes that I have committed both intentional and unintentional and I here…sincerely apologise to all my friends whom I may have hurt in any way whatsoever.

Forgive me guys…After all I am your Friend

These are different Times!!!

Recession…Recession… cries everywhere…Pick up any news paper, read any interview of a company’s top honcho, check out any international business or news website, talks of losses, layoffs and slow down are rampant. Everyone knows something about it and everyone knows for sure that IT IS HERE!!!

Being a student of Finance this term assumes all the more relevance for me not only as a subject of interest but also due to its direct impact on my job prospects. What i have found interesting is that although all my colleagues and friends from my institute and in other institutes identify this phenomenon and have a lot of data on this but amazingly most of them do not accept it inside their hearts…they still have the same thoughts that they had before joining this MBA course. They still compare their success with the profiles and packages their senior batches have got even after all these news being read and also presented by them in different ways almost every day!

They are not able to accept that these are different times and thus the mental make-up and also related strategies there-by needs to change here too. Big companies and financial Institutions are falling apart all around them but they still are in a denial mode and are hoping for the similar conditions as one or two years before.

The idea here is to try harder than what their seniors may have done and also be a lot more flexible in accepting what the current scenario has to offer them because in any case this is a temporary phase and things will look up sooner than later. But waiting for things to be fine is not a wise thing to do…so grab the best among the available opportunities that comes your way and get started…Recession will die its natural death and you WILL get “your thing” surely tomorrow if not today.

So wear that fabulous smile of yours and start working towards it.