Motivation
Don’t Find Fault With Anyone
SRI RAMAKRISHNA: Don’t find fault with anyone, not even with an insect. Pray to God that you may not find fault with anyone.
How to Remain Balanced When Someone Abuses You?
What should be our thought process when someone speaks harshly to us and puts us down? How can we prevent ourselves from responding back in anger?
We are Always Trying to Blame Others for Our Problems
“We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves.”
– Swami Vivekananda
#2 Leadership Trait – Overcome the Ego and Care For Your Team
Many times good intentioned work is completely ruined when the leader or team members turn egoistic. Co-operation stops and clashes for power and “who gets the credit” and “who gets the blame” begin. Instead of building up the confidence of other team members, an egoistic person starts to pull them down.
“Only he/she must emerge looking good” – this becomes the focus of the person. We are all familiar with such scenarios playing out in corporate life. So what is the correct way in which a team leader should behave? Mother Mirra answers.
#1 Leadership Trait – Sri Ramana Did Not Sit IDLE Like a King, Delegating Work
Many people today have a habit of delegating work. They themselves do nothing and expect others to do all the hard labor for them. Young people of today imagine that this quality of pushing work upon others, is what makes a person successful and climb up the corporate ladder. However as Maharshi Ramana demonstrated this is NOT the quality that makes one a successful leader.
A successful leader in fact does just the opposite. He/she goes down in the trenches and works just as hard if not harder than the rest of the team, shouldering many heavy responsibilities.
How to Avoid Fights and Reach a Common Middle Ground
Have you been in situations where disagreements over minor issues have led to huge fights, mud-slinging and shouting matches? Here are some tips from Mother Mirra, the God-Realized Yogi, on how we can avoid such ego-battles and unnecessary arguments and find middle ground to resolve our disagreements.
Sometimes Unpleasant Things Happen So a Greater Good Can Emerge (VIDEO)
The moment something bad happens to us, we unnecessarily start feeling sorrowful. But through this humorous incident, which occurs in the life of one of Sri Aurobindo’s dear disciples, we learn that some good usually comes out of the worst of situations.
However we cannot immediately see this good, because it takes time to emerge. Therefore in bad times, it is better to remain calm, unperturbed and patient.
If Someone Treats Us Badly, What Should We Do?
When we are faced with a difficulty we must, instead of getting upset and blaming others, try to look within and see what is it in our own nature that we need to fix in order to overcome the problem.
