The Catalyst!!

Hi all, it's been a quite long time that I came here. With loads of other works as priority couldn't give much time for blogging my thoughts. Repeated follow-up at the subconscious level have persuaded me to jot down my thoughts from the Cafe noir restaurant at the UB City towers at Namma (Our)Bengaluru which is my home town.
All of us have dreams and invest loads of effort and time in making them a reality. As my thoughts pondered over this routine of majority of us, I was able to observe a difference in the dynamics involved in making the dream a reality among us.. going deeper on these thoughts was able to understand why amongst the most ppl who dreams only a fraction of them achieve and very few will achieve them with relatively ease. The factor that is missed in most of them is dat the confidence in d pursuit of dreams. When I look back and learn from the achievers their journey uncovers one very common thing, i.e. their confidence in the pursuit before they could see the results. It's said dat dreamers see their dreams turn in to reality twice once in their mind which is a matter of confidence and through their eyes once the dream materialises.

So being confident about your pursuit will attract the unseen energy to push you further and faster towards materialising your dreams. Next time whenever you dream be confident and then you see d level of dynamics in d game of pursuit. Good luck with pursuit.!!

Enjoy your weekend too d fullest, shinning off Yours lovely Shylesh Siddalingappa from UB City Towers Bengaluru, India. 

The most recommended investment!!!!!!

Dear friends, all of us care for investing as we start earning. Majority of the investments we usually plan will be materialistic such as buying a car, house and other luxury amenities. Majority of these investments loses its value over the time expect the investment we do it upon the house. Of course these investments does adds values to our life among our friends circle and in fact gives our dependents a comfortable life. Along with all the above mentioned investments we do need to know that there is a need for investing on certain things which will yield the long term benefits.   

The investment i am speaking is about the investment we need to do for our self development. Self development is the most important investment which is the most often neglected investment by many of us. Famous authors who has written best selling books on self development have collectively opined that "If we need to double our income, triple the investment on your self development". Having known the importance, once we decide to invest on your self development, the question is to what are the different options available. 

Addressing the above question, to start with the best, simple, and economical way of investing is to invest on buying  a self development books which gives us a basic essence and inspiration to gear up with our self development training. If we could google out the best books list as per our need we should be able to locate them easily. Lets commit ourselves to read atleast one book per month in the area which you are interested to emerge as a champion.

The next set of investment is to go for the workshops or seminars that will enhance our skills and wisdom in the area of our interest. This events not only gives us a wisdom about our topic of interest but also helps us build the network of the like minded people. 

The final set of the self development investment is to set aside certain amount of money out of our earning every month and go for a trip to connect ourselves with the nature which allows us to dig deeper and connect ourselves with the nature, widens your perception and deepens your purpose towards the life and your society. 

Ten years or for that matter if you want to try this out for just an year. Imagine the number of new things that we would have learnt by reading the books, imagine the kind of quality people that would have got added for our contact circle, overall in a nutshell, we need to go for that plane where we would have done all these and imagine the impact of these investments that would have been created upon you. With all these i leave you all for now by wishing you a great life ahead:-) 

  

WORK, thats the Only Solution!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi my dear pals, here is my next blog that focuses on answering all the problems that we encounter in the life with just a one universal solution which is a four-letter word, i.e. WORK.

               We all have come across many great personalities who started their life journey with nothing but went on to become the greatest philanthropists and made an eternal impact by their service to the humanity. We could find good number of examples of such good personalities locally and internationally. When we consider their life journey, we find that, when consistent hard work is coupled with a right attitude of overseeing the problems in life is what we find in common that transformed them from an Ordinary people to an Extra-Ordinary people. We are sure of facing huge challenges in life either now or in the future. The problems could be personal or professional or family related. The key person who is responsible to work out the solution lies within ourselves.

                 Irrespective of the type of the problem we face, the starting point towards designing the solution is to start acting on our dreams and start working on idea which we feel excited to work on. When we start doing what we love the most our thoughts will get aligned to a plane of happiness once our thoughts are in that plane, our mind will be calm and flexible and tends to stretch behind your limits. That is when we start thinking behind the possibilities and start creating the solution what seemed to be impossible and live a dynamic life.

                On a concluding note, I would love to quote this quotation which I keeping hear from my mentor Mr Sujit Lalwani Sir who is an international Inspirational Speaker and a business coach (www.sujitlalwani.com), Thanks for your valuable time, with the limited life i have seen and experienced i was able to put down my thoughts from my experiences till date, will be excited to know your inputs. All the very best guys!!!

“Do What You Love, Love What You Do”. 

The Power of 21 days Ritual!!

I believe many of us who read the title would have felt the above phrase reverberating in our ears which we would have heard quite a long back. Yes of course, this is one of the self-improvement tool that focuses on mastering the ability to cultivate a healthy habit to improve ourselves which was originally proposed by Or I heard it while I was watching the motivational speeches of Mr Robin Sharma.

This concept helps in mastering our ability to inculcate any good habits which we are passionate about as a daily ritual on a regular basis in the long run. The habits could range from getting up early in the morning at a specific time, going for walk, gym, playing sports, practicing music, thanks giving, sending morning wishes to the friends, journaling, helping in household work, the list goes on. Any of these activities when done on regular basis will have a profound effect on your personal and professional life.

Even after reading that concept, I was not focused enough to implement due to my busy schedule of working in multiple jobs. The saying goes, “When Student is ready the Teacher Arrives”, so I did encounter a situation where I felt the need to master one of the skills that would benefit my professional life. At that instance, I remembered this idea (this is one of the benefit if we are a good reader, the ideas pop out of our brain at the right time). So, it all started on 23^rd of September 2016. As every new habit offers the resistance in the beginning, I did encounter initial resistance in the beginning but after few days I just started to getting comfortable with the practice of the new ritual. After a consistent practice of the habit, i was able to recognize a sort of change, which will drove me further till the 21^st day.  When I look back today, the task that was challenging and strange is now a quite easy comparatively and familiar. Totally three different set of habits that I started have become a daily ritual of my life. Wishing you all a good luck in pursuit of such rituals as per your interest. 

Art and Style of Delivering Lectures!!!!!!!

Hi Friends, this blog is purely dedicated to some of my students who has recently started their academic journey and for all those who are in the same phase. The contents outlined below are the learning I have amassed during my 6+2 years (locally and globally) journey in this wonderful profession since 2008. Having delivered lectures for more than 12,000.00 students from various background right from schooling, Pre-University level, Undergraduates from engineering and non-engineering background and to an international students from both English speaking and non-English speaking countries, I feel to share my wisdom in delivering sound lectures which commands respect for you and students will adored you. Make sure you read the blog full, because neither the trailer nor the beginning or the conclusion of the blog will give you an overall pictures, it is the whole blog tailored step by step will show you the actual picture. The fact that you’re here, through the link on my fb wall, clearly shows that you are passionate about making your academic career vibrant. Here are the 7 tips that you could implement and make your lectures simple and awesome.

1.   Start Great: Remember a great start is all that catches the senses of your students. A great start is a result of great preparation, I meant the preparing the content you need to deliver. Once you have this ready, all you need is to plan the great start. A great start  could include a having a broad smile on your face, a commanding  body language, give an energetic introduction about the topics you will be dealing with, try connecting them with a previous class lectures and introduce the outcome at this instant, this will make them focus on being attentive.

2.  Use Visual Aids:  Remember well begin is half done but also you need to focus on remaining 50 % to make it complete. The following details will help you in establishing that 50% in your lectures. Using the technology in an optimum way is the key in this aspect. If your lectures involve modules which are more of pictorial form your work will be a cake walk, if not you need to search some forms where you can bring in some visual aids in your lecture presentation. It could be some funny pictures that resembles the theoretical concept, or any shapes and symbols that explains better than just those words. The prime reason behind this logic is to make you aware that, we remember what we see well than what we hear.

3.  Voice: Adding on to the visual aids you use to deliver lectures, your voice dictates much of your lecturing. If your voice is of low pitch, or high pitch throughout both spoils your lecture. Having a modulated pitch of voice is all I am sharing with you at this instant. Lectures delivered at a same pitch throughout the lecture will make the lecture monotonous thus making your lectures uninteresting. So you need to learn the art of modulating your voice. One simple tip to master this is to use your common sense to understand the points where you need to stress more and where you can stress less.

4.  Introduce Humor: None of us likes a monotonous environment, so it is quite natural that your students will get bored no matter how much you are good at delivering the lectures. It is also psychologically proven that, any human mind cannot focus one thing at a stretch for more than 15-20 mins. So in order to keep the students engaged in your lectures create a environment of humor for 1 or 2 mins, this will refresh their mind and keeps them happy and make them love your lectures. Creating a humor out of that particular situation will create a happiest environment   than having one prepared. Being a spontaneous is the key to bring out such humors.

5.  Power Packed conclusion: Remember whether it could be your students or any class or audience they might not remember what you say, but surely they remember how you deliver the lectures. As you started with energy so as the conclusion needs to be. Summarise the whole class, and asking for clarifications, giving a brief insight is the set of things you need deliver as a conclusion.

6.  LAW (Looks, Action, and Words):  I shall guarantee that your lectures will be much more attractive and impactful if you implement all the steps opined above. Adding on those tips, as a catalyst I would love to share this particular tip with you, remember, Students are just like a clients, friends, or audience you can never demand anything from them but your attire, your way of behaving and your words will surely help you command what you want from them. Nervousness is one that holds you back from feeling free to deliver lectures, so I have a wonderful tip to suggest you which I have always experimented and experienced to kill the nervousness during delivering the lectures, i.e. the best way is to Start delivering your lectures by keeping yourself in motion appropriately, because always remember, “Nobody can Hit a Moving Target”.  So on a concluding note, People will look at you before listening to you, hence SYNCHRONIZING your Looks, Actions, and Words plays a major role in delivering lectures.

7.    Practice: If you cannot win by talent you can always win by your hard work. If you are with a purpose of creating difference to the society, you need not to worry about your talent that you have in delivering lectures as of now. You can always master any talent if you lack, provided if you have felt the real need. Your patience to read this blog till the end clearly shows how determined you are. Practice your lectures couple of times before you deliver in front of the mirror. Remember, world never cares how you practice all they see is how you perform. Practice is the key, harder you practice, better will be your performance. Commitment to excellence is the essence to keep your practice going continuously. 

Always be open minded to learn from your teachers, friends who are willing to share their experience to empower you so that you could get on track at the faster pace without wasting much of your time in experimenting the same old mistakes what others have done. I always believe in this Quotation: “A Smarter is one who learns from his mistake and Smartest is one who learns from other’s mistake” Wish you a glorious journey!!!

A powerful Quote that fueled my passion to create a genuine difference to my students’ fraternity is:

A Bad Teacher Complains,

A Average Teacher Explains,

A Good Teacher Teaches,

A Great Teacher Inspires!!!

The First Day, First Class let it be the MASS HIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

This blog is purely dedicated to my fellow teachers around the world who will be witnessing the massive fresh energy in the students as they begin their academic journey (In most of the cities in the subcontinent India). It is our responsibility as a teacher to direct this fresh enthusiasm in the right direction. A channelized fresh energy (is like water with a high kinetic energy) can generate power.  Amidst of all the regular formalities that we will introduce to the students during the beginning of this academic year, like syllabus, attendance, internal marks, code of conduct, etc ,etc.. I would urge you to share the stuffs that will pull (the globally recognized as an efficient way of production concept used in Japan’s Toyota Motors) the students attention towards you. After all anyone can listen to us if we could tell them something differently that they would have never expected. The best way I have recognize, tested, implemented and mastered to command the respect from the students is to show that we can overshoot their expectations. I personally never used to tell anything related to their academics rather the stuffs I used to share a story with them that will open their eyes towards their responsibility as a good student, good children and above all a good citizen. This way encouragement not only bonds them to their responsibility but also makes them to trust you as a reliable person and follow you as a genuine teacher. As many of belong to the same generation as our students do, would we like to listen the same syllabus, marks outline from a teacher in a class room when it is available at their fingertips.  So think on the lines what our students actually need and give them. We could start with realizing their potential as youth for the nation, promote them to take part in sports (I am personally passionate to see more number of medals for our country in Olympics than ever before) and co-curricular activities during their free time, promote them to involve in social causes which is the best way I found to master the skills which helps them cracking the interview and the list can go on and on as broad as our vision for them.                               

                On a concluding note, I would like to share one real effect that I got updated a while ago before I compile this blog. Two of my students (Ravi and Sagar) from 2012-2016 batch who basically hails from the remote part of my state Karnataka, came approaching me when they were in their 3^rd year of engineering studies to seek guidance that can build their communication and leadership skills, I directed them to a platform that can give them what they are in need. Very soon they ventured into their own NGO, represented our institution in an Agricultural based Technological Exhibition held at Rashtrapati Bhavan (The Presidential House of Indian President), New Delhi, India. As I write this blog I got a thank you message after they successfully completed the visa interview with USA embassy, very soon they will be representing INDIA in global leadership forum WORLD MERIT 360, which selects and nurtures 360 youths around the globe to support the top 10 sustainable goals of UNO. Isn’t it crazy, 21 year kids talking something that we all would have never even thought of doing it so. Let me be very clear, I have done nothing in this aspect all I did is to give them little extra time to share my view about their career in class which pulled them to come to my cabin and seek that guidance. By this, If you could feel the impact, I wish you all the very best to impact your student fraternity. Watch out this space for my next blog related to the lecturing delivery skills, good luck J

“Let’s not Demand the Respect rather Command the Respect”

- Dr B R Lakshmikantha, (Principal, DSATM- Bangalore)!! 

Walking and Writing are the best ways to Burst out our Stress!!!!!!!!!!!

In these so called modern days, we are engaged in different activities right from the time we get up in the morning to till we go for bed. Each of these activities comes with its own complexities. We have been taking care to start our day with fresh energy, but as the day proceeds we will go crazy because of the complexities or challenges involved in our day to day tasks. By the end of the day we not only lose our energy but also the enthusiasm of working, there will be a drastic rise of stress upon our mind and body. Of course there are many remedies that come handy which could be healthy and unhealthy, when i said unhealthy many of us could empathize with the variety of stuffs. Equally acknowledgeable are the huge set of healthy stuffs also, it could be going for recreational and sports clubs, art and music classes and the list goes on. I wonder how many of us do all of these (by the way healthy way of bursting out the stress) regularly, i mean we get stressed regularly which everyone accepts it but when we question how many of us try to release it by engaging in healthy activities that too on a regular basis, you could imagine the number, i.e. not much. The prime reason is that we get resisted by our mind to involve it appears to more stressful due to multiple reasons. Hence through this blog I would like to suggest the two best ways which i find it as it can be performed easily with lesser time in a place available in and around where we are located. One is to go out for a walk connecting ourselves with the nature, doing self-talks, injecting positive affirmations and more over analyzing our day and think what we could have been done better so as to enhance the value towards our work. The one more idea is to write, writing is the best way to express it may not be necessarily a blog but even we could scribble something on our mind on a scribbling pad. We could scribble our daily thoughts, action plans, dreams which we plan to achieve, vision for our life, our next shopping plans, travel destinations, we could writing a situation which could end in being a short film story, a series of short articles which could be compiled as a book, what not the list goes on and on. By the by these two ideas does not demands any monetary investment unlike clubs and societies but it all asks us for our time, which we are responsible to make it available for our own goodness. If I would have not decided to write this blog I would have been to bed by this time but I chose to write some of my professional theories which expanded my knowledge base and just now I am going to complete this blog about the above subject, at this time almost as a day starts in India, Nightlife begins in USA and midnight in Ireland where i stay. With this I hope i have busted out my stress by blogging about the same now, which had got accumulated over last two days. Irrespective of the time zone we are in when we read this blog as symbol of fresh start of our stressless  day, i wish all of us a magnificent day ahead, Good Morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!