A Paradigm Shift

One evening a scholar was addressing the participants on the concept of work culture.
One of the participants asked the following question :

"I am a senior manager of Materials Department and I joined an organization
25 years ago as an Engineer Trainee and over the last 25 years I have gone
through every experience in the organization.

During the initial part of my career, the job was very challenging and interesting.

However, all those exciting days are gone since I do not find my job any
more interesting because there is nothing new in my job.
I am now feeling bored because I am doing a routine job.

However, Sir, I am living in the same house for over forty years,
I am the son for the same parents for over forty five years,
I am the father for the same children for the past ten years and the husband for the same lady for the past twenty years !( the toughest job!)
In these personal roles I do not feel bored
Please tell me why I am bored of the routine in the office and not in the house?"

The response from Scholar was very interesting and convincing.
He asked the executive the question:

"Please tell me for whom does your Mother cook ?"

The executive replied that obviously the mother cooks for others.

Then the Scholar said that the mother "Serves" others and because of this
service mindedness, she is not feeling tired or bored. But in an office,we
"Work" and not "Serve". Anything we consider, as service will not make us
feel bored. That is difference between Serving and Working.

He asked the executive to consider his work as service and not merely a work
!! This was a very interesting analysis!! Whenever you put a larger context
around your work and see a broader meaning for your work, you will take interest in your work and it will make a very big difference in your internal energy.


Attitude Matters !!!

If you think you are working for the organization you will get frustrated.
If you feel you are doing a service and getting some service charges you will feel happy.
After all -doing what you like is freedom But liking what you do is happiness!
It is just a paradigm shift that is required!

Things you might not have known

1. Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.
2. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
3. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of muscles every two weeks or it will digest itself.
4. The dot over the letter "i" is called a title.
5. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
6. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
7. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
8. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
9. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
10. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
11. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
12. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a
spacesuit damages them.
13. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.!
14. Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system.
A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
15. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII.
If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
16. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark's stomach from underneath,
causing the shark to explode.
17. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
18. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
19. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing.
Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years,
it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
20. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in First Class.
21. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
22. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
23. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time
when all original print had to be set in individual letters,
the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case
that stored the lower case letters.
24. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
25. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
26. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill,
in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
27. There are 4 cars and 11 light posts on the back on the US 10 dollar bill.
28. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
29. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
30. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
That's the opposite of the norm.
31. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
32. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles.
At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
33. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
34. In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos,
giving their exact size and speeds of rotation.
He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
35. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
36. Every person has a unique eye & tongue print.
37. An old law in Bellingham , Washington , made it illegal for a woman
to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
38. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
39. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously
from the bottom of the glass to the top.
40. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!