By Rajesh Setty on Wed 04 Jul 2007, 12:07 AM - 1 Comment
I came back from a trip to India yesterday and there was a DHL notice on my door. Here is the copy of the notice (Waybill# has been erased)
While the notice is cute, it does not provide the information that I want
1. They don’t tell me on what date they tried to deliver the package 
2. They don’t tell me from whom is this shipment.3. They provide a number to call. They don’t tell me that they will only answer calls until 8pm EST. I have to figure that out by calling that number4. They want me to pick up the package but they don’t tell me where is their office
For me, DHL notice is like a suspense novel with the last chapter stolen 
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By Rajesh Setty on Tue 03 Jul 2007, 11:38 PM - 4 Comments
Consider this – You start a fight and the other person retreats. This can happen in a competitive situation as in you attack your competitor on his core business or in a simple situation where you attack someone on his or her blog. When the other person retreats, it is easy to declare a win for yourself. I talked to a dozen very smart friends on this topic recently. Here are a few other reasons where the person might retreat.
1. The retreat is temporary. The person may attack you back but at a time of his or her choosing.2. The other person thought that it is not worth his time or her time to fight you3. The other person thought that it costs more to fight you than to ignore you4. The other person has other important priorities to give this fight any further attention.5. The other person feels that your attack has no merit. By engaging in a fight, he or she has to spend a ton of time explaining things in detail. So, ignore again.6. The other person doesn’t know who you are. Cannot make a determination whether to fight or not. Time passes by and he or she forgets about this.7. The other person doesn’t want to engage with you in any way – fighting or otherwise.8. You may have a lot of time to engage in the fight. The other person may not.9. The other person thanks you for bringing something to his attention and will handle the situation on his or her end.10. The other person is fighting with you by NOT fighting with you
Something to think about.
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By Rajesh Setty on Mon 02 Jul 2007, 9:02 PM - 5 Comments
I have written and spoken about the need to keep the promises we make to ourselves earlier. By changing that one practice alone, we can change the way we live for the rest of our lives.
Why is it hard to keep the promises that we make to ourselves?
There are many reasons bu the number #1 reason that I can think of is that “we start believing in our own (weak) excuses” for not keeping that promise.
Here are a few examples:
1. Your promise: You want to wake up early in the morning and start a meditation routine
You don’t wake up of course. You explain it away saying that “you were very tired” last night because of some project pressure and you postpone.
2. Your promise: You want to read a few great books before the end of the year
You don’t end up reading even one book from the list. You say that “with so many things happening in your life, nobody in your position could have read a single book”
3. Your promise: Connect with at least five your old classmates within a month
You don’t end up connecting with even one of them. You say that “you could not find them anywhere on the Internet and nobody that you know has their contact information”
Excuses are OK but the real problem is when you actually believe in those excuses. The fact remains that the best excuse is still an excuse. By fully believing in that excuse, you have reducing your level of responsibility and accountability to your own promise. When you do that, nobody else, but YOU will get hurt.
People around you don’t even know many of the promises that you are making to yourself. When you break them, chances are you are the only person that you have to explain it. If you explain it to yourself with a “good enough” excuse, you have “escaped from guilt” for a short – probably not knowing that you have a paid a “heavy price” on your future.
Next time, put your excuses to test and see if you really believe in them. It is better to be “guilty as charged” than to be believing in “weak excuses”.
Note 1: Here is a Squidoo lens that links to most of the previous articles in this series:
Squidoo: Distinguish Yourself
Note 2: The first 25 entries in the series have been packaged in a ChangeThis manifesto that was published on September 07, 2005. You can download that manifesto here:
ChangeThis Manifesto: 25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself (PDF, Free)
Note 3: My latest manifesto on ChangeThis was published on August 6, 2008. This is a photographic manifesto featuring 15 of my mini sagas (stories in exactly 50 words). Here is the link:
ChangeThis Manifesto: Mini Sagas – Bite Sized Lessons for Life and Business (PDF, Free)
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By Rajesh Setty on Mon 02 Jul 2007, 8:11 PM - 3 Comments
This is inside the International terminal in Bangalore aiport.
You are supposed to keep your conversations brief so that others can get a chance to speak too. They have a great way of enforcing this guideline – they have removed the phone
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