How?

One thought that came to my mind today while I was in the car, on the way to a function I was supposed to attend... Btw, long car drives do that to me - give me a chance to have these random thoughts.. Anyway, the thought was - "Let me not ask the typical "W" questions that I keep asking myself in all the situations - the standard "Why", "What", "When", "Where"... Let me ask myself "How"..

That is about it really - If we keep asking ourselves "How", most of the things will work I guess.. Ask "How do I make this work", instead of asking "Why did this happen", or "When is this going to end" or "What should I do now"... And the thing I realized is that I actually approach all the small daily problems in my professional life that way.. If the build is breaking or the code is not working or if I have to come up with some design, I ask myself and my team "How do we make it work?" And it works beautifully, gives me the correct results, puts me in the right direction, and the line of thought.... However, the sad thing is that I somehow don't tend to apply this logic in my personal life... I stop being logical about situations, I keep asking myself "Why me" or "When" or "What now", too many times, and these questions really do not seem to take me anywhere..

The gist really seems to be to ask "How do I make it work", let us not discuss why something cannot be done or cannot happen... Let us discuss and focus on how the hell it will happen... And surprisingly, it seems to me like the most obvious solution, something that was there in front of my eyes all the time but I had not noticed, something that I was applying in parts of my life quite successfully without realizing its true potential... Now that I have, there are already a couple of things I see that have to work out, with the right question in my head now, I just think they will..

On a cleaning drive

Once in a while I get these bouts of cleanliness... There are days when I notice the cobwebs in the corners of the rooms, the fan blades that need cleaning up, my wardrobe that seems to be in dire need of rearrangement and setting up or the sofa that needs vacuuming. Well - not that we don't clean the house regularly, we do.. But there are these days when I just feel like taking it upon myself, days when I cannot sit still and have to take the plunge and do a major revamp or rearrangement of things around the place...Today was one such day..

At the end of it, I have a pile of clothes that needs to be dry-cleaned, a set of clothes that I have decided to give away to our bai, a pair of dresses that need some altering to do (long pending task actually!).. I have a much cleaner wardrobe, much emptier actually (aha... time to go shopping?), with clothes categorized as per their types.. (this is the organizer in me trying to sort out things, despite of knowing that it will not work for a long time, and the optimist in me that keeps trying).. Apart from that, I have gotten rid of a few things in my room, I want to do a major revamp really, lets see how that goes....

One thing that this cleaning drive does to me is rejuvenate me in some sense, makes me feel good, clean, clear... As if after this, I am all set (reset rather) to start (restart) once again! Ready to mess up once again :) And well, that freedom and the scope to mess up makes me feel better, much better :)

In the end as always, it is a toast to a new beginning, a new round of messing up and a new wait before I feel compelled to take the plunge once again.

Shelfari bookshelf

See an addition to my blog? :) It is my Shelfari book shelf.. I am kind of impressed with the idea of Shelfari, the book shelf you can fill up for yourself (and it looks cool!), the way you can share what you are reading currently, what is your wish list, what you plan to read, your favourites.. and get to see what your friends have been reading.. I would say, this is one neat use of social networking... I am already looking forward to reading some new books that I came across on my friend's shelves and filling up my book shelf some more! :)