Life is all about experiences…

Today had an opportunity to be volunteer for a social cause. A group of people from IT industry along with NGO did a tree plantation near Pune city at katkari wasti. We also distributed school stationary to under privileged children. It was nice to see their faces smiling and glittering.

Looking at these people I felt we are so blessed. We have so many comfort and luxury which these people may not have for generations. We should thank God for giving us wonderful life and contribute as much as we can to these people from our society.

Lean and Kanban in personal life

For decades water-fall was the traditional method of project management and developing software. But now a day’s many project management methodologies are used like Agile,RAD,FDD, XP , Lean development and many more. Out of this Agile is becoming more popular because of constant changing needs of customer and dynamic team structure.

I know about lean concepts but never got a opportunity to use it practically. Recently I got a chance to work on a project which was using both scrum and Kanban. And I realized that Kanban can be easily integrated with scrum to produce better result.

I was just thinking if Kanban can be used in personal life as well?

Here is my thought on the same.

Workflow:

1. Backlog -At the end of the month prepare a list of to-dos which you want to do in next month. We will call this as BACKLOG.
2. Prioritize – Pick the most important items which you want to do in next week .Assign priority to each item picked from backlog and put it in this column. You can add items from backlog as and when you have space in this column.
3. Doing – Pick items from Prioritize column on which you want to work starting from high priority. You can distribute those among your family members.
4. Done- Once done you move items from Doing columns to this. Give pat on the back 🙂 to family member to whom the task was assigned to make it Done.

Well as an added flavor 🙂 you can apply Lean concepts as well :

1. Eliminate MUDA(waste): Eliminate delays in above workflow. Work on most important tasks
2. Outsourcing: When you are working on a task think if it is adding value. For e.g. Family pick nick. You cannot outsource this task to your neighbor or relatives J . of course they can accompany you, but your presence is must. However tasks like car servicing can be outsourced.
3. Kaisan :This is Japanese term which means “continuous improvement.” Always think what will make your process improve so that you can have more items done at the end of the month with grater satisfaction
4. Respect yourselves and your family members: This will help in having good family environment, greater satisfaction, well prioritized to-do list.

Wouldn’t it help you make your life more organized?

 Well I forgot to mention what is meaning of term Kanban. Kanban is again a Japanese term which means “Visual board” or “Card you can see”.

Sometimes it does matter what people think of you!

Somewhere read “What others think of you is none of your business!”. True , agreed. But sometimes it does matter.

In my opinion it is a very good way of looking at yourselves from others eyes. It can be a painful or it cab be feel good experience.

Today was my last day at a organization where I was working until today. Its hardly a year I was working here, but enjoyed it a lot. I was not aware that unknowingly I have made so many friends…I have made emotional bonding with so many colleagues. I came to know when I dropped a goodbye mail. So many overwhelming responses. Felt so good……. It really made me feel so good……

 

Telepathy….yes it exist!

Some time we go through such experience that we are thinking about some person and that person suddenly visit you or ring you. Yes it happens….it is not coincidence but it something called telepathy.

Telepathy (from the Ancient Greek τῆλε, tele meaning “distant” and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning “feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience“) is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction.- Source Wikkipedia.

I have experienced it many time. There is one of my friend, well wisher…whatever you name it. Whenever I think about her I get a phone call from her. This has happened many times. I don’t know what is our bonding but whenever I strongly feel like taking to her or I just remember her , there is always a phone call from her.

There are other experiences as well. Like I am thinking about some one and I just cross that person. This has also happened many times with this persons for whom I have strong boding, feelings.

It also makes me think and believe about the concept of “Oneness”.

What is love?

What is love?

Love is not just about romance or physical relationship. Pure form of love can exists without these.

When two people are in love they feel good about themselves and about each other. They have a feeling of being content and complete. Love makes you grow together intellectually, spiritually. Love is about respecting one another.  There is no space for judgment when you are in love. It has nothing to do with your external appearance , but it has deep connection with your innocent soul.

It doesn’t mean that when you are in love there are no arguments and everything is good and bright. You still go through all bitterness and bad experiences of life. But how you hold each other during this storm, how you maintain respect for one another defines true love.

But in this materialistic and stressful world , does real love truly exists?