My 21 published articles on this subject have appeared in The Times of India( Delhi Edition-7 Articles), 11 articles in four spiritual/management magazines-( Life positive magazine, the Eternal solutions,Management Compass and Educare), one article printed in an MBA institute’s newsletter apart from one article each on 2 websites. I also received the best award from Yahoo on the limitations of the Indian education system(details below). In case the title is misleading, it is all aimed at right man for the right job. One of the aims of employee engagement is to ensure job satisfaction which is the main theme of this blog.The respective links of my publishsed articles are given in this introductory post below.
Quotes on the subject by prominent Indians(Gandhiji, Former president Abdul Kalam,Osho,Krishnamurthy, Amitabh Bachchan among others) and foreigners are there in Quotable Quotes
For those not interested in the published articles below, the latest post on this blog which is a published article on the super hit move 3 idiots(published in the magazine Management Compass) is here.
The literal meaning of the word education which is derived from the latin word “educere” is to draw out what is already in and not blindly stuff in. In that context , what is mentioned below, is also directed at the students as they are the future careerists. This also has a spiritual connotation; since spirituality is all about being peaceful, balanced and equanomous at all times, no gross misfit in the wrong profession can ever be spiritual in letter and spirit. That apart, according to the Bhagavad Gita, another definition of Yoga is “Dexterity in action” or “Excellence in work” which is simply not possible if you are in a profession towards which you are not seriously inclined. Even in our shastras the word “Svadharma” is mentioned which implies the right vocation if not calling.
There is a saying in management that “You have to go southwards to go northwards”; it is therefore important to throw some light on what happens if you are not in the right career.Work occupies a majority of our waking hours and if they are miserable, life becomes unbearable. The magnitude of the problem can be gauged from extreme expressions such as “Lifetime imprisonment” ,”Spiritual suicide”, “A life time of pain and suffering”" used by sufferers or some of the “titles” of the books that have been written by people like them:-
Life’s a Bitch and Then You Change Careers: 9 Steps to Get Out of Your Funk and On to Your Future by Andrea Kay
“I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really want” Barbara Sher
“I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This”: by Julie Jansen
“Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood” by Marsha Sinatra
“True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do” Paperback by Michael Toms
“How to Find the Work You Love” Paperback by Laurence G. Boldt
“Passion at Work: How to Find Work You Love and Live the Time of Your Life” by Lawler Kang
“To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love”: by Marsha Sinetar
“Discover Your Passion : An Intuitive Search to Find Your Purpose in Life” Gail A. Cassidy
Indian authors:-
Passion to win- Abad Ahmed and DP Choopra
Passion- Pramod Batra/Vijay Batra
Your Passion Quotent; The greatest secret of success by Virendra Kapoor
Be Inspired- Amber Ahuja
No wonder there is a saying:-
If you want to be happy for a day, go on a picnic.
If you want to be happy for a week, go on a vacation
If you want to go happy for a month, get married
If you want to be happy for a year, inherit wealth
If you want to be happy for a lifetime, do the work that you love.
Related links(My published articles on the subject in Newspapers/Magazines):-
My Articles on the subject in The Times of India(Delhi)-7 Articles- Pictures are not there in the links :-
Is your heart in your job?-22/8/2006
Follow your interests-29/8/2006
Concentration-secret of success-19/9/2006
Emotional intelligence and life purpose-26/9/2006
Making the best of a bad career situation-3/10/2006
My articles on the subject in four spiritual/Management Magazines and an MBA institute’s newsletter-12 Articles. :-
Emotional intelligence and life purpose
Movie- Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par.
Guidance to management students-article in newsetter of MBA institute.
Mission impossible-moive Apna Aasmaan.
Livelyhood, a lively way in the magazine “Educare” in Auguast’2007 issue
Article “Soul of a profession” in the magazine “Management Compass” in June ’2007 issue
Article “A double life” in the magazine “The Eternal solutions” in Marchl’2007
Article “Fits and Misfits in the magazine “The Eternal solutions” in April’2006
Article “Don’t settle for less than a calling” in the magazine Life positive in November’2001..
Two websites:- My Writeup at yahoo forum where my answer on the subject got the best prize among 700 answers followed by article at chillibreeze.com
My answer on Education at Yahoo Q and A
How to know yourself at chillibreeze.com.
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Am going to comeback to these links as they are very valuable!
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firstly, thanks for visiting and commenting on my space.
that way, i got to know yours
all the stuff on ‘swadharma’ – VERY thought provoking.
keep up the good work, brother!
Hi Hiren,
Great Articles. Very educative. Thanx for sharing
Hey Hiren thanks for stopping by at my blog and thanks for your suggestions. I will surely try to do that.
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HI Hiren,
I never knew it is your blog, Well now I found it so glad..very good article and honestly very informatic. God Bless YOU Keep posting..
WOW ! Great Thought dude, well done, keep it up…
Cheers!!!
Hey hiren, what if your passion doesnt qualify as a full time job? For example couch-potatoness? any advise for that
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@Jhantu-Unfortunately every hobby cannot become a profession. You have to make a list of your passions and focus on the ones that can be made professions. This blog is about those where the possibility is there.
I Love the Articles you wrote, they have inspired me..could you kindly send me your email as i’ll like to speak with you further on areas of synergy
Thanks for the compliment. Please let me know what synergy are you hinting at. Thanks.
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My email address is hirenshah50@gmail.com. Kindly let me know what you have in mind when you talk of synergy.
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On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Hiren Shah wrote:
> Thanks for the compliment. Please let me know what synergy are you > hinting at. Thanks. > > Regards > > > Hiren >
What u say makes absolute sense.Truly inspiring!!!!
This is a terrific article with terrific links. Just what I needed to see tonight.
Thanks!
One should do everything with passion and interest to succeed.A dhobi who washes clothes or a cook who cooks a meal or for that matter each one of us who wants to lead a fruitful life has to put his heart into his work.Thanks for your comments in my blog.coming from you makes them special because i value your judgement.
true words….no predecided notions lead to happiness…hppiness is something personal…ur wishes and desires decide ur happiness…so if u wanna be happy work for wat u love….
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Hi Hiren,
It is very nice to find your article on passion and work. Pls. keep posting this type of articles.
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Hi Hiren,
First of all thanks a ton for visiting my blog and taking the time out to post a comment
Well, I read TOI and have come across few of these posts in the newspapers. But frankly, I dont know what to make of it. I mean these are no doubt exceptionally well written and motivating. But to begin with, I somehow dont find myself to be the right audience for this post. What I mean is I am not at all “trapped in the wrong profession”.
I am enjoying my profession. Maybe thats because I have been in it just over a year now. Of course, maybe its not my ultimate passion, meaning that it is possible that there is some other profession to which I wouldve done better justice, and which wouldve done better justice to me. Nevertheless it is satisfying for me.
I would love to know your thoughts on this situation. A person really likes his job and is doing enough justice to it. However, it may not be what he was “made for”. Would you please oblige?
Probably you got the wrong idea after reading my blog. I was coming more from the angle of EVERYONE being able to give back to society, no matter what profession he or she is in. Which means you can keep your job and earn well and still fulfill your utmost duty – of paying back to society. You dont need to sacrifice everything. Anyways, I dont think this is relevant to the present context ,and I’ve already written about it on my blog, So i’l let it pass.
But please do put in your thoughts about the professional dilemma I mentioned above.
Regards.
Hiren,
I am happy to come across yet another interesting blog of yours. I will visit as often I can.
Thats a very amazing thing i’ve read in recent times ,
thanks for coming to my blog and introducing me to your wonderful one ,
I would say just keep up the good work ,
thanks for your comment.
you poem on tally is on my blog now. as your link was not complete on comment page
Very interesting & thought provoking read!….but sometimes we are just helpless, isn’t it.
you should view the interview of Joseph Campbell by Bill Moyers it is called “The power of myth”campbell taught religion and the myths every culture on earth have in comon,when asked the way to have a good life he said simply “Follow your bliss”
Hiren… This is really cool…great thinking and analysis. You really seem to be writing a lot…
I am glad to find your blog,few people in China have a vision like this,your thinking is great and is useful for me.Thanks!
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Our country is in debt until forever, we don’t have jobs, and we live in fear. We have invaded a country and been responsible for thousands of deaths.
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren’t living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.
Hey really liked ur thoughts on education.. I do share similiar opinion on most issues..
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my work is my passion, I dont have any other work in my life.but slowly fatigue is creeping…my friends tell me that i should have been out of india,there is too much struggle in india according to them
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Always appreciate your dropping by my site Hiren..
Quite some thought put in there..remarkable.
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Great! I am reassured what I am doing is indeed correct!! Thanks for providing the reassurance…for I’ve always believed….People who like what they are doing, invariably do it well!!
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Very good content. thanks for sharing with others. love to visit again for updates.
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great article
Hiren,
Your writing and thoughts are inspiring to many of us who seek answers ranging from career development to being successful in real life.
Keep up the good work.
Great stuff, keep it coming, very informative
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Pretty good read, keep it up.
Totally agree a 100%. I actually do this all the time, everything i do is related to what i like.
I am glad to find your blog,few people in China have a vision like this. true words….no predecided notions lead to happiness…hppiness is something personal…ur wishes and desires decide ur happiness
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i am totally sharing your thoughts about doing in life what you like, and being happy doing it. However oppisite to on example I hope my marriage gives me more than a month of happiness!
nice, i love this quote ““I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This”: by Julie Jansen”
I’m completely agree with you, we must love our work, especially the daily one, if we love that daily work, we’ll be happy for entire time
I am glad to find your blog,few people in China have a vision like this,your thinking is great and is useful for me.Thanks!
very smart, good read.
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Great post, i always attempt to make my passion my profession
great read
Nice Blog Hiren….very informative…Why dont you change the Blog Layout… it will fix the header issue as well and look pretty as the content…
as always, put your heart first, great article.
Great stuff! Another of Conficuous’ saying – ‘If you do a job what you love doing then you will never have to work in your life’.
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Hi Hiren,
Heartiest thanks for this blog…
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Theres no point doing something if your not passionate about i. If you do its just a waste of your life.
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Good job bro..here is a speech, which inspired me..
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i really appreciate your post.obviously if we don’t with the passion we can never success to achieving the goal of our life.thanks for sharing with us.
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I’ve never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.
I only said it’d be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t wanna be.
Try first to make their mistake sound less serious and then to reduce it to nothing at all.
Good news never goes beyond the gate, while bad news spread far and wide.
On festive occasions more than ever one thinks of one’s dear ones far away.It is on the festival occasions when one misses his dear most.
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