by Dr.Mani on July 27, 2009
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If there’s one thing my life as a heart surgeon has taught me, it’s that momentous changes can happen in the blink of an eye.
It takes just one moment of inattention or exhausted carelessness during an operation to cause a mishap that can take hours to salvage.
It takes just a second’s dozing off at the wheel of a speeding car to cut short the life of a promising doctor.
It takes one fleeting instant for the Universe to change – when a parent hears about the loss of a child, or when the world hears about a 9/11 tragedy.
Or, in a relatively mundane way…
It takes just a phone call to shift one’s mood from despair to delighted hope!
Yesterday, I had one such call. And it set my thoughts running in a direction quite the opposite of how they had been going barely 24 hours earlier.
If the potential of that call is even partially realized, it could take me closer to my dreams than anything else I’ve done over the last 15 years!
My world could change – in the blink of an eye!
So could yours!
Hope.
Dream.
Believe.
Trust.
WAIT!
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by Dr.Mani on June 23, 2009
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I take long walks in the evening with my daughter. We talk. A lot.
Looking back over the years, I wish we had recorded (or taken notes on) what we discuss, because these conversations are often insightful and instructive.
Yesterday, we were talking about what makes someone a ‘winner’.
Having a dream, making a plan to achieve it, and taking action on the plan may lead to it coming true. But does that make YOU a winner?
“You can’t possibly call someone who achieves this a ‘loser’!” my daughter exclaimed… until I gave her a scenario.
What if someone trains hard for a competition, dreaming about winning it – and then he does, which makes him delighted… but he also knows that if he had lost, he would have been DEVASTATED?
Is it wrong to call such a person a ‘loser’?
We explored this from various angles, but this is the crux. It is what defines a ‘winner’.
If you can dream, plan and act – and then accept whatever result you receive with aplomb, grace and gratefulness, then you’re a winner… regardless of what the ‘result’ is.
And to the contrary, if your achieving the ‘result’ means everything to you, and not getting what you want will leave you angry, frustrated or unhappy… why, then, you’re NOT a ‘winner’ – even when you win!
Thoughts?
