rralli…retweeting all things nice n beautiful

life is beautiful #life

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

No one values a Military Man.
Till the Enemy is at the gate.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

24-year-old Tracy Chapman forced to fill in last minute and stuns Wembley Stadium into silence with just a guitar and her vocals (1988)

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

You should not miss this footage every time it appears.✨🎸✨🎸🥁

[𝕬𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖊𝖉𝖔𝖓🌪 @Armagedon6972]

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! 🎤🎶🔊🎵

[SVX-Prime @SuveshVsaa13]

Suraksha Realty’s illegal and fraudulent demands, despite the Hon’ble NCLT’s Resolution Plan dated 07.03.2023, extinguished all interest liabilities.

🚨 “This is NOT a civil dispute — it is a criminal fraud & extortion case

@noidapolice @CMOfficeUP @PMOIndia @HMOIndia @UPGovt

[SVX-Prime @SuveshVsaa13]

NCLT Order = Binding under IBC, Section 31.
But for Suraksha, it’s just paper.

📌 Para 34.33: No interest due before 7 Mar 2023.
🏗️ Suraksha charges 20%+ compound interest anyway.

Law exists. Violation is visible.

❓Where is the enforcement? Where is the accountability?

[Cdr Abhilash Tomy KC, NM @abhilashtomy]

Today is the birthday of one of the finest Admiral the Navy has seen. Plan a real whammy, he would say, not garden stuff.

And he always planned a real whammy. When Marshal Josip Broz Tito visited India, the Admiral, then a young officer, was appointed his aide-de-camp, touring the length and breadth of the country in a train. In return for the pleasure of his company, Josip Broz Tito gifted him an autographed Rolex, which he wore and promptly lost a few decades later. He was mistaken for Indian royalty when he rode a white horse through the streets of Basra one early morning, was reprimanded by Admiral Dawson for shifting his flag to a sailboat and rebuked by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for riding to work in Delhi on horseback in full uniform. Yet it was the same Mrs. Gandhi who, years later, summoned him when a clerical error denied him the office of Chief of Naval Staff. She offered him any post he wished. He asked only for a cup of tea, mildly annoyed at being summoned for something so trivial.

Instead of a Governor’s post, he edited Cine Blitz, modelled for Digjam — much to his wife’s despair — and became a director in Tolani Shipping. He wandered into forests to count tigers, politely declined the job of Conservator of the Serengeti Game Reserve, and chastised serving admirals with a wit that cut sharper than any sword: “Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.”

He told me that his ancestors had served the kings of Rajasthan, that there was a Kaiser-e-Hind in his family, and that his father, an ICS officer, had been the Mayor of Mumbai. He carried on those traditions in 1971 when he was called upon to operate within enemy waters. Dodging mines and submarines, he captured three ships and possibly sank a submarine after pressing home an attack with great vigour. Yet when the government granted him land for his Vir Chakra after the ’71 war, he turned away from Pune, unimpressed with a plot near a film star’s mansion, choosing an unglamorous corner of Vinchurni where he built a grand library, carving out a tiny home for himself in its spare space, because a man of imagination needs space to think, not a palace to dust.

He loved cars. Once, on a drive to Goa, he staged a mutiny, seized the wheel, and matched the car’s speed to his age, roaring at every reckless driver with that immortal line: “Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.” Even illness could not rob him of wit. Once I found him in the hospital chatting to a doctor who asked him which year he was born. "1921", he answered. The young man replied: “Sir, do you know Bhagat Singh?” The Admiral laughed — and in that laugh was the weight of a century… and perhaps the faint hint that he might be plotting to take over the hospital trolley next.

His greatest legacy was perhaps not in the battlefield, but in the field of adventure. Denied the chance to see action in the Second World War, he found solace in a book he bought at Charing Cross: Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World. That simple act lit a spark.

He then set out to plan a real whammy, not garden stuff.

Sixty years later, that spark became the flame for not one but five circumnavigations.

This, I believe, was his true achievement — not in what he claimed for himself, but in what he awakened in others.

His was the voice that whispered to me to bash on regardless in the coldest and windiest storm.

Happy birthday, Admiral!

[Lonetrader @dkcrpl]

#suraksha #jaypeewishtown

@CMOfficeUP
@myogioffice @CeoNoida @PMOIndia @narendramodi
@mlkhattar

Pathetic No construction for home buyers of #Suraksha in Noida waiting 13 years. Suraksha bought Jaypeeinfra. . Levying compound interest on payments due.

https://t.co/lsFzjuZOAn

[Kiran Rajput @_KiranRajput]

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[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

While we hailed the big missiles, it was the L-70s, Zu-23s, LMGs & Schilka—manned by India’s invisible warriors—that did lion’s share of killing Pak drones. I’m told some 📸👇🏽 released by Army are from current tensions. Cities across north India owe these unsung gunners thanks.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

A grandma celebrating the birthday of her dog. The dog didn’t even look at the food, the eyes were all on grandma.. 🥺

[LestWeForgetIndia🇮🇳 @LestWeForgetIN]

#Bravespeak

"You have never lived until You have almost died,
And for those who choose to fight,
Life has a special flavour,
The protected will never know."
~ Captain R Subramanian, #KirtiChakra (P), 1 PARA (SF) eliminated three terrorists before making the supreme sacrifice on 19 June 2000 in Kupwara, J&K

#LestWeForgetIndia🇮🇳The words & wisdom of our #IndianBraves 🏵️

[MoneyTalkWithL @LarissaFernand]

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[Pranesh Sinha @SinhaPraneshkr]

Super senior citizens and other residents are sitting on the roads in this scorching heat, fighting for the homes they booked over 15 years ago. In all this time, we have seen Govt. change-from @INCIndia to @BJP4India there has been no relief.
@myogiadityanath @narendramodi

[Barbara Oneill @BarbaraOneillAU]

Grow Your Own Food Year-Round! 🌱
Ever wonder how much to plant to feed your family for a whole year? Here's a handy guide:

🥦 Broccoli – 15 plants
🥬 Cabbage – 10 plants
🥕 Carrots – 120 plants
🥒 Cucumber – 4 plants
🧄 Garlic – 50 plants
🌿 Kale – 40 plants
🥗 Lettuce – 40 plants
🧅 Onion bulbs – 100 plants
🌶️ Peppers – 6 plants
🥔 Potatoes – 50 row feet
🍠 Sweet Potatoes – 8 plants
🍅 Tomatoes – 12 plants

Planning ahead means peace of mind and fresh food all year long!
Would you try growing your own food?

[RAJPUTANA RIFLES @rajrif_india]

Brigadier Pratap!

An unforgettable character which was never meant for🇮🇳

[Igor Buinevici @Igor_Buinevici]

90% of companies fail to meet their goals.

What sets the top 10% apart?

A powerful framework can help here:

The McKinsey 7S Model.

Created in the 1970s by Peters and Waterman:

This model remains a vital tool for companies aiming to achieve their objectives while adapting to change.

The 7S Model helps businesses align key internal factors for success.

So, what are the 7S?

They represent seven critical elements that need to work in harmony for success:

1. Strategy

Your long-term roadmap for achieving goals.

2. Structure

The organization’s hierarchy and framework.

3. Systems

The workflows and processes that guide operations.

4. Skills

The expertise necessary to execute the strategy.

5. Staff

The capabilities of your team.

6. Style

Leadership approach and organizational culture.

7. Shared Values

The core principles that drive decisions and actions.

These are split into two groups:

Hard elements:

Strategy, structure, systems, and skills - measurable and tangible.

Soft elements:

Shared values, style, and staff - focused on culture and engagement.

To improve performance:

Focus on solid frameworks for the hard elements.

Cultivate a culture that embraces the soft elements.

To apply the 7S Model:

A) Analyze the 7 core elements.
B) Evaluate their alignment and effectiveness.
C) Identify misalignments.
D) Develop action plans to address gaps.
E) Implement necessary changes.
F) Measure progress and make adjustments.

P.S. Are your 7S in sync?

♻️ Share with your network to help them succeed as well!

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[Igor Buinevici @Igor_Buinevici]

Have you heard about the 4 levels of strategy?

Corporate, Business, Functional, and Operational.

Every leader should understand these for business success.

The complexity of strategy can vary based on the business, but core principles apply universally:

Whether you're leading a global corporation or a startup.

Here’s a quick breakdown:

Corporate-Level Strategy:

➟ Crafted by top executives to guide the organization.
➟ Sets the long-term vision (3-5 years) for the business.
➟ Defines the company’s overall direction and business scope.

Business-Level Strategy:

➟ Focuses on the goals of individual business units.
➟ Involves decisions like differentiation or cost leadership.
➟ Aims to create a competitive advantage in specific markets.

Functional-Level Strategy:

➟ Aligns with broader business objectives.
➟ Focuses on specific departments like marketing or HR.
➟ Addresses departmental challenges and identifies opportunities.

Operational-Level Strategy:

➟ Converts plans into actionable results.
➟ Ensures smooth, efficient daily operations.
➟ Manages short-term goals and resource allocation.

A strategy alone won’t guarantee success:

But it is the foundation for achieving it.

To succeed, you must understand and prioritize each of these levels.

P.S. Are you giving enough attention to each level of strategy?

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