A Warrior’s search for Synchronicity

Future is not a place, we go to, future is a place you invent – Nancy Duarte

The invention of future is the product of choices that we make in life.

Choices of mindsets
Choices of channels
Choices of people

Steve Jobs in his famous Stanford speech said, it is very difficult to connect the dots looking forward. He used the example of learning calligraphy during his college days which did not make any sense at that point in time, which resulted in the beautiful typefaces of Mac and Windows.

Whom or what do we trust in making the choices in our life, business?

Small decisions like buying a car or a house could be consultative process. Big decisions like marriage, career, choosing Amazon.com over an MBA need to be instinctive. Nobody else can find the correct match for you because nobody knows you, like you do.

Years ago when reading “Maverick” by Ricardo Semler kicked off a life time reading of business books, it kicked off a career path that I never had dreamed off.

When I bought my first iPod and got hooked to Apple, a lifetime relationship for seamless content consumption was formed, which spreads through a Mac, 2 iPads and an iPhone.

Choosing ‘Economist’ 13 years back, just for the reason it satisfied my information craving soul, and gave a deep perspective of anything they reported made me an ardent follower.

Choosing not to take a cable tv connection,
Choosing not to marry for love,money or fitting into conventional social norms,
Choosing a life without music, football or cricket,
Choosing only the substance and not the form,
Choosing design over numbers,
Choosing a mindset free of the need to prove myself, but with a craving to improve meaning and content,
Choosing to peel off every year of my life and throw it into the bin for a choice of complete self renewal,
Choosing the road less travelled by,
Choosing friends, relatives and a son listening to my instincts,
All these choices help me connect the dots looking back and looking forward.

My favourite movie is “the Scent of a Woman”. If I have to choose between eyesight and internal sight of the Colonel played by Al Pacino, who can change the life of a schoolboy on the verge of starting his adulthood, forever, who can get away from a police officer without revealing he is blind after driving a “Ferrari” at insane speeds, who can charm a lady (name her perfume) at a dinner table and dance a tango with her, I will choose blindness, if I get the depth of that character.

People say you cannot choose your parents. Yes you can. You can transform them into the souls you want them to be with the correct choices, if they are around. Remember that these choices not only transform others, they transform you too and growing up is a choice that you make, freeing yourself from social, parental,cultural and religious conditioning. Taking the world along with you in your journey is another choice you make.