Are we missing the big picture?

Politics, technology, business, psychology, science, are few of my interests. (Yes, I'm a very curious person who wants to know more and learn more). How do I satisfy my crave? I'm always "connected" to the Internet. In my mind, this is a good thing, since it keeps me informed all the time of what is happening around me. This I believe helps me to be a more "rounded" person by understanding how the world around me think and work.

The question that occurred to me is "am I distracted by all what is happening around me?". The answer is simply yes!

Questions like, why were we born in this life? and what is the purpose of our life? started swirling in my head. I stepped back and thought about my life for a second. In the process, i figured out that I need to do more of this "stepping back". Being too indulged in this life makes us lose the sense of where we are? and what should we be doing?

Learning:

1) Step back, reflect on your life, and change course if necessary

2) Don't indulge your self in this life as you will get more distracted from the path you've drawn to your self.

Integrity & Accountability

"One's word to one's self is a critical part of integrity. By not being serious when we give our word to ourselves, we forfeit the opportunity to maintain our integrity by honouring our word to ourselves.

For example, think of occasions when the issue of self-discipline comes up, and the ease with which we often dismiss it. It may be something trivial like, 'I'm going to work out tomorrow at nine o'clock', or something serious like, 'I will never cheat on my wife'. By failing to honour our word to ourselves, we undermine ourselves as persons of integrity. If we aren't serious about this aspect of integrity, it will create 'unworkability' in our life: we will appear to others as inconsistent, unreliable, or unpredictable.

You simply cannot be a whole and complete person if you don't honour your word to yourself. Unfortunately, people almost universally ascribe the mess in their lives resulting from out-of-integrity behaviour to some justification or rationalization."

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Michael Jensen is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School and a senior advisor at The Monitor Group.

"Keeping promises and accounting for their breaches in credible, genuine and authentic ways is what makes organisations work, societies thrive, and cultures promulgate themselves into the future. The commitment path described herein can thus be seen as an 'audit trail' for the journey of promising, a way of assigning responsibility in the face of ambiguity and subterfuge.

It is also much more, as it can serve as a powerful regulative tool for any speech act. Simply put, saying anything whatsoever is a promise: it is a promise that what you have said is truthful and truth-like; it is a joint commitment to sincerity and accuracy. If you want proof of this, just place 'I assert' before a proposition, like 'Today is Tuesday'. You will get 'I assert that today is Tuesday', which entails that I say it because I believe it, and I believe it because it is true.

So where does accountability start? It begins with you, as soon as you open your mouth for the purpose of voicing a word."

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Mihnea Moldoveanu is the Marcel Desautels Professor of Integrative Thinking and Director of the Desautels Center for Integrative Thinking at the Rotman School of Management.

Learning:

1) Honour your word to your self

2) Think before you open your mouth, you're accountable for every word