The document provides an overview of a newsletter published on January 1st, 2014 to welcome the new year. It includes several articles and sections, such as lessons learned from mistakes in the past year, resolutions to dissolve rather than repeat, and inspirational quotes to bring in the new year. The editor encourages celebrating the new year by embracing mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow.

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Dear Readers
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How should we welcome 2014?
In this issue…
FREE Gift
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Lessons from Mistakes
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Nothing serious:
Resolve and Dissolve
Every Year
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Inner Exploration
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Quotes: HAPPY NEW
YEAR
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Let’s celebrate it as the year of
mistakes. Yes. Mistakes.
When we make mistakes, we make
new things, we try new things, we
learn new things and we keep
changing our outlook towards the
world, society and above all towards
us.
Let’s say YES to our BAG of mistakes:
Big mistakes
Amazing mistakes
Glorious mistakes
Whichever mistake we may commit,
let’s also resolve NOT to repeat the
mistakes. Let’s learn vigorously,
aggressively and with utmost
honesty.
Start MAG – My Actions Game from
mistakes.
whY not!
Cheers,
Rajiv Khurana
Editor
rajiv@rajivkhurana.com
9810211256.
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Making mistakes is not a
mistake
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Introspect ‘Why and
How it happened?’
Seek feedback. Set room
for improvement.
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Take stock of the
alternatives overlooked.
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Assess changes needed
to avoid same goof-up.
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Keep a log of ‘lessons
learnt’ for future use.
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Enthusiastically correct
the course. Take charge.
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Smile and enjoy new
mistakes
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Right from the nation wide political
parties to small size board rooms, we all
make RESOLUTIONS. Each beginning of
the New Year, these resolutions gain
great significance for every executive
and non-executive. No one bothers to
re-look at them once the euphoria dies
out in a fortnight. Resolutions are
resolutions…they are meant to be
broken. Not any more. This year I have
resolved to give you resolutions, which
you will love to nurture and sustain. I
am opening my heart before you. Pick
and choose these random outflows: •
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This year I will increase my weight by
another 10 kg and waistline by 3
inches. I dislike wastage. Waistline is
a small compromise for the food on
the waste-line during every
corporate party.
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This year I will fall sick more often or
at least pretend to fall sick more
often. I do not like my medical
entitlements going down the drain.
Tax laws and my company do not
bother to give me medical fitness
allowance. I have to live with
medical sickness allowance.

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This year I will spend more time admiring Miss
Dilruba Dilwali who has now shifted on the
same floor where I work. Keats said, “A thing
of beauty is a joy forever.” I do not know why
people in management do not follow this with
poetic heart.
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This year I will deliberately give wrong and
delayed information to my superiors. How
else will they understand my significance and
the conditionality within which I work? Low or
no increments only lead to low or no
performance.
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This year I will spend at least one hour every
day during my 15 minutes tea/coffee break.
How else can I cope up with so many things
happening the world over in politics,
hollywood, bollywood, neighbourhood etc. All
efforts made by persons like Osama will go
waste if we do not take note of them.
This year I will be more competitive. Even
though KBC has gone down, there are other
competitions, which keep emerging. I am told
that now the web based competitions are also
starting in India. Great news for competition
buffs like me! Sitting on my computer, I can
always pretend to work while surfing to
upgrade my general knowledge. I will also
continue doing my kids homework this way.

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This year I will use office stationary and
photocopier more often. These days, book
stores don’t sell good quality notebooks for
children for rough work. Our office stationary
is much better. My children will save a lot of
their time through my little efforts of copying
their notes on the office photocopier. As
usual, I will continue giving the office erasers,
pens, pencils etc. as return gifts on my
children’s birthdays.
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This year I will use the corporate
entertainment card more often. My wife has
been complaining a lot that I have not been
taking her out quite often these days.
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This year I will act as a great communication
network link amongst my colleagues during
office hours. I will maintain a live and active
database of who is seeing whom, who ate
with whom, who dropped whom etc. etc. I
will try to have at least one transmission every
hour through net or through phone. People
will bless me for this service.
This year I will apply a lot of butter to my
boss. Poor old man has been suffering from
arthritis for quite some time. I hope a bit of
lubrication supplied regularly by me can boost
up his mental and physical self.

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This year I will give some more tough time to
my customers. They have been thinking too
high of themselves of late. They should realize
that American scenario couldn’t be super
imposed in India. The ford in America has to
move at the speed of ox-ford in India.
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This year I will complain more about my
colleagues to my superior. In my last program,
the trainer talked about building ownership. I
must own the responsibility of informing my
superior about what my colleagues do,
should do or do not do. My colleagues have
become quite complacent of late. They should
start living and adjusting to the environment
of un-predictability and increasing stress.
This year I will devote more time to Indian
cricket. What can these boys do if the general
public is loosing interest because of their poor
performance? How can performance boost up
if there are less viewers in the stadium or
before the TV? Large viewer-ship means large
modeling roles means large money means
large possibility of field presence and
performance [provided some actress is not
waiting in the pavilion!].

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This year I will be a proud Indian. I
have always been. I will always
remain. Lip service is not expensive.
So what if I do not help the accident
victim on the road, so what if I do not
pay my taxes, so what if I do not work
enough, so what if I believe in ‘chalta
hai’. Things keep moving because of
‘chalta hai’. I will also keep moving.
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This year I will talk a lot. The great
Indian past time needs strengthening.
At least something should emerge
stronger from India. Big talks, Big
promises, Big vision, Big noise etc. can
go in a big way to boost our credibility.
So what if no body listens, people in
any case do not talk because others
have to listen.
I liked what somebody said, “Better to
get up late and be wide awake, than
to get up early and be tired all day?” I
sometime wonder, “In this fast paced
world, who are we racing against?”
No one but our own fears. Shed them.
Sit down. Calm down. Life will not
change drastically for you within a
year. Why worry? Extinguish your fix.
Don’t become a spent force.

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THE FORMULA
The mystic was back from the desert.
“Tell us,” they said, “what God is like.”
But how could he ever tell them what he
had experienced in his heart?
Can God be put into words?
He finally gave them a formula —
inaccurate, inadequate—in the hope
that some might be tempted to
experience it for themselves.
They seized upon the formula. They
made it a sacred text. They imposed it on
others as a holy belief. They went to
great pains to spread it in foreign lands.
Some even gave their lives for if.
The mystic was sad. It might have been
better if he had said nothing.
CONSTANT AWARENESS
No Zen student would presume to teach others till he
had lived with his Master for a minimum of ten years.
Tenno, having completed his ten years of
apprenticeship, acquired the rank of teacher.
One day he went to visit the Master Nan-in. It was a
rainy day, so Tenno wore wooden clogs and carried an
umbrella. When he walked in, Nan-in greeted him
with, “You left your wooden clogs and umbrella on the
porch didn’t you? Tell me, did you place your umbrella
on the right side of the clogs or on the left?”
Tenno was embarrassed, for he did not know the
answer. He realized he lacked Awareness. So he
became Nan-in’s student and laboured for ten more
years to acquire Continual Awareness.
The person who is ceaselessly aware: the person who
is totally there each moment:
behold the Master!
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Ring out the old. Invite in the new. As we say goodbye to one year,
we can look forward to the hope and possibilities of another one.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all
the wisdom that experience can instil in us. Cheers to a new year
and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
A new year is unfolding--like a blossom
with petals curled tightly concealing the
beauty within.
- Unknown
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it
was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
- Brooks Atkinson
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put
words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its
first chapter is New Year's Day.
- Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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