The gift of walking in career — The renewable of life

Long time ago, There was this one fine morning I was walking with my friends, suddenly I got the mail from my talent team that I need to take a small mentoring session under new joiners program today.

I was bit excited and perplexed at the same time. But then what I am going to deliver. And then I realized I will talk about the gift of walking.

Everyone got astonished and bewildered, why you are going to talk about the gift of walking. You are not the health expert or professional.

And I am sure most of us here too have similar questions in your mind.

But actually I was looking for a way as how to put together the significance and purpose of walking in our career and how walking symbolizes the career – the renewable of life.

I really love walking ever since childhood to stay fit or just to enjoy the beauty of nature and i love greeny around. Walking helps one to stay fit, helps one to get detox, it increases stamina and makes one healthy. It’s just that we need comfortable clothing and a piece of footwear with a napkin to wipe off our face and sweat while walking.

It requires no frills or fancy expensive gadgets, we can still enjoy the benefits of regular health regime in our own skin.

When I think of walking I realized that the mantra or grid for walking that I would like to call it as, is not very different from the mantra we would all use it in our lives to shape or make our career better.

Surprised, I was surprised too at that moment.

So what walking does in our career path?

Walking Grid

Health: Walking keeps us fit. Walking on career improves our growth rate, it facilitates our overall development. It betters our success path. Health is wealth. To grow our state of being (investment) we need to invest a bit in ourselves in any way we can.

Detox: It helps in detox. By detox, I mean if we keep walking on our career path, it removes negativity and self doubt from our system. The more we investment in our knowledge, the more we grow and the more confident we become. This lets us think better, faster, clearer, more logical and in the long run it obviously improves our stamina.

Stamina to handle negativity, peer pressure, failure and success. So, if we increase our stamina then we will be able to digest negativity, self doubt and stress.

To increase our stamina in our career, we all need to focus on three skills : one to grow (knowledge), one to keep in shape (at least try to stay healthy) and one to be creative.

For this all we need a comfortable footwear which is nothing but our beliefs, our ideas, our self confidence, our instincts on our career path. We all wear piece of footwear as per our needs and that’s how we become confident.

These footwears don’t let us fall in our career path.

We need comfort clothing which is nothing but people whom we work with or spend time with: our team members, friends and peers. These facilitates breathing, the breathing of fresh ideas values and thought process, helps us inculcate the right values, provides ideas to grow in our life. They just help us to stay relax, to stay agile and to have a better approach to walk

Last but not the least the relevance of napkins, this napkin is our gurus, our mentors, our role models, our inspirations or it could be anyone whom we admire or follow in our daily lives because they keep wiping off the negativity that comes in the form of toxins in our journey. Like in the similar fashion, these people help us to grow,they water us and guide us to be a better version of ourselves.

Every time there is a negativity just wipe it with our napkin and then we are good to go to have a fresh start.

Once we establish this grid then we start walking. Once we start walking, we all face catch 22 situation during our journey. So before I get into this, let’s understand what exactly is catch 22 situation and how relevant it is in our walk of life.

Catch 22 Situation

Catch 22 situation is a situation from which an individual can not escape because of rules or limitations. Or a situation arises where there is no good solution or resolution possible.

For instance, Do you ever feel like you’re caught between a rock and a hard place? That, no matter what you choose, you’re not going to get the outcome you desire? You’re in a catch-22 situation.

So there is no right or wrong in a catch 22 situation. No matter what we do somebody is going to say you are right and someone would say no you are wrong.

So eventually we need to figure out what works best with us and move forward. In short, we all need to do SWOT analysis of ourselves. One of the important strategic frameworks that industry professionals use to gauge any company.

And when i look at my walks and experiences during my career I observed that I have also faced a catch 22 situation. We all are facing this catch 22 situation in our day today time. It is very pertinent to understand how we need to walk on your career exactly like how you walk on our daily routine comfortably.

First we need to decide the direction of our walk that how where and which path to follow, that’s where our self belief or instinct creates an energy and this energy like force wanted us to move forward and look ahead. Which is why we have eyes in the front not behind us.

That’s where the direction of walk is very important. When I was walking on my path people thought he wont be able to nail any job during his masters but then somehow I kept walking and I managed to sail through.

Next important thing that we need to do apply in our walking and like so in our career is how and when to use play and pause button. We need to slowly play and pause these walks and figure out what works best for us in a certain circumstances.The way I used the play and pause button and decide to write here on medium.

Next important prerequisite in my view is to recourse our walk in time to time, when you walk in the morning you enjoy nature, you enjoy your surroundings the greenery around, you having a good time and suddenly a big hurdle comes in front of you. As a reflex, just look around for the road and gauge whether this road will take me to the right path.

We all are human beings after all,we all gain success and failure in every walk of life. What’s important is that how fast we bounce back and how we handle it.

“you don’t keep cursing or cribbing or fighting on your luck why this hurdle in front of me, why this hurdle came in my life ?”

We keep fretting, fighting, cribbing and cursing our journey, our luck, our peers and superiors and try to compare our journey with them and waste our precious time and energy.

We don’t need to keep cursing ourselves every time. We don’t need to do that it’s ok to make mistakes. Just breathe and keep calm, just look for the best other left or right way in our career and recourse the process of journey.

And I genuinely believe and realized from my experiences that we just need to take a small left or right which could take us to a new national highway.

There is a famous maxim “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations”.

And last thing which is a key determinant usually acts a catalyst in our lives, is to stay hydrated. You need to hydrate from time to time during walking. Obviously, when you are walking and running you need water to hydrate in between. These hydrating points in our career are nothing but the opportunities. We don’t have to pick up every bottle of opportunity that comes our way. but we have to keep your eyes open to understand and self analyze that when we need to hydrate and how much hydration we need to sustain our career walk.

As I said earlier, we need to do SWOT analysis of ourselves. We need to figure out our strengths, weakness, opportunity and threats.Accordingly gauge and chalk out our strategy which works best with us.

Unfortunately, we don’t do our SWOT analysis and we keep comparing ourselves with others and we feel insecure and jealous with others success and growth inspite focusing on ourselves.

At the end of the day if we are not walking to make our health better then what is the purpose of our walking. Once we have answers to all these, then I genuinely believe that we can lead our walk purposefully and we can take actions accordingly during our career path with just a simple attire – A good piece of footwear, comfortable clothing and have a napkin in our hand and keep your head held high and focus in front of you and just start walking confidently. People will realize someday that his way of walking is getting better day by day.

So I would like to conclude by a quote :

Note: This is my first blog friends and thought to pen down this. So do read and please provide me a genuine feedback as a writer and reader.