New Beginning !!!

(The below excerpt is a day's experience in one of the training program i attended in Infosys 😃 )

Wood's are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And I have miles to go before I sleep. 
- Robert Frost

Waking up from the deep caverns of slumbering sleep.. I just realized that I'm on my last day of this exciting learning journey, raring to go to my new old self tomorrow more ready than ever before. It "almost" felt like a dream.... that too a Fabulous one. 10 days of intensive training where you are pitted against the best infoscions across DC's and they rightly called it as emerging leaders management program.

There's a general belief that fun would dampen learning if mixed together, but i definitely realized after #elmp that learning with more fun is the most effective way of learning. We had too much fun and loads and loads of learning.

I'm no Gautama, but the self realization started when I was asked to be on the running track before 6:00 am everyday which was followed by a game of volleyball/basketball or yoga/aerobics. It didn't take me more than a day to realize that my body got so used to the materialistic world that it doesn't want Baba Ramdev to come any closer to it. 

After bidding adieu to Baba's followers, let me tell you how I learnt time management. We just had 1 bathroom, 2 people and 30 minutes to get ready including the time taken to walk from one building to another. For someone who always enjoyed the therapeutic hot streams running from head to toe relaxing all the muscles it touched, less than 5 minutes to bath was a shocker.
I hear you all !!! but that's how I was.
I'm sure that even Mark Hurst or David Allen couldn't have conveyed a better lesson on Time management than this cause ...I was always on time to the classes beating the time monster with my unending nerves of steel...!!!

In all the other things that I learnt, I should definitely mention patience and endurance in this post. I'm a patient guy, people who know me will agree to it. But classroom session from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm was a little unnerving even for my nerves of steel. I suddenly felt like a guy who cant swim and got lost in the sea of patience. What kept me and everyone else in the class going is the learning's/values that we learnt at the end of each day. It helped us like the light house that helps the mariners, showed us patience and endurance to withstand. Patience is a virtue, if you don't have it... then think of the value that you'll get if you remain patient - Voila!!! isn't it ?

When the day ended, we were tired, exhausted but there was this unseen energy that took over me and others which kept us awake till 12 in the night, chatting, singing, playing flute or even dancing at times. Now, recollecting all those things that i learnt i realized again that its just the tip of an iceberg, a mere beginning, a sacrificial altar upon which i'm going to shape my professional career in Infosys. As Frost rightly said, "I have miles to go before i sleep".

This post is again just a beginning, as i'll be sitting down in tranquility to recollect all the learning/concepts/theories from the #ELMP session ranging from Strategic thinking to Emotional Quotient.
So stay tuned !!!