Gerald D'Cunha

Pic.: Mavourneen Peters “Gerry sir, our problem is not lack of knowledge… our problem is lack of implementation.” - Manjeet Singh Khalsa L et me clarify it at the outset itself: Manjeet Singh Khalsa is not any old-age baba or any new-age guru.  He is just my friend and lives here, next-door… who loves to eat sensibly and live on his own terms… and, yes, yes… who, at 50-plus, has a belly of a baby! I am intelligent enough to ‘know’ why Manjeet has a baby-belly and I have a pot-belly. I ‘know’ how the baby-belly goes and pot-belly comes… how fat forms and what fat does! So, Manjeet Singh Khalsa, my friend, reminds me, again and again: “Gerry sir, our problem is not ‘lack of knowledge’… Our problem is ‘lack of implementation’!” Full stop!!!! I had got up early – very early – this morning. So, I happened to see an interesting post shared by my Tai-chi-class friend, Hazel. “EXCERCIES TO BURN ABDOMINAL FAT IN 14 DAYS FLAT!” ...

We do not need to go out of our ways to feel confident about ourselves.  One of the easiest and surest ways to feel confident is: by making a promise and keeping it! Last evening, we had a Workshop on 'Values and conflicts'. Mr. Ram Mohan was conducting this Workshop. At one point, during the Workshop, he was talking about living with integrity. "When we 'do' what we 'know'," he said, "we live life with integrity." Yes, when there is a ‘gap’ between what I ‘know’ and what I ‘do’… I have a problem of integrity. And, this gap is responsible for my loss of self-confidence. The lesser the gap, the better. The more the gap… and, more the areas where the gap is seen… the lower I would feel about myself. “How can we reduce this gap, sir?” a participant asked Mr. Ram Mohan. “The best way is,” Mr. Ram Mohan replied, “By making a small promise and keeping it!” “Wow!” I exclaimed in my heart, “...