Gerald D'Cunha

  “Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself  everything needed for its fulfilment .” Robert Collier   S ome years ago, when I was chatting with a friend of mine, I found myself corrected by her. “We shouldn’t call them ‘maid servants’, they are our life-supports.” I had, casually, referred the lady who came to do sweeping and mopping at our place as our ‘maid servant’, even though I hadn’t meant to demean her in any way. But, when my friend tried to correct me, I really paused to see the depth of that term she had just toyed – ‘Life-support’. For last few months, we have a new ‘life-support’ at our residence. This woman – probably in her early forties – is so full of enthusiasm, so full of ‘Go-the-extra-mile attitude’, that, both my wife and I like her when she is around… She seems a part of our household. My wife and I both were unanimous about giving her the Diwali bonus, irrespective of the usual haggling ...

Pic.: Alwyn Mathias A 13-year-old girl was there on stage for the first time, yesterday. She was very nervous, almost frozen. Now, our first job is to help the young-one not to feel embarrassed about such a plight… that, it is perfectly okay to be nervous… that, like her, most of us are nervous, and, as we learn to handle those first few seconds on stage, we do learn to handle the rest of the presentation. So, it is important, that the nervous speaker is freed from any such guilt or embarrassment on stage.  As a trainer, how you deal with such a speaker – what you tell, how you tell and how loving and caring you are – would tell whether or not the young-one would go home feeling stronger or weaker… feeling on top of the world or at the bottom of the pit… It was a group of pre-teens. This particular girl was, thus, the oldest of all. As I, always, do after every speech, I prompted little-ones to tell what was good about the speaker… They had to be alert and e...