BIKINI HAS ATTAINED RETIRMENT AGE – WHAT NEXT?

The most celebrated swimwear world over , “Bikini” is attaining 60 years of age in July this year, the big question that comes to my mind is what is next. I read in the Hindu-Business Line today that Bikini as a swimwear was invented in Paris in 1946 and the city is gearing up in a big way to celebrate the occasion. Contrary to humans who put weight as they grow old, Bikini has infact shred a lot of its weight and size over its 60 years of life. This has literally made bikini next to nothing, in the widest range of definitions.

So this celebration throws the challenge of the millennium for the fashion gurus to design a dress more popular and for a longer period than bikini. Any takers out there.

PUTTING MORE THAN 100% EFFORT – WHAT DOES IT TAKE

What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? We have all been to those inspiring meetings where a Management expert uses the most delicious sounding language to motivate you to give over 100%. We have also seen Press conferences called for by Corporates where they boast of having achieved 120% efficiency or 140% performance etc.

But how do we achieve this 100% and more efficiency or performance. After years of research a mathetical formula has been arrived to measure performance traits in percentage terms and list out the traits that yields best results. It goes like this :

If the English alphabets,
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z are given the values :

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 respectively

Then:

KNOWLEDGE would fetch you 96%

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E

11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

HARDWORK would fetch you 98%

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K

8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

But, it is ATTITUDE that would fetch you 100%

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E

1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

Up to this it is fine............But moving beyond 100% is what requires extraordinary effort.

For example:

B-U-L-L-S-*-*-T

2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

There are similar and more conscience crushing efforts which would yield even more but I leave it for you to compute.

So, now I suppose we have a fair idea on how to put in 100% performance and more. While it is Hard work and Knowledge that gets you close and Attitude will get you right there, but ultimately it's the Bulls**t and more of such traits that will enable you to move beyond the best.

SATURDAY THOUGHTS – 4

“The desire to succeed means nothing without the will to prepare.”

- Author unknown.

The fact that I am persisting with the Saturday thoughts even when I am not able to present any other posts is only to keep myself mentally prepared and inclined to post an interesting matter soon.

DELAYED SATURDAY THOUGHTS – 3

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."

- Eric Hoffer

Usha, thanks for your inspiration, but I had a Computer problem so could not club my inspiration into a post.