Performance with a purpose

This is the title of a speech by Indra Nooyi and excerpts from the same caught my eye in the Economic Times.

I was convinced that the title in itself had a strong deep message apart from all the valuable insights that she put forward whether it was segmentation of their products into fun for you, good for you or better for you focused towards a consumer and responsible towards the environment at large, or her anecdote about how her mother questioned them as to what they wanted to do to change the world :)

Life has been inspiring to all of us if we just pause to notice all the miracles that happen around us. I was reminded of the other inspiring stories I have read or people I have met who made me recognise that all little things make a big difference...

the story that Sudha Murthy recounts in her book ' the old man and his God' which tells us about her grandmother's advice to her to be a mother of a thousand children is again on the lines that Nooyi's mother spoke to them.

My conversations with HN (Mr. H. Narasimhaiah- an educationist par excellence and a true Gandhian) where he quoted from his autobiography - Horatada Hadi has made me realise that life will take us wherever we have to - only if we believe in attaching a purpose to everything that we do.

My take on my purpose is simple I believe that my life is a continuous learning curve, the more I learn, the more i observe, the more i read and borrow from nature, and the more i notice patterns more the hunger to learn - it definitely makes me feel that learning curve could only be a circle :) whose diameter keeps increasing proportionally encompassing many realities within it.

Sometimes a quote that i read long time ago keeps reverberating - life has 3 ingredients - yearning (purpose), earning (more the intangibles ;) ) and learning (which is ongoing and limitless)

Lets see purpose and meaning in all that we do...

Amen!