How Trains Inspire me…..

The image shared is taken by me during a lazy Sunday walk…..

We have shifted into our new beautiful home, our dream home about a year back…..

There is a railway track which runs about 3 kms away from our house…..

A rumbling sound of train passing can be heard in our house at regular intervals. The sound is not disturbing at all. Instead it seems like music to ears and I feel refreshed whenever I hear those sounds…..

Trains have always fascinated me…..

My favorite pastime is to walk down those rails, with my buddy, Bentley, our adorable Labrador walking besides me…..

I enjoy the walk like nothing else. Bentley although gets disturbed when a train passes by…..

My Kids find this obsession of trains quite bewildering and at times quite childish as well…..

I sometimes gets admonished by my kids on this obsession also. My proposals to travel by train rather than by flights gets shot down instantaneously…..

I always, however, tell them that before I meet my parents in heavens, I will surely cover the entire length and breadth of country in a train journey…..

My obsession with trains is not childish…..

As a matter of fact, everytime I see a train passing by, I derive few important management lessons out of it. I will share few of those below…..

Discipline: Trains follow immaculate discipline. The routine, the process and the procedure followed by train, as a train, is mind blowing. The almost 2.5 kilometers of thing follow a straight line approach to make the thing happen as it is supposed to happen…..

Rhythm: A subset of discipline, just watch a train passing by and observe the rhythm it follows. Tell me if it does not fascinates you…..

Respect: Think about waiting at a signal for a train to pass by. Whilst you look at your watch, waiting for that stupid rod of steel to get lifted, it breezes past you, like a king in its full glory…..

Try practicing the same discipline and same rhythm in your life and your profession and tell me will you not be commanding that respect…..