Cleaning Public Toilets!!! :)

Wow! I never imagined I would ever do this.

I went for production assisting in Tanaya’s SELP today (Landmark Education). Mr Iyer was my senior in the production team. So I go there and he tells me that the toilets are stinking and asks if we could do something about it. Now I know that the ILP (Introduction Leaders Program) participants do clean toilets and everything themselves. At landmark we create something called a space. A space in which everything is charged with positivity. Including the toilets! No joking, I have seen professors and doctors cleaning them! But I was clear that I am not doing ILP. So when Iyer uncle suggested that I clean them, I exclaimed in my mind (???). Now I clean my loo myself and have no inhibitions to the cleaning side of it. But somehow I was expecting Mr Iyer to make it sound more dramatic . All he did was got the stuff (anti-infectant and other cleaning stuff) and handed them to me!

Then I started my job. Started with cleaning the mirrors because I was not mentally ready yet! The place was stinking real bad actually and there were no naphthalene balls to be found. So I start with Harpic and a toilet brush and clean the stuff. Now came the mopping of the floor turn. I don’t know if the pipe was leaking or someone was playing a game of “My pee farthest” but there were substantial traces of some random dude’s piss on the floor beside the urinal. And it was my job to clean that! I am making it sound very melodramatic but in reality I didn’t feel disgusted . Yeah so coming back to the melodrama. To add on to my misery, the mopping broom was lost. So I had to mop it – the wretched place with my hand. And here comes the bomb. I liked doing it. I didn’t think it was gross. I didn’t think “whose piss am I wiping”. I just felt like, there are people to serve; its my duty that they have a good space and I don’t want their toilet to stink. I would go on to the extent of saying that I enjoyed the experience. It was like a privilege.

But then again, if anyone came inside, I’d throw down cloth and start looking at the mirror!!! And then there were dirty footprints all over the floor again, so I’d mop it again and then another guy came. This time it was my friend Nikhil. So after he was done I asked him to stand out and not let anyone in for the next few minutes.

Later on in the day, I observed the stink again or maybe it was Iyer uncle who told me about it. And there I go again into the war-zone. This time again I moped and someone came and I stopped then he dirtied it, and then I mopped and then someone else came and I stopped and the floor got dirtied again. And there was no Nikhil around to ask people to wait outside! So finally I got present to “why do I need to goddamn stop when someone just barges in”. I am not ashamed of it.

When I was just about to finish. I asked the only man standing in front of the mirror. “Is it stinking?”. He smiles and says no. He was an IL (Introduction Leader – An advance curriculum grad who takes public introductions to the Landmark Forum). He said “Good job Amit”. I smiled and said “My Pleasure”. He then said something about you needing to have a heart to do production or something. I wasn’t paying much attention. I was glad that I actually meant the -”My Pleasure” part of the conversation. I was glad that I got an opportunity to serve people in such a unique way.

DISCLAIMER: Landmark production assisting has got a lot of other things beside cleaning toilets too. Cleaning toilets is maybe only 7% of the job! In fact, as pointed out by Venkat in the first comment, cleaning toilets is NOT a part of assisting at all. (I think Mr Iyer doesn’t know about this either. It was a very unique experience none the less.) But none of the remaining things were as interesting as this. Maybe I’ll write a bit about assisting in some other post some other day.

Analyzing handwritings in a Mall!

Today was fun. To me it was a big thing to go and do handwriting analysis in a populous place. But I went there confidently and did everything with confidence as usual. Quite an experience. A few people told me that they were very impressed. A couple were not satisfied 100%. The MC kept calling me a handwriting analysis expert! Incidentally she happened to be a junior from my college.

I thought I would be speaking on the mike and there would be a big crowd around me but I ended up doing 1 on 1 analysis. I had invested quite some amount to arrange for all the stationary expecting about 300 people to submit their handwriting. So I had reason to be upset but I dismantled it and got over it in 2 minutes (I am going through the lowest phase of the year so far and I must acknowledge myself for being really powerful in the circumstances). After the whole thing finished, my throat was hurting and I was dead tired. In fact I’ll hit the sack straight away after hitting ‘publish’. Whatever….

According to Spencer Johnson’s – “The Present”. One should focus on whats right, right now. So whats right right now for me is -

• I had fun
• A lot of people acknowledged me
• I have the emails of quite a few people who would like me to give a seminar at their offices.
• Some of them might have had major breakthroughs at understanding themselves and their spouses.

I have 2 options now.

1 is to stick with Handwriting Analysis persistently and go do seminars in all those offices and find some way of earning while doing that. Write blogs, build up my site, put adsense and chitika in it and expect returns.

OR

Move over to something else and earn some money to pay my bills. I don’t know why but I don’t like this idea of money getting the better of me. This is 1 area I want to transform. Money should not move me, I should be moving it.

Right now I am biased towards option 1. I have starting enjoying discipline. Talk about persistence!

Tomorrow I have to leave home by 7 to be on time for the “creation meeting” of Tanaya’s 2nd SELP workday. Man I am so tired. I really wish to sleep my whole tomorrow over. Ill have to hit the sack soon.

Nice habit. Writing your journal every night. Someday when I am really successful I can look back at these pages and amuse myself!

Good Night!

Bye the way, today I did my simpleology and exercise and no yoga.

I got what was missing!

I just spoke to my kid brother.

I have no words to express how big a fan I am of his. He is one remarkable dude. He goes through probably 10 times the stress I go through and does pretty well to deal with it. After talking to him I realized that I actually get very tensed when I don’t achieve my targets.  What I got from talking to him is “Don’t take the load, its OK if you don’t achieve it. Be after it. Don’t quit. But don’t get upset if it doesn’t happen by the time you have alloted for it“. So I am gonna take life lightly.

I am gonna practice being committed to my goals without being attached to them. Every time I get tensed, I will practice it. Every time I write, I am gonna keep looking for signs of stress in my handwriting and take action then and there to understand, what I am I stressed about.

Whats missing in my life, as Viki says is “ENJOYMENT”. So here I go, enjoying my life just the way it is and just the way it is not .

Thanks Brother,

Love,

Amit

Habits!

Well well, who we are is a product of our habits.

And I too have a few sexy ones!

• Believing in my dreams
• Sticking to my principles
• Setting high goals
• Not honoring my word
• Choosing to Procrastinate whenever I get an option to do so
• Indulging in negative thoughts
• Waking up late every morning/afternoon
• Respecting everyone
• Planning my work
• Not working my plan
• Momentarily quiting
• Consistent endeavor to be a better me
• Not expecting from others
• Not cleaning my room
• Not eating my food regularly

There are a lot of sexier ones that are not coming to my mind right now.

However this post is about habits and not my habits. But since I don’t have much to talk about them until I have formed a few new ones and dropped a few oldies, I will carry on with my own thing.

At times I wonder why am I even writing this blog of mine? It fails to impress me in every way. Well I guess I am writing this so that a few years down the line I can visit these pages and see the phases of my evolution.

So this blog is entirely for me and I am not gonna share this with anyone. Any random user who comes across this page can muse with my musings.

Coming back to habits.

Since I have taken on being the best I can be, here are the following things I declare I shall do :-

1. Update my blog daily

2. Wake up early morning daily

3. Exercise/do Yoga daily

4. Read 5 books every month (3 complete for January)

5. Eat food all three times daily

6. Clean my room daily

7. Practice honoring my word daily (how do I measure this?) Ok, I’ll keep this one for next month. Aha Procrastinator… Ok, I practice honoring my word by making note of all the commitments I have made in my day. Looking at them in the morning and check marking them in the night. Daily

8. Putting in 8 hours of good work daily. (Weekdays only)

9. Honestly updating the results of the above 8 daily in my blog.

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Man this thing is as good as a journal. Chances are that I’ll mature with time and use this blog as a medium to spread love and inspiration later on.

Time to say good night