Mini Saga

Mini Sagas: Bite Sized Lessons for Life and Business

Mini Sagas: Bite Sized Lessons for Life and Business

In this first ever photographic manifesto on ChangeThis, 15 of the mini sagas below are featured in the backdrop of breathtaking photos. You can download this for FREE.

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Mini Saga Collection

Stories in exactly 50 words!

#1 The Interview

He did well in the interview. Should he take up the job?

#2 The Phone Call

Sometimes trying again won't work!

#3 The Book

We need the complete story!

#4 - The Accident

"Blind Spots" are bad!

#5 - Airport

Getting late to the airport is not good!

#6 - Love at first sight

OK, then what?

#7 - The deal

Is the deal done? Almost.

#8 - The Choice

Choice overload sucks!

#9 - Giving Back

Paying the right price is important

#10 - The Goal

Goals are good. But, they have to be the right ones

#11 - The Team

Goal is near but the team needs you. Which one do you pick?

#12 - Lost and Found

When you lose your mind, where will you find it?

#13 - The Block

He desperately wanted to get out of the writer's block.

#14 - Lost

Bob was lost. After a while he realized what the real problem was..

#15 - The Leader

The leader moved on and nobody felt a thing..

#16 - The Startup

Starting up a startup is easy. Getting deals is not.

#17 - The Reality Show

The reality show may not be really real...

#18 - The Sales Seminar

There is nothing like an inexpensive sales seminar

#19 - The Missing Piece

Are you really sure that you are focusing on the most important thing?

#20 - Happiness

What makes you happy?

#21 - The Price

Things seem easy until you dig into the "total price" paid...

#22 - The Trend

You want to know why you failed. How about the reason behind your success?

#23 - Networking

If something is too good to be true, it probably is..

#24 - Requirements Analysis

Software Professionals or otherwise, we are always responding to requests based on our understanding of the request. If you get the request wrong, then%u2026

#25 - The Entrepreneur

Eternally searching for the next big idea to execute on will not help much...

#26 - The Follower

Since you only get to live once, it may be worth watching who you are following%u2026

#27 - The Game

Ring-side seats are safe, but...

#28 - Competition

Tracking your competition is important but that's not everything.

#29 - The Sale

Sometimes the discounts we see on the "special sales" don't account for the additional costs%u2026

#30 - The Opportunity

Stage Capturing: Taking advantage of somebody else's stage for your advantage (without permission from that somebody)

#31 - Job Search

Should you search for a job OR...

#32 - Fired

You better be fired up OR...

#33 - Moving On

You think you have moved on. You are confident about that. Have you really?

#34 - Charlie in the Chocolate Factory

You can choose whatever you want to do as long as you are wiling to face the consequences

#35 - Recognition

Hard work alone may not be enough to get the recognition you deserve.

#36 - Suicide

When you are in the middle of a mess, it's easy to miss a LOT of important things.

#37 - Insanity

Insanity manifests in a million ways%u2026

#38 - Surprise

Sometimes when you plan a surprise, you have to be ready for more than what you planned for%u2026

#39 - Decision

Making good decisions is very important. But it's also important to know how long you will take to make those "right" decisions.

#40 - Dream

Sometimes dreams can be unbelievable

#41 - Loan

Sometimes we take things literally.

#42 - Perfection

You may want something to be perfect. But there might be hefty price to pay for that.

#43 - Notice

We notice what we notice and sometimes what we notice is not enough.

#44 - Argument

The best way to win an argument is not to have one. But sometimes you can't avoid an argument and for those times, you need to be prepared.

#45 - Validation

If you are not careful, your people might give you exactly what you are looking for.

#46 - Stress

Before you complain about everything that's causing you stress, take a look at how much you are contributing to your own stress.

Mini Saga #47 - Control

Agreed, you want to be in control all the times. But%u2026

Mini Saga #48 - Persuasion

Persuasion has many flavors

Mini Saga #49 - Expression

(Un)reasonable expectations?

Mini Saga #50 - Reason

The deadline is not the only reason to complete the project%u2026

Mini Saga #51 - Criticism

Birds of the same feather do not always flock together%u2026

MIni Saga #52 - Purpose

I spent a few days last week with my friend Kiruba Shankar and his family. We talked a lot over these few days. Right next to Kiruba's home, I saw hundreds of nursery plants and Kiruba told me a real-life story related to this nursery plants. That story touched my heart and inspired me to write this mini saga. I have changed the name of the protagonist. There are so many lessons to be learned from that real-life story. I have tried to capture the essence of it in 50 words.

Mini Saga #53 - The Boss

A common pastime for employees is to find faults with what ideas and initiatives of their Bosses. This mini saga takes a look at this from another angle.

Mini Saga #54 - The Sequence

Sequence or Order of things is very important - both in our personal and professional lives. It is easy to forget the old adage - " don't put the cart before the horse." Here is a (funny) mini saga to illustrate the point.

Mini Saga #55 - Discount

Some people just don't know where to draw the line.

Mini Saga #56 - Quest

The wisdom lies in knowing what you can and what you cannot control. It can be frustrating if you mix up the two.

Mini Saga #57 - Smart

Being the smartest does not a provide a guarantee to land a job. It requires way more than that.

Mini Saga #58 - Karma

The message I want to convey is "what goes around comes around."

Mini Saga #59 - Assignment

You can skip the assignments but you can't skip the consequences of skipping the assignments.

Mini Saga #60 - Advantage

It may be tempting to take advantage of someone, but%u2026

Mini Saga #61 - Thoughtfulness

Being thoughtful is to be considerate for the needs of other people. It can show up in simple everyday things in life.

Mini Saga #62 - Roulette

You may think the odds are on your side, but...

Mini Saga #63 - Job

What you consider as "sweeping the floors" may be a stepping stone towards something big%u2026

Mini Saga #64 - Service

Good service is important. However, if the need for that service arose because of a faulty design, it is best to fix the faulty design rather than focusing on making it up with good service.

Mini Saga #65 - Relationship

Lifetime relationships are even more special and they extend until the end of your life (or theirs). It takes a lifetime to build and maintain those relationships. Master the art of building lifetime relationships and life will never look the same. Taking advantage of someone won't even occur to you when you are building these lifetime relationships.

Mini Saga #66 - Attention

Attention is at a premium everywhere. You need to "earn" someone's attention. Attempts to steal it from someone usually fails.

Mini Saga #67 - Advantage

Not everything can be easily replicated

Mini Saga #68 - Comparison

The plan seemed almost perfect. There was only one small glitch

Mini Saga #69 - Support

It was good to get that support right when it was needed most. Or may be not!

Mini Saga #70 - Perspective

Reality is not always what you think it is...

Mini Saga #71 - Offer

The same offer can be transformed into a killer offer with the power of a story

Mini Saga #73 - Parking

As you can see from the story, this is not a story about Parking. My goal with this mini saga is to bring out the fact we stop seeing things right in front of us when emotions take over.

Mini Saga #74 - The Final Countdown

It's all about the meaning

Mini Saga #75 - Today

Most people forget that today is PRECIOUS.

Mini Saga #76 - Belief

Simple truth: If you don't believe in yourself, it's hard to get others to believe in you.

Mini Saga #77 - Rediscover

It is never too late to rediscover your calling%u2026

Mini Saga #78 - Summit

Sometimes what you are looking for may simply be on the path

Mini Saga #79 - Preparation

By the time you finally "get it 100% right," it may not matter much

Mini Saga #80 - Unreasonable

"Being reasonable" and "wanting to change the world" usually won't go together

Mini Saga #81 - Justification

There is always a justification for everything. Is yours helping or hurting you?

Mini Saga #82 - Fear

When you feel the fear, remember one thing - "you can't lose what you don't have."

Mini Saga #83 - Impossible

My friend Naveen Lakkur reminded me of an old saying that "Impossible" is nothing but "I M possible"

Mini Saga #84 - Imitation

Imitation as a strategy is doomed from the beginning.

Mini Saga #85 - Trigger

Transformation begins with a positive trigger.

Mini Saga #86 - Making it happen

A small shift in your approach can lead to a big shift in your results

Mini Saga #87 - Path

Being focused is important but one should also learn to spot alternative (and better) paths along the way

Mini Saga #88 - Difference

You can always find a reason to NOT try. Most probably, that reason won't matter much.

Mini Saga #89 - Footprints

The road less traveled is lonely. The destination is uncertain but the journey is priceless.

Mini Saga #90 - Experiments

When you are engaged in the right projects, there is so much of learning in every failure.

Mini Saga #91 - Intention

Knowing exactly what you want does not guarantee that you will get it. But it's a good start

Mini Saga #92 - Action

If you have never made a bad decision, chances are you have avoided all the big decisions

Mini Saga #93 - Articulate

Being articulate is very important but not as a substitute for getting the job done. As the old saying goes, the most dangerous person to employ is someone who is "articulate, but incapable"

Mini Saga #94 - Knowing

Sometimes we don't have to go far to find what we are looking for.

Mini Saga #95 - Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm propels you to live your life in full, AND it pays!

Mini Saga #96 - Connection

Give first and that is all%u2026

Mini Saga #97 - Intuition

Most people need to see it to believe it. Those who believe in intuition, just need to feel it.

Mini Saga #98 - Ordinary

It's hard to win against someone when they are operating on their strengths and you are not.

Mini Saga #99 - Transformation

Change is hard. It's harder when you are on the one who is supposed to change.

Mini Saga #100 - Recipe

Role models are great for inspiration, not for imitation

Mini Saga #101 - Alive`

Most of your waking hours are spent on your job. You better make them count!

Mini Saga #102 - Uncertainty

Dealing with uncertainty may be hard but that's nothing compared to living with total certainty.

Mini Saga #103 - Message

For most people, lack of knowledge is not the problem, lack of action is.

Mini Saga #104 - Image

First, you need to be comfortable with yourself. Only then, you can expect others to be comfortable with you.

Mini Saga #105 - Respect

You can rarely demand respect; you need to earn it

Mini Saga #106 - Destiny

Even if you think your book of destiny is already written, you can still edit it.

Mini Saga #107 - The Other Side

The grass is always greener on the other side...

Mini Saga #108 - Energy

Love has the keys to your untapped energy

Mini Saga #109 - Practice

If it is your passion, it is never too late to start on it!

Mini Saga #110 - Who

Who you are is%u2026 mostly overrated.