Life and a 'Project'

Today, I woke up late and missed the bus although it is not my regular habit , I would say ‘missing the bus precisely’ because usually I get up late in the morning. I was travelling in Auto and listening music over my ear phones, suddenly my Mr. thinker started giving me different ideas and at the same time lots of thought process started evolving inside my subconscious brain. Why I am living , who I am , what I need to do, what would be my future and for whom I am going to live .. these all are the questions which came in my mind innumerable times. I can’t say the background of this kind of feeling but suddenly my cognitive process of thinking directed me towards ‘Geeta Saar’ and inspired me to put some thought which can realized the real worth of my name ‘Krishna’. However just like to precisely tell you I am not comparing myself with lord Krishna. T hat ‘Krishna’ was the true epitome of top most God, a super fine, un-matching diplomat at war place and an ocean of the knowledge and I am a small man with comparatively no knowledge of world and war, but something went inside my mind and I am putting the below thought. You may call it ‘Krish Saar’.

Being the project management professional my thought process is deeply embedded with my working background and limited to that extent only. I feel, life is like a project having birth date as start date and death as end date. It goes through different phases and life cycles of the project. The born and childhood stage where we do the kick off meeting with our parents, build up relationship, create affection and a trust which bends them towards any level of sacrifice and play with any extent of risks . Then we enter into adolescent phase where we gather the knowledge of society, world and start interacting with different stake holders of our life. At the same time we create the plan for our future. Then at the adult phase we start working on the implementation of the plan created during adolescent phase. Some plan fails, some succeed and accordingly project moves. At the same time for the long term support we marry with right partner and start working on the project with high velocity which sometime leads towards quick delivery of projects and sometime it ends with some accidents and further we re-plan for our life. Then we enter into maturity phase and start delivering some of the beautiful moments of our life along with our partner. At this stage, we can see that we already have stabilized our life and it goes with steady movements. You would fine there is no deliverables left which needs to be delivered or you could ever able delivered. Then at the last, a formal closure where we do some official paper work, assign our responsibilities to next generation or support team and close you projects which ends up with your saad ceremony.

Above all comprises full life cycle of projects from initiation, requirement gathering, planning, implementation, controlling and at last closure. The daily routines are project tasks and activities and every achievement is your real deliverables. Your parents and family are sponsor of your project and their happiness and sorrows are your rewards and penalties. All challenges in life are risks of the projects and all failures are issues of the life. So mitigate the risk, optimize the issues so that the impact would be minimal in your life and you can keep your sponsors happy.

Please plan your life now and start following it for the happy ending and full customer satisfaction.