Assessing Your Adaptability: A Self-Reflection Exercise

 Assessing Your Adaptability: A Self-Reflection Exercise

Are you Adaptable? Take this Quiz to Find Out!

Adaptability is a key factor in determining our happiness and success in life. It's the ability to roll with the punches, take life as it comes, and make the most of every situation. In this quiz, you can assess your adaptability by answering "yes" or "no" to a series of questions. Check your score and aim for excellence in your attitude and reactions.

 

1. Can you stay happy and cheerful when the weather is gloomy?

2. Do you enjoy looking after yourself when the family is away?

3. Are you an efficient host or hostess, able to cope equally well with young children, aged persons, and people of your own generation?

4. Do you fit in with others and make yourself useful when illness or emergency disturbs the domestic routine?

5. Would you enjoy a change to a different job?

6. If your chief retired, would you welcome his successor rather than feel uneasy about the way you will get along with him?

7. Are you cooperative when changes in organization and methods are introduced?

8. Could you settle down in a strange town among strangers without much effort?

9. Do you find it easy to get along with all types of people?

10. Do you make new friends easily?

11. Do you keep up peace of mind when people let you down or have to disappoint you?

12. Do you learn from your mistakes and failures?

13. Are you quick to change opinions and views that have become old-fashioned and out-of-date?

14. If an ambition is beyond the scope of your abilities, would you utilize your energies for something more practicable without running after the unattainable, or feel that you were an utter failure?

15. Do you make the best of what you have, rather than make life miserable envying those who have more?

 

Count five marks for every "yes." A score of 45 is a good average mark. A score of 55 is excellent; 35-45 is satisfactory, and under 35 is not satisfactory.

Remember, adaptability demands a high standard of emotional maturity, so aim for excellence in your attitude and reactions.

  The Perils of Lies and the Path to Personal Growth

A mother was deeply hurt and shocked to hear her son telling lies. She decided to address the issue by sitting her son down and imparting wisdom about the dangers of dishonesty. She said, "When you tell a lie, imagine a demon with red eyes and a horn on his head who will drag you from your bed in the middle of the night to punish you severely. Then, I am certain you will never lie again."

 

Her son assured her, "No, Mother, from now on, I will never lie," but then added, "More than me, you are a bigger liar."

 

It's important to remember that one person's lie cannot correct another's mistake by committing the same error.

 

Why do people lie, and what do they gain from it? Can't we see that the effort required to avoid getting caught in a lie only causes more tension and that lying results in the unnecessary burden of remembering one's falsehoods? It fills the mind with needless thoughts, worries, hurts, and untruths, restricting the space available for creativity.

 

People often focus on expanding their knowledge. In the East, a distinction is made between knowledge and Being, emphasizing the development of one's Being. Both knowledge and Being are essential, but when knowledge transforms into Being, it transcends mere information. Therefore, both knowledge and Being should be firmly on the path of transformation.

 

While it's easy to understand that there are various levels of knowledge, fewer recognize that there are different levels of Being. Being represents your presence—an essence that can be good, pure, inspiring, and transparent. We should not confuse mere existence with Being. A stone exists, a plant exists, a person exists, but their existence differs significantly. This is where the concept of Being comes into play. The Being of a plant, stone, animal, human, or the divine all exists at distinct levels.

 

Being is an evolving essence, an evolving presence. If someone feels hurt because of an unpleasant statement, it reflects their level of Being. But if they can forgive the person who caused the hurt, it indicates a higher level of Being. Selfishness reveals one level of Being, whereas serving others with love and goodness shows a different level of Being. It's not a matter of judgment but rather a matter of clarity leading to an opportunity for personal growth.

 

Growing up is one thing, and growing old is another. Growing up involves adding life to your years, while growing old involves adding years to your life.

 

So, are you working on your Being? Let's resolve right now to begin the transformation process and support it in our daily lives.

 

IF HE EXIST

 

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

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