Happy Women's Day

Happy Women's day to all the women out there. And specially to the most important woman in my life... yes Mom you. This post is for you and for the most important lessons of life you gave me and all of us.

You so effortlessly taught us the lesson of change, specially as we saw you transform from a pampered daughter and sister to the eldest daughter in law in papa's family and adjusted to the family so beautifully.

You taught us the lesson of patience as all four of us tested your patience days after days doing the same mistakes and you corrected us with the same calm tone each time.

You taught us the lesson of financial freedom by making us realise that our education was not a way to attain degrees but a path to financial freedom.

You showed us the valuable lesson of judgement by not hesitating to point out our mistakes whenever we made one and showing us the right way to correct those.

You satisfaction and contentment in situations even when life was not so full of riches gave us the lesson of contentment

Your strength to always speak the truth, even if it was not always the sweetest thing everyone wanted to hear, gave us the lesson of truth

Your confidence and level of comfort in whatever we did and your trust in us more than we ourselves had is us taught us the lesson of friendship with daughters

Our yearning to have a single hug or embrace from you even in the time of serious illness made us realise the lesson of love we got from you.

And mom, finally, the way you stood up for yourself and the pride you took in your daughters gave us the biggest lesson, the lesson of being a woman.

Happy Woman's Day Mom !!
And happy Woman's day to all the women out there !!

What do you say?

"Did you back up everything?"
"Did you confirm with the user about the final changes?"
"Please make sure to document all the process changes."

These were some of the comments/instructions I was giving to one of my project team member this morning before we were getting ready to roll out a major process change.

A few minutes later, he made a comment "I read in one of the Forbes magazine, that most of the financial institutions where women were the lead executives, they survived. And the sole reason was that women are always very cautious,planning ahead for anything and everything !!"

I took it as a compliment for myself :-) and every women, working or not !!
I have worked with female executives in at least 2 of my jobs before and I was impressed by their risk management and planning skills.
And I have seen my mom planning and saving so meticulously for any situation we ever had in life.

What do you all think (I can see all men staring at me and thinking "What? That is so not true !!") But what does your experience say?

Is it a hyped school of thought? Or is there some real sense in this statement?

Note: I have been trying to find the Forbes article he mentioned, and haven't found it so far. Will link the article onceI find it.