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Mind Your Mindset
By Dr J Ghosh
“Men can practice skill for 8 hours a day and that allows them to make a living. If they practice will for the remaining 16 hours that allows them to shape a life. When skill and will come together in cataclysmic moment, you unleash on to the world a 24-hour champion.”
-Zig Ziglar
It is the mindset of a person who thinks that Nepal is a poor and small country, and harps about it all the times. Is this attitude sufficient to improve the situation? The lamenting over darkness is not sufficient to dispel it. Some one has to come forward and kindle a light.
A major part of the process of achieving success and living the kind of life you would like is: dream of it. Humanity can not forget its dreamers. He, who cherishes a beautiful vision - a lofty ideal in his heart, could one day realise it. Columbus cherished a vision of another world and he discovered it. Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace and he entered into it. Fortunately you are the soul of that soil-show you can stay without vision? Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. What ever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts-your vision, your ideal. Start with an individual. An individual makes the society. The society makes the country. Think about the positive aspects of the country's resources. It is spiritually blessed and rich with nature's bountiful gifts. The Mt Everest and seven of the world's 14 peaks above 8,000 metres dominate are in Nepal. In the shadow of the Himalaya, nature and humanity coexists in most remarkable ways. Over 36 ethnic groups speaking as many languages, of Tibeto-Burman and Indo-Aryan origin, make their homes here yet there is no history of ethnic strife in Nepal. Fascinatingly, you can feel silent presence of all the seasons.
Against this backdrop, have a national dream: Nepal as a global leader in the service sector of tourism and nursing and prepare a national policy with long term goals. Treat tourists well and make them feel you care about their comfort while they are in Nepal. A slight change in the airport departure tax system would create a better impression. The prevailing practice seems calculated to provide a final negative impression. In tourism, word of mouth counts. So it is the time to do away with the idea that tourists are flying customers. They are perennial and perpetual as the Himalayas. Brand the Nepali tourism service with a difference. People spend their money when and where they feel good.
Another demanding sector is nursing. There is an acute shortage of qualified nurses and health attendants in hospital and nursing homes all over the world. Nothing can empower women more than education. Produce world-class qualified nurses and health personnel. The way women serve has had a culturing influence through many centuries and are still potent factors in the domestic, social and religious life of many Nepali women. Publicise that sewa is more than just "service". Undoubtedly Nepali women will never fail to prove this. Globalise Nepali sewa with confidence commitment and passion. Send qualified nurses abroad. This will certainly be an effective new tool for elimination of women unemployment and will also ensure a never ending source of foreign revenue generation.
Denmark is a small country. Yet, in many ways, it is global leader. So is Finland which produced Nokia that continues to redefine the idea of innovation. Ability to make a global impact is not about size. It is about competence.
Small and medium sized countries have the edge of agility, access and attention. They need to build on the triad and link the three to create value for the customer.
So forget about size of the country. Nepal is with enormous untapped potential and human capital which await exploration. The youth of the country have the responsibility to accomplish this great task. How can it be accomplished? In Swami Vivekananda's word: "Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great: conviction of powers of goodness, absence of jealousy and suspicion, and helping all who are trying to be and do good.
Let Nepal be global leader in service sector of tourism and nursing and let people remember Nepal as world class service provider in happiness and sorrows.
(Dr. Ghosh is the Manager for Nepal of National Insurance Company Ltd. of India.)
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