Sayyam (Patience) : 2nd S of 5 S for Meditating Manager



Sayyam (Patience)
2nd S of 5 S for Meditating Manager




Sayyam is a sanskrit word for ‘practicing patience’! To a great extent, it’s linked to Shanti (i.e. Mental Peace). Without practicing Sayyam, Shanti is achievable.

Ironically, Sayyam is the most discussed but less practiced virtue in the corporate world. Frequently, Patience is being misinterpreted as ‘No Action’ in the corporate world.

In today’s world, each & every manager wants to win and wants to win immediately! Each & every manager wants to prove himself or herself, quickly! An urge of I want everything right now, right here is creating impatience and resulting into tremendous stress on today’s managers!

This urge is so strong that thousands of books on ‘Law of Attraction’ are being sold every day, every moment! Young managers are attempting law of attraction- a universal law- to achieve their life’s goals. However, they forget that apart from having right intentions and right actions to achieve their goals, huge amount of patience is also required!

We have missed to learn this important virtue from our mother nature. Neither trees grow within a day nor flowers blossom in a second. If you wish to eat mangos then you need to wait for at least three years from planting a seed. In three month, you can only get tomatoes! You need to decide what you really want!

The better learning for every manager is ‘Give time to things to shape up!’
It doesn’t mean that let the things get delayed! It simply means sow a right seed in right soil and give it a time to transform into a magnificent tree!

Extension of practicing Sayyam is being Sahishnu i.e. being tolerant.
This is an important inquiry every manager should do with oneself? Am I tolerant to things, people and situations around me?

As a manager, you would experience that you are surrounded by many people & situations which may be unimportant, non-sense or illogical. Those may eat up your time & energy!

Being a manager, If your tolerance level is low to such people or situations, If you are not practicing Sayyam then you will be a victim of such situations or people and may get frustrated with the surrounding.

Every manager has to save himself or herself from such traps. And to save oneself, the best way is start practicing patience.

Think it this way that this situation or people is just a phase of my professional life, it will pass on. On a bigger canvas of my life, it is just a small incidence or a small interaction.
Do I need to pay attention to it? If I pay too much attention to it then I may end up overlooking the brighter side of my life.

Checking the relevance of everything and everyone on a wider canvas of life helps to reduce the impatience towards them and gives sufficient energy to sail through any unpleasant situation!

Let’s look at another dimension! Many managers think that they are from ‘I know it all’ category! They feel that if a task is given to others (i.e. to their peers or subordinates) then others may not be able to complete it and would create a mess out of it.

When such managers hand over any task to others, they immediately become impatient. It results into unnecessary follow ups, unnecessary reviews and meetings. In such a panic of whether work is being done or not, they seldom pay attention to the fact that their impatience is being perceived as distrust by their team or colleagues.


Such managers need to understand and acknowledge the fact that everyone around has intelligence! If you have given a task to your subordinates then trust their capabilities, guide them rather than policing on them. Practice patience!


By,
Pushkar Korhalkar

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