Dancing Lights show at Street of lighting during Edinburgh Christmas 2016

Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland

Kinnu Trips Presents Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland

Its not raining in Edinburgh and you are on a holiday, that's the right time you can think of Calton Hill. A short and sweet trip, that you can spend along with your friends or family.

Calton Hill, is one of the nice places to visit in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is a good view point from which, you can see the beautiful city of Edinburgh. A nice short up hill walk to see some iconic monuments and buildings like

• The National Monument,
• The Nelson Monument and 
• The Dugald Stewart Monument.

Video Link for Calton Hill - https://youtu.be/M3jylI_SagY

Worth spending couple of hours enjoying the scenic beauty on the Calton Hill and also all the surroundings. Its a very nice scenic spot to take good photos, as this place gives a birds eye view of Edinburgh city and its important locations. Old and new cities, sea view and Aurther's seat etc.,

Very easy to go with kids also. I went with my family. My kids enjoyed the walk to the top and good open space on top of the hill. click here for a quick video on Calton hill. We spent couple of hours and enjoyed very well.

One important thing to let you know that I could not find any toilets on the hill. So plan accordingly
 

Life Balance

A very common term used in the IT industry is Work Life Balance. But I would like to talk about our lives and the balance we are all doing to manage. Wait wait.. What life we are talking about here? Work life and personal life? I don’t think these are the only two different lives we have.  I feel Work life and Personal Life are not just two, they have lot of internal variations. Let's see

 

Forget about your personal life for some time. Work life itself has different shades in it. Based on the location you are working, you have various stakeholders to manage.  Based on which, your work life is dependent on. Onsite, offshore, client and internal Leadership team, etc, etc. All these will drive your work life. You need to do lot of balancing act to manage and get things done. While managing client expectations, you will completely lose track of your internal activities. Its true other way round as well. Isn't it?

 

 

- JANA KINGSFORD

Now let's see how are we doing on our personal life. When I look back, I wonder how much I became busy. As busy as I can't check my Facebook posts or what'sApp messages. I am not even talking about any new posts from my side. I couldn't even check and follow others posts. I remember playing some games. Let me think what those are... oh yah! I now remember there are some pawns, a queen and a king. Yes you are right. That's Chess. I wonder how I used to get so much of time in the world to play such a lengthy game. Can I get those days back? Sometimes I feel why is the day is so short. You got it right, when I say day it's day and night. All together 24 hours are not sufficient, how can I only refer to only day.

 

In personal life also I see lot of shades. Family life, social life and the other important one that you can't ignore is your own personal life. Have you ever realized that you are missing so many small things that you want to do, but you skip them, rather sacrifice them for either for family or for work.

Why is this happening? Whom should I blame? my manager, my team, my client, my family, my friends or myself?

What's the solution then? Can I come back to normal anytime soon? Can I come out of this maze at all?

One thing I feel is early the better that you recognize that you are losing control over your time. Then the solutions will start coming.

Only YOU can get a solution to YOUR situation.

Realize it soon and Act on it.

All the Best

Are you in the Game?

Are You in the Game?

Change and Challenge are like twins. They always come together to bring back the energy in you. As your work becomes routine, your skills become dull. You just need something to happen to bring back motivation into your work and put your skills to work. That special thing, which can change your life, is the change in your work, or in the way you work. As I said in the beginning, the change does not come alone. Be aware, challenge comes along with change.

This is like a checkpoint, which questions the capability of the individual and asks, "Are you still in the Game?” How prepared are you for the change and the challenges to be unfolded? These questions give you an opportunity to prove your capabilities to be in the game and to win the game.

Do we do any miracle overnight to overcome the challenges and smoothly sail through the change? I don’t think there is any such magic wand, which can give you all the powers in the world to turn things into your favor. No magic wands, but Yes, there are some similar things do exist to smoothly sail through the challenges.

In my view Curiosity, Continuous learning and the Attitude. If you are curious enough, that keeps you always up-to-date on your knowledge levels. Only with the curiosity, you won’t gain knowledge, you should put in your effort to learn and expand your depth and breadth of your knowledge. With these two, added a positive attitude, gives you those additional powers to handle the Challenge.

Wish you a very Happy New Year.