Motivational Blog

Five Entrepreneurs Who Motivated the Whole World

2013-06-17T12:07:00.000-07:00

Over the years entrepreneurs have been philosopher and guide to the whole world and tried to change it into a better place. Many have succeeded in their endeavor, many have failed in their attempts but one thing is common to all, they have never lost faith in themselves, nor in their capabilities. This capacity of the entrepreneurs makes them unique and persistent thus bringing success to them. Many entrepreneurs have changed the world for good. Some of them and their work are being described here.

Henry John Kaiser, American Industrialist:

Being an industrialist he started a business in the road paving in 1914. A few years later, in 1927 he succeeded in achieving a contract of $20 million. Later he joined other major contractors and brought a new era of industrialization. He established the US Western integrated steel plant. After World War II he transferred his business in the houses and car sector.

He is also known as the Father of American Shipbuilding. He succeeded in building the Kaiser Shipyard which was used in World War II. The aluminum and steel companies established by him still provides employment to millions of people and is responsible for bringing large revenues in the country.

Oprah Winfrey, Chairwoman, CEO and CCO of the Oprah Winfrey Network:

When someone is speaking of Oprah the first thing that comes in anyone’s mind is the famous award winning show “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. She gained a huge amount of wealth and success from this popular show. She is ranked among the richest African-American of the 20th Century and is one of the influential women of the world.

Evan Williams, Founder of Blogger and Twitter:

‘Blogger’ is one of the first applications for management and creation of blogs. Williams first used the keyword “blogger” which was the key to the popularization of the word “blog”. Twitter is a free social networking and micro blogging service and information network. It was renovated in 2007 and became a separate organization with Evan Williams being the co-founder, board member and investor of the organization. Twitter is the third most used social network after Facebook and Google+.

Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor of the Phonograph:

Thomas Alva Edison showed an affinity towards invention, chemical and mechanical experiments. Though he was poor, still he continued his search of knowledge in every field possible. His key instructor was his mother as he completed the majority of his education in his home. Like everyone else, his experiments yielded a mixed result i.e. filled with success and failure. His inventions include the incandescent bulb, the phonograph and the motion camera used in the film-making industry to name a few. He is considered to be one of the high skilled greatest inventors of all time with over 1093 US patents.

Richard Branson, Founder and Chairman of the Virgin group:

In 1972 he founded the record stores known as Virgin records which later came to be known as Virgin Megastores. With time his business spread its wings as he established Virgin Atlantic Airways. He is the 4th richest UK citizen according to Forbes 2012 list.

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How to Become Rich Like Warren Buffet?

2013-06-09T12:34:00.001-07:00

Today is the era, when most of the things have been expressed and are discussed openly. In the past people were afraid of opening up or expressing their opinions. But in today’s time the person understands and is exposed to various aspects.

Since decades, ones best friend is his job and the money s/he earns. We are not discussing on the money minded mentality but money is something which help us make stand in the society and keep us away from various troubles, long story short it guards us, protect us or shelters us. Warren Buffet is one personality who has given us the ways to explore and get more of the money and get more of the protection for us and for our loved ones. He started worked on the money plants since young.

Warren Buffet is amongst the richest people in the world, who stands on his own and has grown on his own. He was born on 30th August and has been working on the money saving and growing tips since young. He used to sell newspapers, golf balls, coca-cola door to door and earned money. Who knew that he would be the world’s richest man ever. Warren Buffet is chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and is listed among the world’s richest people.

Growing money: You do not need to be miser but one needs to be intelligent and should have an art of growing money. Warren did not earn money to be amongst richest but he utilized and explored the ways to earn better and more. He will be donating 99 % of his earnings to Gates Foundation

Invest invest invest : No matter how much you earn, but invest your money. May be you have the
dependents in your family; you are looking on all the expenses etc. But invest at least 1% of your earning so that it gets ripen in sometime and you can enjoy the returns.

Focus on your needs: Satisfy your basic needs first than other lavish expenses. Priorities what is important for you and not how important it is to show-off. Focus on what you have rather than what others have.

A second hand income: Explore other sources of income for yourself. May be by investing, developing a hobby, utilising people at home that is by guiding them to indulge in the part time or work at home jobs.

Be Shopaholic: Be shopaholic for your basic requirements and the things you need. Avoid overbuying or adhere to the shopping list.
Quit: If you find you are investing more than you are gaining, please quit.
Reinvest: The profit you earned from your first investment, reinvest that profit if possible or reinvest a part of it.

Please remember, money is a good servant but a bad master. Earn as much as you can and through every possible source you can but do not always keep money in your mind, you need to play safe with these paper notes, which can get you everything you want but can destroy you with everything you have. And do not forget to take risks.

This post has been written by Author Iram . Don't forget to give feedback about this post. She loves to write more....

Fight Against Superstition - Be Bold and Brave- Motivational Story

2013-06-04T18:31:00.002-07:00

Once in a small village in Himachal Pradesh, lived a boy named Shyamu. He was very mischievous and always created some or the other problems for the villagers. The villagers were totally sick of his activities as sometimes he used to loosen up the cattle out of the farm, break water-pots of village women and even burn crackers in front of cattle.

One night the villagers heard a loud noise popping out from the nearby forest. All the villagers thought it to be another prank by Shyamu to scare them. The next day the village head asked Shyamu that why he was making loud noises in the midnight on the streets of village. Shyamu refused that he didn’t do anything. Finally after a couple of arguments he was warned by the villagers for not playing such a prank. But, that night the villagers again heard that weird noise and it became frequent every night. At the end of the day, Shyamu was held responsible for all this.

Then one fine day, Shyamu went to his cousin’s place for few days. And that night they again heard those scary noises. The next day the village head collected a few people and went to Shyamu’s house for taking an action against him. After reaching his place, they found that Shyamu was not in the village since the previous morning. This scared the village head he thought that Shyamu was right it was some ghost which was making these noises. The news spread like fire in the village. The very next day a small boy was found missing from the village. The villagers gathered and went towards the forest to search for the boy. On entering the forest, they found the boy’s clothes. This indeed scared the villagers and they did not try to go further for searching the boy. Now, there was a rumor spread in the village that there is a ghost who lives in the forest, he roams on the streets of the village for hunting kids.

After a few days, Shyamu returned his village along with his cousins. He was told about all the happenings taking place in the village by his mother. Shyamu felt weird after listening this but, the same night he heard those noises and the very next day another boy was missing from the village. Now, this created a hassle among the villagers. The village head reported this to the police and they started their investigation. At, night two policemen were sent by the local police station in the forest to search for evidence. The next day they didn’t return. This created more fear within the area. This made Shyamu plan out an expedition for knowing the truth. He planned to go into the forest at late night with his cousins. After the clock tucked 12 at night, Shyamu left with his cousins for the forest. The scary noises started and they saw a small beam of light coming through the forest. They followed the direction of beam and crossed the lake. On going further, they saw a hut outside which the two missing boys and the two policemen were tied up. They looked around and saw a tape recorder with speaker. They came to know the secret of noises. Shyamu advanced towards the hut and peeped through the window. He found four men sleeping in the hut. Shyamu locked the door of the hut from outside to avoid their escape, while his cousins untied the policemen and the boys.

They planned to get these dacoits trapped. The policemen hurried at that moment, went back to the village and gathered a huge crowd for trapping the dacoits. As soon as the one of the dacoits woke up he found the door locked from outside. He woke up the other dacoits and they saw the village crowd coming towards them. They picked their guns and shot the lock and broke open the door. Now putting their guns on Shyamu’s head they demanded a safe escape, while all were stunned to see Shyamu in such a risk. The village head warned them to put down their guns else they will attack them but, one of the dacoits fired in the air and the villagers ran away from.

Meanwhile, the policemen were hiding in the nearby bushes. As soon as they turned for collecting their looted money which was placed in the cowshed, the policemen dodged them and took away their guns. Seeing this even Shyamu dodged the dacoit who had placed the gun on his head. The fourth dacoit was shot on his leg by one of the policemen. Meanwhile, the police jeep arrived along with the village head and other members. The police arrested the dacoits and put them in the vans. The village head praised Shyamu for his bravery and the police rewarded him with some cash since, these dacoits were the wanted criminals. The next day Shyamu was appraised in front of the whole village for his bravery.

Moral: Finally, a small boy teach that superstition is a hazard in life, it makes one coward and hopeless. One should always follow the truth and be bold enough to face it.

This motivational story has been written by Author Sakshi Bali. Don't forget to give your feedback if you like this story or not.

True Friendship - An Art of Living and a Tool for Motivation

2013-05-26T11:59:00.002-07:00

"Life is a challenge, greet it with smile"

"Friendship is a treasure, keep it all the while"

Find a meaning of true friendship is that corner of life which we many a times take it as granted. But in reality do we possess any true friendship in our life? We heard people talking that friends are like those flowers in life which are specially decorated to make a beautiful garland for the whole life. But still there are lot many people who cherish to have only a few numbers of friends in life and they are such who failed to get support of friends in need. The parameters of friendship are totally mysterious and unpredictable. The truth is that friendship is an essence in life which continues as long as it is well nourished love, care and mutual understanding.

Doctors do say that, when mentally a person gets depressed for any specific reason in life and need to recover from the episode of life, they should take the help of friends rather than family members and it actually do work for the recovery of the person. Friendship is the most precious gift that two individual person give to each other and is not given by god directly with birth.

Friendship is a wonderful blessing of life and a definition of true friend according to me, is the medium through which we receive spiritual as well as emotional blessings to cherish through life.

Friends are those to whom you can share every truth of life bluntly. True friends enrich the life makes us feel loved, cared and accepted by the whole world. The rainbow of life is well felt with the presence of the friends.

While creating the world full of mountains and oceans, God created relationship and out of many relationship friendship was one were the relationship of blood is not there, but full of emotion only. Friendship is the only path where you can show your compassion contributing to some good not only to your life but for another person whom you selected to be a part of your life out of love and affection.

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.

It's a connection of two hearts which cannot be broken. Sometimes it becomes so deadly that even the worst death cannot separate them in ending the journey for life. Friends are energy to life and mate to share the joy and pain of life and sometimes guide to show you what is wrong and right in life.

But there do exist the chances of false friendship, which come into our life to take advantage being a curse to the divine world of friendship. Friends we need to recognize them or else we will be pained for life. True friends are those you are there with you when you are need of them. Don't be a victim of false friendship. Choose the friend with sensitivity and care so that they can be a long run asset in life. You will feel there absence if they are not in your life. Be a true friend, to your friend and let the bonding go on forever.

It's a destinies decision to give a friend in life, but it's your own quality to treasure the friend for life.

A whole world is represented in our friends, so come and let's join to celebrate the relation for life-
The friendship. May god bless you with the power to identify the true friend in your life.

This article has been written by Author Samata Dey Bose

Definite Tips to Become Successful in Your Life

2013-05-21T11:55:00.000-07:00

There are many people in this world who are getting failure in hiring the success. Here are some tips which you could follow to become successful in your life.

Believe in yourself
Self confidence
Willingness
Ability to take own decisions
Setting high goals
Ability to learn or work with others
Attitude of learning from mistakes
Positive thinking
Being friendly, active and energetic
Being honest

Way of thinking

Make sure that you think positively. Never think negatively as negative thoughts pulls you back from hiring success. Moreover, make sure that you don’t spend your time in negative environment. Always think that you can achieve your goals and never the word ‘I can’t’. Besides, never be selfish.

Decide your goals and dreams

The first and foremost thing which you need to do is write down your goals in a book or a piece of paper and develop a plan to achieve them. If you set up a plan to reach your goals they will automatically take you towards your dreams.

Take action

You cannot achieve your goals until you put your plan into action. Thus, you need to try hard until you achieve your goals.

Don’t stop learning

Make a habit of learning something new every day. Knowledge is like an ocean, thus you will have something new to learn always. Enjoy while learning, make it a passion!

Work hard and be persistent

Enjoy the work which you do and work hard. Nothing can stop you from hiring success on following this tip.

Focus your money and time

Don’t get distracted and focus on your goal. Learn how to manage your time and money in a proper way. Take wise decisions!

Be innovative

Innovative thinking will make you to stand out in a crowd.

Be friendly

Never sit alone and talk rude to others. Be friendly with others and support them. This will also help you in developing your communication skills and confidence levels.

Decision making

Don’t depend on others to do each and every work. Take your own decisions. However, you can take an advice while putting it into action if you are not confident about it. If you are confident about your decision go with it without taking a back step.

Team work

There are also some people who believe in team work. Be friendly with your co-workers and never show authority on others though if you were the leader of the team.

Aim high

Always aim high, then you can achieve at least some part of it.

Down to earth attitude

Never be fond of anything. Be down to earth always if you want to achieve your goals. This is one of the reasons behind the success of many great people in this world.

Be honest

Being honest and sincere will help you in achieving your goals.

These tips are really easy to follow. However, you need to put a little effort in the beginning to get habituated.

How to Build up Self Confidence?

2013-05-18T11:33:00.000-07:00

Every person is different and this is because of the various strengths or weakness present in his or her personality. It is these traits that play a vital role in enhancing or reducing the sense of self-confidence among individuals. Building self-confidence is not easy, and it is vital to remember that no one is perfect and that each one of us has some good and bad traits. The most important aspect of building self-confidence is to bring out the good qualities and ignore the negative traits in one’s personality. Discussed below are few useful strategies that can help individuals to boost their sense of self-confidence in a significant manner.

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Adapt A Positive Attitude

: The process of building self confidence is not easy and it is quite common for people to feel depressed and disillusioned in the face of numerous failures. However, what is more important is to adapt a positive approach towards the entire process and keep on trying in spite of the disappointments or hardships that one might be forced to face.

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Learn To Live With Your Weaknesses

: As mentioned before, every individual has some strengths and weaknesses. While it is easy to highlight one’s good qualities, accepting the negative aspects of one’s personality is not that simple. However, it has been observed individuals who learn to live with their weaknesses and do not feel embarrassed about them, tend to have higher levels of self confidence.

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Learn From Your Mistakes

: Making mistakes is an integral aspect of the learning process and rather than brooding over them, it is better to take a lesson from them. This helps individuals to improve their performance and also increases their level of confidence. Only when one learns to stop worrying about what they have done wrong and get ready to face new challenges, does the goal of enhancing their self confidence seem attainable.

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Learn To Appreciate Your Success

: Every achievement is important, irrespective of how small or insignificant it might seem. It is important to bask in the glory of your success, even if you do so only for a few moments and without involving anyone else. Feeling good about even the smallest accomplishments is a great way to boost morale and help enhance the sense of self-confidence.

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Adapt To Changes

: It is important not to fret about the changes in one’s surroundings as this can easily bring down the level of self-confidence. Rather than shying away from changes, try to adapt them as a way of life. The best way for individuals to do so is to think of the ongoing changes as a means of learning new things and as opportunities to highlight the hidden aspects of their personas.

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Don’t Compromise Your Values

: People who, easily compromise with their often tend to have an extremely low sense of self-esteem. While it might be necessary or even right to bend a rule once or twice, doing so quite frequently is surely not good for enhancing self confidence. It is important to strictly follow your principles, even if there are only a couple of them.

The Art of Respecting Yourself- Mandatory Habit for Winning

2013-05-16T11:27:00.000-07:00

Respect: Respect is a positive feeling which needs to be present in every human being. Respect means to be good to others, respect means to understand others feeling, respect is to believe in one self and respect is to respect self. The person who cannot respect self cannot respect others too. So to gain respect it is important for a person to learn the art of respecting self.
We should keep one thing in mind that if we respect others then on a definite note people will respect us too. We are trying to provide you some important steps which will help you in learning about what is respecting self.

Be patient and think what it means by respecting someone: The way we show our respect to any human being varies from one person to that of the other. The reasons behind this are variations in culture, religion and the environment in which we stay. Respect is given to people who are experienced than us and more knowledgeable. There is a certain level of respect which is applicable for or and we need to give that minimum respect to people elder to us or even younger. Some common sign which indicate respect for people are:

•Not harming people
• Being honest to people
• Listen to others with patience without creating interruption in between

Start respecting self:

It's time now to concentrate on respecting self. Think what you do to respect others and do the same with self. Never harm yourself in any instance, never insult yourself in front of others and always be honest to self. Develop self opinion and stand for it whenever required.

Stand against those people who disrespect you:

People having self-respect don’t allow others to insult them in any respect. They will not allow any person in their lives who don’t know how to respect others. If anyone shows disrespect towards you then come forward and say straight away that you don’t like the way he or she is insulting you and this is not at all acceptable to you in any respect. Once you are capable to say this you will get to realize the self confidence within you.

Love yourself and take care:

People who don’t love oneself cannot realize how beautiful the world is. So love yourself first. Take care of your well being, your appearance, your health etc. taking care of all this will present yourself as a person with great confidence. Work on those areas where you can make improvement in your life as this will make your feel really good and confident having great self respect.

Start understanding self and know what you are good at:

The more you concentrate on knowing yourself; you will start falling in love with your inner self. You will get to realize the things in which you are good at and will start appreciating yourself. Start to reveal your hidden talents in front of people and they will start recognizing you and your quality.

6 Ways to Make Your Life Meaningful

2013-05-14T11:18:00.000-07:00

About life: Life is a challenge and we need to enjoy every aspect of it to give completeness in our existence in this world. Many of us try to live life the way it comes without having meaning about what they do and for what. The everyday struggle de-motivate us to look at life in a positive way and so we all fail to give a true meaning to our life. We need to do such things in life which we want to do from our heart and not for the sake of doing it to lead the life.

We thought to try out some ways which can make our life happening and motivating with true meaning to it.

Develop the art to be Happy: You dont need a reason always to be happy. Happiness comes from within. Try to feel the secret of happiness and discover it from each and every activity you do. Develop the art of happiness in you and you will start realizing the beauty of life.

Live life the way you want: Dont make your life a routine job. Try to do those things in your everyday life which you actually want to do straight from your heart. This will help you to give a new meaning to life.

Develop the sense of wonder within you: Try to discover something new in life which wonders you about how such things are possible. If you think that you forget to wonder then look at young kids. You will get to see how they wonder on small things and question to know the secrets behind it. But when they fail to get any answer they try to develop logic of their own and answer to themselves. Learn this act of discovering the answer of our own.

Meet those people whom you care and love: There are some people in everyone's life having no blood relation but still very close to heart. Their care, love and affection attract us to them and suddenly we realize that we have some special feeling for them. They can be anyone our neighbor, friends, and relatives and even can be a kid. Try to be in touch with them regularly and who knows one fine day you may learn something new from them to lead a more meaningful life.

Develop the quality of helping others: You will get to enjoy extra satisfaction in life when you move forward and help people in need. There are many people in this world who need support to lead a blissful life. Move forward and help those needy people and bring smile on their face in the way you can. Your helping nature will definitely give a new meaning to your life.

Make nature you best friend: If possible take a silent walk either in the morning or the evening with your partner or without to explore the beauty of nature. Observe each and every activities of the nature and we are sure you will definitely get to see something new every day. You can learn from it the art of leading a meaningful life ahead.

No crash course on making life meaningful is available in this world. We need to learn it ourselves and observe it in our daily life. If we want we can surely give a new meaning to our life. Try the above ways and we are sure happiness will knock your door.

How to Keep Yourself Motivated At Your Workplace?

2013-05-12T11:10:00.000-07:00

For most people, performing their best everyday at their workplace is not an easy task. The monotonous nature of their work can make them easily lose focus and this can have a negative impact on their working. In order to ensure maximum productivity and hence greater professional success, it vital for people to feel constantly inspired and motivated, irrespective of how repetitive their work might be. Given below are some easy tips that can help professionals to keep up their motivational levels and give their best as an employee for overall personal as well as organizational growth.

Make Plans for your career which is long term: Fulfilling specific objectives every day at work might not prove enough to keep you motivated over a long time. However, if you set career goals for say the next five years, you will definitely feel motivated to give your hundred percent to achieve them in time. The best way to remind yourself of these goals is to put them up as the screensaver of your PC or laptop or just print them in large and bold letters on your workstation. Nothing works better to inspire you than being reminded of what you aspire to achieve professionally over a period of time.

Be A Part Of Healthy Competition: Competing with peers is a great way to remain motivated at your workplace. A healthy competition not only helps you to bring out the best in you but also enables you to learn from your mistakes. This can prove extremely helpful in modifying your performance and also fine tuning your skills which might otherwise be ignored in the dull and boring routine of everyday work. Moreover, it enables you to take up new challenges and constantly test your limits.

All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy: While it is important to work hard and with honesty, it is equally important to occasionally relax and take a break. Planning social and fun activities with colleagues is a great way of not only making new friends but also to unwind and feel refreshed. Give a rest to the workplace tensions as this can help in regaining the energy to fight them with new vitality and vigor. Braking down work into smaller and manageable sections is also a good idea to bring excitement into the otherwise stressful and mundane routine of your work.

Seeking Help Is Not Shameful: Being the jack of all trades is not possible for everyone. So if there is some aspect of your work that you are not comfortable with, take the help of someone who is happy doing it. At the same time make sure that your work offers you sufficient professional satisfaction. However, don’t feel ashamed or embarrassed if you do not know it all. Seeking and giving help helps you understand manage your work responsibilities even better.

Feeling depressed or even discontented with our profession is something that most of us experience at some point of time in our careers. The trick however not be bogged down and turn the situation around to our advantage.

This article has been written by Samata Dey Boss. If you like her article, don't forget to read more.

Motivational tips for your romantic life!

2013-05-05T13:14:00.000-07:00

Most couples looks very romantic in the beginning of relationship but this romantic period might not ast for long. This is due to the fact that they have become more familiar to each others. However, this doesn’t mean that romance will completely die after certain days. You can make your life romantic by underneath tips! These tips will really help you in maintaining your day much brighter with your better half.

•    Going for a walk would really help you in making your day romantic. This would be the right time to share your feelings with your partner. Moreover, it gives you good health too.

•    Date: Going for a date with your partner to a lovely restaurant or to a lovely resort would enhance your mood. Moreover, you can spend lots of time with each other's and can share your feelings.

•    Give a surprise to your better half, plan for a candle light dinner in your home and arrange your room with lovely roses. This would be the most memorable gift which you could give to your partner. This makes your partner really feel surprised and special.

•    Make sure that you give respect to your partner as this is the only thing which helps you in maintaining a good relationship.

•    Try to share your feelings whenever you spend time with each others. Tell your partner that you miss him really due to the busy schedule. This will help you in creating a romantic atmosphere.

•    Go for long tours and spend together in a hotel.

•    Try something new always, speak with your partner in his favorite language and dress up in his favorite clothing.

•    Play some games as it gives you some fresh experiences. Moreover it would be really helpful for you in staying romantic with each others.

•    Foreplay would be your best choice to enhance your mood. You can really have fun with each others during this time.

•    Don’t hide anything from your partner; speak only truth with your partner.

•    Add some exotic oils, candles and music to your bed room as they create a romantic atmosphere.

•    Appreciate your partner always.

•    Care your husband a lot, as the men usually love the woman who cares them a lot.

•    Give a surprise to your wife by presenting her favorite jewelry or dress.

•    Listen to your partner always with patience when he speaks.

•    Give him a hug while going to office.

•    Send him text messages saying that ‘I love you’, ‘I miss you’, ‘and I want to see you’ etc.

•    Don’t argue with your partner ever as it sometimes leads to unexpected situations.

•    Tell your partner thanks, as it means a lot to him.

•    Go for a romantic film or watch a romantic film at home along with your partner.

You could follow all these tips to maintain a good and healthy relationship with your partner. No doubt in it you will definitely have a romantic life with your partner on following the above tips.

This post has been written by Author Samata; read his more articles here.

Enabling Success: A Few Points Need to Remember

2013-04-30T12:52:00.001-07:00

Whenever you decide to chase success, make sure you do your homework correctly. Success is always in plain view, but is also, due to inexplicable reasons, very elusive. The first step towards success is to do away with the thin line that segregates success from value.

It has been observed that successful men never say they’re successful. That’s because they know success is a shifting goalpost. Bill Gates had actually once said, “640 kB of hard-disk memory ought to be enough for anyone,” a laughable quote? Not really, hard-disks with memory spaces of 640 kB WAS actually the cutting edge of technology in the good, old days. After achieving 640 kB, Gates never said he was successful but shifted the goal-post. He then said, “Success is a lousy teacher, she seduces smart men into thinking they can’t lose”, and asked his engineers to write software that would need 1 GB+, and more, memory. Maybe, that’s why he is today the second-richest man in the world, valued at USD 72 Billion. The richest man is, of course, the Sultan of Brunei, but he’s out of the scope of this article because he inherited money. Never earned it.

Success can be looked at holistically, but holistic views do not hold much water in the real world. Anyone who wants to be a successful has to roll up his sleeves, get down in the mud, and chase success. There is simply no other way. Holistic views cannot adapt to how success is defined differently in every geographical location, and how this definition is dynamic, constantly changing.
Here are a few pointers that can help you succeed. There are a whole lot of other pointers also, but the list in this article deals with pointers that are time-proof and geographical location-proof.
Tighten your seat-belt, you’re about to encounter a very rough air-pocket because the pointers listed below are so obvious that you overlooked them.

The mantras of success:

• Believe in yourself and in your will to succeed. Trust your gut feel. Gut feel is not divine intervention, it’s something that your subconscious mind registers every moment of your life, analyses them and uses these analyses whenever if sees a red flag;

•    Winston Churchill, also a brazen India-hater, did actually manage to come up with credible ideas at times. He said, ““Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Success requires that you continue chasing it even if you fall flat on your face and break your nose. Consistency is a trick that has to be mastered if one is to succeed.

•    A healthy body houses a healthy mind. If you cannot keep yourself fit, then rolling over and dying is what we recommend. Success needs a lot of footwork. Be prepared for it.

•    Before going to work in the morning, take a look at your tasks-list for the day, and manage your time properly. Also make sure you stick to this time-table unless and until you are attacked my Martians and have a 20 kTon nuclear device dropping on your head. Deadlines are sacred; deadlines are sacrosanct; a deadline is a holy virgin, not to be touched.

•    Celebrate small successes too, that will arm you with a feel-good attitude, ready to take on the world. If you’re a Greenpeace activist, celebrate that you saved a whale that was washed ashore. You objective could be to bring about world-peace, but that shouldn’t stop you from patting yourself in the back. A journey of a thousand miles starts with that small insignificant first step

•    Success happens when you are at ease with yourself. When you’re working towards success, ignore all pressure from your management, your wife, and even your sweet old mother-in-law.
Try not to become a successful man, but a man of value is what Einstein said. Can the very thin dividing line between success and value be done away with? Stay tuned to this page.

These pointers are definitely not the entire list. If you have followed a pointer to succeed and that is not listed here, do mail us your ideas and we’ll definitely incorporate them in upcoming articles on how to succeed.

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10 Things to Do For Keeping the Teenagers Well Motivated

2013-04-28T13:17:00.000-07:00

People, especially parents, generally consider teenage to be the most delicate as well as difficult phase of life. This phase which marks the beginnings of a child turning into an adult is resplendent with numerous physical, mental and emotional changes in the young adult. Most often the actions and decisions taken during this phase of life have a deep impact on how the future of the child shapes up.
Given below are 10 important points that parents must follow to ensure that their teenager kids are motivated in the right manner.

1.       Pay Enough Attention: One of the biggest mistakes that adults often make is not paying enough attention to teenagers. This makes the teenagers feel really ignored and creates a tendency to lose their confidence and sense of self esteem.

2.       Give Them Ample Freedom: Since teenage is the 1st step moving towards adulthood, children in this critical phase of life should be treated in a different way. It is important to give them the opportunity to express their views and ideas and make their own decisions in some matters.

3.       Let Them Learn From Their Mistakes: The best way for motivating the teenagers is to allow them in experiencing things on their own in the way they want. They should be given a bit more freedom enabling them to distinguish between good and bad and accordingly make the right choice.

4.       Spend Quality Time With Them: Many teenagers feel that their adults are too busy to spend time with them. Spending even a few minutes exclusively with your teenage kid can go a long way in keeping them motivated.

5.       Don’t Laugh Off Their Problems: The worst things parents generally do, is that they consider the problems of the teenage kids totally insignificant. Although they might not be as critical as the issues that boggle most adults, teenage problems are definitely not a matter to be laughed off.

6.       Be involved With Your Children: Just because the fact that teenage child is doing things in a different manner is not the reason to ignore them or show disinterest. Being involved with in the everyday activities of teenagers actually helps to bring out the best in them.

7.       Practice the art of Patience: Most adults tend to forget the fact that every individual, including their teenage kids, has a right to have different views and opinions. So rather than becoming angry with them and shouting at them, adapting a patient approach would be more helpful.

8.       Encourage teens By Rewarding Them: Nothing works better in motivating a teenager than appreciating an achievement, hardly matters even it is very small. So pamper your children and present them with a gift whenever they anything worth appreciating.

9.       Treat Them As Young Adults: Discussing important things with the teenagers can make them feel very important and inspire them in doing better work. Sharing problems with them and seeking solutions for the same can also prove quite helpful.

10.   Be A Parent Not A Control Freak: Finally it is important not to cross the thin line between being a parent and a control freak. Let your children flourish without being judgmental or comparing their actions with other kids or worse your own growing up years.

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5 Traits of Highly Successful People

2013-04-24T20:06:00.001-07:00

Success is the ultimate achievement. To taste success one is required to taste the failure at least once in a life time or may be many a time in several cases, than only importance of success is realised.

There are some who are born with the silver spoon, so they get the success and fame easily and it should be their understanding, teachings and raised up conditions which guide them on how to handle success, if they cannot enjoy the taste of ripen fruits (success) they will destroy it and make fruits of success get rotten.

Success is like a bride, who chooses its groom on its own. In other words, a son of successful business tycoon/sports person etc may not be able to handle business or does not hold any interest in sports as his father used to. Success comes to those, who are talented and know how to handle it.

Now, what traits can make you recognize these ugly ducklings, out of those many successful...........…..,just roll down a bit…………………

Simplicity: A successful person always remains simple and his/her simplicity makes the person glamorous. Yes, simplicity connects them to the ultimate glamour world, the basic life style and simplicity reflects the taste of sophistication and down to earth nature. Sophistication does not mean the “attitude issue” but they understand conditions, deeply.

Organized: Organized and well equipped not in the terms of handling emails and being in the meetings but wardrobe collections also play a big role.

Yes, deciding the attires to be carried on for the entire week or one night prior, minimise the pressure of guessing what to wear next day or for xyz meeting. Organizing wardrobe helps them making the decisions soon, not effective only on males but females too. Yes, ladies with organized wardrobes carry the outfits with confidence whether with or without the lings dangles or rest other accessories. Stepping to an organized closet helps a lot.

Rational Thinking with a twist of curiosity: They are open minded, that is they welcome every stupid idea if nothing comes out of that stupid idea at least that stupid can make people laugh or smile for a while. Always hold a backup plan if things do not come out with desired results and achieve their goal. Long story short they are Goal Driven and have clear vision, they just do not crib on the failure.

“My way” story: They have a sense of originality that is they work their own way. They do not copy others but they have a sense, a vision through which they make the most neglected thing, noticeable and in demand by working in their own way and implementing their original ideas on it. There is no need to think much, if the idea is absolutely original but the ideas just keep popping.

As it is: They accept the life as it comes to them, may be with a lot of failure, struggle, losing faith, criticism or they are born in the pool of success. They just take the life as it comes to them.

No matter what life they are living, which sector they are representing but they hold these traits, since birth. They are born with these traits in them and nobody can snatch these inbuilt traits from them.

Success is to those, who can handle it and take care of it in whatever way it comes to them.

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10 Motivational Movies That will Definitely Inspire You !

2013-04-22T12:48:00.001-07:00

Inspiration can be taken from each and every thing around us, from the smallest to the biggest, inspiration can be defined as that exact moment when you know that the deep desire inside of you, which was dying to be awakened is now alive and raring to go. From the fact that inspiration can be found anywhere and anytime the world is a true example of miracles and what motivation can do. One can get inspired with anything and watching a movie is a classic example.

Motivating oneself is not the easiest thing to do and when you don’t have anyone around you to motivate you, what do you do? The one thing I love to do is watch a film that makes me feel really good. Motivation may be needed in all sorts of situations and just for that, I am going to share with you guys a list of my top ten motivational films that will inspire you. But before that, I must let you know that there will be mainstream cinema in there too, because I feel that there is no reason to have a particular genre called motivational movies when you can take even the smallest scene in a film and be inspired.

My top ten inspirational/motivational films are:

1. Chak De! India – This hit SRK film is more than making a hit. After its release people started paying more attention to our national game and also motivated people to take up hockey instead of other sports. The biggest motivational factor in this film is to fight against the odds and overcome all problems. Check it out on

2. A Walk To Remember – Now, all of you must be thinking “What? How can a romantic movie be inspirational and motivational?” Well let me tell you that the genre doesn’t matter. The movie follows the story of two teenagers who fall in love and then the girl tells the boy that she doesn’t have time as she has cancer. The motivation here is that the boy against all odds does everything he can so that he can have whatever time he has with his beloved before she passes away. Check it out on

3. Coach Carter – Another one of my favorites, the film is about a coach of a basketball team who goes on from being the man the team hates to their hero as they come together as a team. The sportsman spirit in this one is the real motivational factor. Check it out on
4. Soul Surfer – This is a true story inspired by the life of surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack. The truly inspiring part is how she fights back and recovers, not only to be okay but also that she fights her way back to professionally competing and coming back to win. For more, check it out on

5. Eat Pray Love – This real life story follows the journey that takes Elizabeth Gilbert to Italy, where she discovers friendships and regains faith in food. In India, where she gains spirituality and finally goes to Indonesia, where she finds love. The true inspiration is that one needs to get out of their comfort zone to find oneself, and when the time is right, all will fall into place. Check it out on

6. August Rush – This movie is more than a musical, it makes you want to believe every word that August says, right from listening to the music to being able to hear his parents. August Rush always inspires me to believe, every time I think that I can’t. Check it out on

7. Miracle - This miraculous film follows the story of Herb Brooks, a player turned coach, who lead the United States Olympics team to victory in 1980 Winter Olympics. The best part about this film is that it will motivate you as it goes, you will feel as though you are in the film, cheering them on. I always watched this before any big event in my life, you could try it too. Check it out on

8. Lagaan – This Aamir Khan starrer had to be on the list. Set in the time of independence, Bhuvan leads his local cricket team to victory against the English, while making the English lady fall in love with him and he settles with his village girl. The love story isn’t what made it come on the list, it was the fight in the characters of the story that made this an exceptionally well thought of period film. Check it out on

9. Rang De Basanti – Another Aamir Khan that deserves mention here. A contemporary take on the revolution from another time. It brings together four youths and unites them with values lost in their time. What I do love about this film is that no matter how many times you watch it, you will be affected deeper and deeper every time, always motivating me to do more than I can and always believe that I can start a revolution. The cast, story and direction take the motivational factor in this one to a whole new level. Must

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10. The Secret – For those of you, who’ve read it, would definitely agree with me when I say that there is nothing that can’t be done. Rhonda Byrne’s best-selling book is also a delight to watch, with the basic mantra of using the “Law Of Attraction”, we can simply achieve anything. This is on the list for obvious reasons. For those of you who want to know what they are, check it out on

Those were my top ten motivational films that I love to watch at any time of the day. What you guys need to do is figure out what inspires you and you’d already know what I am talking about. Let this article be an inspiration to find your motivation. Dream on and make them come true. Cheers!

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Happiness Leads to Success , Learn How ?

2013-04-21T13:17:00.002-07:00

Happiness is more often, considered to be a state of mind and hence is associated with the things and activities that seem to please people. However, many times people fail to find true happiness even after doing all the things that they like. This is because happiness is not just about feeling pleased in a specific situation, but is rather associated with the overall physical, emotional and mental well-being of individuals.

In order to overcome the high level of stress that has become an integral part of modern day living, it is important for individuals to learn about the ways of making happiness grow in their everyday life. People need to understand the basic fact that while achieving success in life is extremely important its relevance is only when they feel both emotionally and mentally happy about it. Hence, it is vital for individuals to adapt a lifestyle that includes things and activities which make them feel happy every day.

Since every individual is different, it is very natural for them to be pleased by different things. While some might find spending a few minutes every day in meditation to be quite relaxing, others might consider a long walk or a good workout to be the perfect way to relax the mind and feel happy. What is important is to recognize the things that make you feel cheerful and take time out for them every single day.

Another factor that most people tend to ignore is the importance of spending time with family and friends. Man is a social animal and there is definitely no better way of relaxing the mind and the body than spending time with loved ones. People, who regularly follow the routine of spending even ten minutes every day with family and friends, tend to be happier than those who cut themselves off from society.

Not many people realize the importance of a good diet in ensuring a happy and stress free life. Having healthy meals not only reduces the stress levels of individuals but makes them more energetic and happier. Hence being careful about the food you eat is definitely a great way of ensuring a joyous and peaceful living.

One of the biggest hinders people from enjoying life to the fullest is their worry for future. Individuals need to understand that what is unpredictable cannot be controlled and hence worrying about it would only make them suffer in the present. So while it is important to be somewhat prepared for what might be coming, living one day at time is the best way to be happy.

Finally, it is important to understand that not everything that you aspire for can be achieved. Rather than fretting about what might have been, it is wise to cherish what you have already got. Rather than focusing on the things that made your day worse, reflect on the ones that made you smile or feel good, even if for a short while only.

In the end it is the choice that individuals make which matter the most in making their everyday living a fun filled and joyous experience.

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How to Strong Your Time Management Skills? Take Expert Advice

2013-04-17T12:31:00.002-07:00

Throw that watch out the window to start managing your time better? Are we nuts! Not really, no. Managing time optimally is all about clearing the clutter inside your head. It’s not about becoming a slave to that $3,500.00 Rolex Oyster you wear to declare to the world that you’ve arrived.

Throughout recorded human history, there’ve been people who’ve changed the way we think, people who’ve rewritten the human knowledge-base, people who have acquired the status of demi-Gods, and in this crowd (in this lean-mean crowd to be precise), there have been people who hated watches. Einstein, for instance. There have also been people who’ve made their marks in world history, but have religiously made it a point to “be on time”, people who refused to be seen dead without their watches and clocks. One such man, closer home, is Mahatma Gandhi.

Einstein was out to rewrite the sciences as we know it. The Mahatma was out to free a country. But here we’re talking about people like you and me. Recent studies show that in the past five years, the sale of watches has gone down 17 percent worldwide, and even Einstein and the Mahatma would’ve agreed that when everybody’s wrong, everybody’s right.

Following are a few pointers that are crucial if you need up your time-management skills. You may like these, hate these, also say that this looks like the work of a pseudo-intellectual who has answers to every question under the Sun.

1. Spend at least 30 percent of your workdays going over whether time-management on that day was good, bad, or ugly. 30 percent seems like it’s a very high figure. It, most probably, true also. But didn’t they teach you that you need to audit your entire day before hitting the bed. So, educating yourself is a primary task that will help you take better control of your non-sleep hours.

2. Always promise less than you can deliver. You need some time out to review your day. If the boss asks you to set your deadline for a project and you know you can do it in one week flat, ask for 10 days. This mantra works. Not only will you be called a magician by your management because you are beating-the-deadline specialist, but also gives you the time needed to plan your next workday.

3. Keep out of social networking when at work. With all due respects to Mark Zuckerberg, you do NOT need him to trespass into your thought process when you’re busy with something more important. Something such as doing a good job of whatever you have on your desk.

4. Learn to say “No”. We’ve already seen that ladies who can’t say no somehow manage to get into trouble every alternate day. Make sure there are no distractions when you’re working.

5. Don’t let phones and emails hijack your day. I know that anyone into a process like customer servicing will wish me a horrible death for writing this. But if you’re in some process other than these, you simply have to ignore calls and mails when at work.

6. Always remember that your first loyalty is towards the end-user, not towards a career manager. So, the management wants you to review that computer game and write a critique for “War and Peace” in 90 minutes, say no. Do not take impossible deadlines that affect your quality. Your end user is not a moron, he can smell bulls**t from 50 kilometers away.

7. Organize, plan your day and stick to it. This won’t require that you buy that obscenely expensive smart-phone. An Excel sheet will do.

8. Keep a buffer period for unforeseen circumstances. You edit a newspaper. You’re waiting for a document for closing an article, a document that your research team said will take 30 minutes tops. When you’re informed there’s been a glitch and this document will take an hour to come, move on to something in your task-list that’ll take 30 minutes and get it over and done with. Don’t play “Doom Resurrected” on your laptop for those 30 minutes, you’re on company time.

9. Don’t let unimportant details take your time. When you’re replying to a client query through mail, do not spend an hour in a debate with your boss on whether “make a decision” or “take a decision” is good English. Both usages are correct, script that mail and send it.

10. Take a break. When you’re all pooped out after four hours on your laptop, take a break, have a coffee, go for a smoke, take time out to walk up to that ravishing new-hire in the next cubicle and tell her she’s looking devastatingly beautiful. Do anything except work when you need a break. Working with a tired mind affects the quality of your work, and this quality is non-negotiable.

These are pointers are just the first step towards making your work-plan more aerodynamic. The pointers that will help you take control over time. But these are not the only points. If you do have a pointer we missed here, just mail us and we’ll incorporate it in our subsequent time-management articles

This article has been written by Sakshi Bali. Get ready for more posts

How Lord Ram’s Values Help Us in Modern Corporate World? Ram Navami Special

2013-04-15T13:10:00.000-07:00

Since the MNC’s came into India the one fear that always bothered the Indians was that this era of corporatization would perhaps be responsible for forgetting our moral values. But that did not happen as the MNC’s knew how to cater to the Indian sensibilities. A long time has passed since and one can easily see that in the office space (of a corporate office), values from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are followed. These may not be exactly the same as written in these epics but as time has passed and changed, so have these values but only in the manner of acting them out and not the crux of it all.

The first and the foremost quality that one sees in a corporate set up is that of the hierarchy, which is the chain of command that is an essential part of the workplace. The one at the top of the pyramid is the leader and this leader has to exhibit certain leadership qualities, which can in most cases be seen as being similar to how with the help of ideals and values upheld by Lord Ram, he was able to fight a war with Ravana, and what’s the most important feature is that he did it by “playing by the rules” and fair and square. Such ideals and values are now important pre-requisites for various corporate companies that are willing to hire candidates for a particular job.

Another one of Lord Ram’s values that are followed in the corporate companies is that they are able to polish and refine leader’s to make them excellent teachers. These teacher’s (leaders) are then able to shape their protégés and mold them into becoming future leaders of their respective companies. But for this, the leaders require the compassion and understanding for which Lord Ram is known for. The corporate world may be a place of cutthroat competition, but by imbibing ideals and values of Lord Ram they teach you to be competitive and compassionate all at the same time.

Lord Ram was a man of ideals and also, he was an ideal man, an ideal son, husband, brother, King. So taking it from there the corporate world doesn’t expect its employees to be ideal in every sphere but they want an ideal worker which is why they look for leadership qualities and being able to work with a team. Moreover, other such concepts as deployment of work to subordinates and having a deputy in charge and outsourcing can all be seen as concepts and values taken directly from the Ramayana.

So let these words be a reminder to everyone in the corporate world and the non-corporate world, that no matter how new the technology or the idea is, we as Indians can proudly say that our tradition helps us to work to our fullest and give our best because of the traditional values that have been passed on from generations. May you all celebrate this Ram Navami with the blessings of Lord Ram and may prosperity and success be what you acquire by imbibing the values of Lord Ram.

Happy Ram Navami to you all. Jai Shri Ram!''

This article has been written by Taruna Hooda . Check his more excited posts.

The Power of Feelings - The Path to Great Success

2013-04-13T18:03:00.002-07:00

Feelings, Emotions in a human make them living beings. Feelings or emotions are the source of inner expression or deliver to a message to the people around so that they can realise what is being said, written, sung or demonstrated through the mode of expression. The entire life of a human is full of feelings may love, respect, patience, jealous, envy, greed, hatred, loneliness etc. At every stage of life feelings play a vital role in expressions.

Success is something which one gets after hard work or some get it just like that may because it was in their fate. Whatever is the source of success, success is success which should be respected and treated well.

Success is like a white pearl- a symbol of purity which get fades if not treated well or get in touch with the air of boast, lust, disrespect etc. The pearl of success will lose its purity and will not taste the same as it used to. Feelings play a vital role when one achieves success; success is a taste of sweetness, relief and lightness. So once you taste the success enjoy it, feel it, live it and make it memorable. But please, avoid these Errrs……………….

Do not over do your success, long story short please do not over celebrate your success as it might lead to some negative thoughts and make some people jealous.

Do not underestimate the fellow competitors, do not show them that you are the best and what you did they could not because you never know when your days are finishing. Instead show them respect, highlight their brave steps or achievements so that they do not feel bad about your success. In every competition there is a winner if its you today, it could be someone else the other day.

Do not lose senses, when getting success. Work hard party harder principle should be followed but do not forget there is more to achieve. The present success does not end the story of your professional or personal life

.Do not sleep on your success story, share it. The more you share the more the people are aware of your success story the challenges you faced in the journey and your success happiness gets multiplied. Be the reason of inspiration for others and share your inspiration story too.

Do not claim yourself an individual winner. Support the team spirit, make each of the team member part of the success story.

Last but not the least success tastes better when tasted in senses and when one is grounded. If one flies high in the air of boast, underestimating others one smashes hard on the ground in tiny uncountable pieces.

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How to Get Motivated While You are Depressed?

2013-04-10T12:24:00.000-07:00

There always comes a time when you will be down and out and no matter what you do you feel as if there is nothing that can pull you through. But, there is always a way. And as cliched as it may be, but where there is a will there is a way.

Firstly, you need to be able to figure out the root cause of your depression. Be it losing a job, or even breaking up or any other reason, you need to identify it and try and make peace with it. Once that is done you must try and not do things that would remind you of the negative stuff. In order to not get depressed further you must involve yourself in positive activities that will make you happy and not sad.

Second of all, when you are depressed you will be highly negative. Your appetite will be affected; you will either eat way too much or you will completely cut off your ties from food. But even if it hurts, you need to tell yourself that no matter what you must keep yourself healthy and eat. One thing that you need to understand is that overeating or starving yourself will only harm you and you must counsel yourself to not do that.

The next step is to socialize. Now that becomes quite challenging as many a times people who are battling depression tend to avoid people not realizing that having friends around would be a big motivational factor. Talk out your problems with your friends or someone who is close to you. If need be, go to a counselor as they are good listeners. But do not go to a counselor thinking that they would provide a solution because they will tell you only one thing and that is that the solution lies within you.

Taking it from here, as someone who is depressed you must tell yourself positive things about yourself. It may sound childish or silly but the truth is that when you are depressed your morale also goes down and despite others telling you ‘how great you are’ or that ‘you are awesome’, one tends to not feel good about themselves. Confidence also becomes low and it starts affecting everything around you. In such times, you must keep yourself cheerful and happy and tell yourself that no matter what, you will be okay.

Getting motivated when you are depressed is not much of an effort, but the important thing is that you take that motivation and turn things around for yourself so that you can go back to being the way you were. Do better at your job, be focused and figure your priorities in life. When order in your life is restored, you shall automatically get motivated to do something and do more than what you can. But always remember, when down and out never set unrealistic goals as they may disappoint you and make you sad all over again. Instead make small goals that will make a smile appear on you face upon completion and make you believe in yourself and in everything around you.

Above article has been written by Taruna Hooda. Be with us and get ready to read more motivational posts of Taruna.

Time to Fulfill your Duties- Wakeup Call

2013-03-27T05:18:00.001-07:00

Today,we live in a world where we don’t even have time for ourselves. Our lives are running like some superfast rally cars with no brakes installed. Today, we have trapped ourselves in the materialistic things which abstrain ourselves to live quality life.

God has given us bellies and we have to try best to fulfil it, but is it worth doing some task at the cost of another? This is the question which everyone should ask themselves. If we talk to people in context of quality life, most of them will end up with the concept of money. Can money buy you comfort? ofcourse not, perhaps it can buy you all the luxuries. I am not denying the importance of money but money can’t ensure smooth working of life.

Today’s busy man is having a load of duties to do but everybody is living in a society. People constitutes society. So, each person is having its unique role towards the society. A person should also value his personal growth, social growth not only financial growth. It’s not a tough task to give yourself a quality life. It only needs to take initiative. A person has to follow these duties:

DUTY TOWARDS PARENTS: What are the expectations of our parents from us. Do they want bags of money in return to their priceless love? Do they want us to take them on a world tour? Ofcourse not. All they want is love. Isn’t it’s our duty to realise all those sleepless nights which they spent during our childhood? Remember that time when your father used to be best friend of yours. Remember when your mother used to take you back from school. Nothing can pay for that purest form of love, but atleast we can deliver the same love to them.

DUTY TOWARDS YOUR HONEY(WIFE): How often you used to say those affectionate words which drives her crazy? How often you used to hold her hands after coming back from work? Isn’t it your love on which she have claim? A girl leave her life, friends, parents to put her in a new mould where she is recognised by your name. She sacrifices all her dreams to weave new dreams with a guy who is supposed to take care of her for the rest of her life; it’s your duty to pay attention to her for all the unconditional love she gave to you. Do everything to make her happy.

DUTY TOWARDS YOUR LOVELY KIDS: Remember the day when your baby stepped in this world. You must have felt the most proud person of the world.L
The time when he first said you “dad”,the time when he pulled your finger and start learning to walk. Nothing can be more pleasurable to them than your hug. Take your child in your arms and make him realise that you are still his best friend.
DUTY TOWARDS SOCIETY: Society is the platform which associates you with your surrounding world. Society gives us the identity; it’s also our duty to fulfill our part to society as being a member of it. Society includes your friends,neighbours,colleagues. When was the last time you said hi to your neighbour? It’s easy to make friends but hard to keep friendship alive. Give time to your friends.Don’t become so lazy to give a smile to your colleagues.

Pull out some time from your busy work schedule and fulfill all your duties. Don’t delay them, do them right at the moment. It’s good to rate yourself on a scale of “life you ever wish”. Find out, upto what extent you have succeed. Do necessary things to reach at a point called ”Perfect Life”.
“Don’t let others to knock the door of your heart,keep it open”.

Power of Team Work

2013-03-24T12:42:00.000-07:00

When we talk about team work,people generally think we are talking about the business term or corporate working system. Team work is related to every context of life. Imagine a single task which we accomplish without the team work. Even when we walk, it can be described as a coordination between many parts of our body like brain,eyes and legs.

When we eat something, firstly it goes to stomach where the major nutrients are absorbed. Then it goes to small intestine where the food particle get fine and further nutrients get absorbed. It then goes to large intestine where the remaining nutrients are absorbed and the food is transform into excretable form. The energy absorbed from food is used to drive our body functions and excess energy is stored in liver. Imagine if a single organ of a body stops functioning . What will happen? That is the significance of team work.
You might have seen the group of cankers(kidi) which use to carry big insect like dead cockroach and take it to suitable place and derive their food. Can a single canker accomplish this task?
Bees' make their hives in a scientific pattern. Can a single bee make such huge hives? Isn't it an example of team work?

Have you ever wonder how some organisation become so big that it even crosses country barriers. There is not some rocket science involved in the expansion of an organisation.

There is a great English quote involved in this context-"great business is not great by the amount of money it has,great business involve great team work ".

TEAM WORK IN HINDU MYTHOLOGY:

According to Hindu Mythology, there are DEVAS' who are responsible for every phenomenon happens in nature. Each DEVA is assigned his department. For example-rain and thunderstorm is assigned to INDRA, food is assigned to ANNAPURNA, fire is assigned to AGNI and many more. This nature works very well due to team formed by the DEVAS. Each works on his assigned task effectively. One day, INDRA get angry on some issue and decided to go on strike.But all the other devas were doing their duties effectively. Rain was stopped by the INDRA due to which crops got destroyed.ANNAPURNA become angry due to this, also went on strike. Now gods and people on earth both were starving.SUN was doing its duty and water was being evaporating which leads the clouds to accumulate lot of water. Suddenly,the clouds got burst and a lot of devastation occurred on the earth.

It also disturbed the natural cycle of nature. Then supreme god VISHNU got to know the issue and resolved it. After that everything started going as it was going before.

Team work plays it's role in every aspect of life.

To ensure the success of an organisation, a good team work is the key factor:
Qualities of a good team:

T:Thoughtful
E:Effective
A:Aim High
M:Management

A good team should be thoughtful in ideas they build up,ways by which they accomplish their task,opportunities they see in their work.

A good team should be Effective. There is no point of doing anything unless it is done in an effective way. There is no point of being a speaker unless you words doesn't ignites the spirit of people. A good team should be effective in doing whatever task it is doing.

A good team should Aim High. Every individual,every organisation have some aim.
A Chinese proverb will best describe this: "if you aim to do something,then do it on a large scale".

A good team should have mastery in Management. It is the key concept which plays it's role in every aspect of life just like Team Work. Management in team is very important otherwise everyone will work randomly. Something is needed which align team in a specific direction so that the desired purpose is fulfilled.

Live and Work ! Set Your Priorities

2013-03-23T13:04:00.000-07:00

It’s the dream of every parent to see their children at a high position. Gaurav was the only child of his parents. After completing MBA degree he got a job in USA who was offering a handsome salary to him. He decided to go and settle down in the USA for 5 years. He announced that he will earn enough money in 5 years and will come back and buy a Bungalow in a good locality, His parents used to reside in one bedroom flat.

He worked very hard to earn more and more, even he was not having time for a call to his parents. After two years he started feeling lonely and decided to get married. He called his parents to India and told that he will be on Vacation for ten days only. So he wants every customs to be done within ten days. He came to India, got married to a nice girl. After getting married, he came back to USA giving some money to his parents and told neighbours to look after them.

His wife started enjoying this country for about two months. After that she started feeling lonely. The frequency of calling home increases twice or sometime thrice a week. His savings started diminishing.
After two years they started having kids. Two lovely kids, one boy another girl; his children often demanded him to visit their home country as they wanted to see their grandparents.

Every year they decided to visit their country but due to saving more money he constantly dropped the plan for years. It was the time when his parents were not doing very well. One night he got a letter from his parents that they wanted to see their grandchildren as they are in the last days and his father was very sick.

He dropped the plan as he was not getting holidays from office. He tried hard but he didn’t get any holiday some days ago, a letter came to him which shocked him. His parents were no more. His neighbours had done whatever they could do in their last time. Even the last rights were performed by his neighbours. He decided to go back to his home country after winding up from USA. He tried to buy house in India but he found himself short of money from his savings as the property prices were hiked up in the last few years. He decided to go back to USA but his wife refused to go back with him.

He promised her wife to come back in another two years. As he was working in USA, years passed by. His daughter married to a guy in the USA and his son decided to settle down there. He finally decided to go back to his country. He came back to India and buys a two bedroom flat. Now he is 60 and his wife is no more. He usually resides alone and asks himself this question---What he has gained after compromising everything in life? Is it just 1 bedroom? His father lived in his own country and enjoyed everything and still able to manage to have one bedroom flat and he ruined all his life and in the last he just gained another bedroom.

Now perhaps after he will die, it will be the neighbours again who will be performing his last rights, God Bless them! But the question still remains the same – ‘was all this worth just for an extra bedroom flat finally?’

He is still searching for an answer…………….!!!!

It’s good to work hard for a balanced successful life. It means to ensure your health, family, relationships, and mental state all in good order.
There is no point of getting promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if you are full of tensions.

DON’T TAKE LIFE SERIOUSLY,TAKE IT SINCERELY

One of the yoga teachers used to make student laugh during classes. One of the students asked him if these jokes would take away something from yoga practice. The teacher generously replied that Life is not to be taken seriously as we are temporary here. We are like a prepaid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.

People trap themselves in the rat race for the whole life and finally end up at nothing. Don’t be serious, be sincere.

For perfect life balance –develop your own rules. Choose between, what is important and what is urgent?

Goal Setting is Essential ? Find Out

2013-03-19T11:01:00.002-07:00

Even on a Best Sunny Day if you keep moving the most powerful magnifying glass, it will not ignite the paper but it will light up if you focus and hold it this is called the power ofconcentration.

A man was travelling and stopped at intersection. He asked an old man that where does this road take me to? The old man asked that where do u want to go? The man replied “I don’t know”. Then the old man said “choose any road”, what the difference it makes.

It is the same thing like all the football players in a team are ready to play the game, all cheered up. And someone took the goal post away. There will be nothing left to the game.

How you know where you have arrived?

Enthusiasm without direction is like body without soul. Enthusiasm put in the right direction leads to the greatest achievements of life.

Goal setting works due to some reasons. Goal setting works very well because it creates motivation and forces people to achieve the desired results. Imagine your dream as a ladder and each rung as goal. While climbing each rung, gets you closer to the top of the ladder.

Dr. Stephen covey in his famous book the seven habits of highly effective people said we all have roles to play in life and to be effective in these roles, we need to create intention for each role.

There is a great quote by bill Copeland (the great American poet, writer) if you don’t have a goal in life, you are spending your life running around and not achieving anything for yourself.

Everything in this world created twice: first, creation in mind followed by manifestation in reality.

Without mental creation, there will be no physical creation. When you set any goal you fulfil the first criterion. Half of the creation is complete.

There is a Chinese proverb regarding importance of goals

* If you don’t scale the mountain, you can’t view the plane

Start setting S.M.A.R.T goals:

S: Specific
M: Measurable
A: Attainable
R: Relevant
T: Time oriented

Ways to Boost and Sustain Your Energy during Tough Time

2013-03-16T02:21:00.001-07:00

Learn, How to Sustain Your Energy?

Energy loss during tough time is a popular somatic signs, which could bring in things like depression. The more energy you lose the more you are going to confine yourself in the bed and thus avoid activities, which will help you feel better during the bad times. However, you would find a number of people ending up trying temporary methods including having lots of coffee, which could boost your energy for a life, but it comes at a cost of some repercussions. Or try sleeping too much, which could even backfire, thus making things bad to worse. The following are the best ways to boost and sustain your energy during the tough time.

Take small steps at a time

When you are facing tough time or at the verge of depression, make sure you try taking some small changes. This will help you in getting back your lost energy during your bad time. The experts of this field recommend carrying out few small steps, which help in creating feasible goals during your current state. For instance, if anyone is in a bad mood owing to the surrounding tough situations, taking a good shower could help in gaining the energy to face these conditions. Or you could think of trying to engage in couple of things, which happens to be pleasurable for instance try dancing for a while on your favorite song or music. Once you start taking some small steps you tempt to keep going thus gathering enough energy to build up the blocks.

Eating out energy rich foods

Another way to gain and sustain energy during your bad times could be to take the resort of having food rich in carbohydrates can boost the sugar level in our body making a good difference in your body. These foods could include things like green vegetables, fruits, proteins and whole grains. If you choose to listen up your body requirements especially paying a heed to low blood sugar levels could also help you in making things easy for you during your bad time. If any nursing professional works for a long and uninterrupted shift she is more likely to lose her energy, which could be overshadowed seeking the help of good meal. The food requirements of your body could differ from the others, but considering it could really help you in making things better in terms of energy, which is a must while you face bad time.

Practice for a sound sleep hygiene

Sleep also helps in boosting up your energy and getting extremely high or low could really hamper the way you feel. A good sleep could interrupt the energy loss being carried out inside your body while you face some tough time and help in retaining the lost energy to a great extent. In fact, you should practice for sound sleep hygiene during your smooth time so that it can help you when the time is not at your side.

Moving your body

In order to move your body, you are not required to visit any gym and run over the treadmills or lift weights until you feel like doing it. Moving your body means, you put your body into any physical activity, which can give you pleasure. By moving your body, you only help in pumping your hearts, which help in boosting up the energy in your body. This could be the best gift, which you could think of giving yourself while being in a bad time.

Final word

Facing a tough time is not an optional thing, which anyone could face any point of time. When you face such situations, losing energy is pretty inevitable. However, at such junctures, you are not supposed to lose your poise and by trying the above ways, you could boost and sustain your energy levels.

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Never Quit - Abraham Lincoln Hindi Motivational Story

2013-02-24T12:36:00.000-08:00

गरीबी में जन्म लिया , लिंकन ने अपनी पूरी ज़िन्दगी में लगातार हार का सामना किया। वह आठ चुनाव हारे , दो बार बिजनेस में फेल हुए और nervous breakdown जैसी समस्या भी उन्हें आई !

वो बहुत बार हार मान सकते थे लेकिन उन्होंने वही रास्ता चूना जो एक विजेता चुनता हैं क्यूंकि वह हारे नहीं और अमेरिकी इतिहास के बेहद successful President बने !

यहाँ इनके जीवन का लेख चित्र देने की कोशिश कर रहा हूँ शायद आपको भी समझ आ जाये विजेता वो नहीं जो हर बार जीते बल्कि वो हैं जो हारकर भी आगे बडे और अपने लक्ष्य पर नज़र बनाये रखे लिंकन की तरह !
1816 - उनकी family को उन्ही के घर से निकल दिया गया . इसकी खातिर बचपन से ही उन्हें भी काम करना पढा !
1818 - उनकी माँ की मृत्यु हो गयी
1831 - Business ख़त्म हो गया
1832 - राज्य के चुनाव में हार
1832 - Job से भी हाथ धोया - law school में Admission नहीं मिला
1833 - दोस्त से पैसा उधार लेकर काम शुरू किया लेकिन साल के आखिर तक बिजनेस भी ख़त्म और 17 साल तक दोस्त का उधार उतारने में लगा

1834 - फिर से राज्य के चुनाव में हार
1835 - शादी करी और पहले ही साल में उनकी पत्नी की मृत्यु !
1836 - Nervous Breakdown हुआ और 6 महीने तक bed से भी नहीं उठे
1838 - राज्य सभा का speaker बनने की कोशिश की और हार गए
1840 - Elector बनने के लिए try किया और हार गए
1843 - Congress के लिए try किया और फिर वही हार

1846 कांग्रेस के लिए try किया और इस बार जीत मिली और Washington जाकर अच्छा काम किया
1848 फिर से कांग्रेस के लिए try किया और इस बार जीत गए
1849 Land Officer की जॉब के लिए rejected किये गए
1854 Senate के लिए खड़े हुए और फिर वही हार मिली
1856 Vice President के लिए nominate किये गए लेकिन 100 से भी कम वोट मिले
1858 फिर से U.S Senate के लिए खड़े हुए और हार गए
1860 और अब इतिहास रचने की बारी थी President of United States बनाने की

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