tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91847482024-09-02T07:13:20.325+05:30Thought Provoking / Motivating / Inspiring StuffDeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11104337616121260663noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184748.post-4225718008246614972011-06-14T13:15:00.002+05:302011-06-14T13:22:30.371+05:30

The Focus Guidelines at a Glance Here is a list of the guidelines. For an explanation of each guidelines visit Focus Guidelines at GettingResults.com. Apply concentrated effort. Ask yourself, “What are you rushing through for?” Batch and focus. Bite off what you can chew. Carry the good forward. Change your focus. Choose one project or one thing to focus on. Clear away external distractions.

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A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. "Your son is here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened. Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent.. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old

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That would be you. Even if you're not self-employed, your boss is you. You manage your career, your day, your responses. You manage how you sell your services and your education and the way you talk to yourself. Odds are, you're doing it poorly. If you had a manager that talked to you the way you talked to you, you'd quit. If you had a boss that wasted as much as your time as you do, they'd

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Following is an excerpts from The Essential Post of 2010 Zen Habits, basically its a summary of the best zen habit articles selected/voted by the readers. The Essential Posts of 2010 Each year I choose the top posts from Zen Habits for the year but this year I decided to let you guys do the choosing. I don’t keep track of stats anymore so I don’t know which posts you guys liked best. It was

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60 TIPS FOR A STUNNINGLY GREAT LIFEI want to shift gears from leadership to a pure focus on crafting an exceptional life for this blog post. Ultimately, life goes by in a blink. And too many people live the same year 80 times. To avoid getting to the end and feeling flooded regret over a live half-lived, read (and then apply) these tips:1. Exercise daily.2. Get serious about gratitude.3. See your

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In a nutshell the 10 Commandments of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma which I came across through on youtube from Gemba Academy. 1. Open your mind to change2. Think 'yes we can if....'3. Always attack processes and NEVER people.4. Seek simple solutions. 5. If it's broken, Stop to fix it (when you first identify it)6. Use creativity NOT capital7. Problems are opportunities in disguise8. Find the

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This is an extraction from http://sethgodin.typepad.comWhere do ideas come from?1. Ideas don't come from watching television2. Ideas sometimes come from listening to a lecture3. Ideas often come while reading a book4. Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them5. Ideas hate conference rooms, particularly conference rooms where there is a history of criticism, personal

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The following was a mail received from Bruno's One Minute eMail and of course has a huge lesson for all of us and it takes only a minute to read. A drunken man with a strong smell of gin......sat down on a subway next to a priest. The man's tie was stained, his face plastered with red lipstick, and a half-empty bottle of gin was sticking out of his torn coat pocket. He opened his newspaper and

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Once a boy went to a shop with his mother. The shop keeper looked at the small cute child and showed him a bottle with sweets and said 'Dear Child..u can take the sweets... But the child didnt take. The shop keeper was surprised.. such a small child he is and why is he not taking the sweets from the bottle. Again he said take the sweets.... Now the mother also heard that and said.. take the

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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings butshorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, buthave less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smallerfamilies, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but lesssense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems,more medicine, but less

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Tips for Better Life1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.3. Sleep for 7 hours.4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.5. Play more games.6. Read more books than you did the previous year.7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.8. Spend

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A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room

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Challenge is the core and mainspring of all human actions. If there is a ocean we cross it, if there is a disease we cure it. If there is a wrong and we right it. If there is a record we break it. And if there is a mountain we climb it. ~James Ullman ~ Writer and Mountaineer

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Respect is how to treat everyone not just those u want to impress!!!!!!!!!!!!~unknown

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He who works all day is miserable, he who plays all day doesn't pay his bills. The Bowman hits the mark, as sailor reaches land, by having different skills and knowing when to work and when to relax. ~unknown

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I just got this article from a friend and wonder if this is right or wrong, however the story is interesting indeed. If you have difficulty understanding the current world financial mess, the following should help... Once upon a time in a village in India, a man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10.The villagers, seeing there were many monkeys around, went out to the

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No life ever grows great until it is focussed, dedicated and disciplined. ~I am questioning myself on which staged am I in?

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One day a father, of a very wealthy family, took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people can be. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.On their return from the trip, the father asked his son,"How was the trip?""It was great Dad!""Did you see how poor people can be?" the father asked."Oh

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“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.” ~ Saint Augustine

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Interesting story that I came across while surfing.I like to visit the cemetery and look at different tombstones. I like to find out what is the last phrase that people like to put in their tombstones. It always gives me a lot of inspirations. On day, I walked into a cemetery aimlessly looking at different tombstones. There have a lot of fancy carved stones engraved with famous proverbs. Some

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain

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Success . . .To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier

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The story, Rose, is about a story of someone who go on to fulfilled her dream of graduating in spite of her old age. This is rare in our culture now. But if we can be inspired from her attitude, we may have the courage to learn regardless of where we are or how old we are.The first day of college our professor introduced him and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood

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Caroline, a primary school teacher, always worry about herstudents' poor academic results. At last she thought of an ideato help them. One day, she asked all her students to bring a bigbag full of potato to school. Her students wondered what potatohad to do with study but they still followed her instruction.When the class began next morning, each student had a big bagfull of potato on their

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Don't Change the World . .Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a prosperous country. One day, he went for a trip to some distant areas of his country. When he was back to his palace, he complained that his feet were very painful, because it was the first time that he went for such a long trip, and the road that he went through was very rough and stony. He then ordered his people to cover

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