I am starting with josh, But …

People start things with high josh and will loose the tempo and get dropped after some time. If some one is not able to maintain his motivation or josh in a project means, the results are not measurable. It is just intangible. Some one wants to drop 10kgs in 3 months, there should be a milestone point and measurable option. “How much I have to achieve per month and where am I standing right now, should I throttle up the process or I am on right pace? …” - all these things need a measuring point.
Only when my goals are measurable, I will be able to maintain the josh. Otherwise I cannot.

I am honest, But competitors shows carrot and gets the order

There are enough people and enough market for every product. What ever I offer, there is a market to buy. I just need to find it. I am honest. I do not cheat. People cheat. Let them. I do not bother and I do not need to focus on them. Let me focus on honest business. I will create a new market of honest people. They may be waiting for me.

How to deal with ‘EGO’?

EGO is not a small thing to drop just like that. It has a different play at different aspects.

Relationship: The word Ego itself says ‘EGo means Everything Goes’. I should not bring ego between me and my relationship. It will create a drift in the relationship. But I am not Buddha to drop my ego just like that. Ego comes in between just like that. What should I do? I need to think how much this person has to me. In case of permanent relationship (like – spouse, parents..) the list of ‘ how much they have done to me’ will be longer than ‘ How much I have done to them’. When I see ‘how much they have done to me’, my heart will be filled with gratitude and when gratitude comes, no possibility for ego. And the relationship grows and shoots up.

Spiritual: I should drop ego to align myself into the spirituality.

Personal / Professional: I should not have ego with world. But with me. With myself, I should I have thin ego. It helps me to ask myself, “How can I perform like this, this is not accepted” and pushes me more to get right. Mediocre performance and being happy about it will destroy some one’s life. He need little ego (only with himself) to get hurt, so that he will push himself and start performing.

With my self: I should have little ego, so that I will help me to grow in my profession and pushes me to perform more.
In the relationship:I should not have ego. How do I drop it ? I need to count my blessings and I need to see how much the other person has done to me. This process will fill my heart with gratitude and helps me to remove the ego.

Marc Faber comment on US economy

Investment analyst and entrepreneur Dr. Marc Faber concluded his monthly bulletin (June 2008) with the Following:

''The federal government is sending each of us a $600 rebate. If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money goes to China. If we spend it on gasoline it goes to the Arabs. If we buy a computer it will go to India. If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. If we purchase a good car it will go to Germany. If we purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan and none of it will help the American economy. The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer, since these are the only products still produced in US. I've been doing my part.''

Don’t be angry, be aware

Watch someone who gets angry very quickly. The more he gets angry, the more he seems addicted to being angry. Getting angry does not resolve problems.

Biologists tell us that repeated behavior actually rewires the brain. Neural networks get established with repeated behavior pattern. What this means is that anger breeds anger.

The emotions not only rewire your brain, but they also rewire your body. In their efforts to accommodate these repeated and debilitating emotions, the cells lose the capacity to absorb nutrients. They grow less and they rejuvenate less. These changes affect you and more importantly affect your progeny as well, as your entire cellular and DNA structure can be changed by your behavior.

Biology tells us that your emotions are chemicals, and these chemicals are released by the brain. We control these chemicals. However, over time, these chemicals can change you and control you.

Watch yourself getting angry the next time. What are you angry at? Are you angry at some one or are you angry about something? If you say that you are angry at some thing, at some behavior, watch yourself as someone else repeats that behavior. Do you get equally angry? Do you allow some people to get away with such behavior, or even humor such behavior in some people that would make you blow up at another person? Therefore, are you angry with a person because you have made up your mind to be angry with that person?

You will find that 90% of the time you are angry at a person and not a behavior or an issue. If you are angry with an issue you can learn to use that anger as energy and do something with that energy. If it is a behavior you can learn to laugh at it. However, if it is a person, you have a deeper problem. You have already made a judgment about that person and all that you do is to collect evidence to support your judgment. Nothing that person does can be right for you.

With awareness you can drop these judgments. Awareness makes you realize the truth that you and another person and every other person are the same at a deep level. If you are getting angry with someone, you are in fact getting angry with yourself. It is your negativities that make you see others negatively. It is possible to drop these negativities through meditation.

Don’t get angry, become aware.

Reality,,,,

An old man used to sit every day in the beach from morning to evening watching the people in the beach. Another man who noticed this, went to him and asked what he was actually doing. The old man replied that he was searching for a woman to be his wife. The man was shocked at this reply and asked him why he had never searched in his youth. The old man replied that he has been searching from when he was 30 years of age. The man was astonished and asked him what sort of a woman he was searching for and he replied, “I am searching for a perfect woman. I found one woman who matched what I had in mind but it didn’t work out well with her.” The man asked why, for which the old man replied, “Well, she was searching for a perfect man!”

We all collect images from media and watch 'reality' continuously hoping to find a match with these images some time. It would be a good idea to drop these images and welcome reality instead!

“Riches, Mediocrity and Poverty Begin in the Mind "

Good news or bad news? It depends on how you see things. You can be bitter after being cheated. Or you can choose to move on with your life…

Robert De Vincenzo, the great Argentine golfer, once won a tournament and, after receiving the check and smiling for the cameras, he went to the clubhouse and prepared to leave. Some time later, he walked alone to his car in the parking lot and was approached by a young woman.

She congratulated him on his victory and then told him that her child was seriously ill and near death. She did not know how she could pay the doctor's bills and hospital expenses.

De Vincenzo was touched by her story, and he took out a pen and endorsed his winning check for payment to the woman. "Make some good days for the baby," he said as he pressed the check into her hand.

The next week he was having lunch in a country club when a Professional Golf Association official came to his table. "Some of the boys in the parking lot last week told me you met a young woman there after you won that tournament." De Vincenzo nodded. "Well," said the official, "I have news for you. She's a phony. She has no sick baby. She's not even married. She fleeced you, my friend."

"You mean there is no baby who is dying?" said De Vincenzo. "That's right," said the official. "That's the best good news I've heard all week." De Vincenzo said. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

When you consistently maintain a positive frame of mind, you'll become known as a problem-solver rather than a complainer. People avoid complainers. They seek out problem-solvers. You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

The difference between can and cannot are only three letters. Three letters that determine your life's direction. Being positive or negative are habits of thoughts that have a very strong influence on life.

What you sow, they will reap

Well, we all know there is no use crying over spilled milk.

But this story is different. It is about how the little boy who spilled the milk went on to become a world renowned scientist.

He was then a five-year-old. As he was trying to remove a vessel of milk from the refrigerator he lost his grip on the vessel and it fell, spilling its contents all over the kitchen floor - a veritable sea of milk!

When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of yelling at him, giving him a lecture, or punishing him she said, Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have made! I have rarely seen such a huge puddle of milk. Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up? Indeed, he did.

After a few minutes his mother said, You know, Robert, whenever you make a mess like this, eventually you have to clean it up and restore everything to its proper order. So, how would you like to do that? We could use a sponge, a towel, or a mop. Which do you prefer? He chose the sponge and together they cleaned up the spilled milk.

His mother then said, You know, what we have here is a failed experiment in how to effectively carry a big vessel of milk with two tiny hands. Let's go out in the backyard and fill the vessel with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without dropping it. The little boy learned that if he grasped the vessel by balancing the weight in both the hands than over-burdening one of the hands, he could carry it without dropping it. What a wonderful lesson!

The now renowned scientist, when only five learned that he needn't be afraid of making mistakes. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just opportunities for learning something new, which, after all, is what scientific experiments are all about. Even if the experiment 'doesn't work', we usually learn something valuable from it.

Wouldn't it be great if all parents respond the way Robert's mother responded to him?
As parents, each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Beware of what you are depositing into the minds of the little ones - after all, what you sow at five is what the children will reap for the rest of their lives.

Ten secrets about working in IT

1. The pay in IT is good compared to many other professions, but since they pay you well, they often think they own you.

2. It will be your fault when users make silly errors.

3. You will go from villain to hero and back again multiple times within any given day.

4. Certifications won't always help you become a better technologist, but they can help you land a better job or a pay raise.

5. Your non-technical co-workers will use you as personal tech support for their home PCs.

6. Vendors and consultants will take all the credit when things work well, and blame you when things go wrong.

7. You'll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.

8. Veteran IT professionals are often the biggest roadblock to implementing new technologies.

9. Some IT professionals deploy technologies that do more to consolidate their own power than help the business.

10. IT pros frequently use jargon to confuse non-technical business managers and hide the fact that they screwed up.

Roses of Life...

I've dreamed many dreams that never came true,
I've seen them vanish at dawn.
But I've realized enough of my dreams, thank God,
To make me want to dream on.

I've prayed many prayers, when no answers came,
Though I waited so patient and long,
But answers came to enough of my prayers
To make me keep praying on.

I've trusted many a friend who failed
And left me to week alone,
But I've found enough of my friends to be true
To make me keep trusting on.

I've sown many seeds that fell by the way
For the birds to feed upon,
But I've held enough golden sheaves in my hands
To make me keep sowing on.

I've drained the cup of disappointment and pain
And gone many days without song,
But I've sipped enough nectar from the roses of life
To make me want to live on.

I have learned...

1. I have learned -
That sometimes the people
you expect to kick you
when you are down
will be the ones to
help you get back up.

2. I have learned -
That just because someone
does not love you the way
you want them to
does not mean
they don't love you
with all they have.

3. I have learned -
That maturity has more to
do with the experiences you have
had and what you have learned
from them and less to do with
how many birthdays you have
celebrated.

4. I have learned -
That no matter how good a friend is,
He or she is going to hurt you every
once in a while and you must
forgive him or her for that.

5. I have learned -
That it isn't always enough
to be forgiven by others.
You have to learn to forgive
yourself.

6. I have learned -
That no matter how badly
your heart is broken the
world doesn't stop for
your grief.

7. I have learned -
That background and circumstances
May have influenced who we are,
but we are responsible for who
we become.

Important Words....

The six most important words in the English language are: "I admit I made a mistake."

The five most important words in the English language are: "You did a good job."

The four most important words in the English language are: "What is your opinion?"

The three most important words in the English language are: "If you please."

The two most important words in the English language are: "Thank you."

The one most important word in the English language is: "We."

The least important word in the English language is: "I."

The two least important words in the English language are: "I can't!"

The three least important words in the English language are: "You Screwed Up!"

I created you

One day, as usually, an orphan, a little girl, stood at the street corner begging for food, money or whatever she could get. Now, this girl was wearing very tattered clothes, was dirty and quite dishevelled.

A well-to-do you man passed that corner without giving the girl a second look. But, when he returned to his expensive home, his happy and comfortable family, and his well-laden dinner table, his thoughts returned to the young orphan. He became very angry with God for allowing such conditions to exist.

He reproached God, saying, ?How can you let this happen? Why don?t you do something to help this girl????

Then he heard God in the depths of his being responding by saying ?I did. I created You.?

Sathyam and Asathyam

Two people whom we are very familiar with, lived in a house near a river. Their names are Sathyam or truth and Asathyam or untruth. One day they went to the river to take a refreshing bath.

They removed their clothes, kept them in a safe place on the bank and jumped in to the clear and flowing water. They played for a while and suddenly Asathyam had an idea. When Sathyam was floating on the water and gazing at the sky, Asathyam got out of water and walked towards the bank. He made sure that Sathyam was not watching him. Slowly he moved towards Sathyam's clothes and wore them and quickly disappeared.

After some time, Sathyam got on his feet looked for Asathyam and could not find him anywhere. He came out of the water and walked towards his clothes and he saw that Asathyam had taken his clothes and had disappeared in to the vast world.

Since then both of them have been moving in all societies all over the world and people do not know who is who. People see Asathyam in Sathyam's clothes, trust him and get cheated. They see Sathyam in Asathyam's clothes and stay away from him and later find out that he was actually Sathyam.

This game is still going on and that is why our forefathers told us not to trust the appearance, but have the patience to look deeper. Beauty of the mind or soul is everlasting and beauty of the skin is withering away every second.

--From my Mentor..

Enlightenment - what is that?

A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. "Spare some change?" mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. "I have nothing to give you," said the stranger. Then he asked: "What's that you are sitting on?" "Nothing," replied the beggar. "Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember." "Ever looked inside?" asked the stranger. "No," said the beggar. "What's the point? There's nothing in there." "Have a look inside," insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.

I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself.

"But I am not a beggar," I can hear you say.

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some super-human accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form. The inability to feel this connectedness gives rise to the illusion of separation, from yourself and from the world around you. You then perceive yourself, consciously or unconsciously, as an isolated fragment. Fear arises, and conflict within and without becomes the norm.

I love the Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment as "the end of suffering." There is nothing superhuman in that, is there? Of course, as a definition, it is incomplete. It only tells you what enlightenment is not: no suffering. But what's left when there is no more suffering? The Buddha is silent on that, and his silence implies that you'll have to find out for yourself. He uses a negative definition so that the mind cannot make it into something to believe in or into a superhuman accomplishment, a goal that is impossible for you to attain. Despite this precaution, the majority of Buddhists still believe that enlightenment is for the Buddha, not for them, at least not in this lifetime.

-- The Power of Now

Elevator Story ......

There is a classic case in which the tenants of a large office building complained about the increasingly poor elevator service. A consulting firm specializing in elevator-related problems was employed to deal with the situation. It first established that average waiting time for elevators was too long. It then evaluated the possibilities of adding elevators, replacing existing elevators with faster ones, and introducing computer controls to improve utilization of elevators. For various reasons, none of these turned out to be satisfactory. The engineers declared the problem to be unsolvable.

When exposed to the problem, a young psychologist employed in the building's personnel department made a simple suggestion that dissolved the problem. Unlike the engineers who saw the service as too slow, he saw the problem as one deriving from the boredom of those waiting for an elevator. So he decided they should be given something to do. He suggested putting mirrors in the elevator lobbies to occupy those waiting by enabling them to look at themselves and others without appearing to do so. The mirrors were put up and complaints stopped. In fact, some of the previously complaining tenants congratulated management on improvement of the elevator service.

--Re-creating the Corporation..

Onsite Opportunity

SOME LOGICIAL THOUGHTS and STATEMENTS

1.Whenever you find the key to success, someone changes the lock.
2.To Err is human, but to forgive is not a COMPANY policy.
3.The road to success??.. Is always under construction.
4.Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does Milk.
5.In order to get a Loan, you first need to prove that you have ability to repay
back.
6.All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive or fattening.
7.Since Light travels faster than Sound, people appear brighter before you hear.
8.Everyone has a scheme of getting rich?.. Which never works.
9.If at first you don't succeed?. Destroy all evidence that you ever tried.
10.You can never determine which side of the bread to butter. If it falls down, it will always land on the buttered side.
11.Anything dropped on the floor will roll over to the most inaccessible corner.
12. 42.7% of all statistics is made on the spot.
13.As soon as you mention something?? If it is good, it is taken?. If it is bad, it happens.
14.He who has the gold, makes the rules ---- Murphy's golden rule.
15.If you come early, the bus is late. If you come late?? The bus is still late.
16.Once you have bought something, you will find the same item being sold somewhere else at a cheaper rate.
17.When in a queue, the other line always moves faster and the person in front of you will always have the most complex of transactions.
18.If you have paper, you don't have a pen. If you have a pen, you don't have paper. If you have both, no one calls.
19.Especially for engg. Students : If you have bunked the class, the professor has taken attendance.
20.You will pick up maximum wrong numbers when on roaming.
21.The door bell or your mobile will always ring when you are in the bathroom.
22.After a long wait for bus no.20, two 20 number buses will always pull in together and the bus which you get in will be crowded than the other.
23.If your exam is tomorrow, there will be a power cut tonight.
24.Irrespective of the direction of the wind, the smoke from the cigarette will always tend to go to the non-smoker
25.Before borrowing money from a friend, decide whether you need more.
26.There are three sides to every argument: your side, my side and the right side.
27.An expert is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.
28.Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Dignity is not one of them.
29.Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
30.When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.
31.Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
32.Well done is better than well said .
33.Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make them when nobody is looking.
34.Where there is a WILL, there is a WAY, Where there is MONEY, there are many WAYS.
35.Where there is MONEY, there are many FRIENDS and RELATIVES.
36.Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

From my Friend..

The Law of Success.....

-A Definite Chief Aim
-Self Confidence
-The Habit of Saving
-Initiative and Leadership
-Imagination
-Enthusiasm
-Self-Control
-Habit of Doing more Than Paid For
-Pleasing Personality
-Accurate Thought
-Concentration
-Co-operation
-Failure
-Tolerance

NO MAN HAS A CHANCE TO ENJOY PERMANENT SUCCESS UNTIL HE BEGINS TO LOOK IN A MIRROR FOR THE REAL CAUSE OF ALL HIS MISTAKES.
- Napoleon Hill.