Success - Musings...

Ask these Four Questions to yourself if you want to suceed...

 

Why?

Why Not?

Why Not Me?

Why Not Now?

 

Most of us are very poor critics of ourselves. We can easily criticize others and discover what is wrong with them, and we can easily build up an argument of our own side of the situation; but it is a far more difficult thing to be a self-critic-to take the situation that comes into our life and sit down with it frankly and say: "What did I do, or what have I said, that has contributed to this situation?"

 

 

There is not a person reading this page including me who is living up to his or her own possibilities. If you feel in a pretty much of a chaos, frustrated, lots of trouble and worry, just turn the searchlight on yourself and you will discover an available source of power. When you open up the channels and the avenues for that power, it will flood your soul and you will find yourself developing strength and poise, a solidarity, a feeling of security, that nothing on earth can shake!

 

 

Is there jealousy in your heart? Is there envy? Opposition? Don't expect a miracle if you retain an obstacle. There is some disciplining you must do. You have got to clear out the old festering sores of your heart. Perhaps you have lied about someone; perhaps you have been unkind; perhaps you have been slandered and gossiped. Perhaps you have been "little" when you should have been "big".

 

 

How can we transmit our ideals into action so that these ideals can have sway in our lives? Well, we have to begin in our own hearts. When we clear away all the clutters up the channels, the heart and mind are cleansed, the head becomes rarified and the old jealousies, animosities and hatreds are uprooted, and then, though trouble may come in and flood and encompass our lives, there still is a power that reveals our own possibilities. The mere fact that none of us is living up to his best does not predicate that we never can.

 

 

What do we do then??? God knows.... Well if it sounds like me pholosophizing well may be iam... Let me conclude with one note by someone...

 

You Have Ambition ??
You have a Goal ??
Now you have a way,
to make it Happen !!

Off you go beyond the boundaries..

Sail on the rays of the sun...

 

The right to speech. And no speech at all!

There's been much ado about the freedom of expression right from the time of constitutional evolution
the world over. But sometimes being quiet is more important than being vocal about an issue. So how
come nobody thought of the freedom to shut up?

 

Spiritual teachers have time and again emphasised the need to be alone with yourself to achieve inner
peace. But somebody who wants to stay mum has no legal backing to do so in our world! Friends and
well-wishers around you will force you to speak up, tell them what you're thinking, try to force
you out of your solitude by cajoling, persuasion and emotional blackmail. The message is loud and
clear: you have no right to shut up when you want to, especially if you're the gregarious types
most of the time.

 

The only occasion when the law gives you the choice to keep quiet is when they're arresting you for
an offence: 'Whatever you say or do can be and will be held against you'. But not all of us get
the opportunity of committing so grave a crime when such a privilege could be accorded to us. So
we're stuck with the freedom of speech for most parts of our lives, having to make the right sounds
forever! And because our society does not comprehend the Right to Silence, we're bound to make most
gaffes throught incorrect speech and suffer the repercussions of bad Karma. Tragic, don't you think?!

 

 

Like the Boyzone would put it, It's only words and words are all I have....

 

 

Kinda Quotes...

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

- Ambrose Bierce

 

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men.

- Bible

 

The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

- C. S. Lewis

Is total transparency good?

*** an interesting article by someone ***

I'm finally catching up on some backed up reading, including a month-old Wired magazine with the titillating cover story "Get Naked!".No, it's not what you think. The main story and some ancillary ones are about corporations who become totally transparent (naked) in relation to their staff, their board, their customers and their stockholders. Well worth the read. It's issue 15.04.

The stories range from coming out a bit, to total transparency and the resulting benefits. All of this led to some long discussions with people I respect, and some careful thoughts about this concept.

I've long advocated sharing much, much more information internally, including all of your financials with all of your staff (unless you have a union). I've told dozens of clients to share their draft strategic plan with their community. I tell everyone to post a link to their current 990 and most recent audit on the first page of their website.

But share everything? Nah. As a former ED, I can tell you that sharing MOST of my thoughts got me in trouble at times. Imagine this: income is down, you are thinking about a long term restructuring, and you muse about this in your blog. The action is 10-15% likely and perhaps a year away. EVERYONE, and I mean EVERY ONE on the staff will immediately assume that they will lose their job in the next 37 minutes. Same for the people you serve.


Some stuff you just have to keep to yourself.In one article, a CEO blogged and dissed his peers and some subordinates. Ohhh, bad idea. Have your dissing face to face, and keep the arguments inside the family. And, think of the HR implications!Bottom line for me: sharing--good. Lots of sharing--better. Financial transparency--essential.Get naked? Could get ugly. Fast.

MIT Demonstrates "Wireless Electricity"

The ability to direct and transmit electrical power through the air, without wires, took a further step from the theoretical to the practical in June when a group of MIT researchers demonstrated their "WiTricity" concept.

The technology works by transmitting electricity as a magnetic field oscillating at a specific frequency. Through "magnetically coupled resonance," the "receiver" can capture the electricity, making for an efficient and safe method of over-the-air transfer.

Wireless transmission of electricity has been understood in theory since the work of Nikolai Tesla in the 19th Century. Safe, efficient and cost-effective wireless electricity could hold countless beenfits, from eliminating the need to install costly copper wiring to lowered reliance on batteries for small devices. However, despite the success of WiTricity, the technology has a long way to go before it is deployed commercially... not to mention the need to better understand side effects such as interference and possible effects on health and the environment.

Source: Self Service World

Stranded on the Streets - Nala Damayanti

One of my favourite song from Nala Damayanti.. Found somewhere in blogosphere..

Stranded on the streets (NALA DAMAYANTHI)

yaethaedhoa paesi maatti konda
en kaNNae mookkae kaadhae...
vaendaadha vambae........

Stranded on the streets
Got to know where to go
Don't know what to do
I don't know what to know

Broken in the dark
I'm searching for the light
I don't know what is wrong and
I don't know what is right

Nowhere to belong
Missing my home town
Some of them here
Baby thing I'm going down

Think about the blues
I'm feeling down to low
I need someone to know
Why I'm feeling so

Why can't I be?
The way I meant to be...
Why can't they see?
Everything the way I see

What could be so wrong?
In the way I've been so long
Tell me my friend
Tell me where we all belong

Its the long and lonely night
I think someone got to held me tight
Give me a brand new start
Before i fall apart
Chase away my bluesAmong this broken heart

(Stranded on the streets.....)

Mr. Moon wants to tell me now
La la lai lai la la lai
How you feeling alone about
La la lai lai la la lai
If you looking for some company
La la lai lai la la lai
Just look down and smile on me
La la lai lai la la lai

Why can't I be?
The way I meant to be...
Why can't they see?
Everything the way I see

What could be so wrong?
In the way I've been so long
Tell me my friend
Tell me where we all belong

Its the long and lonely night
I think someone to held me tight
Give me a brand new start
Before i fall apart
Chase away my blues
Among this broken heart

(Stranded on the streets...)

Mr. Moon tell me what you care
La la lai lai la la lai
Hear my story that i got to share
La la lai lai la la lai
Tell me why life is so unfair
La la lai lai la la lai

You know better cause you're sitting out there
La la lai lai la la lai
Why can't I be?
The way I meant to be...

Why can't they see?
Everything the way I see
What could be so wrong?
In the way I've been so long

Tell me my friend
Tell me where we all belong
It's the long and lonely night
I think someone to held me tight

Give me a brand new start
Before i fall apart
Chase away my blues
Among this broken heart
(Stranded on the streets...)

How you look ...

Everything in this world can be seen as you wish to.

Good or Bad; Simple or Complicated; Easy or Difficult.

Its not how things are; its about how you look up to them.

...and how you look up to them is all up to you.

Well, Choose Yours...

EASY	DIFFICULT
Easy is to judge the mistakes of others	Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes
Easy is to talk without thinking	Difficult is to refrain the tongue
Easy is to hurt someone who loves us.	Difficult is to heal the wound...
Easy is to forgive others	Difficult is to ask for forgiveness
Easy is to set rules.	Difficult is to follow them...
Easy is to dream every night.	Difficult is to fight for a dream...
Easy is to show victory.	Difficult is to assume defeat with dignity...
Easy is to admire a full moon.	Difficult to see the other side...
Easy is to stumble with a stone.	Difficult is to get up...
Easy is to enjoy life every day.	Difficult to give its real value...
Easy is to promise something to someone.	Difficult is to fulfill that promise...
Easy is to say we love.	Difficult is to show it every day...
Easy is to criticize others.	Difficult is to improve oneself...
Easy is to make mistakes.	Difficult is to learn from them...
Easy is to weep for a lost love.	Difficult is to take care of it so not to lose it.
Easy is to think about improving.	Difficult is to stop thinking it and put it into action...
Easy is to think bad of others	Difficult is to give them the benefit of the doubt...
Easy is to receive	Difficult is to give
Easy to read this	Difficult to follow
Easy is keep the friendship with words	Difficult is to keep it with meanings

LAW OF THE JUNGLE !!! CORPORATE WORLD !!!!!

Two guys were hiking through the jungle when they spotted a tiger that looked both hungry and fast. One of the guys reached into his pack and pulled out a pair of Nike.

His friend looked at him "Do you really think those shoes are going to make you run faster than that tiger?"

I don't have to run faster than that tiger, his friend replied. "I just have to run faster than you".

Welcome to the corporate world!!

DREAM !!!!

HIBERNATION RESUMED....

I think I love you. But its all my fault.
I should've told you I loved you. But why? It'd all still be lost.

Maybe I was too scared, maybe not enough grown;
Maybe too blown.
Blown away, I mean, to claim you as my own.

But out of nowhere, you walked out the door;
Figuratively speaking of course, and left me poor.

But I didn't shed a tear.
I focused instead on trying to steer clear,
Clear off memories of you I held so dear.

But I'm still here.
Holding my beer?

Dreams - Why do we Dream ???

Why do we dream? Why is it that we ( and by we, of course, I mean I) clamber upon these perches and look carefully into the distance separating the reality from the magically unattainable and then proceed to nurture them?

Why the need to ask for more than is possible? Why do we dare to see what we may not voice, for fear of being ridiculed, for shame at such wild fantasies or for silence in return for luck.

Why do we dream? Why do we look beyond the boundaries upto which we push ourselves and then no more. Why do we ask for that which we do not see? Is it the hope that sustains us or the promise of fulfillment?

Do we dream for a better state of affairs or do we dream of actual fulfillment?

And why do we dream?

And why do I dream? If, as stated above, in the mornings, I can never recall what the fuss was all about. And if, every morning, reality beckons.

A kind of Quote (My first blog from my mobile)

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand

 

- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)

The right to speech. And no speech at all!

There's been much ado about the freedom of expression right from the time of constitutional evolution the world over. But sometimes being quiet is more important than being vocal about an issue. So how come nobody thought of the freedom to shut up?

Spiritual teachers have time and again emphasised the need to be alone with yourself to achieve inner peace. But somebody who wants to stay mum has no legal backing to do so in our world! Friends and well-wishers around you will force you to speak up, tell them what you're thinking, try to force you out of your solitude by cajoling, persuasion and emotional blackmail. The message is loud and clear: you have no right to shut up when you want to, especially if you're the gregarious types most of the time.

The only occasion when the law gives you the choice to keep quiet is when they're arresting you for an offence: 'Whatever you say or do can be and will be held against you'. But not all of us get
the opportunity of committing so grave a crime when such a privilege could be accorded to us. So we're stuck with the freedom of speech for most parts of our lives, having to make the right sounds forever! And because our society does not comprehend the Right to Silence, we're bound to make most gaffes throught incorrect speech and suffer the repercussions of bad Karma. Tragic, don't you think?!

Like the Boyzone would put it, It's only words and words are all I have....

Priceless things ...

Life holds so many priceless things.
The falling rain, the wind that sings.
Each star on a high, a big full moon.
And sunbeams dancing in your room.

The river as it rushes on.
A sunset when day is gone.
No wealth can buy a mountain tall.
These priceless things belong to all.

An autumn tree lends beauty rare.
With leaves piled deep most everywhere.
As nature wears a glowing smile.
To make each day a day worthwhile.

Could anything be quite as dear?
As laughing children that we hear?
The gift of friendship that is ours?
The miracle of growing flowers?

Each magic moment, treasured time
These priceless gifts are Yours and mine.
(a nice one i got through mail)

A Kindof Quot By Einstien

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

How nerd am i ?? does it really need a test ??

Paradigm Shift - Inspired by an cookie ad..

Imagine you are at an Airport or at an Railway Starion. While you're waiting for your flight or train, you notice a kiosk selling cookies. You buy a box, put them in your traveling bag and then you patiently search for an available seat so you can sit down and enjoy your cookies. Finally, you find a seat next to a gentleman.

You reach down into your traveling bag and pull out your box of cookies. As you do so, you notice that the gentleman starts watching you intensely. He stares as you open the box and his eyes follow your hand as you pick up the cookie and bring it to your mouth. Just then he reaches over and takes one of your cookies from the box, and eats it! You're more than a little surprised at this. Actually, you're at a loss for words. Not only does he take one cookie, but also he alternates with you. For every one cookie you take, he takes one.

Now, what's your immediate impression of this guy? Crazy? Greedy? He's got some nerve? Can you imagine the words you might use to describe this man to your associates back at the office? Meanwhile, you both continue eating the cookies until there's just one left. To your surprise, the man reaches over and takes it. But then he does something unexpected. He breaks it in half, and gives half to you. After he's finished with his half he gets up, and without a word, he leaves.

You think to yourself, "Did this really happen?" You're left sitting there dumbfounded and still hungry. So you go back to the kiosk and buy another box of cookies. You then return to your seat and begin Opening your new box of cookies when you glance down into your traveling bag. Sitting there in your bag is your original box of cookies – still unopened.

Only then do you realize that when you reached down earlier, you had reached into the other man's bag, and grabbed his box of cookies by mistake. Now what do you think of the man? Generous? Tolerant? You've just experienced a profound paradigm shift. You're seeing things from a new point of view. Is it time to change your point of view?

Many a times, we are clouded by our own instincts and predispositions. These hamper our relationship with our peers, subordinates and superiors. Let-us Try to be non-judgmental and look beyond the obvious.

Don't Copy if you can't paste

At a training program for top management a well-known motivational speaker gathering the entire crowd's attention, said, "The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn't my wife !" The crowd was shocked! He followed up by saying, "That woman was my mother!" The crowd burst into laughter and he gave his speech, which was well received.

About a week later, one of the top managers who had attended the training decided to use that joke at his house. He tried to rehearse the joke in his head. It was a bit foggy to him. He said loudly, "The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who was not my wife!" Naturally, his wife was shell shocked, murmuring. After standing there for almost 10 seconds trying to recall the second half of the joke, the manager finally blurted out "... and I can't remember who she was !" As expected, he got thrashing of his life time....

Moral of the story: Don't copy if you can't paste.

Stranded on the Streets

If any of you have seen The Terminal Man (a film by spielberg starring robbie williams) Before, that is what my position is now.. for the past 4hrs.. stranded on the streets not knowing what to do, i was roaming and finally i decided to post something as usual....

Its just 7pm... My train is at 3am... one of the bizzare mistakes i've been doing these days.. and one of the other is coming here.. And if u ask me where ?? substitute it with one of the central indian city next to mumbai.... i could've told it straightly :) but yes this is my idea of passing time....

Anyway here at the railway station of the socalled junction, the moment i entered all i saw was all of the 20 screens are filled with the orkut screens... right from the kids to the elders... i was startled at seeing how this is getting more popular with north indians.. Well having an orkut account myself, im bored nowadays at seeing where this has brought us nowadays..

Afterall with these extensive communication devices, when the rest of the world is doing wonders, all we people do is to relish in social networking sites for loooong hours with a facade of our own. and.....

Well guess what?? its time for orkutting... Neenga thirundaveee maateengada....