You have Today in your hands which is much better than someday.

You have Today in your hands which is much better than someday.

Very often I hear people they will accomplish something someday.

Someday... I will.... and the list can run on endlessly. I know that we cannot do everything we want today. But we can dream, make a make a plan and also make an attempt — today. Postponing, procrastinating, waiting only hinders our moving forwd to meet opportunities. Delaying action can hurts us too. Reseach confirms that procrastination keeps more people from living their dreams than any other cause. Taking action today is in our hands. It is a choice we have to make. Sure there will be several obstacles that we may encounter. It will apply breaks in our progress, or make our dream pursuit even more difficult. But, not taking action and procrastinating are a sure receipe for disaster.

What really keeps us from taking action at this point of time today?
We have an inherent fear failure.
We get discourage when we think of the effort.
We wait for favorable conditions.
We are averse to taking risks
We stay within our comfort zones
We get influced by someon's experience.
Reasons can go on endlessly like this. Sit down to analyze what keeps you from away from taking action today?

Go with the feeling that today is better than someday.

Earn Time and Enjoy Work Life Balance

Earn Time and Enjoy Work Life Balance

Whoever I talk to, I hear them say, "I just don’t have the time right now. I’m too busy." It doesn't sound strange isn't it, because you too would be in the same boat. People would also advise you to look at your time management etc., which is pretty standard too. What if I tell you that there is a serious possibility of gaining a few extra hours everyday.
It could mean getting up a little early and going to bed a little late.
May be give up a little bit of television watching time. Enjoy your meal or a breakfast, however, just reduce the time you spend on it. Take up a job which is close to your workplace, you can save a lot of journey time. I would think you can easily squeeze in about three hours all told by tinkering a little bit on the aspects I've enumerated. In a week you get 21 hours, which is nearly an extra day, in a month you get 90 hours = 3.5 days more, and in a year 1095 hours = a whopping 45.6 days. That's a lot more than what you earn per year as a holiday being engaged with a company for eight hours minimum a day.
It's in your hands to make this happen. When you have then see where you can invest this extra time into - it could be for reading, for being with your family, it could be for exercising in the gym or going for a jog or a walk or to play a game of squash, or tennis or badminton etc.
And what more you will have conserved more energy too, which will all add up to enjoying good health too. 
People will advise you to save money, a good thing indeed.
Equate the time that is lost into money and you will realize how much you've gained.
I bet none of us can buy time with whatever money we have.
 

India I feel Ashamed

India has been in the news for the wrong reasons for nearly a fortnight now.

There isn't anything I'm going to achieve by reminding everyone of what happened, as whatever happened was the most atrocious and henious act we would have heard in our life time. May be this happened or could happen elsewhere in the world too, which we aren't aware, but all of it adds to the same thing - we human being are vulnerable.

  

To quote Gandhiji, "Consider India to be free when women can walk out freely even @ midnight."
Sorry Gandhiji, we have neither heeded to your words nor have we used our freedom well, despite more and more being educated, and our becoming technology advanced. We still live in times of the past, else how will we explain that even today a "Girl" is not safe in her mother's womb, nor outside.

Am sure I am an injured and sad Indian today, as many are. Thank God Gandhiji you aren't live to see this ill-fated India.
 

Share this to as many if you really care. Let this be the 2013 New Year Wish We Share

 

Manage Your Moments

Life can take care of it self...

Whether we want them or not, the next moment will bring with it a whole lot of new challenges;

Whether we seize them or not, the next moment will bring new opportunities.

Whether we want it or not the New Year too holds several such moments and what you can convert it into is entirely in your hands.

It's easy to make the best use of each moment and our life time is composed of several moments which we need to knit together to make a life worthy of living.

Inspire yourself with this wonderful quote...

"When someone tells you that you can't do something, perhaps you should consider that they are only telling you what they can't do. ~ Sheldon Cahoon

Lesson from the Pigeons

by TSK. Raman

 

There was a family of pigeons which had made the top of a mosque as its abode. They were living happily for a sometime and when one day when the mosque was being decorated for a festival, the pigeons had to think of a relocation.

The head of the family discussed the migration with the family including so they moved to a church. They settled down in their new abode and life was going on smoothly till the church was being decorated this time again for a festival.

The family go together and discussed this issue and they planned another migration. This time around they migrated and made their new abode atop a temple.

One baby pigeon had a doubt and asked its mother, "please don’t mind if I ask you a question."

The mother pigeon said, "go ahead."

The baby asked, "When we were in the mosque people who came to worship were all known as Muslims and they followed Islam. When we moved to the church, people who came to worship were all known as Christians and they followed Christianity. Now here people who come here are called Hindu’s and they follow Hinduism. How come the same people just because they go to different places of worship get called by different names, where as we are called pigeons everywhere we go."

To this the mother replied, "We are way ahead of them. Good doubt indeed, we stay at a height and we also fly, where as human beings are on the ground and they do not ever rise, it is just for that reason we are so elevated in our thinking and they are still on the ground. When perhaps a man raises his level he will be able to see himself above all these minor divides."

The moral of this story: When we are on the same level, we can’t see that far, but when we raise our levels we see from the top we see things we enjoy a more broader vision.

To Change or not to is in your mind

DEVELOP A GOOD MINDSET

- A HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND A WISE ONE

by TSK. Raman

The biggest stumbling block to progress is our mind set. We often go back to the previous experiences we have had in life and we look at the situations you confronted, and act accordingly. You might be tended to want to use that expereince for a solution this day. Not a bad deal, however, you generally do not take into account is the fact that the world around you is changing constantly and rapidly with the advancement and use of technology in our daily life. It's your mindset that prevents you from thinking ahead, but if you think about it deeply, there are several ways to improve your mindset. Doing so will ensure that life situations are forever improving and developing a healthy (pure thinking) wealthy (wisdom rich) mindset will gauantee that you build your life in a much better fashion. To help you maintain your new mindset, each week, re-examine your core beliefs (which shouldn't change much), attitudes (a positive one, with a never say die spirit), and actions (proactive rather than reactive), regarding situations in life and repeat this process for any slips back to your old, ineffective mindset.

Changing and improving your mindset is the first step to add value to your life, which will spin off into good health first and wealth later. It is your mindset ultimately that will determine the opportunities thatcomes your way. You will recognize and create, as well as determine your ability to capitalize upon them. What are you waiting for. Get started today and watch your life soar to new heights.

How to develop such a mindset?

1. Scrutinize your current mindset. At this point of time, how do you view life, health, money and wealth?
Ask yourself what needs to change about your beliefs and attitudes if you're going to give yourself the opportunity to make your life different by becoming healthy, wealthy and wise?
Do you think and feel only positive things when you think about these aspect of life - health that you have, money that you make and wealth you create.?

2. Adopt a new set of beliefs.What new beliefs would you need to become the changed person you want to be?
Make a list with these ideas, if it may help:
    Do you routinely spot opportunities to make life better?
    Do you routinelly spot opportunities to make a better living working hard?
    Do you spend money on things that don't provide real value to my life. If yes take another look into what's useful and
    what's not, if possible elimate the waste.
    Think was to what all you can generate all the wealth I could possibly to make a decent living.

3. First rehearse - mentally. We do everything in our mind before we put it into action. This is called visualization. We do not realize this truth because of its becoming a habit. Therefore, while you're still lying in bed, imagine, every morning approaching the world with these new beliefs.
A good way to do would be to make your new beliefs habitual by daily visualization.
This practice will become even better and solid if we repeat this once again in the night before you fall asleep.

4. "Change your past because it is history."  The first suggestion would be to forget your past, but remember the misakes you've made. Concsiously recall and review the mistakes you've made in the past. Check if you've learnt any lessons from that expereince. It can be very helpful to revisit the mistakes you've made in life and the opportunities you've missed, but this time, change your history to see yourself in the same situations acting with your new beliefs.
What would you have changed about your approach and your thought process?

5. You be your own judge and evaluate yourself.  At the end of each day, examine your thoughts and behavior for that day. What would you have done differently if you were in your "new mindset" mode? Just as importantly, what did you do well, examine what could have been done better, if it was not, and what needs to be changed?

When you've done all this 'pat' yourself and keep evolving always.

Life Is What We Make Of It

Life Is What We Make Of It

by TSK. Raman

It's about 15 odd years ago my little boy called Abi who began to play league cricket, used to have matches every Sunday, and I would take him, be with him the whole day and bring him back. I would also always get tempted to play, as I used to play regularly long ago, but I resisted my temptation for a reasons

- I didn't want grab a chance which could very well go to a kid,

- I wasn't wanting to risk any injury should I play, because an injury would affect not only my home but would also interfere with my professional life because injuries can always take a while to heal

- I wasn't going to last a whole day playing from morning to evening, week-after-week, as grabbing a day's rest during a working week was most essential to recharge myself for the week ahead after the weekend.

All this said, there was a match I wanted to play very badly for two reasons

- It was going to be played in one of my most favorite grounds, a place in the Army Cantonment side. The ground nestled in a serene locale surrounded by trees all around, and a hill in the background making it a perfect setting of playing in the countryside. I told my friends, who were in charge of the team my son was playing for. These guys were known to me earlier too as they started playing just a few years before I called it a day. Now these guys were grown up too and they were playing along with their sons, for encouraging them and also coaching them in the process.

Finally the day which I was waiting for arrived.

A few days before this I used to do a bit of jogging and stretching exercises just enough to feel a little loose. It was just enough, but by no means anywhere close to what it ought to actually be. For this level and that too for just one day, it might have just served the purpose.

We got up early and got dressed up and made a dash to the ground which wasn't far away from where we stayed. I was dreaming that I would take to the field along with my son, and who knows we might even bat together, so that I might guide him to make a substantial contribution. We reached the ground before the others and slowly one by one all the others trickled in. We greeted each other, and as soon as my friends saw me dressed, they knew I was serious about it. they went into a huddle and in a few minutes they came to tell me the news that only one of us could play (my son or me), and the choice was on me. I looked into the distance, my son was practicing catches, after knocking a few balls. As told earlier, I wanted to play this match, very much because it also had some of my old friends in the opposite camp. I was furious as much as I felt sorry for my little son should I choose to play, because he will be disappointed. My heart was heavy, however, I gathered courage to share this thought with my son. He looked at hi mates for he has been a part in a few matches earlier. His mother back home knew that he had his heart set on being in the play and she was worried about how he would react if he wasn’t chosen.

This day was never like any before as I was feeling anxious about the outcome. Abi, his eyes were shining with pride and excitement, hugged me, and said, "Guess what Dad," he shouted, and then said the words that can provide a lesson to us all, "I've chosen to clap and cheer for you today."