Monday, May 12, 2008

I Believe





  • I believe that people keep promises or at least try their best to.


  • I believe that peace is not something you wish for,it's something you make, something you do, something you are,and something you give away.


  • I believe that in the end we only regret:the chances we didn't take,the relationships we were afraid to have,and the decisions we took too long to make.


  • I believe that when someone says, (Don't read this aloud) "Fairies don't exist." , a fairy dies.


  • I believe that writing a poem is like seeing shapes in a cloud;the person next you hardly ever knows what the hell you're talking about


  • I believe that everyone has a certain part of their life where they truly wish they could freeze time. And try to grasp what could have been


  • I believe that best friends are best friends because no matter how long it's been since you've talked to them,when you see them again,you can start right where you left off.


  • I believe that people are like crayons it's not the color they are.Its the pictures they make.


  • I believe that all is well that ends well.


  • I believe that rainy days are entirely necessary and not simply to provide water


  • I believe in love. It is however, not a fairy tale or ever perfect...and will not always have a happy ending, TRUE love between two people meant to find each other does exist


  • I believe in manners and chivalry.


  • I believe in Patriotism and our country.


  • I believe in letting at least one person in your life, know you inside out.


  • I believe in learning something new each and every day of our lives


  • I believe in treat others as you want to be treated.


  • I believe we are made up of what we believe and what we stand for in life.

These things I like to believe in.. Maybe, believing in them makes me seem less mature than most but then again I believe in living life like a child. Innocent and sweet...

Last,

  • I believe that life is fair and you deserve to be here and YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The Greatness Guide- Robin Sharma

Your days are your life in miniature.

"A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Knowing how to do something and not doing it is same as not knowing how to do it.

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed with the things you didnt do than by the things you did."
-Mark Twain.

You cant win a game you don't even play.

Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals. The only thing thats rocket science is rocket science.

Before someone will lend you a hand, you need to touch their heart.

The things that get scheduled are the things that get done.

Every time you say yes to something that's unimportant, you are saying "no" to something thats important.

Know what needs to get done in the coming days, weeks, months and years for you to feel that you played the best game as a human being.

We see the world not as it is but as we are.

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, but the second best time is today."
-Chinese Proverb.

"If you have not discovered something to die for, you are not fit to live."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"What are you doing speaks so loudly that i cant hear what you are saying."

There can be no authentic success and lasting happiness if your daily schedule is misaligned with your deepest values. Ensure your daily actions are aligned with your deepest values.

"After climbing a hill, one finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance i have come. But i can rest only for a moment, for freedom comes with responsibilities, and i dire not linger, for my long walk has not yet ended."
-Nelson Mandela.

Walk towards your fears to defeat them.

This world has been built by people who were not happy with the way it was and knew they could do better.

"The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret."
-Nido Qubein.

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals."
-Samuel Ullman.

The smallest of actions is always better than noblest of intentions.

The paradox of our wired world is that as we become more connected electronically, we become less connected emotionally.

Business is about loving the people who do business with you and giving them more value than they have any right to expect.

"If you think you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
-Anita Roddick (Founder, The Body Shop).

Behind every wall of fear, there lies a precious treasure.

Inside every problem lies a precious opportunity to improve things.

A mistake is only a mistake if you make it twice.

Commit to being breathtakingly great in whatever you do.

Why wait to get old to become experienced?

"I am not a businessman. I am a business, man."
-Jay-Z.

"There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead."
-Benjamin Franklin.

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is completed:If you are alive, it isnt."
-Richard Bach.

To earn more you must learn more.

"The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to realize their dreams."
-Jack Welch.

There is no point in being busy if you are busy doing the wrong things.

"What dent will you make today?"
-Steve Jobs.

Few success practices are as important as articulating your most closely held goals and then reviewing them daily.

The real value of reaching a goal lies not in the result achieved but in what the journey you have walked to get the goal has made of you as a person.

"If everyone was satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes."
-Mark Twain.

Do good and leave behind a virtue that the storm of time can never destroy.

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.

"My tastes are simple-I just want the best."

The people who have the most time for fun are those who know how to plan and then use their time well.

You will get to the end of your life anyway- Why not reach that place as an extraordinary human being?

At the end of our lives few if us regret having made more money.

The company that plays together stays together.

People love doing business with people who love doing business.

If people dont laugh at you and your ideas once a week, you are not pushing the envelope.

Leadership begins within. Organizational leadership begins with personal leadership.

Enjoy life while you chase success.

Greatness comes by beginning something that does not end with you.

Its never too late to become the person you have always dreamed of becoming.

The best thing to do is often the hardest thing to do.

"Progress is often the difference between mind and mindset."
-Narayana Murthy.

Noone ever won a war by dieing for his country but he won it by making the other person die for his country.

"Dont be prisoners of past successes. Build and move on."
-Jagdish Khattar.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Value of a Smile




Scene 1: An Infoscion(that's how an employee at Infosys is addressed), goes to the cafeteria in his building to fill water in his bottle. There a house keeping person(who is responsible for keeping the floors clean) is filling water in her bottle, and on seeing the Infoscion coming over with an empty bottle in hand, she immediately steps aside even without filling her bottle completely. The Infoscion lost in his own world goes on and fills his bottle and just walks to his cubicle, without even bothering to look at the face of the house keeping staff who had stepped aside for him.



Scene 2: The same Infoscion starts from his cubicle for lunch. When he reaches the entrance of his building, he sees N. R. Narayana Murthy, Founder, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys, on the other side of the door. Thanking his fortunes on that day, the Infoscion politely opens the door for NRN(that's how he is know across the company) and waits till NRN walks in. On seeing this guy opening the door for him NRN thanks the Infoscion with a smile. The Infoscion is so delighted that he rushes back to his cubicle and informs everyone over there from his project about the incident.



These are two different situations which actually have many things in common.
Quite often we fail to notice small gestures of goodwill, of generosity, of benevolence, of modesty, of compassion by people around us.



Even if we notice it, we fail to reciprocate to it, to appreciate it or even to acknowledge it. Especially if it’s from a person who belongs to the lower strata compared to us in terms of the unwritten standards defined by the society, be it in terms of occupation, financial capability, education or even appearance.



But it’s a different case when someone more superior to us or at a higher position, acknowledges us or our deeds.



The Infoscion whose day was made by a smile and “Thank You” by NRN, someone whom he looks up with lot of respect, failed miserably on his part, when he didn’t even bother to look at the house keeping staff who stepped aside so that he could fill his bottle of water.



We in our lives have failed many a times like that. So many times that, we wouldn’t be able to even recollect them.



Even today we would have missed to appreciate a small gesture of goodwill from someone….



From the driver who stopped the bus on seeing us running towards it, even though it was not a designated stop…
From the security guard who helped us in opening our bag for security check while entering the campus…
From the person who waited at the door, so that we could pass through it first…
From the person who stopped the lift door from closing on seeing us rush to the lift…
From the person who served us food…
From the person who cleaned our table at the food court before we sat there…
From the person who replied to our query we put up in "Bulletin Board", an online discussion forum accessible to all employees across the company…
From the person who came in to clean our cubicle…



There are many more instances like this. These are just a few among them that came into my mind in a flash.
I am sure we would have missed at least one among them, at least one gesture, which could have been reciprocated with just a simple smile.



At times we are hesitant to take the first step, thinking whether our smile will be reciprocated by the other person or not. Well, don’t think too much, if someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.



Occupation, financial strength, education and social status don’t tell the real worth of a person. It’s the way how he/she acknowledges and reciprocates to the small gestures of goodwill, of generosity, of benevolence, of modesty, of compassion by fellow human beings, that says how worthy he/she is.



It's time for all of us to do an introspection of ourselves as to whether we are really worthy individuals.
It’s time for us to realize the value of a smile.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Some Good Quotes

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
-Sven Goran Eriksson.

Jealousy always sees things through a magnifying glass that makes little things large.
-Cervantes.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people think you cannot do.
-Walter Bagehot.

Incidents should not govern policy but policy should govern incidents.
-Napoleon Bonaparte.

The measure of love is to love without measure.
-St. Augustine.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-H.L. Mencken.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
-Albert Einstein.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which all the difficulties disappear.
-John Adams.

All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone.
-Greg Arnold.

Its easy to make money but difficult to make a difference.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.
-Jim Rohn.

A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
-Confucius.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
-Voltaire.

Better a little with the fear of LORD than great wealth with turmoil.
-Bible.

The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
-Bible.

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
-James Truslow.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
-Goethe.

Our greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

FRIENDS...

FRIENDS...


A relation that as far as I am concerned… is among the most essential and sacred ones possible….



I mean…what is a friend….someone u talk with and whom u roam about with , someone u have a good time with…not exactly…if u ask me…I mean a friend is not just someone u can just have a good time with…that should be there…but there is a lot lot more……A friend is someone whom u are totally comfortable with….



Someone to whom u can take ur problems, sure that he will be there for u…

Who wont leave u when u need him…

Friendship is not about expectations…

U don’t expect anything from a friend…

but he's there for u when u need him the most…I don’t know if any of u have seen the sms about a true friend…A good friend tells u to study before an exam…

A true friend is someone who sits outside the exam hall shouting..”Machi bitta thooki podu…flying squad varanga….”

I mean….

its supposed to be just a joke, but isn’t that true, a friend does what u need, not worried about himself…Your friend will disagree with you and make u angry sometimes….

If he doesn’t….then he isn’t your friend….he ll guide you along telling you when you are wrong….irrespective whether u like it or not…Let me finish with some nice quotes that I found….
Is duniya main dost kam milenge ...

Duniya main gham hi gham milenge ...

Jahan duniya nazar pher legi ...

Uss mor per dost tumhain hum milenge...

Dil ki kashti bikhar gayi hoti, aur rooh ke zakhm bhar gaye hote....

zindagi aap jaise dosto ki amanat hai varna hum to kabke mar gaye hote...


FRIENDS R LIKE SHOES,SOME LOOSE N SOME TIGHT N SOME FIT...
THEY HELP U AS THEY WALK THRU LIFE...
THANX FOR BEING OF MY SIZE ...

Dosti hai naam sukh-dukh nibhane ka, dosti raaz sada muskurane ka, yeh koi pal bhar ki pehchaan nahi yeh saath hai umar bhar nibhane ka.



Thank U 4 being my frnd.... :-)

The True Meaning of Joy


The True Meaning of Joy



All this talking about happiness got me thinking….


Everything is life is relative isn’t it…I mean to realize the value of happiness u need to experience sadness. You might feel really down and simply feel like giving up, that is the time when u need to simply push on, cos things are bound to get better soon…I mean …when god closes all doors open in front of u , he will surely open a window somewhere. We need to realize that life is a great leveler, if u are in bad times now, then take it as a sign of good things to follow in the future, cos if u have already had your share of sadness, u are bound to get happiness down the line to even the scales.


If u want to know the real pleasure of water…ask someone who has stayed thirsty for 2 days…if u want to appreciate the taste of a bowl of rice…ask someone who hasn’t eaten for weeks…if u want to know what finding true love is ask a person who lost someone whom he loved….


Happiness also has different meaning for each one of us…


So, whatever happens people, keep living life to its fullest….as they say time and tide wait for none…what makes u sad today will definitely lead to happier moments some other day…there is always light at the end of the tunnel....



Thokar khakar gungunana zindagi hai

Ghum peekar muskurana zindagi hai

Sukh ke sath jiye to kya jiye

Ghum bhulakar jashm manana zindagi hai



Here’s to a lot of happy days ahead…..

Life is Good...

Life is Good...


There are times when we feel that our heart is sorrounded with dark clouds of disappointment, hatred and self pity। These are time when we arent ourselves we tend to start longing for the happier time that we once used to have... we want to have company when we are alone.. we become ambivalent and yearn for some loneliness when we have company... these are the time when we have to beleive that those dark clouds are just passing ones and sun will rise once again with all its strength to fill our heart with hope and happiness.


God creates humans and treats everyone the same, leaves us in this hard and ever changing world to fight our way through...some of us fight hard and win over the fierce army of jealousy, hopelessness, hatred and the difficult times that are eternal to become great humans... these are the ones who have fought through their ways ... faced hard times and have become stronger in every such hopeless situation they have been in...

If any of you are facing difficult times ... times that are clouding your brains and heart ... eating away your hope ...take my simple advice hold onto something ... hold onto your friends, hold onto your loved ones, hold onto your parents, hold onto every small beleif that you have that will give you the samllest possible hope.. for hope is an exponential curve if there is small progress it increases rapidly... filling your heart with pride and strength to face anything...

If you do not have anything to hold onto ... if everyone who were a part of your world walks out and you feel alone and friendless hold onto yourself ...
because life is good...