Motivational Notes

Understanding and Keeping Yourself Motivated

2011-02-13T21:13:00.001+05:30

Motivation will increase a person's energy and action level. It guides individuals on the way to selected desired goals. It stimulates initiation of specific actions as well as perseverance in those pursuits.

Types of inspiration are usually either extrinsic or inborn. Extrinsic motivations originate from outside of the individual and a job to be accomplished, might be superficially effective, and usually involve consistency to be efficient. Occasionally, insufficient motivation is a signal from our unconscious the fact that we're not really doing things we love. Do you dedicate a great part of your efforts performing things you do not like? This is applicable to nearly anything, from spending time with folks that you do not like, or carrying out work you might not be passionate about.

Any time you are close to greater mind, you acquire more thoughts and also really feel more stirred than usual to do something on your goals and objectives. This is why you should try to surround yourself with positive buddies. As Jim Rohn states, you are the typical average of the 5 people you spent the most time with. Don't you realize that while you are close to optimistic folks, you feel more positive subsequently, regardless if you are on your own? In a similar fashion, whenever you hang around inspired individuals, their vibes will certainly rub off a person naturally too. You're going to get motivated and be induced to take motion.

Encircle yourself in inspirational resources, for example self help publications, podcasts, inspirational stories of men and women, inspirational messages, motivational quotations and personal improvement blogs like Foolish Little Man, Zenhabits, Lifehack as well as Seth Godin's weblog.

One of the very best ways to encourage yourself into motion is through competitors. When you have been in lone man's isle, it's easy to descend right into a mode of stagnancy. Nevertheless, when in the face area of competition, you'll push yourself to complete better and much better.

Sources of motivation could be either extrinsic or even intrinsic. Extrinsic inspirations originate from outside of the individual and a job to be accomplished, could be superficially successful, and generally involve repetition to work. Occasionally, insufficient motivation is a warning from our unconscious the fact that we're not performing things we adore. Do you spend a great portion of your energy doing things you do not like? This pertains to anything, from spending time with people you can't stand, or doing work you're passionless towards.

Whenever I'm around people with higher consciousness, I as a result have more ideas as well as truly feel more stirred than normal to act on my ambitions. This is the reason I try to surround myself with good buddies. Because Jim Rohn states, you are the typical of the 5 people you may spend by far the most time with. Do you realize that while you are close to optimistic people, suddenly you become more positive subsequently, no matter if you are on your own? Similarly, when you hold off motivated people, their own vibes will stroke off you normally too. You will get motivated and become triggered to do this.

Surround yourself within inspirational materials, for example self help publications, podcasts, inspirational stories of individuals, inspirational speeches, motivational estimates and personal improvement blogs like Foolish Little Man, Zenhabits, Lifehack as well as Seth Godin's weblog.

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Why Motivational Stories?

2011-01-25T06:21:00.002+05:30

Humanity has developed and evolved through the use of an amazing tool - motivational stories. Throughout history, different cultures and people have used inspirational stories to teach, encourage, and inspire in the hope that the listeners will use it use these stories to better their life. These stories have made people think, , made them laugh and cry but in the end they had a message which will give them the motivation to go for their dreams.

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How To Achieve Work Life Balance

2009-04-03T07:10:00.002+05:30

With changing work cultures, work life balance is an issue with growing importance. As more and more parents change the traditional family settings and move into nuclear families and different working patterns including being on tap with all the new innovations such as laptops and blackberry’s, new, unfamiliar problems in balancing work and life rise. Work life balance has suddenly assumed importance due to hectic work schedules.

The phenomenal changes in work patterns in the last decade have made people move away from what was once considered “family values”. With most parents working from home, or splitting work between an office and the home office, family duties, tasks and activities are shifting and changing into a much more flexible and unpredicted setting.

Work life balance is all about managing the time you got with things you want to do at your work place and spending a judicious amount of time with your family and friends or doing things which you love doing. Ask every successful manager and she will tell you that you have time enough to do everything you want to do, as long as you prioritize and fully understand what it is that you want to do in your day. Work life balance is about setting limits and truly understanding how much each and every detail in your daily routine is important to you and to your goals.

Two key elements for better Work life balance are

- Prioritizing Your Work and Your Family Time
- Delegating Tasks At Your Work Place.

Prioritizing starts by simply understanding that there is way too many things you want to do, and that you can not fit all of them into one day, or some time in one week. Work life balance, for most of us, is really about balancing livelihood and family, prioritizing draws a clear picture, sometimes its not a nice one, sometimes you need to give up a lot of your favorite things by prioritizing. But eventually, as your work life balance skills improve – you will benefit from this. Prioritizing is the first step to better work life balance because it starts the process of understanding the activities limit on a daily basis.

Delegating work is another work life balance tool; this is something you can use to deal with growing tasks and not having enough time to manage everything. Managing time is the same as tasks management, and both are in fact the basics of work life management, in the daily routine everyone can do a little something for this life balance, family life can improve significantly by better work life balance, and that’s exactly why all the members of a family can contribute to it.

The unique and striking thing about work life balance, if you think about it, is that the unplanned days pass very quickly, the planned ones can move as fast as the unplanned, but in the end of the day you feel more satisfied, and you know what you did. Understanding the time you got available and figuring out what you want to do with it is a great challenge, as with all life work balance challenges, going to bed at night and realizing you have done 90% of what you planned to do, and that your day had the structure of work and family activities you wanted will make you feel good and strong, some even say that it will make you sleep better at night.

Start thinking about work life balance in your life today, balancing work and life is not so hard and it is something most of us need, you will enjoy more quality time with your family and less personal stress if you start thinking about your work life balance. Good luck.

How To Reprogram Your Self To Success!

2009-03-11T07:12:00.002+05:30

You have the power to train your mind to choose what you think. You can allow negative thoughts to hold you hostage or think positively and march towards success. Your goal is to become inner-directed and focused, so that you decide what you want to think, rather than have your thoughts and emotions determined by the world around you. The untrained mind has more emotional ups and downs because it is reacting to random thoughts. Focus on what you want with joy and enthusiasm.

Just as earth does not discern what you plant and give you the plants irrespective of it being flower or thorn bush, your brain too does not discern what you plant. It will work just as hard to grow the poisonous plants as it will to grow beautiful flowers. So too must you decide what thoughts that you plant by what you say to yourself over and over.

Your subconscious mind does not know how to differentiate between factual reality and imagination. Quite simply, you are a self-fulfilling prophecy because If you focus on what you say you don’t want, then you will create that as the dominant request in your experience.

So, keep focused on what you do want. Define yourself as the new person you chose to be. (“I have perfect weight for my body and lifestyle”, “I am handsome” “I am beautiful” etc.) If you are looking to lose weight, you may want to say something like: I am allowing my body to obtain its perfect balance for health and vitality”.

Many of your beliefs have no foundation in reality. If you have the wrong beliefs or thought processes, they hold you back from success. If you have only positive thoughts, they help promote your purpose,

If you think you are destined to be fat and ugly, below average of intelligence, poor, unlucky in love, a clown “not good at something,” you will take actions that make these thoughts become reality. None of these thoughts are actually true, but thinking them creates beliefs and images in your mind that reinforce these negative statements until they actually become true for you.

Examine your inner most thoughts and be aware of the directions you give your brain. Your internal dialogue, along with what you believe about situations, is how you create your emotions. Negative self-talk will cause you to give up before you even try something new. Always be aware that your words can make ominous predictions. If you say about your habit, “I’ll never be able to stop this; I’ve been doing it so long” that will be your truth.

You are programming yourself to believe that you are too weak and powerless to overcome your negative habits. These negative permissions clutter up your ability to change your behaviors. Pay attention to yourself when you hear yourself uttering negative words and negative reinforcements.

Avoid negative self-talk such as “I can’t do this. I don’t understand. I am stupid. I’m too old to learn, they make me feel stupid. That’s just the way I am. There’s nothing I can do, no one in my family can do it, I know I cannot”. Just remember ‘if you can or you cannot’ either is true.

Change your self-talk to positive reinforcement for changing old behaviors and habits. A positive outlook creates more options for creative solutions. Remember, focus on what you want. Keep it simple and sure.

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How To Turn Recession Into An Opportunity!

2009-02-23T23:07:00.002+05:30

At the outset I would like to make it clear this is not an article on the nightmares of a lay-off. This is all about the good and the extraordinary turn-around that may possibly be brought about due to your layoff.

Every day people are recieving the pink slips. The pain of losing all that you have worked for years to achieve and build is immense. The bad news continues with another 800.000 jobs being planned to axed during the next couple of months in US alone and globally, the figures could be mind boggling.
I am not writing all these to create some more fear. I would like to bring a different perspective to the whole debate of people losing jobs and livelihoods. Losing job is just the close of one chapter helading probably the most fruitful years of our life ahead. The ooportunities ahead because of of losing your job could be wesome and mid boggling if you only one is willing to look at the other half of the story.

So stop wallowing in self pity and bid good bye to all the gloom and doom forecasters, switch off the TV and start looking ahead. I have the perfect remedy for all the doomsday forecasts.

"Get Rid Of The Mindset of Recession": This is not said by me but the world famous economist and nobel laureate Amartya Sen. "No amount of financial stimulus into the global economy is going to rid the world of recession. We have to get rid of this mindset...the mindset of recession," Alright these are big words but just look at what is the message. An economist admits that the there is enough for all of us. It is only the mindset. Ok.

We cannot do anything about the world. But we can start with our own mindset of lack and poverty. There are still sectors where there is a shortage of manpower. Why else should work be outsourced to the developing countries. Or look at it the other way. We can always reduce our price and compete with the other nations. Aren't people making a decent living on the lower wages when work is outsourced? There is alos another way to look at it. Can we give higher value for the money that we get paid. This alone will ensure that you always in demand and no boss would be foolish to throw out people who are delivering more thaqn expected.

"This is the Time To Start Working for Myself". This is what some of the millionaires said when the going got tough. Look where they are now. They took up the their own responsibility, set up their ventures as a one man show and now are millionaires and billionaires. Take up those Success magazines which are full of such inspiring stories. So get to work for yourself.

"Change the Way You Think". This is the old story of half glass full or half glass empty. What do you see. An entire continent of people without shoes and write off that there is no potential or do you see 100% market potential. Change the way you see things, turn around the negative on its head and look at and list all the positives that are possible out of a negative situation. Believe me I have been able to list out at least 5 positives even for the bleakest of situations.

"Reinventing Yourself" Whatever opinion you have about yourself is not accurate. You have more potential abilities, knowledge and capabilities than you gave credence for. List out all your achievements, your special abilities, what is it that you were always good at but people never realized. This list could be very exhaustive. Don't leave even the minor talents or abilities that you may possess. Reinvent yourself. See what all you missed out on. See what all you could have done but never got the time to do.

You will emerge as a new person when you try to re-invent yourself. Start stressing on your hidden talents, show off to people what all you are capable of. Most will get impressed. You will have new doors opening when you reinvent yourself.

So friends as Amartya Sen said, lack, recession, poverty, joblessness are all in the mind. You have the power to change it. So why not begin right now!

Srinivasan Gopal

How to Become a Good Leader!

2009-01-12T05:49:00.005+05:30

It is now conclusively established that great leaders are made, not born.

Yes, it may be true that some people are born with natural talents. However, without practice, without drive, without enthusiasm, and without experience, there can be no true development in leadership.

When you look around you, do you get frustrated because things don't seem to be happening the way they’re supposed to be? People milling around without getting anything accomplished. Politicians behave as if they own the country and stripping it off. In your organization every where you can see signs of apathy. And in the daily hustle and bustle, do you feel that your goals remain just that – goals.

Then maybe its time for you to stand up and do something about it.

Most people are content just to stand around waiting to be told what to do. There are more followers, adopting a follow-the-leader mentality. But maybe, somewhere inside of you, you feel the desire to make things happen – to be the head, not the tail. Then maybe leadership just suits you fine.

To be a good leaders one requires to continually work and study to improve natural skills. This takes a commitment to constantly improve in whatever endeavor a person chooses.

First of all, let's define leadership. To be a leader, is to have the ability to influence others to accomplish a goal, or an objective. He contributes to the organization and cohesion of a group.

Contrary to what most people believe, leadership is not about power. It is not about harassing people or driving them using fear. It is about encouraging others towards the goal of the organization. It is putting everyone on the same page and helping them see the big picture of the organization. You must be a leader not a boss.

Are you able to get the people to follow you? How do you accomplish this?

People follow others when they see a clear sense of purpose. People will only follow you if they see that you know where you are going. Remember that bumper sticker? The one that says, don't follow me, I'm lost too? The same holds true for leadership. If you yourself do not know where you're headed to, chances are people will not follow you at all.

You yourself must know the vision of the organization. Having a clear sense of hierarchy, knowing who the bosses are, who to talk to, the organization's goals and objectives, and how the organization works is the only way to show others you know what you are doing.

Being a leader is not about what you make others do. It's about who you are, what you know, and what you do. You are a reflection of what your subordinates must be.

Studies have shown that one other bases of good leadership is the trust and confidence your subordinates have of you. If they trust you they will go through hell and high water for you and for the organization.

Trust and confidence is built on good relationships, trustworthiness, and high ethics. The way you deal with your people, and the relationships you build will lay the foundation for the strength of your group. The stronger your relationship, the stronger their trust and confidence is in your capabilities. Once you have their trust and confidence, you may now proceed to communicate the goals and objectives you are to undertake.

Communication is a very important key to good leadership. Without this you can not be a good leader. The knowledge and technical expertise you have must be clearly imparted to other people.

You cannot be a good leader unless you have a good judgment. You must be able to assess situations, weigh the pros and cons of any decision, and actively seek out a solution. It is this judgment that your subordinates will come to rely upon. Therefore, good decision-making is vital to the success of your organization.

Leaders are not do-it-all heroes. You should not claim to know everything, and rely upon your skills alone. True leadership requires that you admit your weaknesses and let the man best suited for the job take over. You should recognize and take advantage of the skills and talents your subordinates have. Only when you come to this realization will you be able to work as one cohesive unit.

Leadership is learnable skill. To be a leader takes a good deal of work and time. It is not learned overnight. Remember, also, that it is not just about you. It is about you and the people around you.

Leadership is all about power. Leaders do not derive their power because of position. Power is the outcome a leader taking responsibility for all actions of himself and the team or the organization. The moment you give up the responsibility and pass the buck, you lose the power of leadership.

So, do you have the drive and the desire to serve as a leader? Do you have the desire to work cooperatively with other people? Then start now. Take your stand and be a leader today.

Srinivasan Gopal

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The Secret of Making New Year Resolutions Work For You!

2009-01-06T20:56:00.004+05:30

The New Year 2009 is here. The beginning of a new year is always the time of mixed feelings. While we anticipate the year ahead with joyful feelings, we also wonder, have we done well during the last year. Could we have done more? Did we achieve all that we set out to do?

The Answer is a definite yes. We could have done much more. We could have set bigger goals and achieved more.

But we need not despair for what we have done less. It is a wonderful time to take stock. Review what we have done. Correct our courses. Plan and develop our systems. Take help where we lacked.

We can make 2009 the best ever, the most productive, powerful and rewarding year ever in our life. Here are a few questions we can ask ourselves to achieve the best year ever in our lives.

Do I take Responsibility?

This perhaps is the biggest question we can ask ourselves before we set out to achieve big successes in 2009. I have analyzed and honestly believe that every failure can be traced to our own actions.

We may blame the world, the politics, the markets, our colleagues, demanding customers our boss…it’s an endless list. However if we are honest enough, we can see so many actions we could have taken which would have improved the situation and circumstances. But we always pass the buck to someone else. We are to blame if we don’t set our priorities right and have clear plans and goals. We must be proactive in finding solutions that could have prevented failures and set backs and direct actions in the right way.

External factors can influence any single event only 20%. We still have 80 % probability of making any thing work. Look at what all we could have done instead of looking at things that are not in our control

Am I Honest?

Without meaning to hurt anyone’s sentiments, we generally are not honest. Do we treat with absolute honesty our relationships with peers, colleagues, family and friends? Do we squander valuable time in our workplace and with family in pursuits which are detrimental to both?

You can always report a bad boss for late working hours to your spouse instead of your own inefficiency. You can point the finger of blame silently to your colleagues. Dishonesty never allows for good relationships between friends, colleagues and family. Give quality time to everyone during the New Year.

Am I Working For Myself?

We all mistakenly believe we are working for companies, organizations and bosses. This is incorrect. We are working under the umbrella of the organization, under the leadership of our bosses and under the disciplines of the company.

Ultimately we are working for ourselves. This one realization alone could improve our work and productivity. Every day we work and work more productively and work some more, we are improving ourselves. Every improvement and all the work we do is for the self and not for others.

Don’t cut on your work and improvement on the pretext of less pay, long working hours or bad boss. You will be cutting out your progress.

Map Your Year

You cannot attempt and do everything. What are my priorities for the new year 2009. Do I want more sales? Do I growth? Do we want to improve the quality of some areas in our work? Do I want to improve my relationship with some one in family or colleague? Quantify everything in a select list of what you want to achieve.

Mapping is tempering aspirations with the reality, vision with conservatism of what is possible.

Set Up a System

Once you have create a map of what you want to achieve, where you want to go set up a system of reaching your goals. Unless you have clear roadmap of where you want to go, you may end up reaching there much later than planned.

Note down every step, time and deadlines, how and what. If you need a 25% improvement in profitability, sales or results of any kind, write it down. What are the steps, who are going to perform what role in achieving this? Do you require any help?

Take time to develop a system which would take you to your goals. Take time to review everything periodically. Take the time to discuss with someone you trust and take help when required.

Make 2009 the Best Year Ever.

5 Top New Years Resolutions: Choose Yours

2009-01-01T21:35:00.002+05:30

Wikipedia has one the finest description of a New Year Resolution. “A New Year's Resolution is a commitment that an individual makes to a project or the reforming of a habit, often a lifestyle change that is generally interpreted as advantageous.” The New Year Resolution could also be to improve one of the neglected areas of your life that you now wish to bring to order. Such Changes or resolutions normally go into effect on New Year's Day and remain until fulfilled or abandoned.

So how does one prepare these New Year Resolutions, commitments or lifestyle change decisions? What are the areas that one can make a new year resolve? Here are the top New Years resolutions on most peoples New Year List on the planet. It does feel good to know that you are not alone in the areas you want to change. These tips may seem to be simple but think of what a profound impact they can have on your life at almost zero cost.

Lose Weight

Is your New Year’s resolution to lose weight? If so, you are not alone. Millions worldwide join you every New Year in the quest for a lean, fit body. Weight loss is top of the charts every new year but unfortunately few succeed. This is due to lot of misinformation and an active daily plan. Read up some good articles on weight loss and set your goal firmly. Do not expect miracles. Results will be visible only after a month or two of regular disciplined action. If you are serious about losing weight, you will lose weight.

Quit a Bad Habit

New Year is the time to reflect on your life and what sets you back from achieving success. Most people know and take responsibility for their failures. Bad habits such as smoking and drinking are one such area which is the focus for most during the New Year. It is very easy to quit altogether or to moderate it to an extent that such bad habits no longer affect your life. There are a good number of literature and support groups available to make you leave the bad habits behind during this New Year.

More Quality Time with Family

People are spending more time at work and less time with family friends and children. Many realize that their children have grown up too fast without them realizing or sharing in the joy of growth. Many a spouse realize romance and love has disappeared out of their lives due heavy work schedules. Spending quality time with family is perhaps one of the best New Year Resolution you can make for 2009. It is time we got back our life.

De-stress and Enjoy Life More

This New Year decide to work for a living and not live to work. Too much work and work related stress kills the joy and takes the fun out of life. Take a course on meditation, relax and take that long overdue holiday. Enjoy every moment of your life this new year.

Make Yourself Debt Free

The global financial crisis, millions of lost jobs, dwindling retirement benefits and runaway inflation are all adding to debts. Before one realizes debt hits you in a slowing economic conditions and reduction in jobs. But things are not very bleak if you take a grip on things with a good plan. This new year if you are in debt, you may resolve to re-organize your entire financial life. You may have to make many sacrifices but sooner you get your debts in control the better your future. Let the year 2009 be the year of becoming debt free or at the least getting them in control.

These top 5 New Year Resolution do not have any monetary involvement and are the least inexpensive to put in practice. In fact many of these new year tips could save a huge bundle. To achieve these new year goals are not only possible it’s do-able. Obstacles can be exciting and thrilling, or they can be turn-offs and excuses for failure. It is up to your own attitude.

Srinivasan Gopal
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Positive Thoughts Power Your Personality

2008-11-24T06:31:00.004+05:30

If you have been dreaming about a powerful personality here are some exercises that can change your negative thoughts and fill you with positivity and power and motivation.

Power Personality - 1

Just close your eyes and listen to your thoughts. Watch all the thoughts that flit through your mind for 5 minutes. Now note down the results. I am sure for the majority the results are definitely not what you would call positive thoughts.

Now make a note of all positive things you want to do, your biggest dreams, your goals and all that you want to achieve. You may also write down the funniest moments in your life, thoughts about something you cherish, may be some of your best moments in life thinking about which motivates you highly. Write it as bullet points. Make 5 to 10 points.

Whenever your thoughts are negative, consciously turn them to one of your positive thought list. This may take some time to bring into practice. But don't give up till your entire thought process is positive.

Power Personality -2

Whenever you are walking on the street, do you think people who look at you or meet you would be able to tell what is on your mind? They may not be able to tell what you think. But they will more less have an idea of what and how you are feeling.

While walking on the street, be mindful of your surroundings. Look at the beautiful flowers on the median, try and find all that are beautiful around you. The lovely couple walking past, the old gentleman walking his dog, the nice glow signs on the shops - you can make an endless positive things around you. You have to just start looking for the good things and they pop up every where.

I call this conscious walking. You can just be immersed in your own thoughts or be conscious of all the good around us. All the bright and beautiful, positive and pleasant things around you can make your face brighter and feel more positive.

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Whenever you enter a party a meeting, or join a group of colleagues, do they fall silent as if something terrible has happened? Or does everyone perk up for something exciting to happen.

It all depends on your frame of mind and the positive or negative vibrations you send out to people.

Now this exercise needs a good amount of practice. But this exercise can create miracles around you. Whenever you accost a group of people bring on some cheer in your face. Feel happy to meet so many people, listen to their ideas and share your own. Don't make it a monologue and dictatorial ranting. Instead put on soft smile and encourage people to speak.

The more you listen, the more people are going to like you. After some time you may begin to enjoy the whole process yourself. Send out positive vibrations all around. Encourage people in whatever they are doing. And positive vibrations would be doubly returned.

Thought are very powerful. Positive thoughts can change everything around you. Positive thoughts, positive outlook and vibrations can dramatically alter your personal world into more happier and healthier world.

So power up your personality today.

Srinivasan Gopal

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Power Your Motivation Through Powerful Words

2008-11-02T20:44:00.003+05:30

One of the best ways to motivate your self and others is the use of a hypnotic language. Use of powerful language will always give powerful motivational impetus. Anthony Robbins is one of best known motivational speaker who always uses powerful words to bring fabulous outcomes in his seminars. In fact his use of words can raise the energy levels so high that the audience can go into a frenzy.

Here is a list of positive words that can make a big difference to your own communications and motivational levels:

Happy – Elated – Enthused – Excited – Ecstatic – Good – Great – Fantastic – Incredible – Phenomenal – Okay – Aceptable – Outstanding – Extroardinary – Exceptional

You can find a list of similar words from the dictionary and create a list which can be referred daily and used in the conversations to bring a massive transformation in your life.

Research has shown that the choice of the words that we use can manifest into our realities. So supercharge your motivation with the most powerful words and manifest a great future for yourself.

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Srinivasan Gopal

The Secret To Turn The Impossible Into Possible

2008-10-07T07:19:00.005+05:30

Everyone, at some point of his or her life, has dreamed of being somebody special, somebody big. Who hasn't fantasized about being the one who hits the game-winning homer? Who hasn't dreamed of being the homecoming queen? And how many times have we dreamed of being rich, or successful, or happy with our relationships?

Often, we dream big dreams and have great aspirations. Unfortunately, our dreams remain just that – dreams. And our aspirations easily collect dust in our attic.

This is a sad turn of events in our life. Instead of experiencing exciting adventures in self actualization, we get caught up in the humdrum of living from day-to-day just barely existing.

But you know what? Life could be so much better, if only we learned to aim higher.

The most common problem to setting goals is the word impossible. Most people get hung up thinking I can't do this. It's too hard. It's too impossible. No one can do this.

However, if everyone thought that, there would be no inventions, no innovations, and no breakthroughs in human accomplishment.

Remember that scientists were baffled when they took a look at the humble bumblebee. Theoretically, they said, it was impossible for the bumblebee to fly. Unfortunately for the bumble, bee no one has told it so. So fly it does.

On the other hand, some people suffer from dreaming totally outrageous dreams and not acting on them. The result? Broken dreams, and tattered aspirations.

If you limit yourself with self-doubt, and self-limiting assumptions, you will never be able to break past what you deem impossible. If you reach too far out into the sky without working towards your goal, you will find yourself clinging on to the impossible dream.

Try this exercise. Take a piece of paper and write down some goals in your life. Under one header, list down things ‘you know you can do’. Under another header, write the things ‘you might be able to do.’ And under one more, list the things that that are ‘impossible for you to do.’

Now look at all the headers strive every day to accomplish the goals that are under things ‘you know you can do’. Check them when you are able to accomplish them. As you slowly are able to check all of your goals under that heading, try accomplishing the goals under the other header-the one that reads ‘you might be able to do.’

As of the items you wrote under things I could do are accomplished, you can move the goals that are under things that are ‘impossible for you to do’ to the list of things ‘you might be able to do.’

As you iterate through this process, you will find out that the goals you thought were impossible become easier to accomplish. And the impossible begin to seem possible after all. But before you do that just watch this small movie clip:

You see, the technique here is not to limit your imagination. It is to aim high, and start working towards that goal little by little. However, it also is unwise to set a goal that is truly unrealistic.

Those who just dream towards a goal without working hard end up disappointed and disillusioned.

On the other hand, if you told someone a hundred years ago that it was possible for man to be on the moon, they would laugh at you. If you had told them that you could send mail from here to the other side of the world in a few seconds, they would say you were out of your mind. But, through sheer desire and perseverance, these impossible dreams are now realities.

Thomas Edison once said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Nothing could be truer. For one to accomplish his or her dreams, there has to be had work and discipline. But take note that that 1% has to be a think-big dream, and not some easily accomplished one.

Ask any gym rat and he or she will tell you that there can be no gains unless you are put out of your comfort zone. Remember the saying, “No pain, no gain”? That is as true as it can be.

So dream on, friend! Don’t get caught up with your perceived limitations. Think big and work hard to attain those dreams. As you step up the ladder of progress, you will just about find out that the impossible has just become a little bit more possible.

Sri
The Law Of Attraction System

The 'Secret' Of Success

2008-10-06T22:32:00.004+05:30

I have been writing these motivational notes with a purpose. The purpose is to motivate myself, improve my self esteem, learn to think positive all the time and improve myself as a human being. The ultimate purpose of life is to evolve into the best that you possibly can.

Of late I have been experimenting with methods that can help me achieve all that I could possibly desire from life - attract health, happiness and of course a lot of wealth and a good life. Now here is a video that could help just do all that I described, attract all the best in your life and change life for the better.

The 'Secret of success' can be learned and practiced. So watch the 'Secret' and change your life.

Sri

Review of Manifest A Miracle

2008-09-21T22:45:00.002+05:30

When I first heard about Manifest a Miracle, I thought to myself, “oh great, another product rehashing The Secret”. It seems like there’s way too much redundant information on the Law of Attraction out there, and nothing ever seems to work. But my friend urged me to grab a copy, citing his own success. So I bought it, just to humor him…

Man, was I ever wrong!

Manifest a Miracle is easily the best Law of Attraction book I’ve read to date, and I’ve devoured them all!

First off, what all other manifestation products lack, this one embodies from beginning to end. Manifest a Miracle has been lovingly crafted and is meant to teach anyone how to immediately change their life for the better. Where other products offer a theoretical background but little helpful practical advice, Manifest a Miracle contains page after page of practical, useful exercises and processes that can actually get the Law of Attraction working!

Nothing dull or dry – it’s all fun stuff!

The author’s knowledge and warmth pervade this book. It’s obvious that Gary is manifesting his desires, because his happiness and excitement radiate from each page. There is no better teacher than one who is a living example, and Gary is definitely living the life he desires!

Most importantly, the processes given within Manifest a Miracle are easy to practice and surprisingly fun! No more dry, repetitive visualizations – here are some exercises that are really easy to get into, and truly do what they are supposed to do. You’ll be feeling great in no time!

And best of all, Gary describes how best to work these exercises into your daily routine in order to wake up feeling good, feel good all day, and go to bed feeling good. Within three days of starting my own schedule, I was feeling fantastic! Two days later and I found my first desire had manifested. Since then, there has been no turning back, and I have Manifest a Miracle to thank for this.

Just think. What would have happened if I hadn’t grabbed this book? I’d still be creating a reality I wasn’t happy with. I had no idea how easy it really is to attract everything I want!

If you’re looking for the one Law of Attraction guide that will give you all of the tools you need to truly manifest your desires with ease, grab a copy of Manifest a Miracle today. It’s truly the “feel good” book of the year!

To think and grow rich is your responsibility

2008-09-20T06:39:00.004+05:30

No writing on motivation is complete without mentioning the name of Napoleopn Hill. He is the original motivational guru. He was the perhaps the first person to write and

develop the "Philosophy of Personal Achievement". His book 'Think & Grow Rich' is the bible of personal development and is still one of the largest selling books on personal

development. The book has been mentioned as one of the key motivators of some of the most successful men of the world in achieving their own successes.

Napoleopn Hill firmly believed in the power of personal beliefs and how such positive beliefs lead one to highest personal success. His constant theme in all his writings is

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve".

Here's an excellent article 'To think and grow rich is your responsibility' on the life and works of Napoleon Hill at http://www.motivational-story.com

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Tips For Motivating Yourself - 1

2008-08-07T06:03:00.003+05:30

We all have our moments of low self esteem and doubt. Such are the moments when our motivation is at the lowest ebb. The smallest of problems can bring down motivation like a punctured balloon. Howsoever charged you are the moments of self doubt or difficulties of the task at hand can kill motivation. How to overcome such moments and get the the motivation going in difficult times.

There are dozens of ways you charge yourself and regain your enthusiasm back. These are some of the things I have tried successfully when I am down and out.

Clarity of Goals is one of the major motivating factor to get anything done. A clear direction and defined steps to reach your objective is the best way to move forward. Write down your specific goals whenever in doubt on any matter. Break it down into smaller easily achievable steps. Create a time line for each step.
Writing down your goals and reading them often will recharge your resolve to achieve them. Each step when defined with a time frame to achieve will move you towards action. And every small success in that direction will motivate you to push on further.

Goal setting is the best self motivation technique ever invented.

Have a great and successful Day.

Srinivasan

Begin The Day On High Motivation

2008-08-06T07:48:00.003+05:30

If you begin the day with high motivation, you are sure to end the day with more success. Well this is one my own quotes or experience on motivation. So here's a great quote on motivation.

" Success is at arms reach, so why are your arms folded? Be not your own enemy by procrastination, instead be your own hero by self-motivation. Just do it!"

Have a great and wonderful day.

Srinivasan

A To Z of Motivation

2008-08-05T06:08:00.006+05:30

Motivation is the key to all successes. When a person works for his innermost desires, his vision or at a basic level when he is engaged in a hobby or interest, he is inspired and motivated. Motivation takes place when one pursues an activity without any obvious external incentives or considerations of material gains alone. The behavior shifts from ordinary gains to a desire for extraordinary excellence. Motivation comes from within.

So what does it take to get motivated? Here is a list I discovered on the A to Z of motivating yourself and all those you come in contact with.

A - Achieve your dreams. Avoid negative people, things and places. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

B - Believe in your self, and in what you can do.

C – Consider things on every angle and aspect. Motivation comes from determination. To be able to understand life, you should feel the sun from both sides.

D – Don’t give up and don’t give in. Thomas Edison failed once, twice, 100"s of times before he came up with his invention and perfected the incandescent light bulb. Make motivation as your steering wheel.

E – Enjoy. Work as if you don’t need money. Dance as if nobody’s watching. Love as if you never cried. Learn as if you’ll live forever. Motivation takes place when people are happy.

F – Family and Friends – are life’s greatest ‘F’ treasures. Don’t loose sight of them.

G – Give more than what is enough. Where does motivation and self improvement take place at work? At home? At school? When you exert extra effort in doing things.

H – Hang on to your dreams. They may dangle in there for a moment, but these little stars will be your driving force.

I – Ignore those who try to destroy you. Don’t let other people to get the best of you. Stay out of toxic people – the kind of friends who hates to hear about your success.

J – Just be yourself. The key to success is to be yourself. And the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

K – keep trying no matter how hard life may seem. When a person is motivated, eventually he sees a harsh life finally clearing out, paving the way to self improvement.

L – Learn to love your self. Now isn’t that easy?

M – Make things happen. Motivation is when your dreams are put into work clothes.

N – Never lie, cheat or steal. Always play a fair game.

O – Open your eyes. People should learn the horse attitude and horse sense. They see things in 2 ways – how they want things to be, and how they should be.

P – Practice makes perfect. Practice is about motivation. It lets us learn repertoire and ways on how can we recover from our mistakes.

Q – Quitters never win. And winners never quit. So, choose your fate – are you going to be a quitter? Or a winner?

R – Ready yourself. Motivation is also about preparation. We must hear the little voice within us telling us to get started before others will get on their feet and try to push us around. Remember, it wasn’t raining when Noah build the ark.

S – Stop procrastinating.

T – Take control of your life. Discipline or self control jives synonymously with motivation. Both are key factors in self improvement.

U – Understand others. If you know very well how to talk, you should also learn how to listen. Yearn to understand first, and to be understood the second.

V – Visualize it. Motivation without vision is like a boat on a dry land.

W – Want it more than anything. Dreaming means believing. And to believe is something that is rooted out from the roots of motivation and self improvement.

X – X Factor is what will make you different from the others. When you are motivated, you tend to put on “extras” on your life like extra time for family, extra help at work, extra care for friends, and so on.

Y – You are unique. No one in this world looks, acts, or talks like you. Value your life and existence, because you’re just going to spend it once.

Z – Zero in on your dreams and go for it!!!

Does that seem a lot of things to be done for motivating yourself? Take one a day and make that the center point of all your actions. Keep repeating the cycle from A to Z. You will find yourself highly charged, motivated and successful.

Have A Great and Successful Day.

Srinivasan

Define Your Own Success

2008-07-24T06:54:00.002+05:30

If we are to list one pre-occupation of the entire world, it must be the word “SUCCESS”. Ever where the buzz is ‘who is successful doing what’ or ‘what is it that will make me successful’.

Success means different things to different people. Success is not money or material possessions. Neither is success achieving high offices or positions. Success may not be having a good understanding family.

To be successful, we need a combination of factors well balanced and supporting and enhancing each positive aspect of our life.

The first step to successful living is to arrive at a clear definition of what is success for you.

This may include:
(a) material aspects like money, career, and your material possessions
(b) Your emotional needs. Your relationships with family, friends and your work associates
(c) Your spiritual needs.

Once you are clear in mind what exactly success means to you, then the next steps are easy. Put specific goals for each area mentioned above. Do not be defeated by failures or set backs. Just keep working on it repeatedly. Each area of life requires its own time and focus. A skew in any one of the three important aspects of life would lead to disharmony and you may end up feeling frustrated.

Success is just an outcome of positive actions repeated over time, which sets in as a habit.

Have a great and successful day!

Sri

Why Are Some Men Failures Who Deserve to Succeed?

2008-07-21T20:59:00.002+05:30

"Life can hold nothing but failure for the ill natured, unsociable, disgusting tramp who is known to be ignorant, lazy, shiftless, a spendthrift, a liar, and an all-around crook. Such a worthless man will make a complete failure of life because he is so disqualified to succeed.

On the other hand certain success ought to be achieved by the good natured, intelligent, reliable man who continually wins friends; the truthful man who has a fine reputation for thrift, honesty, neatness, and love for his work. He seems entirely worthy of success. Yet for reasons that baffle himself and his friends it sometimes happens that such a man is unsuccessful.

The defeat in life of one who appears so deserving of victory seems to prove that success cannot be assured by the development of individual characteristics alone and by doing specific things.

But such a wholly negative conclusion would be wrong. When a worthy man fails, he loses out because he lacks an essential positive factor of certain success the ability to sell his capabilities. By mastering the selling process this failure can turn himself into a success."

Have Great & Successful Day

Sri

The Power of Dreams

2008-07-19T06:36:00.005+05:30

As the plane touched down on the Istanbul airport, I could not not but feel an elation, a feeling of joy and satisfaction which comes with success. A small town lad travelling the world and living up the dreams of seeing the world. The last two years had been unusual as this was my 4th trip abroad in little less than 15 months. Phuket in Thailand, Johannesburg and Capetown in South Africa, Shanghai & Hongkong and now Istanbul.

I suddenly realized that all these are not just a result of my talents or success. They were the result of my fascination and constant dream of travelling the world. Even as a child of 7-8 years, I was fascinated by foreign cultures and people and used to dream of walking those very streets which I had seen in the pictures. I had this yearning for travelling the world whenever I saw the photographs, read and watched Discovery channel. Discover continues to be my favourite channel to the extent that during a brief period of unemployment, I did not watch anything else except this channel. I always used to vividly picture myself talking to the people, walking on the streets, buying artefacts and enjoying the novelty of the experience.

And I dreamed and persisted in realising my dreams!

In no country have I felt out place or alien. I could perfectly understand and empathise with the people whom I met on the streets, hotels, subways and in conferences. Even in a sea of foreign faces and barriers of language, I never felt uncomfortable.

Nothing in the world can eqaull the power of dreams. If you can dream in vivid details, there is a natural law or a super power which ensures the realization of those that we have already created in our minds.

I dream and believe that for me the world is an oyster and there are many countries and cultures calling me.

Sri

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Success Quotes To Pep Up Your Day

2008-06-20T06:43:00.005+05:30

Are You down in the dumps? Do you need to pep up the day? Are you confronted with failure after failure. Here are some great success quotes. I have been picking and saving these quotes for the rainy day in our lives.

Read and get inspired.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won’t have time to envy the man above him
- Henrietta Mears

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing
-Abraham Lincoln

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful
-Alex Noble

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy
- Thomas A. Buckner

Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.
- Booker T. Washington

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
- George Eliot

Have a Great and Successful Day.

Sri

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Defining Successful Leadership

2008-05-04T19:40:00.004+05:30

If one were to isolate one major quality of success from the dozens of factors, leadership would stand out to be major influencer. To be truly successful is to be a leader in your chosen path.

So how do we define leadership? What does it take to be a leader? Are leaders always awe inspiring and larger than life characters as is made out. Are leaders always rich?

Looking at the lives of Great leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Buddha, Jesus Christ or any of the history’s greats few qualities stand out.

Leadership simply defined is the ability to influence and inspire. They are people oriented and have the innate ability to get along with all kinds of people. In fact the very essence of leadership is based on the people they lead. If there are no people to be lead there is no leader!

A leader instills great confidence, inspires a higher vision and creates hope and commands respect those who are led. He has high levels of integrity and character, does not manipulate or deceive those whom he leads.

A leader always has the larger good in mind and all his actions are based on the benefit to the masses than his personal greed. His personal success is incidental and he seeks the betterment of those whom he leads.

A leader need not necessarily be rich as we can see from the lives of great many leaders such as Mother Theresa, Mohammed Yunus or Medha patkar. But a true leader is always successful. Though they may not be rich they need not struggle for the basic necessities of life as they command great resources due to their influence.

Successful leaders are always larger than life characters whether they command following in a small community, organization or national and global levels. However they easy to approach and simple to deal with. They are greatly admired for simple living and high thinking loved for their affection and concern for people

If you aspire to be a leader then build yourself to put people first and start working for the betterment of your community and society.

Have a Great and Successful Day.

R.G. Srinivasan

Successful Men of Business - Andrew Carnegie

2008-04-17T05:28:00.004+05:30

If you have read the legendary book on life success “Think & Grow Rich” you might remember Andrew Carnegie. He was the inspiration behind one the highest selling motivational and self development book in the history of publishing perhaps next only to Bible.

Andrew Carnegie symbolizes all that you can call success.

He is said to be the second richest man in history. He built one of the largest and most powerful steel conglomerates in the world and finally sold it to donate most of the proceeds to charity.

Andrew Carnegie rose up from poverty with a fierce ambition and embodies all that a self development Guru would dream about.

Andrew Carnegie migrated to America from Scotland with his parents to escape poverty due to destruction of the crafts practiced by his parents by the Industrial Revolution. The abject poverty of his childhood created a steely resolve to overcome poverty and earn the riches that he owned later.

Starting $1.20 a week, he slowly moved up the ladder and became a private secretary of legendary Thomas A. Scott of Pennsylvania Railroad at a princely salary $ 35.

During this time Civil War had broken out. The military requirements were driving the steel Industry. Once the Civil War was over Andrew Carnegie decided to quit his work and enter the Steel Industry.

"I think Carnegie's genius was first of all, an ability to foresee how things were going to change," says historian John Ingram. "Once he saw that something was of potential benefit to him, he was willing to invest enormously in it."

His move up in the industrial world is well documented. However what is not much known is his thirst for knowledge and philanthropic leanings.

“I propose to take an income no greater than $50,000 per annum! Beyond this I need ever earn, make no effort to increase my fortune, but spend the surplus each year for benevolent purposes! Let us cast aside business forever, except for others. Let us settle in Oxford and I shall get a thorough education, making the acquaintance of literary men. I figure that this will take three years active work. I shall pay especial attention to speaking in public. We can settle in London and I can purchase a controlling interest in some newspaper or live review and give the general management of it attention, taking part in public matters, especially those connected with education and improvement of the poorer classes. Man must have an idol and the amassing of wealth is one of the worst species of idolatry! No idol is more debasing than the worship of money! Whatever I engage in I must push inordinately; therefore should I be careful to choose that life which will be the most elevating in its character. To continue much longer overwhelmed by business cares and with most of my thoughts wholly upon the way to make more money in the shortest time, must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery. I will resign business at thirty-five, but during these ensuing two years I wish to spend the afternoons in receiving instruction and in reading systematically!”

He sold his steel empire at the age of 64 for $ 480 million and became the richest man in the world. Thereafter he turned his attention to giving away his fortune which was one of his avowed wish mentioned by Napoleon Hill in the introduction to the book ‘Think and Grow Rich’. He donated most of his money to establishing libraries and institutes of higher learning.

While he was highly philanthropic he detested charity. Andrew Carnegie ardently believed in helping people to help them selves. He inspired the writing of Think and Grow Rich which remains to this day the classic of motivation and self development. It is said that hundreds of the richest and powerful men in the world have claimed to have become rich and successful after reading the book ‘Think and Grow Rich’.

You can read more about Andrew Carnegie at pbs.org

Have a great and successful day

Srinivasan

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Leadership Exposed: Things You Thought You Knew About Leadership

2008-03-30T13:23:00.004+05:30

There is a phenomenal amount of literature available on leadership. There are articles on leadership styles, rules for leaders, pointers, leadership handbooks and one minute leadership lessons. The biographies of inspiring leaders throughout world history are available on the flick of a button on the net.

I have been an avid reader of such literature and there are certain leadership ideas that we fail to recognize and realize in the course of reading such books. Here is a short list of things you thought you knew about leadership.

1. Leaders Come In Different Hues

There are different types of leaders and you will probably encounter more than one type in your lifetime. Formal leaders are those we elect into positions or offices such as the senators, congressmen, and presidents of the local clubs. Informal leaders or those we look up to by virtue of their wisdom and experience such as in the case of the elders of a tribe, or our grandparents; or by virtue of their expertise and contribution on a given field such as Albert Einstein in the field of Theoretical Physics and Leonardo da Vinci in the field of the Arts. Both formal and informal leaders practice a combination of leadership styles.
Lewin’s three basic leadership styles – authoritative, participative, and delegative
Likert’s four leadership styles – exploitive authoritative, benevolent authoritative, consultative, and participative
Goleman’s six emotional leadership styles - visionary, coaching, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, and commanding.

2. Leadership Is A Process Of Becoming

Although certain people seem to be born with innate leadership qualities, without the right environment and exposure, they may fail to develop their full potential. So like learning how to ride a bicycle, you can also learn how to become a leader and hone your leadership abilities. Knowledge on leadership theories and skills may be formally gained by enrolling in leadership seminars, workshops, and conferences. Daily interactions with people provide the opportunity to observe and practice leadership theories. Together, formal and informal learning will help you gain leadership attitudes, gain leadership insights, and thus furthering the cycle of learning. You do not become a leader in one day and just stop. Life-long learning is important in becoming a good leader for each day brings new experiences that put your knowledge, skills, and attitude to a test.

3. Leadership Starts With You

The best way to develop leadership qualities is to apply it to your own life. As an adage goes “action speaks louder than words.” Leaders are always in the limelight. Keep in mind that your credibility as a leader depends much on your actions: your interaction with your family, friends, and co-workers; your way of managing your personal and organizational responsibilities; and even the way you talk with the newspaper vendor across the street. Repeated actions become habits. Habits in turn form a person’s character. Steven Covey’s book entitled 7 Habits of Highly Effective People provides good insights on how you can achieve personal leadership.

4. Leadership Is Shared

Leadership is not the sole responsibility of one person, but rather a shared responsibility among members of an emerging team. A leader belongs to a group. Each member has responsibilities to fulfill. Formal leadership positions are merely added responsibilities aside from their responsibilities as members of the team. Effective leadership requires members to do their share of work. Starting as a mere group of individuals, members and leaders work towards the formation of an effective team. In this light, social interaction plays a major role in leadership. To learn how to work together requires a great deal of trust between and among leaders and members of an emerging team. Trust is built upon actions and not merely on words. When mutual respect exists, trust is fostered and confidence is built.

5. Leadership Styles Depend On The Situation

How come dictatorship works for Singapore but not in the United States of America? Aside from culture, beliefs, value system, and form of government, the current situation of a nation also affects the leadership styles used by its formal leaders. There is no rule that only one style can be used. Most of the time, leaders employ a combination of leadership styles depending on the situation. In emergency situations such as periods of war and calamity, decision-making is a matter of life and death. Thus, a nation’s leader cannot afford to consult with all departments to arrive at crucial decisions. The case is of course different in times of peace and order - different sectors and other branches of government can freely interact and participate in governance. Another case in point is in leading organizations. When the staffs are highly motivated and competent, a combination of high delegative and moderate participative styles of leadership is most appropriate. But if the staffs have low competence and low commitment, a combination of high coaching, high supporting, and high directing behavior from organizational leaders is required.

Now that you know the different leadership styles and how the leaders become what they are, keep in mind that there are always ideas that we think we already know; concepts we take for granted, but are actually the most useful insights on leadership.

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Success Quotes of The Rich & The Famous

2008-03-24T19:23:00.003+05:30

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man - J Paul Getty

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change - Charles Darwin

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both - Zen Text

The manager administers; the leader innovates.The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it - Warren Bennis

The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat - Lily Tomlin

1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
2. Get mad, then get over it.
3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
4. It can be done!
5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
7. You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.
8. Check small things.
9. Share credit.
10. Remain calm. Be kind.
11. Have a vision. Be demanding.
12. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier - General Colin Powell's Rules

Have a great and successful day
R.G. Srinivasan
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7 days program to Stress management

2008-03-24T06:44:00.003+05:30

"Have One Week, Will Relax" Your 7 days program to Stress management

They say there's more than one way to skin a cat. The same goes when you start tearing your hair out with all the frustration, grief, anxiety, and yes, stress. It's a state of mental conditioning that is like taking that bitter pill down your throat, causing you to lose your sense of self, and worse your sanity. Just thinking about it can drive anyone off the edge.
And they say that the proactive ones are already living off the edge.

As one stressed-out person to another, I know how it feels, and believe me there are many variants when it comes to stress. Coping with life, and carrying the problems that may or may not belong to you can scratch away the little joy and happiness that you can carry once you head out that door. You can't blame them for being like that; they have their own reasons, so much like we have our reasons to allow stress to weigh us down. They say that stress is all in the mind, well, what's bugging you anyway?

There are several ways to manage stress, and eventually remove it out of your life one of these days. So I'll try to divide it into a seven-day course for you and I promise it's not going to be too taxing on the body, as well as on the mind.

1. Acknowledge stress is good. Make stress your friend! Based on the body's natural "fight or flight" response, that burst of energy will enhance your performance at the right moment. I've yet to see a top sportsman totally relaxed before a big competition. Use stress wisely to push yourself that little bit harder when it counts most.

2. Avoid stress sneezers. Stressed people sneeze stress germs indiscriminately and before you know it, you are infected too! Protect yourself by recognizing stress in others and limiting your contact with them. Or if you've got the inclination, play stress doctor and teach them how to better manage themselves.

3. Learn from the best. When people around are losing their head, who keeps calm? What are they doing differently? What is their attitude? What language do they use? Are they trained and experienced? Figure it out from afar or sit them down for a chat. Learn from the best stress managers and copy what they do.

4. Practice socially acceptable heavy breathing. This is something I've learned from a gym instructor: You can trick your body into relaxing by using heavy breathing. Breathe in slowly for a count of 7 then breathe out for a count of 11. Repeat the 7-11 breathing until your heart rate slows down, your sweaty palms dry off and things start to feel more normal.

5. Give stressy thoughts the red light. It is possible to tangle yourself up in a stress knot all by yourself. "If this happens, then that might happen and then we're all up the creek!" Most of these things never happen, so why waste all that energy worrying needlessly?
Give stress thought-trains the red light and stop them in their tracks. Okay so it might go wrong - how likely is that, and what can you do to prevent it?

6. Know your trigger points and hot spots. Presentations, interviews, meetings, giving difficult feedback, tight deadlines…. My heart rate is cranking up just writing these down!
Make your own list of stress trigger points or hot spots. Be specific. Is it only presentations to a certain audience that get you worked up? Does one project cause more stress than another? Did you drink too much coffee?

Knowing what causes you stress is powerful information, as you can take action to make it less stressful. Do you need to learn some new skills? Do you need extra resources? Do you need to switch to decaf?

7. Burn the candle at one end. Lack of sleep, poor diet and no exercise wreaks havoc on our body and mind. Kind of obvious, but worth mentioning as it's often ignored as a stress management technique. Listen to your mother and don't burn the candle at both ends!

So having stress can be a total drag, but that should not hinder us to find the inner peace of mind that we have wanted for a long time. In any case, one could always go to the Bahamas and bask under the summer sun.

UNLOCK YOUR SELF IMPROVEMENT POWER

2008-03-09T19:33:00.002+05:30

We reach a point in our life when we are ready for change and a whole bunch of information that will help us unlock our self improvement power. Until then, something can be staring us right under our nose but we don’t see it.

When we look at a certain object, a painting for example – we won’t be able to appreciate what’s in it, what is painted and what else goes with it if the painting is just an inch away from our face. But if we try to take it a little further, we’ll have a clearer vision of the whole art work.

The only time we think of unlocking our self improvement power is when everything got worst. Take the frog principle for example:
Try placing Frog A in a pot of boiling water. What happens? He twerps! He jumps off! Why? Because he is not able to tolerate sudden change in his environment – the water’s temperature. Then try Frog B: place him in a luke warm water, then turn the gas stove on. Wait til the water reaches a certain boiling point. Frog B then thinks “Ooh… it’s a bit warm in here”.

People are like Frog B in general. Today, Anna thinks Carl hates her. Tomorrow, Patrick walks up to her and told her he hates her. Anna stays the same and doesn’t mind her what her friends says. The next day, she learned that Kim and John also abhors her. Anna doesn’t realize at once the importance and the need for self improvement until the entire community hates her.

We learn our lessons when we experience pain. We finally see the warning signs and signals when things get rough and tough. When do we realize that we need to change diets? When none of our jeans and shirts would fit us. When do we stop eating candies and chocolates? When all of our teeth has fallen off. When do we realize that we need to stop smoking? When our lungs have gone bad. When do we pray and ask for help? When we realize that we’re gonna die tomorrow.

The only time most of us ever learn about unlocking our self improvement power is when the whole world is crashing and falling apart. We think and feel this way because it is not easy to change. But change becomes more painful when we ignore it.

Change will happen, like it or hate it. At one point or another, we are all going to experience different turning points in our life – and we are all going to eventually unlock our self improvement power not because the world says so, not because our friends are nagging us, but because we realized its for our own good.

Happy people don’t just accept change, they embrace it. Now, you don’t have to feel a tremendous heat before realizing the need for self improvement. Unlocking your self improvement power means unlocking yourself up in the cage of thought that “its just the way I am”. It is such a poor excuse for people who fear and resist change. Most of us program our minds like computers.

Jen repeatedly tells everyone that she doesn’t have the guts to be around groups of people. She heard her mom, her dad, her sister, her teacher tell the same things about her to other people. Over the years, that is what Jen believes. She believes its her story. And what happens? Every time a great crowd would troop over their house, in school, and in the community – she tends to step back, shy away and lock herself up in a room. Jen didn’t only believed in her story, she lived it.

Jen has to realize that she is not what she is in her story. Instead of having her story post around her face for everyone to remember, she has to have the spirit and show people “I am an important person and I should be treated accordingly!”

Self improvement may not be everybody’s favorite word, but if we look at things in a different point of view, we might have greater chances of enjoying the whole process instead of counting the days until we are fully improved. Three sessions in a week at the gym would result to a healthier life, reading books instead of looking at porns will shape up a more profound knowledge, going out with friends and peers will help you take a step back from work and unwind. And just when you are enjoying the whole process of unlocking your self improvement power, you’ll realize that you’re beginning to take things light and become happy.

Sri

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How to Become a Successful Leader

2008-03-02T22:23:00.002+05:30

While at work, do you get frustrated because things don't seem to be happening the way they’re supposed to be? You see the teeming mass of co-workers all around but nothing gets accomplished. Everyone has a convenient answer, an excuse for not getting things done. Caught up in the daily routine, do you feel that your goals remain just that – goals.

Now is the time for you to stand up and do something about it. Take control of the situation and move your vision of the success forward.

Most people are content just to stand around awaiting orders from superiors or colleagues. And it isn't unusual to adopt a follow-the-leader mentality. But maybe, somewhere inside of you, you feel the desire to make things happen – to be the head, not the tail. Then maybe leadership just suits you fine.

Some people believe that great leaders are made, not born. Yes, it may be true that some people are born with natural talents. However, without practice, without drive, without enthusiasm, and without experience, there can be no true development in leadership.
You must also remember that good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their natural skills. This takes a commitment to constantly improve in whatever endeavor a person chooses.

First of all, let's define leadership. To be a leader, one must be able to influence others to accomplish a goal, or an objective. He contributes to the organization and cohesion of a group.

First of all, you have to get people to follow you. How is this accomplished? People follow others when they see a clear sense of purpose. People will only follow you if they see that you know where you are going. Remember that bumper sticker? The one that says, don't follow me, I'm lost too? The same holds true for leadership. If you yourself do not know where you're headed to, chances are people will not follow you at all. You yourself must know the vision of the organization.

Having a clear sense of hierarchy, knowing who are the people that matter to the organization, who to talk to, the organization's goals and objectives, and how the organization works is the only way to show others you know what you are doing.

Contrary to what most people believe, leadership is not about power. It is not about harassing people or driving them using fear. It is about encouraging others towards the goal of the organization. It is putting everyone on the same page and helping them see the big picture of the organization. You must be a leader not a boss.

Being a leader is not about what you make others do. It's about who you are, what you know, and what you do. You are the mirror from which you see a reflection in your subordinates. You must show what you're subordinates must become.
Studies have shown that one other bases of good leadership is the trust and confidence your subordinates have of you. If they trust you they will go through hell and high water for you and for the organization.

Trust and confidence is built on good relationships, trustworthiness, and high ethics.
The way you deal with your people, and the relationships you build will lay the foundation for the strength of your group. The stronger your relationship, the stronger their trust and confidence is in your capabilities.

Once you have their trust and confidence, you may now proceed to communicate the goals and objectives you are to undertake.

Communication is a very important key to good leadership. Without this you can not be a good leader. The knowledge and technical expertise you have must be clearly imparted to other people.

You can not be a good leader unless you have good judgment. You must be able to assess situations, weigh the pros and cons of any decision, and actively seek out a solution.
It is this judgment that your subordinates will come to rely upon. Therefore, good decision-making is vital to the success of your organization.

Leaders are not do-it-all heroes. You should not claim to know everything, and you should not rely upon your skills alone.

You should recognize and take advantage of the skills and talents your subordinates have. Only when you come to this realization will you be able to work as one cohesive unit.
Remember being a leader takes a good deal of work and time. It is not learned overnight. Remember, also, that it is not about just you. It is about you and the people around you.

So, do you have the drive and the desire required to be a leader? Do you have the desire to work with other people? Then start now. Take your stand and be leader today.

Have a great and successful day

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Success Has Little To Do With Happiness!

2008-01-27T17:32:00.000+05:30

The purpose of all success is to be happy and enjoy our lives. However you need not necessarily be successful to be genuinely happy. Genuine Happiness Comes from Within

Life isn’t always the sweet candy that we wish it to be. Sometimes, when I feel like the world is just too heavy, I look around and find people who continued to live fascinating and wonderful lives. Thoughts come popping into my mind like bubbles from nowhere – “How did their life become so adorably sweet? How come they still can manage to laugh and play around despite a busy stressful life?” Then I pause and observed for awhile… I figured out that maybe, they start to work on a place called ‘self’.

So, how does one become genuinely happy? Step 1 is to love your self.

“Loving means accepting.” To love one self means to accept that you are not a perfect being, but behind the imperfections must lie a great deal of courage to be able to discover ways on how to improve and to recover from our mistakes.

Genuine happiness also pertains to contentment. When you are contented with the job you have, the way you look, with your family, your friends, the place you live in, your car, and all the things you now have – truly, you know the answer to the question “how to be genuinely happy.”

When we discover a small start somewhere from within, that small start will eventually lead to something bigger. But if you keep questioning life, that it has never done you any good, you will never be able to find genuine happiness.

I believe that life is about finding out about right and wrong, trying and failing, wining and losing. These are things that happen as often as you inhale and exhale. Failure, in a person’s life has become as abundant and necessary as air. But this should not hinder us from becoming happy.

How to be genuinely happy in spite all these? I tell you… every time you exert effort to improve the quality of life and your being, whether it is cleaning up your room, helping a friend, taking care of your sick dog, fail on board exams and trying again, life gives you equivalent points for that.

Imagine life as a big score board like those which are used in the NFLs. Every time you take a step forward, you make scoring points. Wouldn’t it be nice to look at that board at the end of each game and think to yourself “Whew! I got a point today. I’m glad I gave it a shot.” instead of looking at it all blank and murmur “Geez, I didn’t even hit a score today. I wish I had the guts to try out. We could have won!” and walk away.

Genuine happiness isn’t about driving the hottest Formula 1 car, nor getting the employee of the year award, earning the highest 13th month pay, or beating the sales quota. Sometimes, the most sought after prizes in life doesn’t always go to the fastest, the strongest, and the bravest or not even the best. So, how do you become genuinely happy? Every one has his own definition of ‘happiness’. Happiness for a writer may mean launching as much best selling books as possible. Happiness for a basketball rookie may mean getting the rookie of the year award. Happiness for a beggar may mean a lot of money. Happiness for a business man may mean success. So, really now, how do we become genuinely happy? Simple. You don’t have to have the best things in this world. It’s about doing and making the best out of every single thing. When you find yourself smiling at your own mistake and telling your self “Oh, I’ll do better next time”, you carry with you a flame of strong will power to persevere that may spread out like a brush fire. You possess a willingness to stand up again and try – that will make you a genuinely happy person.

Learn to accept yourself and your own faults. You pass step 1 in the project “how to become genuinely happy”. For as long as you know how to accept others, you will also be accepted. For as long as you love and know how to love, you will receive love ten folds back.

Again, throw me that same question “how to become genuinely happy?”. I’ll refer you to a friend of mine who strongly quoted- “Most of us know that laughter is the best medicine to life’s aches and pain. But most of us don’t know that the best kind of laughter is laughter over self. Coz then you don’t just become happy… you become free.”

Have a Happy and Successful Day

Srinivasan

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Successful Thinking

2007-12-19T07:07:00.000+05:30

William Cottringer

Success in living and working in today's "information Age" requires successful thinking. The good news is that everyone is capable of increasing successful thinking. Successful thinking is using any mental skill to get results. Here are 20 easy ways to get better results with your thinking.

1. Increase knowledge. First, set your ego aside and openly acknowledge how little you really do know right now compared to all that you can know. Then commit to being a perpetual learner for the rest of your life. Grow, learn and improve with every breath. That acknowledgment and commitment will get results.

2. Beware of what you "know." Understand how your own brain "tricks" you into over-simplifying things, distorting perceptions and memories, and convincing you things are true despite the lack of evidence. Things are not always as they appear and all that you think you know may not always be so. Truth isn't easy to discern.

3. Slow down. Reject your natural tendency to hurry up and believe something too quickly before you get all the facts or get a chance to move to a more advantageous viewpoint. You can often get more done when you take your time.

4. Value principles. Look for operating principles that hold true in a variety of situations over time. For instance, you usually get what you expect; if you don't like what you get, blame your expectation.

5. Make one assumption: One assumption is probably worth making: miscommunication and misunderstanding are more the norm than not. Good communication takes hard work and doesn't occur without much care and effort to understand and be understood by another person through gradual clarification.

6. Verify other assumptions. Question basic assumptions you have made or that were made for you-look for disproof of what you and others are "sure" of, rather than just looking for more available proof to confirm what you already believe.

7. Re-think what you know. You don't always need more information, but rather to use what information you already have, better. Creativity can often start by looking at older, conventional ideas in newer and more unusual ways.

8. Ask Questions. Focus more on asking good questions than coming up with clever answers. Good questions open doors and create progress.

9. Separate feelings from thinking. With conflicts, first peel the onion to see and remove all the emotions that are clouding the issue. Then look for ways everybody can win something and not lose anything important by rationally discussing the situation. Conflicts are opportunities that challenge your thinking.

10. Dig Deeper. Sometimes it is worth the effort to dig a little deeper and separate the superficial surface symptoms from the hidden core problem in a situation. Knowing what the real problem is can be half the solution.

11. Accept random accidents. Sometimes random accidents do occur and trying to ascribe meaning and purpose to them is artificial. Besides you are often wrong.

12. Be positive. Focusing on negative things and differences can be amusing but it isn't very productive; focusing on positive similarities builds unity and strength. Having positive beliefs and positive expectations tend to lead to positive outcomes.

13. Exercise. You can easily get out of shape mentally if you don't exercise your brain regularly. Make an effort to read more, pay closer attention to details, have more meaningful discussions, work from a definite plan, apply systematic problem-solving strategies, analyze failures and successes, etc.

14. Learn. Learn from both your failures and successes-avoid making unnecessary past mistakes over and over again, and re-use elements from your successes to increase them in the future. The lessons you learn will reduce failures and increase successes.

15. Converse with "enemies." You can learn much from people you disagree with. Understanding "opposite points of view can double your IQ.

16. Share suspicions. The information you have that you are least sure of, can often turn out to be the most valuable, useful information, once you get over your reluctance and hesitancy in sharing and validating it with others.

17. Know where you are standing. What you see depends on where you are doing the looking from. Become more sensitive to the reality that what you see changes when you move around.

18. Study thinking. Most of our consciousness is a result of thinking, not thinking itself. Focus on what you need to know to solve a problem and then direct your thoughts to uncover that knowledge in a complete and correct way.

19. Keep an open mind. The most useful mental skill is keeping an open mind-not making pre-judgments, convincing yourself you are right, arriving at pre-mature conclusions, or not setting beliefs and values in concrete; but rather being tentative, non-judgmental and exploring possibilities more. You might be surprised what you discover when you aren't looking for something in particular.

20. Laugh. Very few things are that serious. Being too serious taxes your whole being and a good hearty laugh frees you up for more successful thinking when you may need it most.
Practice any of these 20 exercises in successful thinking and watch your win column grow.

William Cottringer, Ph.D. is President of Puget Sound Security in Bellevue, WA. He is author of You Can Have Your Cheese & Eat It Too, a book guaranteed to boost your thinking IQ. He can be reached at bcottringer@pssp.net or (425) 454-5011.

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Set Up Your Mind For success and Wealth

2007-12-18T06:25:00.000+05:30

I have just been wondering why I spent most part of my life as an employee and not being able to create enough wealth and success.

You are what you want to be. Just like you are what you eat, it also follows that you are what you think. If you set your mind to work for somebody as an employee, you will look for a job and you will be satisfied working as an employee. However, if you set your mind properly to attain financial freedom, you will find means of getting wealthy without the pressures and hassles of working for someone else.

Most of us are conditioned from childhood to take up work as an employee and pre-occupied with, forget or unintentionally ignore to cross the line to become entrepreneur and see how we can create real wealth

That is perhaps why we see the businessman's children becoming a business person and most employed persons children sudying towards or aspiring only for a good employment.

Are you aware that the word “job” fits as an acronym for “just over broke?” And rightfully, the meaning does make sense. Having a job (as an employee) lets you earn just enough to cover your daily expenses.

If you lose your job, you’re broke. Having a job or working as an employee for somebody means your privileges are limited and confined. Although your income is guaranteed, it is also limited.
You see, employers pay just enough so that employees don’t quit. Consequently, employees work hard enough just so they don’t get fired. Subconsciously, if you are an employee, the creative side of your mind is not put to work in full capacity.

You may be making somebody rich but definitely, that somebody is not you. You surrender control of your finances to somebody and you are at his/her mercy. If his/her business go down, you go down with it.

If it goes up, it goes up alone. Most likely, you stay as you are. To surrender one’s finances to somebody is like having your future shaped in somebody else’s hand, not on your own.
I’m not saying that employers are bad. They provide jobs and it’s good. I’m just painting a picture of one of life’s realities which we hardly notice at times. If you go to business, you eventually end up as an employer yourself. I’m just opening the financial area of your mind.
Consider this: Palms facing up is receiving, kind of similar to begging. Palms facing down is giving. Employees receive.

Employers give. How do you want your palms’ position to be?

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Success Quotes From Chanakya.

2007-11-20T06:29:00.000+05:30

Chanakya is one of the most cntroversial figures in the Indian history. A saint who became an advisor to kings and turned into a politician statesman who adviced King Chandragupta is also known for his works on the political and state philosophy.

Nehru describes Chanakya in his Discovery of India, ...called the Indian Machiavelli and to some extent the comparision is justified. But he was a much bigger person in every way, greater in intellect and reason. He was no mere follower of a King, a humble adviser of an all powerful emperor. A picture of him emerges from an old Indian play 'mudra rakshasa' [rakshasa's ring] which deals with this period. Bold and scheming, proud and revengeful, never forgetting a slight, never forgetting his purpose, availing himself of every device to delude and defeat the enemy, he sat with the reins of empire in his hands and looked upon the emperor more as a loved pupil than as master. Simple and austere in life, uninterested in pomp and pageantry of high position, when he had redeemed his pledge and accomplished his purpose, he wanted to retire, brahminlike, to a life of contemplation.

...Long before Clausewitz, he is reported to have said that war is only a continuance of state policy by other means. But he adds, war must always serve the larger ends of policy and not become an end in itself. The statesman's objective must always be the betterment of the State as a result of war and not the mere defeat and destruction of the enemy.'

No writing on success would be complete without quoting Chanakya' mantra of success.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and the of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Have a great and successful day.

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Life Success: Are You One of The 45% Who Will Get Out of The Rat Race THIS YEAR By Using Meditation?

2007-11-07T07:07:00.001+05:30

Are you trying to juggle family and career, just to become totally burned out?

Did you work your butt off for years at your job hoping to get a promotion only to see someone else get it?

Maybe you are exhausted by the constant arguments with your spouse and all you want is a loving relationship with him.

It is hard to be in such a situation and you might ask yourself, “How did I get here?” You could begin to try many of the “standard” methods of reaching your goals of a better career or personal life. The specialists will tell you that these are the “tried and true” ways, taught by the so called “experts”. Every one of them will promise to change your life and that you will be a huge success in no time.

Does this sound familiar? You read their books and attended their costly seminars. They will also state that you need to create a plan of action.This apparently is to keep you on course while trying to figure out what you want. Regardless of the fact that you don’t really know what your true calling is, you still attempt to “work the system.” Likely, you will find yourself straying from your plan on an almost daily basis. If you get somewhere close to your goal, then you will probably decide that this is good enough “for now” and go do something else. In the end, it won’t help you all that much and you will easily fall back into your old routines. Ultimately, you probably will be stuck in your terrible job, your social life will consist of one fight after the other with your spouse and your energy hits rock bottom. This can be very discouraging and you will know that it is not the way you want to live. You will eventually ask yourself, “There has to be a better way.”

Fortunately, there is an answer in the incredible power of meditation. If you want to begin this experience for yourself right now, try the following:

Set aside 10 to 15 minutes sometime before you go to bed;
Find a quiet place with absolutely no distractions;
Sit in a comfortable position and close your eyes;
Empty your mind of all your daily concerns by visualizing how you put them in a box next to you and concentrate on your breathing;
Count yourself down from 5 to 1
With every breath take all the positive energy in and with every breath out let go of all the negative energy
Take slow deep breaths and systematically relax each part of your body, starting with your head and ending with your feet;
As your muscles relax you will feel all of the stress flow out and be left with a completely relaxed sensation throughout your body.
See yourself in a peaceful place like a park, the beach, the forest or the mountains. Wherever you’d like to be in this moment.
Whenever you like count yourself up from 1 to 5

That’s it.

If you do this on a daily basis you will notice that you feel well rested the next day.(Instead of having yet another sleepless night)You also will find that your mind opens up to new ideas to tackle your issues. Maybe you’ll get an inspiration for a new idea. This is just the beginning and it doesn’t even scratch the surface of what you can accomplish with meditation!

Learning advanced techniques of meditation is quite easy to do if you have a great teacher and it doesn’t take long to master. Best of all, you only need to go through a few simple lessons to begin seeing a difference!

It will definitely change the way you interact with the world and give you the means to more effectively reach any goal you set.

In my latest course “The Ultimate Guide to Unleash Your Inner Psychic! 7 Powerful & Easy to Understand Techniques to Achieve Your Goal of Heath, Career, Relationships, Finance and Love!” you will learn how to use meditation, Intuition and your Innate Psychic Powers to reach the goals you set through “Guided Meditation.” (By the way, everyone is born with psychic abilities, it just gets lost over the years…)

You’ll also learn the 2 things you absolutely need to do for your meditation to work! You will be exposed to each lesson in detail and will be given the tools to fully access your inner psychic.
Once you have done this then you will be able to unleash the power that you have inside of you to achieve your goals effortlessly!

To your success!

Annette
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Annette Sassou is a Medium and Life Coach, founder of "The Ultimate Guide to Unleash Your Inner Psychic" Get her 5 FREE lessons on how to end constant fights with your spouse, avoid burn out in your career and stop paying a fortune on costly psychics at Psychic Power Made Easy

Success Guru 2 : Anthony Robbins

2007-10-17T10:46:00.000+05:30

From a Janitor to the most sought after success guru and coach within a span of few years is indeed the journey of Success. Yes that is Anthony Robbins. Tony Robbins as he is fondly called is truly a story of success and inspiration. From a dingy room to owning an island and exotic resort in Fiji Tony Robbins embodies the principles of the rise from rags to riches.

His Mantra. Rapid and Massive Action and CANI – acronym for Constant and Never Ending Improvement if you desire to be successful and achieve all your dreams. His success philosophy has no place for luck or windfalls. He has reduced the achievement of success to a set of easy to principles which when applied with dedication, cannot fail to awaken the unlimited powers within and make you the stuff of which fairy tales are made of.

At least his personal story is an embodiment of the fairy tale life he leads. He has been a personal success coach to the big stars such as Andre Agassi, Nelson Mandela and Byron Scott. It is said that he charges upwards of a million dollar for personal and private coaching.

He is the founder of 9 companies in the business of managing resorts to health and of course his success coaching enterprise and some of hottest selling books on the subject. He has written all time best sellers such as Awaken the Giant Within, Personal Power and Get The Edge. His success programs are attended by thousands across the world and client list reads like the who’s who of the fortune 500.
He is also well known for charity and his Anthony Robbins Foundation feeds a million people on thanks giving apart from plenty of other charities.

No wonder he is called the 'High Priest of Human Potential'. Anthony Robbins is must read if you are serious about your success.

Have a great and successful day.

R.G. Srinivasan

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A Simple Formula for Business Success

2007-10-14T20:55:00.000+05:30

By Michael Masterson

Many people assume that successful businesspeople are ruthless, but it’s not true. Not in my experience, at least. A young man who is beginning what I hope will be a long and profitable career in business said this to me recently: "But isn’t that the way you have to be in business? Like ruthless and all?"

He is climbing up the ladder of success with the grease of this very common but wrongheaded notion all over the soles of his shoes.

Most of the successful businesspeople I know are relatively benign. Some few are evil. And some fewer still are saints. The great majority of them (including almost all of the preachy, moralistic, mystical, and religious types) wander in the gray to-err-is-human zone.

If cutting throats isn’t a requirement for business success, what is? What makes a businessperson successful? My experience suggests…
• hard work
• long hours
• the ability to focus
• marketing know-how
• the will to keep selling

If you screw customers and colleagues, it will cost you. People have memories. Especially gullible people. You can sometimes make money (even a lot of money) by duping, deceiving, and cheating them, but there’s a price to pay.

In the long run, Machiavellian business tactics are self-defeating. All those people you suckered and robbed will remember you. In their own quiet but powerful ways, they will do whatever they can to see you punished. That may be as little as ignoring your next sales effort to as much as reporting you to the authorities - or blowing your head off.

Same is true with employees. You can exploit them for a while, but, over time, they will get even with you.

The wise businessperson acts benevolently, because he understands that the trust and loyalty he develops by being good and fair will pave a golden path of opportunity for him as the years pass. With each decade, every dollar he earns will be made easier because of all the goodwill, trust, and useful relationships he’s developed along the way.

I am fortunate enough to work with at least a dozen "good" businessmen. All of them are open and honest in dealing with me, generous with their time and knowledge, always willing to share and cooperate in areas of mutual interest, and respectful of my need to profit as well as their own.

EP is a great example. We started working together about 10 years ago on some real-estate deals. I knew nothing about real estate at the time - at least the kind of real estate he was involved with - so he could have easily written a one-sided contract with me. Instead, his deal was generous to a fault. It ensured that he wouldn’t make a nickel until I did. And there were no hidden cash flows or escape hatches that are so common in real-estate limited partnerships.

As I became more knowledgeable about real estate, EP’s fairness (to the point of goodness) became obvious to me. As a consequence, I never hesitate to invest in his deals.

He calls me up and says, "I’ve got a project you might be interested in."
"How much do you want?" is my reply.

This is the kind of relationship you want as your business or career grows and matures. (And not just one like this, but dozens of them.) If you can have that, making money easily will be only one of the blessings of your work. The formula for such relationships? Give first; get later.

One caveat: Just because you are a good guy in business, don’t expect everyone to like you. Some employees, for example, are not satisfied with a good deal. They want to goof off and make a fortune for doing it. Same is true of the vendor who wants a better-than-fair deal. Or the professional who wants to own your business for giving you advice.

Be good and fair, and most of the people you deal with will make your life easier, more productive, and more profitable. Most - but not all.

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Success The Eight Principles

2007-09-22T07:41:00.000+05:30

The internet is a repository of knopwledge. If you want to learn success principles, just spend an hour a day. The phenomenal amount of knowledge on how to succeed is now available for free. All you need do is act on them. Here is an interesting presentation on eight principles, a combination of how to pholosphy and action on success. The entire presentation is beautifully created with some wonderful soothing music. A must visit for all success seekers.

Have a great and successful day.

R.G. Srinivasan

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Being Successful Blogger - A New Resource

2007-09-18T20:15:00.000+05:30

I like to share my thoughts exclusively on success and motivation. But I decided to make an exception because of John Reese. A successful net enterpreneur whom I intend featuring in one of my success biographies soon.

Anyway coming back to matters at hand, he is the brain behind a Blog Network Co-operative that rewards its users for their contributions to the network -- from the impressions they provide of the BlogRush Widget to the referral of other users through 10 'generations' of activity and the impressions of the widget that they provide. BlogRush was designed to be incredibly viral and to provide its users with tremendous distribution leverage to receive exposure for their blog content (onto related content blogs) that they could never achieve on their own; at least without a massive advertising budget.

This kind of initiative surely deserves mention in a success and motivation blog. All my fellow bloggers may just get to Blog Rush! and sign up for their own success

Have Great and Successful Day
R.G. Srinivasan

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Facing Unfairness: Key to Success

2007-09-16T08:09:00.000+05:30

I have been facing many unfair acts through my life. My reactions have varied from anger to extreme cynicism. I have learnt to moderate my thought processes and reactions over a period of time and have been happier for it.

Life is not going to be fair at all turns. Everyday there are going to be situations where we have to confront unfair people and injustice. There are going to be people who violate traffic rules and yell at you instead. There are going to be bosses who would like to pin all failures on you. You work hard but all recognition and reward is enjoyed by your colleague. Undeserving people would get the entire raise and you will be bypassed. There are going to be colleagues who project you as incompetent. There are going to be people who commit mistakes and innocents lose their lives. You will be swindled, cheated upon and your money taken by scamsters.

I am not painting a negative or bleak picture of life here to frighten you. Success in life depends to a great deal on how well we react to unfairness and injustice.

Do we lose our cool and respond back in the same manner. Are we also going to shout back, act the villain, back bite and look for opportunities to swindle because that is the way world is made.

Is ‘give what you get’ your response to unfairness and injustice.

Our response to such unfairness will dictate our success and where we end up in life. So how do we react to unfairness and injustice?

Take Responsibility

When we take responsibility for all events unfolding around us, we have won half the battle. While there may be unfairness in situations, however do we put all the blame on others? Make a list of 5 things you could have done to avoid such situations. This would help us to avoid being at the receiving end in future.

Expectations

Often our expectations are too high from others and society in general. This causes a stressful situation and negative reactions. Be gentle on your expectations from others. There is no better reaction to unfairness than being gentle and understanding. This would make the others realize their own folly.

Belief in Human Goodness

There may be situations where we have been unfair ourselves. But it does not mean we are bad. Believe every human being is good. There may be situations which would have created negative reactions.

Responding Positively

Responding and reacting to unfairness in an emotional state may cause more negativity and damage. Responding with maturity and cool would help us to find the right solutions. If nothing else we are equipping ourselves to face the realities of life in a healthy and intelligent state of mind.

We can choose how we react to unfairness and injustice. We can be negative and rant and rave about it or be positive or proactive in dealing with it. Our success in life greatly depends upon our being positive

Have a Great and Successful Day

R.G. Srinivasan

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Stumble Upon Success

2007-09-09T21:50:00.000+05:30

Knowledge is the key to success. Stumble upon is a unique site where you can explore the best content from websites. All you need do is download the stumble upon to your browser and bookmark the sites as you surf the web. You can also discover new sites, find pages you liked connect to friends...You can do plenty of stuff.

Have a great and successful day

R.G. Srinivasan

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Success Through Building Your Self Esteem

2007-09-02T08:18:00.000+05:30

Successful people have a high level of self esteem and self worth. High self esteem makes them confidant, relaxed, calm and composed in any kind of tough situations and adverse environment.

So here are three major keys to building your self esteem.

Creating a Positive environment

Don't believe in the 'dog eat dog' syndrome. In today’s competitive environment most people are taught to believe this to be true and fight their way to be above and ahead of everyone else.

This is where the pessimists thrive. Their world views is one of live by the sword and die by the sword instead of live and let live. They endlessly push their colleagues, subordinates, family and friends to achieve their own end. In the bargain they are feared for their power and never respected for their talent or skills.

Stay away from such people and environments. You will not get appreciated for missing your lunch and dinners, your family or working late hours. You just slog to fulfill one man's thirst for power and control. Such a person would anyway dump you once he feels you have served your purpose. Your contributions will never be recognized.

Such environment will ruin your self esteem. Competition is everywhere. Compete on healthy a ground which does not jeopardize your personal life. Be healthy mentally and physically. Create and work only in a positive environment and people.

Adaptability to Change

Change is happening at mach speeds. Most of us refuse to accept the change which is challenging our paradigms everyday. We continue to remain round pegs in square holes. This creates massive stress and drains our self esteem. Flexibility and adaptability to change alters the way we think. While changes will make life difficult temporarily, it enhances our own abilities and increases our confidence.

Understand change as it happens. Take stock of what you need to change to be successful in the changing environment. Start the change process in an orderly and planned manner to avoid pain.

Avoid Negative People

There are plenty of bulldozers, snipers, controllers, gossipmongers...the list could run endlessly. These are the people whose behavior will shatter your self esteem. When confronted with such people avoid them like the plague. If compelled to be in their company avoid in engaging in arguments, quietly disengage and get away as quickly as possible.

Of course there any number of situation which may hamper your self esteem. There are also many ways you can build your self esteem.

We need to take responsibility for what we are and what we need to do to succeed. Self esteem is result of understanding ourselves and putting in place our values, goals, disciplines and mission to make us what we aspire to be.

To build our self esteem we need to recognize the others esteem needs as well. Be appreciating of others. Never lose an opportunity to compliment others be sincere and loving to all.

Start putting together the building blocks of your self esteem by being positive, determined, content and happy. A positive way of living is the most certain way to build self and esteem and success.

Have a Great and Successful Day

R.G. Srinivasan

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'Just Relax' On The Road To Success

2007-08-26T06:48:00.000+05:30

Once a king had a great highway built for the members of his kingdom. After it was completed, but before it was opened to the public, the king decided to have a contest.

He invited as many as desired to participate. Their challenge was to see who could travel the highway the best.

On the day of the contest the people came. Some of them had fine chariots, some had fine clothing, fine hairdos, or great food. Some young men came in their track clothes and ran along the highway. People traveled the highway all day, but each one, when he arrived at the end, complained to the king that there was a large pile of rocks and debrisleft on the road at one spot and this got in their way and hindered their travel.

At the end of the day, a lone traveler crossed the finish line warily and walked over to the king. He was tired and dirty, but he addressed the king with great respect and handed him a bag of gold.

He explained, "I stopped along the way to clear a pile of rocks and debris that was blocking the road. This bag of gold was under it all. I want you to return it to its rightful owner."

The king replied, "You are the rightful owner."

The traveler replied, "Oh no, this is not mine. I've never known such money."

"Oh yes," said the king, "you've earned this gold, for you won my contest.

"He who travels the road best is he who makes the road smoother for those who will follow."

Have a Great and Successful Day

R.G. Srinivasan

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Success Guru's: Jim Rohn

2007-08-21T07:00:00.000+05:30

No motivational journal would be worth reading if it doesn’t talk about Jim Rohn. He is the Guru of motivational guru’s. He has been the greatest motivational speaker of all time and there is hardly a motivational guru who is not influenced by him.

He has been a motivational counselor, businessman, and author of 17 best known books and audios on the subject. For over 40 years he has addressed 6000 audiences and 3 million people worldwide. His unique and simple yet powerful style of speaking has earned him the title of the foremost philosopher of America. He approaches the business and personal success with questions such as why? Why Not? Why not you? And why not now? and proceeds to answere these questions with interesting anecdotes laced with witticism.

He has to be experienced and heard to understand the profound impact he creates on his audiences.

The highlights of his career are:

He has been the most sought after speaker for over 40 years

He won the coveted National Speakers Award CPAE Award in 1985

He has authored 17 books, audio and video programs

He is a millionaire businessman devoted to achieve others achieve their best in business and personal lives.

He has been hailed as the most influential thinkers of our time and bestowed with the title of the foremost philosopher of America.

He has helped and trained an entire generation of motivational gurus including such illustrious names such as Anthony Robbins.

He is sought after trainer by the best corporate in US and other countries

"I truly believe Jim Rohn is an extraordinary human being whose philosophy can enhance the quality of life for anyone who exposes themselves to it.”

I will be definitely writing more about him in my future notes.

Have a great and successful day.

R.G. Srinivasan

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This is me

2007-08-12T19:08:00.000+05:30

This is me on the table top mountain, Cape South Africa

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Change Your Reality to Succeed

2007-08-12T06:38:00.000+05:30

It is often taken for granted that the reality tomorrow will be the same as today. But the fact is it changes constantly, imperceptibly without even our realizing that the reality has changed. The inability to grasp the changing reality is perhaps the single most important reason leading one to failures. While we blame the luck, the stars, government policies or the economy, it is an undeniable fact that the blame squarely lies on our inability to grasp the changing reality.
Time and space are not static concepts. They are in constant dynamic motion. And with the time and space our past and future change constantly.

Then how is it that we do not realize the change? And how could past change? The reason is very simple. We view our past in a two dimensional state which we observe. We do not see the third dimension of interacting forces set in motion by our the past which is constantly creating a new futures. We may call this the non physical dimension. There is a distinct potential of creating alternative futures of our choice once we recognize and interpret this non physical dimension

To explain the concept in very simple terms let us look at an accident occurring in front of you and your colleague. Both are viewing the same event. But when it is recounted the versions are very different, the emotions are different, the outcome is different. The reality is different for the same event occurring at the same time for two different people. The reality could change for the same person as well, the way one interprets the event. The non physical past itself is different for two people with the same event. The physical event is the same. But the more important non physical reality of the same event has set in motion forces which is going to shape our future. We also have the choice to change the non physical past of any event in the way we look at the event.

And this is what we call beliefs. Beliefs are our interpretation of past experiences and how we look at the experience.

But generally we hold the past events in a fixed image. Today is the same as yesterday. This minute is the same as the next. One meals is the same as the next and the beliefs get fixed in our mind and this where we are sacrificing the creative freedom to change our reality.
Every moment is different and unique. Even every event itself has many hues of reality. Today's events cannot be looked at in comparison with similar past event. The comparable event of the past can at best be a tool for recognition and not for judgment or decision. And realizing this process of changing reality can empower us - put the power to change our world as we please.

To change our reality we therefore must do two things.

First we must look at and examine all our beliefs which is the non physical part of our past and change the beliefs which are holding us back. This will help us to remove the negativities of the past and focus only on the positive events and positive beliefs.

Secondly you must believe that you are living in a world which though ever changing can still be shaped the way you want it to be. This puts the creative power of choice in your hands to shape your destiny. You create your world.

So take the step now of creating a world which you want and not a world which others want for you. Because your reality is very different from others. You have been doing this somewhat unconsciously right from the time you were born. Unfortunately the social conditioning made you believe otherwise. You were told you were the product of everything else except your own choices

So now let us restore that choice and start changing our reality from this moment on.

Have a great and successful day.

R.G. Srinivasan

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Is being Wealthy Success?

2007-08-05T16:41:00.000+05:30

It's Good To Be Rich! There's an old story that when he was the wealthiest man in the world, J. Paul Getty's brother sent him a letter that began, "To the Wealthiest man in the world, from the Richest man in the world." His brother was making the distinction between cash and true riches.

"This past couple of weeks, I've been with to some of the most wonderful, motivated, grounded and value-centered people in the world. I've played golf, gone for long walks, enjoyed the sounds of the silence and the sound of fish jumping in the lake. I've walked and talked with Mary, and read great books. I've slept in, and been up before dawn. I've danced, eaten fresh-caught fish, and renewed old friendships."

How rich is that!?

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Dream Your Way To Success

2007-07-29T08:32:00.001+05:30

I am a passionate believer in the power of dreams. I dream big dreams. Dreams are the balms in the harsh and hard reality that you face, soothing your aching and propelling you gently into success and achievements.

Here are some interesting quotes on dreams.

"The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success ismaking them come true."
- James Allen

“Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.”

“Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask.”
-Fox Mulder

“We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.”

“Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!”

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”
-Karen Ravn

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”
-James Dean

“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
-George Bernard Shaw

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
-Gail Devers

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
-Ashley Smith

“For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.”

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
-Oscar Wilde

“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”

“Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.”

“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.”
-Tom Bradley

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”
-Marsha Norman

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
-Douglas H. Everett

“It is never easy to keep reaching for dreams. Strength and courage can sometimes be lonely friends. but those who reach, walk in stardust.”

“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”

“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.”
-Edgar Cayce

“Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.”

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
-C.S. Lewis

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true”
-Lyman Frank Baum

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more dreams you have, the better chance you have of one coming true.”

“I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed”
-Tony Arata

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
-T.E. Lawrence

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

“When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum”

“Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.”
-Julia Cameron

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”
-Bernard Edmonds

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.”
-Kahlil Gibran

“Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.”

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
-Mary Manin Morrissey

“Life is never easy for those who dream.”
-Robert James Waller

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
-Anais Nin

Have A successful Day
R.G. Srinivasan

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What is Self Improvement and Success

2007-07-12T19:12:00.000+05:30

Everything that happens to us has a grand purpose designed by nature or the universal intelligence. Every calamity brings with itself a great opportunity. Every fear when confronted brings us closer to courage. Most unforeseen incidents in life lead to another turn in life taking one closer to success. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over past heartaches, embarrassment and failures, treat them as your teachers. They will become your tools in both self improvement and success.

So, when does self improvement become synonymous with success? Where do we start? Take these tips, friends…

*Stop thinking and feeling as if you’re a failure, because you’re not. How can others accept you if YOU can’t accept YOU?

*When you see success in others, don’t pity yourself for your own failures. Think about the opportunity available to you too for success and for self improvement. Instead of self pity work, get to work on Self acceptance and inner improvements.

*When you are confronted with people and situations where people feel down and low about themselves, help them move up. Don’t identify your own failures with theirs and go down with them. They’ll pull you down further and both of you will end up feeling inferior.

*The world is a classroom for learning and mistakes will happen while learning. Don’t feel stupid and doomed forever just because you committed a mistake or failed. There’s always a next time. Make rooms for self improvement.

*Take things one at a time. You don’t expect miracles just at the snap of a finger. Self improvement is a one day at a time process.

*Self improvement results to inner stability, personality development and dig this …. SUCCESS. It comes from self confidence, self appreciation and self esteem.

*Set meaningful and achievable goals. Self improvement doesn’t turn you to be a superman overnight. It aims to result in an improved and better YOU.

*Little things mean BIG to other people. Sometimes, we don’t realize that the little things that we do like a pat on the back, saying “hi” or “hello”, greeting someone “good day” or telling Mr. Smith something like “hey, I love your tie!” are simple things that mean so much to other people. When we’re being appreciative about beautiful things around us and other people, we also become beautiful to them.

*When you’re willing to accept change and go through the process of self improvement, it doesn’t mean that everyone else is. The world is a place where people of different values and attitude hang out.

We should always remember that there’s no such thing as over night successes. It’s always a wonderful feeling to hold on to the things that you already have now, realizing that those are just one of the things you once wished for.

A very nice quote says that “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We are all here to learn our lessons. Our parents, school teachers, friends, colleagues, officemates, neighbors… they are our teachers. When we open our doors for self improvement, we increase our chances to head to the road of success.

Have a great and successful day.

R.G. Srinivasan

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More Success Quotes

2007-07-07T06:45:00.000+05:30

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius
Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.
- R. Duvall

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts.
-Sir Winston Churchill

Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
- Norman R. Augustine

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Endurance: Story of Survival, Story of Success

2007-07-04T21:54:00.000+05:30

This is a very interesting story of survival, of how endurance can lead to success not just in life alone but getting back your life itself.

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More than 80 years ago, on December 7, 1914, Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 28 men aboard the ship Endurance entered the pack ice off the continent of Antarctica. Their goal? To be the first party to trek across the continent on foot. It was a goal they would never achieve.
Nearly a century later, the tale of Endurance remains one of the most fascinating examples of human triumph in the face of adversity.

The Endurance would sail, through the ice, for just over a month until January 18, 1915 when the ship was trapped in the crushing ice of the Antarctic pack. Despite the efforts of the crew, Endurance would remain lodged in the ice for the next nine months.

The thick ice of the Antarctic pack pressed constantly, threatening to crush Endurance to splinters. That threat forced the crew to abandon ship in October 1915. From now on the party would live on the ice. One month later, the ship sank, stranding the crew - with minimal stores and three short-boats - on the drifting pack ice. The men survived for the next six months, killing seals, penguins, and ultimately their own sled-dogs for food.

In April 1916, the 28 men spotted an island on the horizon. The ice floe broke just enough, allowing them to put to sea in some of the roughest waters on Earth. Seven days later they landed on the uninhabited and inhospitable Elephant Island. Far from regular shipping lanes, Shackleton knew the chances of a rescue from their location were nonexistent. They may be on land but they were far from safe, farther from home. On April 24th he set sail, with a crew of five men, for the populated island of South Georgia -- 800 miles away.

They sailed for 17 days, navigating by sextant, fighting their through storming high seas of freezing water and they made it. They reached South Georgia Island! The weather and their own condition forced them, however, to land on the uninhabited side of the island. Shackleton and two other men were forced trek on foot across the island. In 36 hours they traversed 22 miles across the glacier-clad, thousand-feet high mountains to reach the whaling port of Stromness on May 20, 1916.

His attempts to rescue his crewmen left behind on Elephant Island would not be successful until August 30, 1916, a full 22 months after they'd initially set out. Remarkably, all 28 men survived the ordeal.

The next time you face an obstacle that seems impossible to overcome remember the story of Endurance... and press on.

Success is gained not by taking the easiest path (or even the one you planned on taking); it is achieved by taking consistent and persistent action until your goals have been achieved.
____
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Have a successful day

R.G. Srinivasan
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Inspiring Commencement Lecture of Bill Gates

2007-06-30T21:53:00.000+05:30

The success of Bill Gates is not because he was ambitious or because he was able to see the software boom. It is in his broad and compassionate vision around which he built his success. As Andrew Carnegie would have said:
"From those to whom much is given, much is expected." Is an echoe of Andrew Carnegie who gave away his bullions, who also built his bullions with the sole purpose of giving it away.

The inspiring commencement speech of Bill Gates is a must read for everyone.

Have a great and successful day.

R.G. Srinivasan

The Road Less Travelled..To Success!

2007-06-30T21:36:00.000+05:30

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost

Dreaming of success

2007-06-24T08:28:00.000+05:30

How does one succeed? A secret I never shared with anyone on my own little successes is the ability to dream. Everyone has a dream of some sort or other. What I mean by dreams is the wildest, biggest, unreasonable and unrealistic dreams without limitations. Believe me you never know what dreams will come true as I have had some of my wildest dreams come true.

My dreams include becoming a mega bullionaire controlling huge global corporates to participating in some of the world's toughest car rallies. On the other extreme I dream about being a wealthy farmer living off the earths produce in some far away place surrounded by hills.

Dreams can motivate you big. Dreams don't cost money. Dreams need no limitations. Then why not dream big, limitless and wildest. Some of the biggest success stories of the world are the outcomes of unrealistic and impossible dreams.

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"

So if you want to succeed, start dreaming!

Have a great and successful day.

R.G. Srinivasan
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Free motivational ebooks

2007-06-24T08:17:00.000+05:30

I thought it would be a good idea to collect all the interesting motivational and inspirational ebooks I come across for people to download and read at their leisure. So I have just started to put together a website where you can simply go and read or download all the wonderful ebooks. And it is all free. Take a look at motivational books website here.

R.G. Srinivasan

Thought Vibrations as a Success Tool

2007-06-03T07:07:00.000+05:30

"Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you"

In the arsenal of success the principle of Affirmations is a major tool. the Science of Thought Vibrations has been known to mankind from times immemorial and used successfully by thousands to achieve life goals.

They work by the following principles:

Your present reality is the direct outcome of your thinking
Change your thinking and your reality begins to change
Affirmations change your thinking

It is very important to understand here the principle of energy. The entire universe is made up of energy which manifests as form at one level. At another level they are more subtle but discernible as color, air and sound. At a still higher level the energy is in the form of space and thought. We believe in the existence of energy when they are manifest. Where as in thought the same energy is unmanifest and formless. The difference is in the vibratory rate i.e. the frequency at which they exist.

The denser the material lower the vibratory rate. On the other hand colors, light, sound and thoughts waves exist at successively higher rates of vibration and frequency. Thought is one of the highest forms of vibration with extraordinary potency.

Creation starts in the mind. A thought or idea always precedes form. For example a building is first conceived in the mind of the architect and then given shape. By consciously directing thought we become the architect of the desires into form.

Whatever you see in your mind, good or bad - if you believe- it will come to pass. Generally we tend to believe the negative more than the positive. Worry, sickness, poverty are much more easily attained as we put concentrated form of emotional energy behind them. Think and expect good and you get that. Think and expect bad and you will get that too. It is a double edged sword.

Success is the result of Positive Affirmations

Positive Affirmation is the powerful tool to bring about the manifestation of thought into concrete reality. You need not worry about how the process of this manifestation will work for you. Believe that it will work as it has for the entire universe for millions of years. The cosmic intelligence will bring about the transformation of thought into form.

Have a Great & Successful day

R.G. Srinivasan
p.s. Check out Jim Rohn's One-year Success Plan

Free success ebook downloads

2007-06-03T07:06:00.001+05:30

I thought it would be a good idea to bring all readers of motivational-notes an enduring gift. I have tried to compile some of the classic ebooks here for all to read for free. So go right now and download a basketful of motivational and success ebooks at http://motivationalebooks.googlepages.com/ebookdownloads.

And don't forgret to invite your friends too for the downloads.

R.G. Srinivasan

Success Through Creating Opportunities

2007-05-20T08:34:00.000+05:30

"We spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. But what we forget is that, paths are made by walking not by waiting." Very powerful words indeed! I don't know who said it but when you analyze the success stories of people, this philosophy stands out clearly. They created opportunities where none existed.

Success is not only seizing opportunities when they come your way but also create opportunities everyday and everywhere. So don't wait for opportunities to knock at your doors. Start walking and create your path.

Have a great and successful day.

R.G. Srinivasan

success thoughts

2007-05-18T07:27:00.000+05:30

All of us, so well equipped with education, skills, talent and hard work are still struggling to find the true meaning of success. Perhaps we have not yet defined what it exactly means to us. Is it money? Is it fame? Is it position? Is it freedom to do what we want to do? Is it...? What ever it may mean to each one of us we need to develop the ability to persevere in whatever we do, and to withstand hardships and difficulties, whether physical, emotional or mental.

When faced with severe stress and strains of the modern living, we seek an outlet in instant gratification. It is important to develop the ability to give up instant gratification for something better and stop not till the goal is reached.

Have a great and successful day

R.G. Srinivasan

Inspiring Stories: The Shipwreck

2007-05-11T07:10:00.000+05:30

Whenever we are faced with problems and adversities, we often blame god for not helping us. However nature has a design in everything we do based on the desires uppermost in our minds. Here is a story which illustrates this principle.

There was only one person alive on the small island. He prayed everyday asking God to send someone to rescue him. Everyday he looked around for God's help but he couldn't find it.

Tired of waiting, he made a shelter to protect himself and protect his few possessions. But then one day, after looking for food, he came back to find his little shelter on fire.The worse thing was that everything he owned was burned.

He was confused and mad at God. He asked God, "why did you do this to me?" and he fell asleep over the sand. Early the next morning, he heard the sound of a boat that came close to the island. They were rescuers. He asked them how they knew he was there. The rescuers said to him that they saw the smoke signals he made.

It's easy to get mad at things when they go wrong, but we shouldn't lose our heart, because God is working in our lives. Remember, the next time your small house is on fire, it might simply be a smoke signal that comes from God. For every negative thing that happens to us, we should tell ourselves, "God has a positive answer to this".

Have successfu Day

R.G. Srinivasan

Success of Legendary John Goddard and His Goals List

2007-05-08T07:20:00.000+05:30

A goals list is the first pre requisite for a successful life

How would you like to live the dream life. Do it all. Climb the highest mountain, explore the sea from a submarine, cover the route of Marco Polo, run a five minute mile, be the first man to explore the longest river in the world, Nile. If these are not your scene then may be read the Encyclopedia cover to cover, play classical music on the piano, fly at the speed of sound and be the only civilian to fly 47 different aircrafts and a F-106 at 63000 feet.

There is more. But I know you must already be reeling at the impact of these itself. The man who prepared a list of 127 goals at the age of 15 and achieved most of them is John Goddard.
Jon Goddard is the world's most famous adventurers and a world class motivational speaker. His successful and unsuccessful adventures have been featured in Life, National Geographic, Reader’s Digest and the all time best seller Chicken Soup for the Soul.

The purpose of all his adventures was not to for frivolous thrills but to add to the knowledge and scientific facts. In his own words “ Digging out the facts is the real challenge. The adventure is exciting and enjoyable but secondary.”

Here is his inspiring life goals list

EXPLORE:

1. * Nile River 2. * Amazon River 3. * Congo River 4. * Colorado River 5. Yangtze River, China 6. Niger River 7. Orinoco River, Venezuela 8. * Rio Coco, Nicaragua

STUDY PRIMITIVE CULTURES IN:

9. * The Congo 10. * New Guinea 11. * Brazil 12. * Borneo 13. * The Sudan (nearly buried alive in a sandstorm) 14. * Australia 15. * Kenya 16. * The Philippines 17. * Tanganyika (Now Tanzania) 18. * Ethiopia 19. * Nigeria 20. * Alaska CLIMB: 21. Mt. Everest 22. Mt. Aconcagua, Argentina 23. Mt. McKinley 24. * Mt. Hauscaran, Peru 25. * Mt. Kilimanjaro 26. * Mt. Ararat, Turkey 27. * Mt. Kenya 28. Mt. Cook, New Zealand 29. * Mt. Popocatepetl, Mexico 30. * The Matterhorn 31. * Mt. Rainier 32. * Mt. Fuji 33. * Mt. Vesuvius 34. * Mt. Bromo, Java 35. * Grand Tetons 36. * Mt. Baldy, California 37.Carry out careers in medicine and exploration (studied premed, treats illnesses among primitive tribes) 38. Visit every country in the world (30 to go) 39. * Study Navaho and Hopi Indians 40. * Learn to fly a plane 41. * Ride horse in Rose Parade PHOTOGRAPH: 42. * Iguacu Falls, Brazil 43. * Victoria Falls, Rhodesia (Chased by a warthog in the process) 44. * Sutherland Falls, New Zealand 45. * Yosemite Falls 46. * Niagara Falls 47. * Retrace travels of Marco Polo and Alexander the Great

EXPLORE UNDERWATER:

48. * Coral reefs of Florida 49. * Great Barrier Reef, Australia (photographed a 300-pound clam) 50. * Red Sea 51. * Fiji Islands 52. * The Bahamas 53. * Explore Okefenokee Swamp and the Everglades VISIT: 54. North and South Poles 55. * Great Wall of China 56. * Panama and Suez Canals 57. * Easter Island 58. * The Galapagos Islands 59. * Vatican City (saw the Pope) 60. * The Taj Mahal 61. * The Eiffel Tower 62. * The Blue Grotto 63. * The Tower of London 64. * The Leaning Tower of Pisa 65. * The Sacred Well of Chichen-Itza, Mexico 66. * Climb Ayers Rock in Australia 67. Follow River Jordan from Sea of Galilee to Dead Sea

SWIM IN:

68. * Lake Victoria 69. * Lake Superior 70. * Lake Tanganyika 71. * Lake Titicaca, S. America 72. * Lake Nicaragua

ACCOMPLISH:

73. * Become an Eagle Scout 74. * Dive in a submarine 75. * Land on and take of from an aircraft carrier 76. * Fly in a blimp, balloon and glider 77. * Ride an elephant, camel, ostrich and bronco 78. * Skin dive to 40 feet and hold breath two and a half minutes underwater. 79. * Catch a ten-pound lobster and a ten-inch abalone 80. * Play flute and violin 81. * Type 50 words a minute 82. * Make a parachute jump 83. * Learn water and snow skiing 84. * Go on a church mission 85. * Follow the John Muir trail 86. * Study native medicines and bring back useful ones 87. * Bag camera trophies of elephant, lion, rhino, cheetah, cape buffalo and whale 88. * Learn to fence 89. * Learn jujitsu 90. * Teach a college course 91. * Watch a cremation ceremony in Bali 92. * Explore depths of the sea 93. Appear in a Tarzan movie (he now considers this an irrelevant boyhood dream) 94. Own a horse, chimpanzee, cheetah, ocelot, and coyote (yet to own a chimp or cheetah) 95. Become a ham radio operator 96. * Build own telescope 97. * Write a book (On Nile trip) 98. * Publish an article in National Geographic Magazine 99. * High jump five feet 100. * Broad jump 15 feet 101. * Run mile in five minutes 102. * Weigh 175 pounds stripped (still does) 103. * Perform 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups 104. * Learn French, Spanish and Arabic 105. Study dragon lizards on Komodo Island (Boat broke down within 20 miles of island) 106. * Visit birthplace of Grandfather Sorenson in Denmark 107. * Visit birthplace of Grandfather Goddard in England 108 * Ship aboard a freighter as a seaman 109. Read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica (Has read extensive parts in each volume) 110. * Read the Bible from cover to cover 111.* Read the works of Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Rousseau, Conrad, Hemingway, Twain, Burroughs, Talmage, Tolstoi, Longfellow, Keats, Poe, Bacon, Whittier, and Emerson (not every work of each) 112.* Become familiar with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ibert, Mendelssohn, Lalo, Liszt, Rimski-Korsakov, Respighi, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Stravinsky, Toch, Tschaikosvsky, Verdi 113.* Become proficient in the use of a plane, motorcycle, tractor, surfboard, rifle, pistol, canoe, microscope, football, basketball, bow and arrow, lariat and boomerang 114. * Compose music 115. * Play Clair de Lune on the piano 116. * Watch fire-walking ceremony (In Bali and Surinam) 117. * Milk a poisonous snake (bitten by diamondback at photo session) 118. * Light a match with .22 rifle 119. * Visit a movie studio 120. * Climb Cheops' pyramid 121. * Become a member of the Explorer's Club and the Adventure's Club 122. * Learn to play polo 123. * Travel through the Grand Canyon on foot and by boat 124. * Circumnavigate the globe (four times) 125. Visit the moon ("Someday, if God wills") 126. * Marry and have children (has five children) 127. * Live to see the 21st century

The one's marked with an asterix are the goals which have been achieved. Does that sound like a lot in a lifetime. If one man can do it more people can do more. All one needs to do is to sit down and write the goals list and get going.

What does not come out in the goals list of John Goddard is the adverse conditions and situations he faced to achieve these goals. He has been bitten by rattle snakes, charged by elephants, trapped in quicksand, crashed in planes, almost devoured by a crocodile, on the verge of drowning twice while running in rapids. The list again is quite big. The death defying experience and spine chilling adventures did not deter the man from achieving what he wanted.

Let's take inspiration from such a man and set our adventurous goals. What is life after all if you just live an ordinary life and perish.

Have a successful day.

R.G. Srinivasan

Success Quotes of the Day

2007-05-07T23:27:00.000+05:30

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

-Dr. Stephen Covey

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

-Brian Tracy

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

-Jim Rohn

You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems.

-Mark Victor Hansen

Success Quote of the Day

2007-05-06T08:51:00.000+05:30

"Always will I strive to be greater than I am. I mustSURPASS MYSELF. In each successive act, test,encounter, thought, I will be GREATER than in the one previous. I am what I am now, but in an hour I must be MORE than I am now. In everything must I exert more power to surpass myself."

success notes for the day

2007-05-06T08:25:00.000+05:30

Have you ever wondered how the successful really succeed. ( I hope the word play is correct English!).

Through Education and Action. The successful people have an unlimited thirst for knowledge. They devour all kinds knowledge that they could lay their hands on. Then they apply what they read and learnt in their everyday life, career, business and in their endeavors.

That is the simple key. You can perfect these two techniques. The better you get in acquiring knowledge at a fast pace the better will be your success. The better you act on this knowledge more will be your success. You win all the way by educating yourself and acting on your learning.

So stop watching all those sitcoms, switch off your Television and get on with doing something better.

R.G. Srinivasan

Success Wisdom From Lao Tse

2007-05-02T22:22:00.000+05:30

The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent nonaggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

The Balancing Act To Succeed

2007-05-02T06:17:00.000+05:30

To be successful, you just need to model yourself after the successful. Call it NLP or call it by whatever name, the fact of success is that you don't need to reinvent the wheel. That is one of my earliest learning as a success coach. So I have subscribed to a huge list of successful peoples' newsletters through their websites or bookmarked writings by and about such success guru's .

One such person whom I am subscribed to is Alan Weiss. A Ph.D. in psychology, consultant, speaker, author, visiting faculty at Boston Collage, University of Illinoise, University of Georgia Graduate School of Business.....well I can go on writing his introduction which may fill up this blog.

He is associated as consultant with such eminent organizations as Hewlett Packard, Mercedes Benz, GE just to name a few of the globalk corporations and lectures the world over. Anyone interested in career success and life success need to definitely subscribe to his newletter 'Balancing Act'. It is unquestionably a must read for its wisdom and insight.

The newsletters are simple yet with profound understanding of the subject matter he writes about. The newsletter is packed with stuff which is sure to help you succeed. His 'Techniques for balance' and 'Musings' are some of the best contemporary writings with a dose of humour at the end. You got to read it or you won't understand what I am saying. Just click on any of the links or go to http://summitconsulting.com/newsletter.html and subscribe.

R.G. Srinivasan

Action as a Motivator

2007-05-01T17:08:00.000+05:30

I started writing about motivation and success in 2004 because I needed to succeed. I used writing and teaching about success and motivation as a tool to motivate myself and get ahead of my failures.

As a reminiscence I am producing the first few lines I had penned for a newsletter 'Born to Win' that I had started at that time.

"Hello Friends,
Is it 2004 already!!!
Let's make the BEST of this year. It is time to set the goals, reinvent your future get up and go, go, go...let's get busy."

More than motivating others I had written these lines for myself. And that is what I did - set my goals and got busy.

How apt and powerful these lines seem even today for anyone who desperately wish to be successful. Action has always been the key to success. So let us reinvent the day and our future. Get up and go, go, go...

R.G. Srinivasan
p.s. The motivation and training yahoo group Born To Win Forum that I started is still alive at http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/b2wforum/join

How-importance-of-visualization-is-to-your-success

2007-04-29T22:36:00.000+05:30

It has been proven that having a right mindset is a basic rule for achieving success. All the great leaders in this field reiterate that the mind is the source of all success and failure in life. But how a person can operate his mind in the way that he can eventually enjoy the results he wants. Visualization can be a method to enhance mind power and increase the possibility of good outcome.

Read more to see why it is so and how to make use of it.

The Success Principles

2007-04-29T13:08:00.000+05:30

So much has been written about success that one often gets confused about what success is all about. Success is such a personal thing that it may mean different things to different people. Yet we need to have a simple definition which should apply to all successful people and situations. The ultimate purpose of being successful is to take pride in one's achievements and be happy; and I think one of the best description has been put forward by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"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 because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is amazing to see the simplicity with which such a complex subject like success has been explained . If we just analyze every line we would realize that each aspect adds up to a value leading up to a successful life.

And this is the challenge of success. To have such values as to 'laugh often' or 'to find the best in others' is being successful. So simple yet when we look at ourselves and all around us we will find very few people laughing often or appreciating beauty.

The other day I met a young person working for a social organization on lowly wages hardly eking out a decent living. But what I found amazing was he talked very positively and with love to everyone who greeted him. And a large number of people greeted him in this town as we walked along the street.

There was no bitterness in him because of his economic status nor any disgust for his work which paid him low wages. He did his work with great love. When I praised him for his positive and sunny nature he was thrilled and became a great friend though we had just met an hour back and went out of the way to help me with my assignment.

It is often the most difficult thing to praise anyone. We may admire so many people and their work but fail to give credit openly or acknowledge and praise the persons concerned.

This is what I did and it was a win win day for both of us. Now let us just think about how much success can be achieved in a day if we follow all of Emerson's success formula.

The challenge of success is to follow the simple values. The few simple things in life will always account for the major successes in our life. It is not to suggest that there are only these simple ideas that would affect our successes but it is our focus on the simple things that will have the greatest impact in our lives. What we read above of Emerson's words are proven wisdom that have flowed down for centuries but yet retained their ageless and timeless relevance.

While success training is becoming more and more complex with new programs with fancy success matrixes or best sellers being touted as the ultimate answer, hitting us everyday, I invite you all to look at the challenge of understanding the simple yet powerful wisdom of the the great thinkers such as Emerson.

R.G. Srinivasan

Motivational Notes

2007-04-27T07:04:00.000+05:30

Motivational notes is my own attempt to infuse a small dose of positive thoughts into all our lives which is seemingly full of difficulties. But we miss the underlying beauty and the wonder of life that is there like a bright sun behind every dark cloud.

Most of us need a little motivation to course through the day and do our best to achieve name fame and success.

I have tried to compile the best of the motivational and success writings available in this blog.