• Life is full of competition. And we have to fight to get to the top, whether its for becoming the class representative, top an exam, win a race or be the richest man of the world.

    And it is also true that we have to get dirty to be at the top because if you are in a battle you will definitely get dirty.

    But it is not necessary to fight every battle, is it?

    If a pig annoys you, are you going to fight with him??? Are you going to get dirty with him???

    If you do so, then let me tell you that you’ll get annoyed more because pigs love to get dirty.

    The point is: on your way to success, you have to fight many battles and avoid some too (which are not really necessary) to win the final war.

    So pick your battles wisely.

     

  • Before we talk about the book, let me give a brief description about its author, Napolean Hill. He was born in a poor uneducated family. His step mother, who was an educated lady, traded a gun for a typewriter and taught him how to use it. He started writing wonderful articles and stories from the age of fifteen.

    His book “Road to Success” is a compilation of articles written by him when he studied the lives of successful people. He has symbolized these articles as ‘Billboards on the road to success’. According to Hill, these characteristics are sine-qua-non (prerequisite) of achieving a massive success.

    A man’s success should be judged, not by what he had achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome. Hill introduces the reader with this thought-provoking line in the first chapter itself. You can very well anticipate, what the final chapters can have in store for the avid reader.

    On the plus points, the book is short, fast moving and full of examples. On the contrary, too much monotonousness leads to boredom, loss of concentration and sometimes skipping of the essential points (which victimized me too).

    One thing that I was easily able to relate to people who always complaint about their luck was this:

    There are those who do the right thing only when necessity kicks them from behind, and these get indifference instead of honors, and a pittance for pay.
    This kind spends most of the time polishing a bench with a hard luck story.

    Well, the reality from author’s point of view is that successful people are too busy succeeding to waste any of time in criticizing anyone (or their luck).

    Overall, it is a wonderful read and should be read if you like to read a pure non-fiction self-help book.

  • In our thought-process challenges are embedded as negative things which we should not face. If challenges are there, it means there is some problem. But some people have a different perception.

    As Edgar Allan Poe states, “Never to suffer would be like never to have been blessed.”

    If you are facing challenges in you life, you are really lucky, because a challenge is nothing but an opportunity to progress. If you overcome the challenge, you progress and if you don’t, still you progress by learning something from the failure.

    So, challenges actually create a win-win situation for us.

    If next time you face any challenge, say out loud, “Thank God for making me lucky.”

     

  • It was an amazing experience to be part of the prize distribution function at RKS International Public School (Janer) held in the last week of November. For me, it was a very nostalgic and emotional experience because it was during such functions that I found myself being improved and my energies rekindled when I received token of appreciation in the form of medals, trophies and the enchanting clapping of the audience. Frankly, it is an experience, a feeling that can’t be put in words, even a mere try to put it in words would do injustice to the whole experience. I would say in order to experience it, you need to be part of it, being on the receiving end at last after giving in and proving your worth – an elevating experience in itself.

    Students of RKS IPS attending prize distribution ceremony
    Students of RKS IPS attending prize distribution ceremony

    It was wonderful to watch these little kids showing sportsmanship and encouraging their fellow competitors for their victory. Everyone carried smiles on their face.

    The different team houses, namely yellow, blue, green and red encouraged their team members whenever they got the prize. Not only this, the students that won numerous prizes shared their medals with the ones who didn’t get any so that everyone can be happy – a quality we adults should learn.

     All in all, it was an elevating moment for everyone part of that function. For the teachers, who guided and supported the kids during their competition, this recognition of their efforts was exhortative.

    I believe that these little experiences of recognition and appreciation mould a personality into it’s best shape and make the kids ready to have a “go-getter” attitude.

    Me with my colleague, his wife and daughter
    Me with Mr. Anoop, my colleague, his wife and daughter

     

  • I received this handwriting sample from a girl who attended my motivational seminar in her college. On being asked if she constantly finds people breaking her heart and leaving her alone, she burst into tears and cried her heart out. I was not surprised to see this reaction. I knew she was emotionally broken and that she would again get her heart broken. I knew all this from her single trait about trusting people blindly.

    imageHow to spot a person who trusts blindly?

    If you look at the lower loops of the handwriting sample such as in the j’s and y’s, you will notice that they are extraordinarily inflated. They are BIIGGGGG looped!

    Such people tend to trust others very easily. And as we know the world is full of cunning selfish people who break promises and hardly meet other’s expectations, so the people like her who trust them get hurt.

    What happens next?

    What happens next after a person who trusts blindly is hurt is highly subjective. Because there can be various reactions to the setback depending on a person’s personal beliefs, past experiences and future expectations. The person may become anti-social or may start isolating himself. On the contrary, they may continue to remain the same with the hope of giving another chance to another person in this world, after all everyone is different. So accurately generalizing how they will react to the heartbreak is almost impossible. It varies from person to person.

    Boon or a bane?

    Is trusting people blindly a boon or a bane for the person? Seeing the world around us and how people are ready to do anything to win over the competition, I personally would say it is a con in the personality. A person should exercise rationality while trusting people. A person who trusts blindly usually gets disappointed from his/her friends sooner or later.

    If you find this trait in yourself, contact a graphologist to get rid of this trait.

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  • Because I’m Special, I have my sense of self
    And it’s not for sale, I know who I am
    And I refuse to fail, I know who I am
    I’ve got the power to succeed, And in the spirit of faith
    I’ve got all that I need
    A blessing in disguise, as evidence of things not seen,
    Is the secret of success, in the seed of self esteem,
    Because I am, that I am, there’s no way I can let myself down,
    Hang-ups and setbacks are only stepping stones to higher ground,
    Because I am Special, I am who I am

                                                                           – Danny Queen

  • A duck walks into a bar, sits down, and says “Hey barkeep. Got any grapes?”

    The bartender says “No.”

    The duck leaves. The next day the duck walks back into the bar, sits down and asks the bartender, “Hey barkeep, got any grapes?”

    Angered by the duck the bartender walks over to the duck and says, “Look pal, this is a bar. We serve drinks, not grapes! Next time you ask for grapes, I’m going to nail your bill to the bar.”

    So the duck leaves. The next day the duck walks into the bar, sits down and asks.

    “Hey barkeep, got any nails?”

    The bartender smiles and says, “No.”

    So the duck says, “Got any grapes?”