Great Quote

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle!
As with all matters of the heart you’ll know when you find it.
So keep looking, don’t settle!

Believe in YOURSELF

So before you tell yourself you don”t have the talent of a Michael Jordan or whoever your role model is, remember the extraordinary amount of time they devoted to practice and study. To succeed like them you must put in the effort they did. Otherwise, you can never know what you”re capable of. I believe that if opportunity isn”t provided at a young age, it can be created later in adulthood through discipline and imaginative involvement in the pursuits we care about. You can and must look for ways to experiment and to push the boundaries of your capacity in different areas.

A BEAUTIFUL STORY

Jerry is the manager of a restaurant in America. He is

always in a good

mood and always has something positive to say. When

someone would ask him how

he was doing, he would always reply, "If I were any

better, I would be

twins!"

Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs

when he changed

jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant

to restaurant.

The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of

his attitude.

He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having

a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling the

employee how to look on the positive side of the

situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I

went up to Jerry

and asked him, "I don't get it! No one can be a

positive person all of the

time.How do you do it?"

Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to

myself, I have two

choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I

can choose to be in a bad mood. I always choose to be

in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can

choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from

it. I always choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can

choose to accept their complaining or I can point out

the positive side of life.

I always choose to point out the positive side of

life."

"But it's not always that easy," I protested.

"Yes, it is," Jerry said "Life is all about choices.

When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a

choice. You choose how you react to situations. You

choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to

be in a good mood or bad mood. It's your choice how

you live your life."

Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally

did something you are never supposed to do in the

restaurant business: left the back door of his

restaurant open one morning and was robbed by three

armed men. While trying to open the safe, his hand,

shaking from nervousness slipped off the combination.

The robbers panicked and shot him.

Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the

hospital. After 18

hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry

was released from the

hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his

body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When

I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any

better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had

gone through his

mind as the robbery took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was that I

should have locked

the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, after they shot

me, as I lay on the

floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could

choose to live or choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared?" I asked.

Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept

telling me. I was going to be fine. But when they

wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the

expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I

got really scared.

In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.' I knew I need

to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at

me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to

anything." 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses

stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a

deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their

laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Please

operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'."

Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but

also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from

him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy

your life or to hate it. The only thing that is truly

yours that no one can control or take from you-is your

attitude, so if you can take care of that, everything

else in life becomes much easier. Now you have two

choices to make: 1. You can just close the browser

now, OR

2. You can forward it to someone you care about.

I hope you will choose #2. As I did

Tips for Better Life

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate antidepressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

3. Buy a DVR and tape your late night shows and get more sleep.
4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, ‘My purpose is to__________ today.
5. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.

6. Play more games and read more books than you did in 2007.

7. Make time to practice meditation, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy
lives.

8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.

9. Dream more while you are awake.

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

11. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli,almonds & walnuts.

12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

13. Clear clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new and flowing energy into your life.

14. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, OR issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.

17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the nagative blues away.

18. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

20. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

21. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

22. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.

23. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ‘In five years, will this matter?’

26. Forgive everyone for everything.

27. What other people think of you is none of your business.

28. Remember God heals everything.

29. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

31. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

32. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

33. The best is yet to come.

34. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

35. Do the right thing!

30. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

36. Call your family often.

37. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: I am thankful for_______. Today I accomplished ____.

38. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

39. Enjoy the ride. Remember this is not Disney World and you certainly don’t want a fast pass. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy the ride.

40. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change.

An Hour A Day

I hear a lot of people say that they want to change their lives: lose weight, make more money, learn something new, take up a new hobby, accomplish some physical challenge, etc. Sadly, most of those people then go on to say that they wish they could do that, but they can’t. And most of the time the reason they can’t ends up being a variation on one of these two:

1. I don’t have enough time.
2. I’ll be too old before I complete it.

Excuse me, but both of those reasons are bullshit. The second one, especially. How old will you be if you don’t complete it? You can sit there and wish all you like, and complain about how you’re not getting any younger and the world is passing you by, or you can decide that you want to do something. Either way, time will pass. But after five or twenty years, the person who actually tries will have something to show for it. The person who spent that time complaining about how it’s too hard or will take too long will have nothing but bitterness.

As for the “I don’t have enough time” complaint: that’s crap, too. You might not have enough time to dedicate your life to a new pursuit, but you most definitely have time to improve your life. All it takes is an hour a day, and most people spend way more than an hour every day watching TV, surfing the Web, or doing other things that are neither relaxing nor productive.

Let me give an example. I’ve mentioned a time or two that I used to run marathons when I was younger. I since stopped running and took up bicycling, but lately I’ve wanted to get back into running. So I set myself a goal of running a 10K race (6.2 miles). I can’t run 6 miles today. I’m hard pressed to run even one mile without stopping. But I can run a bit, walk some, run a bit more, and so on for an hour every day. I don’t know yet how long it’ll take me to build up to 6 miles, but every day I go out I find that I can run a little bit further. And in a few months I’ll be up to 6 miles.

Another example is education. A lot of people think they need school in order to get educated. It’s true that if you want a degree or a certification, you need to attend formal classes. But if you just want to learn about a particular topic, you have all the educational resources you need on the Web, in your public library, bookstores, and Amazon.com. All you need to do is start reading. Try reading on your topic for an hour a day.

Want to learn the piano? Spend an hour a day practicing. Build strength? Get some weights and a beginner’s book and spend an hour a day lifting. Learn to write better? Practice writing an hour every day. Pretty much whatever you want to do, you can get a very good start on it by allocating one hour per day, and I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have at least an hour per day to spend on self improvement.

Try it. Rather than complaining about how something is too hard or will take too long, sit down and plan how you can accomplish that thing you’ve always dreamed about. Spend an hour per day working toward your goal. You’ll be surprised at how much progress you make in just a few weeks. The longer you work at it, the more you’ll learn and the better you’ll become, and the more you’ll want to continue. All you have to lose is time, and the rewards are potentially limitless.

Thought for the Day..!!

Always try to get what you like, otherwise you will be forced to like what you get.

How to Manage Failure@Leaderships

Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India’s satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India’s “Rohini” satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources — but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.

By 1979 — I think the month was August — we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At four minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts — I had four or five of them with me — told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal. It was a big failure.

That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference — where journalists from around the world were present — was at 7:45 am at ISRO’s satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure — he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.

The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite — and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, “You conduct the press conference today.”

I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.

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