Stretch To Succeed

It’s NOT the job you DO, It’s HOW you DO the job.

Shiv Khera, a renowned author and management trainer writes about his experience in Singapore

"Six years ago in Singapore I gave a taxi driver a business card to take me to a particular address.

At the last point he circled round the building. His meter read 11$, but he took only 10.

I said Henry, your meter reads 11$ how come you are taking only 10.

He said Sir, I am a taxi driver, I am supposed to be bringing you straight to the destination. Since I did not know the last spot, I had to circle around the building. Had I brought you straight here, the meter would have read 10$.

Why should you be paying for my ignorance ?

He said Sir, legally, I can claim 11$ but Honestly and ethically I am entitled to only 10.

He further added that Singapore is a tourist destination and many people come here for three or four days. After clearing the immigrations and customs, the first experience is always with the taxi driver and if that is not good, the balance three to four days are not pleasant either.

He said Sir I am not a taxi driver, I am the Ambassador of Singapore without a diplomatic passport.

In my opinion he probably did not go to school beyond the 8th grade, but to me he was a professional. To me his behavior reflected pride in performance and character.

That day I learnt that one needs more than professional qualification to be a professional.

In one line be a "Professional with a human touch and Values " that makes all the more difference.

Knowledge, skill, money, education, all comes later. First comes Human Values, Honesty and Integrity.

Professionalism:
It’s NOT the job you DO, It’s HOW you DO the job.

What playing pokemon go tought me...

Playing Pokemon Go got me thinking.

You play pokemon. Your six are Mewtwo, Dragonite, Charizard, Gengar, AwesomePkmn5, AwesomePkmn6.

You grow up trying to be a Mewtwo, a Dragonite.

Shit happens, maybe you're not a Mewtwo.
More shit happens, maybe you're not a Charizard.

Life happens, and you find you're a weedle.
I hated when I found out I wasn't automatically in everyone's top 6 team in everything.

But you know what? That's ok.
Be the best version of yourself; and be proud of that.

Don't worry about shit that wasn't in your hands in the first place, just focus on leveling up. You were born with the bug type, you were born with a weakness to fire, psychic, and rock.

But you'll be a Kakuna someday, and someday a Beedrill. Somedays you'll be so in-the-zone that you'll go Mega Beedrill, and be full-on beast mode, and on your day, they will tremble.

You can be a lvl 4 weedle, at the bottom of the food chain.

Or you can be a lvl 100 Beedrill. Sure, you'll still lose to any Charizard lvl 70+, but you can annihilate 80% of all pokemon and 100% of the pokemon who spend all their time complaining about being pidgeys, rattatas, and dunsparces.

It may be obvious to a lot of people, but it struck me that it doesn't matter what's happened in the past- it's me vs me first, and only then me vs opponents. Either way, level up.

Keep moving forward. That's all you can ask of yourself.

Pokemon Go: Overnight success? No, For John Hanke it took 20 years to create Pokemon Go

How long does it take to create an overnight success? For John Hanke it’s taken him 20 years to create Pokémon Go.

This week, the Pokémon Go app has broken all records, with 10 million+ downloads in the first week, exceeding Twitter in daily active users, and with higher average user time than Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram & WhatsApp.

How did John Hanke create such a massive overnight craze? Here’s the 10 times he levelled up in his lifetime to reach Pokémon Go:

1st Level up: In 1996, while still a student, John co-created the very first MMO (massively multiplayer online game) called ‘Meridian 59’. He sold the game to 3DO to move on to a bigger passion: mapping the world.

2nd Level up: In 2000, John launched ‘Keyhole’ to come up with a way to link maps with aerial photography, and create the first online, GPS-linked 3D aerial map of the world.

3rd Level up: In 2004, Google bought Keyhole and with John’s help, turned Keyhole into what is now ‘Google Earth’. That’s when John decided to focus at creating GPS-based games.

4th Level up: John ran the Google Geo team from 2004 to 2010, creating Google Maps and Google Street View. During this time, he collected the team that would later create Pokémon Go.

5th Level up: In 2010, John launched Niantic Labs as a start-up funded by Google to create a game layer on maps. John explains why he called it Niantic: “The Niantic is the name of a whaling ship that came up during the gold rush and through a variety of circumstances got dragged on shore. This happened with other ships, too. Over the years, San Francisco was basically just built over these ships. You could stand on top of them now, and you wouldn't know it. So it's this idea that there's stuff about the world that's really cool but even though it's on the Internet, it's hard to know when you're actually there.”

6th Level up: In 2012, John then created Niantic’s first geo-based MMO, “ingress”: John explains: “In the case of Ingress the activity is layered on top of the real world and on your phone. The inspiration was that it was something that I always used to daydream about while I was commuting back and forth from home to Google." "I always thought you could make an awesome game using all the Geo data that we have. I watched phones become more and more powerful and I thought the time would come that you could do a really awesome real-world adventure-based game.”

7th Level up: In 2014, Google and the Pokémon Company teamed up for an April Fools’ Day joke, which allowed viewers to find Pokémon creatures on Google maps. It was a viral hit, and got John thinking the idea could be turned into a real game.

8th Level up: John decided to build Pokémon Go on the user-generated meeting points created by players of Ingress, and the most popular became the Pokéstops and gyms in Pokémon Go: As John says, ”The Pokéstops are submitted by users, so obviously they're based on places people go. We had essentially two and a half years of people going to all the places where they thought they should be able to play Ingress, so it's some pretty remote places. There are portals in Antartica and the North Pole, and most points in between.”

9th Level up: John raised $25 million from Google, Nintendo, the Pokémon Company and other investors from Dec 2015 to Feb 2016 to grow a team of 40+ to launch Pokémon Go this year.

10th Level: John and his team launched Pokémon Go on July 6th in USA, Australia and New Zealand. Since its launch, Nintendo’s share price has risen $7.5 billion, and the app is already generating over $2 million daily in in-app purchases, making it an overnight phenomenon.

The overnight success of Pokémon Go has taken John Hanke 20 years to create. Throughout these 20 years, while he had a big vision of a game layer over the world, he didn’t know what form it would take. At every step, he just focused at his next level up.

At each new level, he had new powers, new team members, and new items in his inventory…

Are you, like John, treating your own entrepreneurial journey like one big MMO?

Keep the end in mind, but focus today on simply levelling up.

At every level, grow your powers, your team, and your luck.

And know it takes many levels to win the game.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

A young girl and her father

A young girl and her father were walking along a forest path.
At some point, they came across a large tree branch on the ground in front of them.

The girl asked her father, “If I try, do you think I could move that branch?”
Her father replied, “I am sure you can, if you use all your strength.”

The girl tried her best to lift or push the branch, but she was not strong enough and she couldn't move it.

She said, with disappointment, “You were wrong, dad. I can't move it.”

“Try again with all your strength,” replied her father.

Again, the girl tried hard to push the branch. She struggled but it did not move.

“Dad, I cannot do it,” said the girl.

Finally her father said, “Young lady, I advised you to use 'all your strength'. You didn’t.
You didn't ask for my help.”

~~~

Some reflections on this story...

Our real strength lies not in independence, but in interdependence.

No individual person has all the strengths, all the resources and all the stamina required for the complete blossoming of their vision.

To ask for help and support when we need it is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of wisdom.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

So the world is moving, are you?

In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide.

Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they got bankrupt.

What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 year - and most people don't see it coming.
Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again?

Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975.
The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law.

So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a long time, before it became way superiour and got mainstream in only a few short years.

It will now happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.

Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Welcome to the Exponential Age.

Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.
Uber is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world.
Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.

Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world.
This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.
In the US, young lawyers already don't get jobs.
Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans.
So if you study law, stop immediately.
There will be 90% less laywyers in the future, only specialists will remain.

Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 time more accurate than human nurses.
Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans.
In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self driving cars will appear for the public.
Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted.
You don't want to own a car anymore.
You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination.
You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving.
Our kids will never get a driver's licence and will never own a car.
It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for that.
We can transform former parking space into parks. 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide.
We now have one accident every 100,000 km, with autonomous driving that will drop to one accident in 10 million km.
That will save a million lifes each year.

Most car companies might become bankrupt.
Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.
I spoke to a lot of engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; they are completely terrified of Tesla.

Insurance companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper.
Their car insurance business model will disappear.

Real estate will change.
Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.

Electric cars will become mainstream until 2020.
Cities will be less noisy because all cars will run on electric.

Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can only now see the impact.
Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil.
The price for solar will drop so much that all coal companies will be out of business by 2025.

With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water.
Desalination now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter.
We don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water.
Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.

Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year.
There will be companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with you phone, which takes your retina scan, you blood sample and you breath into it.
It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease.
It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medicine, nearly for free.

3D printing: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from 18,000$ to 400$ within 10 years.
In the same time, it became 100 times faster.
All major shoe companies started 3D printing shoes.
Spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports.
The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large amout of spare parts they used to have in the past.
At the end of this year, new smartphones will have 3D scanning possibilities.
You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home.
In China, they already 3D printed a complete 6-storey office building.
By 2027, 10% of everything that's being produced will be 3D printed.

Business opportunities: If you think of a niche you want to go in, ask yourself: "in the future, do you think we will have that?" and if the answer is yes, how can you make that happen sooner?
If it doesn't work with your phone, forget the idea.
And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed in to failure in the 21st century.

Work: 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years.
QThere will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a small time.

Agriculture: There will be a 100$ agricultural robot in the future.
Farmers in 3rd world countried can then become managers of their field instead of working all days on their fields.
Aeroponics will need much less water.

The first petri dish produced veal is now available and will be cheaper than cow produced veal in 2018.

Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows.

Imagine if we don't need that space anymore.

There are several startups who will bring insect protein to the market shortly.

It contains more protein than meat.

It will be labeled as "alternative protein source" (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).

There is an app called "moodies" which can already tell in which mood you are.

Until 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions if you are lying.

Imagine a political debate where it's being displayed when they are telling the truth and when not.

Bitcoin will become mainstream this year and might even become the default reserve currency.

Longevity: Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year.

Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now it's 80 years.

The increase itself is increasing and by 2036, there will be more that one year increase per year.

So we all might live for a long long time, probably way more than 100.

Education: The cheapest smartphones are already at 10$ in Africa and Asia.

Until 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smartphone.

That means, everyone has the same access to world class education.

So the world is moving, are you?

म्हणुन आनंदी रहा..

कुणाच्या सांगण्यावरुन आपल्या मनात एखाद्या व्यक्तीबाबत चांगले वा वाईट मत बनवण्यापेक्षा, आपण स्वतः चार पावले चालुन समोरासमोर त्या व्यक्तीशी संवाद साधुन मगच खात्री करा.
नाती जपण्यासाठी संवाद आवश्यक आहे ...

बोलताना शब्दांची उंची वाढवा
आवाजाची उंची नाही.

कारण.. पडणाऱ्या पावसामुळे शेती पिकते,
विजांच्या कडकडाटामुळे नाही..

वाहतो तो झरा असतो आणि थांबतं ते डबकं असतं..
डबक्यावर डास येतात आणि झऱ्यावर राजहंस!!

निवड आपली आहे.."

कुणा वाचून कुणाचे काहीच आडत नाही हे जरी खरे असले तरी,
कोण कधी उपयोगी पडेल हे सांगता येत नाही.

डोक शांत असेल तर निर्णय चुकत नाहीत,
अन्...
भाषा गोड

जपून टाक पाउल ... इथे प्रत्येक वाट आपली नसते
जपून ठेव विश्वास ... इथे प्रत्येक माणुस आपला नसतो
जपून घे निर्णय ... इथे प्रत्येक पर्याय आपला नसतो

जे भांडल्यावर आधी क्षमा मागतात,
त्यांची चुक असते म्हणून नव्हे,
तर त्यांना आपल्या माणसांची पर्वा असते म्हणून...

जे तुम्हाला मदत करायला पुढे सरसावतात,
ते तुमचे काही देणे लागतात म्हणून नव्हे,
तर ते तुम्हाला आपलं मानतात म्हणुन..!

मोर नाचताना सुद्धा रडतो...
आणि...
राजहंस मरताना सुद्धा गातो...

दुःखाच्या रात्री झोप कुणालाच लागत नाही...
आणि
सुखाच्या आनंदात कुणीही झोपत नाही.

यालाच जीवन म्हणतात.

किती दिवसाचे आयुष्य असते?
आजचे अस्तित्व उद्या नसते,

मग जगावे ते हसून-खेळून
कारण या जगात उद्या काय होईल ते कोणालाच माहित नसते...

म्हणुन आनंदी रहा..

आयुष्यात कोणत्याही कामाला लहान समजू नका...

कारण...

कोणी लोखंडाचं काम करून ' टाटा ' बनला !!
कोणी चपलांचं काम करून ' बाटा ' बनला !!
कोणी टेलिफोन पुसता पुसता ' DSK ' बिल्डर बनला !!
कोणी गाड्या पुसता पुसता 'अंबानी ' बनला !!

तर कोणी चहा विकता विकता ' PM ' बनला...!!!

I am the 7%

I am the "7%"

This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! Make sure you read to the end!!!!!!

Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain b Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote few lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written.

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.

4. You don't have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.

5. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

6. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

7. Make peace with your past so it won't mess up the present.

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

9. Take a deep breath every now and then. It calms the mind.

10. Get rid of anything that isn't useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.

11. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

12. It's never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.

13. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

14. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy clothes. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

15. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

16. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

17. Always choose life.

18. Forgive others and yourself.

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

20. Time heals almost everything. Give time a little time.

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

22. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

23. Believe in miracles.

24. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

25. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

26. Growing old beats the alternative of dying young.

27. Your children get only one childhood.

28. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

29. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

30. Envy is waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you need.

31. The best is yet to come...

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

33. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Its estimated that 93% won't share this. If you are one of the 7% who will, share this with the title '7%'.

I'm in the 7%. Friends are the family and family is best friends that you choose.

Its worth reading again & again, as & when you can.

Integrity always pays

INTEGRITY ALWAYS PAYS

At the point of death a man, Tom Smith, called his children and after praying for them, he advised them to follow his footsteps so that they can have peace of mind in all that they do.

The youngest child, Immaculate, a female, looked at others and yelled, "Daddy, its unfortunate you are dying without a penny in your bank account, personally, I can't emulate you. Other father's that you tag as being corrupt, thieves of public funds left houses and properties for their children; even this house we live in is a rented apartment, sorry, i can't emulate you, just go, let's chart our own course, let's paddle our own canoe."

Few moments later, their father gave up the spirit.

Three years later, Immaculate went for an interview in a Multinational Company. The interview panel had already penciled down a candidate for the highly coveted post but wanted to complete the formality of interviewing all applicants on the list.

As soon as Immaculate sat before the interview panel, the Chairman of the Committee asked, "Which Smith is your's" and Immaculate replied, "I am Immaculate Smith. My Dad Tom Smith is now late, he died as a poor man..."

But the Chairman cuts in, "Oh my God, you are Tom Smith's daughter?" He turned to other members and said, "This Smith man was the one that signed my membership form into the Institute of Chartered Administrators and his recommendation earned me where I am today. He did all these free. I didn't even know his address, he never knew me from Adam. He just did it for me."

He turned to Immaculate, "I have no question for you, consider yourself as having gotten this job, resume tomorrow, your letter will be waiting for you".

Immaculate Smith became the Corporate Affairs Manager of the Company with two cars, one official and one for private use, attached to the office, with a duplex and two drivers and a salary of £100,000 per month excluding allowances and other costs when she travelled outside England.

After two years of working in the Company, the Group Managing Director of the Company came from America to announce his intention to resign and needed a replacement. A personality with high integrity was sought after, again the Company's Consultant nominated Immaculate Smith.

In an interview, she was asked the secret of her success and the sudden sky rocketing profile and in tears, she replied, " My Daddy paved these ways for me. It was after he died that I knew that he was financially poor but stinkingly rich in integrity, discipline and honesty.

She was asked again, why she is weeping since she is no longer a kid as to miss her dad still after a long time. She replied, "At the point of death, I insulted my dad for being an honest man of integrity. I hope he will forgive me in his grave now. I didn't work for all these, he did it for me to just walk in".

So finally she was asked, "Will you follow your father's foot steps as he requested?" And her simple answer was, "l now adore the man, I have a big picture of him in my living room and at the entrance of my house.

Are you like Tom Smith?
It pays to build a name, the reward doesn't come quickly but it will come however long it may take and it lasts longer. Integrity, discipline and self control makes man wealthy, not the fat bank account. Leave a good heritage for your children.

Are you building a good name for your children & not a fat bank account?

*As an agent of CHANGE, please share this true life story with your loved ones!*

To have power means to enjoy the variety of life

To have power means to enjoy the variety of life.

Expression: When there is the inner strength there is enthusiasm to give the best and also to learn and improve with every obstacle. To work with inner power is to be like a skilled player whose focus is on enjoying the match too rather than just on winning.

Experience: When I have learned the art of focusing on my strengths, I am able to enjoy the variety scenes that life brings for me. I would enjoy dealing with all these different scenes in a natural and easy way, and also be naturally victorious. And so I have the benefit of double enjoyment.

Dr. Abdum Kalam and his dream to become a pilot

डॉ. अब्दुल कलाम यांना पायलट बनायचे होते..
त्यासाठी कुणीही मार्गदर्शक नसल्यामुळे त्यांनी बी.एस्.सी. ला एडमीशन घेतली..

नंतर फायनल ईयरला त्यांना कळले की ,पायलट बनायचे असेल तर ईंजीनीयरींग मधील 'एयरोनॉटीकल ईंजीनीयरींग' ला प्रवेश घ्यावा लागतो !..
मार्गदर्शक नसल्यामुळे आयुष्यातील तीन वर्ष वाया घालवीले असे त्यांना वाटले !..खुप रडले!..

परंतु याच बीएससी फीजीक्सने त्यांचे जीवन घडविले !...

नंतर एयरोमॉटीकल ईंजीनीयर ची पदवी घेतली ,त्यावर्षी संपुर्ण भारतातुन केवळ आठ मुलं ही पदवी घेऊ शकले !.. त्यात डॉ कलाम टॉपर होते !..

त्याकाळी फक्त 'एअर ईंडीया' हीच पायलटच्या जागा भरायची !..

त्यावर्षी त्यांना सात जागा भरायच्या होत्या!.अर्ज आठ !.. डॉ.ए.पी.जे. अब्दुल कलाम टॉपर !..

ईंटरव्यु होऊन सीलेक्शन झाले!.

डॉ. कलाम सोडुन सर्व उमेदवारांना नौकरी मीळाली!..
डॉ. कलाम यांची "ऊंची" कमी आहे,या निर्णयामुळे सीलेक्शन कमीटीने त्यांना नाकारले !..

डॉ. कलाम खुप हताश झाले !..

रामकृष्ण मठातच बालपण गेल्यामुळे उदास होऊन हरीद्वारच्या मठात गेले !..

तेथील स्वामीजींनी सांगीतले, " का ऊदास होतोस?.. जीवनातील एका संग्रामात अपयशी ठरलास, याचा अर्थ नव्हे, की तु कर्तृत्ववान व यशस्वी पुरुष बनु शकत नाही !.. कदाचीत ईश्वराने तुझी निवड एखाद्या महान कार्यासाठी केली असेल !..

डॉ. कलाम घरी जाण्यासाठी दिल्लीला परत आले!..
दुस-या दिवशी पेपरमधे,"एयरोनाॅटीकल इंजीनियर पाहीजे" अशी जाहीरात होती, कुण्या विक्रम साराभाईंची !.. पगार एअर इंडीयाच्या दुप्पट !..

ईंटरव्यूहला पुन्हा तेच आठ कँडीडेट!..

एकच जागा !..

यावेळी मात्र कलाम यांचीच निवड झाली !..

दुस-या दिवशी नोकरीला गेले, म्हणाले, "सांगा विमान कुठे घेऊन जायचे?"..

विक्रम साराभाई म्हणाले, "आपल्या जवळ विमानच नाहीये ..आणि मला खात्री आहे की हे विमान तूच बनवू शकशील!"..

पुढचा इतिहास तुम्हाला माहीती आहे !..

तर मित्रांनो !.. तुम्ही आयुष्यात जरी अपेक्षित ध्ये़य मिळवू शकले नसाल, तर डॉ. ए.पी.जे.अब्दुल कलाम सर यांच्या जीवनातील हा प्रसंग विसरु नका !...

कदाचित तुम्ही भारताचे भावी कलाम सर असाल !..

"जीवनात अयशस्वी जरी झालोत
तरी निराश होऊ नये
कारण,
F.A.I.L. चा अर्थ
First Attempt In Learning
असाच आहे..!!

प्रयत्नांना कधीही
शेवट नसतो
कारण,
E.N.D. चा अर्थ
Efforts Never Dead
असाच घेऊयात..!!

आयुष्यात कोणाकडूनही
नकार आला तरी
खचून जाऊ नये
कारण,
N.O. म्हणजे
Next Opportunity
म्हणून नेहमी आशावादी राहुयात
आणि
जीवनात पुढेच चालत राहुयात;
चालत राहणारालाच
ध्येय गाठता येते..

Few learnings for beautiful ladies

Dear beautiful ladies, sharing few learnings which came with age -

1.Take care of your health. Spend time n money on maintaining yourself.

2.Learn to be independent. Its perfectly ok to not earn, but its important to be independent.

3.Learn to ride that bike or drive that car. You don't always need an escort!

4.Learn about investments and taxes. Its not necessary to have someone else manage your savings n earnings all your life.

5.Plan and save for your own gifts n desires. You don't always need a boyfriend or husband or your dad to buy you something you love. Gift yourself!

6.When you expect equal pay at work, take equal responsibilities. Its not ok to play the "woman" card or "mother" card and shun tough tasks, working weekends or late nights every time.

7.Take equal responsibility of your parents. Its not acceptable to expect everything from your brother every time.

8.Let the father take care of the unwell child once in a while. Its ok. Your career is equally important and the father is equally responsible.

9.Let other family members take care of your kitchen sometimes. Its ok if the kitchen platform is exceptionally unclean or sink is full of dirty vessels. Relax n take that break!

10.Help the other woman, even if you dont like her ;) You never know what her battles are. Empower the needy ones, like your maids. Teach her basics of hygiene, education and finances.

11.Create a support system. Its ok to get on well with inlaws! Not every family needs to have a saas-bahu drama.

12.Have some friends (men and women) beyond your husband's or boyfriend's group. Its ok ! Spend some time away from family with your friends.

13.Its ok to not cry. Not all women need to be senti all the time ;)

14. Be vigilant, be prepared to handle tough situations. When things go wrong, try to be balanced and find way out of your problems. You don't need to play the victim.

15. Find time to read and keep yourself updated.

16.Raise independent, caring and health conscious kids. Make all family members equally accountable and responsible.

17. Create different girlie groups. Share your problems and seek opinions. Finally take your own decision and be confident about it.

18. Spend some time in doing what you like, even if its just sitting idle. Dont feel guilty about it, just because others feel its worthless.

19. Believe in yourself...... . If you don't, no one else will
😊😊😊

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard on it

Handpicked top 500 inspirational quotes

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard on it

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Stretch Yourself

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place... and I don´t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it.

You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But ain't about how hard you hit... It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward... how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That´s how winning is done.

Now, if you know what you worth, go out and get what you worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers saying: You ain´t what you wanna be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain´t you! You´re better than that

So the question comes to mind, how to be so HAPPY? How to be so SUCCESSFUL in life?

Answer is: Naked I came from my mother's womb and naked I will depart. Only what I do echoes in eternity.

Right, one fine day you will die leaving behind - all the money you earned, all the people you loved, all the people you hurt. You came alone, you will go alone. After that day few people will remember you, some will cherish your memories while some will still be angry with you. How would you like people to react after your death?

I assume, most of you would like people to remember you by the good things you did to them. Each time they will remember you, a bright smile would come right under their nose and they would say - 'He/She was so amazing/funny/kind'.

So in short, life is a journey. You can either sit back, relax and enjoy the ride or keeping on crying, blaming, cursing and be miserable. Life is always about choices you make.

Success = Happiness = Health + Wealth + Love

Understand that, most certainly you will not get all of the 3 components. Some of us are too wealthy and loved by all but they suffer by cancer. Some of us found their love and are healthy but they do not have money. While some of us are healthy and wealthy but still finding love.

Interestingly, all these 3 components will always be felt less and we will keep expecting more and more. Unless, you are sitting idle.

Yes, the moment you sit idle, the moment you do not have anything to do, you tend to think. Think about what you do not have. Scientifically, it is proved that it is very easy to be sad than to be happy. So the hobbies, passion, ambitions, aims play a very significant part in your lives.

People who do not have goals in life tend to think - think how miserable their lives are. Although in reality their lives are much more better than others. They are fortunate to take little things in life for granted e.g. safe drinking water, two meals a day etc.

While other people who have aims, goals in life tend to be achievers. And the whole world loves achievers. Achievers tend to be successful because they have a reason to get up in the morning, pursue their dreams and they become happy by doing what they are doing because that is what they want.

So, get up and find out what you want - you always wanted to get physically fit? you always wanted to be rich? you always wanted to be loved by your friends and family? Work on what you want. Work on your goals.

You have to stretch yourself to achieve something and that is the success mantra. Everyday you have to be a better person than you were yesterday.

Do not compete with others, compete with yourself.

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Top 500 Inspirational Quotes

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Push yourself because, no one else is going to do it for you
Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood for something sometime in your life
Stars can't shine without darkness
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it
A home without books is a body without soul
There is no elevator to the success. You have to take the stairs
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat
The harder you work, the luckier you get
The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win. Otherwise, why be a warrior? It is easier to count beads - Miyamoto Musashi
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason
Give yourself room to make mistakes. There are no failures, only learning experiences
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else
Success is how you bounce when you hit bottom
Imagination is more important than knowledge
In life, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything
Let the future speak the truth and evaluate everyone according to his work and achievements. The present is theirs, the future, for which I really worked, is mine
Don't settle: Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it
You shouldn’t live by someone else’s standards. Play by your rules and do what you want
Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you
Be Strong! Because things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it never rains forever
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failures. Continue to reach out
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse
Forget all the reasons why it won't work. Just believe in one reason why it will work
What we do in life echoes an eternity
Faith is taking the first step even when you dont see the whole staircase
It is always too early to quit
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying
The cautious seldom err
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us
Use positivity, rather than letting negativity use you
Fear is not your enemy. It is your compass pointing to the areas where you need to GROW
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose
Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be
Forget about bad things happened in past. Yeah, it is possible!
The biggest disease in the world is keep wondering what people thing about you
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later
Learn to say "no."
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up!
Work Hard, Dream Big
Doubt creates a mountain and faith tunnels through the mountain
You may delay, but time will not
If someone tells you that something is impossible, you SHOULD go and do it
Never quit, if you stumble get back up
Not such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
Don't ever, ever give up! Don't be a quitter
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold
Life is full of opportunities. You just need to take them and give them a try
In a gentle way, you can shake the world
Fall seven times and stand up on eight
Don't settle. Every time you settle, you get exactly what you settled for
A great man is always willing to be little
While you are still waiting to find an easy way or the perfect time, someone else is already getting results because they decided making progress is more important than making excuses
Don't judge people. You never know what kind of battle they are fighting
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet
I never loose. I either win or learn whatsapp
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain
Never stop doing your best because someone doesn't give you credit
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will
You deserve to be happy
If you don't go after what you want, You'll never have it
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else
Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain
The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday
Rejection is better than regret
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be
If it can be solved, there's no need to worry. And if it can't be solved, worry is of no use
Always desire to learn something useful
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it
Everyone wants happiness. No one wants pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain
He who has A WHY to live can bear almost ANY HOW
If you want it, go get it. PERIOD
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better
Biggest room in this world, is the room for improvement
Lost time is never found again
You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now
Rejoice in the process and the results will come
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough
The bad things from the past don’t have any place in your present. Learn from what has already happened, let go of it and make space for new amazing memories
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them
Dreams are the touchstones of our character
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Life's failures are stepping stones for Success
The biggest fire is built from the smallest flames
Do what you love, love what you do
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed. -Just do whatever makes you happy today
God gave you another day for a reason. Now go and find out what it is
Are your excuses more important than your dreams?