Sunday, December 11, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Mother's Story
A tiny lion cub, which has somehow slipped and fallen over a cliff, is crying out pitifully for help as it clings on for dear life to the side of the almost vertical cliff.
The mother arrives at the edge of the cliff as her son cries out for rescue after being trapped when he slipped
His mother arrives at the edge of the cliff with three other lionesses and a male. The females start to clamber down together but turn back daunted by the sheer drop.
Four lionesses look over the edge before aborting their rescue mission because of the sheer drop Eventually one single factor determines which of them will risk her life to save the youngster – motherly love. Slowly, agonisingly, the big lioness mother inches her way down towards her terrified cub, using her powerful claws to grip the crumbling cliff side.
Steep ... another lion tried but failed
The mother inches her way down the cliff face to rescue the terrified cub
Just as the exhausted cub seems about to fall, his mother circles beneath him and he is snatched up in her jaws. She then begins the equally perilous journey back to the top. One slip from her and both animals could end up dead at the bottom of the ravine.
The mother locks the cub in her jaws and makes her way back up the cliff face
Minutes later, they arrive back safely at the top of the cliff and she gives the frightened offspring a consoling lick on the head.
The mother gives her son a reassuring lick to say that all is well.
Nothing can compare to a mother’s love, and moms from the animal kingdom are no exception. In the animal kingdom, a mother’s love is the strongest when her babies are in trouble.
A dramatic rescue, captured by wildlife photographer Jean-Francois Largot, was played out in Kenya’s Masai Mara.
“80-20 rule”
This pattern called “power law” or “80-20 rule” is found everywhere. 20% of people owns 80% of wealth. 20% of websites get 80% of all traffic on the Internet. 20% of the articles on your website gets 80% of your readers. And, so on... The reason why software developers rush to every new market (like Facebook Apps, iPhone Apps, Android Apps, etc..) is because this curve is flatter at the beginning. 20% does not grab 80% of the market because the market is not yet so efficient. Everyone still has a chance to achieve a modest success. But even the time it takes for a new market to reach the 80-20 rule is getting shorter and shorter.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Life is like a game of cards.
You did not invent the game, Nor did you frame the rules.You have no control over the cards dealt to you.
But you are there to play.
A good player, even with a bad hand of cards, will play well and emerge a winner.
A bad player, even with the best of cards, will play badly and lose.
“Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
(Jawaharlal Nehru – Indian Prime Minister, 1889-1964)
Thursday, March 3, 2011
YOU
One of the key things is this business is to stay motivated and truly inspired for what you do! When you loose the vision, the passion or the love the dream is GONE!
Lots of time we blame others for our lost of vision or consistency etc when in the end
YOU ARE THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SHIP....NO ONE CAN STOP YOU BUT YOU!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Help
A Four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
'Nothing, I just helped him cry'
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
90/10 Principle
Author: Stephen Covey
Discover the 90/10 Principle. - It will change your life (at least the way you react to situations).
What is this principle?
10% of life is made up of what happens to you. ……90% of life is decided by how you react.
What does this mean?
We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us.
We cannot STOP
· The car from breaking down.
· The plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off.
· A driver may cut us off in traffic.
We have no control over this 10%.
The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90%.
The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90%.
How? By your reaction.You cannot control a red light. But you can control your reaction.
Don't let people fool you; YOU can control how you react.
A small story
A small story
You are eating breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You have no control over what just happened. What happens next will be determined by how you react.
You curse. You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over. She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your spouse and criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish breakfast and get ready for school. She misses the bus. Your spouse must leave immediately for work. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you are late, you drive 40 miles an hour in a 30 mph speed limit.
After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your briefcase. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse.
You look forward to coming home. When you arrive home, you find small wedge in your relationship with your spouse and daughter. Why? Because of how you reacted in the morning.
After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your briefcase. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse.
You look forward to coming home. When you arrive home, you find small wedge in your relationship with your spouse and daughter. Why? Because of how you reacted in the morning.
Why did you have a bad day?
A) Did the coffee cause it?
B) Did your daughter cause it?
C) Did the policeman cause it?
D) Did you cause it?
The answer is "D". You had no control over what happened with the coffee. How you reacted in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day.
Here is what could have and should have happened.
The answer is "D". You had no control over what happened with the coffee. How you reacted in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day.
Here is what could have and should have happened.
Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently say, "Its ok honey, you just need to be more careful next time". Grabbing a towel you rush upstairs. After grabbing a new shirt and your briefcase, you come back down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff. Your boss comments on how good the day you are having.
Notice the difference? Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different. Why? Because of how you REACTED.
Notice the difference? Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different. Why? Because of how you REACTED.
You really do not have any control over 10% of what happens. The other 90% was determined by your reaction.
Enjoy….
Friday, February 25, 2011
Never Give up
Fight for yourself using every drop of blood from your body. Muster every effort within you and fight: sure you will win.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx796zSg5gs
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Living Meaningfully Dying Joyfully
- by Ajahn Brahmavamso
In this presentation, I will use stories and anecdotes, as well as some jokes, to demonstrate how we can find out for ourselves the meaning of life, in order to live meaningfully. Then I will go on to show that living life meaningfully, according to the Dharma, will take the grief out of loss, and let us die joyfully.
In this presentation, I will use stories and anecdotes, as well as some jokes, to demonstrate how we can find out for ourselves the meaning of life, in order to live meaningfully. Then I will go on to show that living life meaningfully, according to the Dharma, will take the grief out of loss, and let us die joyfully.
~O~
In the summer of 1969, just after my 18th birthday, I was enjoying my first experience of tropical jungles. I was travelling in the Yucatan Peninsula of Northeast Guatemala, heading for the recently discovered pyramids of the vanished Mayan civilization.
In those days, travel was difficult. It took me three or four days to cover the few hundred kilometres from Guatemala City to the ruined temple complex known as Tical. I travelled up narrow rainforest rivers on oil-soaked fishing boats, down winding dirt roads balanced atop heavily loaded trucks, and through small jungle paths on ramshackle rickshaws. It was a region remote, poor and pristine.
When I finally arrived at the extensive complex of abandoned temples and ancient pyramids, I had neither guide nor guide book to tell me the meaning of those impressive stone monuments pointing to the sky. Nobody was around. So I started climbing one of the tall pyramids.
On reaching the top, I suddenly knew the meaning of the pyramid, its purpose.
For the previous three days, I had been travelling exclusively through jungle. The roads, paths and rivers were like tunnels through the dense greenery. Jungle quickly made a ceiling above any new thoroughfare. I hadn't seen the horizon for many days. Indeed, I hadn't seen far distances at all. I was in jungle.
On top of that pyramid, I was above all the tangle of the jungle. Not only could I see where I was in the map-like panorama spread before me, but also I could now see in all directions, with nothing between infinity and me.
Standing up there as if on top of the world, I imagined what it might have been like for a young Mayan Indian who had been born in the jungle, raised in the jungle, who had lived all their life in the jungle. I pictured them in some religious rite of passage being led gently by the hand, by a wise old holy man, up to the summit of a pyramid for the very first time. When they rose above the tree line and beheld their jungle world unfolded and spread out before them, when they gazed beyond the limits of their world to the horizon and above, they would see emptiness above and around, with no thing and no body between them and the infinite. Their hearts would resonate with the clear symbols of Truth. Insights would flower and give their fruit. They would understand their place in their home world, and they would have seen the infinite, the emptiness, which embraces it all. Their life would have found its meaning.
Read more : http://www.what-buddha-taught.net/Books6/Ajahn_Brahm_Living_Meaningfully_Dying_Joyfully.htm
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Cricket World Cup 2011 - Start...
Winning a world cup is not easy. It requires the courage and inspiration of leadership and also the right team that truly compliments each other. Sustaining a team is not easy too. Being able to motivate the entire team towards a common objective is the key, and this requires a unique combination of the leader and the team being in sync. The one and only time Sri Lanka won the cricket world cup in 1996 is a great example !Different Thinking
Different Thinking presents practical tools and strategies companies can use to help drastically increase the value of the business.The authors show readers how they can question their company’s strategies, create new markets, give their products a radical makeover, and invent innovative new price and profit models to give them a competitive advantage over their rivals.To illustrate the theory, there are international examples from a broad spectrum of industries, from Apple and Virgin to Daimler-Chrysler, McDonald’s, and Washington Mutual Bank, which show how taking such innovative approaches has worked in practice.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Begin with the end in mind.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
Take the first step in faith. Just take the first step.
Begin with the end in mind.
Friday, February 18, 2011
GURU
In a small village of Idar in India, a young man dreams of making it big some day. His father, the headmaster of the village school, tells him that dreams never come true. Gurukant Desai (Abhishek Bachchan) decides to go to Turkey and enters the spice trade and then later is promoted but refuses the job because he wants to work for himself and not another man.Manik Dasgupta a.k.a. Nanaji, who publishes a newspaper Swatantra, treats Guru as his son. Guru likewise looks to him as a father figure who gives him support during his early struggling days in Bombay.
As Gurukant Desai's business grows into one of the largest in India, he ruthlessly pursues success. He smuggles in parts for his polyester mills, illegally creates goods, and manipulates stocks to make a higher profit. But when Manik Dasgupta learns that Guru's means of success are not always honest, he, along with a reporter of his newspaper, Shyam, decide to expose Guru's increasingly corrupt ways.
The stress of his battle with the newspaper causes Guru to have a stroke, and he is paralyzed on his right side. In the end, Guru is brought before a government inquiry into his unethical actions, but he persuades the panel to clear him of most of the charges. He is charged with less allegations and is allowed to return to his company, and the film ends with Guru continuing to dream of the future, and even greater success.
Source : Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_(2007_film))
Trailer : Youtube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAbycIL5__4)
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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