Never QUIT..

"When things go wrong as they sometimes will,


When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out;

Don't give up though the pace seems slow--

You may succeed with another blow,

Success is failure turned inside out--

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems so far;

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--

It's when things seem worst that you must not quit."

~ UnknownN

Visualise in the Right Way dear!

visualisation

The four important  parts of visualization

Did you know that there are four parts of visualization that you can learn and practice to assure that you use this incredible power to its best advantage all the days of your life.

How Often?

The first aspect of visualization is frequency, the number of times that you visualize a particular goal as achieved of yourself performing in an excellent way in a particular event or circumstance. The more frequently you repeat a clear mental picture of your very best performance or result, the more rapidly it will appear as part of your reality.

How Long?

The second element of visualization is the duration of the mental image, the length of time that you can hold the picture in your mind each time you replay it. When you deeply relax, you can often hold a mental picture of yourself performing at your best for several seconds, and even several minutes. The longer you can hold your mental picture, the more deeply it will be impressed into your subconscious mind and the more rapidly it will express itself in your subsequent performance.

How Clearly?

The third element of visualization is vividness. There is a direct relationship between how clearly you can see your desired goal or result in your mind and how quickly it comes into your reality. This element of visualization is what explains the powers of the Law of Attraction and the Law of Correspondence. The vividness of your desire directly determines how quickly it materializes in the world around you. Here is an interesting point. When you set a new goal for yourself, your image or picture of this goal will usually be vague and fuzzy. But the more often you write it, review it, and repeat it mentally, the clearer it becomes for you. Eventually, it will become crystal clear. At that point, the goal
will suddenly appear in your world exactly as you imagined it.

How Intensely?

The fourth element of visualization is intensity, the amount of emotion that you attach to your visual image. In reality, this is the most important and powerful part of the visualization process. Sometimes, if your emotion is intense enough and your visual image is clear enough, your goal will immediately come true.

Of course, the elements of frequency, duration, vividness, and intensity can help you or hurt you. Like nature, the power of visualization is neutral. Like a two-edged sword, it can cut in either direction. It can either make you a success or make you a failure. Visualization brings you whatever you vividly and intensely imagine, whether good or bad.

Action Exercise

Continually feed your mind with clear, exciting, emotional pictures. Remember, your imagination is your preview of lifes coming attractions.

  Source: from various reading materials. 

I Appreciate You

To appreciate means to recognize the significance, quality, or magnitude of.

(Appreciate freedom)

To be fully aware of or sensitive to; realize:

(I appreciate your problems)

To be thankful or show gratitude for:

(I appreciate your help)

To admire greatly; value

To raise in value or price.

If you hear these words from your  friend, he/she  was not appreciating you for something youdid or said to or for him/her personally or professionally. He was not appreciating a particular problem that you had or appreciating your help on a matter.

I appreciate YOU is what it means 

That means You are appreciated, You are admired greatly, You are valued, and You are raised in value. He recognizes the significance, quality and magnitude of you, and who you are. He is thankful and shows gratitude for you.

As you absorb the power of these three words and allowed them to penetrate and saturate your inner being, consider who told you these. One of the many life lessons is to always consider the message and the source of messages that enter into your life constantly. Did they have any idea how powerfully profound and life-changing this one short statement would be?

Remember the definition of appreciate. You tend to invest in the things that you find value in. Our Heavenly Father also invests heavily in us. 

Feel the power of "I APPRECIATE YOU." 

Tell someone or many, and mean it.

Dip into your rich resources and invest in them; whatever those resources may be. 

I APPRECIATE YOU!

And yes one more thing: when did You say this someone last?

DO IT NOW and Enjoy the pleasure! 

Be A Lake

The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.

"How does it taste?" the Master asked.



"Awful," spat the apprentice.

The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake.

The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake,




the old man said, "Now drink from the lake."



As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How does it taste?"


"Good!" remarked the apprentice. "Do you taste the salt?" asked the Master. "No," said the young man.



The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, "The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less.



The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it into.



So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things .....

Stop being a glass. Become a lake!"



 
Author : Unknown
Source: Forward mail

Some Inspirational Quotes

 

"Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a

result of ceaseless concentration." - Louise Brooks

"In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people,

real or fictional, who have been part of your life. But if you just imagine

they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever  touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever your remember to think of them." - Barbara Sher

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're

going to do now and do it." - William Durant

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually

laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level

of living I now enjoy." - Anthony Robbins

"Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again." - Henry

Ford

"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an

alternative to the faith we lose." - Graham Greene

"Remember that the faith to move mountains always carries a pick." - Author

unknown

"If you can DREAM it, you can DO it." - Walt Disney

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars." - Les Brown

"Aerodynamically a bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee
doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide
how you're going to live. Now." - Joan Baez"To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?"

- Catherine Graham

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -
Mahatma Gandhi

"Acceptance gives me the experience of being like an angel: never judging,
never criticizing and never worrying." - Unknown

"We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the
world." - Helen Keller

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it
begins to make sense." - Harold S. Kushner

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be
broken." - Samuel Johnson

"A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame

somebody else." - John Burroughs

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy,

and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." - Helen Keller

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a

narrow field." - Niels Bohr

"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste
of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have." - Dale Carnegie

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, While others judge us by
what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." - Alexander
Woollcott  

-Collected from various sources in internet

BOLD ,BOLDER ,BOLDEST

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder." - General W.J. Slim

 
Being Bold is something like a habit- an intoxicating habit.
Boldness in dealing with situations, people or our life itself is something which we acquire through taking the first step of being bold.
 
Yes, by being bold once- you gain the boldness of becoming bolder again.
 
Sometimes, we gain boldness when someone gives us the confidence for the same.
That's where training helps.. there are good trainers who can give you the support and let you overcome your fears.
 
Military training is actually one such training. In military , the process is simple - making the soldiers mentally tough.
Coz, only a mentally strong soldier will be able to lead the army or win the war.
 
Consider the same in our life too.. consider each incident of your life as a soldier who is getting trained to face any war- The WAR of Life...
 
all the best!
HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY

ATTITUDE- that's what they want

Recently read a news .. about importance of attitude at workplace...thought i should post it here..

At Microsoft’s Global Technical Support Centre (GTSC) in Bangalore, a team of over 1,000 engineers solve problems for the Redmond,Washington-based company’s blue-ribbon corporate customers, including the likesof the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which runs the US’civilian space programming and GE, the engineering and financial services major.

The problems have become increasingly complex over the years and the averagetime to resolve a complaint is upwards of eight hours.  The engineers work under intense time pressure as the glitches they are solving could result in loss of business for clients.

But at the end of the year, the engineers are not being judged by how fast they solved problems or how high they were rated on customer satisfaction surveys.

Instead, performance rating is linked to much more qualitative parameters such as readiness to ask colleagues for help, the ability and willingness tolearn from the problem they were solving.  The willingness to share knowledge and doggedness and persistence in solvingproblems is also high on the desirability charts at the Bangalore unit ofthe maker of Windows software.

These changes are not unique to Microsoft. Employees are increasingly being judged on the quality of their interaction with colleagues with values such as proclivity towards collaborative behaviour and knowledge-sharing being highlyrated. Risk-taking ability is also valued.

For some companies, behaviour, rather than the ability tomeet targets, is the route to a good increment this appraisal season. And insome places like Microsoft GTSC, it is the only criterion.

“We don’t hold the frontline staff accountable to productivity any longer. Thatis only for most senior managers,” says Binu Philip, Director, Human Resourcesat Microsoft, GTSC. “Hard numbers do not show the whole picture and can bemanipulated as well,” Anandorup Ghosh, practice head for executive compensationand corporate governance at Aon Hewitt.

[Economic Times- 13th Jan 2012]

A Shepherd and a Consultant- Funny Story

A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out of the window and asked the shepherd,... "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?"

The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully-grazing flock and calmly answered, "Sure."

The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his IBM Think Pad and connected it to a cell phone, then he surfed to a NASA page on the Internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, and then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas. He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, received a response. Finally, he prints out a 130 page report on his miniaturized printer then turns to the shepherd and says, ..."You have exactly 1586 sheep." "That is correct; take one of the sheep," said the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car. Then the shepherd says: "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my animal?"

"OK, why not," answered the young man.

"Clearly, you're a consultant," said the shepherd.

"That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required," answers the shepherd. "You turned up here although nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you don't know crap about my business... Now give me back my dog."

Source : Internet

Stop Complaining Yaar!- A Nice Story

 "If I had kept my mouth shut I wouldn't be here." How true! Don't jump into trouble mouth first. 

Let me pose this question for you: Starting today what would happen if you changed what you said about your biggest problem, your biggest opportunity? 

"Our words create our worlds," says Dean Sikes. Your words have the power to start fires or quench passion.

This story reminds me of a similar situation in a Malayalam movie - "Chinthavishtayaaya Shyamala" , in which Actor Sreenivasan enters in such a situation. The story goes like this..

A man  joined a monastery in which the monks were allowed to speak only two words every seven years. After the first seven years had passed, the new initiate met with the abbot, who asked him, "Well, what are your two words?"

"Food's bad," replied the man, who then went back to his silence.

Seven years later the clergyman asked, "What are your two words now?"

"Bed's hard," the man responded.

Seven years later - twenty-one years after his initial entry into the monastery - the man met with the abbot for the third and final time. "And what are your two words this time?" the abbot asked.

"I quit."

"Well, I'm not surprised," the cleric answered disgustedly. "All you've done since you got here is complain!"

Don't be like that man; don't be known as a person whose only words are negative. If you're a member of the "negative grapevine," resign.

Contrary to what you may have heard, talk is not cheap. Talk is powerful!

What we say is important. Our vocabulary should be filled with words of hope and dreams. Be known as someone who speaks positively.

and yes....