User:Apangshusaha/Apangshu's Motivation

=Motivation= What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

'''If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything, But If you look at what you have in life, you have everything '''

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Dream Big Dreams!

Develop a clear sense of direction.

See yourself as self-employed.

Do what you love to do.

Commit to excellence.

Develop a workaholic mentality

Dedicate yourself to lifelong learning.

Pay yourself first.

Learn every detail of your business.

Dedicate yourself to serving others.

Be impeccably honest with yourself and others.

Set priorities on your activities and concentrate single mindedly on one thing at a time.

Develop a reputation for speed and dependability

Be prepared to climb from peak to peak in your life and in your career.

Practice self-discipline in all things.

Unlock your inborn creativity.

Get around the right people

Take excellent care of your physical health.

Be decisive and action oriented

Never consider the possibility of failure

For you to back everything you do with the twin qualities of persistence and determination.

The Mayonnaise Jar
When things in your life seem, almost too much to handle, When 24 Hours in a day is not enough, Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, He picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar And proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students, if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open Areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

'Now,' said the professor,  as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things - family, children, health, Friends, and Favorite passions – Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, Your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, house, and car.

The sand is everything else --The small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,' He continued, there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, You will never have room for the things that are important to you.

So...

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play With your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner.

There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.

'Take care of the golf balls first -- The things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.'

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled. 'I'm glad you asked'.

It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.'

Please share this with other "Golf Balls" I just did......

don't quit
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you are 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 abit, Rest, if you must - but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists & turns, As everyone of us sometimes leans, And many a failure turns about When he might have was had he stuck it out; Don't give up,though the pace seems slow- You might succed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than it seems to a faint & faltering man, Often the struggler has given up,when he might have captured the victor's cup.

And he learned too late, when the night slipped down, How close he was to the golden crown.

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 a far, So stick to the fight when you are hardest bit- It's when things seems worst that you must not quit.

Good Speeches
Speech by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis ...

Don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order. There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.

"Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.

One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up?

It's ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices.

"Don't be serious, be sincere."! Make Other's Life Positive !

What to Do When You Feel Upset
1>	Try watching your kind of a movie and escape from reality for an hour or two and that will work wonders.

2>	If u a person who has anger which bursts out like a lava,then my advice to u will be to think of your close ones whom u enjoy being with.. imagine those moments which u spent with them which gave u peaceful happiness..

3>	when u get angry at someone think that the person is that special person in your life. At least It might bring down your anger a bit :)

4>	If you follow the following steps you will get relax. 1. Change your position (if standing .. then sit or if sit then stand and walk away from the person whom you are fighting. 2. Go to wash room and wash your hands, mouth, nose arms and foot. 3. Drink some cool water.

5>	Anger is very dengrous for any body.Do not follow your heart in anger but work with your brian.our prophet told us that when you feel yourself in anger DRINK A GLASS OF COLD WATER AND LAY DOWN.

6>	life is baeutiful, be patient more often and you will see the changes

7>	the best way is.. when u get angry drink some water and try to calm yourself.. if still angry count 10 to 1... if still angry just go and sleep for sometime.. hope this will help....

8>	Just close your eyes for 2min, the meditations It will be ok

9>	be calm and quite. and you concentrate on prayers.

How To Live Life to the Fullest?
How To Live Life to the Fullest?

Stories
Here is the Principle of being happy…!! Study this small story; Hope that makes a BIG change

Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see & asked the students "How much do you think this glass weighs?"

'50gms!' ..... '100gms!' .....'125gms' ...the students answered.

"I really don't know unless I weigh it," said the professor, "but, my question is:

What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?"

'Nothing' ..the students said.

'Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?' the professor asked.

'Your arm would begin to ache' said one of the student

"You're right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?"

"Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle stress & paralysis & have to go to hospital for sure!" .. ventured another student & all the students laughed

"Very good.

But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?" asked the professor.

'No'. Was the answer.

"Then what caused the arm ache & the muscle stress?"

The students were puzzled. "What should I do now to come out of pain?" asked professor again.

"Put the glass down!" said one of the students

"Exactly!" said the professor.

Life's problems are something like this. Hold it for a few minutes in your head & they seem OK.

Think of them for a long time & they begin to ache. Hold it even longer & they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything..

It's important to think of the challenges or problems in your life, But EVEN MORE IMPORTANT is to 'PUT THEM DOWN' at the end of every day before You go to sleep...

That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh &strong & can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!

So, when you leave office today, Remember to ' PUT THE GLASS DOWN ! '

Life is Coffee ...!!!! A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: 'If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.'

Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead

Two Friends... A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert During some point of the Journey they had an Argument, and one friend Slapped the other one In the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE. They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE. The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?" The other friend replied "When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it." LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE!!! They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them. Send this phrase to the people you'll never forget.

An interesting reflection : Slow Down Culture

An interesting reflection. :            Slow Down Culture It's been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working for them has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It's a rule. Globalize processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general sense of searching for immediate results. Therefore, we have come to possess a need to see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold x quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better results.

Said in another words:

1. Sweden is about the size of San Pablo, a state in Brazil

2. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants.

3. Stockholm has 500,000 people.

4. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, Nokia are some of its renowned companies. Volvo supplies to the NASA.

The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn't say anything, either the second or third. One morning I asked, 'Do you have a fixed parking space? I've noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot.' To which he replied, 'Since we're here early we’ll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don't you think?....................... Imagine my face.

Nowadays, there's a movement in Europe name Slow Food. This movement establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week.

Basically, the movement questions the sense of 'hurry' and 'craziness' generated by globalization, fueled by the desire of 'having in quantity'(life status) versus 'having with quality', 'life quality' or the 'quality of being'. French people, even though they work 35 hours per week, are more productive. Germans have established 28.8 hour workweeks and have seen their productivity been driven up by 20%...This slow attitude has brought forth the other's attention, pupils of the fast and the 'do it now!'

This no-rush attitude doesn't represent doing less or having a lower productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress. It means re-establishing family values, friends, free and leisure time. Taking the 'now', present and concrete, versus the 'global', undefined and anonymous. It means taking humans' essential values, the simplicity  of living.

It stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and more productive where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do. It's time  to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of  products and services, without losing the essence of spirit. In the movie, Scent of a Woman, there's a scene where the blind Al Pacino asks a girl to dance and she replies, ’I can't, my boyfriend will be here any minute now'. To which Al responds, 'A life is lived in an instant'. Then they dance to a tango.

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists. We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans'.

Congratulations for reading till the end of this message. There are many who will have stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this globalized world.

Philosophy of life :

A boat docked in a tiny Mexican fishing village.

A tourist complimented the local fishermen on the quality of their fish and asked how long it took him to catch them.

"Not very long." they answered in unison.

"Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?"

The fishermen explained that their small catches were sufficient to meet their needs and those of their families.

"But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

"We sleep late, fish a little, play with our children, and take siestas with our wives. In the evenings, we go into the village to see our friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs.

We have a full life."

The tourist interrupted,

"I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you! You should start by fishing longer every day. You can then sell the extra fish you catch. With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat."

"And after that?"

"With the extra money the larger boat will bring, you can buy a second one and a third one and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers. Instead of selling your fish to a middle man, you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants and maybe even open your own plant.

You can then leave this little village and move to  Mexico City, Los Angeles , or even   New York City !

From there you can direct your huge new enterprise."

"How long would that take?"

"Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years." replied the tourist.

"And after that?"

"Afterwards? Well my friend, that's when it gets really interesting, " answered the tourist, laughing. "When your business gets really big, you can start buying and selling stocks and make millions!"

"Millions? Really? And after that?" asked the fishermen..

"After that you'll be able to retire, live in a tiny village near the coast, sleep late, play with your children, catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying your friends."

"With all due respect sir, but that's exactly what we are doing now. So what's the point wasting twenty-five years?" asked the Mexicans.

And the moral of this story is:

Know where you're going in life... you may already be there.

A Video Palindrome
"A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite..Make sure you read as well as listen...forward and backward.

This is a video was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled "u @ 50" by AARP. This video won second place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=42E2fAWM6rA

To AchieveYour Dreams, Remember Your A to Z
A - Avoid negative sources, people,places,things and habits.

B - Believe in yourself

C - Consider things from every angle

D - Don't give up and don't give in

E - Enjoy life today - yesterday is gone, tomorrow may never come.

F - Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.

G - Give more than you planned to

H - Hang on to your dreams

I - Ignore those who try to discourage you

J - Just do it!

K - Keep trying no matter how hard it seems- it will get easier

L - Love yourself first and most

M - Make it happen

N - Never lie, cheat or steal; always strike a fair deal

O - Open your eyes and see things as they really are

P - Practice makes perfect

Q - Quitters never win, and winners never quit

R - Read, Study and Learn about everything important in your life

S - Stop procrastinating

T - Take Control of your own destiny

U - Understand yourself to better understand others

V - Visualize it!

W - Want it more than anything

X - Xcellerate your efforts

Y - You are unique of all God's creations, nothing can replace you

Z - Zero in on your target and go for it!

When you didn't get expected promotion
When you didn't get expected promotion...go through the following lines....

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.'  When God takes something  from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this sentence... 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'

Live more in your Heart & less in your Head.

Never look down on anybody.
To realize the value of a sister/brother ask someone who doesn't have one.

To realize the value of ten years: ask a newly divorced couple.

To realize the value of four years: ask a graduate.

To realize the value of one year: ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of nine months: ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.

To realize the value of one month: ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby..

To realize the value of one minute: ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one-second: ask a person who has survived an accident.

Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have.

You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend or family member: LOSE ONE.

Remember....

Hold on tight to the ones you love!

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