All Entries Tagged With: "Motivation"

So sitting here at 8 pm on a Monday night winding down after having attended an all day meeting that explored using social media to reach out to people; i.e. blogging, twitter and such.  Also thinking about the recent elections and the power behind the “yes we can” verbiage used in the campaign for President.  [...]

I have come across several articles and books on “Success” and all of them have very special messages for the reader. It is truly motivating to read and learn how people are making their dreams take shape. We can certainly benefit from the lessons learned by those who have driven themselves on the road to [...]

When you have to interact with people in diverse fields, energy levels have to be very high. To maintain high levels of energy, one has to get away from all that depletes it. The idea of having high level of energy is to use it on things which matter to you most. One needs to [...]

“No, it can’t be done,” said people to a man named Thomas, as he kept on failing at his experiment. Had he given up, today we would be still living in the dark. He failed for a thousand times until finally he made a bulb that could glow. And what did our hero Thomas Alva [...]

Most of us have been told, as we grow up, that knowledge and learning are the most important requisites to attain success and win. No doubt knowledge and skills are important; but there is one singular differential that makes winners stand apart: Perseverance with a capital P. If there is one quality that makes people [...]

Since our early childhood we are taught ‘Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise’. It’s also supposed to be the way to our finest life and somewhere we all want to live it. In this pursuit one habit which we all want to inculcate is the habit of [...]

One of my professors in my management classes used to say, “Shape up or ship out.” In our world today, it seems that one thing that is fully certain is change.  The speed of transformation that our business world is seeing – the rapid growth of technology, the ever changing needs of consumers, the needs [...]

Emerson states, “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”. A majority of the issues related to worker productivity stem from enthusiasm or the lack thereof. Individuals simply go to work despite their abhorrence of their employer, the monotony, and the products. There is no passion or pride. Much of this issue stems from practices embedded [...]

At every point of time, we are doing things. Sometimes for ourselves, sometimes for others. Actions, words, deeds, thoughts flow from us all the time. What should be our approach? How should we deal with the flow? I feel that one have to always “Do Your Best” (DYB). Why DYB? I think that this is [...]

If I live to be a hundred, I’ll still remember Friday, January 28, 1983. It was a bright sunny day, and I blissfully sang “I’m on the top of the world!” off-key as I dressed for work.  The day before, the company physician had confirmed what I’d suspected for weeks–I was three months pregnant–and after [...]

I have a confession to make.  I am a procrastinator.  I can find a reason to do just about anything other than the tasks I dread.  For example, I should be getting a mailing out right now, but I am writing this article.  However, I recently completed a ton of tasks I had been putting [...]

When the performance gurus talk about riding out the highs and the lows of business, what they mean is that when business is swinging, you act cool, and when it goes wrong – you still act cool. It is not wrong to celebrate success, but if you are still partying a week after you land [...]

If there is a singular thought you must equip you with, when faced with a pink-slip, it  is to reiterate to yourself that what happened is owing to extraneous factors – the event per se is no reflection of your own professional or personal capabilities. Embedding this deep down in your mind will keep you [...]

Did the past year deliver what you wanted? Did you attract the outcomes you really desired? If life did not meet your expectations, perhaps it is time to prime the pump first! Let me explain.

We are in January now. It is the appropriate time for us too, like Janus, to look back and look forward. However, we will not be physically able to look back and look foreword at the same time, since we do not have two heads like Janus. But with the single head, that we are blessed with, we can look back before we look foreword. In the time in-between we can review our past overall.

The arbiter of knowledge and skills, the teacher, is a revered figure around the world. In India, the teacher is known as the guru, the wise one who can be trusted to lead the knowledge-blind and shine the light of competence and skills in the darkness of ignorance and incompetence. Over time it has been [...]

A profound, irrefutable law of bodybuilding, and of life, is “What is expected, tends to be realized.” Take a moment here and think about what you (honestly) expect from your workouts. For example, what do you usually expect when you go to the gym regarding: – Your performance level? – Your commitment/passion level? – Your [...]

When I was young I had to ride my bicycle to school.  During the winters I had no gloves and when I got to school, my hands were frozen for a long time afterwards.  Imagine writing an exam paper early in the morning with stiff fingers and a time constraint. I first saw television when [...]

Achieving success is something a lot of people want, but they suffer from a disease called procrastination. When you want to be successful and change in your life you need to overcome procrastination as soon as possible. Here are a few ways to overcome it: 1. Break down goals into smaller more realistic goals. Say [...]

Do you remember what God told you when you were about to take off on your journey from heaven to earth? You had just fastened your seat belt when God appeared and said, “I have never ever made anyone like you before!” “Really, God?” you asked. “Yes,” He said. “Wow, am I so great? Am [...]

Who is a winner? To me a person, who decides to do something and then does it, is a winner. At the same time someone who decides not to do something and doesn’t do it, is equally a winner. A loser on the other hand decides to do something and doesn’t do it or decides [...]