Identifying people who have a positive influence

When one looks back on the days gone by, there will be some people and some incidents that you will recall with great fondness. Focus on these people whose memories always bring a smile to the lips and warmth in the heart and you will be transported to a world of nostalgia. If you correlate [...]

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3 simple rules for life

At the outset let me thank each one of my readers and blog followers for having supported this blog and crossing 1,00,000 views. A special word of thanks to the 661 followers of the blog. For those who do not know, I started this blog on 1st Jan 2010 and kept a target of writing [...]

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Life is like a coin…

Life is like a coin.  You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.  ~Lillian Dickson For many, life is like a coin that we can toss and then tell ourselves Heads you win, Tails I lose. With an attitude like that, whatever the outcome thereafter, life will be a [...]

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Encouragement does wonders

“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success” One of the casualties of intense competition are the school going children who are constantly prodded by parents to excel at examinations. While it is necessary to ensure that the children study hard and do well in the [...]

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Being rich; having power…

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.  George MacDonald Almost everyone would like to have more riches and yet most of us are able to make do with whatever we are blessed with. However making do with whatever we have is perhaps out of compulsion or [...]

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Using head and heart

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.  – Donald Laird As social animals, we human beings have no choice but to live in society which implies that we need to interact with others, adjust to the demands of societal norms and yet maintain our own identity and independence.  This poses [...]

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The spirit of sportsmanship

One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it. Knute Rockne In an extremely competitive world, there is a strong temptation to take advantage of the slightest loopholes that one can get through even if it means bending the rules, conveniently interpreting the law or covertly sidestepping the norms. Giving in to such [...]

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Seek and find

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – Sir John Lubbock If you are one of those who ends up as a frustrated shopper rarely finding what appeals to you or one who finds too many faults in what  you plan to purchase, ask yourself the question ‘Do I really know what [...]

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The power of example

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. – Albert Schweitzer Our initial learning is from imitating others particularly our parents, grandparents, neighbors, the au pair or nanny and those with whom we are in close contact. Obviously we end up learning both the good and the bad from [...]

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Give and receive

It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35 One of the problems that we humans constantly battle is our urge to want more and more. We crave to have more wealth, more power, more freedom and more happiness. More often than not, it is a losing battle because we are unable to [...]

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