Tips to identify your passion…

“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”   T. Alan Armstrong With rare exceptions for the vast majority of people finding [...]

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Start and then only will you succeed

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. Tehyi Hsieh When I first started writing this blog a year ago, on 1st January 2010, I had planned to write around 500 words, daily on the quote of the day. No sooner had I decided on it I was assailed by self doubts. Would I [...]

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Duty Calls

The habit of doing one’s duty drives away fear. Charles Baudelaire Many of our fears stem from our tardy and lethargic behavior which results in us postponing our work, avoiding work and taking our duties casually. As a result suddenly the piled up work, the extensive rework that we have to do and the unavoidable [...]

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Work holds the key to success

Success comes before work only in the dictionary. Anon There is a mistaken notion carried by many that the rich and famous have been very lucky to get the success they enjoy be it financial rewards, fame and / or fan following. True, some of them are fortunate to have a lineage or the benefit [...]

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Footsteps to success

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill Even if one is born with the proverbial golden spoon, failure is an unannounced visitor that will drop by at the most inopportune moment. For the less fortunate, failure is a constant companion, despite the best efforts to befriend success. Failure [...]

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No gain without pain

Dear Readers At the outset let me thank all of you for regularly reading my blog (as on date there are 176 followers too who get this blog in their email inbox) and for your valuable comments and feedback.  As I am traveling out of the country for around 2 weeks, this blog may not [...]

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The fruits of hardwork…

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. David Bly It is a human weakness that we always expect to be rewarded in excess of what we truly deserve. A bigger folly is that we are never ever satisfied with whatever we get. Part of the problem has [...]

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Be self reliant

No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather Some of us are fortunate to be working for or being closely associated with people with a large heart and even larger purse strings. We not only enjoy the experience of working with them but we become extremely comfortable in our [...]

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Let it rain

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Very rarely are rainy days bright; most rainy days begin on a cloudy note and peak into a dark, dreary and depressing day. Yet we all know that but for the rains we would have no crops nor [...]

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Step by step

The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. Madame Marquise du Deffand Time and time again, we are faced with the dilemma of coming up with idealistic intentions but with a hundred excuse for not getting moving on executing the noble and lofty ideas. The first and major reason is because when we [...]

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