It is ok to be imperfect

In an ideal world everything would be in order, there would discipline, the mood would be idyllic and the setting serene and majestic. In short everything would be perfect. Perfection is also a virtue that everyone would love to embrace and hence it is a virtue that is mistakenly kept as a yardstick to judge [...]

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An effective way to make New Year Resolutions

At the outset let me thank all my readers, blog followers and well wishers for your encouragement, feedback and support over the past two years. Let me also wish each one of you a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2012 “Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.” John [...]

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The value of experience

“One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune”  William Edward Hartpole Lecky Many a time, we tend to focus more on those events that have left a scar on our psyche, have given us a bitter pill to [...]

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Being disciplined pays

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”  Jim Rohn Discipline holds the key to both our progress and our self esteem. This is because unless we are disciplined we can rarely harness our full [...]

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The little things add up

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. – Frank A. Clark As you read this post, notice that it is actually alphabets put together to form words which are placed logically to form sentences. The sentences in turn are arranged sequentially to ensure that a [...]

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Get going now !

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. Janet Erskine Stuart All of us have good intentions. We also get sudden spurts of wanting to change for the better. We begin each year with some firm resolutions to improve ourselves and to some extend also make valiant attempts occasionally. [...]

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Insincerity is exhausting

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Insincerity could take many forms; be it succumbing to laziness, being unfaithful, remaining ungrateful, lacking earnestness or simply being tardy and casual in what we do. Simply put insincerity is being disloyal. When objectively analyzed, the act of being insincere takes a lot [...]

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Light up your life

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa Sometimes we have no choice but to cheerfully keep doing what seems boring, insipid and repetitive. The fact is that these are small inconveniences that we have to put up with in order to ensure that we can keep going [...]

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Self inflicted pain

The greatest grief’s are those we cause ourselves. Sophocles The common tendency among people is to claim credit for all success and pass on blame for all failures. While there are many times we can legitimately claim to be the chief architect of success, there are as many number of reasons for us to take [...]

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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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