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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Commitment makes the difference

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. Isaac Barrow To really understand this saying, look back at your school days and reflect on those subjects that you disliked, found it hard to study, got relatively poor marks and those that you [...]

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Determination makes the difference

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.  Marshal Ferdinand Foch Success tastes sweeter when it is obtained by overcoming near impossible odds, but if one has to overcome those odds, it is not mere ability but determination that ensures a dogged pursual of the goal. While we are quick to applaud success [...]

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Going the whole hog

If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? Joe Namath One problem that plagues the vast majority of us, is our inability to keep pace with the requirements of a task and as a result we often give up midway. For many of us who are out of shape there comes a [...]

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Growing through our mistakes

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Eleanor Roosevelt There might never be even one individual in the history of mankind who can state that he/ she has never stumbled or fallen down . The same is true about mistakes because no one is so perfect that every [...]

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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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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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Be unreasonable and…

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”George Bernard Shaw Look around you and you will easily identify a number of people who have a mind of their own, have their own pet beliefs and [...]

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You may be slow but keep going

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. Confucius There is an apocryphal story about a clock that had stopped working and was sent for repairs. No sooner the clock repairman took the clock in his hands he heard a feeble voice emitting from the clock saying I [...]

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