The 50 Business + Life Lessons 2012 Taught Me(Robin Sharma)

1. Hard work is a force multiplier.
2. Don’t participate in recessions.
3. Exercising for 20 minutes first thing in the morning is a game-changer.
4. If you’re not innovating daily, you’re on the path to obsolescence.
5. If you want an A-Level company, you can’t afford to hire B-Level players.
6. Procrastination is an escape mechanism for people scared to do their best work.
7. Give your customers 10X the value they expect and they’ll tell everyone they know about you.
8. Don’t do it if you’re not having fun.
9. If you’re not scared a lot you’re not growing very much.
10. Invest the time to create great social media content and your base will go global + viral.
11. There’s never been a better time to be a social entrepreneur.
12. It’s never been easier to be of service to a large amount of people (and few things are as rewarding).
13. When no one else believes in your vision, you absolutely must stay true to your vision. (Have the guts to stay in the game far longer than makes any sense).
14. The quickest way to build a superb business is to quickly develop the leadership potential of every teammate.
15. A job is only a job if you choose to see your work as a job. All work is a noble sport. (The reality is all work is a chance to express your genius–and to inspire the world).
16. People are craving transparency+authenticity and community. Give it to them.
17. Creativity comes in seasons. There’s a time to harvest your ideas. And there’s a time to let the field sit fallow. (I’ve been working on integrating this lesson for years).
18. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax (When you relax, your brain shifts into alpha state–the time when million-dollar ideas present themselves).
19. Change is hard at the beginning, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. (And without change, there is no progress).
20. Someone’s going to win in your space. Why not you?
21. 10X the size of your dreams because if you don’t, you’ll wish you did.
22. Pursue excellence versus chasing perfection.
23. Celebrate small wins and you’ll unleash a huge amount of momentum and positive energy.
24. Learn for an hour a day, no matter what. That’s not a waste of work time. It’s a brilliant use of your work time because you’re paid to know more than anyone who has ever done your job.
25. Why go for good at what you do when you can stand for iconic?
26. Transform your fitness and you’ll transform your business.
27. Delete victimspeak from your languaging. No more "I can’t" and "It’s not possible" and "It’s so hard." More "I will" and "This is awesome" and "What’s the opportunity here?"
28. If you inspire one person each day, you’re day hasn’t been a waste. It’s been a blessing.
29. Living in the past is disrespecting your future.
30. Build an amazing career but enjoy your lifestyle along the way. What’s the point of becoming a business legend but a failed human being.
31. Look people in the eyes when you talk to them. Smile at people when you see them. Say "please" to respect them. And "thank you" to appreciate them.
32. Don’t be on time–Be early.
33. The person who tries to do everything achieves nothing. Focus. Focus. Focus.
34. Spend the first 90 minutes of your work day on real work versus fake work. (Another game-changing tactic that served me so very well in 2012).
35. Spend time in silence each day. You’ll never do Jay-Z level work if you’re overstimulated by technology.
36. Goal-setting is mission-critical. (Review your Big 5, quarterly goals and daily goals constantly).
37. Your daily behavior broadcasts your truest beliefs.
38. To have the results only 5% of businesspeople have, have the guts to do what only 5% of businesspeople are willing to do.
39. World-class begins when you think you’ve done a great job but know you can do a better job.
40. Remember that your greatest gift is so much stronger than your deepest fear.
41. Everyone’s in Human Resources. And we are all paid to develop the talents of the people we work with.
42. Mediocrity is a mindset. Avoid the mental viruses of negative people.
43. Be the most honest person you know. It generally takes 30 years to build a fantastic reputation. And 30 seconds to lose it by a single silly move.
44. Become a lion–not a sheep.
45. People are always willing to pay for the best.
46. The more devoted you become to serving others, the more your career begins to build itself.
47. Problems come to test your commitment to your goals, hopes and dreams.
48. As you become more successful, get more hungry.
49. Join Traffic University. Use every possible moment in the car to upgrade your skills, polish your gifts and elevate your mindset.
50. Use your life to make the world a better place.

Quotes(28-12-2012)

"Go out on a limb - that's where the fruit is"

-- Will Rogers

"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!"

-- Bob Newhart

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

-- Maya Angelou

"The longer you wait for the future the shorter it will be."

-- Loesje

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

-- Jesse Owens

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. "

-- H. Jackson Brown

"No matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. "

-- Henry Bloch

"Every exit is an entrance somewhere else."

-- Tom Stoppard

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."

-- Brian Tracy

"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

-- Christopher Columbus

"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls,

and a beautiful image it is."

-- Blaise Pascal

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

-- T.S. Eliot

Quotes(26-12-2012)

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

-- Charles Kettering

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. "

-- Henry Ford

"Don't ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday."

-- Robert Newell

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."

-- Brian Tracy

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Skill to do comes of doing."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

"Comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, then a master. And then it becomes a tamer, and with a hook and whip it

makes puppets of your larger desires."

-- Kahlil Gibran

"It is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

-- George Santayana

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

-- Lao Tzu

"Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night, but four billion people go to bed every night hungry for a simple word of

encouragement and recognition."

-- Cavett Robert

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

-- Mark Twain

Quotes(13-12-12)

"Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't."

-- Jerry Rice

"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."

-- William Feather

"Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit

like gut instinct, but a little more developed."

-- Donald Trump Biography

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

-- Albert Einstein

"It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need
to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the
things we should have done."

-- Mitch Albom

"Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you
have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to
drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid
of not coming back. Say no when you don't want to do
something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if
everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be
liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than
finding out what you're doing here. Believe in kissing."

-- Eve Ensler

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty,
admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge,
meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life
is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life
is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it."

-- Mother Teresa

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

-- John Wooden

"Dont be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."

-- Michael Jordan

Quotes(09-12-2012)

"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."

-- Euripides

"When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck. "

-- Estee Lauder

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within." 

-- Horace Friess

"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."

-- William James

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. Alot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do

something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer. "

-- Nolan Bushnell

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

-- H.G. Wells

"Ideas shape the course of history." 

-- John Maynard Keynes

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you'll drift in that direction."

-- Warren Buffett

"To be prepared is half the victory."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

-- Les Brown

"I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete."

-- J. Willard Marriott Sr.

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."

-- Hecato

"Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing."

-- Phil Jackson

Quotes(24-11-2012)

"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery, and tenacity."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"We cannot direct the wind... but we can adjust the sails."

-- Unknown Author

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless
you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived
at all -- in which case, you fail by default."

-- J.K. Rowling

"If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you
would have been two weeks better at it."

-- John Mayer

"I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been."

-- Sam Walton

"Life is too short, make the most of yours today."

-- C Pulsifer

"You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don't have to be.
Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you're still
alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something too.
Create to learn a bit more about yourself."

-- Frederick Terral

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have
into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos
to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a
feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and
creates a vision for tomorrow."

-- Melody Beattie

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and
experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's
left is who we truly are."

-- Arianna Huffington

"The payoff of having a little faith -- that someone in need
could truly use your help; that a person you used to keep at
arm's length could become a friend -- far outweighs the fear
of feeling like a fool."

-- Alina Tugend

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide
your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your
mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you
control your own destiny."

-- Albert Ellis

"Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt
you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It
sets you free from the past."

-- Brian Tracy

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless
you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived
at all -- in which case, you fail by default."

-- J.K. Rowling

"My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to
someone."

-- Oscar Wilde

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue
over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small
hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone
else's hands, but not you."

-- Jim Rohn

"Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may
get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires."

-- Martha Beck

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from,
everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us
in the end. What seems nasty, painful, or evil can become a
source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open
mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision
to recognize it as such."

-- Henry Miller

"Life can be like a roller coaster. And just when you think
you've had enough, and you're ready to get off the ride and
take the calm, easy merry-go round, you change your mind, throw
your hands in the air and ride the roller coaster all over
again. That's exhilaration... that's living a bit on the
edge... that's being alive."

-- Stacey Charter

"Every storm, no matter how big and strong, passes eventually.
Just know and remember that your spirit is much bigger and
stronger than any storm that comes your way, and that all
storms will fall apart long before you ever would."

-- Doe Zantamata

"A problem is your chance to do your best."

-- Duke Ellington

"Let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so
we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the
spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it.
Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting
our lessons."

-- Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton

"When a person becomes crystal clear as to exactly what they
want to accomplish, and focuses their time and energy on this
one goal, any person can move mountains."

-- Jimmy Sweeney

"Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your
past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your
hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for
it. Shake things up today! Be You... Be Free... Share."

-- Steve Maraboli

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never
carry them forward into the future with us."

-- L.M. Montgomery

"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what
is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only
love."

-- Johnny Depp

Quotes(25-10-2012)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother

Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

-- H. Jackson Brown

"The key to successful time management is doing the most important task first, and giving it your full concentration, to the exclusion of everything else."

-- Alex MacKenzie

"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade."

-- Dale Carnegie

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned
how to learn and change."

-- Carl Rogers

"Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret
gate."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to
take control of what you do have power over instead of craving
control over what you don't."

-- Steve Maraboli

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

-- Aeschylus

"Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you
can't be exactly who you are."

-- Lady Gaga

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

Quotes(19-10-2012)

"If you play to win, as I do, the game never ends."

-- Stan Mikita

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. "

-- Thomas Edison

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

-- Walt Disney

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind

or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

-- Omar Bradley

"You see things and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were and say, Why not? "

-- George Bernard Shaw

"If you want more, you have to require more from yourself."

-- Dr Phil

"The only one who can tell you 'you can't ' is you. And you don't have to listen."

-- Nike

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "

-- Will Rogers

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

-- Buddha

"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

-- James Allen

"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. "

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us! "

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes(14-10-2012)

"The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of
these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then
carry them out, let the consequences be what they may."

-- Woodrow Wilson

"Whenever you're tempted to dwell in the past, repeat this
single word: forward. Brainstorm one positive thought and
action to use to keep you moving forward. When you're tempted
to indulge in a negative, regressive behavior, swap it for one
that will move you forward."

-- Karen Salmansohn

"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true
-- hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to
practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something,
then don't do it."

-- Ray Bradbury

"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between. "

-- Pat Riley

"Don't quack like a duck.. soar like an eagle."

-- Ken Blanchard

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows."

-- Helen Keller

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

-- Chinese Proverb

"Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively."

-- Gerald R. Ford

"When you believe and think "I can," you activate your motivation, commitment, confidence, concentration and excitement - all of which relate directly to

achievement."

-- Dr. Jerry Lynch

"The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way."

-- African Proverb

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

-- Buddha

"Life is about life and not the result of life."

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Quotes(30-09-2012)

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy. "

-- Dalai Lama

"If you want to leave your footprints on the sands of time, be sure you're wearing work shoes."

-- Author Unknown

"No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the

blessings you have been given."

-- Lou Holtz

"Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done; it's downhill

from then on. "

-- Norman Vincent Peale

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. "

-- Stephen King

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. "

-- Mark Twain

"There are no language barriers when you are smiling."

-- Allen Klein

"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, will rise up to help you. The simple act

of commitment is a powerful magnet for help."

-- Napoleon Hill

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up, he needs education to turn him around. "

-- Jim Rohn

"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. "

-- Steve Young

"When life hands you lemons, sell 'em. Lemons fetch a good
price at the market these days. No one ought to complain about
free lemons. Make something good out of every bad situation."

-- Doe Zantamata

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you
hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its
roof."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't
resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

-- Lao Tzu

Quotes(29-09-2012)

"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to
deal with them."

-- Steve Maraboli

"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints
on the moon."

-- Paul Brandt

"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished
when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

-- Richard M. Nixon

"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a
seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream."

-- Debby Boone

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what
kind of difference you want to make."

-- Jane Goodall

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but
the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

-- Mary Kay Ash

"Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow."

-- Swedish Proverb

"The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective."

-- Al Neuharth

"Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles."

-- Arnold H. Glasow

"The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us."

-- Marianne Williamson

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

-- Sir Edmund Hillary

"Pretend to be the person you want to be. One day you'll realize you are no longer pretending. "

-- Unknown

"Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed."

-- Cavett Robert

Quotes(17-09-2012)

"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet
with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When
defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing
to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do."

-- Napoleon Hill

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become
bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build
you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

-- Samuel Johnson

"Don't let the worst people get the best of you. Save it for
the best people instead."

-- Doe Zantamata

"Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No frontline employee should have to wait for a

supervisor's permission."

-- Jan Carlzon

"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting

with his own life."

-- Herbert Otto

"We must do that which we think we cannot."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it

for good.What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow

comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind..."

-- Unknown

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."

-- Theodore Isaac Rubin

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."

-- Camille Pissarro

"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans

into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. "

-- Napoleon Hill

Quotes(13-09-2012)

"I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course."

-- Ben Hogan

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

-- Henri Bergson

"Great hopes make everything great possible."

-- Benjamin Franklin

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you

blame him, it will not change you."

-- Wayne Dyer

"Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance."

-- Zig Ziglar

"How long should you try? Until."

-- Jim Rohn

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. "

-- John Steinbeck

"Sometimes the greatest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business,

and clearing the decks. "

-- David Allen

"Success is waking up in the morning and bounding out of bed because there's something out there that you love to

do, that you believe in, that you're good at - something that's bigger than you are, and you can hardly wait to

get at it again."

-- Whit Hobbs

"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves."

-- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse."

-- Walt Disney

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."

-- Native American Proverb

"I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of

them will work. The more books you read, the more likely one of them will have an answer to a question that could

solve the major problems of your life.. make you wealthier, solve a health problem, whatever it might be."

-- Jack Canfield

"If you want to get the best out of a person you must look for the best that is in him."

-- Bernard Haldane

Quotes(30-08-2012)

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking,

"What's in it for me?"

-- Brian Tracy

"Always tell the truth. You may make a hole in one when you're alone on the golf course someday."

-- Franklin P. Jones

"Character is much easier kept than recovered. "

-- Thomas Paine

"Carpe Diem! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary."

-- Robin Williams (Movie: Dead Poet's Society)

"The best things in life aren't things."

-- Art Buchwald

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more

productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."

-- Warren Buffett

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep

wells of strength that are never used."

-- Richard Byrd

"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. "

-- Epictetus

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time."

-- Don Zimmer

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in

order to get something. They're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only

way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that

you go to take."

-- Anthony Robbins

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

-- Vince Lombardi

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."

-- Stan Smith

"A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars."

-- Robert Collier

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

-- Wayne W. Dyer

"I just knew, even though I had not yet named the technique, that a gift with a purchase was very appealing."

-- Estee Lauder

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."

-- Frederick Wilcox

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

-- Robert F. Kennedy

"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

-- Brian Tracy

"Life is an echo; what you send out comes back."

-- Chinese Proverb

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

-- Marcel Proust

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to

work."

-- Pearl Buck

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately

we become enslaved by it."

-- Robert Heinlein

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

-- Les Brown

"Little kindness' and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things."

-- Stephen R. Covey

Quotes(19-07-2012)

"I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections
that make them perfect for someone else."

-- Stephanie Perkins

"The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who
you are -- without apology, without excuses, without masks to
cover the truth of who you are."

-- Debbie Ford

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or
eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest
thing in life is to keep your mind young."

-- Henry Ford

"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no
harm."

-- Hippocrates

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

-- Paul Valery

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it."

-- Jonathon Winters

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

-- Oprah Winfrey

"it is time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to

accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on the state."

-- John Major

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."

-- Nicholas M. Butler

"Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always,

always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will."

-- Marilyn Monroe

"We must become the change we wish to see in the world."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."

-- Winnie the Pooh

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. "

-- George S. Patton

"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans

are possessed of two great qualities -- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. "

-- Franklin Roosevelt

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

-- Carl Jung

Extracts from Napoleon Hill

The major attributes of Leadership:-

Unwavering Courage
Self Control
A keen sense of justice
Definiteness of Decision
Definiteness of Plans
The habit of doing more than paid for
A Pleasing PErsonality
Sympathy and Understanding
Mastery of Detail
Willingness to Assume Full Responsibility
Cooperation

The 10 major causes of Failure in Leadership:-

Inability to organize details
Unwillingness to Render humble services
Expectation of pay for what they "know" instead of what they do with that which they know
Fear of competition from followers
Lack of imagination
Selfishness
Intemperance
Disloyalty
Emphasis of the "Authority" of LEadership
Emphasis of Title


The 30 major causes of Failure:-

Unfavorable hereditary background
Lack of a well defined purpose in life
Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity
Insufficient education
Lack of self discipline
Ill health
Unfavorable environmental influences during childhood
Procastination
Lack of persistence
Negative Personality
Lack of controlled sexual urge
Uncontrolled desire for "something for nothing"
Lack of a well defined power of decision
One or more of the Six Basic Fears:-Fear of Poverty,Criticism,Ill Health,Old age,Death,Loss of Love of someone
Wrong selection of a mate in marriage
Over-caution
Wrong selection of associates in business
Superstition ond Prejudice
Wrong selection of a vocation
Lack of Concentration of Effort
The habit of indiscriminate spending
Lack of Enthusiasm
Intolerance
Intemperance
Inability to cooperate with others
Possession of power that was not acquired through self effort
Intentional dishonesty
Egotism and vanity
Guessing instead of thinking
Lack of Capital


The 10 Mind Stimuli:-

The desire for sex expression
Love
A burning desire for fame,power or financial gain
Music
Freidnship betweene ither thise if the same sex or those of the opposite sex
A master mind alliance based upon the harmony of two or mor epeople who ally themsekves for spiritual or temporal advancement
Mutual suffering,such as that experienced by people who are persecuted
Auto-suggestion
Fear
Narcotics and Alcohol

The 7 major positive emotions:-

The emotion of DESIRE
The emotion of FAITH
The emotion of LOVE
The emotion of SEX
The emotion of ENTHUSIASM
The emotion of ROMANCE
The emotion of HOPE

The 7 major negative emotions:-

The emotion of FEAR
The emotion of JEALOUSY
The emotion of HATRED
The emotion of REVENGE
The emotion of GREED
The emotion of SUPERSTITION
The emotion of ANGER

Quotes(08-07-2012)

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."

-- Irish Proverb

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we
are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we
open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement,
and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in
all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love
ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others
or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a
better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision
of people who embrace life."

-- John Lennon

"Listen to your inner voice for it is a deep and powerful
source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you.
Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time,
answers to all you seek to know will come, and the path will
open before you."

-- Caroline Joy Adams

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were
worrying about one year ago today."

-- E. Joseph Cossman

"The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of
age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all
believe we are above-average drivers."

-- Dave Barry

"Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance..and

courage. "

-- Indira Gandhi

"God gives everyone certain attributes, characteristics, talents, and then He says, "If you use what you have

I'll increase it, but if you don't use it, you'll lose it." Use it or lose it; it's a law."

-- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as

much as I dream can I be."

-- Karen Ravn

"Live with passion."

-- Anthony Robbins

"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."

-- Isaac Asimov

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."

-- Leon Suenens

"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."

-- Lucille Ball

"Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!"

-- Ram Dass

"A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick

with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough. "

-- Ronald Reagan

"The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose."

-- John McEnroe

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

-- Woodrow Wilson

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

-- Oscar Wilde

Quotes(10-06-2012)

"I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous
happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to
be."

-- Jamie Lee Curtis

"Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth.
Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and
respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that
happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad
- and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think
someone else wants you to be different."

-- Stacey Charter

"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."

-- George Patton

"Always tell the truth. You may make a hole in one when you're alone on the golf course someday."

-- Franklin P. Jones

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us!"

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't be afraid to be unique or speak your mind, because that's what makes you different from everyone else."

-- Dave Thomas

"The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet."

-- James Oppenheim

"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people

get what they want."

-- Zig Ziglar

Quotes(08-06-2012)

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

-- William Arthur Ward

"Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world."

-- Hugh Walpole

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand."

-- Unknown

"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."

-- Epictetus

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."

-- Hyman Rickover

"I bet there are things you are holding onto that simply are
no longer worthy of your time. It's not that they're not
worthy goals for someone... they're just not goals worthy of
your life. But it's just not a good use of your life to hang
on. Think big, act big. Don't be afraid to move on."

-- Jason Leister

"Just because I laugh a lot, doesn't mean my life is easy.
Just because I have a smile on my face every day, doesn't mean
that something is not bothering me. I just choose to move on,
and not dwell on all the negatives in my life. Every new
moment gives me the chance to renew anew. I choose to be
that."

-- Author Unknown

"Chance favors those in motion."

-- James H. Austin

"The best things in life aren't things."

-- Art Buchwald

"Carpe Diem! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary. (Movie: Dead Poet's Society)"

-- Robin Williams

Quotes(28-05-2012)

"The biggest tragedy in America is not the great waste of natural resources - though this is tragic; the biggest tragedy is the waste of human resources because the average person goes to his grave with his music still in him."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

-- Zig Ziglar

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty,
admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge,
meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life
is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life
is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."

-- Mother Teresa

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are
the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most
patient of teachers."

-- Charles William Eliot

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

-- Charles Franklin Kettering

"Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him."

-- Woodrow Wilson

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

-- Michael Jordan

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put this plan into action."

-- Napoleon Hill

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really
are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your
sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in
exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale
revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an
individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

-- Jim Morrison

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could
walk through my garden forever."

-- Alfred Tennyson

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on
your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one
who'll decide where to go..."

-- Dr. Seuss

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by
smiles, not tears."

-- John Lennon

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotes(22-05-2012)

"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."

-- Woody Allen, Director

"What keeps so many employees back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort."

-- Orison Swett Marden, motivational expert

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an
event, deal with it and then move on."

-- Bob Newhart

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at
the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that
you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for
helping others."

-- Audrey Hepburn

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

-- William Arthur Ward

"Once you surrender to your vision, success begins to chase you."

-- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Quotes(14-05-2012)

"When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important."

-- Bill Shoemaker, Jockey

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. "

-- Wayne Gretzky

"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in
every day."

-- Author Unknown

"When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream; dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts and friction from the world."

-- Laura Schlessinger, talk-show host

"Feel the fear and do it anyway."

-- Susan Jeffers

"To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage."

-- Confucius, philosopher

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. "

-- Dale Carnegie

"When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. "

-- Joseph Campbell

"Long term success is built on credibility and on establishing
enduring loving relationships with quality people based on
mutually earned trust. Cut all ties with dishonest, negative
or lazy people, and associate with people who share your
values. You become who you associate with."

-- Dave Kekich

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless
you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived
at all."

-- J.K. Rowling

"Children will not remember you for the material things you
provided but for the feeling that you cherished them."

-- Richard L. Evans

"The first part of success is "Get-to-it-iveness"; the second part of success is "Stick-to-it-iveness.""

-- Orison Swett Marden, Editor, Success Magazine

"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror."

-- Byrd Baggett

"Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion."

-- Dorothea Brande

"To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language. "

-- Arlene Benedict

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

-- Marie Curie

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

-- Gordon B. Hinckley

शायरी (२३-०४-२०१२)

तकदीरें बदल जाती है, जब ज़िन्दगी का कोई मकसद हो;
वरना ज़िन्दगी तो कट ही जाती है, तकदीर को इल्जाम देते देते!

पास आपके दुनिया का हर सितारा हो;
दूर आपसे गम का हर किनारा हो;
जब भी आपकी पलकें खुलें;
सामने वही हो जो आपको दुनिया में सबसे प्यारा हो!

कुछ अमल भी ज़रूरी है, इबादत के लिए;
सिर्फ सजदा करने से, किसी को जन्नत नहीं मिलती!

मुलाकातें रह जाती है सुहानी यादें बनकर;
बातें रह जाती है कहानी बनकर;
पर प्यार तो हमेशा दिल के करीब रहता है;
कभी होंठों पे मुस्कान तो कभी आँखों में पानी बनकर!

खफा न होना हमसे, अगर तेरा नाम जुबां पर आ जाये;
इंकार हुआ तो सह लेंगे और अगर दुनिया हंसी, तो कह देंगे;
कि मोहब्बत कोई चीज़ नहीं, जो खैरात में मिल जाये;
चमचमाता कोई जुगनू नहीं, जो हर रात में मिल जाये;

ज़िदगी जाने कितने मोड़ लेती है, हर मोड़ पर नए सवाल देती है;
तलाशते रहते हैं हम जवाब ज़िन्दगी भर;
और जब जवाब मिल जाये तो ज़िन्दगी सवाल बदल देती है!

जाने उस शक्स को कैसा ये हुनर आता है;
रात होती है तो आँख में उतर आता है;
मैं उसके ख्याल से निकलूं तो कहाँ जाऊं;
वो मेरी सोच के हर रास्ते पर नज़र आता है!

प्यार आ जाता है, आँखों में रोने से पहले;
हर ख्वाब टूट जाता है, सोने से पहले;
इश्क है गुनाह, यह तो समझ गए हम;
काश कोई रोक लेता, ये गुनाह होने से पहले!

हमने तेरे बाद न रखी किसी से मोहब्बत की आस;
एक शक्स ही बहुत था जो सब कुछ सिखा गया!

तकदीरें बदल जाती है, जब ज़िन्दगी का कोई मकसद हो;
वरना ज़िन्दगी तो कट ही जाती है, तकदीर को इल्जाम देते देते!

The 7 Timeless Virtues of Enlightened Living

Extracted From "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" by Robin Sharma



Master your Mind


Follow your Purpose


Practice Kaizen


Live with Discipline


Respect your Time


Selflessly Serve Others


Embrace the Present

Original Bengali Version of India's National Anthem

Bengali script

জনগণমন-অধিনায়ক জয় হে.
ভারতভাগ্যবিধাতা
পঞ্জাব সিন্ধু গুজরাট মরাঠা
দ্রাবিড় উৎ‍‌কল বঙ্গ
বিন্ধ্য হিমাচল যমুনা গঙ্গা
উচ্ছল জলধি তরঙ্গ
তব শুভ নামে জাগে
তব শুভ আশিস মাগে
গাহে তব জয়গাথা
জনগণমঙ্গলদায়ক জয় হে
ভারতভাগ্যবিধাতা
জয় হে, জয় হে, জয় হে,
জয় জয় জয়, জয় হে॥

Bengali phonemic transcription

Jônogônomono-odhinaeoko jôeô he
Bharotobhaggobidhata
Pônjabo Shindhu Gujoraṭo Môraṭha
Drabiṛo Utkôlo Bônggo
Bindho Himachôlo Jomuna Gôngga
Uchchhôlo jôlodhi toronggo
Tôbo shubho name jage
Tôbo shubho ashish mage
Gahe tôbo jôeogatha
Jônogônomonggolodaeoko jôeô he
Bharotobhaggobidhata
Jôeo he, jôeo he, jôeo he,
jôeo jôeo jôeo, jôeo he

English Translation of India's National Anthem

Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people,
Dispenser of India's destiny.
Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Shindhu,
Gujarat and Maratha,
Of the Dravida and Orisa and Bangla;
It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas,
mingles in the music of Jamuna and Ganges and is
chanted by the waves of the Indian Ocean.
They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise.
The saving of all people waits in thy hand,
Thou dispenser of India's destiny.
victory forever.

Amazing Facts about India

• India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
• India is the world's Largest democracy.
• India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
• India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
• When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
• There are 300,000 active mosques in India , more than in any other country, including the Muslim world
• Sanskrit is the mother of all the European Languages . Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magzine July 1987.
• Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
• India is one of the few countries in the world, which gain independence without violence.
• India has the second largest pool of Scientist and Engineers in the World.
• India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
• India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indeigenously.
• India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world
• The largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways , employing over a million people
• India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
• The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982
• The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
• Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
• Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
• Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
• The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
• The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name 'Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
• The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
• India exports software to 90 countries.
• Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
• Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
• Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively
• Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.

शायरी (०९-०४-२०१२)

तेरी बेवफाई ने मेरा ये हाल कर दिया है;
मैं नहीं रोती, लोग मुझे देख कर रोते हैं!

अगर कोई पूछे जिंदगी में क्या खोया क्या पाया?
तो बिना झिझक कह देना जो कुछ खोया वो मेरी नादानी है;
और जो पाया वो मेरे रब की मेहरबानी है!

तकदीर बनाने वाले, तूने भी हद कर दी;
तकदीर में किसी और का नाम लिखा था;
और दिल में चाहत किसी और की भर दी!

खो जाओ मुझ में तो मालूम हो कि दर्द क्या है?
ये वो किस्सा है जो जुबान से बयाँ नही होता!

हमसे बदल गये वो निगाहें तो क्या हुआ
जिंदा हैं कितने लोग मोहब्बत किये बगैर!

मरता नहीं कोई किसी के बगैर ये हकीकत है ज़िन्दगी की
लेकिन सिर्फ सांसें लेने को 'जीना' तो नहीं कहते!

Beautiful Lines to Inspire

Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package

Sometimes the object of the journey is not the end but the journey itself.

Don't keep your dreams in your eyes, they may fall as tears. Keep them in your heart so that every heart beat can remind you about them.

Being a good person is like a goal keeper. No matter how many goals you save, people will remember only that you missed.

Sometimes God closes all doors & shuts all the windows. During those times, trust Him because may be there is storm outside and He wants u safe.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm

Life is like a book: what matters is how good it is, not how long it is

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how u handles disappointment along the way

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

Cry as hard as you want to. But just make sure that when you stop crying, you should never cry again for the same reason.

The moment you know yourself you have known the most precious thing in existence.

A wise man once sat in the audience & cracked a joke. All laughed like crazy. After a moment he cracked the same joke again and a little less people laughed this time. He cracked the same joke again & again, When there was no laughter in the crowd, he smiled and said "When you can't laugh on the same joke again & again, then why do u keep crying over the same thing over and over again. Forget the past & move on."

Every flower blooms in its own sweet time.

Every thing is easy, when you are busy and nothing is easy when you r lazy

If a Person is Silent, it doesn’t’ t mean He is unknown of Fun n Enjoyment. But It means Life has taught Him some Lessons which has made Him Silent..

A Fantastic Sentence written on every Japanese Bus Stop.."Only Buses Will Stop Here, not your Time..So Keep Walking Towards your Goal."

An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming!

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Achieving your goal is like trying to touch a Star. If you cannot touch keep trying. If your hard work is true. One day the Star will fall on Earth for You!

Life is much like Facebook...People will like your Problems and Comments but no one is going to solve them...because everybody seems so busy in updating their own

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Quotes(07-04-2012)

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and

one-upping, always makes you less than you are."

-- Malcolm Forbes

"It's always a pleasure to find something that matters."

-- Don Cornelius

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's

already tomorrow in Australia."

-- Charles Schulz

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining

somewhere nearby."

-- Ruth Renkel

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success,

his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of

the beautiful jewels of wisdom."

-- James Allen

"Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories

in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will

follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and

punishment will be the portion of those who sin."

-- Allan Pinkerton

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so

well that no one would find fault with what he has done."

-- Cardinal Newman

"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to

convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom

otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't

hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull

you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."

-- Zig Ziglar

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you

cannot do."

-- Walter Bagehot

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true

wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is

true power."

-- Lao-Tzu

"I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I

can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for

which you are the explanation."

-- Robert Brault

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."

-- Benjamin Franklin.

"I want to put a ding in the universe."

-- Steve Jobs

"A youth becomes a man when the marks he wants to leave on the

world have nothing to do with tires."

-- Unknown

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z, where X

is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut."

-- Albert Einstein

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the

infinite passion of life."

-- Frederico Fellini

"Nobody will think you're somebody if you don't think so yourself."

-- African Proverb

"It's never crowded along the extra mile"

-- Wayne Dyer

Quotes(06-04-2012)

"You just can't beat the person who won't give up."

-- Babe Ruth

"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can

stop after eating one peanut."

-- Channing Pollack

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your

mind."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If people concentrated on the really important things in

life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."

-- Doug Larson

"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow. We must fail in

order to know. Sometimes our vision is clear only after our

eyes are washed away with tears."

-- Unknown

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the

universe is that it has never tried to contact us."

-- Bill Watterson

"Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to

hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little

happy high notes. Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble

of the bass, the crash of the cymbals and the minor keys."

-- Jim Rohn

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if

you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got

to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death,

and therefore you must at the very least think noisy and

colorfully, or you're not alive."

-- Mel Brooks

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed

by belief."

-- Gerry Spence

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do

him absolutely no good."

-- Samuel Johnson

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from

it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy

in our great men."

-- Captain J. A. Hadfield

"There are only two kinds of people who are really

fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people

who know absolutely nothing."

-- Oscar Wilde

"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next

generation, it would be the ability for each individual to

learn to laugh at himself."

-- Charles Schulz

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to

somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to

your former self."

-- Whitney Young

"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your

name you'd have to pay cash."

-- Rita Mae Brown

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide

your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your

mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you

control your own destiny."

-- Albert Ellis

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do

doesn't mean it's useless."

-- Thomas Alva Edison

"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be

able to laugh at yourself is maturity."

-- William A. Ward

"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where

you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become

an overnight success."

-- Diana Rankin

Law of Expectations

Simply stated, the Law of Expectations tells us that whatever one expects, with confidence, becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When one expects with confidence that good things will happen, they usually will. If, on the other hand, one expects a negative outcome to a situation, then the outcome will usually be negative.

Our expectations play a key role in our own outcomes and they also have a remarkable effect on the people around us. What we expect from those around us determines our attitude toward them more than any other factor. In turn, the people around us tend to reflect our attitudes right back at us - whether the expectations and attitudes are positive or negative, good or bad.

Dr. Robert Rosenthal of the University of California – Riverside, has spent more than 40 years studying the idea that one’s expectations for the behaviour of another, can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. His years of experimentation show this to be true. In his landmark book, “Pygmalion in the Classroom”, Rosenthal tells of case after case where teachers were told that a student, or sometimes a whole class, was extremely bright and was predicted to make a quantum leap in academic performance in the coming year. Even though the students were randomly chosen from the school population at large, provided the teacher believed that the student or students were exceptional and expected them to excel, the students performed at much higher levels than other students in the same or similar classes, and vastly better than could have been predicted by previous grades or behaviour.

The Arbinger Institute (http://www.arbinger.com) has published a terrific book called “Leadership and Self Deception – Getting out of the Box”. While the book focuses on developing superior leadership skills through being true to one’s self, they talk a lot about the way we view others and the way we expect others to act – based on our own internal prejudices. They refer to this as “being inside the box in how we view others.” It is not until we choose to view others as they really are (i.e. human beings with valuable experiences, viewpoints and inputs) that we will be able to connect at a deeper level and achieve higher degrees of understanding and communication. In other words, it is not until our expectations of others change that we can change our own experiences with them.

The obvious stands here before us – judgment. This is the downfall of many of us, when we stand in judgment of another we must be very sure that we ourselves are absolutely clean and that we are not projecting something on to the other. We need to be absolutely and brutally honest with oneself here. A wonderful clue is to monitor what is going on on the inside. If there is even the slightest hint of a reaction to a person – then there is something that you are projecting onto that person. Know then that you are placing an expectation on that person – and it will be reflected back to you. That is the law of expectations.

Take a moment to think about your own expectations – of yourself and those around you. Your expectations exert a powerful influence on people and events, for good or for bad, so be extremely careful!



What You Can Do

There are a few things that you can start doing immediately that will help you to harness the awesome power of the Law of Expectations:

1.Always expect the best! Assume the very best of intentions on the part of those around you. There is no better place to start than home. Tell your spouse and children on a regular basis that you believe in them, that you think they are wonderful, that you love them and that you are proud of them. Expecting food !!!

2.Practice these same behaviours with your staff and co-workers. The very best managers, entrepreneurs, and salespeople are "high expectations" people. Tells its own story does it not !!

3.Expect the best of yourself. Focus on your unlimited potential and imagine that you can accomplish anything that you put your mind to. Imagine that your greatest moments lie ahead and that everything that has happened to you up to now has merely been a preparation for the great things that are yet to come.

There is no mystery to achieving success - it is available to all of us. One need only be aware of, understand and live in accordance with Universal Law!

Quotes(03-04-2012)

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order

that they should see twice as much as they say."

-- Charles Caleb Colton

"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the

opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of

yesterday."

-- Brian Tracy

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are

immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

-- Arabian Proverb

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been

discovered."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to

say and then don't say it."

-- Sam Levenson

"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you.

And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath

followed by another."

-- Oprah Winfrey

"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the

heat."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it

is the representative of a whole eternity."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged

children for signs of improvement."

-- Florida Scott-Maxwell

"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour as

ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate

others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others

when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive

ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready

to sacrifice ourselves."

-- Eric Hoffer

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the

little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind

look or heartfelt compliment."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

-- Mark Twain

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear

three kinds --- all they have had, all they have now, and all

they expect to have."

-- Edward Everett Hale

"If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really

very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime."

-- Anthony Robbins

"If all of our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence

everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be

contented to take their own and depart."

-- Socrates

"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."

-- Helen Keller

"It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one

yourself."

-- Dolly Parton

The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only

treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only

wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which

you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.

-- J. A. Langford