JK Rowling's Secret Success Weapon

All she ever wanted to do was write. But few believed in her.

She ended up as a single mom. Collecting social benefits checks--just to get food onto the table. For her and her child.

On a trip from Manchester to London in 1990, her train was delayed. And an idea burst into her imagination. About a boy who didn't know what he was.

She called this kid Harry Potter. And she wrote about his adventures.

12 publishers rejected the book. A small house called Bloomsbury Press eventually agreed to publish it. But even then, the author was told "you'll never make any money on children's books."

Yet, the book caught fire. Touched the hearts of millions. Inspired a new generation to read.

Of course, the woman is JK Rowling.

And she's sold 400,000,000 books. And built a fortune of $800,000,000.

From an idea. About a young wizard. With a brave heart.

Her secret "weapon"?...

... JK Rowling DIDN'T LISTEN TO THE DOUBTS OF HER CRITICS.

"For some to love you, some must loathe you," she brilliantly observed.

And she's right. All visionaries are initially ridiculed before they are revered.

All enormously successful people first meet with rejection, resistance and yes, sometimes outright hatred. Criticism truly is the price of greatness. And you really need to be so invested in your dream + abilities + passion that ABSOLUTELY NOTHING will knock you off your game.

So be strong. Go for world-class. And when you get knocked down, dust yourself off, and stay true to your loftiest visions. In the end, you'll be grateful you did.

Quotes(28-04-2013)

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity."

-- Andrew Carnegie

"A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms."

-- Og Mandino

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

-- Arthur Rubinstein

"Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality."

-- Brian Tracy

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something.But I can't accept not trying. "

-- Michael Jordan

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

-- J.P. Morgan

"If you want something you never had,then do something you never did."

-- Nossrat Peseschkian

"Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous
daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and
undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the
most of one's best."

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

-- Mark Twain

भारतीय रेल

भारतीय रेल----एक माध्यम जिसे आम आदमी अपनी ज़िन्दगी का अहम हिस्सा मानता है|भारतीय रेल हमारे दैनिक जीवन का एक अभिन्न अंग है,परन्तु जैसी आज कल की रेल व्यवस्था है उसे देखकर नहीं लगता की आम आदमी का विश्वास इस सबसे महत्वपूर्ण साधन में अधिक रहा है|मैं खुद रेलगाड़ी में ही सफ़र करता हूँ और अधिकतर Sleeper Class में,परन्तु वो दर्जा  जिसमे अधिकतम भारतीय सफ़र करते हैं,वो ही रेलवे विभाग के द्वारा सबसे ज्यादा अनदेखा किया हुआ है|रेलवे की pantry can ही नहीं अपितु हर जंक्शन/स्टेशन पर खड़े रहने वाले vendors भी कोई भी सामन उसके अधिकतम खुदरा मूल्य(MRP)पर नहीं देते हैं,पूछने पर कहते हैं की हम क्या कमाएंगे जबकि हमारी सरकार टेलीविज़न पर खूब प्रचार प्रसार करती है की MRP से ज्यादा में सामान बेचना गैर-कानूनी है|फिर रेलवे क्यूँ इसके दायरे में आती?कोई जवाब नहीं है.....शायद किसी के पास नहीं|एक आम माध्यमवर्गीय परिवार से सम्बन्ध रखने वाला आम आदमी इस बहस में पढ़कर अपना बहुमूल्य समय बर्बाद नहीं करना चाहता,उच्च मध्यमवर्गीय लोग २-४ रुपयों के लिए किसी छोटे  आदमी के मुंह नहीं लगना चाहते और रेलवे मिनिस्टर गुणगान करते हैं अपने आदर्श रेलवे बजट के जो ना जाने कैसे आदर्श है|इसका उपाय यही हो सकता है की आम आदमी जाग जाए|हर चोर vendor की फोटो खींचकर मीडिया में दें,ऐसे चोरों से सामन खरीदना बंद करें,असहयोग आन्दोलन करें,अपने वोट का सही इस्तेमाल करें,इत्यादि-इत्यादि.....परन्तु क्या सच में ऐसा करने का दम है किसी आम आदमी में,मैंने कोशिश की थी,परन्तु मुझे और मेरी कोशिशों को किसी का सहयोग नहीं मिला और मैं अकेले ही चल पड़ा भ्रष्टाचार से लड़ने,परन्तु शायद जीत न पाऊं.... अन्ना हजारे भी लड़ना चाहते थे भ्रष्टाचार से,परन्तु आश्वासन ही आश्वासन लेकर रह गए...फिर मैं अकेला क्या कर लूँगा....क्या कोई है जो साथ चलेगा या फिर यूँ ही बस कलम कागज़ लिए अपने विचारों को उतारता ही रह जाऊँगा....पता नहीं....

 

एक आम भारतीय 

Quotes(22-04-2013)

"I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it."

-- Mike Ditka

"The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery,even when they have to take a detour."

-- Sir James Hopwood Jeans

"If the person you're talking to doesn't appear to be
listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small
piece of fluff in his ear."

-- Winnie the Pooh

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is
had to begin where he was."

-- Richard L. Evans

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."

-- Denis Diderot

"Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, but their hearts are not. Meaning precedes motivation."

-- Lee J. Colan

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

-- C. S. Lewis

"Never turn down a job because you think it's too small. You don't know where it can lead. "

-- Julia Morgan

"Expect the best, plan for the worst,and prepare to be surprised."

-- Denis Waitley

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something

bigger and better than your current situation."

-- Brian Tracy

"It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous and that it won't last for ever."

-- Steven Galloway

"The difference in winning and losing is most often... not quitting."

-- Walt Disney

"Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky."

-- Anais Nin

"Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit."

-- Norman Vincent Peale 

51 Ways Ordinary People Reached World-Class(By Robin Sharma)

1. Know what you want. Clarity is power. And vague goals promote vague results.
2. Remember that every problem has a solution. Maybe you just can’t see it. Yet.
3. In this Age of Dramatic Distraction, the performer who focuses the best wins the most.
4. Before someone will help you, you need to help them.
5. Become the most passionate person you know. It’ll be contagious.
6. Know more about your craft/the work you do than anyone who has ever done the work you do…in the history of the world.
7. Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions.
8. Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day. Success belongs to the relentless learners. Because as you know more, you can achieve more.
9. Remember that when you transform your fitness, you’ll transform your business.
10. Don’t check your mobile when you’re meeting with another person. It’s rude. And rude people don’t reach world-class.
11. Every time you do what scares you, you take back the power that you gave to the thing that scared you. And so you become more powerful.
12. A problem is only a problem if you make the choice to see it as a problem.
13. Stop being a victim. Your business and personal life was made by you. No one else is responsible. To make it better, make better choices. And new decisions.
14. You can lead without a title. Don’t wait to get a position to stand for excellence, peak quality and overdelivery on every expectation.
15. Find your own style. Be an original. Every superstar differentiated themselves from The Herd. And marched to their own drumbeat.
16. Understand that when you play small with your success, you betray your potential. And the birthright you were born under.
17. Eat less food and you’ll get more done.
18. As you become more successful, stay really really hungry. Nothing fails like success. Because when you’re successful, it’s easy to stop outlearning+outOverDelivering+outthinking and outexecuting everyone around you. (Success is Beautiful. And dangerous).
19. If you’re not overprepared, you’re underprepared.
20. The only level of great manners to play at is “Exceedingly Polite”. In our world, this alone will make you a standout. And differentiate you in your marketplace.
21. Remember that the moment you think you’re a Master, you lose your Mastery. And the minute you think you know everything, you know nothing.
22. To double your results, double your level of execution.
23. Invest in your personal and pro development. All superstars do.
24. Get this year’s best Targets of Opportunity down onto a 1 Page Plan. Then review it every morning while the rest of the world sleeps.
25. You don’t get lucky. You create lucky.
26. When you push through a difficult project, you don’t get to the other side. You reach The Next Level.
27. Smile. And remember to inform your face.
28. Spend time in solitude every day. Your best ideas live there.
29. Debrief on how you lived out your day every night in a journal. This will not only record your personal history, it will make you uber-clear on what you’re doing right and what needs to be improved.
30. If your not being criticized a lot, you’re not doing very much. Ridicule is the price of ambition.
31. Develop a monomaniacal focus on just a few things. The secret to productivity is simplicity.
32. To get the results very few people have, be strong enough to do what very few people are willing to do.
33. Rest. Recover. It’ll make you stronger.
34. Buy a smaller TV and build a larger library.
35. Remember that the bigger the goal, the stronger a person you must become to achieve that goal. So goal-achieving is a superb practice for character-building.
36. Food fuels your body. Learning feeds your mind.
37. Don’t ask for respect. Earn it.
38. Finish what you start. And always end strong.
39. Breathe.
40. In business, don’t play to survive. Play to win.
41. Protect your good name. It’s your best asset.
42. Remember that words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.
43. Give more than you take. The marketplace rewards generosity.
44. Know that if it’s not messy, you’re not making progress.
45. Be a hero to a kid.
46. In business, aim for iconic. Go for legendary. Make history by how awesome you are at what you do.
47. Please don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many many people are simply busy being busy.
48. Your doubts are liars. Your fears are traitors. Stop buying the goods they are attempting to sell you.
49. The best anti-aging remedy in the world is working really hard.
50. World-Class performers have no plan B. Failure just isn’t an option.
51. You have the power to change the world—one brave act and one person at a time. Please use it.

Quotes(11-04-2013)

"Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in, and no one can
stop it. As you make your way from youth to adulthood to
maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream; sometimes
you just hang onto the bar in front of you. But the ride is
the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of
life is that your hair is messed up, you're out of breath, and
you didn't throw up."

-- Jerry Seinfeld

"Authentic happiness isn't something we can go out and get,
buy, beg, borrow or steal, it's only something we can be, and
it's a choice we make with every breath we take."

-- Dennis Merritt Jones

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps
different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any
action is better than no action at all."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

"Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there."

-- Marcus Aurelius

"Confusion is the beginning of wisdom."

-- Socrates

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

-- Allan K. Chalmer 

"In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some."

-- Anonymous

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most

frightens us. We ask ourselves: 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?'Actually, who are you not to be?"

-- Marianne Williamson

"I will prepare, and someday my chance will come."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

-- B.B. King

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and

you've done it.

-- Margaret Thatcher

Quotes(07-04-2013)

"Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within."

-- Thomas Paine

"After the verb 'to Love','to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world."

-- Bertha von Suttner

"Sometimes, when you make the most out of what you have, it
turns out being a lot more than you ever imagined."

-- Susan Gale

"Tears will get you sympathy. Sweat will get you results."

-- Anonymous

"Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead."

-- Tom Peters

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

-- John F. Kennedy

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

-- John F. Kennedy

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated;you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

-- David Lloyd George

"Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and
start all over again."

-- Frank Sinatra

"Do not give up. In due season the seeds you've planted will
reap an amazing harvest."

-- Thema Davis

Quotes(22-03-2013)

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

-- Charles Kettering

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

-- James M. Barrie

"Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These
are the secrets of happiness and good health."

-- Julia Child

"I believe in me more than anything in this world."

-- Wilma Rudolph

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Quotes(18-02-2013)

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch"

-- Ivern Ball

"Excellence is an art won through training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

-- Aristotle

"Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will." "

-- Jim Rohn

"Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures."

-- J.C. Penney

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will and be judged by only one thing: the result."

-- Vince Lombardi

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

-- Christopher Robin to Pooh

"I always remember an epitaph in the cemetery at Tombstone, Ariz. It says: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that's the greatest

epitaph a man can have."

-- Harry Truman

"One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet

come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering. "

-- Ida Scott Taylor

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

-- Vince Lombardi

"Never give up on your dream... perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told

you should quit, you'll never make it. "

-- Tawni O'Dell

"A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

-- John Burroughs

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

-- Confucius

"Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your

promises."

-- Derrick Bell

"There's only one direction you can coast."

-- Brian Tracy

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

- Mohandas K Gandhi

"You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then

I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world."

-- Charlie Chaplin

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

-- Oscar Wilde

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it."

-- Brian Tracy

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated."

-- Ronald Reagan

"We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on

this planet, is unlimited."

-- Michael Beckwith

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in

common hours."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"All great achievements require time."

-- Maya Angelou