Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Chat with God
GOD : Hello. Did you call me?
Me: Called you? No.. who is this?
GOD : This is GOD. I heard your prayers. So I thought I will
chat.
Me: I do pray. Just makes me feel good. I am actually busy now. I am
in the midst of something.
GOD : What are you busy at? Ants are busy too.
Me: Don't know. But I cant find free time. Life has become hectic.It's
rush hour all the time.
GOD : Sure. Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets
you results. Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it.
Me: I understand. But I still cant figure out. By the way, I was not
expecting YOU to buzz me on instant messaging chat.
GOD : Well I wanted to resolve your fight for time, by giving
you some clarity. In this net era, I wanted to reach you through the
medium you are comfortable with.
Me: Tell me, why has life become complicated now?
GOD : Stop analyzing life. Just live it.. Analysis is what
makes it complicated.
Me: why are we then constantly unhappy?
GOD : Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about
yesterday. You are worrying because you are analyzing. Worrying has
become your habit. That's why you are not happy.
Me: But how can we not worry when there is so much uncertainty?
GOD : Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional.
Me: But then, there is so much pain due to uncertainty. .
GOD : Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
Me: If suffering is optional, why do good people always suffer?
GOD : Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold
cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but
don't suffer. With that experience their life become better not
bitter.
Me: You mean to say such experience is useful?
GOD : Yes. In every terms, Experience is a hard teacher..
She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
Me: But still, why should we go through such tests? Why can't we be
free from problems?
GOD : Problems are Purposeful Roadblocks Offering
Beneficial Lessons (to) Enhance Mental Strength. Inner strength comes
from struggle and endurance, not when you are free from problems.
Me: Frankly in the midst of so many problems, we don't know where we
are heading...
GOD : If you look outside you will not know where you are
heading. Look inside. Looking outside, you dream. Looking inside, you
awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.
Me: Sometimes not succeeding fast seems to hurt more than moving in
the right direction. What should I do?
GOD : Success is a measure as decided by others.
Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the road ahead
is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead. You work with the
compass. Let others work with the clock.
Me: In tough times, how do you stay motivated?
GOD : Always look at how far you have come rather than
how far you have to go. Always count your blessing, not what you are missing.
Me: What surprises you about people?
GOD : when they suffer they ask, "why me?" When they
prosper, they never ask "Why me" Everyone wishes to have truth on
their side, but few want to be on the side of the truth.
Me: Sometimes I ask, who am I, why am I here. I cant get the answer.
GOD : Seek not to find who you are, but to determine who
you want to be. Stop looking for a purpose as to why you are here.
Create it. Life is not a process of discovery but a process of
creation.
Me: How can I get the best out of life?
GOD : Face your past without regret. Handle your present
with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.
Me: One last question. Sometimes I feel my prayers are not answered.
GOD : There are no unanswered prayers. At times the answer is NO.
Me: Thank you for this wonderful chat. I am so happy to start the New
Year with a new sense of inspiration.
GOD : Well. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Don't believe
your doubts and doubt your beliefs. Life is a mystery to solve not a
problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to
live .
Friday, 22 August 2008
The Law of the Garbage Truck
How often do you let other people's nonsense change your mood?
Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly one can get back their focus on what's important. David J. Pollay explains his story in this way….
Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here's what happened. I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just inches!
The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean…he was friendly. So, I said, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'
And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'
'Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And if you let them, they'll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don't take it personally.. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. You'll be happy you did.'
I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, at home, on the streets? It was that day I said, 'I'm not going to do it anymore.'
Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. Love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't. Believe that everything happens for a reason. Never let the garbage truck run over you….
Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly one can get back their focus on what's important. David J. Pollay explains his story in this way….
Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here's what happened. I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just inches!
The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean…he was friendly. So, I said, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'
And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'
'Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And if you let them, they'll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don't take it personally.. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. You'll be happy you did.'
I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, at home, on the streets? It was that day I said, 'I'm not going to do it anymore.'
Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. Love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't. Believe that everything happens for a reason. Never let the garbage truck run over you….
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Good Quotes - 2
1) "Smile when you talk to someone on the phone. Your smile can be heard."
2) "There are four things YOU can do with a mistake: Recognize it, Admit it, Learn from it, and Change it !!!"
3) "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4) "Don't be serious, be sincere."
5) "Desperate time calls for desperate measure / decision."
6) "A day without laughter is a day wasted."
7) "Promise are mean to be broken."
8) "I am tired of being scared."
9) "Son : Dad why you drive so slow.
Dad : I drive so slow because you are in car with me."
10) "It's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing. - By Art Linkletter"
11) "A man who fears nothing, love nothing. If you love nothing, then whats the joy in life !!! - from film -> First Knight"
12) "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently." ~ Warren Buffett
13) "Experience is what you get
when you didn't get what you wanted." ~ Randy Pausch ("The Last Lecture")
14) "Brick walls are there for a reason:
they let us prove how badly we want things." ~ Randy Pausch ("The Last Lecture")
15) "Brick walls let us show our dedication." ~ Randy Pausch ("The Last Lecture")
2) "There are four things YOU can do with a mistake: Recognize it, Admit it, Learn from it, and Change it !!!"
3) "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4) "Don't be serious, be sincere."
5) "Desperate time calls for desperate measure / decision."
6) "A day without laughter is a day wasted."
7) "Promise are mean to be broken."
8) "I am tired of being scared."
9) "Son : Dad why you drive so slow.
Dad : I drive so slow because you are in car with me."
10) "It's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing. - By Art Linkletter"
11) "A man who fears nothing, love nothing. If you love nothing, then whats the joy in life !!! - from film -> First Knight"
12) "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently." ~ Warren Buffett
13) "Experience is what you get
when you didn't get what you wanted." ~ Randy Pausch ("The Last Lecture")
14) "Brick walls are there for a reason:
they let us prove how badly we want things." ~ Randy Pausch ("The Last Lecture")
15) "Brick walls let us show our dedication." ~ Randy Pausch ("The Last Lecture")
Monday, 30 June 2008
My review comments -> Ritesh Sharma & Neeraj Pahlajani - Joker in the Pack
Once again after “Five Point Someone”, a really nice stuff that I enjoyed reading. Again as written by an Indian writer, it is very much comprehensible and especially when used the Jargons in Hindi or some sentences in Hindi .
The funny thing or the irony part is that, I will feel little embarrassed to refer it to my female friend or relatives due to the excessive usage of Hindi abusive language. But in real and practical life people often use such slang languages.
What I really like about this book is how the “Janta or Fighter” class people strive for success in life. It is a sort of motivational book for me that I like to keep with me for whole life or until I achieved the same kind of success after prolonged struggle.
Here the book depicts very clearly, how the personality of a person changed while achieving his/her desired goal in life. The switch from college loafer to MNC’s manager is great, but to achieve this its requires lots of hard work, will power, and people support (in form of family, friend, mentor or stranger).
At the end, this book is doing a great genuine help by supporting the “Manjunath Shanmugan Trust”.
Few lines that I really liked are :
a) Page 168 (2nd last paragraph): … I felt sorry for her, and I wondered again at the price we paid in search of glory.
b) Page 174 (2nd paragraph): “Waqt se pehle, aur kismet se zyada, na kisi ko kuch mila hai, aur na kuch milega.” (Nobody gets anything more than what’s in their fate, or before it’s their time.)
c) Page 188 (last paragraph): … the single biggest factor contributing to our success was ‘being at the right place at the right time’.
d) Page 195 (1rst paragraph): … I looked back and realized that while I had been a successful middle-class dream I had lost Anoushka, the person for whom I had embarked upon the journey to realize the dream.
The funny thing or the irony part is that, I will feel little embarrassed to refer it to my female friend or relatives due to the excessive usage of Hindi abusive language. But in real and practical life people often use such slang languages.
What I really like about this book is how the “Janta or Fighter” class people strive for success in life. It is a sort of motivational book for me that I like to keep with me for whole life or until I achieved the same kind of success after prolonged struggle.
Here the book depicts very clearly, how the personality of a person changed while achieving his/her desired goal in life. The switch from college loafer to MNC’s manager is great, but to achieve this its requires lots of hard work, will power, and people support (in form of family, friend, mentor or stranger).
At the end, this book is doing a great genuine help by supporting the “Manjunath Shanmugan Trust”.
Few lines that I really liked are :
a) Page 168 (2nd last paragraph): … I felt sorry for her, and I wondered again at the price we paid in search of glory.
b) Page 174 (2nd paragraph): “Waqt se pehle, aur kismet se zyada, na kisi ko kuch mila hai, aur na kuch milega.” (Nobody gets anything more than what’s in their fate, or before it’s their time.)
c) Page 188 (last paragraph): … the single biggest factor contributing to our success was ‘being at the right place at the right time’.
d) Page 195 (1rst paragraph): … I looked back and realized that while I had been a successful middle-class dream I had lost Anoushka, the person for whom I had embarked upon the journey to realize the dream.
My review comments -> Chetan Bhagat – The 3 Mistakes of My Life
The novel is short and sweet. As it is written by an Indian author, and as I am an Indian, the language is more comprehensible or easily understandable.
But if we go by content wise, it does not contain any surprise for me. I already expected that writer is going to tell about earthquake (natural calamity) and riots (man-made calamity), because these two events were one of the few events due to which Gujarat came into news and it effected human life in large scale.
The most indigestible part of novel is, when those 3 friends win over angry mob of more than 40 persons.
At last, it is good novel that let you pass the time without any headache or remorse.
But if we go by content wise, it does not contain any surprise for me. I already expected that writer is going to tell about earthquake (natural calamity) and riots (man-made calamity), because these two events were one of the few events due to which Gujarat came into news and it effected human life in large scale.
The most indigestible part of novel is, when those 3 friends win over angry mob of more than 40 persons.
At last, it is good novel that let you pass the time without any headache or remorse.
My review comments -> Paulo Coelho – The Witch Of Portobello
Few good lines, that I really liked are:
a) Page 18 -> "The best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us."
b) Page 78 -> "God hid the most important things from the wise because they can not understand what is simple."
c) Page 93 -> "What is a teacher? It isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows."
d) Page 105 -> "Music only exists because the pauses exists, and sentences only exists because the blank spaces exists."
e) Page 115 -> "Your wounds will help you."
f) Page 131 -> "When I die, bury me standing, because I've spent all my life on my knees !"
I really like the way, the writer tell the story or biography of the character. It is one of the best way to narrate about someone. "The best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us."
a) Page 18 -> "The best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us."
b) Page 78 -> "God hid the most important things from the wise because they can not understand what is simple."
c) Page 93 -> "What is a teacher? It isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows."
d) Page 105 -> "Music only exists because the pauses exists, and sentences only exists because the blank spaces exists."
e) Page 115 -> "Your wounds will help you."
f) Page 131 -> "When I die, bury me standing, because I've spent all my life on my knees !"
I really like the way, the writer tell the story or biography of the character. It is one of the best way to narrate about someone. "The best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us."
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Good Quotes
1) "People who say it can't be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it."
2) "Success comes easily to those who don't care for success."
3) "You will have no fear, when there is nothing to loose.
When there is nothing to loose, its mean you love nothing."
4) "Happiness is inversely proportional to Expectation."
"When expectation is high, happiness will be low.
When expectation is low, happiness will be high."
5) "I know I am here to do good to others, and what others are here for, I don't care."
6) "You can't win a person, who let's you win."
7) "To break the rules, you should know the rules."
8) "Love a person, more than yesterday but less than tomorrow."
9) "मन का हो तो अच्छा , मन का न हो तो और भी अच्छा , क्यों कि वोह ऊपर वाले ( भगवान ) के मन का होता है |"
10) "यार तेरी यारी हम इस हद तक निबायेंगे , कि यार का दिया जलाने के लिए खुद ही जल जायेंगे |"
11) "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
12) "दर्द जब हद से गुजर जाता है, तो दवा बन जाता है |"
13) "The only thing require for triumph of evil is for good man to do nothing."
14) "It is so simple to be happy. But it is so difficult to be simple."
15) "Every saint had a past ... and Every sinner has a future ..."
2) "Success comes easily to those who don't care for success."
3) "You will have no fear, when there is nothing to loose.
When there is nothing to loose, its mean you love nothing."
4) "Happiness is inversely proportional to Expectation."
"When expectation is high, happiness will be low.
When expectation is low, happiness will be high."
5) "I know I am here to do good to others, and what others are here for, I don't care."
6) "You can't win a person, who let's you win."
7) "To break the rules, you should know the rules."
8) "Love a person, more than yesterday but less than tomorrow."
9) "मन का हो तो अच्छा , मन का न हो तो और भी अच्छा , क्यों कि वोह ऊपर वाले ( भगवान ) के मन का होता है |"
10) "यार तेरी यारी हम इस हद तक निबायेंगे , कि यार का दिया जलाने के लिए खुद ही जल जायेंगे |"
11) "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
12) "दर्द जब हद से गुजर जाता है, तो दवा बन जाता है |"
13) "The only thing require for triumph of evil is for good man to do nothing."
14) "It is so simple to be happy. But it is so difficult to be simple."
15) "Every saint had a past ... and Every sinner has a future ..."
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