Good Thoughts

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Before you think of saying an unkind word

Think of someone who can't speak

Before you complain about the taste of your food

Think of someone who has nothing to eat

Before you complain about your husband or wife

Think of someone who's crying out to God for a companion

Today before you complain about life

Think of someone who went too early to heaven

Before you complain about your children

Think of someone who desires children but they're barren

Before you argue about your dirty house; someone didn't clean or

sweep

Think of the people who are living in the streets

Before whining about the distance you drive

Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet

And when you are tired and complain about your job

Think of the unemployed, the disabled and those who wished they had

your job.

But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another

Remember that not one of us are without sin and we all answer to one

Maker.

And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down

Put a smile on your face and thank God you're alive and still around.

Life is a gift from GOD.

LIVE it....

ENJOY it......

CELEBRATE it.........

AND FULFILL it

One Apple::Good One

A teacher teaching Maths to seven-year-old Arnav asked him, "If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?"Within a few seconds Arnav replied confidently, "Four!"

The dismayed teacher was expecting an effortless correct answer (three). She was disappointed. "Maybe the child did not listen properly," she thought. She repeated, "Arnav, listen carefully. If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?"

Arnav had seen the disappointment on his teacher's face. He calculated again on his fingers. But within him he was also searching for the answer that will make the teacher happy. His search for the answer was not for the correct one, but the one that will make his teacher happy. This time hesitatingly he replied, "Four…"

The disappointment stayed on the teacher's face. She remembered that Arnav liked strawberries. She thought maybe he doesn't like apples and that is making him loose focus. This time with an exaggerated excitement and twinkling in her eyes she asked, "If I give you one strawberry and one strawberry and one strawberry, then how many you will have?"

Seeing the teacher happy, young Arnav calculated on his fingers again. There was no pressure on him, but a little on the teacher. She wanted her new approach to succeed. With a hesitating smile young Arnav enquired, "Three?"

The teacher now had a victorious smile. Her approach had succeeded. She wanted to congratulate herself. But one last thing remained. Once again she asked him, "Now if I give you one apple and one apple and one more apple how many will you have?"

Promptly Arnav answered, "Four!"

The teacher was aghast. "How Arnav, how?" she demanded in a little stern and irritated voice.

In a voice that was low and hesitating young Arnav replied, "Because I already have one apple in my bag."

"When someone gives you an answer that is different from what you expect don't think they are wrong. There maybe an angle that you have not understood at all. You will have to listen and understand, but never listen with a predetermined notion."

How the company views its employees. (HE VS SHE)

1. The family picture is on HIS desk. 

Ah, a solid, responsible family man. 

The family picture is on HER desk. 

Umm, her family will come before her career. 

2. HIS desk is cluttered. 

He's obviously a hard worker and a busy man. 

HER desk is cluttered. 

She's obviously a disorganised scatterbrain 

3. HE is talking with his co-workers. 

He must be discussing the latest deal 

SHE is talking with her co-workers. 

She must be gossiping. 

4. HE's not at his desk. 

He must be at a meeting. 

SHE's not at her desk. 

She must be in the ladies' room. 

5. HE's not in the office. 

He's meeting with customers. 

SHE's not in the office. 

She must be out shopping. 

6. HE's having lunch with the boss. 

He's on his way up. 

SHE's having lunch with the boss. 

They must be having an affair. 

7. The boss criticised HIM. 

He'll improve his performance. 

The boss criticized HER. 

She'll be very upset. 

8. HE got an unfair deal. 

Did he get angry? 

SHE got an unfair deal. 

Did she cry? 

9. HE's getting married. 

He'll get more settled. 

SHE's getting married. 

She'll get pregnant and leave. 

10. HE's having a baby. 

He'll need a raise. 

SHE's having a baby. 

She'll cost the company money in maternity benefits. 

11. HE's going on a business trip. 

It's good for his career. 

SHE's going on a business trip. 

What does her husband say? 

12. HE's leaving for a better job. 

He knows how to recognise a good 

opportunity. 

SHE's leaving for a better job. 

Women are not dependable.

Humorous Love Quotes

Shopping is better than sex. At least if you're not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like.

-- Adrienne Gusoff

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

-- Agatha Christie

Women marry men hoping they will change.

Men marry women hoping they will not.

So each is inevitably disappointed.

-- Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

-- Albert Einstein

You can't buy love on eBay.

-- Anonymous

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

-- Bette Midler

Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.

-- Cecilia Egan

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.

There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

-- Henry Kissinger

True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one.

-- La Rochefoucauld

Fall Seven times, Stand up Eight

When I first walked, I fell

When I spoke I stuttered

When I wrote a d it looked like b

When I wrote a b it looked like a d

When I sprinted I puked

When I rode a bike I crashed

When I played football I fumbled

When I was a student I failed more classes than I passed

My first three girlfriends either dumped me or were nuts

When I ran for political office I lost – Thank God!

When I started a dot com in 1997, I worked 90 hours a week for two years and never made a dollar

When I drove a truck, I dumped 2,000 gallons of paint (by accident) in a parking lot and created an environmental hazard (we cleaned it up)

When I first drove, I totaled 4 cars

When I first used Windows 95, I trashed the entire file system

When I first administered data I deleted an entire customer database without a backup – and I lived to talk about it.

That’s just a few of my failures. Believe me, I have a lot more. My failures used to haunt me. They used to inhibit me from trying again.

But today I believe…

The day you quit trying and concede to your demons is the day your soul dies.

" Fall Seven times, Stand up Eight, "

*Best Moments In Life*

To fall in love. 

To have a child. 

To laugh until it hurts your stomach. 

To find mails by the thousands when you return of the vacations. 

To manage for a vacation at some pretty place. 

To listen to your favorite song in the radio. 

To go to bed and to listen while it rains out. 

To leave the shower and find that the towel is warm. 

To clear your last exam. 

To receive a call from someone, you don't see a lot, but you want to. 

A good conversation. 

To find money in a pant that you didn't use last year. 

To laugh at oneself. 

Calls at the midnight that last for hours. 

To laugh without reasons. 

To hear accidentally that somebody says something good of you. 

To wake up and realize it is still possible to sleep a couple of hours. 

To hear a song that makes you remember a special reason. 

To make new friends. 

To be part of a team. 

The first kiss. 

To feel butterflies in the stomach every time that you see that person. 

To have your back rubbed to sleep by some one you love. 

To pass a while with your best friends. To see people that you like, feeling happy. 

To use a sweater of the person that you like. 

See an old friend again and to feel that the things didn't change. 

To look at an evening. 

To have somebody that tells you that he/she loves you

Happinezzz....

 It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue. When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Be Careful

"Be Careful of your thoughts

For your thoughts become your words"

"Be careful of your words

For your words become your actions"

"Be careful of your actions

For your actions become your habits"

"Be careful of your habits

For your habits become your character"

"Be careful of your character

For your character become your destiny"

WAY TO GET ALONG BETTER WITH EVERYONE

1. Before you say anything to anyone, ask yourself 3 things:

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

2. Make promises sparingly and keep them faithfully.

3. Never miss the opportunity to compliment or

say something encouraging to someone.

4. Refuse to talk negatively about others;

Don't gossip and don't listen to gossip.

5. Have a forgiving view of people.

Believe that most people are doing the best they can.

6. Keep an open mind; Discuss, but don't argue.

(It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable.)

7. Forget about counting to 10. Count to 1,000

before doing or saying anything that could make matters worse.

8. Let your virtues speak for themselves.

9. If someone criticizes you,

see if there is any TRUTH to what is being said; 

If so, make changes;

If there is no truth to the criticism,

ignore it and live so that no one will believe the negative remark.

10. Cultivate your sense of humor;

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

11. Do not seek so much to be consoled, as to console;

Do not seek so much to be understood, as to understand; 

Do not seek so much to be loved as to love.

Love and Peace to All!

Dealing with Procrastination

“You may delay, but time will not.” - Benjamin Franklin

Procrastination is probably one of the longest words in my dictionary. I used to have problem spelling it; I used to spell it as ‘Procastination’ without the ‘r.’ Not to worry, I am not going to talk about spelling today. I am going to talk about dealing with procrastination.

It is my ‘running day’ today and I should have gone for my run this morning. However, when I woke up this morning, the sky was gloomy with signs of an impending rain. In fact, it was raining in the wee hours around 5.30 am.

So naturally I have load of excuses not to go for the run this morning; the road is still wet, the running shoes will be drenched, I can go for a run in the afternoon or I can go for a run tomorrow morning instead etc. And you guess right, I did not go for the run this morning.

Just about an hour ago, I was reading Death defying stunt in London by CK about his plan to run from work to home today. And after reading it, I shut down my laptop and went for a run at around 1 pm in the afternoon. Don’t worry, no heat stroke; the sky was very cloudy just now.

I just dislike being a loser to procrastination, especially when I know I can beat it. So thank you to CK, somehow your post has given me the much needed ‘push’ … for action.

I believe that most of us had moments when procrastination got the better of us and we did not manage to do what we had set to do for that day. I know, it is a lousy feeling - a feeling of not in control.

There were mornings like today when procrastination had gotten the better of me but there were also many mornings when I dealt with procrastination face-on. The outcome? I won and with lots of sweats.

So what are the secrets for dealing with procrastination? Pardon me, there are no secret formula to apply or potion to drink. The best way of dealing with procrastination for me and with almost 100% hit rate is to take immediate action.

The biggest challenge is getting out of the house. How did I do it?

First of all, I focus on the positive aspects that running always bring me. I have always felt good after every run and have felt more ready to take on other challenges. Not to mention I maintain a healthy lifestyle. Through focusing on the positive aspects that running always bring me, I build up my mind positively step by step. If needed, you can write it down on a piece of paper all the advantages of doing something that you want to do but keep putting it off.

Secondly, I just put on my tee-shirt, running shoes, grab the keys, open the door and out of the house I go. It couldn’t have been more simple. This has always worked for me. Thus the more you procrastinate, the more you need to get into the act of doing. Once you are in the act of doing it, the process should carry you along until you are done.

How about you? What is your effective ways for dealing with Procrastination?

Instructions For Life

**Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. 

**Memorize your favorite poem. 

**Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want. 

**When you say, “I love you”, mean it. 

**When you say, “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.

**Be engaged at least six months before you get married. 

**Believe in love at first sight. 

**Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. 

**Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely. 

**In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

**Don’t judge people by their relatives. 

**Talk slowly but think quickly. 

**When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?” 

**Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 

**Call your mom.

**Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze. 

**When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. 

**Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions. 

**Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship. 

**When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

**Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice. 

**Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other. 

**Spend some time alone. 

**Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values. 

**Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

**Read more books and watch less TV. 

**Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time. 

**Trust in God but lock your car. 

**A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home. 

**In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.

**Read between the lines. 

**Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality. 

**Be gentle with the earth. 

**Pray. There’s immeasurable power in it. 

**Never interrupt when you are being flattered.

**Mind your own business. 

**Don’t trust a man/woman who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss. 

**At least once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. 

**If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth’s greatest satisfaction. 

**Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.

**Learn the rules then break some. 

**Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other. 

**Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. 

**Remember that your character is your destiny. 

**Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.