Month: January 2010

you never ‘are’ either, are you..

Most of it is the mind playing games.. :)

Again Mark Twain.. :D

Have a great day and week! :)

Check out – http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=3570&tag=nl.e713

As Henry Ford II said, “never complain, never explain.” This advice is just as useful as when he first uttered it decades ago. In a world of reality television, Facebook, and blogging, people seem to think it is useful to share every thought and life detail with the world. Bad idea.

First of all, this “sharing” encourages all the amateur psychoanalysis that goes on anyway but needs material to feed on. Second, most of those who want an “explanation” from people like Tiger really don’t deserve one. Fans and even corporate sponsors are not close personal friends and family. Woods needs to explain himself only to his spouse and his family, not to the public at large.

Useful..

http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=5022&tag=nl.e713

Give more money away. “Research shows it really doesn’t make people happy to spend money on themselves,” professor Michael Norton tells Harvard magazine. “It’s not how much you give, it’s that you give…. If you have an extra $20, it’s better to spend it on someone else than on yourself.” In a range of experiments, the researchers found that those who give to others —particularly those who give regularly — report higher levels of happiness.

Avoid regret; indulge occasionally. Yes, we should give more away, but don’t ignore your own desires. People can sometimes live too much for the future, argues professor, Anat Keinan. “We all know that people can be too impulsive and yield to temptation. Our argument is that people can also be too farsighted, or hyperopic. As a result, they have wistful regrets of missing out on life’s pleasures when they look back at how they spent their time.” Read her interview with HBS Working Knowledge.

Go for ‘just enough’. Maximization — striving to become the richest, the brightest, the most talented, the best looking — does not bring lasting happiness. We must also think about limits, professors Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson write in Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life.

“If life were lived in a fixed time frame, where success was measured only in the instant you hit the peak, maximized measures would work. But the only fixed time frame we know for sure is death. Everything else is subject to moving targets. If you wish to live with a continually renewing sense of success that really seems worthwhile and lasting on all your success targets, you have to give up the standards of maximization.” Read a book excerpt.

I like these three principles, restated as:

Be happier by: using your resources to help others, living a life without regret, and embracing limits as a way to slow down and gauge our life’s progress.

and when you get old, the shoes get right but the feet are already wrong..

For all those who play sports, the importance of the right gear starting with the shoe can never be over-stated. :)

Better not to play a sport than to play with all the wrong equipment. As an old P.T.Teacher Mr.Samkutty from DAV in Chennai used to say, ‘it will seem all okay now when you do it(I was attempting to play shuttle/badminton on a wooden court barefeet), it’ll all come back to you in the form of pain when you are 40 years old!

And this is incremental, so if you are jogging at 40 with the wrong shoes, beware of trouble at 60.. ha ha! :D

So, let’s get the right shoes.. else, its always a case of penny wise, pound foolish!

Mark Twain had quite the sense of humor!

Have a nice day! :)

3 words.. deep..

‘The not-so-smart are said to never forgive and forget,
the naive to forgive and forget..
the wise to forgive and never forget’

Good morning.. have a great day!

Sari umar hum mar mar ke ji liye.. ek pal to ab humein jeene do jeene do..

A hindi song from a new movie that says ‘we’ve been dying to live all our life, for just a moment, let us live!’ followed by ‘give me some sunshine, give me some rain, give me another chance, I wanna grow up once again..’

Just a message to all those who are
– slogging extra hours at work today..
– dying with final year project deadlines..
– some overdone with cca commitments..
– others enveloped with all other kinds of stresses imaginable..

Take a break, have a kitkat, take a nap, enjoy some music, meet with a loved one for a cupa’ coffee..

I know we can’t do it all the time, but once a while, let’s give ourselves a treat..

And take a moment.. live life.. :)

in a funeral, the person speaking the eulogy would rather be in the box’..

Ha ha.. Good morning! Have a great day! :D

Good Morning! Have a great day! :)