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3 Reasons to keep score for success!

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It is imperative to keep score in all parts of life. When we keep score we understand where we are going and what we ought to be improving at. This is a simple reason to keep score.

             

1)  MEASURE WHAT YOU WANT, NOT WHAT YOU DON’T WANT

It is basically our habit to keep score of winning. If we had got an A in exams we tend to remember it, and if we won a marathon we tend to remember it. But negative people will score their failures and they will feel dejected by all means. It is important to keep score of the positive stuff and forget the negative stuff. Keeping scores of the wins and it will build self-esteem.

     

2)  KEEPING SCORE AT HOME

Many people think we must keep score only at school, sports and business, but it is important to keep score at home as well. How many times one spends time calling home or having dinner with the family, or how many times we had quality time with the family.

 

3)      START KEEPING SCORE TODAY

Don’t think to start anything tomorrow. Start today. Keep score in every field. Whether it is habit you want to establish or we want to lose weight, start keep scores today. And enjoy a fulfilled life.

 

New editor on board!

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Hey folks, my good friend Amalan has joined the editorial board. He will be publishing some of his works and he will certainly write about Literature and Inspiration. Lets all welcome him!

5-The words and writers who changed the world.- Francis Bacon

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Francis Bacon was the first great philosopher to write in the English Language. For centuries, Latin was the language of the intellectual elite. The theories and assumptions of the classical age were considered the farthest limits of man’s proper knowledge. Bacon flouted this accepted wisdom and insisted we could reveal facts about the natural world through experiment and inquiry, rather than relying on existing authorities. He is rightly considered a pioneer of the scientific method and the Age of Reason.

Bacon’s work extends beyond the realms of science and philosophy. He is considered the first English essayist. His wonderfully epigrammatic prose combines the logic with the worldly of an experienced statesman.

 Some of his best works:

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are

learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men condemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them: For they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and

extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: If his wit be not apt to distinguishor find differences, let him study the Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers’ cases; so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.

You- A poem by Hazil Teena.

 

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You live in the world, where no one understands you,

                               You dream of becoming great, but the words of people stop you,

                     You love

 to do this, you love to do that, but you never are able to,

                     You want things, but have no money to get them.

 

                                You love to see others and want to keep them for yourself, but they don’t belong to  You.

                               You cry and you feel if someone won’t   come and ask you why

                                You want a hug, but no is ready to give you one.

                                You want people who love you, but they never live long.

 

                  Is this life or is the world your living,

                 You never know it stays a mystery forever.       

 

4 reasons to commit to never ending learning!

[image error]1)  THE MIND-NUMBING PACE OF CHANGE

The world is changing and it is changing rapidly. We must keep up with the pace otherwise we will lose the opportunities. Constant improvement in all the areas of life is very essential to be truly successful. We are all loaded with information, day in and day out. With technology passing of information has become very easy and getting information on any subject is very easy.

2) IMPROVE IN SMALL INCREMENTS

Changing and improving doesn’t occur in a short period. It takes time. Like the old riddle, how do we eat an elephant? And the answer is one bite at a time. In the same way improvements must be made in small parts. Overnight success never happens. Losing wait, running a marathon, or becoming a millionaire, all these things take time.

3)  DECIDE WHAT TO IMPROVE ON

First of all decide what to improve on. If it is health, make a small promise to yourself to exercise and eat healthy food. Read more on health and nutrition, and try to put it into action.

4)  YOU CAN’T SKIP STEPS

There is no easy way out. There are no shortcuts. Skipping steps will not help in any way. So commit to lifelong learning. As Seneca said, As long as you live, learn how to live.

Have a great day folks.

 

4-The words and writers who changed the world.- Christopher Marlowe

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Marlowe is one of the most suggestive figures of the English Renaissance, and the greatest of Shakespeare’s predecessors. The glory of the Elizabethan drama dates form his Tamburlaine, wherein the whole restless temper of the age finds expression.   

His Works:

Faustus, the second play, is one of the best of Marlowe’s works. The story is that of a scholar who longs for infinite knowledge and who turns from Theology, Philosophy, Medicine, and Law, the four sciences of the time, to study of magic, much as a child might turn from jewels to tinsel and coloured paper. In order to learn magic he sells himself to the devil, on condition that he shall have twenty four years of absolute power and knowledge. The play is the story of those twenty-four years.

 

 His other famous play is the Jew of Malta: It is a study of wealth which centres about Barabas, a terrible old money lender, strongly suggestive of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.

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“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” is the only lyric poem Christopher Marlowe ever wrote, but it remains one of the most enduring poems in English literature. Its cheerful tone has little common with the rest of his work, which is gene

rally violent and tragic.

 

 

 

 

 

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

 

Come live with me and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove

That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,

Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon rocks,

Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,

By shallow rivers to whose falls

Melodious birds sing madrigals.

 

And I will make thee beds of roses

And a thousand fragrant poises,

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle

Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

 

A gown made of the finest wool

Which from our pretty lambs we pull;

Fair lined slippers for the cold,

With buckles of the purest gold;

 

A belt of straw and ivy buds,

With coral clasps and amber studs;

And if these pleasures may thee move,

Come live with me, and be my love.

 

The shepherds’s swains shall dance and sing

For thy delight each May morning:

If these delights thy mind may move,

Then live with me and be my love.

 

Christopher Marlowe

1599

 

3 Ways To Handle Rejection

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear

to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

SYLV ESTER STA LLONE

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     Rejections are part of game. There is no such a thing as winning without losing. Rejections will come, and we must understand they are part of the journey, and they should never be taken personally.

1)  REJECTION IS A MYTH!

First we must remember, rejection is a myth. It is quite simple. What if we asked a girl for a date, and she rejected it. Does that make us a failure. Certainly not. We have lived without her, and we can certainly live after that…but it us our own self. If we let ourselves tell that we are unattractive, useless, and terribly ugly then we take those things to heart, and that is what which breaks our heart. Instead, take a rejection as a myth. It is not permanent.

                     

2)  Some will, Some won’t, So What…..

It is a sign of maturity to understand that some will say yes, and some will say no. But does that mean we are failure. No.No.No. We are not. Rejections happen for everyone, but if you persist then someone is surely going to say yes.

 

3)  JUST SAY “NEXT!”

This is  another powerful word besides, Ask. If we keep asking we are going to get answers. We might get a yes or a no, but when we receive a no, we got to say a word called, “next”. After every rejection tell next. Keep telling next and someone will surely say yes. This is called perseverance.

 

Here are SOME FAMOUS REJECTIONS- Quoted From Success Principles from Jack Canfield.

The girl doesn’t, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling

which would lift that book above the “curiosity”level.

From the rejection slip for The Diary of Anne Frank

Everyone who has ever made it to the top has had to endure rejections. You

just have to realize that they are not personal. Consider the following:

 

■ When Alexander Graham Bell offered the rights to the telephone

for $100,000 to Carl Orton, president of Western Union, Orton

replied, “What use would this company make of an electrical toy?”

 

■ Angie Everhart, who started modeling at the age of 16, was once told

by model agency owner Eileen Ford that she would never make it as

a model. Why not? “Redheads don’t sell.” Everhart later became the

first redhead in history to appear on the cover of Glamour magazine,

had a great modeling career, and then went on to appear in 27 films

and numerous TV shows.

 

■ Novelist Stephen King almost made a multimillion-dollar mistake

when he threw his Carrie manuscript in the garbage because he was

tired of the rejections. “We are not interested in science fiction

which deals with negative utopias,” he was told. “They do not sell.”

Luckily, his wife fished it out of the garbage. Eventually Carrie was

printed by another publisher, sold more than 4 million copies, and

was made into a blockbuster film.

 

■ In 1998, Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page approached

Yahoo! and suggested a merger. Yahoo! could have snapped up the

company for a handful of stock, but instead they suggested that the

young Googlers keep working on their little school project and

come back when they had grown up. Within 5 years, Google had an

estimated market capitalization of $20 billion. At the time of this

writing, they were about to launch an initial public offering auction

that eventually raised $1.67 billion.

 

It is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A.

From the rejection slip for George Orwell’s Animal Farm

The record for the most astounding number of rejections would probably be

John Creasey’s. A popular British mystery writer, Creasey collected 743 rejection

slips before he sold his first book! Impervious to rejection, over the

next 40 years he went on to publish 562 full-length books under 28 different

pseudonyms! If John Creasey can handle 743 rejections on his way to success,

so can you.

Take action now! Want an accountability partner.

     Personal development is not an easy journey. It takes time and effort. While all the principles work without doubt (for we have heard and seen many people becoming successful) we are still not able to make any lasting change. This is because our commitment is not so strong. One week we might run, and because of some inconvenience we tend to revert back to our original attitude and routine.    This is the major problem most of us face. But it would be really helpful if someone mentored or coached us, or kept us on track.

        I realized this is not a lonely journey. So if you want an accountability partner, please contact me. We could do this together.

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A Flower’s Longing- A Simple poem of mine

The flower’s longing.

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I rejoice, I rejoice the rain has come

Oh, how gently she sent her breeze,

Wooing me, to raise my petals and sing.

Come love, kiss me with a drop

Softly now, you don’t want me to fall.

Sway me with your wind, and shout with your thunder,

That you love me!

Oh, poor helpless flower I am,

You can give me life, and you can take my life as well.

Gentle dear rain, I am not strong as your other lovers,

Those wild shrubs and wealthy trees.

I am weak, and my little body shall whither, if you don’t come again.

But I warn thee, don’t delay longer, for you shall never find me,

For I will be gone into the ground and will never rise again.

 D. Ronald

Moby Dick- a short review on the giant work.

[image error]         An amazing American classic. I wanted to read it for quite some time but I never got to get around it, but somehow I completed it. The read is definitely not an easy one. It is preachy and quite complicated at times. Ishmael is the narrator, who goes to Nantucket to aboard the Pequod. He meets a cannibal called Queequeg and they both aboard the ship. The ships captain is Ahab, who remains in his cabin through the first part of the journey and he has lost a leg as well. The leg was butchered by the great white whale or Moby Dick. Till the end we  never meet Moby Dick, but suddenly the battle begins, and the whale is a ruthless monster and it kills Ahab. (I didn’t expect it to end this way) It seems only Ishmael seems to have lived to tell the tale. 

It is nonetheless epic in canvas, and seamed throughout with myth and a dark, anti humour. It stands at the very centre of American Literary achievement.

Similar books are:

Treasure Island by R. L Stevenson for Children.

Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

These are all amazing stories of adventure out in the sea. Critical analysis of Moby Dick can be a momentous task, and so I am not going to try it. Happy reading.

If you cannot

read the book, you can see the movie.