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Books are basically thoughts frozen in print.
A pen becomes a gift when you recognise the heart that gave you that pen. You say, “I had a gifted childhood,” when you recognise the heart of your parents in your upbringing. Education becomes a gift when you recognise the heart of the teachers who transferred that knowledge unto you. Lifestyle becomes a gift when you recognise the heart of your employers in your growth. Organisational growth becomes a gift when you recognise the heart of your employees in their endeavour. A gift is not a material, but an outlook - to look out at the heart behind the material.
Today does not care about the blemishes of your past, nor is it affected by the uncertainties of the future - it is a day in itself, an opportunity in itself, and a portion of life by itself. So, take care of your Today(s) and you will take care of your life.
Anything you choose in life comes along with its own inherent positives and negatives. What folly it is to search for a rose bush without the thorns! When you choose one face of the coin, you have also chosen the other side of the coin. Don’t ask for a trouble-free, blessed life. Not even the mahatmas could embrace a trouble-free blessed life. There is no such life.
Relationships are like seeds. They have to be nurtured and developed. Expectations are like weeds. They grow on their own accord.
When enough investment goes into building a relationship, the expectations in that relationship can be managed. When a relationship is left neglected, then the expectations in that relationship shake the very roots of the relationship. Our problem is growing expectations in stagnant relationships.
Relationships have to be nurtured with the investment of quality time. Take time to listen and to understand. As often as possible, communicate to be understood. Make your love visible by being expressive and demonstrative. Seek to give, but also be graceful in receiving. Receiving is one way of showing your respect for the giver, and it is a huge deposit. Deposit by deposit, build a great relationship and thus earn your happiness in life.
Blessed are those who have understood that they should be loving people and using things, and not loving things and using people.
All in all, it seems our toys have grown, but we haven’t. What we cry for has changed, but the crying is still on. Just that our crying is a lot more sophisticated now. It has many new names like anger, disappointment, frustration, stress, anxiety, etc …
You are bigger than every THING you own. You are more precious than every THING you possess. You are more important than every THING that has come into your life.
It does not matter how much we have, but what really matters is what we do with what we have.
Focus on the strong and make them stronger.
Strive for excellence in a few things rather than good-enough performance in many.
Make others feel respected … let this be your choice. They will take your guidance … let this be their choice.
The greatest compliment one can give oneself is to declare, “I am an open book.”
What causes management stress? It is caused by the gap between when a thing should have been done and when it was eventually done.
Do you want to deliver ‘world-class’ quality? From this very moment, stop doing anything that is less than ‘world-class’ quality.
Do you want to apologise for a mistake you committed earlier but have just become aware of … seek forgiveness immediately; else, you’ll reel with guilt.
Fools and wise men do the same things, but at different times. Wise men do it at once and fools do it at last. Live as if tomorrow is today.
All stress and tension in life is nothing but the accrual of psychological pressure caused by the gap between when something should have been done and when it was eventually done. Procrastination is the most certain way to shorten one’s lifespan. Postponement is the signature of underachievers.
Life will not postpone our death. So, let us not postpone our life.
There is no such day as ‘one of these days’. Today is the day. If tomorrow comes, I will tell tomorrow, ‘I...
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One of the most essential qualities for spiritual progress is the ability to do one’s part and just wait
Give up ‘waiting for’ and you will give up stressful success. Learn to do your part and wait … that’s the path to peaceful progress.
A man whose awareness coaches him to learn from every experience lives as though he’s on a trampoline - he rises to fall and falls to rise … but the rise after every fall is even higher. Both his maturity and the level of his challenges are raised to the next higher leg.
What is the reason for your success? “Good decisions.” What enables you to make good decisions? “Life’s experiences.” How do you gain life’s experiences? “Bad decisions.”
life has sent a teacher, disguised as experience, to help you raise the bar of your maturity.
Drop the words husband and wife from your vocabulary and resolve to be ‘friends for a lifetime’.
Observe each other’s way of thinking, discuss personal values, standpoints and convictions; get sensitised to each other’s feelings, develop emotional compatibility and take time to sit together in quietude to develop spiritual connectivity.
In life, as well as in a good relationship, the past is irrelevant. The present forms the building blocks. The future is very significant, for that is where the two of you will travel together.
Talk future, talk dreams, talk ambitions, and resolve to play a part in each other’s growth in a very objective and nonintrusive manner. That’s the way to grow in love.
A good marriage has to be nurtured and developed. Building a great marriage is an art; so get artistic.
Instead of accepting yourself as you are and expecting the world to change accept the world as it is and you start changing your approach towards the world. Let life be beautiful because of the world. Let life be beautiful in spite of the world.
There are some who will remain dissatisfied, no matter what you do. No matter how you serve them, they will keep criticising your product and service. There are also those who believe in making you go down on your knees for every payment. Finally when the payment is made, you make no profit out of such deals … the interest you paid for the delay would have already eaten into your margins. Why not fire some of those clients from your client list and invest the resource saved on some of your major accounts?
Response is positive; reaction is negative. Let us never react to any situation in life, but instead choose our response. Let our behaviour not be instigated by forces from outside, but be born out of an internal value-based choice.
Let the limitations of other people not limit us. ‘Someone is wrong’ isn’t an excuse for us to be wrong. Wrong as a response to wrong isn’t the way. Let us not trade our goodness. At every opportunity, let us get ahead of people and not get even with them.
what has to be done has to be done.
Emotional Maturity is not about avoiding emotions, but it is about avoiding the emotional drama. Anyways, what has to be done has to be done. Then, why the drama?
Genius is in knowing what to hold on and when to let go.
Let us together impress the world and impress upon the world that our world is actually a good world …
holidays rejuvenate our mind, intellect and emotions and thereby the spirit.
Taking family holidays is the best investment one can make to rebuild family ties. Likewise, taking a holiday as an organisation greatly strengthens interpersonal relationships. It provides uninterrupted time with each other and hence reduces the accumulated emotional baggage. It breaks the pattern of routine life which has turned out to be a professional drill for most people. It not only provides recreation, but also re-creates your spirits (the solid one, not the liquid). Leave your mobile phones, laptops and your tight inner garments behind. Dress comfortably during your holiday and forget
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people always think well in the lap of nature, as nature provides all the creative distractions that are needed to deepen one’s attraction.
When a weakness, a limitation, can be knocked off, why suffer it and let it incapacitate us for the rest of our lives? Invest some time in training, knock a weakness off and enjoy its benefit for the rest of your life!
Ability, when subjected to systematic training becomes proficiency. There is no other way to be the best. Nothing like growing in the right hands.
The forest fire you will face tomorrow is the little spark that you tried to escape yesterday.
It’s not that you don’t have time; it’s about managing the resource called time efficiently. It’s not that you don’t have enough space; it’s about managing the resource called space efficiently. It’s not that you don’t have enough money, and hence you are not rich; it’s about managing the resource called money, the little there is, efficiently enough to become rich.
In everything we make, create and produce there is an invisible ingredient, and this invisible ingredient makes the difference between the better and the best, the ordinary and the extraordinary, the good and the excellent.
101 % of the heart’s involvement in what we do is devotion.
Stop backward, regressive thinking and start forward, progressive thinking.
