Live Well

Start Fast Finish Strong

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Let’s be honest.

If U don’t take this challenge in front of me, even though I have the intent to succeed, I will get distracted and soon drop the ball even before the new year party hangover gets over.

I will challenge myself this coming year every day to think of a radically different approach.

I will challenge myself to put my goals in front of me and pursue deliberate practice to get it accomplished, every project to be finished on time, and every assignment to be delivered with the best processes and tools.

I challenge myself to not only set up the goals, but for me to make them real as it’s gonna be everything for me.

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Pray everyday

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Pray everyday so that you attract the spiritual forces to grant you.
Freedom to be yourself.
Victory to the ailments and eliminating the evils.
Fame to stand tall and hold your head high.
Capacity to destroy all the hostility that causes disruption in the life and living of you and everyone else.

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Life is What You Make It

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Last week we did a survey in our office — we asked people how do you feel working with us by voting anonymously.
65% responded Happy
20% responded Worried
and 15% responded Sad

I told them that those who feel sad should find a better place where they can turn happy because I feel sadness cannot be repaired and we are not in the business of repairing sadness. To those who felt worried, I asked them to have an appointment to discuss the way for them to turn happy.

I made a commitment to employees that let’s work together to make happy ones more happier and worried ones to turn happy while listening to their concerns and solving it.

One employee dropped me an email. We spoke and what I discovered was that the employee was worried because she was not happy with her performance and she had doubts about her own capabilities of becoming successful in her current role. I drew the analogy from the marriage system and said to her, “We marry with so much excitement but, all the fun fades so quickly. However, we don’t give up on the relationship. We gradually strengthen the relationship and enrich each other’s life with commitment to make it a fulfilling one together. If you start thinking about the job also like a marriage, it will turn out to be a much more fun and rewarding thing to pursue. Life is what you make it. It’s not a ready-to-eat food platter from which you can choose to eat only what you like.”


I could see a smile and peace on the face and hope that next month our rate of happy employees will increase.


If you want to know how to conduct similar exercise in your office, please drop me your message.

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Listening to your quiet voice

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Sometime, when you are afflicted by the situation where you are not able to make decisions – remind yourself of your favourite activities like listening music, singing, playing your favourite sports, sitting in the park or simply walking. Leave your trouble and begin doing your favourite activity.

Your mind will begin listening to your quiet voice suppressed in your heart and you begin listening the answers that would make you come out as a winner.

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Choosing between self-will and God’s will

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Difficult. Because, unless you leave the self, destroy the self, how else can you know the will of the God? How can a drop of water know about the sea unless it loses itself into the ocean?

Unless you lose yourself, you will not know what the will of God is. Once you have surrendered,

You will have no desire, you will have no desire to know either, there is no question to know, and then you will have no feeling to burden yourself to fulfill your desire either.

You are just a resource for the source to act as per the will of the source.


तेरा तुझको सौंप दे क्या लागत है मोर
मेरा मुझसे कुछ नाही है जो होवत सो तोर

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How to use your head to handle yourself

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Our mind is like a child, it wants everything whether it’s helpful or harmful and that’s why God gifted us the parents. Parenthood is a role in controlling children’s minds using care and discipline; knowing well what is good for their ward. As a grown-up, how do you control yourself?

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says, “A man must elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well. “

We are living the world highly influenced by the material and marketing which influences our mind and our senses.

In order to make your mind your friend you build habits, focus and principles guiding you to not get attracted to greed, fear, fame or fetish.

Ask yourself:

1) How do you define self-control? Do you remember an event of the past when you won because you imposed self-control or lost because you could not?

2) Have you included practices like Yoga or meditation to build the habits of self-control? If not, what are you going to do this year?

3) Write down the events in the last one year of losing s

elf-control? What did you do to get back? What if you would not have reacted to the event?

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One thing. Just one thing.

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Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?

Mitch: No. What?

Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.]

Mitch: Your finger?

Curly: One thing. Just one thing.

You stick to that and everything else don’t mean sh*t.

Mitch: That’s great, but what’s the “one thing”?

Curly: That’s what you’ve got to figure out.

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Call out your calling

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You know it — You wake up every morning with a clear objective to take some steps that will get you closer to your true calling.
But, if you don’t know your true calling then you need to know it.
To know your true calling, you need to find the intersection of your strengths, interests and the social good that you wish to accomplish.
Do you know your true calling, yet?
If not then you should go and discover it as it won’t call out to you. You need to search for it.
If YES then go and do something today that will get you closer to your calling as even after knowing it, if you don’t do anything about it then it won’t get you anywhere.

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How cooperation makes wonderful things achievable

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In verse 3.12 of the Bhagavad Gita God Krishna says, “Even the blessed ones who receive various necessities of life from God enjoy these without sharing it with the other creatures are certainly a thief.”
 
You cannot achieve anything worthwhile without cooperation and help from others. It is the curbed and selfish passion that stops you from cooperating with people, organisations, and the nation. For the world to evolve, now is the time we pursue and push the agenda of “World’s One Family.”
 
How do you define cooperation?
How do you see yourself, your family, society and your organisation becoming better with the cooperation?
How will you measure whether you are cooperating well with others who matter for your plan ahead?
How will you know when you’re not cooperating?
 
And while conducting yourself in daily life remember, you are here for a short visit, not knowing how you are going to sail through the uncertain yet tough terrain of life.
 
Whatever happiness, success or peace you have today is there because of the labour of other people, how earnestly you must exert yourself to give in return as much as you receive so that living becomes happier, fearless, free of suffering and there exists a mutual respect.

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Swantah Sukhay Tulsi Raghunath Gatha

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नानापुराण निगमागम सम्मतं यद रामायणे निगदितं क्वचिदन्यतोsपि ।
स्वान्तःसुखाय तुलसी रघुनाथ गाथा भाषानिबंध मतिमंजुलमातनोति ।

अनेक पुराण,वेद और शास्त्र से सम्मत, तथा जो रामायण में वर्णित है, और कुछ अन्यत्र से भी उपलब्ध, श्री रघुनाथ जी की कथा को, तुलसीदास अपने अंतःकरण के सुख के लिए, अत्यंत मनोहर भाषा रचना में विस्तृत करता है।

For the gratification of own self, Tulsidas brings forth this very elegant composition relating in common parlance the story of the Lord of Raghunath, which is in accord with the various Puranas, Vedas and the Agamas (Tantras), and incorporates what has been recorded in the Ramayana of Valmiki and culled from some other sources.

Tulsidas declares that he is writing the Ramcharit Manas for the gratification of his own self and even after 100s of years, it is still among the most prominent work. Most of our daily rituals, rules, social norms, and living principles as mentioned in the Ramcharit Manas.


Look at your life, look at the things you are doing, and look inside you. Are you doing things that gratify your own self? If not, meditate on it for a while, identify things which will make you feel gratified and start putting together your act.


You are born original don’t die a copy. Jai Shri Ram.

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The simple secret to stand out

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Last week I was at a wedding function and one invitee approached me stating, “I read your every post and feel so much enchanted. Thanks for continuously guiding us.”

I’ve been reading data, observing and analyzing the whole philosophy of writing, sharing and getting likes/comments on online media. Only 2% people read and less than 2% of 2% likes or comments on your post. And when I don’t see likes/comments I start doubting – maybe something is wrong in my writing, talking and thinking.

Then I think to please more people.. To increase those 2% and try to please everyone. I get clouded by doubts – would I stop pleasing anyone if I lose my true voice? I get this answer – I’m victimizing the self by trying to sound like trying to please everybody else and end up losing my 2% true fans.

And that’s how I wished to stand out. By focusing on my 2%. By focusing on my true fans. By ignoring the data and by being myself. And by not trying to be someone I’m not.


I realize that patience is the virtue while being myself and I can stand out only by talking in my own true voice and not in someone else’s voice.
Because everybody else’s voice is already taken..

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Best friend, Next best friend and Least intimate friend.

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Your three friends: best friend, next best friend and least intimate friend.

When faced with the trouble, your best friend denies the support citing his own fears and inabilities, the next best friend comes forward only for a partial support and the least intimate friend stands like a wall to support you to handle the crisis.

Make a list of all your friends, categorise them into these three categories, and ask yourself who’s who?


What does it mean to be a good friend?


What quality do you think a good friend should have? How do you show that to your friends?


What can you do to make new good friends?


How do you keep the friends you already have?


What do you do when you see your friend not doing something right?


How do you express your admiration and gratitude to your friend?

My formula for a good friend is that I am able to count them on my fingers.

I treat my friends like my family. I share, enjoy, cherish and support them for whatever it may take.


You are the sum total of five friends you have in your life. Set your premise on respect, mutual success, gratitude and trust in your friendship. And before you expect your friend to be good, you, yourself be that friend you want to have in this world.

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Do something for your own joy

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I am not starving nor do I have seventeen children to feed.

A little girl was selling flowers outside the music hall in New York. She was scolded by an onlooker at the site.


The little girl replied, ” I am not starving nor do I have seventeen children to feed.”


She continued, ” I sell flowers because I love flowers and enjoy selling them. If you care to buy, they are twenty-five cents each. If you are not interested, that is your business. God speed you on your way.”
She emptied five baskets in fifteen minutes.


When did you do something for your own joy?

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It is a desire. Yes, it is desire, Arjuna

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Arjuna to Shri Krishna: “No man wants to commit sin. Even so, Krishna, he does evil again and again. What is it that drives him so? “.

“It is a desire. Yes, it is desire, Arjuna “. God Krishna replies.

“Born of the activating attribute of Nature, it is desire, it is anger—full of unappeasable craving and great evil: know this to be the foulest enemy here on earth.

As fire is obscured by smoke, as a looking glass by dust, as an embryo is enveloped by the womb, so wisdom is covered by this desire. “

— Bhagavad Gita Ch.2.37-38

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The Pyramid of Success

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Coach John Wooden has developed 15 factors that one needs to work on to become what you are capable of becoming.
For the next 15 days, I’ll post on one of these 15 factors to help you look at your life taking account of where you are, where you want to be and what you need to do to become the best version of yourself.
On this day today, think about SUCCESS:
In my view success isn’t about having a big car, a palatial apartment, lots of friends or innumerable money in your bank. It’s a journey of trying to be the best version of yourself at all times without thinking too much about failure, obstacles or missed opportunities.

Starting today, make it a part of your routine to ask below questions to understand where you are going and how to organise your energy towards your goals:
When you start writing your autobiography, do you think what you’re doing today is significant to add a page to it?
When you look at life what do you feel? Sad? Mad? Stressed? Confused? Happy?

Are you stepping further every day or you’re standing at the crossroads undecided about your immediate actions?

Take a notebook and write down your answers. Meditate and reflect on your responses and course correct yourself to align yourself with what’s important to you.Success pyramid by Coach John Wooden

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