Good Morning!

In life you will realise that
there is a purpose for
everyone you meet....


Some will test you, some will use you,
some will love you and
some will teach you...


Most important are the ones who bring out
the best in you, respect you and accept you for
who you are.  Those are the ones worth keeping
around - keep them close to your heart.....

Life lessons From a Butterfly

Let go of the past...
trust the future...
embrace change....
come out of the cocoon...
unfurl your wings....
dare to get off the ground...
ride the breezes...
savor the flowers...
put on your brightest colours...
let your beauty show......

Story to be shared!

A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train window, shouted 

"Dad , look the trees are going behind" 

Dad smiled :) ..and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old's childish behavior with pity. 

Suddenly he again said "Dad, look the clouds are running with us!!" 

The couple Could'nt resist and said to the old man, "why dont you take your son to a good doctor?"

The old man smiled and said "I did it and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today". 

Don't jump to a conclusion directly. Because what you see is most probably not the truth..!!

‎"Why We Shout In Anger"

A Hindu saint who was visiting river Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled 'n asked.


'Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?'


Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout.'


'But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner.' asked the saint


Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained, .


'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.


What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small...'


The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper 'n they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other 'n that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'


He looked at his disciples 'n said.


'So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant, Do not say words that distance each other more, Or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.'

Dear Bloggers,


Though blogging about positive thoughts at times me as a human being too go through some challenges and need encouragement.  
Your comments and messages in my chat box keeps me going.  
I must tell you how comforting your encouragements have been to me.  
Keep sending them and thank you so much for visiting my blog and motivating me to blog more!  
Thank you so much!!!


Suganthi

Quotes.....

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. 
- Mark Twain 


Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. 
- Confucius 


Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. 
- Mark Twain 


When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat. 
- Ronald Reagan


“Never, never, never, never give up.” - Winston Churchill

Swami Vivekananda's Teaching - III

Don't Play The Blame Game: Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.


Uphold Your Ideals: Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.


Be Yourself: The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! 



You Have The Power: All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Be Truthful: Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

Swami Vivekananda's Teaching - II

Nothing Is Impossible: Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin - to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Learn Everyday: The goal of mankind is knowledge... now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

Think Different: All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

It's Your Outlook That Matters: It is our own mental attitude, which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

It's The Way You Feel: Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

Swami Vivekananda's Teaching - I

Love Is The Law Of Life: All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.


Life is Beautiful: First, believe in this world - that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!


Set Yourself Free: The moment I have realised God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.


Help Others: If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.


Listen To Your Soul: You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Good Morning!

The Next CEO

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. 

Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together. He said, 'It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you.‘ The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued. 'I am going to give each one of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. 

I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO.' One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed. 

Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.

Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however. He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the seed to grow.

A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick to his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot to the board room. 

When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful -- in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him! When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. 

'My, what great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown,' said the CEO. 'Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!' All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to the front. Jim was terrified. He thought, 'The CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!' When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his seed - Jim told him the story. 

The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, 'Behold your next Chief Executive Officer! His name is Jim!' Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow his seed. 'How could he be the new CEO?' the others said. Then the CEO said, 'One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.

All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!' 

'Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back‘. Live our CORE VALUES, and Reap the returns!a

Back with an interesting story!!!

A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried cross his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the House, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of it's own imperfection. And miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the 

stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts," the pot said.

The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw. So I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house?

Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are, and look for the good in them. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. Remember to appreciate all the different people in your life.

Robert H Schuller's Quotable Quotes.....!

"I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!"


"Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit."


"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."


"Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! Its possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!"

Affirmation...!

Positive Daily Affirmations For Success

Examples of positive daily affirmations for success include:

1. I am successful.

2. Everything I do turns into success.

3. I am filled with success.

4. Success comes effortlessly to my direction.

5. My success is contagious, other people like it, seek it and respect it.

6. I attract positive-minded people to me; I draw all things positive to myself.

7. I am very fortunate to work at what I love to do.

8. I make powerful and enjoyable business relationships and many of my business contacts are now my friends.

Embrace your efforts!

You can choose to do it or you can choose not to do it. Once you choose to do it, however, give your very best to the effort.


A halfhearted attempt can often be worse than no attempt at all. If you cannot be authentically enthusiastic about what you’re doing, consider doing something else.


Your life and your time are precious. Spend them on what truly matters.


Don’t put yourself in a position where you are complaining constantly about what you’re doing. Either find a way to get fully behind your efforts, or change what those efforts are.


If you’re tempted to feel resentment for what you must do, remember this. Resentment only makes it worse, and serves no useful purpose.


Embrace your efforts, and you make them highly effective. Embrace your efforts, and those efforts will bring the fulfillment you seek.
— Ralph Marston

Right Attitude!

There were twin brothers one brother used to hit his wife and children, he used to drink and had a criminal record but the second brother had a very happy family he never abused anyone was very happy with his family and had a great job.

Once the lawyer sat with both and asked the first brother that why does he take drugs and abuse family?, He said what else he is supposed to do? His father did the same to us, he used to hit us and our mother and abuse us, thats why I am doing the same, then the lawyer asked the second brother that what makes you so happy being with family,he said my father used to hit us and abuse us, so I decided I should not do this ever to my family that why I never hit anyone nor abuse.

The moral of the story is- Both had the same driving energy their FATHER but one took it in a negative way and other in a positive way. So we have to always keep thinking positive which will help to grow our personality and a positive attitude.

Thought for the day!

Quotes!

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.- Charles Dickens


The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.- Albert Einstein


Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.- Napoleon Hill


A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.- Earl Nightingale


The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you. - John Greenleaf Whittier

Book Review

Shared from Amazon.com

Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone

Book Description

A classic self-improvement title by the author of the bestselling Think and Grow Rich. It is possible to make all your dreams come true -- just think positively and discover how to awaken hidden powers within you. This book will show you just how easy it is. Learn how to: motivate yourself / develop personal initiative and self-discipline / use creative visualization / employ organized thinking and concentrate your effort / find job satisfaction / raise your energy levels.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'These two men have the rare gift of inspiring and helping people! In fact, I owe them a personal debt of gratitude for the helpful guidance I have received!' Norman Vincent Peale --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

W. Clement Stone built $100 into a multi-million dollar organization using their techniques. Napoleon Hill is the author of the bestselling Think and Grow Rich -- the handbook of entrepreneurs for over three decades. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

3 Best Health Tips..

A positive attitude is a great starting point, not only for a healthy lifestyle but also to help you face all life's challenges.


A home exercise routine is a great way to get some exercise everyday. Set achievable goals and choose an exercise you enjoy. Aim for around 30 minutes every other day.


Laugh - find something to laugh about everyday and cut your stress levels.High stress levels are harmful and can put you at risk. There aren't obvious signs of high blood pressure, but you can still be at risk.