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Fakes are powerful
Fakes beat the original in being arousing and holding the attention of people by being more entertaining and interesting. That is because they are not trammeled by being the original!
That explains the phenomenal success of The Onion and such parodies.
If the original is reclusive and enigmatic, and also successful, then we have to look for rumors and fakes to satiate our inherent clamor for gossip and scandal! As the world is full of people who love to sweeten their tea with a pinch of tittle-tattle and mild scandal, there will be no dearth of resources to cater to such needy!
Now we have a highly successful and enigmatic celebrity, who prefers to keep his private life out of arc lamps and depicts and attitude of “My personal life is nobody’s business”. Doesn’t he fit the bill to be the most likely candidate for being faked! But there is another spin-off benefit too - call it “collateral” if you like - for the adventurous and the innovative faker! He becomes instantly famous!
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Don’t sweat the small stuff - a review
Yes, don’t fret over a trifle and make your life a miserable one! A sane advice indeed!
Often we allow ourselves to get all worked up about things that, upon closer examination, aren’t really that big a deal. We focus on little problems and concerns and blow them way out of proportion. a stranger, for example, might cut in front of us in traffic. Rather than let it go, and go on with our day, we convince ourselves that we are justified in our anger. We play out an imaginary confrontation in our mind. many of us might even tell someone else about the incident later on arther than let it go.
Why not simply allow the driver to have his accident somewhere else? Try to have compassion for the person and remember how painful it is to be in such an enormous hurry. This way, we can maintain our sense of well-being and avoid taking other people’s problems personally.
There are many similar “small stuff” examples that occur every day in our lives. Whether we had to wait in line, listen to unfair criticism, or do the lion’s share of work, it pays enormous dividends if we learn not to worry about little things. So many people spend so much of their life energy “sweating the small stuff” that they completely lose touch with the magic and beauty of life. When you commit to working to ward this goal you will find that you will have far more energy to be kinder and gentler.
Here are some of the nuggets of wisdom found in the book:-
- Make peace with imperfection
- Don’t interrupt others or finish their sentences
- Learn to live in the present moment
- We allow past problems and future concerns to dominate our present moments
- The aim for perfection and desire for inner tranquility conflict with each other
- If someone throws you a ball, you don’t have to catch it
- Choose your battles wisely
- Trust your intuitive inner voice
But one trend of his advice to lead one’s life is something I am unable to fully agree with since it is not consonance with the real world and the way people’s mind works. He advocates universal love like a preacher! Many of his axioms are fit only for an Utopia! He champions a sense of altruism, which will practically make you a perpetual sucker in this man-eating-man world!
Look at this piece of advice in his book:-
If in doubt about whose turn it is take out the trash, go ahead and take it out.
Well, if you follow this wise counsel, you will end up carting trash throughout your life and other folks may even palm of their further fatigues on you!
As I was writing a review of this book, I just came to know he is no longer with us. With a poignant note, I stopped the critical review and wanted to remember the man as one who loved humanity and wanted to make everyone’s life a better one.
The Memorial message on his web site ends with this solemn observation:-
Richard Carlson left his own trail as he walked the earth and lived a life devoted to peace, love, and the betterment of humanity.
Let me end this with the cardinal message from Mr. Carlson:-
“Treasure yourself and the Gift of Life!”
Practical Wisdom
Here are some more motivational and inspirational stuff for successful living on this planet!Living is an art!
Every men dies
Not every man really lives!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Living is a reality and you can’t run away from life!
- Life is a continually evolving experience.
- Accept living with problems as a reality. Don’t be paranoid of the pitfalls!
- Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
- Specialize on the impossible!
- Remember, the same moment you say, “I give up”, someone else will be saying “My, what a great opportunity!”
- Use the past as a springboard, not a hammock.
- People judge you by your actions, not your intentions.
- All roads to success are uphill.
- You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.
- Know that yesterday ended last night.
- Every now and then bite off more than you can chew!
- It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves.
~ Edmund Hillary. - Every problem carries a seed of its own solution.
- Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure.
- Prefer the foolishness of enthusiasm to the indifference of logic.
- Do small things in a great way.
- Be quick to take advantage of an advantage.
- Learn the rules. Then break some!
- Avoid following the crowd.
- Why worry about things you can’t control? Get busy controlling the things that depend upon you.
- Do something that you don’t have to do.
- Keep your goals out of reach, not out of sight.
- Dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
- You are destined to be different.
- Gain the advantage by doing things before they need to be done.
- Desire more than you can accomplish.
- Believe in miracles!
- Learn from the mistakes of others.
- Find a reason why you can.
- Don’t be afraid to ask dumb questions.
- Stay incurably curious.
- Leave the beaten path occasionally and drive in the woods.
- It’s passion that persuades.
- Don’t spend your life answering a question nobody�s asking.
- Don’t let regrets replace your dreams.
- Be an expert at “why”, not “why not”.
- Keep your eye on the road and use your rear-view mirror only to avoid trouble.
- Do more than is required of you.
- Don’t make the mistake of letting yesterday use up too much of today.
- Be unpopular when necessary.
- If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
~ Somerset Maugham. - Cause something to happen.
- Know that the starting point for all achievement is desire.
- When your strategy is hit or miss, you�ll usually miss.
- You are only an attitude away from success!
- It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
- All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.
- We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Quitting is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
- It is unfortunate when people allow themselves to get like concrete: all mixed up and permanently set.
- Always do more than is required of you.
- Leadership has less to do with position that it does with disposition.
- It is tragic when we put off living. We dream of a magical rose garden over the horizon and miss the roses blooming outside our windows.
- True greatness consists in being great in little things.
- I started where the last man left off.
~ Thomas Alva Edison. - Hang in there, show up! You’ll win!!
- Eighty per cent of success is in showing up at the right moment at the right place!
~ Tom Peters. - Do not try to major in minor things.
- Instead of trying to minimise your weaknesses, try to maximise your strengths!
- The past is history
The future is a mystery
Today is a gift
That is why we call it ‘the present’!
~ From FISH! - When disaster strikes, we shed copious tears and mope around for a while, but in time, we learn to accept fate’s irrevocable edict!
- When it doesn’t work to go like a rhino, act like a swarm of bees!
~ Arun Shourie. - Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
~ Ayn rand. - You must know how fall off the horse without hurting yourself.
- Every fall, failure or defeat is a comma, not a full stop. Plan around them, not against them.
- Take a spare paddle when you row up the creek.
- Always plan a way “out”, before you make a way “in”. Remember the fate of Abhimanyu.
- Plan for a back-up strategy, just in case while venturing into something in which the stakes are high.
- “It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
~ Sir Winston Churchill - Chairman of $1.1 Billion Wipro Corpn, Mr.Azim Premji’s aphorisms for life in his speech at IIT/Roorkey on 17th Nov 2003:
- Learn to lose and also to enjoy winning. And when you do lose, do not lose the lesson.
- Have faith in your own ideas even if everyone tells you they are wrong. Have enduring faith in yourself because then you will always have enduring faith in others.
- Life’s battle does not always go to the person who is stronger and faster. But the person who wins is the person who thinks he can.
- Strive for excellence. We are what we repeatedly do. Remember, excellence is not an act but a habit.
- Always keep in mind that it is only the test of fire that makes fine steel.
- Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values. Your values are your foundation for life.
- A rupee earned is of far more value than five found.
- “Success is 99% failure”
~ Soichera Honda, founder of Honda Motor Corporation. - Invest some time in identifying what adds real value to your life.
~ Chris cole - It is how you handle failure makes a difference in your life.
- Smile. Tomorrow may be worse!
~ The Murphy Philosophy. - Do not believe in miracles.
Rely on them! - Always draw your curves. Then plot your readings, since most major decisions are taken first; the basis on which they are supposedly taken is worked out later!
- Creativity is allowing yourself to commit mistakes.
~ Scott Adams - “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
~ Reggie Leach. - “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain - “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”
~ Al Franken
Start Living!
I wish to list the time-tested tips and motivational ideas to achieve success in life and also dwell on the wisdom handed down to us through generations to live in this planet in harmony with the fellow human beings and to give an insight into what makes success and how to achieve an all-round happiness in life!
Achieve Success!
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
- Your appointment with Life is this moment.
The place of appointment is here, this very place.
Make the best out of it! - Each day is a Miracle!
- Each breath of wind
- Each flurry of snow
- Each bit of good news
- Savor them!
- You won’t be here forever!
~ Tom Peters.
- Life is a banquet and most damned fools prefer to starve!
- The principal business of life is to enjoy it!
~ Samuel Butler. - Always behave like a duck: stay calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath!
- Do not feel guilty and refrain from voicing a firm “No” when “No” and “No” alone is the answer!
- We lose our spirit of Living because we are too busy existing.
- Stop Existing (or, muddling through); Start Living!
- Don’t hurry through your life. Take your time. Savor it. Engage it with your whole being.
- Who is a Friend? Someone with whom you dare to be yourself!
- “I ruined Time; now the time is ruining me!”
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Stop digging if you are already in a hole.
- We see things not as they are, but as we are.
- You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
- The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- Either you try to find a way or make one!
- If you want to achieve excellence, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
- We are so much more than what we are.
- You are at once your own best friend and worst enemy too!
~ Bhagavat Gita. - Never denigrate yourself.
- Play up your best points.
Put up a dignified and respectful appearance.
You’ll start believing in yourself. - Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!
~ Swami Vivekananda. - What you think you are makes what you are.
- My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths, but the valiant never taste death but once.
~ William Shakespeare. - Every exit has an entry somewhere.
- The real measure of your wealth is how much you are worth when you lose all your money.
- Success is not in holding good cards, but in playing right with what you hold in hand.
- Life is like music; it must be composed by the ear, feeling and instinct, not by the rule.
~ Samuel Butler. - I took the road less traveled by and that made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost. - Those who stare at the past have their back turned to the future.
- Victory is what happens when 1000 hours of hard work meets with one moment of opportunity.
- If you want to achieve instant success, create a need and fill it!
- Trust only those who stand to lose as much as yourself when things go wrong!
- Climb the Everest within you!
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing!
~ Helen Keller. - Do not fret over what is past and gone;
Live each day as if your life were just begun!
~ Goethe. - I am the master of my fate.
I am the master of my soul!
~ W.E.Henley. - Only dead fish swim with the tide!
- Choose your enemies! A navigator never argues with an iceberg (Perhaps he has viewed Titanic!) - He avoids them!
- Never miss an opportunity to talk about you, your business, your ideas and how others can benefit out of your business. But don’t overdo it.
- Associate yourself with individuals who have influence and power to assist you in getting where you want to go.
- Be receptive to new ideas. Don’t have a closed mind and erect a wall about you.
- You can and should shape your own future; if you don’t, someone will surely will!
- Never carry a chip on your shoulder all the time. You have better things to do.
- A depressed person is different from a grieving person in that he refuses to work towards the light.
- The Tragic Triad!
- A negative assessment of self
- A negative assessment of environment
- A negative outlook about the future
~ Dr.Rangarajan, Psychiatrist, Malar Hospital, Chennai, India.
- The Law of Perseverance:
People who succeed never stop trying. People who stop trying never succeed. - In every significant event there has been a bold leader, a shared vision, and, most often, an adversary.
~~ Fred Smith - The qualities of a great man are:
- vision
- integrity
- courage
- understanding
- the power of articulation
- and profundity of character.
~~ Dwight D Eisenhower
- The mind is the limit.
As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it. As long as you really believe 100 percent!
~~ Arnold Schwarzenegger - In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
~~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - “Don’t skate to the puck; skate to where it’s going.”
~~ Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky - “In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.”
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Brahma is the metaphor for creation of everything in the universe - including the Cyber World and hence the name of this site!
Now that the mystery behind the name is settled, let us delve into the inner vaults of this site where you will find valuable content on development of your personality.
Miracle, that is Life!
Please read this excellent piece on Ten Steps to Inner Happiness written by W. Bradford Swift DVM, Founder & Chief Visionary Officer, Life on Purpose Institute and the author of Traveling the Purposeful Path.
This site contains essays on Inter-personal relations, Inspirational stuff, Art of Successful living on this planet, in addition to a collection of aphorisms and nuggets of wisdom. And my blog too!
A Day Begins……!
Cherish the day like a flower and you will be rewarded with the bouquet of your life!
At dawn the confusions of yesterday are history.
There is a new day ahead!
A day that never was before!
The Morning Mantra!
Chant this daily! Make your day fruitful!
“So here hath been dawning,
Another blue day
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away!”
~ THOMAS CARLYLE in his poem entitled, “Today”.
Never let today be a carbon copy of yesterday or any other day. Make every day unique by attempting something new, causing something to change, making new friends, helping someone, spreading goodwill, reading a book, writing a few lines, thanking someone, smiling at someone, fondling a child, enjoying the beauty of creation…!
What a wonderful life, savour every moment of it.
Please navigate around the various pages containing my essays forming part of my repertoire. The links on the right under the caption, “Knowledge Base”. They can also be reached from the “My Pulpit” link at the top horizontal bar.
I have tried to make this site with usability of my visitors in mind. If you feel it can still be improved to enhance visitor experience, please share your thoughts with me through the “Contact me” page.
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Pearls of Wisdom
Wisdom in hindsight by Guy Kawasaki:
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10: Live off your parents as long as possible.
9: Pursue joy, not happiness.
8: Challenge the known and embrace the unknown.
7: Learn to speak a foreign language, play a musical instrument, or play some sports.
6: Continue to learn.
5: Learn to like yourself or change yourself until you can like yourself.
4: Don’t get married too soon.
3: Play to win and win to play.
2: Obey the absolutes.
1: Enjoy your family and friends before they are gone.
You can read the amplified version in Kawasaki’s blog.
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