People, Life, Happiness and Living Life Fully

Are you happy? Do you think that your life is complete? Or how to feel like your life is complete? In exploring his own and others' lives, a wise man has identified the following four rules of living that give a sense of completeness to our days on earth :

1. Accept challenge and pain: We have to be prepared to accept pain, or else we will never dare to hope or to live. Without the readiness to feel, which must include feeling pain, we will never know joy. We have been led to believe that for every hurt there is a pill we can take to stop it. But when the pain of rejection, deteriorating health or dashed dreams does not go away, many do not know how to deal with it. Pain is part of being alive, but it does not last for ever, and it is bearable. Broken hearts, like broken bones, ultimately heal and there is life beyond the hurting.
2. Be close to People: We need to belong intimately to a few people with whom we share our lives. All the structures for which we spend so much time and energy to create are built on sand. At any time a wave may knock them down. When that happens, the person who has somebody's hand to hold will be able to laugh, and start over.
3. Know that you have made a difference: While not all of us have great wealth or talent, we can invest our creative energy in ways that remain after we are gone. We can all make a difference by teaching. By this I mean not only the classroom teacher but also the experienced accountant or factory worker passing on advice to the new arrival. Having an impact on another person, shaping his or her life in some small but vital way, is one of the most enduring satisfactions we ever know.
4. Live life until you die: The philosopher Horace Kallen once said, "There are persons who shape their lives by the fear of death, and persons who shape their lives by the joy of life. The former live dying; the later die living. Whenever I die, I intend to die living." We should think of life as the accumulation of treasures. Every new friend made, every new truth learned or experience undergone makes us richer than we were. You should keep it in mind that, it is only when you are no longer afraid to die, you can say you are truly alive.

Plan And Use Your Time Wisely

Proper planning always helps in our life. In life you can't expect anything to happen as planned. But planning can help you solve your problems effectively. So, it is a good idea to get in the habit of planning your time and effort.

Have a clear idea of what you want to do with the day. Draw out a definite programme. Know what you like doing with your leisure. Have definite hobbies and interests, and develop them.

Plan your work. Organize it before you start. Get each stage clear in your mind so that you cut out unnecessary details. Fix a time-limit for each job and do your best to complete it within that time.

Learn to do things the right way with ease, speed, and efficiency. Never be afraid to learn from others. Watch people who know. Take lessons if necessary. Eliminate all unnecessary movements. Have your tools and materials ready before you begin your work.

Try to do something useful with odd minutes like those spent waiting for buses or trains. For example, plan your next job. Test your memory. Go to bed at a reasonable hour so that you do not oversleep or want to lie in bed next morning.

Be punctual about appointments. If you are late, you may have to wait or even find your journey a wasted one.

Talking to people is nice but it can become a habit that eats up your time with no purpose. Keep it under control.

Friendship and Some Tips

True friendship is hard to find and even harder to keep! Many people don't realize this fact, which ultimately harms their relationships. When friends clasp their two hands, five plus five, ten fingers come closer to each other. If you want to keep those fingers close forever, you must give some efforts towards the relationship. Here I would like to tell you about some genuine tips.

Guidelines For Lasting Friendship

1. To be friend, you must be a good listener. It was Benjamin Disraeli who said, nature has given us two ears, but only one mouth. The ears cannot be closed whereas the mouth can be closed. Once a word leaves your mouth, you cannot get it back. Think twice before you speak anything. You are the master of the unspoken word; you become a slave of the spoken word. Listen not only with your ears, but with your heart.
2. You must learn to appreciate others. Do not find fault with others in the midst of people. Leonardo da Vinci has said: "Blame in private, but praise in public."
3. If you would be a true friend, you must grow in the sprit of forgiveness.
4. Never forget a friend's name, because that lapse on your part can never be pardoned. That will show up your insincerity.
5. Make promises sparingly, but when you make one, fulfil it with the least delay.
6. You must not preach what you do not practice yourself.
7. Be cheerful; smile as much as you can. Learn to laugh. Laughter is a good mental tonic. Don't laugh at others. You may laugh at yourself.
8. Discuss, but do not argue. You may win an argument, but lose a friend.
9. Do not feel hurt when friends criticize you. Whenever you find yourself in the wrong, admit it.
10. If you want to win friends, you must be on the look out for opportunities to serve them. The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Emerson has said: 'The only way to get a friend is to be a friend'. And Henry Davidson has said: 'Radiate friendship, and it will be returned tenfold'.

Impulse Buying, Life and Relationships

Impulse buying refers to an unplanned decision to buy or a situation when the decision is made just before a purchase. An impulse buyer or impulse spender takes the decision to buy after seeing the product or a nicely done advertising campaign. It is thought that human emotions and feelings play the most important role in impulse buying.

Are you an impulse buyer? In order to know that answer the following questions truthfully:

1. Does your spouse or partner complain that you spend too much money?
2. Are you surprised each month when your credit card bill arrives at how much more you charged than you thought you had?
3. Do you have more shoes and clothes in your closet than you could ever possibly wear?
4. Do you own every new gadget before it has time to collect dust on a retailer’s shelf?
5. Do you buy things you didn’t know you wanted until you saw them on display in a store?

If your answer was "yes" to any two of the above questions, rest assured that you are an impulse spender and indulge yourself in so-called retail therapy!

This is not a good thing. Mind it. Because impulse spending usually lead to problems such as financial difficulties, family disapproval, or feeling of guilt or disappointment. It will prevent you from saving for the important things like a house, a new car, a vacation, retirement or whatever.

If you want to live a financially stable life, you must set some solid financial goals and resist spending money on items that really don’t matter in the long run. Impulse spending will not only put a strain on your finances but your relationships, as well.

To overcome the problem of impulse spending, the first thing you need to do is learn to separate your needs from your wants. Give yourself a cooling-off period before you buy anything that you have not planned for. When you go shopping, make a list and take only enough cash to pay for what you have planned to buy. Leave your credit cards at home.

And if you see something that you think you really need, don't buy it instantly. Instead give yourself a few days to decide if it is really something you need or something you can easily do without. In this way, by taking some careful steps while shopping, you will be able to easily mend your financial fences and your relationships.

Judicious Use of Time for Success

Judicious use of time is very important for achieving success in life. Time is one thing that is rationed to everyone and has no black market at any price. Lost time and spoken words can never be got back.

Some people have intelligence, have talent and are quite capable. They get ample opportunities but due to their habit of postponement they are not able to take advantage of the available opportunities and continue to live a worthless life.

It has been rightly said ,"Do not postpone the work for tomorrow that has to be done today. Do the work to be done today now itself for no one can be sure of the next moment. Death may take you away and then everything will remain incomplete".

There is an opportune time for every work and that is the time when it must be done. Once the time slips away the importance of the work itself may reduce. History is full with examples to prove that all those who postponed the work for tomorrow or were not punctual, lagged behind and others stole a march over them.

Napoleon could defeat Austria because Austrian forces were a bit late in mounting the attack. But the very same Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo and was made the prisoner because his Lieutenant was five minutes late to arrive with the additional forces. By not doing the work in time, victories turn into humiliating defeats and profits in business get converted into losses.

Managers who want to have smooth sailing in their organization have to take timely decisions. Any tendency to postpone decisions has to be avoided. Justice delayed is justice denied. When justice is denied to the employees because of postponement, the organization starts to suffer and then production will be seriously affected.

It would only be useful to keep the following great quotes in mind in regard to time:

• Time is one thing that is rationed to everyone and it has no black market at any price.
• Indecision and lack of major purpose are the greatest thieves of time.
• The use of one's time determines the place one occupies in the world
• Live each day as if it is the last day and you develop respect for time.
• It is not sufficient to arrive, you should be in time.
• You will have time for all your needs if you are properly organized.
• The man who wastes his time may be no less a thief than the man who steals some other man's property.
• Time is a wonderful healer. It tends to equalize good and evil and to right the wrongs of the world.
• Tell me how you spend your spare time and I will tell you what and where you will be ten years from now.
• No man is paid for his time but he may be paid for the use he makes of it. Only used time has value.
• Every minute of the time saved on any job is the step on the road to success.

Happy New Year 2009

Today is January 1, 2009. A new year starts. In this occasion, I would like to take the opportunity to wish you all a Great, Prosperous, Blissful, Healthy, Bright, Delightful, Mind Blowing, Energetic and extremely Happy New Year. Enjoy your life, live your life.

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Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
-Lord Tennyson

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• So, Why I need a Blog?

I need a blog to express something. I need a platform to share something. I need a blog to interact with people. Am I talking much about future? Actually, I think these points are important for a new blog. Without some good content, a blog is not a blog (who will read blank pages?). Without comments, a blog is a dead blog! So, I want to write or share something through my blog and also want to talk with my visitors through comments (be it small in numbers). One more thing! I love Blogging.

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