• Become an expert in your field.
• Don’t complain about the work it takes to achieve your dreams.
• Find out what you love and create a business around it.
• You must be willing to pay the price of success to enjoy the prize of success.
• The quickest way to become successful is to find out what the best are doing, and then do what they do.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Power shift
The Chinese are being driven by a history of imprisonment by communism. For the Indians, it is a history of the caste system. Having experienced hardship over time, these nations are desperate to demonstrate their capabilities to the world. Every year, China turns out more graduates than the population of most European countries. As the world leadership shifts to the East, I fear for the tension we may have to contend with as these emerging dinosaurs flex muscles as they attempt to corner resources to enable them meet the basic necessities of their citizen.
Tips to survive an economic crisis
• Don’t lose hope; don’t lose faith. Think positive thoughts.
• Having a narrow niche is risky during an economic crisis, so diversify your source of income.
• If you are a business owner, keep prices low and keep sales high.
• Don’t out-do yourself in trying to keep up with your previous life-style.
• You don’t want to add health problems to your financial problems. So keep healthy habits and do things that are stress-free.
• Send time with your family. They are your treasure. Even if you don’t have money to spend on them, no problem. The best gift is the one from the heart. It is the gift money can’t buy.
• Having a narrow niche is risky during an economic crisis, so diversify your source of income.
• If you are a business owner, keep prices low and keep sales high.
• Don’t out-do yourself in trying to keep up with your previous life-style.
• You don’t want to add health problems to your financial problems. So keep healthy habits and do things that are stress-free.
• Send time with your family. They are your treasure. Even if you don’t have money to spend on them, no problem. The best gift is the one from the heart. It is the gift money can’t buy.
Tips for conversation
• Try to establish common grounds, find things you may share in common.
• Focus on the speaker. Maintain eye contact.
• Try to lean towards the speaker to demonstrate your interest.
• Don’t fold your arms or lean back.
• Give compliments where and when you see fit and appropriate.
• Keep an open mind. Don’t challenge until you have heard it all.
• Focus on the speaker. Maintain eye contact.
• Try to lean towards the speaker to demonstrate your interest.
• Don’t fold your arms or lean back.
• Give compliments where and when you see fit and appropriate.
• Keep an open mind. Don’t challenge until you have heard it all.
10 Tips for smooth pass through airport security
• Avoid unnecessary stress by arriving an hour or more before a domestic flight and three hours before an international flight.
• If you can, travel light. This facilitates your movement from one point to another.
• Never leave your bags unattended. And if you must, lock them.
• Don’t accept anything from strangers.
• Don’t wrap your gifts.
• Be prepared to take off your shoes, belt, heavy jewelry and jacket. If you are wearing baggy clothes, you might be singled out for further screening.
• Empty your pockets of change, mobile phones, keys, and palmtops.
• Keep boarding pass and ID out until you pass airport security. Also keep baggage claim tickets in case your destination airport has tight security on the way out.
• If you have to undergo extra airport security screening, calm down. Getting upset won’t make the process go away faster.
• Exercise patience.
• If you can, travel light. This facilitates your movement from one point to another.
• Never leave your bags unattended. And if you must, lock them.
• Don’t accept anything from strangers.
• Don’t wrap your gifts.
• Be prepared to take off your shoes, belt, heavy jewelry and jacket. If you are wearing baggy clothes, you might be singled out for further screening.
• Empty your pockets of change, mobile phones, keys, and palmtops.
• Keep boarding pass and ID out until you pass airport security. Also keep baggage claim tickets in case your destination airport has tight security on the way out.
• If you have to undergo extra airport security screening, calm down. Getting upset won’t make the process go away faster.
• Exercise patience.
Tips I learnt from a thief
• A thief strikes with lightening boldness. He does not brag about his time of execution. He plans his moves and surprises you with its outcome.
• A thief is not careless or casual. He cannot afford to. He is careful, thorough and goal-getting. He does everything not only to get the object of his desire, but he does even more not to leave a trace that would lead to his being found out.
• A thief is an employer of appropriate and quality labour. He has an instinct for good hands. He is a great talent spotter.
• A thief is a good networker. He knows that he cannot achieve anything significant alone. As a stranger, give him few hours in the town square and he will be able to recruit a good thieving team.
It sounds strange, but his tips contain lessons for us in our business and private lives.
• A thief is not careless or casual. He cannot afford to. He is careful, thorough and goal-getting. He does everything not only to get the object of his desire, but he does even more not to leave a trace that would lead to his being found out.
• A thief is an employer of appropriate and quality labour. He has an instinct for good hands. He is a great talent spotter.
• A thief is a good networker. He knows that he cannot achieve anything significant alone. As a stranger, give him few hours in the town square and he will be able to recruit a good thieving team.
It sounds strange, but his tips contain lessons for us in our business and private lives.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Life’s tips from soccer
• Every soccer player benefits from the expertise and experience of his coach. Likewise as a player in life’s game, you need a coach.
• To keep in top shape, soccer players emphasize training routine. As a player in life’s game you must continuously work on your skills.
• Just as injuries are inevitable in the game of soccer, so also are adversities in the game of life. However how you respond to tough times, defines your destiny.
• In soccer games, “half time” is the period players rest and evaluate their performance. Also in the rat race of life, take time to relax and evaluate your performance. What have you done so far?
• In the game of soccer, it is goals that count. Same way in life. What really counts is being able to take bold steps towards bringing your vision and dreams to fruition.
• Just as soccer players stick to the rules of the referee, you must play the game of life in accordance with the rules of its referee – God. He who sticks with God never fail.
• To keep in top shape, soccer players emphasize training routine. As a player in life’s game you must continuously work on your skills.
• Just as injuries are inevitable in the game of soccer, so also are adversities in the game of life. However how you respond to tough times, defines your destiny.
• In soccer games, “half time” is the period players rest and evaluate their performance. Also in the rat race of life, take time to relax and evaluate your performance. What have you done so far?
• In the game of soccer, it is goals that count. Same way in life. What really counts is being able to take bold steps towards bringing your vision and dreams to fruition.
• Just as soccer players stick to the rules of the referee, you must play the game of life in accordance with the rules of its referee – God. He who sticks with God never fail.
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