Hello Friends,Here comes Edition 4 of Our Good to Great. This weeks Special thanks are to Dev, Raji, Raji, Srini and Manoj for their constructive feedback.
This edition has a new addition – parenting (Thanks Dev). Tried to keep length of articles short / abridged, to accommodate more topics, except for Positive talk and Parenting. Going thru so many articles and deciding what is best is very interesting & helps to gain a lot of knowledge/ different perspectives. (helps overcome 8th time waster…will definitely write about this in the next edition)
As always, to share interesting articles, puzzles, thoughts, views, feedback...jus mail them to balajineela@gmail.com (Or leave feedback in the Blog itself)
Contents:
1. It's all about YOU
2. Cost savers
3. Health(y) tips Power of Crying??? B/f Angelenaa
4. Inspiring...web
5. Cool Joke
6. Safety B/f Aravind
7. Thought for the Week B/f Bala
8. Management Thirukkurals
9. Management Fundas Power of Positive talk B/f Raj / Radhakrishnan
10. Trivia Microsoft B/f Aravind
11. Tip for this week Print Screen (Its different) B/f Valliappan / Rajan
12. A Great….Movie to Watch
13. A Great....Book to Read Inputs Kamesh
14. Parenting Non-Violence(??) B/f R S Murthy
15. A Puzzle
16. Closing thoughts
1. It's all about YOU
As long as you are still alive, you are capable of changing and growing. You can do anything you want to do, be anything you want to be.
Accept personal responsibility for your own growth; no one can do it for you. What you do today will determine your readiness for tomorrow. Take time every day to do something for yourself. Take classes to stay current in your field of expertise. The world is changing rapidly and you must learn to manage change to avoid obsolescence. "Even if you are on the right track, if you just sit there you will get run over”
These actions will help you grow in the direction of your goals.
· Eliminate one time waster a week from your life.
· Read a minimum of one chapter of a book a day.
· Read a minimum of one book a month.
· Be hungry for what life has to offer and go for it.
· Decide what you really desire to do-then do it.
2. Cost Savers Waste elimination
Thoughtful practice of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle need to be applied.
REDUCE - Lowering waste generation by application of efficient housekeeping methods & changing wasteful habits & lifestyles.
REUSE - This is a fine area between avoiding waste & recycling already used materials. A creative way to support reuse of material is to make them available to those who can use them.
RECYCLE - Waste could indeed be a resource and a renewable one which, if anaged well by recycling, would enable us to preserve our natural non-renewable resources.
DO’S & DONT’S
Please segregate your waste into 2 – namely organic waste & paper in one lotplastic & glass in another lot.
Please keep your garbage, as segregated above, outside your house at the designated time to permit the maintenance staff to clear the same on time.
Please do not throw anything out of your windows / balconies onto thedriveways, corridors.
Please restrict washing of balconies to once a year. Use a mop on a daily basis.
3. Health(Y) Tips Power of Crying (??)
"There was a study done where a control group of 100 people were divided into two."50 people watched a very funny, tears-of laughter type movie. 50 watched a very sad and tears of compassion type movie.
At the end of the sessions researchers collected the "happy tears" & the "sad tears" with eye droppers.
They found that "happy tears" are made up of brine... salt water and not a great deal else.
However the "sad tears" were found to contain the very same chemicals and enzymes that are found in tumors, ulcers and other such lumps and bumps and sicknesses through out the body. This test concluded that the body, when crying in sadness etc is lite rally flushing out all of the toxic-chemicals that accumulate and are a part of the sadness /heartache experience.
Therefore if one holds back those tears, those toxic-waters will find somewhere else to deposit themselves.. . and prolonged lack-of-crying- release will guarantee that the body will accumulate a huge amount of internal pollution and toxicity that should have been released through the tears....... is it any wonder that the eyes sting so much when we hold back our tears?
NO WONDER MEN DIE EARLIER THAN WOMAN. MEN HOLD N TO THEIR PRIDE WHICH LEAD THEM TO EARLY DEATH!!!!
LESSON FROM THE STUDY : CRY YOUR HEART OUT WHEN YOU ARE SAD, LONELY, ALONE, DEPRESSED
4. Awe Inspiring Web Nick Vujicic is a giant of a man
No arms, No legs, NO WORRIES~ well if you thought God did not give you something, here is a man who has Got nothing (Legs or Arms), yet he has everything because of his self belief.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DxlJWJ_WfA
So what do you think you need to achieve your dreamz after watching the video….Just go for it!!!
5. Jokes corner God does have a sense of humour
A man was praying to god.
He said, "God?"
God responded, "Yes?" And the Guy said, "Can i ask a question?" "Go right ahead", God said.
"God, what is a million years to you?"
God said, "A million years to me is only a second."
The man wondered.
Then he asked, "God, what is a million dollars worth to you?"
God said, "A million dollars to me is a penny."
So the man said, "God can I have a penny?"
And God cheerfully said, "Sure!.......just a second."
6. Safety
& the words there convey "life goes on...so drive carefully"
7. Thought for the Week
"Changing the Face can change nothing.But
Facing the Change can change everything"
8. Management Thirukkurals The Biggest Little words
- Part 1 - "I Miss You"
Most Marriages could be strengthened, If couples simply and sincerely said "I Miss You"
This Powerful affirmation tells partners that they are wanted, needed, desired and loved.
Consider How ecstatic you would feel, if you received a phone call from your spouse
In the middle of your work day, just to say "I Miss You"
9. Management Fundas Power of Positive Talk (Abridged)
I remember my dad teaching me the power of language at a very young age. Not only did my dad understand that specific words affect our mental pictures, but he understood words are a powerful programming factor in lifelong success.
As a kid, I was always climbing trees, poles, and literally hanging around upside down from the rafters of our lake house. My little eight-year-old brain didn't realize the tree could break or I could get hurt. I just thought it was fun to be up so high.
My older cousin, Tammy, was also in the same tree. She was hanging on the first big limb, about ten feet below me. About that time a huge gust of wind came over the tree. I could hear the leaves start to rattle and the tree begin to sway. I remember my dad's voice over the wind yell, "Bart, Hold on tightly." So I did.
The next thing I know, I heard Tammy screaming at the top of her lungs, laying flat on the ground. She had fallen out of the tree.
I scampered down the tree to safety. My dad later told me why she fell and I did not. Apparently, when Tammy's mother felt the gust of wind, she yelled out, "Tammy, don't fall!" And Tammy did… fall.
My dad then explained to me that the mind has a very difficult time processing a negative image.
In fact, people who rely on internal pictures cannot see a negative at all. In order for Tammy to process the command of not falling, her nine-year-old brain had to first imagine falling, then try to tell the brain not to do what it just imagined. Whereas, my eight-year-old brain instantly had an internal image of me hanging on tightly.
This concept is especially useful when you are attempting to break a habit or set a goal. You can't visualize not doing something. The only way to properly visualize not doing something is to actually find a word for what you want to do and visualize that.
If our parents can set a lifetime of programming with one wrong statement, imagine the kind of programming you are doing on a daily basis with your own internal dialogue.
Examples:
Toxic phrase: "Don't drop the ball!" Likely result: Drops the ball
Better language: "Catch the ball!"
Toxic phrase: "You shouldn't watch so much television." Likely result: Watches more television.
Better language: "I read too much television makes people stupid. You might find yourself turning that TV off and picking up one of those books more often!"
10. Trivia Microsoft
MAGIC #1
Nobody can create a FOLDER, which can be named as "CON".
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable. ..
TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE "CON" FOLDER
MAGIC #2
This is something pretty cool and neat...and unbelievable. ..Try it out yourself...
Open Microsoft Word and type=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER
Explanation for Magic #1:
In windows the folder name and the special system variables share the
same interface, so when you create a folder with a system variable name
it will consider that folder already exist!! These special system variables
are available irrespective of path
You cannot create a folder with these names also:
CON, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3,COM1 to COM9 and
LPT1 to LPT9....CON means console, COM1 means serial port 1, LPT1
means parallel port 1 HEE HEE!!!
11. Tip for the Week Print Screen
(Without Printing the other Open applications)
If you use print screen and paste it, it will print all the applications behind
a particular app, task bar etc. However, if you use
alt + print screen, it will print only that particular application.
Try it and use it for a wide variety of purposes…(Desk procedures, Railway tickets, etc.)
12. A Good….Movie to Watch
Dasathavaram….Interesting movie – great Effort by Kamal / Technicians…Story –Sorry Guys, watch it in a Theatre near You….6 of the 10 Kamals Make up was excellent. 1-2 roles were hmmmmmmmmm…..
Overall Worth watching – Yes, it stands up to the Hype it has created!!!
13. A Good…Book to Read
"The Monk who sold his Ferrari" by Robin Sharma (Recommended by Kamesh)
A superb writing which provides an approach to living a simple life with a
greater balance, strength, courage and abundance of Joy
– the message lingers on ; A Must read for the current fast paced life
14. Parenting How My Father Taught Me Non-Violence
by Arun Gandhi ( GRANDSON OF GANDHI)
I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of Durban, South Africa, in the middle of the sugar plantations. We were deep in the country and had no neighbors, so my two sisters and I would always look forward to going to town to visit friends or go to the movies.
One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance. Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in town, my father ask me to take care of several pending chores, such as getting the car serviced. When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, 'I will meet you here at 5:00 p.m., and we will go home together.'
After hurriedly completing my chores, I went straight to the nearest movie theatre. I got so engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that I forgot the time. It was 5:30 before I remembered. By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my father was waiting for me, it was almost 6:00. He anxiously asked me, 'Why were you late?' I was so ashamed of telling him I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said, 'The car wasn't ready, so I had to wait,' not realizing that he had already called the garage. When he caught me in the lie, he said: 'There's something wrong in the way I brought you up that didn't give you the confidence to tell me the truth. In order to figure out where I went wrong with you, I'm going to walk home 18 miles and think about it.'
So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads. I couldn't leave him, so for five-and-a-half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered.
I decided then and there that I was never going to lie again. I often think about that episode and wonder, if he had punished me the way we punish our children, whether I would have learned a lesson at all. I don't think so. I would have suffered the punishment and gone on doing the same thing. But this single non-violent action was so powerful that it is still as if it happened yesterday. That is the power of non-violence.
15. A Puzzle From the web….
A interesting site to use your mind logic…share with me on how many levels that you cleared….
www.miniclip.com/games/en/puzzle.php
16. Closing thoughts
Many Advts carry interesting lines – often catchy and here is one…
How does a Leader become a Champion?
Well the answer was simple – "through Long standing experience". This come from
- Consistent
- Great
- Performance
Three key words..read them again and you will understand the power of each of them.
So what do you want to be…an Individual or a Leader Or a champion?
