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Found this beautiful article on web: Destiny During a momentous battle, a Japanese general decided to attack even though his army was greatly outnumbered. He was confident they would win, but his men were filled with doubt. On the way to the battle, they stopped at a religious shrine. After praying with the men, the general took out a coin and said, "I shall now toss this coin. If it is heads, we shall win. If it is tails we shall lose." "Destiny will now reveal itself." He threw the coin into the air and all watched intently as it landed. It was heads. The soldiers were so overjoyed and filled with confidence that they vigorously attacked the enemy and were victorious. After the battle. a lieutenant remarked to the general, "No one can change destiny." "Quite right," the general replied as he showed the lieutenant the coin, which had heads on both sides. Doesnt this remind us of Sholay ... Believe in yourself

Why one should be toned down while talking to others? Here is the explanation: Thanks to my assignments... India is a budding outsourcing industry, where call centers have mushroomed in past few years. Working as a call centre executive wasn't a reputed job from my point of view. I always looked forward for assignments which are challenging and different from the normal work. But I have been calling call centre as a customer. Being short tempered, I have more than often even zapped a few for things like delay in statement. For one of my assignment on a new product, I had to see what are the questions normally asked by a customer in a call centre, I paid visit to a call centre.I received a warm welcome by the manager, who introduced me to Swati, an executive with the call centre. All I was suppose to be with Swati on calls she received for next 1-2 hours. I am all set to listen the conversation between Swati and the Customer, I am geared with my head phone, pen and paper (looks as i

Ever thought what are you doing, what have you done? What was your goal? What was your achievement? Now this sounds more like corporate jargon and if we can do the above for our workplace than why are we ignoring ourselves???? We should set our personal goals, things we like to do, which gives us happiness.. it can be anything like watering a plant or playing football, seeing a sunset or biking on roads. How many times have you set back on thought on it.. after all we know money is not everything and mastercard can't buy that all... So wake up look within, what you would like to do or which smallest activity gives you happiness or pleasure, set a time frame, make a followup map and run to achieve yours goals, your happiness... Wake Up understand ... me myself

It happened yesterday. In the overcrowded canteen, I was sitting all alone on a table, enjoying my sandwich. I was engrossed in my eating and than somebody asked "Can I join you?". "NO" (how rude I can be?). "I am sorry, I thought you asked me 'Is somebody joining you'.. You may please take the seat", I corrected. The most often question in the canteen asked to me in such situation "Is anybody joining you" and I am so used to saying "NO". Most questions asked to us, has a negative answer and we are so used to answer in negative, that without pondering on the questions our answer is "NO". I realized that questions can be asked to get a positive reply. Infact years back, in my audit days, I had a practice of positive speaking or writing. I mean I restricted the usage of words like "not", "didn't" "doesn't"...I have realized the difference then and now Then, I did not worry about happ

I need to discover...... my daily local to my office gives me more insight to life than the books or articles I read. Yesterday, I was reading article on the 'Mastery of emotions' wherein how an attitude makes difference in ones life. Today, its about this kid (not to mention kids are always cute and lovable) and his mother. The first look at the kid and his mother was they hail from poor family. The kid must be a year old and crying with pain and mother tried to calm him down. I thought its normal and didn't bother to look beyond. I kept chanting my daily prayers without much diversions. As my station neared, I went to the door. Its my habit to stand first and get out of the local, as early to avoid the rush on the over bridge (all efforts to save my 5 minutes). The mother was standing behind me with the kid. She wanted to get off at the same station as mine. As I turned to the kid, I saw sparkle of mischief in those red eyes and as I turned more towards him I noticed that