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Hope...The medicine that keeps us alive...

Hope is the only attribute that will be with us, even when everything else is lost. Recently many banks in the US went bankrupt. They lost their wealth, their business, their share holders, their vision, their time, their belief, their confidence but they shall never loose their hope. It is a fact that cannot be questioned. Hope is the only medicine by which doctors have used to cure many terminally ill patients. We’ve heard of many a case where cancer patients have survived just because their hope was alive. Same is the cases with business. We have seen many visionary companies struggle from time to time, but they bounce back each time just because they believe that their tomorrow is going to be better than today. Walt Disney, IBM, and Nordstrom are perfect instances to get inspired by. There were some really trying times that these giants faced, but they came back strongly just because they had some hope deep down in their heart, of a brighter tomorrow, that kept them going. So no ma

TIME..The commodity that cannot be exchanged for money..

Time is the only resource we are born with, all other tangibles, like a house, automobile and money, we build during our lifetime. Whether we make it in life or we stand broke depends on how effectively we utilize time. It has been researched for more than 5000 years to understand how to control time, and the experts have miserably failed in achieving it. Time is not a commodity that can be controlled but can only be utilized. Factually speaking, the world’s richest man and a common man, both have the same time 24 hours every day, but it makes a difference when he utilizes time by earning around 50 million work hours every day through his employees. This concept is called as time compounding, the more the work hours you have in your name, the more you can achieve in shorter periods of time. It really, really does matter what we do with every minute of ours. Suppose we waste 20 minutes a day, it adds up to 7300 minutes a year or an equivalent to 5 days. Did we ever imagine we woul

Perseverance…when you have nothing more to loose, just continue….

Perseverance is one of the top rated qualities of a winner. Winning is always a struggle, the toughest part of it being to persist when things are not happening as per your wish. The higher your struggle, the higher is your sense of victory. If we closely analyze the lives of successful people, we find that at some point of time, every one of them have gone through real tough times. Most people begin well, perform satisfactorily but quit when they are stuck. What they don't realize is that they may be stopping just three feet from gold. Winners never quit and quitters never win, very true isn't it? Average folks think "I have lost everything, I don't want to loose any more; so I am quitting" but winners think "I have lost everything, now I have nothing more to loose; so why not continue". Success becomes worthwhile when measured by the obstacles you have overcome to achieve it. So next time you face an obstacle, rest assure that something big is on its

PLAN B.. Because it’s quite sure plan A wont work…..

Planning is an essential activity for any event to be a grand success. We need to do the necessary homework because we know that any lack of planning on our part can make the event a big-time flop. Even with intense planning events crash; what could possibly be the reason for this? Most often troubles creep in between the event, this is where the Plan B comes handy. You might ask, what is the necessity of having a PLAN B? Plan B comes handy when the activity does not progress as per the initial planning. In any team activity, uncertainty is inevitable; discrepancies may crop in and most often, its plan B that works. I’m sure we’ve all heard about PLAN B or more popularly the BACKUP-PLAN. If we look around we can see that almost every activity has a backup plan. Let’s take for example, a game of football. Every team maintains a team size of at least 15 players before any match – this is to substitute for any injured player. We could find more examples at our own work places. Every pr