Avinash Blog - Self Improvement & Motivation

Words of Wisdom from the Movies

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:13:00 +0000

Have powerful goals

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Your goals have to be great and clear enough to set your imagination on fire. Your goals must excite your imagination. Something powerful always excites the mind – either positively or negatively.

A powerful goal has a life of its own. It has a great energy to create the greatest motivation in you to achieve it.

A Powerful goal must be something you want, it must be your wildest dream come true. So what are you waiting for go ahead and write your wildest goal and start working for it.

Experts are in agreement that we all need powerful goals to achieve any kind of success.

What do the experts say?

"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement."
Brian Tracy

"If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there."
Yogi Berra

"Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it."
Proverb

"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark."
David Ogilvy

"There’s nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That’s the fun part. You may come up short. I’ve come up short on a lot on my goals, but it’s always fun to try and achieve them."
Tiger Woods

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
Vince Lombardi

Life Lessons from 22

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:06:00 +0000

The lesson which I have learned in past few months.

If you are not excited about your baby, then no one will be.

Don’t procrastinate on level 1.

Do things you hate now otherwise you will do it for your entire life.

Convert knowledge into skill.

Life is a war, a war with your best self and your worst self. The outcome of the battle will decide your future.

No fear, no distraction is the way to live.

Without risk and courage, you will lose the game.

Walk the talk.

You can get anything you want if you are willing to pay the price for it.

What others think about you is not important what you think of yourself is important.

Future is always overwhelming.

I hope the above lessons give you a better understanding of life and help you make fewer mistakes in life

Inspirational Graduation Speeches

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:18:00 +0000

Conan O'Brien

Barack Obama

Bill Clinton

Denzel Washington

Tom Hanks

Jonathan Franzen

Amy Poehler

Phil Rosenthal

Mark Zuckerberg

Aron Ralston

Phenomenal successes is the result of clearly defined outcomes

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:50:00 +0000

The most successful and legendary people, again in all pursuits, show time and again that their outstanding achievements are rarely outcomes of chance. They are the result of clearly defined outcomes.

Today, I am going to list a few people who barely had the luck to become world’s best but are the world’s best

At the age of eight, Tiger Woods set his goal of breaking every record set in golf and to become the world’s number on golfer. He accomplished this feat 13 years later at the age of 21. How? He spent those thirteen years focusing on his game in order to take it to the level he needed in order to be the best.

At the age of 12, Steven Spielberg knew that what he wanted to do was to tell stories to the world by making movies. It was this specific goal that directed him to spend his time making home videos at the age of 12 and exposing himself to movie sets at universal studios at the age of 18. It was these years of focused effort that allowed him to build the level of experience and skill he needed to make some of the best movies around.

Did Bill Clinton happen to be at the right place and at the right time when the Democrats nominated him to run for the Presidency? No way! It took years of focus and planning in one upward direction that won him the most powerful position in the world. Born the son of a poor widow in America’s poorest state, Bill Clinton seemed to have had every handicap… yet young Bill had a clear vision that it would be his mission in life to improve the lives of millions, by leading his country one day. It was this clear vision that motivated him to run for elections on student committees in every school he attended. In fact, at one time, he was barred from running for any more college committee positions because he was already heading far too many! In Hillary Clinton’s best-selling book, ‘Living History’, she recounts how he went around telling everyone that one day he would be the President of the United States, when they were both still studying in Yale university!

29 Ways to stay Creative

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:30:00 +0000

11 Secrets For Success By Bill Gates

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:14:00 +0000

Life is Not Sympathy, So use It well and Live It well!

The World Will Never Respect Your Self Respect, If you Want people To respect You , you have to do something For that.

You cannot earn a profile of 40000 directly after your high-school ,neither you can have your OWN mobile , OWN car , or company Vice president Job , till you Get it Yourself !

“If You feel That your Teacher Are Like Hitler, Then Do wait For Your BOSS ” – Bill Gates

Even a Fat Burger is not smaller then Your Reputation or Your excellence, our parents use a different word for that and that is Opportunity!

”Always Learn Something Out of Your Mistakes.”

”Always Love Your Parents , because they were not so boring untill you were born and after that they pay your bills and take care of you.”

“In life We Always Face Ups and Downs , Nobody Expect Defeats ,So always AIM for Success!”

“Life is Not Like Semesters, you don't have Summer and winter Holidays here, neither you will always have your friends who know you, Its important To Know Yourself”

“Life is Not like A Television, In Real world We have To leave the coffee Shop and Go to Work!”

“Opportunities Never End, Either You get More Or you should Create One!”

25 Best Quotes on Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:34:00 +0000

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” - T.E. Lawrence

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.” - Marsha Norman

“There are some people, who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” - Douglas H. Everett

“Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.” - Unknown

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - C.S. Lewis

“Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.” - Julia Cameron

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” - Mary Manin Morrissey

“Life is never easy for those who dream.” - Robert James Waller

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.” - Bernard Edmonds

“Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.” - Kahlil Gibran

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” - Ashley Smith

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” - Oscar Wilde

“Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” - James Matthew Barrie

“If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep” - Yiddish Proverb

“One's real life is often the life that one does not lead” - Oscar Wilde

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” - Walt Disney

“People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.” - Barbara Kingsolver

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” - Anais Nin

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death” - Robert Fulghum

“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.” - Ben Okri

“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.” - Woodrow T. Wilson

Commitment lessons from Mr. Soichiro Honda

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Mon, 02 May 2011 01:46:00 +0000

Mr. Soichiro Honda, founder of the corporation that bears his name. Like all companies, no matter how large, Honda Corporation began with a decision and a passionate desire to produce a result.

In 1938, while he was still in school, Mr. Honda took everything he owned and invested it in a little workshop where he began to develop his concept of a piston ring. He wanted to sell his work to Toyota Corporation, so he labored day and night, up to his elbows in grease, sleeping in the machine shop, always believing he could produce the result. He even pawned his wife's jewelry to stay in business.

But when he finally completed the piston rings and presented them to Toyota, he was told they didn't meet Toyota's standards. He was sent back to school for two years, where he heard the derisive laughter of his instructors and fellow students as they talked about how absurd his designs were. But rather than focusing on the pain of the experience, he decided to continue to focus on his goal.

Finally, after two more years, Toyota gave Mr. Honda the contract he'd dreamed of. His passion and belief paid off because he had known what he wanted, taken action, noticed what was working, and kept changing his approach until he got what he wanted. Then a new problem arose. The Japanese government was gearing up for war, and they refused to give him the concrete that was necessary to build his factory.

Did he quit there? No.

Did he focus on how unfair this was? Did it mean to him that his dream had died? Absolutely not. Again, he decided to utilize the experience, and developed another strategy. He and his team invented a process for creating their own concrete and then built their factory. During the war, it was bombed twice, destroying major portions of the manufacturing facility. Honda's response? He immediately rallied his team, and they picked up the extra gasoline cans that the U.S. fighters had discarded. He called them "gifts from President Truman"because they provided him with the raw materials he needed for his manufacturing process—materials that were unavailable at the time in Japan. Finally, after surviving all of this, an earthquake leveled his factory. Honda decided to sell his piston operation to Toyota.

Here is a man who clearly made strong decisions to succeed. He had a passion for and belief in what he was doing. He had a great strategy. He took massive action. He kept changing his approach, but still he'd not produced the results that he was committed to. Yet he decided to persevere. After the war, a tremendous gasoline shortage hit Japan, and Mr. Honda couldn't even drive his car to get food for his family.

Finally, in desperation, he attached a small motor to his bicycle. The next thing he knew, his neighbors were asking if he could make one of his "motorized bikes" for them. One after another, they jumped on the bandwagon until he ran out of motors. He decided to build a plant that would manufacture motors for his new invention, but unfortunately he didn't have the capital. As before, he made the decision to find a way no matter what! His solution was to appeal to the18,000 bicycle shop owners in Japan by writing them each a personal letter. He told them how they could play a role in revitalizing Japan through the mobility that his invention could provide, and convinced 5,000 of them to advance the capital he needed. Still, his motorbike sold to only the moshard-core bicycle fans because it was too big and bulky.

So he made one final adjustment, and created a much lighter, scaled-down version of his motorbike. He christened it "The Super Cub," and it became an "overnight" success, earning him the Emperor's award. Later, he began to export his motorbikes to the baby boomers of Europe and the United States, following up in the seventies with the cars that have become so popular.

Today, the Honda Corporation employs over 100,000 people in both the United States and Japan and is considered one of the biggest car-making empires in Japan, outselling all but Toyota in the United States. It succeeds because one man understood the power of a truly committed decision that is acted upon, no matter what the conditions, on a continuous basis.

Honda certainly knew that sometimes when you make a decision and take action, in the short term it may look like it's not working. In order to succeed, you must have a long-term focus. Most of the challenges that we have in our personal lives—like indulging constantly in overeating, drinking, or smoking, to feeling overwhelmed and giving up on our dreams—come from a short-term focus. Success and failure are not overnight experiences. It's all the small decisions along the way that cause people to fail. It's failure to follow up. It's failure to take action. It's failure to persist. It's failure to manage our mental and emotional states. It's failure to control what we focus on. Conversely, success is the result of making small decisions: deciding to hold yourself to a higher standard, deciding to contribute, deciding to feed your mind rather than allowing the environment to control you—these small decisions create the life experience we call success. No individual or organization that has be come successful has done so with short-term focus.

Fear and Worry are like interest paid in advance

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:20:00 +0000

In this chaotic worked every one is a prey to fear and worry.

There is a story about a woman crying profusely while standing on a street corner. When a man came up to her and asked why she was weeping, she shook her head and replied, ‘I was just thinking that maybe someday I would get married. We would later have a beautiful baby girl, then one day the child and I would go for a walk along the street, and my darling daughter would run into the street, get hit by a car, and die’

It sounds fairly unreasonable situation- sobbing for something that will probably never happen.Yet we act this way when we worry

An old Swedish proverb says:

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow

Worry is simple misuse of the creative power. When fear rises in our mind, we should learn to expect the opposite in our life.

The word worry is derived from an Anglo-Saxon term meaning ‘to strangle ‘or ‘choke off’.

There is no question that worry and fear do choke off the creative flow from god. Worry is a route that leads from somewhere to nowhere, so never let it direct your life.Never respond out of fear, and never fear to respond. Action attacks fear; inaction reinforces it.Don't worry and don’t fear.

Mantra to live by

“No Fear, No Worry, No Distractions “is your highway to Success in anything

Empty Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:07:00 +0000

Why people find life an empty dream?

Why people who read the success books, pray, listen to improvement tapes are still a mess. Why?

Because they aren’t doing what they know.They are not taking Action.

Few dreams come true by themselves. The test of a person lies in action.

A famous poem by an unknown author states:-

Sitting still and wishing
           Makes no person great
The good lord sends the fishing
           But you must dig the bait

Realize this; Words without action are the assassins of dreams.

History is made whenever you take action .Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. Getting an idea should be like sitting on a tack; it should make you jump up and do something.

Every time a one man expresses an idea, he finds ten men who thought of it before – but they only thought.

Mark Twain observed :-

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive
But it is lighting that does the work
The test of a person lies in his Actions

When you know and don’t do, you allow deception to enter your life.Everything which you know or learned is for a reason so put it into practice.

Too many people carefully avoid discovering the secret of success because deep down they suspect the secret may be hard work.So from today , take Action.Make Stuff Happen

7 Creative Principles of Pixar by John Lasseter

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:16:00 +0000

1. Never come up with just one idea. “Regardless of whether you want to write a book, design a piece of furniture or make an animated movie: At the beginning, don’t start with just one idea – it should be three.

2. Remember the first laugh. “A big problem in the creative process is related to the enhancement of your ideas,” cautions Mr Lasseter. “Revising, retouching, refining is very important, but it carries a danger. “If you have a story, a joke, a thought, which you write down, it loses its effect over time. It wears itself out. When you hear a joke for the second time you still laugh heartily, on the third or fourth occasion already less so, and when you hear it the hundredth time, you hate it. I say to my authors: ‘Take notice of the first laugh, write it down if necessary. This may at times be bothersome, but it is important. Many times, good things got lost because people could not remember anymore how it felt when they heard the idea for the first time.”

3. Quality is a great business plan. Period. “There is a crucial rule: no compromises. No compromises on quality – regardless of production constraints, cost constraints, or a deadline.

4. It’s the team, stupid. “One of the most popular questions is always whether groups are more creative than individuals. My answer: In most cases, it’s the team – provided you follow certain rules”

5. Fun invokes creativity, not competition. “There is this idea that you put two people, who cannot stand each other, into a room, hoping that all this negative energy leads to a creative result. I disagree. Co-operation, confidence and fun – that is the way”

6. Creative output always reflects the person on top. “Poor managers harm the creative process,”... “Laughter, being crazy, freaking out, behaving in ridiculous manner are hard work. A manager who spreads his bad mood and who forbids his employees to have fun impairs their creativity, and thus harms the enterprise. I would fire him. Animated movies are not least a bang-hard business. I cannot risk so much money, only because a manager indulging in his bad mood harms my business.”

7. Surround yourself with creative people whom you trust. Being an accomplished creative leader, John Lasseter gives some direct advice to junior creative leaders in progress. “Bring only those new members into your creative team, whom you consider to be at least as talented as you. If they also have a pleasant and nice character – even better. Most managers don’t follow this approach, as they are insecure. Insecurity and creativity do not get along with each other well. Most managers surround themselves with yes-men, and in result, the audiences get bad films to see,” explains Mr Lasseter.

Habits for success

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:23:00 +0000

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is – I will form good habits and become their slaves.

As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men. I have surrendered my free will to the years of accumulated habits and the past deeds of my life have already marked out a path which threatens to imprison my future. My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit. Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must be destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed. I will form good habits and become their slave.

Doing the impossible

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:42:00 +0000

Deep inside everyone lives an impossible dream.

A dream longing to come true, yet something holds you back...perhaps it is your fear of unknown, perhaps friends, past mistakes or something which you can’t really pin down

Taking Risks to achieve your dreams

“Be Safe” has been the motto of human race for many years...But it was never the motto of the leaders and dreamers. Both unique kind of people take risks and stick their necks out...because they know to accomplish something greater then themselves they have to walk the path that no one have dared to walk and take risks

Winning over yourself

The only thing between you and your dreams is always you. Don’t dream thousands reason why you can’t do what you want to, find one reason why you can do. It is easier to do all things you should do than spend the rest of your life wishing you had

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:40:00 +0000

Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day.

Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day.
What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!

Each of us has such a bank. It’s name is TIME.

Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.

Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose.

It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day.

If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against “tomorrow.”
You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!

The clock is running!! Make the most of today.

To realize the value of one year, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of one month, ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of one week, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one hour, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute, ask a person who just missed a train.
To realize the value of one second, ask someone who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond, ask the person who won a silver medal at the olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with. And remember time waits for no one.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why its called the present.

The last day of my life

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:21:00 +0000

I will live this day as if it is my last.
This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death. I lift mine arms with thanks for this priceless gift of a new day. So too, I will beat upon my heart with gratitude as I consider all who greeted yesterday's sunrise who are no longer with the living today. I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved.

Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be? Is there a purpose in nature? Is this my day to excel?

I will live this day as if it is my last.
I have but one life and life is naught but a measurement of time. When I waste one I destroy the other. If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life. Therefore, each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return. It cannot be banked today to be withdrawn on the morrow, for who can trap the wind? Each minute of this day will I grasp with both hands and fondle with love for its value is beyond price. What dying man can purchase another breath though he willingly give all his gold?

What price dare I place on the hours ahead? I will make them priceless I will live this day as if it is my last I will avoid with fury the killers of time. Procrastination I will destroy with action; doubt I will bury under faith; fear I will dismember with confidence. Where there are idle mouths I will listen not; where there are idle hands I will linger not; where there are idle bodies I will visit not Henceforth I know that to court idleness is to steal food, clothing, and warmth from those I love. I am not a thief. I am a man of love and today is my last chance to prove my love and my greatness.

Dare To Do Something Extraordinary

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:09:00 +0000

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss

Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ~Michelangelo

The man who has done his best has done everything. ~Charles M. Schwab

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. Gill

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan

The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~Albert Einstein

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. ~Fred Dehner

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. ~Robert Brault

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo

Dreams are free, so free your dreams. ~Astrid Alauda

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown

The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~Alfred Tennyson

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. ~Kristian Kan

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. ~Robert Brault

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~Max L. Forman

Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. ~Author Unknown

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker,

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford

To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. ~Joe Cordare

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson

Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Author Unknown

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~Author Unknown

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. ~Robert Brault

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown

Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:57:00 +0000

Do what you love to do. Find your true passion. Do what you love to do a make a difference! The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Be different. Think different. "Better be a pirate than to join the navy."

Do your best. Do your best at every job. No sleep! Success generates more success. So be hungry for it. Hire good people with passion for excellence.

Make SWOT analysis. As soon as you join/start a company, make a list of strengths and weaknesses of yourself and your company on a piece of paper. Don't hesitate in throwing bad apples out of the company.

Be entrepreneurial. Look for the next big thing. Find a set of ideas that need to be quickly and decisively acted upon and jump through that window. Sometimes the first step is the hardest one. Just take it! Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Start small, think big. Don't worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. "I want to put a ding in the universe,” reveal Steve Jobs his dream.

Strive to become a market leader. Own and control the primary technology in everything you do. If there's a better technology available, use it no matter if anyone else is not using it. Be the first, and make it an industry standard.

Focus on the outcome. People judge you by your performance, so focus on the outcome. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Advertise. If they don't know it, they won't buy your product. Pay attention to design. "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them." "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

Ask for feedback. Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources. Focus on those who will use your product – listen to your customers first.

Innovate. Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower. Delegate, let other top executives do 50% of your routine work to be able to spend 50% your time on the new stuff. Say no to 1,000 things to make sure you don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. Concentrate on really important creations and radical innovation. Hire people who want to make the best things in the world. You need a very product-oriented culture, even in a technology company. Lots of companies have tons of great engineers and smart people. But ultimately, there needs to be some gravitational force that pulls it all together.

Learn from failures. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Learn continually. There's always "one more thing" to learn! Cross-pollinate ideas with others both within and outside your company. Learn from customers, competitors and partners. If you partner with someone whom you don't like, learn to like them – praise them and benefit from them. Learn to criticize your enemies openly, but honestly.

Singapore’s ‘Bill Gates’ Ultimate Success Formula

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:30:00 +0000

Have you heard of Creative Technologies? It is a billion dollar company and the first Singapore company to be listed on NASDAQ. The founder, Sim Wong Hoo, is one of the wealthiest men in this country and is often referred to as Singapore’s ‘Bill Gates’. Like many successful entrepreneurs, Sim Wong Hoo comes from a very poor family with many of life’s odds stacked against him. He was an average student and graduated from a local polytechnic at the age of 19. For most people with a Polytechnic diploma, making a living on $1500 a month would have made them pretty satisfied. Not Sim. What made Sim different was that he had a different set of beliefs and values. He believed that he was not just one of the crowd, he fervently believed that he was capable of a whole lot more. Coupled with his strong internal values of family, success and contribution, he set himself a specific outcome to build the world’s first computer that could talk, sing and play music (besides just crunching numbers). He set this goal at the age of 17, while still a student! In fact, a few years before (at the age of about 15), he already set a goal of selling 100 million units of a ‘new technology’ that would revolutionize the world.

It was this pre-determined goal that got him to start developing all kind of strategies that no one else ever thought of. In 1981, he took massive action and founded Creative Technologies with $6,000. A few years later, he launched his brainchild, the Cubic CT, which was the world’s first multimedia PC. Did he succeed? No! It was a complete failure and as a result, the company lost a lot of money. Instead of seeing it as ‘failure’, he took it as feedback that the market was just not ready for his product. It was just too complex and costly. He had the technological flexibility to develop another strategy, a new innovation. Again, he didn’t get the result he wanted.

Once again, Sim used the feedback to change his strategy and take action again. He kept changing his strategy over and over again until he came out with the idea of a developing a low cost music card he called the ‘Sound Blaster’. When the Sound Blaster was launched, it became an overnight success. It became a best-selling PC card and the worldwide industry’s standard for multimedia PCs. Today, more than 60% of all multimedia PCs are based on Creative’s Sound Blaster Technology. In 1992, Creative Technologies became the first Singapore company to be listed on NASDAQ, boosting Sim’s net worth to the billion-dollar league. Today, Creative Technologies is a multimedia giant with 5,000 employees, over 20,000 outlets in the United States and boasts an annual revenue of $1.3 billion.

The Formula which Sim Wong Hoo used is :-

1.Have a Focused Goal.

2.Make a Strategy.

3.Take Consistent Action towards the Goal.

4.If you FAIL, analyze your failure and learn from it and change your strategy and TRY AGAIN.

5.NEVER EVER give up.

Success Has Nothing to Do with Academic Success

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:32:00 +0000

There was once a professor who wanted to go down a river, so he approached a local boatman who agreed to row him downstream for a small sum of money. As they wound their way down the river, the professor decides to show off his intelligence and high education so he started to test the simple boatman.Taking up a stone he had picked up from the riverbank, the professor arrogantly asks the boatman, ‘Have you ever studied Geology?’

The boatman looks at him blankly and replies, ‘Eh..., no.’, hardly even understanding what the word meant. ‘Then, I am afraid 25 percent of your life is gone!’ the professor loftily says.

The boatman feels really bad about his ignorance but continues to row on. As they move further downstream, the river currents begin to get stronger and stronger. The professor picks up a leaf floating on the river and asks condescendingly, ‘Boatman, have you ever studied Botany?’ Confused the poor boatman again says, ‘No.’ The professor shakes his head and says, ‘Tsk tsk, then 50 percent of your life is gone.’ He then signals him to carry on rowing. As they move further downstream, the currents get even stronger, the water is moving faster and the boat begins to sway violently. Suddenly the professor sees a mountain range, points to it and asks, ‘Do you know anything about Geography?’ Feeling very inferior and humiliated, the boatman again says ‘No.’

The professor snaps back. ‘I thought so. Then 75 percent of your life is gone!’

At this point, the river has become a raging torrent. The water is moving so swiftly that the boatman loses control of the small boat. Suddenly, the fragile craft smashes against a huge boulder, springs a leak and begins to sink.

This time the boatman turns to the professor and asks, ‘Professor! Do you know how to swim?’ The professor fearfully replies, ‘No!’ ‘Then, I am afraid 100 percent of your life is gone!’ says the boatman as he leaps off the boat and powers his way to safety on the shore. Just like the river, we are living in times of rapid and evolutionary

Will you be like the professor who thinks he knows everything but drowns in the river of the real world? You and I both know that academic success, knowledge and intelligence are no guarantees of success in the new economy.

In fact, they could mean very little. Some of the movers and shakers of the new economy are school dropouts who employ ‘professors’ to run their businesses. Bill Gates (Microsoft), Larry Ellison (Oracle) & Richard Branson (Virgin group) never finished school.

So, Is College necessary for an Entrepreneur?

I personally believe that Knowledge is necessary but not your college degree's. The most common thing found in Apple's Steve Jobs, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Virgin's Sir Richard Branson is that not only they are College dropouts they are passionate about what they do.

With Passion Comes Knowledge, with Knowledge comes Experience with Experience comes Success.

9 basic steps to make you rich

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:29:00 +0000

Everyday we are bombard with get rich scheme's , i don't know they work or not. but i am going to give you 100% working formula to help you become rich and successful in life.

You my friend can become from somebody that want's to be rich to somebody that can be rich , by following this simple steps :-

1.Work Hard.
2.Taking Risk's.
3.Making Sacrifices.
4.Developing street smarts.
5.Learning from other successful people.
6.Putting your heart and soul into your business.
7.Being generous.
8.Delivering exceptional value to customers.
9.Never give up.

Dump the Destiny Bit

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:07:00 +0000

Do you just sit in front of the television thinking you will be successful because you are destined to be ?

Do you feel it’s out of your hands and that someday your Prince(ess) will come?

Now we’re dealing with a real problem

The Below story will change your mind

A terrible hurricane swept through a small town and the flooding was awful. The water rose higher and higher until only the treetops and the roofs of a few houses were visible. It was as if an ocean had emptied into the streets. A man in a rowboat came up alongside a woman who was clutching the cross on top of a church a few feet above the rising water.

“Let’s go, Ma’am,” the man in the boat said.But the woman refused to step into the boat. “Oh, no,” she said. “God would not let me die.” So the boatman rowed off in the storm to save someoneelse clutching a treetop. A little while later, a second boatman came by offering to take her to safety. “Oh, no,” she repeated, clutching the cross tighter. “God would not let me die.” And off this boatman went, battling the increasingly high waves to save other stranded folks.

The torrential storm didn’t let up, and the water soared higher and higher. It was now menacingly swirling around the woman’s knees. A helicopter flying overhead swooped down and dropped a ladder to take her to safety. “Oh, no,” she shouted up to the pilot. “God would not let me die.” So off flew the helicopter.

The water rose higher, the hurricane raged stronger, and finally a fierce gust of wind swept the woman off the church steeple. And she drowned. When she passed through heaven’s gate, God appeared in front of her. “How could you let me die?” she screamed. “I put my faith in you.”

God answered, “I tried to save you, my child. I sent you two boats and a helicopter. You let yourself die.”

Need I say more? Even if you think you are destined to be successful or getting your dream job or partner, get off your tush and work.

Best Motivational Speeches

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:07:00 +0000

Here the Best Motivational Speeches of All Time

21 Best Life Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:00:00 +0000

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.” - James Dean quotes

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.” - Unknown

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” - Maria Robinson

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”- Flora Whittemore quotes

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”- Unknown

“The most important things in life aren't things.” - Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like”- Unknown

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” - Grandma Moses

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw

“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. - Tallulah Bankhead

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” - Paulo Coelho

“The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.”- Unknown

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it”- Unknown

“Life is never easy for those who dream.” - Robert James Waller

“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice” - Kahlil Gibran

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” - Benjamin Spock q

“Life has no rehearsals, only performances.”- Unknown

“this is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.” - Maya Angelou

“I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life."” - Maya Angelou

“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you” - Zig Ziglar

Oprah Winfrey presents Master Class with Jay Z

noreply@blogger.com (Avinash M) — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:38:00 +0000

Oprah launched her new network OWN and premiered her new series with Jay-Z as her first feature. Jay-Z is an example of where hard work can take you. The episode focused on Jay’s childhood, his come up, his formula of writing music and everything else in between.

Video's Below:-