Wednesday, January 29, 2014

There's More to Life Than Being Happy




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There's More to Life Than Being Happy

"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness."

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In September 1942, Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents. Three years later, when his camp was liberated, most of his family, including his pregnant wife, had perished -- but he, prisoner number 119104, had lived. In his bestselling 1946 book, Man's Search for Meaning, which he wrote in nine days about his experiences in the camps, Frankl concluded that the difference between those who had lived and those who had died came down to one thing: Meaning, an insight he came to early in life. ................[..[Click "Read More" below.]]........

10 Life-Changing Facts About Anger


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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. --Marcus Antonius

10 Life-Changing Facts About Anger

--by Gail Brenner, PhD, syndicated from ahopefulsign.com, Sep 10, 2012 “Yes, I was angry. And I was a little afraid. After all I’ve not been free in so long. But, when I felt that anger well up inside of me, I realized that if I hated them after I got outside that gate, then they would still have me. I wanted to be free so I let it go.” ~Nelson Mandela upon leaving prison after 27 years of confinement
Frustrated, impatient, raging…aaarrrrrrgh! Yes, it’s normal to feel angry – you are human, after all. But if anger causes problems in your life – if it interferes with your health and happiness – then consider these 10 life-changing facts. Get curious about anger, and you just might discover an untapped well of vital energy that improves your life circumstances and wakes you up to the whole of life.
1. It’s easier to feel anger than hurt.
Anger tends to be a surface emotion. But if you look at .....[Click "Read More" below]

Friday, January 24, 2014

Definitions of Politics

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Am ringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."


I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me,
I will stop telling the truth about them".
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..


A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman


I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician


Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)


We hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author 


Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher


Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician


When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become PM; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

MUMBAI

 MUMBAI

Mumbai is rich,
Mumbai is poor.
Mumbai is fast,
Mumbai is slow.
 

Little bit sweet,
and little bit sour,
Sometimes it's hot
but not too more'.

 

Mornings are energetic
and evenings are electric.
Noons are lazy but
Nights are crazy..
And any one you ask,
he always say "M busy"
Dude, life in Mumbai''
Is not so easy...!

 

There is lot of Masti with
little bit of Maska...
Welcome to the city
that can't live, without Bollywood Chaska.!

 

Sev puri and bhel puri
are all Mumbai chaat..
Relishing it with spicy chutney is no .......

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Almost Unimaginable Reality

Almost Unimaginable Reality

At 16°51′53.748″N 11°57′13.362″E in the Sahara desert there is an intriguing landmark - the outline of an aeroplane pointing in the direction of Paris. Visible on satellite pictures, this beautiful image, like a tattoo on the landscape, has been a viral hit.
It is a memorial to a flight that never reached its destination.
On 19 September 1989 UTA flight 772 was travelling from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to Paris when it was blown up over the Sahara desert in Niger. All 156 passengers and 14 crew members were killed.
Where the French plane fell, the families of the victims have built a lasting and visually striking memorial to the dead. A life-size silhouette of the aircraft lies inside a dark stone circle surrounded by 170 broken mirrors, each one representing someone who died. Jutting out at the northern point, like a sundial, stands the right wing of the DC10.

INTERESTING DETAILS IN THE LINK BELOW
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25643103?ocid=socialflow_twitter_bbcworld






Thursday, January 16, 2014

RWM - Looking Back or looking Forward? - GP Joshipura



Looking Back or looking Forward?

Rear View Mirror (RWM) is a very common thing found on Vehicles.

Thinking of its characteristics,
Through the RMW, we see the objects behind the vehicle. It provides information, which will help us to decide further & forward course and also warn about dangers. And although we do not keep looking thro it, we look at it from time to time.

These characteristics make one to ponder over Rear View Mirror in one's own life. I mean looking back to our past / history is like looking in to our own RWM.

Many aspects and phenomena in professional as well as personal parlance are comparable with RWM. Take for example - Tradition, Culture, Experience, Knowledge, Learning, Relationships,..  Also some other terms, which are so close to our day-to-day professional activities are mirrored in the concept of RWM. Examples are Knowledge management, Learning from Past, Continual Improvement, ERP, ….

If one keeps looking only at the RWM, there is a big danger of head-on collision in front. At the same time, if it is totally ignored, there is a danger of collision from other sides. This gives clue to apparent contradiction regarding 'living in' and 'knowledge of' the History / past. So while living in History may mean no progress, its ignorance may as well make us part of History soon.

Thus the key lies neither in looking back nor in looking forward. The key lies in ""Looking Back for Moving Forward"".

These were few reflections, while looking at a RWM as well as looking thro My Own RWM!
Can you see Your Own RWM?


G. P. Joshipura
27.06.03
(This is one of the early articles that I wrote in company magazine)