tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37877317595906944742024-03-16T22:14:30.302+05:00Think SucceededVisualize your achieved results first and keep moving ahead with determination!Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-59969463670231761262019-05-17T15:01:00.077+05:002023-12-17T01:12:24.294+05:00EMPTINESS : With Purpose and for Fulfilment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Introduction:</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Life often presents a complex tapestry of emotions,
psychological challenges, and spiritual journeys. These phases are sometimes
beyond our control and can make us feel like marionettes, swaying in the breeze
of helplessness, surrendering to passive states, and enduring temporary
defeats. Emptiness, a profound sensation, can envelop us, both internally and
in the world around us.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Embracing Emptiness for Growth:</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Emptiness, often seen as a negative state, can be a catalyst
for personal growth and transformation. It can lead to self-discovery and the
pursuit of new passions. As someone who
has grappled with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), I intimately understand
the state of emptiness. In my early years, during adolescence, I deemed it a
curse without rhyme or reason, often associating it with my existence as an
only child and feeling profoundly alone.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>However, as time passed, I realized that emptiness often paves
the way for something new. I consciously immersed myself in timeless
wanderings, embracing the powerful and strongly felt vibes of the early morning
sunrise and the calming dusk. My connection with Nature evolved into an
obsession. In jungles, by riversides, in dense fog, and during midnight
strolls, those irresistible vibrations drew me closer than ever before to the
Creator.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbf25y40PmfUq0vXBb04UIAbGKbO4Ly_P_vX1PL6Ywe2vIhANa8DE-ej8L9xIsAiuD6yQmiYqx_XSHew8xLoAsVNAfNH8cgdldBpcdaMAKrsxCvo21oobu8lu3FtMczQNamEdKEhxNmilYcp9ygrhOwC1KgODR5HqV25ul_Cp2EcwygJ75kXZQd8YvPulH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbf25y40PmfUq0vXBb04UIAbGKbO4Ly_P_vX1PL6Ywe2vIhANa8DE-ej8L9xIsAiuD6yQmiYqx_XSHew8xLoAsVNAfNH8cgdldBpcdaMAKrsxCvo21oobu8lu3FtMczQNamEdKEhxNmilYcp9ygrhOwC1KgODR5HqV25ul_Cp2EcwygJ75kXZQd8YvPulH=w464-h261" width="464" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Jullo Forest Safari, Lahore - Photo #SaalikSiddikki</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Capturing the Divine:</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Connecting with nature can have a profound therapeutic
effect on mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It does provide solace
and healing during challenging times.
Almost fifteen years ago, I acquired my first-ever digital camera and
fell in love with capturing Nature through a unique Divine lens.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>I discovered being blessed with an uncommon angle of vision
that still leads me to see things, particularly Nature, and especially autumn
in a very different frame perception. Wandering, mostly alone and preferably
starting even before sunrise constantly gives me Goosebumps for hours and hours
on and makes me feel completely relieved of all physical pains. It is so
difficult to explain but that’s the only way I can describe it.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>Power </b><b>Healing Nature</b><b>:</b></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>During times of severe hypertension and suicidal depression,
my timeless solitary wanderings and Nature photography became my lifelines,
rescuing me from emotional, psychological, and physical collapses. While I
couldn't fully escape BPD, I dare to claim that, by the mercy of the Creator,
it couldn't obliterate me, even without psychological consultation or
medication.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Discovering the Fillers:<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>For anyone experiencing profound emptiness, it's essential
to embark on an inward journey, seeking the hidden fillers that undoubtedly
exist, waiting to be discovered. Pursuing personal passions, such as
photography (like in my case), writing, travelling, hiking, painting or any
other creative activity, can be a powerful way to find meaning and fulfilment,
even in the midst of emptiness.
Sometimes I strongly feel and firmly believe that emptiness is as
essential in life as a strong craving and hunger to satiate the real taste of
our favorite foods and meals. Void is one of the strongest drives that compel
us to consume the water in our half-filled glass soon to refill it again.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>Conclusion:</b><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Emptiness, though daunting, can be a hidden blessing,
guiding us toward transformative experiences and newfound purpose. Through
nature's embrace and personal passions, we can emerge stronger and more
resilient, finding beauty in the void. Embracing emptiness, connecting with
nature, and pursuing passions are not just personal journeys but also valuable
lessons for anyone navigating the complexities of life's challenges.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-54752488046272921862014-04-04T09:53:00.004+05:002023-12-17T15:41:31.921+05:00STAND UP CRAWLING BABIES .... !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The bitterest truth is we use eyes only to see what we want to see and not the things that invite us to see them because that requires a specific angle of vision and sometimes it makes us a bit uncomfortable while we tend to remain in the comfort zone.<br /><br />We see things that we like and ignore the ones that disturb us somewhere deep in our subconsciousness. Aaaaaahhh ..... those disturbing things are actually inviting us to explore them minutely to find out something surprising, amazing and stunning behind the first layer of existence. That's exactly what creative thinkers do.<br /><br />We all are blessed with the power of imagination and perception but how many of us realize that?<br /><br />Think about it seriously, for you may someday hit upon something to proudly share with the world.<br /><br />Of course, I'm not a teacher and you are not my pupils but I'm giving you an assignment like the one given by a teacher and students take it as a boring task while in reality it is intended to polish their hidden skills and talents, to activate their senses of perception and imagination.<br /><br />You don't have to got anywhere. Just look around wherever you are, indoor or luckily outdoor. There are countless things that invite your attention with a little curious thinking. See the lines and curves and angles that everything offers. See the colours and shades, faded colours, worn out patches, surfaces and textures, shadows and reflections in water like a young child whose excitement finds no bounds when he/she looks at something for the very first time.<br /><br />Deliberately act like a crawling baby who has just learned to stand up and walk. Have you ever keenly observed such a baby? You just can't imagine his/her excitement. The act of simply standing up freely in itself is the greatest adventure of a crawling baby.<br /><br />Thank Lord Creator, I still love to experience the moments between crawling and standing up.<br /><br />Saalik Siddikki<br />09:34 .... 04-04-2014<br /><br />It just occurred, and directly typed on my Facebook timeline extempore, after an inbox message to my Facebook friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/insaf.shaheen">Atta Ur Rahman</a> .... (Thank you dear, you stirred my lazy thoughts.)</span></div>
Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-55249051533210808272012-11-28T12:35:00.002+05:002023-12-17T15:42:10.977+05:00Materialize The Passing Moment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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by Saalik Siddikki<br /><div>
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I have been trying to induce,
persuade and motivate some of my younger friends, for the last fifteen
years, to explore their inner grounds, find the seeds of writing passion
and tap their potential of writing in English. Writing anything, short
stories, novels, articles/essays for newspapers, magazine and lately
writing on internet. <div>
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To my chagrin, none
demonstrated the courage to accept the challenge. Today, I do admit
that, in actual fact, it is me who utterly failed to break the shackles
of self imposed compulsions and unleash a great writer, contained
somewhere deep inside. I pursued others to help them discovering their
talents and abilities while my own passions and obsessions suffered
heavily.<div>
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Admitting my failure has also shown me a
thin beam of hope that I may one day discover the writer that I myself
buried under heavy debris of my shattered dreams.</div>
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The
genetic default of having a flair for writing, creativity and
expressing my true emotions is an undeniable truth. Then why I ignored
or deceived myself by mis-perceiving that writing is not for me? It is
an unpardonable sin for which I am sternly admonishing myself. And I
have my own way of doing this. </div>
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In addition to
various other abandoned blogs, I also created some with purpose that
need to be updated regularly and the task is like squeezing the lemon to
eke out even the last smallest remaining drop of its sour and acidic
juice. That's the price I have to pay for all the complacence,
lethargy, procrastination and self-deception.</div>
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My
dear younger friends, please try to avoid the circumstances that I have
been through and don't waste your valuable time in futile activities.</div>
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Take
full advantage of the passing moment, for it is the only opportunity
that you have to avail. Past is gone, future is unknown. Only the
passing moment is what you have to manipulate and utilize to your own
advantage.</div>
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To fulfill your dreams and to
achieve your goals, materialize this passing moment using every unit of
your intellectual, spiritual and physical energies. Wishing you all the
best in the process of moving towards your destiny.</div>
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Think big, act intrepidly!</div>
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<br />August 10, 2010</div>
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Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-30206499387715572132010-08-01T18:00:00.007+05:002010-08-01T18:16:10.443+05:00Attack Before Getting a Checkmate<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;">by Saalik Siddikki</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><i>“</i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><i>Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.</i> --</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Verdana;">Steven Coallier</span></i></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">”</span></i></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrMKsDHhWMAZH7haOpdUAIdIypKiff0VFm-tDrEO-SvBCug6XPLJn-tarfILqb2-BjQOAdfBe5n-iyFQS-QR1x0fZE0HNzYEsRZRLQbjhk92u3-iFbvPhQ0Kn6PrJJW4gHdDBzwq32rwqj/s1600/Checkmate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrMKsDHhWMAZH7haOpdUAIdIypKiff0VFm-tDrEO-SvBCug6XPLJn-tarfILqb2-BjQOAdfBe5n-iyFQS-QR1x0fZE0HNzYEsRZRLQbjhk92u3-iFbvPhQ0Kn6PrJJW4gHdDBzwq32rwqj/s320/Checkmate.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Have you ever paused for a moment and pondered, in the hustle bustle of everyday hectic activities that life is going to kill you anyway. There is no doubt about it. What only matters is span of time. Stop in the middle of your tracks right away and check your performance. Ask yourself bluntly: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What were your goals?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">When and where did you start pursuing your goals?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What tracks did you choose towards your destiny?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What luggage did you take with you and how much is left now?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Did you have any companions or your left alone to conquer the world?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What milestones came your way and where did you move from there?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Have you achieved any single goal or more?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Are you satisfied with your journey towards your destiny?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">OR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Have you been just wandering around, only doing window shopping, killing time, joining and quitting jobs merely to make both ends meet and wasting your energies purposelessly in futile exercises?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is only you, indeed, who could answer these questions to determine your current status. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Suppose, if you say that you have achieved all or most of your goals, then what? Will you be spending the rest of your life huddled up in the comfort zone of your fulfilled dreams and desires? I don’t think you would think on these lines. No successful person does. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">On the contrary, if you are one of those who could not achieve anything in life and have fallen victim to complacence and self-pity, then you certainly need to take a revolutionary step to get out of this state of mind that is eroding your remaining ambition, enthusiasm and fervor.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje217lhyp3KmMvEvUpSUIQOGU9r7lbTVR_tqMUnLgCn2PEjsez_cuv5dGSvH8DnmaAHpnDpFnBERVeJyC9G0dXGtT_GFA2RMBjAgOIq0D6d4IKZKnslYrtpxqSxgc9jvRaxxYL3NM7OJFc/s1600/CheckMate(RDC).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje217lhyp3KmMvEvUpSUIQOGU9r7lbTVR_tqMUnLgCn2PEjsez_cuv5dGSvH8DnmaAHpnDpFnBERVeJyC9G0dXGtT_GFA2RMBjAgOIq0D6d4IKZKnslYrtpxqSxgc9jvRaxxYL3NM7OJFc/s320/CheckMate(RDC).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Remember, you are never out of the battleground of life till your last breath. In that case you cannot take risk of ignoring the surroundings where everybody is fighting for his/her own survival and there is a definite probability that someone attacks you before you could raise your defending shield. What to do then? Should you take out your sword of revenge and start killing others? No, I didn’t mean that.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The only point that I intend to convey to you is that you should not become the scapegoat of circumstances. Don’t kill anyone to make your way forward towards survival, but then, also never get assaulted in ignorance.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What is life? Composition of opportunities - sometimes recurring and sometimes new – giving you a chance to avail, exerting every drop of your energy and doing as best as you can. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">If no opportunity comes your way, create one for yourself. Do your best on every frontier as if this is the last battle of your life and see how victories pile up behind you raising you to the zenith of achievements and gratification.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">That is exactly what it means to attack life. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 327.75pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-85939776807560954652010-07-30T05:30:00.008+05:002011-04-03T23:29:36.308+05:00Stop Being a Punching Bag!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">by Saalik Siddikki</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Does everybody feel tempted to use you as a punching bag, any time and anywhere without expecting a counter-blow? If so, you are trapped in a terrific situation. What should you do – drop down to disintegrate or build resistance to be felt rock-hard and cause an agonizing reaction to the punchers? The choice is exclusively your own. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">There would have been a number of reasons for your state of being a punching bag and these reasons must have roots deep into your early childhood. Now recall your memories when you were perhaps six or eight year old. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhox42lVse0RCwuRBGtilqJe6EAiPDxSYnYPUO_D0QI52c3HWCcEvZxd0nQNxxPapEJw7gxt5AZ-smu2MLdOmhOPadQvdm2HIS_d3SJncKB6dlY7QFoHHRjY6IKtvOkr26qyZDvjhF-6QY9/s1600/punching-bag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhox42lVse0RCwuRBGtilqJe6EAiPDxSYnYPUO_D0QI52c3HWCcEvZxd0nQNxxPapEJw7gxt5AZ-smu2MLdOmhOPadQvdm2HIS_d3SJncKB6dlY7QFoHHRjY6IKtvOkr26qyZDvjhF-6QY9/s200/punching-bag.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Did everybody at home make a mockery of you?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Well, nobody in the world could help you determine the reasons that transformed you, slowly, silently and irritatingly, into a punching bag. You could never have been satisfied with yourself in accepting such a humiliating existence. There would be moments when you might have had an irresistible urge to rebel against your helplessness, to explode like a volcano. The question is why didn’t you? What stopped you from breaking the shackles of torture and agonizing pain? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Think about it seriously. It was always you who chose to nestle in the comfort zone of complacence and retreat instead of stubbornly reacting to every blow that you received. Perhaps no one ever extended a helping hand towards you to get you out of this quagmire that continued to swallow you like an insatiable vampire.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">How old are you now? 14, 18, 25, 30 or above, and are you still the same punching bag that people love to pound? Come on man, stop punching your ego and burst out of the shell of self pity. Yes, self pity is the most lethal poison that is taking its toll.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjykFlpj5J1NWouALqLqrbwHE_TF1yyqd669FZDLUvRweX4XG0aqtC0ZafiCAZWwQXhPtiSNnx1Z36mhV9r-73ZYsr2kgNdDhZy0LpgR_XPm4-wrpMEa9wl6F_zwsv5kmXMYcYShdQyWzmZ/s1600/punching+bags.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjykFlpj5J1NWouALqLqrbwHE_TF1yyqd669FZDLUvRweX4XG0aqtC0ZafiCAZWwQXhPtiSNnx1Z36mhV9r-73ZYsr2kgNdDhZy0LpgR_XPm4-wrpMEa9wl6F_zwsv5kmXMYcYShdQyWzmZ/s320/punching+bags.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">How long will you be deceiving yourself? Make up your mind now, right at this moment and get rid of the cloak of helplessness – burn it down to ashes. It is just like burning your boats to not leave a chance to back away from the battleground of realities.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The realities are hard to face but you have to. Do a little self talk, take a bold decision and stick to it. Remember, God does not like you to remain like this for a single moment. You have enough courage to defy God’s will. Why can’t you defy people’s will? You certainly can and you should.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">You have two options now. One, move out of the reach of people’s punching range and it is not that easy. You cannot create your own special world minus bullies – they are in abundance everywhere. Two, turn yourself into a bag of rock-hard cement so that when, from now on, anybody punches you, he would break his own knuckles and forget about repeating it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">You may face a little embarrassment occasionally but, ultimately you would succeed in keeping the bullies at an arm’s length. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Do it now or you would never be in a position to do so. If possible, look around to find a mentoring friend to help you in taking a courageous decision. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">It is only you who is to take action now. It is only you who is to transform into a new being. It is only you who is not to act like a punching bag any more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Synonyms of Ambition carry an air of positivity :</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aim</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aspiration </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Objective</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dream</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Desire</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Purpose</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Synonyms of Greed are shrouded in negativity : </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-TyTasA0ljtVqAwko7guAg7qJlZGqrzqaSQnIpuYjOqH8t4BI1Trq4ddnAp_yWYyLEWupGwhQUP-vwJIYGQ7aPG76X5o8lRC36hdKN014d3N1gp6LCJp_x3iyymy_X44Hmqx-g14fjCV4/s1600/greed-title-still-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-TyTasA0ljtVqAwko7guAg7qJlZGqrzqaSQnIpuYjOqH8t4BI1Trq4ddnAp_yWYyLEWupGwhQUP-vwJIYGQ7aPG76X5o8lRC36hdKN014d3N1gp6LCJp_x3iyymy_X44Hmqx-g14fjCV4/s200/greed-title-still-small.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gluttony</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Voracity</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ravenousness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Greediness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hunger</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Insatiability</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Self indulgence</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now the question is what passion a positive thinker should fuel to achieve success - ambition or greed?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We normally see ambition tagged with a desire to attain positive goals while greed labelled as a negative emotion to gain advantages or benefits by hook or by crook.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My point is what if we replace ambition with greed to achieve positive goals? Whether it makes sense or not is not an issue here. It has just occurred to me that the massive force of negative energy should be used to attain targets. The intensity of negative energy is beyond question.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think about a nuclear bomb and watch your reactive thoughts. Do you visualize nuclear energy providing electricity and fuel to run the industry or act as a steering power to move huge ships in the seas? Not at all. Your mind, in a fraction of a second, goes back to world war II when America used nuclear bombs to cause devastating damage in two Japanese cities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now the nuclear energy is used in other fields for the benefit of scientific and medical research and producing energy for positive usage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOV-oXxXePSAm8S1qurSo4jGKMO8bPx8_irNxgRGRBDrrLzP09_x_26b6lu0KUvP3oujHgkArA1hn0YFPEiAAe7FVS-mJDWK-zisYsYeO1ezkZ-JxBJnvAq-r5iKeCfmMPSwaTPmjYQptf/s1600/greed+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOV-oXxXePSAm8S1qurSo4jGKMO8bPx8_irNxgRGRBDrrLzP09_x_26b6lu0KUvP3oujHgkArA1hn0YFPEiAAe7FVS-mJDWK-zisYsYeO1ezkZ-JxBJnvAq-r5iKeCfmMPSwaTPmjYQptf/s200/greed+(1).jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Similarly, we can use the power of greed to achieve our set targets merely because of its intensity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep your thoughts focused on your targets but think like a greedy villain with an insatiable lust for success and achievement who does not give a damn about anything in the world while pursuing his objectives fiercely and ferociously. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It does not mean, in any sense, that you should take steps to cause damage or loss to others. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thinking like a villain and using the fuel of greed simply means to build a fortress against lethargy, procrastination, complacence, lassitude and indolence which are internal hurdles in your way to march towards your destiny.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eliminating each of the above hurdles is imperative to achieve success and you cannot take risk of ignoring these nuisance.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, try to change your thinking pattern and take full advantage of the fierceness of negative emotions. I am sanguine it would lessen your chances of failure and enhance the prospects of success positively. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div></div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-83068652843768493102010-07-10T14:06:00.003+05:002010-07-10T14:23:00.274+05:00How to deal with bullies?<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ea9999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Four Practical tips to deal with difficult colleagues.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you have to deal with the special species of colleagues around you who are bent upon spoiling working ambiance even without any provocation? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MpmvmFYHNvU-5FIs-yqQo389tJvERlf_zZ96lt_hgbu6otfVkluciBcTjw1EwBCMcOugzpcPHjgU1cmdVgx7Bh94dV-oJ1Ss3rbb9XaLD5O_vqEUDBua3UKx3kw1MZdj9DQ1O_WrBlnc/s1600/Bully.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MpmvmFYHNvU-5FIs-yqQo389tJvERlf_zZ96lt_hgbu6otfVkluciBcTjw1EwBCMcOugzpcPHjgU1cmdVgx7Bh94dV-oJ1Ss3rbb9XaLD5O_vqEUDBua3UKx3kw1MZdj9DQ1O_WrBlnc/s200/Bully.gif" width="151" /></a></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are everywhere like parasites, particularly in small organizations and every organization cannot afford to get rid of them for one reason or the other. It could be their quality of work, relationship with any of the high-ups or the benefits the employers enjoy through them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The price of their nasty bullying is always paid by their colleagues. Are you stuck up in such an undesired cul-de-sac of situation with no immediate way out? Here are four practical tips to save your neck from any mishap that could cost you the job or land you in hot waters:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Make your worth felt</span></span></b><b><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></b></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may already be doing your level best to achieve the set goals and doing utmost justice to your job. Yet, the top most action that you can take to save your face, your job and your self-esteem is to do more than your current performance. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Demonstrate to your colleagues, your seniors and your employers that you are no less in worth, to the organization, than anybody else. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
</div><ol start="2" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Never lose your self-esteem</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everybody is valued in the scale of his/her self-esteem. Even those who are jealous of you, for any reason, hold you in high regards for your self-esteem whether they let you realize it or not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make the difficult colleagues realize that you are willing to cooperate and help them in achieving their targets sorting out whatsoever problems they have, but simply as a colleague, not as a subservient and weak person.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Initially, they may take it as their victory to fuel their arrogance but, with the passage of time, they would certainly understand your character and positive attitude.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I personally had to deal with such bullies during my job/stay in the </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kingdom</span></st1:placetype><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> of </span><st1:placename w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saudi Arabia</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> from 1984-1987. Thank Lord, I succeeded, through the above tactics, in transforming those difficult colleagues into friends who were crying like children when I left the Kingdom. Why can you not do it?</span></div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-12445151601064546942010-07-05T17:26:00.009+05:002024-01-11T13:33:29.118+05:00Performance vs. Achievement<div class="MsoNormal">by Saalik Siddikki</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Whatever you do is your performance to achieve some target and whatever you achieve is the result of your performance. If so, then what is more important in value and worth – performance or achievement?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>To me, the various stages of performance are true source of lasting gratification and delight comparing with joy of achievement that is usually short-timed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Each performance comprises actions if done with an intention and reason to reach a certain milestone, to achieve certain goals and to gain some benefits. But, every action is not a performance like habitual activities. They are done without a purpose in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">Performance is the result of a plan to accomplish some task. It is a process of taking steps for doing things in a certain sequence to reach a specific point of satisfaction. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We can say that performance is a combination of:</span></span></div></div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">A plan<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</ul><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"> So, what if, regardless of all the passionate actions and concentrated efforts, you fail to pull it off? The definite outcome is disappointment, regret, displeasure and frustration or, in exceptional cases, could be worse.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Can you, in such a disheartening situation, do something to avoid the blitz of negative thoughts and emotions? Most people fail to do so and fall victim to tension, depression, self-rejection and remorse. It is merely because they are not prepared to accept a setback. And thus, they do not equip themselves with the appropriate tools to deal with a failure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> <span> </span></span>It is simply a matter of mindset. If you are a positive thinker, you enjoy every action of yours towards achieving your goals and in case of failure; you do not lose your heart. You take your failure as a setback like all successful people do. They know that setbacks are temporary phases to learn from and forget. They do not let their feet stuck up in the muddy grounds for the rest of their life. They move ahead to find other ways to reach their next milestone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> <span> </span> </span>Since the ultimate destiny of performance is the satisfactory accomplishment of the intended job, it is of colossal importance that you keep your thoughts totally focused on enjoying every action, for you definitely get at least two benefits from each step that you take:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> <span> </span> </span>I always suggest and this is the basic theme of Think SUCCEEDED that your ultimate accomplished goal should never skip your mind. Nonetheless, concentrating on the current moments will certainly enhance not only the quality of your performance but also your chances of success.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>The phase of satisfaction, pleasure and joy of achievement does not last long while you recall the high moments of your struggle and endeavour for a long time. You love to mention repeatedly, to your family and friends, how you overcame the hurdles and took the challenges. You feel euphoric in describing your struggle to overcome difficulties and obstacles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>On the other hand, a bulky pack of ten grand does not create any noise whether you walk fast, jog or jump. Sometimes you do not even feel its presence but deep somewhere in your subconscious mind you are silently and repeatedly reassured of its value.</div><div><br />
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<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Does it imply then that the more value you possess the more self-contained, self-maintained and self-esteemed you become? Yes, that is true. You cannot increase your value through shouts, outbursts and stubbornness. Never.<br />
<br /><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Now find a life-size mirror. Go straight to it. Stand firmly with full confidence. Look at yourself, eyes into eyes. Ask yourself bluntly "Where do you like to be placed?" At the bottom of a nicely erected heap of coins or somewhere in between the high denomination currency notes, roughly stacked?<br />
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<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>If you feel that you are still being placed, by the world, under the heap of coins, take the boldest step of your life and refine your qualities, define your characteristics. First, create your worth and then prove it to the world with a pinch of pure self-esteem which is the essence of your value to others. <br />
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<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Remember, if you do not realise your own value then how can you expect others to understand your worth? Making noise is a healthy activity but not at the cost of your devaluation. Wake up, dozing soul, wake up! Put the best side of you in the window. If people do not feel up to paying for you, they would certainly appreciate you as we all do while window-shopping. <br />
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<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>When we see something of value and are unable to get it, we take pride in telling about it to our friends. At least be something that valuable. Make them realise your merits by keeping cool and self-contained like currency notes not by shouting or creating noisy scenes like coins.<br />
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<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>The above crap is the afterthought of an SMS message that my Facebook friend Azhar Abbas Azee sent me yesterday ------ "Coins" always make sound but the currency notes are always silent. So, when your value increases, keep yourself "calm and silent".</div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-57829218423939649832010-06-28T19:23:00.000+05:002010-06-28T19:23:34.837+05:00Never Give Up Quotes<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">3 Awesome Quotes to Ignite Your Passion to Succeed</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never give up quotes contain powerful words and emotions which can inspire change. These are quotes that have stood the test of time and that have affected the human race profoundly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you feel like you're on the verge of defeat or if you feel like there's no hope left, these words will help you get through.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below are a few never give up quotes that will make even the most cynical person in the world budge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never Give Up Quote # 1: "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius</span></span></b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is not always easy. However, this doesn't mean that we should just roll over and play dead. According to the famous Chinese philosopher and strategist Confucius, success is not measured by the number of accolades we have hanging on our walls, but by the number of times we forced ourselves to get up and try again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Granted, you'd much rather win than lose, but losing gives you the opportunity to learn something new. It also shows strength in character. And in the long run, having that strength to keep on going is more important.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never Give Up Quote # 2: "You just can't beat the person who won't give up." - Babe Ruth</span></span></b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Legendary baseball player Babe Ruth sure knows what he's talking about. There are many different kinds of victories in this world. One of them doesn't involve a title and an award. Instead, it involves strength of character and perseverance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think of the countries that fought valiantly for their independence. These former colonies didn't win the war from day one. They must have lost more than a few battles and good men before they won back their freedom. Such a situation shows that as long as you keep on trying, you'll never be defeated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never Give Up Quote # 3: "When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place." - Anonymous</span></span></b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This quote is one of the most profound ones I've ever stumbled upon. It tackles one of the most important points of defeat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes, we feel like giving up. We feel like enough is enough. This quote doesn't just tell us to get back up on the dance floor, but it reminds us to draw strength from our purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These never give up quotes are all useful guidelines for getting past obstacles. I hope they serve you well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-26699070109747312802010-06-10T08:44:00.000+05:002010-06-10T08:44:02.872+05:00Mental Energy and Focus<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">How to Maximize and Harness Them</span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mental energy is essential for productivity in daily life, and is even more vital when juggling more and more daily tasks and challenges. Maintaining your mental energy at a healthy level often requires some self maintenance and focus. Here are some tips to help you do this and enjoy the process.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Take time to think for a few minutes each day. Just let thoughts pass through your mind. Analyze how they make you feel. Check negative thoughts against objective reality. One of two things will result. Either the thought is based on an untruth and you can freely reject it. Or the thought is reflecting a challenge and you can then take steps to solve it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Keep a daily log for ideas, notions, important random thoughts, and sudden inspirations. This is as simple as keeping a small notebook in your pocket, or a ready supply of paper with you. Recording a memo on your cell works great, too. Getting in this habit will inspire you to keep moving and doing, and will increase the number of productive thoughts that you have on a daily basis. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the long term your ideas and inspirations will increase in quality, and you will be a regular idea machine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Make sure that you are sleeping well and getting enough of it. Your body will tell you when you have either had enough sleep, or not, and you can always tell when you have not. This is important enough to dedicate a trip to your doctor if necessary. A lack of sleep reduces quality of thoughts and makes overall functioning very difficult. If you find yourself lying awake worrying about things, make a to-do list before you go to bed. This will provide you with a course of action that will give you peace of mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Exercise and proper diet are significant factors in establishing and maintaining a healthy level of mental energy. Exercise produces endorphins, which relax us and also stimulate creativity and fun centers in the brain. A proper diet maintains healthy blood sugar levels and provides nutrients that increase physical energy and keep us mentally alert. There are many free resources for proper diet and exercise all over the internet. Use them if you are unsure of how to establish correct diet and exercise routines.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. A fun way to help keep track of positive or negative thoughts is with a penny jar. Keep a running tally of thoughts as the day goes by. At the end of the day, just before bed, count positive thoughts and negative thoughts. Place pennies in a dish, one for each positive thought. At the end of the week count how many pennies you have. If you have fewer pennies than your tally of negative thoughts, you know you need to readjust your thinking. The next week try to increase the number of pennies. Keep this up until you notice a positive change in your overall mood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. If you are not being as productive on a daily basis as you would like create a strict to do list. It's helpful to have a partner who will help you keep focused. If you do not, then some self-discipline is needed. Deny yourself something you enjoy and treat yourself with it when your tasks are done. This is a fun and easy way to stay on track. Another option is to ask a friend to call you and inquire about your progress. Give them some free reign to prod you if needed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Celebrate your task completions. Remember that rewarding yourself for successes is every bit as important as completing them. Reward and punishment still work even on adults, and rewards are much more fun.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simple strategies combined with conscious effort can skyrocket your mental energy and keep you on track with daily action and goal achievement. If you're not getting where you want to go analyze the reasons and take steps to change the situation. Odds are that it is your mental state that's getting in your way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading! I'm Dave Cleinman. Our mental state is impacted by numerous influences all the time. Taking control of it requires conscious effort and dedication. While this process is challenging, it can also be great fun and highly exhilarating. For information on how to learn more about the process and for valuable life-changing information, visit my blog</span></span><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><a href="http://www.davecleinman.com/" target="_new"><span style="color: #1900ff; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Steps to Success</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and sign up for my newsletter,</span></span><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><a href="http://www.stepbystepezine.com/" target="_new"><span style="color: #1900ff; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Step by Step</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Article Source:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dave_Cleinman"><span style="color: #1900ff; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dave_Cleinman</span></span></a><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-43378068807854198472010-06-10T08:20:00.000+05:002010-06-10T08:20:35.475+05:00Images in Your Mind For Genius Thinking<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By </span><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Irsan_Komarga" id="togglebio" style="color: #1900ff; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Irsan Komarga</span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to research, many of us are not really using much of the genius that is within us. Our minds are proven to be very capable of learning and retaining so much information than we usually expect of ourselves. It may not seem it, but genius is within your grasp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How? There are many ways. One way is using the images in your head. Many geniuses have discovered so much simply because they paid attention to their thoughts. If you do the same, maybe you can increase your confidence. You can recognize the chances that await you in life. You can accelerate your learning and solve most problems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your mind is a gift. It keeps a lot of messages for you to access. The problem is you may not be aware about the manner of accessing these messages. Well, it is quite about conditioning-mental conditioning. It is true that there is a genetic aspect to being a genius-there is proof that it is passed hereditarily from one generation to the next. However, it is also true that you can condition your mind to think like a genius, and indeed to be one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your mind has a treasure of images-flashes so to speak that come and go. This is one key to genius. Pay attention to these images. Okay, you can try a little meditation like exercise. Be in a quiet place. Wear loose clothing and be in a loose position. Relax and focus your mind on a certain problem that you are trying to solve. If this is your first time doing this, try to choose a relatively simple problem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you do so, keep on focusing, and start to pay attention to flashes that suddenly come to your mind. What are these flashes, these images and these thoughts? They are creative insights hidden in "code". So your mind is actually framing a solution for the problem. The problem now then would be how to decipher the code. Well, it may take quite more practice. But continually paying attention to these images and what they mean for you can enlighten you in problem solving.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the key to genius thinking. Start with brainstorming with someone you trust and who is intellectually competent. Go over your "thinking patterns" and never ignore your mind. By doing this, you can begin to enlighten yourself with wonderfully fresh and creatively new genius thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4b4b4b; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Article Source:</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Irsan_Komarga"><span style="color: #1900ff; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Irsan_Komarga</span></span></a><span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-89838389019172096332010-06-04T17:14:00.001+05:002010-06-04T17:20:13.350+05:00A huge SUCCESS and ACHIEVEMENT- Think Succeeded - had not occurred in a flash of a moment, nor is it the outcome of some brainstorming. Personally I feel that it has grown out of the fertile land of positive thinking. I have already written somewhere else that all the credit of a change in my thinking pattern goes to Anthony Robbins. I read only one of his books, 'Mind Power', back in 2004 and applied some of its contents to get rid of migraine and succeeded.<br />
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</div><div>And quite mysteriously, I have been swimming through the stormy waters of unfavourable circumstances since 2004. I lost my job, sold property to start business and lost everything on the morning of 28th January, 2008. And then there was a long battle with the damn suicidal depression that almost devastated me physically, spiritually, psychologically and intellectually as well. And I am one of those bravest people on earth who overcome their suicidal depression without any medication or consultation with a medical expert. That is God's greatest blessing. </div><div><br />
</div><div>(Hey, hey, hey - - - please do not take a pity on me, I really hate that. I am just narrating the facts, not crying over the spilt milk. Should you feel interested, please move the cursor to your right. There is a page titled as 'You must read this first' under SPECIAL PAGES. I owe you a special prayer if you do so!)</div><div><br />
</div><div>If you have time and interest, I would like you to please follow me right from the very first post to the latest one and derive a conclusion whether I deserve to be labelled as a SUCCESS and ACHIEVER or not.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Personally I have started considering myself a huge SUCCESS and ACHIEVER because of the mail that I received from an Australian gentleman last week. He writes:</div><div><br />
</div><div>'Dear Mr. Saalik, I am a 66 year old person living only with my dog 'XYZ'. My children abandoned me after the death of my loving wife. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Before I happened to visit your blog today, I had already had the last talk of my life with XYZ. Life had become so painful for me. Then I turned on the computer and started net surfing to find someone who could adopt my dog after my death - and found your blog. I read your story and other articles and have just told my XYZ 'you are so unlucky that I've got another friend in the other side of the world'.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Some of my friends keep asking me about how much I am earning from my blogs. Till writing this, I have not earned a single cent from any of my blogs nor is it my ultimate goal. I need to earn a lot to fulfill my children's dreams that they sacrificed for my failed ambitions and adventures. But I have other plans for achieving monetary targets. I am studying and learning internet / affiliate marketing. I welcome any helping suggestions in this regard.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Perhaps my friends measure my success in terms of money whereas I measure it through the achievement that I have mentioned above.</div><div><br />
</div><div>What do you say? Please share your feelings and thoughts to inspire others. Thank you. </div><div><br />
</div><div>God protect you from all failures, mishaps, diseases, tensions, depression, suicidal thoughts, shattered dreams and hopelessness.</div><div><br />
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</div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-73645046928945226032010-06-01T09:40:00.000+05:002010-06-01T09:40:29.345+05:00Power of Negative Thinking with Positive Attitude<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 9.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">LET GOD FILL THE EMPTY SPACE</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <br />
It goes without saying that a positive thinker sees the glass half filled whereas a negative thinker sees it half empty.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oh, suppose you have a half filled glass, what now? Should you keep it half filled and half empty and for how long?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The day before yesterday I was sitting with a friend. I was drinking my cold drink from a bottle using straw. My friend had his drink poured in an imported glass. He had already finished half of his drink when his young niece, about 4, came over, picked the glass and finished the drink.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">We both watched her silently and hoped that she would leave now, but she did not. Instead, she asked his uncle, my friend, to fill it again for her! My friend’s sister came, grabbed the kid’s hand and took her away. But, the story did not end there. We completed our talk and I returned home.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Now while I am typing this article, a half filled glass of water on my desktop CPU has arrested my attention. It is factually this glass of water that has triggered me to initiate writing this article.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">I am still thinking about the kid. Why did she ask my friend to re-fill the glass? Very simple, she felt that she could drink more. I don’t know whether she got a re-filled glass or not but, that little rascal taught me a great lesson that I would like to share with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">My understanding the matter is that if we have a half-filled glass, we should not remain complacent with it. We should rather try to empty it as fast as we can and think about how to re-fill it again, of course legitimately!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Creator has set a definite example for us to follow. And that is the process of evolution which confirms that everything is on the move towards a certain level of growth. I have been sitting in my chair, before my computer, for the last two hours but, in reality, I have moved 7200 seconds ahead of where I was 120 minutes ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Time is not the same at 1:15 A.M. where it was at 11:15 P.M. The air is not the same, neither the temperature nor the humidity. Even my aura must have undergone many changes during this short span of time. And the age of the whole universe has also decreased (or increased) by two hours and moved further closer to the dooms day. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">So, our state of being complacent with the half filled glass does not mean that everything has come to a standstill. It is rather us who have remained behind by not finishing the glass and seeking more to re-fill it. Our complacence solely means one thing that we do not have a desire, a passion or obsession to achieve more in life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Just imagine what would happen if all the people, since the arrival of Adam and Eve on this earth, would act complacently? We would still be living in the prehistoric age looking for huge leaves to cover our bodies and exploring caves for a save overnight sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">What will happen if we change our angle of vision to that of negative thinkers? I am still watching my half empty glass and thinking to finish it quickly. Here I go; the half filled glass is fully empty. Now it is impossible for me to continue writing. So, I am going to refill it again but this time with something better like cold milk. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oh, please wait. I won’t leave your thirst for learning unquenched. The conclusion of all this talk is that if we do not empty our half filled glass, we may not think about refilling it with something better. Does it also imply that people given half filled glass are actually blessed with a stronger passion to find ways to re-fill it? I think this is what God likes them to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Whatever you possess, physically, intellectually or spiritually, just consume it and share it with others so that God conceives a better idea of how to fill the space again and with something better. This is also a kind of attitude of gratitude for what we are blessed with and a surefire way to further growth in every sense of the word.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Your learning something and sharing it with others or earning money and spending it on the neediest ones means you put yourself before God in a position where He does not leave the empty space unfilled. It is against His own system. Try the formula and be gratified.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The power of negative thinking also works this way.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-80442229997701471692010-05-31T00:35:00.001+05:002023-12-17T15:32:50.080+05:00Drink the Half Filled Glass and Fill the Full EmptySaalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-23884860765985239522010-05-24T16:10:00.001+05:002010-05-24T16:17:40.936+05:00Conquering Depression As a God's Warrior<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Losing business, job, a loved one, broken relationships, a serious disease or any other setback in life could make a person tense and eventually trigger depressive feelings.</span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The full-blown depression is a series of episodes of a number of symptoms that occur frequently or infrequently for some time and for different reasons. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These symptoms range from the feelings of being neglected, failed, abandoned, lost, maltreated, used, abused, degraded, insulted, humiliated and hated. Some or all of these feelings consequently result in different apparent symptoms like:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anger<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadness<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distress<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despondence<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nervousness<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feeling Guilty<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seeking Solitude<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Extreme Lethargy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Insomnia or Increased Sleep<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Sudden Urge to Weep or Cry<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Detachment from Social Activities<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No Hunger or Excessive Hunger<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loss or Increase in Weight<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lack of Interest in Life<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suicidal Thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If and when any of the above or similar symptoms appears, a lot depends on the person who experiences these negative emotions and thoughts and equally on those who are close to him/her like family, relatives, friends, colleagues and acquaintances.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The victim of depression can handle the crisis if he/she has some prior knowledge about it and realizes the effectiveness and importance of positive thinking.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is normally advised by the experts that if any five of the above symptoms keep disturbing a person for about two weeks, he/she must consult with the family doctor or a specialist and seek help.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, if the victim does not feel comfortable with doctors or psychiatrists and symptoms persist, he/she can get rid of it through different methods tested and applied by many individuals. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The writer is also one of those exceptional people who fall victim to the severe type of suicidal depression, due to total loss of investment in business that resulted in immediate bankruptcy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In case of not taking any psychiatric treatment and medication, the victim of depression can certainly overcome it through the following surefire strategies:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: green;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be the warrior of God<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rest assured that The Creator loves you more than anyone else in the whole universe. What He simply wants is to see you face the challenges of life like a brave warrior. Looking at things with this angle of vision means that you have got to fight back as a warrior of God to defeat hyper tension and depression.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God loves to see you stand up on your own like parents enjoy their crawling baby to learn standing up in spite of falling again and again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you understand this reality, your triumph over depression is definite.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: green;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be positive to the extent of obduracy<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This tendency is the most powerful weapon not only against depression but any crisis in life. Obduracy, here, does not mean to be rigid to logic or reality. It is, in fact, standing firm on your grounds and never let the negative feelings overwhelm you at any cost.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such obduracy reinforces your resistance against the flood of negative thoughts and emotions that tend to destroy your personal integrity and devastate your self-confidence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: green;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discover your strengths through self-talk<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Self-talk is not an expression of abnormal behaviour. You will find it most energizing in times of crisis. The easiest way to explore your inner strengths and vigor is to talk to you at length. And remember, it is not necessary that you speak words loudly. You would be communicating with your inner self and the best method of this communication is through deeper thoughts. Loud words would rather cause a distraction. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Self talk is close to meditation, but it is not meditation. You have to be fully awake and aware of your surroundings. You may feel your conscious self standing face to face with the unconscious mind. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such an exercise requires very strong conviction in the legitimacy, genuineness and validity of what you are going to do. The faintest shadow of doubt could cause cracks in your belief and derail your train of thoughts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: green;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Engage yourself in some activity obsessively<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I have learnt from my personal encounter with a suicidal depression is that the quicker you create a long break between two consecutively occurring negative thoughts, the sooner you get out of the sphere of negative energy. And if you despise taking medicine like me, it is only possible through getting yourself engaged in any positive activity you are obsessed with.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A deep involvement in any activity whether it is reading, playing some sport, internet browsing, writing or doing some creative work, widens the gap between two bombarding negative thoughts, that may devastate your personal integrity and will power, to overcome the nerve-shattering depression.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I discovered that initially an objective internet surfing and lately blogging kept me so much engaged that I forgot, though for some time, all of my problems, tensions and crisis. Staying at my computer for longer hours, rather for the whole day and whole night except sleeping hours, widened the space between negative thoughts and gave me incredible relief from depressive and negative thoughts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: green;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep thinking about the most loved person (s)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This most loved person could be any one from your mother, father, spouse, children, brother, sister or some friend. There should definitely be at least one single person on earth that you care about. The one whose peace of mind prevents you from doing anything wrong that could hurt him emotionally, physically or spiritually. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My depression and disgustingly negative behaviour of some people pushed me to the brink of mental collapse that ultimately results in committing undesirable acts. I felt myself on the edge of hurting myself or those who were deliberately or unconsciously pushing me into the quagmire of desperation. I wish they could realize the intensity of the pressure of circumstances from my angle of vision.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every time I felt close to committing something that I could never have a chance to regret, I thought about my dear daughters. I do not need any certificate of appreciation from any one, but the truth is my third powerful weapon against the suicidal depression was my love for my daughters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: green;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Push yourself beyond your own limits<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Compose all of your energies and strengths to become an aggressive and intense force against the negative emotions and thoughts. There are very few people who push themselves beyond their own limits and gain victory over all the odds.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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A lot has been and is being said and written on how to succeed in life. Every author has tried his/her best to present the best gist of his/her experience and figment of creative imagination on the subject of success in life.<br />
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Professional gurus have laid down golden rules, to which nothing more of fundamental nature could further be added except improved techniques and creative ideas, for the younger generations to follow and achieve their goals. Hundreds of thousands of people, around the globe, pay heed to their advice and find their way to success.<br />
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Nevertheless, my personal setbacks, failures, losses, drawbacks, shortfalls, retreats and weaknesses have taught me just one point formula for achieving any goals, targets and success in life and that is ‘never ever fly your plane on autopilot’.<br />
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Not flying your plane on autopilot emphatically means that you have to engage all of your devices, gadgets and tools in keeping the plane stable and correctly on the right path to your destiny.<br />
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Since you personally hold the control of your plane, it is essential that all of your instruments are in working order and handily in your access too.<br />
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Now the question is what devices, gadgets and tools you need to steer your plane on the path to success? These are:<br />
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A concrete belief that God wants you to succeed<br />
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A clearly defined destiny or goal<br />
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Your obsession that works as a fuel<br />
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Appropriate knowledge and skills<br />
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A strong conviction in the legitimacy of your cause<br />
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Positive thinking<br />
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Necessary external resources<br />
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Self confidence<br />
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Realizing the value of time<br />
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Perseverance<br />
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Patience<br />
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Cool-headedness<br />
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Unwavering enthusiasm<br />
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Unbending will power<br />
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Mental stability<br />
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Unperturbed focus of thoughts<br />
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Habit of hard working<br />
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No self-pity<br />
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The list is always extendable. <br />
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By leaving the plane of your life on autopilot you become a little weary, sluggish and lethargic and fall to slumber of defused enthusiasm in the comfort zone of complacency. All this adds up to changing your attitude from active to passive which is certainly a sign of ultimate disaster.<br />
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This is absolutely not what The Almighty God likes us to do. He has attached the whole universe with the wheel of change and change requires movement. Movement needs force and energy emanating from the human mind that is the most amazing creation of The Greatest Creator. <br />
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Taking solace in your comfort zone means causing the wheel of change to stop i.e. to restrict your mind to think creatively and thus allowing the plane of your life to deviate from its requisite path.<br />
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A little deep thinking will convince you that success in life is basically attached with realizing, understanding and applying the one point formula ‘never ever fly your plane on autopilot’.Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-50988978577893759792010-04-26T12:26:00.000+05:002010-04-26T12:26:21.476+05:00Always Radiate Positive Energy<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I consider human mind one of the most amazing creations of The Creator because it has been gifted with an incredible ability of creating unique things from nothingness.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It is an undeniable stigma that almost all the Muslim intellectuals, social reformers, thinkers, educationalists, philosophers and religious scholars have lamentably and shamelessly ignored the evolution of human mind and intelligence during the last 500 years or, to be more time-specific, since the awakening of Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Even the rulers of oil-rich Arab states criminally ignored their responsibility of establishing research institutions parrallel to the prestigious Western schools and universities. They spend billions of dollars, collectively, to maintain their own luxurious lifestyle, but none of them posseses the wisdom of U.S. President George W. Bush senior (though he is not a role model for me by any criteria or understanding).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"During the 1990s U.S. President<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert_Walker_Bush" title="George Herbert Walker Bush">George Herbert Walker Bush</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>declared a decade of research to center on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience" title="Neuroscience">neuroscience</a>. The resulting<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_of_the_Brain" title="Decade of the Brain">Decade of the Brain</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was well publicized inter-US agency initiative that responded to the declaration. The two lead federal agencies in that initiative were the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Mental_Health" title="National Institute of Mental Health">National Institute of Mental Health</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(part of the larger<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health" title="National Institutes of Health">National Institutes of Health</a>. Although the initiative did not receive the level of funding as the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project" title="Human Genome Project">Human Genome Project</a>, it did serve to catalyze significant advances in our understanding of the brain particularly in the context of brain diseases. The Decade of the Brain project was followed in 2001 by a Decade of Behavior Project that also attempted to bring together scientists, this time to understand how human behavior emerges. (Wikipedia)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And now another research project is on the drawing board. At the dawning of the Decade of the Mind (2010 - 2020), possibilities and consequences for a better life in the future will be explored by a transdisciplinary group of scientists and policy makers. The meeting will be focussed on three topics: Education, Social Policy, and Health. It will be held in the heart of the European Union (EU).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Thank Lord some people have undertaken Mind Science as a profession and, beside raking huge monetary benefits, imparting some knowledge on mind and polishing the mental abilities of their clients who could afford to pay their charges. They opted to learn Reiki, Yoga, Mind Science and offer their expertise to those who are interested. So far so good but my question is why can't we have many people like Dr. Muiz, Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy and Deepak Chopra in the whole Muslim world? Why can't we establish a research institution with the help of Arabian sheikhs on Mind Science.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We must be, at least I'm, grateful to the Western scholars who have not put any restrictions on their research work or kept it secret like Muslim scholars did about 700 years ago which was one of the reasons for their fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I'm not a degree / holder on Mind Science, Reiki, Self-Improvement, Personality Development, Positive Thinking. However, it is my passion to share, whatever I've studied, learnt and applied to myself, with people particularly Pakistani young men and women.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I would be gratified if Pakistani college students understand the importance of bringing change in their pattern of thinking which will ultimately lead them to their destiny of success.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">My message to all visitors and readers of this blog is to " Please, please, please make Positive Thinking an identity of your character and personality and radiate Positive Energy under all curcumstances and conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Allah bless you with more health, peace of mind<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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The word mass destruction should not distort your opinion about true love. First of all we have to determine just what true love is. Every intellectual, writer, sociologist and thinker has passionately and justifiably expressed his/her feelings, thoughts and understanding about true love.<br />
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In spite of all the popular definitions, there are still misconceptions about this pure emotion. Simply saying "I love you baby" or "I love you too honey" does not imply that two persons are glued to each other with true love. It is a common observation that people, looking for weekend partners also express their physical needs through these words.<br />
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Is true love a commodity, like anything else, to sell or buy on Amazon? No, it is not by any sense of any phrase. It is not simply a warm passion. It is, as Laala Gull says, "a continuous process of going through expressions, emotions, states of mind and behaviour, all focused on selfless caring and sharing everything inside out to make life a rejoicing experience".<br />
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It is solely the fire of true love that keeps you warm in the cold weather of sheer rigidity of the whole world, an obsession that always comes to rescue while you are stuck up in the stormy waters of depressive moments, a gust of cool breeze that refreshes your whole existence with the fragrance of the aura of your loved one.<br />
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So, how comes that true love is a weapon of mass destruction? In its absolute form it radiates the most effective and highly powerful waves of energy, encircling your sphere of existence, and repel devastating onslaught of all the negative forces. It acts like an invulnerable fortress to save you from internal disintegration or emotional collapse and prevents you from falling victim to external pressure.<br />
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It is a kind of madness, an insanity that obdurately resides within you forever after you first let it occupy your heart, mind and soul. It is never restricted to mere physical attraction, congeniality of thoughts and opinions, mutual understanding and similar likes or dislikes. It is an expression of spiritual chemistry, connecting two units of energy having the same types of molecules, atoms, neutrons, protons and photons.<br />
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It never pushes you to the point of repentance or regret. If it does, it is not true love. It is truly the hub of all of your thoughts, emotions, feelings, actions, behaviour and character. It is your identification card in the crowd of hundreds of thousands of people around you.<br />
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And remember true love could not be confined to a relationship between a man and a woman only. The emotions and passion of true love may generate first from within the core of your spiritual self and seek to be expressed to someone later. It may also remain unexpressed for years and years on or even throughout life. To understand this reality requires deep thinking and meditation.</span> </span>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-61456364240754496752010-04-20T01:59:00.000+05:002010-05-09T11:59:54.611+05:00Change Your Life by Changing Angle of Vision<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guess what is the most influential factor that affects every single thing in the universe? No, no. It is not what you are thinking. Please pause here and ponder again.<br />
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The biggest factor which has a constant effect on everything is the phenomenon of CHANGE. You can bring an enormous change in your life by changing this process of change.<br />
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Yes my dear, CHANGE is occurring every moment of every minute of everyday. Everything in this universe, except the Creator, is moving forward on the path of CHANGE with every fractional bit of time. It is just that most of us do not perceive and realize it and those who do, affect this process of CHANGE using the might of their powerful thoughts and actions. They themselves become a compelling force to bring CHANGE in the lives of others.<br />
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Would you not like to be among those exceptional people? You may or may not be another Aristotle, Confucius, Socrates, Newton, Einstein, Edison, Muhammad Ali Jinnah or Bill Gates. But you can be purely YOU. The very first thing you need to bring CHANGE is to discover the true YOU who has unconsciously disappeared in the crowds of lost characters and fake cosmetic personalities.</span><br />
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Wake up now and find a way to escape from the detention of this FORCED EXISTENCE.<br />
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Steal a few moments of your time; find a peaceful place to sit down. Close your eyes, take a couple of deep breaths that will help you free your mind from wandering and disturbing thoughts. It is an interesting exercise to sow the invisible seeds of powerful positive thoughts in the fertile land of your mind which would ultimately grow into a huge and visible tree of a new personality and character of the real YOU.<br />
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Now imagine as if you are watching your present self from a distance. Let us call it P.S. for your convenience. Look at it thoroughly and analyze its personality traits and characteristics, its habits and activities, its achievements and failures till this moment. Be fair with yourself and ask this P.S. if it is satisfied with its present status as a free and an independent human being. There is a little chance that you get a reply in "yes".<br />
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This P.S. may not even look directly into your eyes because it feels unable to get rid of dependence on others, on circumstances, on fate. This P.S. is yearning for freedom but does not have the courage and will power to break the shackles of slavery to lethargy, procrastination and sluggishness. Would you like to let this slave enjoy the taste of freedom, achievement of goals and ultimate success?<br />
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Think again, it is an uphill task but not an impossible one. You just need to discover your own potential, abilities, talents and powers which are hidden somewhere deep in the real YOU. The Almighty Allah, God, Bhagwaan has created a universal mind to help you provided you seek this help sincerely and seriously. Have you not read the Koranic verse that says?<br />
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So, go ahead, all the divine forces are waiting for you to take a Big STEP that would lead you to your Destiny. This Big STEP, at the moment, is your willingness and an unwavering decision to prepare yourself for the CHANGE that may create a little discomfort initially but will ultimately take you closer to achieving your goals.<br />
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By the way have you set some goals to achieve? Short-Term Goals, Mid-Term Goals and Long-Term Goals? Write down your goals; devise a plan and go all out to achieve them. See yourself pitched in a battleground surrounded with forces that do not want to see you succeed. Create in your mind a do or die situation.<br />
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That is the way to change the process of change. Change always occurs following the pattern of one, two, three... nine and ten. There is always a sequence of happenings that ultimately bring change. You are to reverse this cycle. See yourself as victorious first instead of visualizing how you would fight to win the battle. It is a bit difficult to understand for some people but not an impossible endeavour.<br />
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To some it could be like wearing right shoe in left foot and vice versa. Try to experiment with this. It may make you a little uncomfortable in the beginning, but repeating it for a couple of times and remaining that way, rather moving around, would be surprisingly easy. This is what I call changing the process of change.<br />
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The more you control the process of change, the easier it would be for you to manipulate circumstances and opportunities at your own will. It simply requires a little tilt in your angle of vision and the whole scenario changes to an incredible extent.<br />
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Yes, changing the process of change needs to be initiated with a change in your angle of vision. Go ahead and enjoy the experiment, for you are not going to lose anything. Learning something new at no cost is not a bad bargain. </span>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-35880113936833945252010-04-16T20:21:00.000+05:002010-04-23T15:22:34.874+05:00The Art of Success - Learn from Ants<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffc282; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffc282; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">God has created and blessed every single person with some special qualities. It is a solemn binding on each and every person to dig deep into his/her inner self to discover the treasure of these qualities.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The mere difference between achievers and non-achievers is the urge to find out their potential talent, aptitude and abilities and to take full advantage of these tools to carve out a character, career and lifestyle.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Where do you prefer to see yourself - amongst non-achievers or failures? Your attitude about your own self is the basic criteria to judge your thinking pattern, characteristics, personality and ultimate destiny.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Tagging yourself with the label of a failure may get you stuck up in the cul-de-sac of negativity, pessimism, self pity, hopelessness and disastrous mental crash. You are not born to let yourself dragged, by the circumstances, to such ending.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">I beseech you to please never ever fall victim to above state of mind. I have personally gone through the worst type of depression, hypertension and consecutive nervous breakdowns after losing everything in business due to my blind trust on a partner. Thus, I have better understanding of such feelings and am fully aware of their devastating effects.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Giving up is like raising a wall of hard rocks in your own way that leaves you with no option except banging your head with it. You have to keep reaffirming yourself that your life is not destined to break apart like that. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">So, my friends, wake up from the lethargic slumber of self-pity, weary complacence and be your own mentor. Whether you have ever been a leader of even a small group or not, act like a leader and remember leaders do not disintegrate under any pressure. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Being a non-achiever does not imply, by any manner of means, that you can never succeed in life. Not achieving a goal is nothing more than a setback. Many great achievers and conquerors had had setbacks that did not prevent them from recollecting their energies and moving forward to achieve their definite targets sooner or later.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Redefine your goals, check your arsenal and see what is left of your armaments. Your weaponry comprises a strong belief in God, positive thinking, self confidence, determination to achieve success and an obsession to never surrender. Rearrange them, take a look at the battlefield, and review your mistakes and blunders. You might have ignored insignificant points that would have caused you heavy setbacks.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Should you still need inspiration, motivation and encouragement, go to a nearby garden. Crush a piece of sweet biscuit and spread it on the ground under a tree. You will see a tiny ant pulling and pushing a granule of the biscuit, may be more than twenty times its own size and weight, with utmost madness and obsession. Other ants may also join in the adventure a bit later, but the initiative is usually taken by a single ant that is determined to challenge its potential strength, courage, guts and grit.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Challenge your inner self, with a rock-hard conviction and fervor, like an ant and all the positive forces of the universe would be joining you and paving way for your success.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div></span>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-83916834707236652302010-04-16T17:25:00.000+05:002010-04-16T17:25:33.200+05:00Four Big Steps to Conquering Depression<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Depression is not itself a disease. It is normally characterized by feelings of loneliness, despair, sadness, low self-esteem and self-reproach. It is also tagged with vegetative states like loss of appetite and insomnia (in certain cases increased appetite and sleep) and withdrawal from social contact. If unattended for a long time, it could also lead to aggravated suicidal tendency.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Regardless of the type of depression manifested by various symptoms, a person suffering from this painful phase of agonizing torture can conquer it in four big steps without resorting to medication. These steps are the extract of personal fierce battle with depression.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">First Big Step - Self Diagnosis</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Personal and social affairs, in these hard times, are becoming more and more difficult to manage and anybody can fall victim to depression for loss of love or a loved one or job and business. It is primarily caused by a combination of factors, such as the person's genes, his biochemical environment, his personal experience and psychological factors.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Whatever the cause is, a self-conscious person can easily notice the initial symptoms before falling victim to depression. Realizing the looming danger and being ready to repel it is like building a fortress and strengthening self-defense before enemy's attack. Such awareness acts as a strong shield to fend off depression.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Second Big Step - Strong Positive Attitude</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Having positive attitude is a long process of deep thinking, developing an attitude against self-will and maintaining it against all odds. Positive thinking is a divine blessing in disguise demanding high price from its possessor. However, it pays back in the worst and critical times.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Positive attitude is raised on the foundation of self-esteem, determination, realistic approach and a strong belief in one's positive convictions. It is a fire, which has to be kept burning even in the hailstorm of negative emotions and nerve shattering atmosphere.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">A little obduracy in positive attitude is a must to fight back depression. The negative forces are often very strong and can devastate any person's integrity and deprive him of his sanity until they are dealt with the equal retaliation of obdurate positive thinking. A positive thinker should have a strong belief in the powerful effects of positive energy. Positive thinking, if appropriately applied, can devour depressing emotions and suicidal tendency like a vampire.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Third Big Step - Learn and Do Blogging</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Is it ridiculous? May be. But it has proved to be a very strong weapon in my personal arsenal to protect me from the killing effects of depression. It took me almost six months to discover an overwhelmingly engaging activity that kept my personal integrity and sanity intact. Yes, after losing everything in business and having been abandoned by most of the friends, I fell prey to disheartening solitude that started nurturing suicidal thoughts.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">I joined a social networking platform to express my feelings. However, at the same time I did not want the world to know my weaknesses. So, nobody could gauge the fragility of my state of mind. I posted brief notes to let others know of inner volcanic eruptions and the soul damaging phase I was going through. Nobody bothered to understand the pangs of pain behind my words. And quite contrary to usual perception I took it as my victory.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Then I happened to visit a blog and I learned to create and operate one of my own. I created about ten without making any single one my sole identity. Heavy loans, joblessness, solitude, total failure and a deep feeling of guilt that I had lost everything because of my blind trust on a rascal was dragging me towards suicide.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">I tried to keep myself engaged in photography, writing poetry, attending literary circles, spending hours and hours in the company of people who took me as a role model but could not contribute anything in saving me from the worst depressive feelings. Nothing worked really.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">My condition was so severe that I came close to having a nervous breakdown three times and a heart attack four times during three months of time. Yet I did not consult a doctor because I had been claiming to be a positive thinker. I did not want to fail in proving the truth of my conviction and belief in positive thinking.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">I kept blogging for about six months spending time in irregular updating and creating more blogs without a particular focus on any single one. But this practice kept me deeply engaged. I discovered many interesting blogs created by people suffering from serious diseases and still enjoying life.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">So, I can proudly and authentically say that blogging also has its due share in saving my sanity and integrity. The outcome is quite gratifying. I am going to launch my own website very soon.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Fourth Big Step - Have a Strong Belief That God is On Your Side</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">It was perhaps the fruit of cultivating strong positive thinking that in the worst moments of depression and hypertension God kept a window of hope and light open to me. I got stuck up in the darkest cul-de-sac of circumstances. There was no apparent way out for me.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">One thing that I am grateful to God for is the realization of His presence around me even when I felt my faith in Him weakened by the negative emotions, pessimistic thoughts and suicidal tendency.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">A person expecting depression must not let the circumstances make any cracks in his faith and trust in God's presence around you. He wants us to dive deep in our inner selves and discover our true strengths and powers with which we can defeat any negative forces of the universe.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">With these four Big Steps, any person can conquer not only depression or hyper-tension but also any serious disease, failure, loss and suicidal thoughts. Just keep standing firm to win the fierce inner battle even if you lose on all frontiers. These four Big Steps will not let drown in the quagmire of uncertainity and insanity.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Stand up, move forward to fulfill God's will and find the real you who is going to be a winner at the end of the day!</div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-49367426573772075712010-04-16T17:20:00.000+05:002010-04-16T17:20:17.951+05:00Depression Or Hypertension? Get Rid of it Through Blogging!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">It is said that the first ever web-log, now called blog, was created by some James Monro who was a traveler from Cambridge. He died when his trailer crashed in to a car but luckily, his blog was already posted on the internet. As of December 2007, a blog search engine was tracking more than 112,000,000 blogs. How many more have been added till to date is not confirmed.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">The question 'why to blog' should be replaced now with 'why not to blog'. There could be innumerable reasons for blogging from fun blogging to money blogging. However, I would advise people fallen victim to hypertension and depression to learn and do blogging not for any of the above reasons but to change your state of mind from passive to active. I call it action thinking.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">It is only you who can bring the train of your normal life back to tracks faster than anybody else could do it for you. Be the master of your own fate. Break the shackles of compulsions, self-pity and feeling deprived. You must not discontinue your medication and do not quit consulting with your doctor until or unless you are an obdurate positive thinker like me.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">You may be facing the problem of where and how to spend time. I tell you what to do. Since I have also been through the darkest phase of hypertension and extreme level of depression, I know how difficult it is to avoid inner disintegration and retain one's sanity.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">According to recent studies, antidepressant drugs offer little benefits to the patients of milder depression and if taken for longer periods, in case of severe depression, they cause some negative effects too. Psychotherapy has its role in curing depression but it also takes quite a time to achieve positive results.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This gap is to be filled with some constructive activity that could keep the patient engaged for longer hours and thus lengthen the duration of blank spaces between continuous occurrences of nerve-damaging negative thoughts. These spaces have to be filled up with the revival of positive thinking.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">To achieve this revival earlier than other methods, go ahead and create a blog on a free blogging platform. Some offer easy-to-follow instructions. Should you still face any difficulty, please take a tour or watch their video or seek help from your family or friends. Even eleven year olds are successfully blogging these days. To a person with a little passive state of mind at the moment, I suggest without any bias to create a blog on blogger dot com for a particular reason that I shall tell you later in the article.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">So, you have created a blog and chosen a unique identity of your own, you must think about your favourite subject. It is better if your URL indicates your subject of interest. It could be anything to keep you engaged for hours and hours on. All done, now write the first post. Not necessarily a lengthy one. Rather a short one, say about one to two hundred words, would be enough at this stage. Click the 'Publish post' and hit 'View blog'. Here is your blog for public view. You can make any changes in the format or template later. Here you have to click 'Next blog' at the top middle of your blog.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Their server has randomly selected someone else's blog almost with a similar subject of your blog. Just stay here for a few moments and see if there is anything of your interest. If yes, add it to your favorites or again click 'Next blog'. Keep doing so till you are exhausted. This is the pearl that I discovered out of my curiosity and it opened hundred new doors of wisdom, intellect, knowledge and discoveries to me.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">You will be exploring a new world full of sorrow, sufferings, despair, diseases, challenges (some may be more painful and agonizing than yours), excitement, love, happiness, struggle, success and achievements. You will be surprised to see how people around the globe are fighting to win their inner battles and saving their personal integrity. There is no better way to know about people than by this clicking 'Next blog' exercise.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Keeping in view the number of active blogs, only sky is the limit to quench the thirst of your curiosity. It is up to your discretion to merely peruse very personal stories of other people or interact with them by sharing your own. You may not interact with all but you will certainly have feelings of a strong bonding between you and most of them.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">I personally did it for weeks and months and now, back on my tracks without any medical treatment or psychiatric consultation, I have chosen blogging, article writing and internet marketing as my future career. The Almighty God has helped me get out of the cul-de-sac of depression, hypertension, desperation, pessimism, failure and feelings of any guilt.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Rest assured that you too or anyone else can also achieve this and force your hypertension or depression to seek solace somewhere else never to intrude your very private inner zone again.</div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-1476372253567956912010-04-16T17:13:00.000+05:002010-04-16T17:13:21.725+05:00How to Succeed - Take Three Big Steps to Your Destiny<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Success is a process of applying certain actions to accomplish clearly defined goals. It is a journey marked with challenges, crossing milestones and constantly moving forward. Success itself is not a destiny. Achievement of goals open up new doors to new horizons to be explored and the process continues.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Even a genius cannot clearly define his final destiny in terms of setting and achieving goals. People who are blessed with a thinking mind keep creating new challenges to test their will power, determination, persistence, guts and courage. It runs in their veins like hot blood. They are born with the habit of deep thinking, striving hard to overcome challenges and achieving success.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Does it mean, then, that others cannot achieve success in life? Of course not. As I said success is a process, anybody who has a vision, clearly defined goals and determination can achieve success by inculcating certain actions and habits. Here are three primary and colossal steps towards achieving success in any field of life. These primary steps are reinforced with further additional small steps.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">You do not have to be a genius to take these big steps towards achieving your goals. Before further reading the article, please do a little exercise that would definitely energize your heart and mind.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Just find a peaceful place, sit down in a relaxed posture, close your eyes, do some deep breathing, empty your mind of any disturbing thoughts, focus your whole self on a single point of inhaling positive energy through a divine stream and exhale all the negative energy. This is the beginning of your journey towards success. Making it a habit and routine at the start of every day will change the pattern of your thinking and behaviour to reap a huge crop of success.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Now peruse and understand the significance of these three big steps and plan your very personal journey towards your destiny.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">1st Big Step - Goals (Pursuit - Journey)</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">The very first big step towards your destiny is defining your goals clearly. It is a common practice of most of the successful people to write down their goals. The waves of energy emitting from written words keep charging the batteries of your sub-conscious mind and remind you that you have some commitments, with yourself indeed, to fulfill.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">By writing down your goals on a paper, you create four types of actions on the slate of your sub-conscious mind:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">1. Your mind's general memory records your goals.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
2. Your eyes transfer the images of words to create a reminder in a specific portion of your mind.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
3. Your hands memorize the words i.e. your goals. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
4. By speaking the words that you write, you also convey a special message to your listening memory.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">So, writing your goals is not simply an action of putting the words on a paper. It is, in fact, a process that ultimately reminds and helps you to stand up and move ahead in pursuit of your destiny. An experiment in Yale School of Law proved this truth decades ago.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Remember that every journey always starts with a goal (a destiny in mind). Otherwise it is nothing more than a purposeless wandering in the jungle of oblivion.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">2nd Big Step - Motivation (Fire - Obsession)</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">The initiation of a journey is a positive sign that indicates your determination to achieve your goals but it does not guarantee that you would reach your destiny. You also need fuel and energy to help you continue moving ahead. This energy comes from motivation (or inspiration). Motivation acts like a fire to keep the engine running and further to keep the vehicle of your ambitious drive moving.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">People obsessed with their ideas, targets and goals always seek and find motivation through different means e.g. reading biographies of successful people, watching and following them and deep thinking.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">They analyze their actions without giving themselves any grace marks or overlooking their mistakes.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">3rd Big Step - Action (Challenge - Determination)</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Choosing goals and starting a pursuit cannot be marked with success until and unless the most powerful and dominant force of persistent actions is not applied in the process. Actions are encountered with new challenges and challenges could not be tackled without stubborn determination.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Determination is an expression of strength of mind, will power, fortitude, resilience, guts and grit of a person. Actions fully supported with determination are weapons of destruction. Yes, they devastate all the internal and external negative forces trying to hinder your journey towards destiny.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Achievement of goals is not possible without these three big steps which are also the pillars of the mega structure of your success in any field of life.</div>Saalik Siddikkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733615423336984882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3787731759590694474.post-33026819504717873222010-04-16T16:01:00.000+05:002010-04-16T16:01:28.888+05:005 Differences Between a Dream and a Goal<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Dreams and goals are generally considered the same in meanings. In reality, they are not. Promote the status of your dreams to goals. Here is the justifiable answer to why you should do that. There are five basic differences between a dream and a goal as follows:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">1. A dream is never tagged with any time limit.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">You can wait for the rest of your life to see a dream become reality. Dreams, in plain words, are a manifestation of your desires buried deep under the surface of wishful thinking. Every goal is time oriented.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">There are time limits to achieve a goal whether individual or collective, financial or academic. Besides tackling other challenges you also have to overcome the nerve-shattering pressure of breaking certain barriers.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">2. If you have a dream, you just relax in a comfort zone and wait to see your dream come true some day, by a stroke of luck.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">A dream does not instigate much action thinking. Whereas you do not wait for that some day to achieve a goal. You devise a strategy, a plan as to how to accomplish the specific task within given time without waiting for the lady luck to knock at your door.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">3. A dream makes you a passive thinker.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Dream itself is the product of inactive thinking. Your conscious mind has no active role in creating a dream. Your goal turns you into an action thinker. It makes you a triathlon athlete. It keeps you hanging on tenterhooks, restless, twitchy and edgy by kindling a constant fire insatiable hunger within you.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">4. A dream is whipped with the cream of hypothetical hopes and expectations.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">It is like a low-level stream of cool water silently running down the slopes of tranquility pacifying your emotions and enthusiasm. Whereas a goal fuels your passions, obsession and conviction. It has thundering and lightening effect on your thinking and actions. You do not sit idle until and unless the mountain of challenges and difficulties is not scaled.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">5. More dreams emanate from a dream and thus expand the circle of inactivity.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Dreams lead you to a habit of fantasizing inertly. They make you a bit lethargic and procrastinator. Goals circulate in your blood like lava and forces you to explode into action like a volcano. They emit positive and violent energy keeping the level of your blood pressure a little higher than normal.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
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