Take responsibility for your dreams, and you will find that goals will become attainable. The only way to ensure a bright future is to improve what we do in the present. To achieve a seemingly impossible dream, we need to make difficult decisions, and act on them....

Scientists have discovered that with a broad range of active intellectual interests and a vigorous lifestyle, your body, mind and spirit can unlock hidden capacities. There’s also a chance that you can be as sharp — or sharper — at 70, 80 and even 90 than when you were at 20....

Grab the moment, and live up to it. You have to lead by example. The wheel of fortune will only turn the way we want it to if we take control and drive the wheel of excellence, and the eight spokes in this wheel of excellence are:...

People say that 90 per cent of our behaviour is formed out of the habits we adopt. From the time we wake up, till the time we go to bed, we do almost everything mechanically. ...

Life is a series of opportunities to hone one’s skill of making great choices in life’s challenging situations....

Take time to understand and reflect on what people are saying. There’s a big difference between- simply hearing, receiving communication,and truly listening, or paying heed to the art of paying attention towards understanding the message being delivered. Unlike simply hearing someone’s account, listening requires maintaining eye contact, watching a person’s body language, asking for clarification, and reading between lines for the unspoken message. ...

Volunteer your services to do more than what is expected of you. It could be as an organiser of events at your workplace, or the locality you live in. A youngster once came across an advertisement in the newspaper about a walk-in interview for a job. The interview was to be held next the day at 8:00 am. The interviews were to be held on a first-come-first-served basis, so, he went to the venue at 7:15 am, 45 minutes prior to the scheduled time. He was surprised to see that there were already over 30 youngsters lined up in a queue....

The novels are amazing in the way they have been written simple but profound and inspires the reader to think, and improve his mindset. Sudha Murty’s books will give you more than just a great story, says Vijay Batra....

The novels are amazing in the way they have been written — simple but profound — and inspires the reader to think, and improve his mindset.In a time where more and more commercial institutions are posing as centers of education and duping youngsters by making misleading offers, Sudha Murty’s books are a must read...

There is a Hindi saying in relation to this, and which goes something like, ‘Nap tol ke bolo.’ I’d like to make a constructive addition to it, ‘Nap tol ke suno’. ...