Self-discipline makes all the difference

 

In Year 2008, Men’s Wimbledon final was one of the best clashes in the history of tennis. It lasted four hours and forty-eight minutes. Nadal was up in the first two sets, Federer, the grass court king, hit back by winning the next two, and the final set went down to the wire. In the end it was Nadal, who won his first Wimbledon title....

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Is your life interesting or just irritating?

 

Life can be an interesting experience or everything in it can be a source of irritation, the choice is ours. We are primed by instincts to treat anything new or unfamiliar to be irritating,...

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Listening is the first step in communication

 

A mother was walking with her son. Soon, they came across a street performer who was about to start his performance, so they took a place and started enjoying his performance....

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Catching your child’s potential early on

 

We all can learn what to do and how to live better lives from great sportsmen like Abhinav Bindra. And also from his parents, for they played a major role in his success....

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The Mind Works When It Is Open

 

Alexis Leon was a software engineer with Tata Consultancy services who met with a road accident, which left him paralyzed waist down. Post-accident, he was bed ridden for some time and went through agonies associated with such an accident. But when you prepare your mind to think how to overcome the challenges, it is able to endure the unendurable, accept the unacceptable and move on to do the best with what you have left....

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Getting Along Well With Oneself And Others Is The Crucial Ingredient For A Happy And Prosperous Life

 

Building a strong relationship with oneself is the first step. In my seminars, I ask participants to close their eyes for a minute and visualize five faces. After the minute is over, I ask them to write down the names of faces they have visualized. In most of the cases the participants tend to visualize others, be it their parents, relatives, friends, co-workers, but seldom themselves....

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Remain Out Of Jealousy, Anger, and Revenge

 

Stay out of the JAR – Jealousy, Anger and Revenge. The three most destructive emotions we need to regulate in ourselves to live great lives. We are having more and more today, than in any time in history, yet, along with material prosperity, Jealousy is on the rise, leading people to becoming angry and many succumbing to revenge....

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2013 – a ‘tera year’

 

The other day, I was chatting with my son Gaurav who is doing his B.Tech in mechanical engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT),Vellore in Tamil Naidu. He was visiting us during his winter vacations. During our conversation I casually asked him, “Son I hope you will look after your mummy and papa when we are old?” ...

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Be in the present to be happy

 

The other day in the afternoon I witnessed a mother who had come to accompany her, daughter who was about five years old, from the school bus stop to their house....

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Count your Blessings

 

The other day, I was interacting with a salesperson on my way from Mumbai to Delhi. He had read some of my books and was very keen to gain some more insight into how he could live a better life....

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