Girl needs a brother like ____

गर्भवती माँ ने बेटी से पूछा क्या चाहिए तुझे?
बहन या भाई..!!
बेटी बोली भाई !!
माँ: किसके जैसा?
बेटी: रावण सा....!
माँ: क्या बकती है?
पिता ने धमकाया, माँ ने घूरा, गाली देती है ??
बेटी बोली, क्यूँ माँ?
बहन के अपमान पर राज्यवंश और प्राण लुटा देने वाला,
शत्रु स्त्री को हरने के बाद भी स्पर्श न करने वाला
रावण जैसा भाई ही तो हर लड़की को चाहिए आज,
माँ सिसक रही थी - पिता आवाक था...


** Something To Be Thought Seriously And Needs Action **

Ye Betiyan Kesi Hoti Hain...

Ye Betiyan Kesi Hoti Hain
Ye Pariyon Jesi Hoti Hain...

Ye Baat Baat Pe Hansti Hain
Ye Baat Baat Pe Roti Hain...

Dil Hota Hai In Ka Nazuk
Ye Bholi Bhali Hoti Hain...

Baba Ki Ladli Hoti Hain
Mama Ki Dulari Hoti Hain...

Guryon Se Khelta Bachpan Inka
Itni Jaldi Kese Beet Gaya...

Aangan Soona Kar Jati Hain
Ghar Sy Ronaq Ly Jati Hain...

Baba Ka Dard Samajhti Hain
Mumma K Aansoo Pochti Hain...

Ye Betiyan Aisi Hoti Hain
Ye Betiyan Aisi Hoti Hain...

StORy TiMe - ThE iMpOrTaNt ThInGs In LiFe...

A story worth your time...

A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him.

When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. 

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. 

The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous "Yes."

"Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter – like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff."

"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued "there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.

Take care of the rocks first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities; the rest is just sand.

Pic of the Day - You can't enter the Garden

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Understanding how HRA works*

The end of another financial year is drawing close and is a couple of months away. The words "income tax" start ringing a frantic bell towards the end of every financial year, and many questions arise. Please do note that it is best to be prepared in the beginning rather than the end of a financial year!

There are many tax components you need to be clear about and also figure out how to plan your investments to gain maximum returns as well as maximum tax benefits. One such tax component is the tax benefit you can claim from your house rent allowance. This article helps you understand how this works!

HRA (house rent allowance) is provided to salaried people under Section 10 (13A) of Income Tax Act, 1961, in accordance with rule 2A of Income Tax Rules. Self employed professionals are eligible for tax deductions under section 80GG of Income Tax Act, 1961.

Dependent factors

When you are calculating HRA for tax exemption you take into consideration four aspects which includes salary, HRA received, the actual rent paid and where you reside, i.e. if it is a metro or non-metro. If these aspects remain constant through the year, then tax exemption is calculated as a whole annually, if this is subject to change, as in a rent hike or shift in residence etc. then it is calculated on a monthly basis.

The place of residence is significant in HRA calculation as for a metro the tax exemption for HRA is 50% of the basic salary while for non-metros it is 40% of the basic salary.

On paying rent

It is not essential that you should pay rent only to a landlord to avail your HRA benefits. You can pay rent to your parents to claim tax benefits. However, they need to account for the same under `Income from house/property' and will be entitled to pay tax for the same.

Remember you cannot try the same with your spouse, as it is not permissible under income tax law, as you are expected to reside together for all practical purposes.

You need to submit proof of rent paid through rent receipts, for which only two need to be submitted, one for the beginning of the year and one towards the end of the financial year. It should have a one rupee revenue stamp affixed with the signature of the person who has received the rent, along with other details such as the rented residence address, rent paid, name of the person who rents it etc.

How is HRA calculated

To figure out how much HRA exemption you are eligible for, consider these three values which includes a. The actual rent allowance the employer provides you as part of your salary, b. the actual rent you pay for your house from which 10% of your basic pay is deducted, c. 50% of your basic salary when you reside in a metro or 40% if you reside in a non-metro.

The least value of these three values is allowed as tax exemption on your HRA. You can discuss restructuring your pay structure with your employer in order to avail the most of your HRA tax benefit.

Here is a sample illustration for your understanding:

Sheetal earns a basic salary of Rs. 40,000 per month and rents an apartment in Delhi for Rs. 20,000 per month (hence eligible for a 50% of the basic pay for HRA exemption). The actual HRA she receives is Rs. 25,000.

These values are considered to find out her HRA tax exemption:

a. Actual HRA received, i.e. Rs. 25,000,

b. 50% of the basic salary, i.e. Rs. 20,000, and

c. Excess of rent paid over 10% of salary, i.e. Rs. 20,000 — Ra 4,000 = Rs. 16,000

The value considered for her actual HRA exemption will be the least value of the above figures. Hence, the net taxable HRA for Sheetal will be Rs. 25,000 — 16,000 (available HRA deduction) = Rs. 9,000.

Availing tax benefits on your home loan and HRA

As long as you are paying rent for an accommodation, you can claim tax benefits on the HRA component of your salary, while also availing tax benefits on your home loan. This could be the case if your own home is rented out or you work from another city etc. However, you need to account for any rental income you receive from the property you own.

* Source: http://in.finance.yahoo.com

Read this small story; Hope that makes a BIG change in YOU

The Professor began his class by holding  up a glass with some water in it. He  held it up for all to see & asked the students "How much do you think this glass weighs?"  

'50gms!'... ..  '100gms!' .... .'125gms' ...the students answered. 

"I really don't know unless I weigh it," said the professor, "but, my question is: What would happen if I held it up like  this for a few minutes?" 

'Nothing' …..the students said. 

'Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?' the professor asked.

'Your arm would begin to ache' said one of the student 

"You're right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?" 

"Your arm could go numb; you might have severe muscle stress & paralysis & have to go to hospital for sure!" ….. Ventured another student & all the students laughed 

"Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?" Asked the professor. 

'No'…. Was the answer. 

"Then what caused the arm ache & the muscle stress?"

The students were puzzled. 

"What should I do now to come out of pain?" asked professor again. 

"Put the glass down!" said one of the students 

"Exactly!" said the professor. Life's problems are something like this. Hold it for a few minutes in your head & they seem OK. Think of them for a long time & they begin to ache. Hold it even longer & they begin to  paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything. It's important to think of the challenges or problems in your life, But EVEN MORE IMPORTANT is to 'PUT THEM DOWN' at the end of every day before you go to sleep... That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh &strong & can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!

So, when you start your day today, Remember friend to 'PUT THE GLASS DOWN TODAY!!! '

Corporate World ... ;-)

One day while walking down the street a highly successful Human Resources Manager was tragically hit by a bus and she died. Her soul arrived up in heaven where she was met at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter himself.

"Welcome to Heaven," said St. Peter. "Before you get settled in though, it seems we have a problem. You see, strangely enough, we've never once had a Human Resources Manager make it this far and we're not really sure what to do with you."

"No problem, just let me in," said the woman. "Well, I'd like to, but I have higher orders. What we're going to do is let you have a day in Hell and a day in Heaven and then you can choose whichever one you want to spend an eternity in."

"Actually, I think I've made up my mind, I prefer to stay in Heaven", said the woman "Sorry, we have rules.. ." And with that St. Peter put the executive in an elevator and it went down-down-down to hell.

The doors opened and she found herself stepping out onto the putting green of a beautiful golf course. In the distance was a country club and standing in front of her were all her friends - fellow executives that she had worked with and they were well dressed in evening gowns and cheering for her. They ran up and kissed her on both cheeks and they talked about old times. They played an excellent round of golf and at night went to the country club where she enjoyed an excellent steak and lobster dinner. She met the Devil who was actually a really nice guy (kind of cute) and she had a great time telling jokes and dancing. She was having such a good time that before she knew it, it was time to leave.Everybody shook her hand and waved goodbye as she got on the elevator.

The elevator went up-up- up and opened back up at the Pearly Gates and found St. Peter waiting for her. "Now it's time to spend a day in heaven," he said. So she spent the next 24 hours lounging around on clouds and playing the harp and singing. She had great time and before she knew it her 24 hours were up and St. Peter came and got her.

"So, you've spent a day in hell and you've spent a day in heaven. Now you must choose your eternity," The woman paused for a second and then replied, "Well, I never thought I'd say this, I mean, Heaven has been really great and all, but I think I had a better time in Hell." So St. Peter escorted her to the elevator and again she went down-down-down back to Hell.

When the doors of the elevator opened she found herself standing in a desolate wasteland covered in garbage and *****. She saw her friends were dressed in rags and were picking up the garbage and putting it in sacks.

The Devil came up to her and put his arm around her. "I don't understand," stammered the woman, "yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and a country club and we ate lobster and we danced and had a great time. Now all there is a wasteland of garbage and all my friends look miserable." The Devil looked at her smiled and told...
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"Yesterday we were recruiting you, today you're an Employee" ;-) :D

My experience ...

The month of September is about to end. On this occasion I'm writing my experience for last one month.

I won't say that there was anything special there if anyone else is reading this post. 

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But for me, yes it was special.

The main speciality this month was my visit to our unit at Trichy (Tamil Nadu). The unit covers a very vast area of few square kilometer and has a residential colony of course, along with a school & other facilities. This is not my first visit to Trichy, but it looked exactly the same I had seen it about 2 years back. Even the roads & the mob was like yesterday's memory only. I visited Rockfort Temple for the second time. I had been missing South Indian Coffee since I had left back for Morth, and I really enjoyed that taste of coffee back there.  As about my visit, I enjoy being surrounded by big machines & equipments that can make you feel tiny in front of them. The facilities are not state of art, but still good enough for Indian Industry. I hope to have another visit or two there in future.

As I had set a few goals for myself last month & now its time to review them for me :-)

1. Studying either of: Spanish Language, Palmistry or Financial Management to keep myself occupied - Well, my blog as stated below keeps me more than occupied after the office, but I regret to give up the idea of learning something new for the time being.
2. To keep my blog updated & not letting down my newly developed hobby of writing (anything) - Yes, here I have been able to meet the goal & in addition to my occasional writing, I've been updating my blog on regular basis. Gud for me again :-)
3. Learn about one part of my job to a satisfactory level, in addition to requirements of my daily work. I hope that if I can start with this & maintain it, I can really learn a lot than what I had ever ever thought of achieving in my life - I think that I have made a start to learn from my present job, but Its not a good idea to say that I can learn about an area within a short period. I hope that I would be able to keep my momentum going or may be to increase it and learn as much as possible that I can feel proud of achieving one of my dreams.

My goals for next month are more or less the same as last two points mentioned above.

-Sd-
D. Garg

My experience ...

The month of August is about to end. I've returned to my Job after about 2 months of training at Noida. On this occasion I'm writing my experience for last one month.

I won't say that there was anything special there if anyone else is reading this post. 

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But for me, yes it was special.
After about 5 years of comleting my B.Tech, I finally got into technical job and that too on a scale that has always facinated me. The place is not a big city, but the work place is so big, you can almost get lost over there ;-) Here I'm getting the chance to learn lot many things about machines & equipments & a lot more than that. And assuming the current scale of working, I can learn here for almost forever.

As I had set a few goals for myself last month & now its time to review them for me :-)

1. Starting any sort of physical exercise. I don't want to become a "Sarkari Babu" with a big stomach popping out of the dress ;-) - Well considering the nature of my job, I hope that any special effort on physical excersise won't be necessary.... Gud for me :-)
2. Studying either of: Spanish Language, Palmistry or Financial Management to keep myself occupied - Well, I tried with all but succeeded in none. :(
3. To keep my blog updated & not letting down my newly developed hobby of writing (anything) - Yes, here I have been able to meet the goal & in addition to my occasional writing, I've been updating my blog on regular basis. Gud for me again :-)

In the end I would like to set few goals for myself for next month to act as a benchmark & judge myself:

REPEAT (Hope to get some success this time) - Studying either of: Spanish Language, Palmistry or Financial Management to keep myself occupied

REPEAT - To keep my blog updated & not letting down my newly developed hobby of writing (anything)

NEW - Learn about one part of my job to a satisfactory level, in addition to requirements of my daily work. I hope that if I can start with this & maintain it, I can really learn a lot than what I had ever ever thought of achieving in my life...

-Sd-
D. Garg

Rooth jaate ho tum...

Rooth jaate ho tum, humen phir bhi aata hai pyaar

Yun phero na mun humse, tumhari ek hasi ka hai intezaar,
Galti hui jo humse, to keh Do humsE mEre yaar,

Tum has do jo zara sa, to PAtjhad mein bhi aajayegi eK bahaar…

Abhi raat baaki hai...

Kehne ko to abhi raat baaki hai

Hothon pe abhi ek baat baaki hai
NeenD to aayi hai zor ki maGar
Karna unse pyaar ka izhaar baaki hai

Customer Service Call - Installing a new program called ...

Customer: I'm not very technical, but I just received LOVE and think I am ready to install now. What do I do first?

CS Rep: The first step is to open your HEART. Have you located your HEART ma'am?

Customer: Yes, I have, but there are several programs running right now. Is it okay to install while they are running?

CS Rep: What programs are running ma'am?

Customer: Let me see... I have PASTHURT.EXE, LOWESTEEM.EXE, GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM running right now.

CS Rep: No problem. LOVE will automatically erase PAST HURT.EXE from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory, but it will no longer disrupt other programs. LOVE will eventually overwrite LOWESTEEM.EXE with a module of its own called HIGHESTEEM.EXE. However, you have to completely turn of GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM. Those programs prevent LOVE from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ma'am?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

CS Rep: My pleasure. Go to your Start menu and invoke FORGIVENESS.EXE. Do this as many times as necessary until GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, I'm done. LOVE has started installing it's self automatically. Is that normal?

CS Rep: Yes it is. You should receive a message that says it will reinstall for the life of your HEART. Do you see that message?

Customer: Yes I do. Is it completely installed?

CS Rep: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other HEART'S in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops... I have an error message already. What should I do?

CS Rep: What does the message say?

Customer: It says "ERROR 412 - PROGRAM NOT RUN ON INTERNAL COMPONENTS." What does that mean?

CS Rep: Don't worry ma'am, that's a common problem. It means that the LOVE program is set up to run on external HEARTS but has not yet been run on your HEART. It is one of those complicated programming things, but in non-technical terms it means you have to "LOVE" your own machine before it can "LOVE" others.

Customer: So what should I do?

CS Rep: Can you find the directory called SELF-ACCEPTANCE?

Customer: Yes, I have it.

CS Rep: Excellent, you are getting good at this.

Customer: Thank you.

CS Rep: You're welcome. Click on the following files and then copy them to the MYHEART directory: FORGIVESELF.DOC, SELFESTEEM.TXT, REALIZEWORTH.TXT and GOODNESS.DOC. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching any faulty programming. Also, you need to delete SELFCRITIC.EXE from all directories, and then empty your recycle bin afterwards to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it Hey! My HEART is filling up with really neat files. SMILE.MPG is playing on my monitor right now and it shows that WARMTH.COM, PEACE.EXE, and CONTENTMENT.COM are coping themselves all over my HEART!

CS Rep: Then LOVE is installed and running. You should be able to handle it from here. One more thing before I go...

Customer: Yes?

CS Rep: LOVE is freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everybody you meet. They will in turn share it with other people and they will return some really neat modules back to you.

You are priceless to those who love you

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a dollar twenty ($20) bill, in the room of two hundred (200) people. Speaker asked, "Who would like this dollar twenty ($20) bill?" Hands started going up.

Speaker said, "I am going to give this dollar twenty ($20) bill to one of you but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple up the dollar twenty ($20) bill. He asked, "Who still wants it?" Still hands were up in the air.

"Well, what if I do this?" He dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty and asked, "Who still wants it?" Still hands went up into the air.

My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what was done to the money, it was still wanted because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth dollar twenty ($20).

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We may feel as though we are worthless and useless.

But no matter what has happened or will happen, you will never lose your value: dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you.

Cups...

"A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."

"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change." "Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

So folks, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead"

A Turtles' Story...

A short story we might have heard...

A turtle family decided to go on a picnic. Turtles, being naturally slow about things, took seven years to prepare for their outing. Finally the turtle family left home looking for a suitable place for their outing. During the second year of their journey they found a place ideal for them at last ! For about six months they cleaned up the area, unpacked the picnic basket, and completed the arrangements. Then they discovered they had forgotten the salt. A picnic without salt would be a disaster, they all agreed. After a lengthy discussion, the youngest turtle was chosen to retrieve the salt from home. Although he was the fastest of the slow moving turtles, the little turtle whined, cried, and wobbled in his shell. He agreed to go on one condition: that no one would eat until he returned. The family consented and the little turtle left.

Three years passed and the little turtle had not returned. Five years ...... six years ....... then on the seventh year of his absence, the oldest turtle could no longer contain his hunger. He announced that he was going to eat and begun to unwrap a sandwich. At that point the little turtle suddenly popped out from behind a tree shouting, "SEE! I knew you wouldn't wait. Now I am not going to go get the salt."

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Moral of the Story...

Some of us waste our time waiting for people to live up to our expectations. We are so concerned about what others are doing that we don't do anything ourselves...

Communication - Tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important...

One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.

Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.

It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.

That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.

On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. "Really?" she heard whispered. "I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!" and, "I didn't know others liked me so much." were most of the comments.

No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.

Several years later, one of the students was killed in Viet Nam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature.

The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.

As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he asked. She nodded: "yes." Then he said: "Mark talked about you a lot."

After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher.

"We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it."

Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.

"Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can see, Mark treasured it."

All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home."

Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album."

"I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my diary."

Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. "I carry this with me at all times," Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: "I think we all saved our lists."

That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again. The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be.

So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

And One Way To Accomplish This Is: Forward this message on. If you do not send it, you will have, once again passed up the wonderful opportunity to do something nice and beautiful.

If you've received this, it is because someone cares for you and it means there is probably at least someone for whom you care.

If you're "too busy" to take those few minutes right now to forward this message on, would this be the VERY first time you didn't do that little thing that would make a difference in your relationships?

The more people that you send this to, the better you'll be at reaching out to those you care about.

Remember, you reap what you sow. What you put into the lives of others comes back into your own.

May Your Day Be Blessed And As Special As You Are .....

A Fish Tale

Japanese way of handling a problem....

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever.The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish.

If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh. The Japanese did not like the taste. To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer.

However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price. So fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin.

After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive. Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-

fish taste. The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish.  So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem? How do they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan?

If you were consulting the fish industry, what would you recommend? As soon as you reach your goals, such as finding a wonderful mate, starting a successful company, paying off your debts or whatever, you might lose your passion. You don't need to work so hard so you relax. You experience the same problem as lottery winners who waste their money, wealthy heirs who never grow up and bored homemakers who get addicted to prescription drugs. Like the Japanese fish problem, the best solution is simple.

It was observed by L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1950's. "Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment."- L. Ron Hubbard

The Benefits of a Challenge:

The more intelligent, persistent and competent you are, the more you enjoy a good problem. If your challenges are the correct size, and if you are steadily conquering those challenges, you are happy. You think of your challenges and get energized. You are excited to try new solutions. You have fun. You are alive!

How Japanese Fish Stay Fresh:

To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks. But now they add a small shark to each tank. The shark eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state. The fish are challenged.

Recommendations:

Instead of avoiding challenges, jump into them. Beat the heck out of them. Enjoy the game. If your challenges are too large or too numerous, do not give up. Failing makes you tired. Instead, reorganize. Find more determination, more knowledge, more help.

If you have met your goals, set some bigger goals. Once you meet your personal or family needs, move onto goals for your group, the society, even mankind. Don't create success and lie in it.

You have resources, skills and abilities to make a difference. Put a shark in your tank and see how far you can really go

My experience ...

The month of July is about to end. So, is my Training classes at Noida. Soon I'll return to my place of posting. On this occasion I'm writing my experience for last one month.

I won't say that there was anything special there if anyone else is reading this post.

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But for me, yes it was special.

1. First time in my life I had seen three movies within a month in Theatre including "Harry Potter movie's last part" in 3-D. All 3 movies including - Delhi Belly, Zindagi Na Milegi Doobara & Harry Potter 7 (Part2) were nice movies to be watched. The experience of watching the movie in 3D screen was great.
2. Most of the lectures were quite boring of course ;) but the knowledge we gained from very limited technical lectures was very exciting. At times I was feeling like a kid listening to the fairy tales with all his attention & belief. The knowledge about the products where my interest lies, was amazing.
3. I developed the habit of writing my feelings & thoughts in a little poetic manner. Of course I'm no poet or some 'shayar' and I don't know how bad my quotes are :-) but it keeps me engaged. The feeling of depression or unhappiness don't get enough time to penetrate my mind due to my busy schedule ;-)
4. I am developing confidence that I'm very postive thinker & would be able to live my life happily in every situation. i just hope that: (a) it doesn't leads to development of overconfidence or ego in me & (b) The situation doesn't gets way tooooooooooo bad that it becomes impossible for me to come out of sadness.

In the end I would like to set few goals for myself for next month to act as a benchmark & judge myself:

1. Starting any sort of physical exercise. I don't want to become a "Sarkari Babu" with a big stomach popping out of the dress ;-)
2. Studying either of: Spanish Language, Palmistry or Financial Management to keep myself occupied
3. To keep my blog updated & not letting down my newly developed hobby of writing (anything)

    -Sd-

    D. Garg