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Handful of Life Themes
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Enhance your con dence and faith on your ability to handle the things in a better way. You
might be going through some challenges, problems, some delays or some blockages. You
need to believe in your resourcefulness, that you have the capacity to make the best out
of anything.
Allow yourself to be happy and at peace for all the progress you make so far. Proud of
yourself, because at this point of time , if you have not acknowledged your own efforts, small
to smaller progress and achievements , no one else can see. So, better acknowledge that rst,
and when you do so, you will release a whole new wave of positivity.
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This is helpful to think about almost always whenever you face any challenge, obstacle or
problem that, what worse could be happened in reality ----you‘ll nd this is not ‘life and
death’ scenario in most of the time. If you think back wisely this is a so called ‘yet-to-happen-
disaster’ in your life and you always preview (read anticipate) the things much worse than the
scenarios actually take place. Therefore, this is a little step forward to make you out of
aggression of fear now and then. It really works!!
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Sometimes lots of ideas come to us, then we get distracted, we do not take actions and then
nothing has happened to those ideas or imaginations. So, why don’t we start thinking in a
way --- HOW LIFE COULD BE OR WILL BE, IF WE PUT ENOUGH EFFORTS AND SOME REAL
ACTIONS , WITHOUT WASTING TIME OR GETTING DISTRACTED TO ALL THOSE IDEAS WE
WANT TO ACCOMPLISH !!!
Everyone passes through ups and downs while accomplishing any of his or her dream project
but passion towards that dream or desire keeps them move ahead and get the job done ---so
PASSION keeps you MOTIVATED. Passion carries us through setbacks and keeps us stay
focused. Passion of doing something what you want to do always act as “speed box”, it blows
away all the small obstacles from your path.
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Almost any success story cannot be completed without passion. It is passion that will not let
you quit in the phase of adversities. If Getting Wealthy is your goal ---- its ne but without
passion, that will not keep you motivated for a long time. That is the reason we want to build
our career or business, where we nd interests, inspirations that makes us passionate. Having
experiences also increases the level of passion within us. Hence if you do not nd enough
passion, might possible you need experience more.
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It is always easy to nd someone to tell you what you want to hear about, but your true allies
who tell you need to learn. Understanding your path forward, you need to take time to know
yourself. All days in a year are not for external show up. Commencing new business, signing
contracts, making network, even meeting friends as for example. Some days are must be
there, when your energy, your environment and your true self do not make you feel to do
external activities, choose those days to spend time to look inward. When you know who you
are, you will be wise enough to know your goals, dreams, your standards, and your convictions
, knowing all those will de nitely allow you to lead a life with purpose and with a deep
meaning. At this juncture, always remember one principle: In order to get, you have to give.
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We are at present in a very challenging period, so it is a good time to take the opportunity to
re ect what has happened in the recent past couple of months, what you have achieved so
far and what is your plan for next step forward.
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Do not try to impress everyone, because unhappiest people are those who most care what
other people think. Concentrate on your present and be alert what openings are there for you.
Look for ‘Noble Man’s help. The helpful people are always there.
To counter this issue always chOose the word “We” over “You”.
Let us read and modify the following imaginary yet very practical statements in the next
paragraphs that might often take place :
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“You always talk about yourself. You never care about what I want to say”. (direct criticism).
Why so harsh? What if it has been told as “we have talked lot about you. Let me in, so could
we talk about mine?” (How mild it is!!)
“You said, you would wash the dishes, but there’s still a pile in the sink. You never do what you
say you will” (common criticism). What if the statement could be as such “there are still some
dirty dishes in the sink, I need you to clean them up please” (gentle enough)
“Come on, hurry up, we are getting late. Are you just being so slow purposefully? (Big no-no.).
Let change a bit “hey we are running late, it’s really important to me that we should get there
on time” (straight but no allegation).
So, next time you need to talk on any troublesome issue or problem, address that problem
with assertive manner, formulate a gentle start up, may complaint but without any blame.
Always ask following two questions before approaching with any problem to your partner:
There are ve more major behavioral changes could bring a really joyful relationship under
‘Accountability ‘section alone!!
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The magical feelings when an idea arrives inside your mind and the idea when actually meets
the reality, there might have a huge gap, what can be called as an ‘effort gap’. Effort gap
arises due to sudden factors. It could be regular routine efforts what make you feel boredom
and you may give up out of it , shallow idea of perfection that further creates a fear of
commitment to put the idea in the real world, credibility factor, similar idea facing
competitions and then a tug of war who has launched the idea rst ( remember here, who
rst possesses the idea never run out of efforts) , creative ideas without risk taking attitude, ,
then ego comes in between and makes you think to lock the idea in your mind does not allow
to take the actions which will close the effort gap. So you see, your idea may suffer a lot by
the effort gap. So you got to make sure to put in the efforts coming up with ideas and make it
happened (easiest path).
Next one, I think it would be ‘Skill gap’, I am sorry to say many people do not recognize this
short fall. You need to also cross the skill gap because if you are willing to put the right efforts
, the next thing is you should also have the relevant skills and if your skills at any point of time
is not good enough to deliver it , having a great idea and even putting the right efforts will be
useless. So capacity of getting fantastic idea is not always the harder part, you have to
require relevant skills along with the right efforts.
So stay energetic and inspired and please ensure to close your effort gap and skill gap in order
to allow your great idea to see the light of the real world.
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Step-1
Before focusing on how one could become mentally tough, I think it is necessary to get the
idea of what mental toughness is really meant to you at rst place. Somebody says it is self
discipline or getting things done. Now it could be start with a very small things in your daily
life –it could be getting up 5 am every morning, regardless rain or sunshine, it could be going
all 30 or 60 days without missing a single workout, or you may nish your book writing goal
without missing a single by writing one or two pages, delivering your daily post, blog etc.
without missing the schedule you have prepared and so on. This is the rst step, mental
toughness begins with.
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Step-2
Creating or building small wins, small victories consistently. Rep 15 times when you are asked
to 10, walk 1.5 km when 1 km is necessary, choose to give , where only consume even works,
take small social responsibility when nobody cares , so all such tiny wins on daily basis will
make you mentally strong enough to respond you in extreme situations (if any).
Step-3
Building strong conscious habits make you ‘stick to a schedule’ always that is the incredible
dose of mental toughness that sets you free from the dependency on “motivation” or
“inspiration” every time.
I think, we should not treat our in built mental power or will power for granted, rather like
other physical muscles, we need to condition it by dedication of every day practice.
Want to nish this post by my mentor’s words: “Ordinary things consistently have done create
extra ordinary results in life”. What a blessing indeed!!
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Creating New
In order to build network, some people often think to amend, to x their old networks, old
ties, broken relationship and all that. I think, it is more important to understand that creating a
new future is much better than xing something from the past. Anything that has been ended
indicates new beginning. It’s a great for you to start a fresh with a trust that your chosen path
and your future life would worth your efforts.
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Now, happiness is also vibration energy. When this energy reaches a comfort level, our
thoughts, emotions and even our external environment become pleasant.
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CLARITY makes our life easier , whether you are perusing your career, or you want live tter
and healthier , or you want to improve relationships or you want to pursue new skill set or
education or whatever , clarity drives your actions.
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Following are tips to help you gain some clarity not only for any particular issue but as a
general practice to gain clarity over the period:
Eliminate at least 30% things that are really not helpful. Whether it’s your excuses like not
having enough time or space or resources or just anything people and matters, where you are
giving more time.
Focus on just one or two points at a time to reduce the burden of distractions. Having too
many possible options often make you overwhelmed and distracted and take your
unnecessary attentions or time.
Schedule your priorities or important activities rst. The things which are scheduled, the
things are done.
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Make some time to observe yourself on regular basis- to know what makes you productively
happy and what not.
Do not expect any solution overnight depending on the gravity of any problem.
Living intentionally requires clarity. Hope, said insights could help you to cope the ‘clarity’
issue to some extent.
Bad days are stressful, frustrating, and troublesome; always make us felt trapped in an
adverse situation. Decisions made during desperation period are usually wrong. ‘Bad day’ has
the other side too. Bad phase of our life is not necessarily to be that far alarming always as
we think. Bad days come with laden opportunities as well. Off course looking for those
opportunities, one has to be calm and mindful.
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Right now, amidst of this challenging period, what we are going to do? Well, some of us
might ooded with opportunities and some are not so---this is constant more or less. So when
you want to see the picture big or small always say for remaining days of this year, always
carry the clarity in mind that we have enough freedom of choices. Wherever we go what
matters us the most is our choices. How will you evaluate those choices, how will you make
most and best of those ---ask these questions during this remaining period. I term it as period
of ‘self re ection’. The most importantly how do you answer those questions will lead you to a
new direction.
Do not be afraid to make choices, because you have to make it anyway. So, study, think and
understand the circumstances, source what choices are available with you. Instruct your mind
“I am getting clearer”, “I can see better now”, “I am con dent and steady” rather than “I don’t
know how”, “I am confused, I am stressed out” . It is nally your responsibility to replace your
blurred inside with clarity.
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To handle ourselves, we have to use our heads to think about, what need to do but while
handling people, we use our hearts. So, destroying what holding us back with no meaningful
reason is a right step feel lighter.
Everyday our actions , our behaviors, our experiences and even our attitudes do shape who
we are and we still have so much ahead along the way to be tested and trialed ,small or big.
The situation that tests us or how we respond that means what we do , people do not see at
surface level, this is called our ‘integrity’ in modern day language.
So, de nition of integrity could be true to who you are, what you believe in or to do or say
even when people are not watching.
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Make up your mind before taking any decision without seeking opinions of everyone in the
surrounding—it would make you overwhelmed and confused.
Do not create a situation that makes whatever the situation you are already in harder. People
like to sabotage themselves. See the problem as it is in actual.
If someone trusts you, respect it. If you want to be trusted got an earn it.
People love to work more on external factors. Compassion, kindness, respect, honesty loyalty
etc. are the different aspects of integrity, which are purely internal.
If you want to be attracted by 10 times for entire life time, there’s no short-cut but only by
developing your integrity.
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Learning how to tame your own negative emotions –just able to that alone could make you
happy as well .
In life, some are obsessed about problems and works, some are worrying about money, some
are obsessed about relationships…so my perception is--- one cannot get rid of their own
negative thoughts or emotions by controlling it , the more you try to control , more you could
think about. Instead, if you step out of your thoughts, you could gain the ability of detaching
with those worries. We often treat ourselves badly and not like a real good friend. When you
are in so called downward cycle, feeling bad, just ask yourself what suggestions you would
give to your one real friend if he or she feels so?
Happiness is simply the ability to nd true satisfaction in the moment that you are right now.
Hunching for living in this moment without searching for indications of future success.
Expressing gratefulness through your prayers and wish making (not just want more ) itself
plants the seeds of happiness.
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To be in the moment, take some little time to breadth. We 24x7 are consumed of “doing
something”. There’s no better way to feel your very existence by closing your eyes for ve
minutes , counting back 64 to 1 everyday and ‘doing nothing ‘. It may sounds wired for some
people, but it works for me. You may actually be ‘in the moment’ by successfully practicing
making your mind space absolutely vacant sometimes. Make your current moment better to
love the current life you live in.
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All mistakes and errors taught us lessons. If you have the courage to become better and
improved, forgive yourself rst internally. Seek way out to that. Sometimes there are issues to
forgive them.
Look for silver lining for your error, some people cannot nd it. If you can see the good by
simple re ection, this will make you matured and you will grow.
Sometimes the pain of your past mistakes might take place for your some unrealistic goal.
Reshape or rede ne your goal then to sort out the issue. Past failures could guide to a new
goal and right direction.
Ask yourself what is your value NOW and why? Every past mistake has its own value---
people, security, love, freedom, loyalty, relationships. Understanding that value of your past
mistake to your current value, use your past mistake as leverage- this is important okay?
Shift your priorities to avoid the past mistakes to repeat. Commit yourself to act differently in
life and commitment requires actions. Take at least one speci c task on every single day to
create the reality you want ,this is necessary.
Help others in their terms and not in your terms, will release your guilt feelings. This is an easy
way to forgive you. Ask yourself sometimes, what are the things you are grateful for , this is
the another way to feel peace inside.
Just relax breadth and let it go. You are NOT the only one who experiences these; millions of
others do carry the same feelings.
Above are some practical ways besides only pray and meditations. Use your karmic energy to
release the chain that holds you back.
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improvements are not necessarily always being at your external environments. We are not
mindful enough to our habits which are not serving us so far. We nd it hard to get rid of such
habits often. There are some initiating actions involving your free will or your vibration energy
, to help you at least to reduce or keep control over such habits provided what are those
will give you happiness, joy, abundance, each day, bit by bit?
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Embrace Gratitude
Sometimes I feel lessoning Gratitude is the key to unlock the life of success and prosperity in
many ways. It helps us to feel our inner peace by silencing our internal enemy called Ego.
Practicing gratitude makes us empowered to overthrow or get out of our own constant sel sh
desires---all time “me”, “me”, “me” things. Gratitude teaches us things will not go always as
per our chosen way or no matter whatever the challenges we are going through in our lives ,
would have been ended with a positive outcome. Not only to others in the human race, we
are to be grateful enough to our mother nature ,the beautiful and useful plants-trees- owers-
fruits-herbs- shrubs-shoots-roots and what not. We are thankful to clean air of the
environment that is getting polluted each moment by the man made causes. We should be
thankful to those challenges, trials, and turbulence and last but not the least to our Nay
Sayers too. All these often work as life transforming!!! Make us strong from within.
So, be Thankful always for the real causes, then feel the remarkable results, feel amazing
about yourself.
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