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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Overcoming Stress

From what i know, stress cannot be 'managed' or 'handled'. It can be overcome by the simplest methods.

The Three Simple Steps are...

1. Deep Breath
2. Smile
3. Visualization

Two doses of these steps a day can bring unlimited relief from stress...
Will explain Visualization techniques in the upcoming posts.

Till Then... Happiness!!!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Types of Motivation

Types of Motivation

There are two types of motivation. One is positive and the other is negative. Positive motivation comes from appriciating the work of a person so that he is inspired to reach better heights. Negative Motivation is about motivating a person by speaking negative about the person or some situation so that they can take it up as a challenge... Will eloborate it in upcoming posts... till then... happiness!!!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

I am currently training people in personal development skills, which has English at its core part. I feel its so easy to speak to English, we Indians are just too fearful about it.


I felt these 8 points might help to commmunicate in better English...


Basics of Communication in English

How to speak English more effectively

  1. Decrease your speed to the speed of your thought.
  2. Remember that most mistakes are made in the easiest of things.
  3. Don’t stop at a mistake. Continue with the speaking.
  4. Be Confident while listening to the other person.
  5. Speak small sentences instead of large ones.
  6. Take pauses.
  7. Use varying pitch.
  8. Moderate your volume.

It worked with the people I taught, specially the first point.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Motivational Quotes (Courtesy www.motivational-quotes.info)

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.

Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley