Tough opponent... Take Home #222

Tough opponent can be the cause for your ouster from a tournament but a tough opponent cannot be the reason for your ouster. When you think you have come to win, you should have come prepared to defeat the toughest. 

Winning... Take Home #221

Winning means a lot more than winning the winners trophy. Win that.

The Bitter Truth... Take Home #220

The best way to convey the bitter truth is to be open and honest to the point.

Be doubly inspired… Take Home #219

Be doubly inspired when your capabilities are being doubted. You may not get any better chance to prove yourself.

Take achievement as an inspiration !

Get inspiration from what people have achieved and detach yourself from any kind of emotional attachment with the achievers. You never know when your favourite star is going to commit such a deed after knowing which you would get disturbed.

There have been many cases in the recent years which made me recollect what once someone mentioned to school children in his/her speech:

Get inspired from the people who are dead; if you choose the ones who are alive, you might get disturbed when they commit any wrong deed.

Well, I agree and disagree to the above. I agree because it’s true to its core. And I disagree because we shall have a way out such that we can take inspiration from the living beings who are tremendously effective in making us think that we can achieve too.

I thought about it and wanted to put forward the below:

Get inspiration from what people have achieved and detach yourself from any kind of emotional attachment with the achievers.

Anyone who want to or have to make a recovery from as danger disease as cancer, nothing else can take over as best options than the autobiography of Lance Armstrong.

Anyone who wishes to build an inspiring career by captivating whole show for a quite longer while, ‘Tiger’ woods, the master golfer’s professional career history would be the best one to know about.

Anyone who chooses not to sit back after losing both the legs and not just that, who would like to further perform on the world’s largest stage, Oscar Pistorius’ life is the best suitable example. 

And so on!

People, for whom the crowds have gone crazy, have gone crazy and smashed a billion hearts with hard confessions. But that does not mean that one should not look at the inspiring living beings at all. Better be inspired of what people have achieved and how they did it. Most importantly better be detached from emotional attachment which we often succumb to, with the respective achiever or with his name for that matter.

Yes, it cannot be overruled that the people who are taken as an inspiration by many shall be doubly careful of their own deeds. Otherwise, ultimately they are responsible in case of any negative notion in the society across the globe.

Well, I'm not still turning my face from the champions mentioned above. They still and continue to inspire me for what they have achieved.

Face-off with rejection… Take Home #218

To learn how to handle the rejection in a better way, you must first be welcoming the rejection. Do things in your way and be open for a face-off.

First impressions… Take Home #217

Get first impressions but try to hang on for a while in expressing them. You may have to disagree with yourself in the due course of time. Disagreeing with your inner self is much easier than disagreeing with your own self which you had already expressed to someone.

Small world and big dreams!

Small world and big dreams! Nothing wrong in it. You never know. For that matter, no one knows which dream can make your world big; big enough that every dream appears small.

Keep dreaming; keep conquering.

Think big. Dream big. Bag big.

Be loved!

Without you,

It’s not easy to be myself;

Without you,

It’s not difficult either.

Keep loving.

Be loved.

Mistakes happen, but… Take Home #216

Mistakes happen but that’s not the end. The real way to correct them is to convert them into a new beginning for a better living.

Btw, beware if no mistakes are happening.

Be on the job... Take Home #215

When you stay irritated or hopeless, it's even easier for your competitors to defeat you. Be in good hope, with positive smile and on your mark, to win. Always be on the job to be the best competitor. Win and loss anyway come and go.

Speak, do not shout... Take Home #214

When you shout, you are left to shout all alone, most of the times; but when you speak, some people choose to speak up for you, most of the times.

Question, for a better life!

Questions cannot always be good but questioning is. Question, for a better society and life!

Almost everyone, in life, has to face two situations. One, to ask questions and two, to answer questions. It’s not easy to pass through either of them. But there is a little edge of advantage in facing the situation of asking questions rather than facing the situation of answering them. Well, questions or answers may or may not be satisfying but your understanding of the person who asks or answers gets better every time.  

Anyway, let’s gear up to be up to the mark to do what we have to do.

Face the frankness…

Facing the frankness is a good deal. Avoiding facing the frankness of people is not a good deed. Better, face it. Strive to win it. You will be the change, then.

By the way, to face the frankness, one needs to have the guts to come in front of it on the first front and thereafter one’s own ethics take over either to come out winning it or to get out of it to continue avoiding it.

Wish, and hence the will… Take Home #213

An employer who can look through what an employee would have gone through to get a work done is the employer of all the time.

Very ideal, but not impossible! All needed is the wish and hence the will.

Marriage and Individuality...

As the couple evolve in marriage, individuals shall not die.

A right choice?

As money, reputation and position etc are the professional choices, recognition and respect are the personal choices. Choosing either of them alone may be a right pick but not the realistic pick.

Endure in life… Take Home #211

Life is not just about living; rather, it’s about enduring; enduring, especially through the tough times.

Acknowledge the circumstances… Take Home #210

Behind every success there stay at least some circumstances that turned into favour at some or the other point of time. Give them the due respect by acknowledging.

Keep asking questions… Take Home #209

Some questions cannot be answered. Some answers cannot be said.

Still, keep asking questions. At times you may incept the idea of asking questions in those people who can but don’t ask. Also, you may make the people, who do not or cannot answer questions, answer themselves or at least start thinking of answering themselves.

Leader, all by his own… Take Home #208

Anyone can become a leader by leading the crowd who are following the leader. But he who leads the crowd to become the leader all by his own inspires more.

Life is full of diversity!

Never get emotionally connected to anything in this world in such a way that it becomes everything for you. Life is full of diversity. If not one, another but give your best to get/retain the one. You shall be ready to take various opportunities and bombard at the door of success.

PS: This is one of the most important things I’ve learnt from my dad. This learning has ignited a new perspective of life in me. Thanks to him.

Daily dose of inspiration… Take Home #207

Having the team leader in near reach makes work easy going. More than that, it gives the daily dose of inspiration needed.

PS: Yes, provided he is inspirational and easy to work with.

Last ounce of hope… Take Home #206

Last ounce of hope you have from deep within shall be the last try before you accept the defeat. Be hopeful, always. Hope alone does not get you the success but it defines your wish to get succeeded.

Twenty-Thirteen!

The count goes on. Day after the day. Year after the year. It's been almost twenty years that I've started identifying the joy of the New Year's eve. 

Earlier five years went by exchanging the greeting cards with the similarly appearing small hands and innocent smiles. Later five years weren't that much eventful in terms of greeting card exchanges but they went by just face to face wishing with friends and teachers. Later to that was the starting phase of actually experiencing the joyful celebrations on the new year's eve both at Intermediate and Engineering college hostels amidst huge circle of my friends. Post graduation at IITs, especially at Delhi, did not allow us to chill out in the chilling weather, but it was all about exchanging messages over mobiles and of course through the then 'orkut. Recent most years have gone by looking at the wall of Facebook for the wishes from friends as well as by blogging on the first and last days of the year. 

That's the story of new year eves so far. I'd wish to see the future trends in welcoming new year in the coming years.

After saying all that I've just remembered that I've not yet wished you on this eve-2013.

"Wish you all a happy and eventful year ahead"

New year celebrations have gone down a little this year because of all that has happened towards the end of the last year at the center of the national capital. Hope some improvement happens. 

I sign off here in hope of seeing less crime rate against women in the most culture rich country, our India, in this year.