Towards Resurgent & Responsible India

Helen Keller said – It is not so much a tragedy to be a person with no eyesight, but it’s a great tragedy to have no vision. There is a common way of thinking that has caused most people to live their lives on a lower level than they were created to live. Many people live and die never knowing who they really are. They never allow a better self-image to be created in their mind. They always consider themselves secondary, less capable, less competent, and less fortunate to do anything worthwhile and be a person of any consequence. The misconception that some people were born to be great and the others just showed up to fulfil a destiny of struggle and lack is a falsehood that must be corrected before abundance, success, blessings or freedom can be enjoyed. If we know our true personal identity, we will have the ability to use our mind, will, emotions and physical body as the tools that they were meant to be. If we don’t not know our true identity then we will most likely mistakenly...

If you begin your day each morning with a positive vibe it sets you up as the sort of person to whom stress and trouble and problems are but as water off a duck’s back. You thus get a reputation as being someone who is in control, smooth, relaxed, confident and very mature. Being cheerful puts you in positive frame of mind and vice versa. The positivity of being cheerful affects your surroundings positively and also influences the people. Be cheerful at all times.   Being cheerful helps your mind to see the possibilities in worst of situation, being cheerful makes other people in your company confident. Being cheerful is not being comical or fooling around. Being cheerful is a state of mind, being cheerful is part of our attitude. Being cheerful is a trait which can be acquired. Maintaining a cheerful and positive outlook is a trick. At first you don’t have to believe it, just do it. Act it. Pretend. But do it. After a little while you’ll find it is not an act, you are not...

You must have observed that at a workplace, some people are successful, some are not so successful. The obvious reason for success is competence, efficiency and effectiveness. But is it all that is needed for being successful at work. Sometimes you might have seen a person having all the above mentioned attributes is not as successful as others who are not as good as this person in the attributes mentioned. So, what is it which works as X factor deciding success for individuals in work situation? You need to know these, as being a student of professional course, and just few years away from corporate world, the knowledge would definitely come in handy when you will be taking your decisions out there. There are certain rules which are undocumented, but are practiced by successful people. Some rules are process oriented; some are behavioural or attitudinal in nature. In Hindi there is a saying " जंगल में मोर नाचा किसने देखा ". It’s very important that your work is vis...