Saturday 30 November 2019

Getting Past The Storm...

#GettingPastTheStorm

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Once a young lady was driving a car along side with her father seated on passenger seat.. Just after few miles they came upon a furious storm.

Girl asked her father, “What should I do father??”

Father replied, “Keep driving..”
Just after few meters she saw that other cars started to pull aside as storm was getting worse.

Girl got bit scared and again asked her father, “Should I pull over too??”

Father replied, “No.. Keep driving..”

After few more meter she saw that most of the cars were pulling over.

Seeing this she slow down her car and said to her father, “Father.. I think I should pull over now as I can’t even see clearly ahead because of dust of cloud. Storm is terrible and everyone is pulling over.."

Her father again replied, “Keep driving..”

As she drove, storm seemed more terrible. It became more and more difficult for her to see and drive forward. She felt like she should stop car and pull over to some safe place but she continued to drive through storm as her father said her to keep driving...

She kept driving even through the storm. Soon see was able to see little more clear and better than before. After few miles they were out of storm on a dry land & this time her father said, “Dear.. now you can pull over and get out if you want..”

Girl replied, “But why now?? We are out of the storm..”

Father smiled and replied, “When you get out, you can look at all those people who gave up and are still struggling because of storm.. You never gave up even you got scared and kept going forward and just because you never gave up your storm is now over...”

Moral: Enduring Mental Stress Through Difficult Time in Life is key to Success. During Hard times even Strong people Give up but if You keep Going Forward and Don’t give up.. You will be able to Over come Difficulties and Hard time will be Over.

@Ushas

Friday 29 November 2019

Entrepreneurship & Its Challenges...

#Entrepreneurship and its Challenges;
I'm going to elaborate on some installments;
here is the 1st one of #Entrepreneurship, which comes with a host of challenges. Rewarding challenges, but harsh challenges nonetheless.

Experienced entrepreneurs have to deal with this no matter how long they’ve been in business --trying to establish a brand, adjust to match or exceed the competition and keep your business profitable is a challenge no matter how many years you’ve been in business.
But for new and young entrepreneurs, there are some unique challenges that are especially difficult to overcome. If you’re just getting into the game, or you’re thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, be prepared for these few significant hurdles;

👉đŸŧ Abandoning Another Career:

If you’re going to dedicate yourself to starting and nurturing a business to success, it’s going to be nearly impossible to simultaneously manage another career.

You might be able to manage the infancy of your business on the side, during weeknights and weekends, but if you want a chance of growing significantly, invariably you’ll have to quit your day job.

Walking away from a promising, steady longterm opportunity for something unpredictable is scary-especially if you’ve never run a business before.

Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to address this. Just think through your decision logically, and don’t ignore your instincts.

Starting a business can be tough, but your approach can make things tougher. Have the right thinking in place to set yourself up for success, cheers!

Thoughts welcome...

Saturday 23 November 2019

Self-discipline is what you need...



Discipline should be self-imposed, it should come from within, self-discipline is necessary for health and for the progress in life by observing discipline we can make our lives bright. Rightly said by somebody, “All success begins with self-discipline. It starts with you”. It reminds me of an ancient Greece story about Socrates: -

Socrates in a Gossip
One day an acquaintance of great philosopher Socrates met him and wanted to give some information about one of his friends. Socrates replied, “Hold a minute before telling me anything, I would like to pass you a little test, it’s called the Triple Filter Test”. Socrates continued, “before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to filter what you are going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely certain that what you are going to tell me is true?”, “NO”, the man said, “actually I heard about this”. So Socrates said, “So you really don’t know whether it is true or false?” The man replied No. Socrates continued, “Let us try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are going to tell me about my friend is Good? ” The man replied, “No! on the contrary, it is bad”. Now the last filter i.e., Of Usefulness. “Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to use to me?”, Socrates asked. “No not really”, The man replied. Well concluded Socrates, “If what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?”

Moral: — Anybody who is going to give you some information about the third person, you must put it through triple filter test i.e. Information should be true, it should be good and it should be useful to you.
Remember that you need not be smarter than rest, you have to be more disciplined than rest

Sunday 17 November 2019

Beautiful Flowers On Other Side...




Flowers on Other Side...
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Once a young girl was very fond of gardening. She used to love flowers and had maintained herself a very beautiful garden. One day while looking through a flower catalogue, she found a very beautiful flower. She thought to herself, “I want to have it in my garden.”

She looked through the details of flower and ordered it’s seed and other planting thing necessary for it.

After this she looked through the garden and decided for a place to plant those seeds. When it arrived, she took every thing to the back of her house and there she planted it at the base of wall.

Plant grew vigorously with beautiful leaves all over the wall but there were no flowers. Just to see that beautiful flower bloom.. she continued to cultivate it, water it and took great care of it.

She tried every thing yet there was no sign of even a single flower in between those beautiful leaves and vines on the wall. Weeks went by but still no flower bloom. One morning she stood in front of that plant and felt disappointed as there was still no flower that she had seen in catalogue.

She thought about cutting it and plant something else in its place. Just then her neighbour called her out from behind the wall.
She was surprised as they never did talk much to each other. Her neighbour said, “Thank you!! Thank you so much for planting such beautiful flowers..”

She replied, “What??”

Neighbor replied, “You can’t imagine how much I have enjoyed looking at those flower. They are really beautiful.."

Listening to reply young woman walked through the gate into neighbour’s backyard and on neighbours side she saw that the vines was filled with flowers.
They were the most beautiful flowers she had ever seen and they were more beautiful than what she saw in catalogue. She saw that vines crept through crevices and even if hadn’t had any flower on her side of wall, it had luxuriantly on the other side of wall.

Moral: Just because you cannot see the good Result of your Labor doesn’t mean that it Bore no Fruit!

Saturday 9 November 2019

Desire To Help...

#Desire to Help

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A story that'll touch your heart.

It was getting dark. Someone was calling me behind the locked iron gate. Wondering who it could be I came out. An elderly person was standing behind the gate. The clothes wrinkled and with a small bag in his hand he appeared to have travelled some distance coming here. Looking into a small piece of paper in his hands he enquired, “Isn’t this Ayan's, Number 24, Yogananda Street, my son?” “Yes, I am Ayan and this is the address. And you…”, I mumbled. Slightly shivering and moistening his dry lips with the tongue he replied, handing over the letter, “Babu, I am your father’s friend. I am coming from your village. Your father gave me this letter and advised that I seek help from you”.
Taking that letter from him, exclaiming “father?”, I eagerly read that letter. “Dear Ayan, blessings to you. The person carrying this letter is my friend. His name is Tapesh. Works hard. A few days ago, his only son died in an accident. He is running around seeking compensation. That would help him and his wife to pull along with the other meagre income. I am sending the police reports after the accident, the compensation affidavits given by the Travel Agents and other relevant papers. He was told that the final payment may be collected in the Head Office. This is his first visit to Delhi and he is a stranger. I am hoping that you would be able to help him. Take care of your health. Visit us at your earliest convenience. Your loving father”.
Tapesh Mitra was standing watching me. I thought for a moment and invited him inside. Giving him some water to drink, I enquired, “did you have anything to eat, its already late?”. He replied, “No, my son. As the journey got delayed, I ate the two fruits that I brought with me.”
Going inside I prepared four rotis/chapatis and served them with pickles. Saying, “you please eat”, I went out and made a couple of calls and returned. When I returned, I found that he had finished the tiffin and was sitting with a few papers in his hand. There was a photo of his deceased son. The boy was handsome and young. May be 22 years. My eyes moistened.
“He was my only son. Those who were born before him died due to various other causes. He was the only one we had. Tourit was his name. He studied well and got a job. Assuring us that he will take care of us and we would get over all hardships he took up the job. On the fateful day he was involved in a road accident while crossing the road. Died on the spot. Not wishing to take compensation in the name of the deceased son we were initially reluctant. But day by day, I am becoming weak and my wife too is not doing well. With your father’s insistence I came here. Saying my son will help, he sent me with this letter”, he concluded.
“Fine. It’s late now. Take rest”. Saying this I too slept.
Next morning, we got ready, had coffee at home and started. Finishing breakfast on the way, we reached the Office address mentioned in the documents. “Ayan, I will take care of the rest. You attend to your office work” said Tapesh uncle. “No issue. I have taken leave for today”, I replied. Being with him I got the compensation paid to him. “Thank you, dear son. My wife is alone at home and I will go back home”, said the old man. “Come, I will drop you at the station and see you off.” I took him to the railway station, got him a ticket, bought a few fruits, cakes to eat on the way. He said with joy in his eyes, he said, “Ayan babu, taking leave for my sake you helped me a lot. Soon after going home I will narrate everything to your father and thank him too.”
Smiling and holding his hands I explained, “I am not your friend’s son Ayan. I am Aravinda. You came to the wrong address. That Ayan’s house is another 2 km away. You were already tired and I didn’t have the heart to tell you the truth. I called the number in your letter and enquired. His wife said that Ayan had gone out of town on some work. I called your friend and told him too. He felt very sad. Once I assured him that I will take care he felt good. The loss you have suffered is irreparable. But I felt that I should help you. That I did it gives me greatest pleasure.” As the train moved, holding my hands Tapesh uncle left with tears of gratitude in his eyes. “God bless you, my child”, were his parting words. That is enough for me, I thought. My father passed away fifteen year earlier. Now looking at Tapesh Mitra I felt my father has returned.
Looking up at the sky I thought my father must be somewhere there. “Dad, did you come in this form to check my progress in life! Sending me a letter, were you testing me whether I would help or not? Born to a great father like you, as a son I have performed by duty. Are you happy?” Tears of joy flooded my eyes.

Moral: Have an intention to help & see the Universe will work out the way for you.

@Ushas~