Friday, 11 February 2011

Book Summary Preview : Success is a State of Mind

By Praveen Verma
Wisdom Tree, 2004
ISBN 81-86685-71-5
208 pages

The Big Idea

There are three kinds of people – or perhaps it would be better to say that everyone falls into one of the following categories:
  • Those who wait for things to happen
  • Those who make things happen
  • Those who wonder what's happening
Under which category do you fall? This is a question everyone needs to be able to answer, success and excellence are most likely to come to those who fall into the second category. But that is not to say that if you happen to fall under either of the other two, success is automatically out of your reach.
Your state of mind can help you orient yourself to success in this game called life. Success is really no more – and no less – than a state of mind.

Why You Need This Book

When you realize that what is going on inside you determines your success, then you make another important realization. Success is a choice that you can make. This one realization has an amazing power that cannot be underemphasized.
Success is a decision. Make the decision and this book aims to help you implement your new choice. Success is an inside job.

People Who Wait For Things to Happen

The Art of Living teaches us to be here now, in this moment. Think of all the wonderful things you have to be grateful of today. Your health, your job, your intellect, your physical body, your home, your friends – the list is as infinite as you are.
Take a moment to reflect, to embrace the real you, the true you that respects people and is creative, the true you that is sacred.
Pause for a moment! Breathe!
Listen to the song inside you – that wonderful resonance inside you that longs to be heard. Feeling present, feeling grounded, enjoying the moment and allowing you to be you!
As you make your way through your day, remember this feeling – the feeling that you have all that you need to fulfil your desires. You know that you are on the right path, embracing each moment for its sweetness and beauty, even if it seems difficult. As you do this, you will attract what you most passionately desire!

People Who Make Things Happen

They are the real go-getters and the belief – borne out by experience – is that most successful persons in all areas of life fall into this category.
Like the people who wait for things to happen, these people also live in the present moment most of the time, but the difference between the first type and this type is that they can and do go back to the past. While they do look to the future, their actions revolve around the present moment.
Such people aim for two things in life:
  • Prosperity
  • Peace of mind
They achieve this through the following steps:
  • Adopting a positive attitude
  • Taking life as a series of choices to be made
  • Setting goals and working towards achieving them

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The Pleasure Prescription

By Paul Pearsall, Ph.D.
Magna Publishing, 2004
ISBN 81-7809-264-6
232 pages
 

The Big Idea

Are you stressed and unhappy? Are you feeling burned out? Anxious? Unmotivated? Do you feel you have too much to do in too little time? You are not alone. More and more of people struggle with a lack of pleasure in their daily lives and the illness that go along with stress.
Take a Pleasure Prescription! Psychologist and author Paul Pearsall is an expert on the relationship between pleasure, stress, and the immune system. According to him, it isn’t too much stress but too little joy that is killing people.
We know more than we think we know, Dr. Pearsall reassures us, about what is good and healthy for us. He invites us to embrace a new contentment, and his compelling lessons gleaned from science and an age-old wisdom light the way.

Why You Need This Book

This book shows how the latest research in physical and emotional health validates the Oceanic Way – the principles and practices of ancient Polynesian cultures. The five key components of this Way are patience, connection, pleasantness, modesty and tenderness.

The Pleasure of Patience

There is a mental illness called cyclothymia. It is a type of “impatience madness,” and it refers to a person who is in a constant state of flux between lively, “up” moods and feelings of depression.
Cyclothymia has been called “the fine madness,” a mood disorder that relates to a sense of failed perfectionism and under-development of the seventh sense resulting in lack of daily life pleasure.
SYMPTOMS OF CYCLOTHYMIA
  1. Elevated self-esteem, accompanied by cynicism
  2. Abundant energy to the point of agitation, followed by periods of complete fatigue and withdrawal
  3. High productivity accompanied by periods of no motivation or direction
  4. Distrust, discomfort and inability to receive compliments, perhaps because they serve as stimulants for even more effort
  5. Impatience with others’ flaws and with one’s own
  6. Excitability and quickness to anger
  7. Strong convictions about the correctness and validity of their own views
  8. Grandiosity to the point of poor judgment, accompanied by destructive impulsivity
  9. Chaotic intimate personal and professional relationships
  10. Disregard for personal health and safety, to the point of substance abuse, sexual promiscuity, reckless driving, and other life-threatening behaviors
PENNY FOR YOUR PATIENCE
On the first day, place three pennies in a pocket, which you will now call your “patience pocket.” Every time you become impatient or irritated with yourself or others, reach into the pocket, gently turn one of the pennies between your forefinger and thumb, and count ten breaths without taking your hand out of the pocket. Then, take one of the pennies from the pocket and give it to someone, or leave it where someone can find it.
At the end of each day, see how many pennies you have left. If you still have pennies in your “patience pocket,” save them and add them to three in your pocket the next day.
If, as the week draws to a close, you begin to jingle as you walk, congratulate yourself on developing equanimity, and celebrate by taking your pile of pennies and putting them in a charity container!

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Think Positive & Things Will Go Right

By A.K. Kamath
Lotus Press, 2006
ISBN 81-8382-087-5
140 pages

The Big Idea

Positive thinking is the practice or result of concentrating one’s mind affirmatively on what is constructive and good, thereby eliminating from it negative or destructive thoughts and emotions. Whether it be about their business, family or health, the most fulfilled and successful individuals all think positively.
Since the concept of positive thinking has not been clearly defined, positive thinking usually is bypassed or used incorrectly and is often simply referred to as mere optimism. Those who do so run the risk of leaving out key aspects of positive thinking – a definite no-no if one wants to be successful.

Why You Need This Book

This is an inspiring book that will help you create a positive change in your life. This concrete work on self-esteem and success will help you learn how to break the worry habit, get other people to like you, avoid ‘the jitters’ in your daily work, believe in your self and everything you do, develop the power to reach your goals, and so much more.

Good Thoughts vs. Evil Thoughts

A good thought has three important applications:
  1. It benefits the thinker by improving his mental body.
  2. It benefits the person about whom it is entertained.
  3. It benefits all mankind by improving the general mental atmosphere.
An evil thought has three equivalent disadvantages:
  1. It harms the thinker by doing injury to his mental body.
  2. It harms the person who is its object.
  3. It harms all mankind by vitiating the whole mental atmosphere.

Power of Positive Thinking

Positive thinking brings inner peace, success, improved relationships and better health. The daily affairs of life move more smoothly, life brightens up, and there is more happiness and satisfaction.
You need to develop a positive attitude toward life, expect a successful and beneficial outcome in whatever you do, and also take any necessary actions to ensure your success. It is not enough to think positively for a few moments, and then let fears and lack of belief enter your mind. Some effort and inner work are necessary.
You can develop a positive attitude that will lead you to happiness and success by following the guidelines given below:
  • Choose to be happy.
  • Look at the bright side of life.
  • Find reasons to smile more often.
  • Have faith in yourself and in the Power of the Universe.
  • Contemplate upon the futility of negative thinking and worries.
  • Associate with happy people.
  • Read inspiring stories.
  • Read inspiring quotes.
  • Repeat affirmations that inspire and motivate you.
  • Visualize only what you want to happen.
  • Learn to master your thoughts.
  • Learn concentration and meditation.

Develop Positive Thinking

The first step in developing positive thinking is to change our inner conversations.
  • What should we be saying? One approach is called the three C’s: Commitment, Control and Challenge.
  • Commitment : Make a positive commitment to yourself, to learning, work, family, friends, nature, and other worthwhile causes. Praise yourself and others. Dream of success. Be enthusiastic.
  • Control : Keep your mind focused on important things. Set goals and priorities for what you think and do.
  • Challenge : Be courageous. Change and improve each day. Do your best and don’t look back. See learning and change as opportunities.
Studies show that people with these characteristics are winners in good times and survivors in hard times. Positive thinking can change, enrich and transform your life. Just by becoming a positive thinker you can become a winner!

Wisdom in a Nutshell from Who Moved My Cheese?

Wisdom in a Nutshell from Who Moved My Cheese?
  • Anticipate change.
  • Adapt quickly.
  • Enjoy change.
  • Be ready to change quickly, again and again.
  • Having Cheese makes you happy.
  • The more important your Cheese is to you, the more you want to hold on to it.
  • If you do not change, you can become extinct.
  • Ask yourself "What would I do if I weren't afraid?"
  • Smell the Cheese often so you know when it is getting old.
  • Movement in a new direction helps you find New Cheese.
  • When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.
  • Imagining myself enjoying New Cheese, even before I find it, leads me to it.
  • The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find New Cheese.
  • It is safer to search in the maze than remain in a cheeseless situation.
  • Old beliefs do not lead you to New Cheese.
  • When you see that you can find and enjoy New Cheese, you change course.
  • Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger changes that are to come.
  • Read the Handwriting on the Wall
  • Change happens. They keep moving the Cheese.
  • Move with the Cheese and enjoy it! ...


Thursday, 10 February 2011

Attitude is Everything


Attitude is Everything By Jim Rohn 

The process of human change begins within us. We all have tremendous potential. We all desire good results from our efforts. Most of us are willing to work hard and to pay the price that success and happiness demand.

Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But the one thing that determines the level of our potential, that produces the intensity of our activity, and that predicts the quality of the result we receive is our attitude.

Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and influences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.

No one else "makes us angry." We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.

If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.

If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value, which must be protected accordingly. Beware of the vandals and thieves among us who would injure our positive attitude or seek to steal it away.

Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success requires. The combination of a sound personal philosophy and a positive attitude about ourselves and the world around us gives us an inner strength and a firm resolve that influences all the other areas of our existence.

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

Affirmation

Affirmation

"In the middle of difficulty, lies oppurtunity ~Albert Einstein"

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself." Harry Firestone

A little extra effort can bring your life to a much higher level. Once you've done what must be done, do a little more.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~ Dalai Lama

Who you are and what you do will always speak far more convincingly than the words you have to say.

I am responsible for what I think #SOL
Good mental habits: Explore every thought in depth.
Weed out prejudices and personal biases. Be above the drama of the situation

Rather than looking for reasons to deny it, simply allow joy to flow from you.

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"

Daily Morning Motivator Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future. ~ Robin Sharma

When people go out of their way to say something rude and hateful to you, they're just trying to heal their own misery. Forgive them - Virag  We attract to ourselves what we hold inside.

The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.

Drop everything you're clinging to & keep walking. What remains is what's meant to stay ~ what goes is what was in your way. (Dee Foster)

Satisfaction is characterized by inner peace. It arises frm generosity,honesty   a way of behaving that respects others’ right to be happy.

The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.

Let one guard oneself against irritability in thought;
let one be controlled in mind.
Abandoning mental misconduct,
let one practice good conduct in thought.
Let one guard oneself against irritability in speech;let one be controlled in speech.Abandoning verbal misconduct,let one practice good conduct in speech. :- Buddha

When you focus on what you WANT, you often get it. When you dwell on what you DON’T WANT, you often get that!

Awakening to your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle


We must learn how to identify the opposing sides in our inner conflicts. Take anger: we need to see how destructive it is and at the same time, realize there are antidotes within our own thoughts and emotions that can counter it. So by understanding how negative it is and then by strengthening our positive thoughts and emotions, we can gradually reduce the force of our anger and hatred. - Dalai Lama

Satisfaction is characterized by inner peace. It arises from generosity, honesty and what I call ethical conduct, a way of behaving that respects others’ right to be happy. Dalai Lama

The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving

that when you are unsure how to proceed, stop. Be still and enter into the silence. Allow your mind to cease its restless thinking. Wait. Let the answer come in its time.

"Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is Life itself, it is an insane way to live." :- Eckhart Tolle

Who AM I , what is really important.

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting. The more joyful you are, the more Well-being flows to you If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

“Life loves me and it is safe for me to love myself.”   “Life loves me and I am safe.”


At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.


The life you've been living is a reflection of the thoughts you've been thinking

The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not. They just get on with it.

BAD TEMPER IS WORST THEN Bad fortune

Everytime you indulge in guilt,you are setting a limitation.If you hurt someone, say you are sorry and don't hurt the person anymore.Don't walk around feeling guilty because it keeps you locked out from experiencing your good and has nothing to do with the reality of your true being.-Louise Hay -ak-


Try to show a little flexibility today -- you've got to make sure that your family and coworkers see the right side of you. It's a good time for you to just go with the flow, if at all possible.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
- Ivan Turgenev


Do you ever tell people things like: "I'm FAT, I'm BORING! I'm HOPELESS!” Don’t! It irritates people.
If you have nothing good to say about yourself, say nothing. Self criticism isn’t humility, it’s stupidity.

People who call themselves 'LUCKY' smile more, talk to more people, make more friends and persist more often – which proves its not luck!

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

I love the people who keep a smile when they have every right to break down !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 "Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still." -- Chinese Proverb

"Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways." -Bill Gates

 Life is never complicated. We often think much of it and make it complicated. Obstacles do come in the way of life and yet we have to learn to equally divide matters, overcoming the obstacles.

Be flexible. Adjust to others' temperaments. And don't take things personally.
Quality about u , u like most.

Don't go preaching to your pals. Each person will make up their own mind, in time.

How do you expect others to know what you want if you don't make it clear?
Your indecisive , should become load for over react????

Never talk in TENSION &/Or Anger .... other might take it other way and may use against you

You only lose what you cling to


We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world

may i be happy
May i be in safe
may i be Healthy
may i be in Joy
May i be , live in peace

Write you Objective on paper

your current life, your current circumstances, your current reality, your current state of affairs, is the outcome of The Law of Attraction from your past, it is the effect from causes (thoughts) in your past (this and other incarnations) and these effects also come from The Law of Attraction ... the power of gratitude and appreciation stands above anything if there is any pattern you would like to change …


whatever feelings you have within you are attraction your tomorrow … … thus worry attracts more worry;
anxiety attracts more anxiety; unhappiness attracts more unhappiness; dissatisfaction attracts more dissatisfaction ... …
thus joy attracts more joy; happiness attracts more happiness; peace attracts more peace;gratitude attracts more
gratitude; kindness attracts more kindness; love attracts more love ...



to change your world, all you have to do is to change whatever feelings you have within you …
… to change whatever feelings you have within you, all you have to do is to change your thoughts …

Sometimes you think you know best. You may even be right. But bossiness won't help.
VYou're always a sucker for a persuasive argument. Expect your mind to change today.

Take a time-out before reacting to something that gets you all hot under the collar.


in life we all have an unspeakable secret,an irreversible regret,an unreachable dream nd an unforgettable love. All have there share for link-up , allowed to have past.

“Life loves me and it is safe for me to love myself.”   “Life loves me and I am safe.”

It is when life feels