2009 Vs. 2010

Again a year is gone and I am all ready with my enthusiasm and energy to grasp a new year 2010. As in last year, I have something new to achieve in this year too, both personally and professionally... To remind me for the years to come, let me point the things that I wanted to do in 2009 and how it really went...

1. I wanted to read lots of Technical books, but I ended up reading lots of Novels... Well, the word was "reading" and I think, I did it...
2. My mother wanted me to buy a house for us, but landed up buying some land... Hopefully, some day it will shape into my dream house... So, in a sense, it will come true some day and I think, I stepped the first step towards that...
3. Wanted to watch all hindi movies being released this year, but missed lot of them managing to squeeze only some of them into my busy schedule...
4. Had lots of load at office, which forced me to drag myself away from my friends, that later became one of my achievements to some extent (Though lot of friends kept on complaining me asking the very reason of the detachment, and for them, I always had a lame answer "I was very busy with official work")
5. Somewhere down the line, I did realize that I should do some exercise daily, and hence started "Morning Walk" as first step towards that... Though it started late in this year, I am thinking to carry forward this in the new year 2010.
6. Made holy trips to Haridwar, Rishikesh, Shiridi and places like Delhi, Pune, Nasik, Bangalore this year with my mother... For the first time, my mother flew from Chennai to Delhi and from Pune to Bangalore... This was a happy achievment for me... Hope to do some more holy place visits in year 2010...

Happy New Year 2010

Here are My Wishes for You...

Hours of happy times with friends and family
Abundant time for relaxation
Prosperity
Plenty of love when you need it the most
Youthful excitement at lifes simple pleasures

Nights of restful slumber (you know - dont' worry be happy)

Everything you need

Wishing you love and light

Years and years of good health

Enjoyment and mirth
Angels to watch over you
Rembrances of a happy years!

--Chinmaya Achary

The Secret

The Secret Revealed

1. The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction.

2. The law of attraction says “like attracts like”, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you

3. Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source – you.

4. You are like a human transmission tower, transmitting a frequency with your thoughts. If you want to change anything in your life, change the frequency by changing your thoughts.

5. Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you can think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life.

6. Your thoughts become things.

Secret Made Simple

1. The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial as the law of gravity.

2. Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

3. To know what you’re thinking, ask yourself how you are feeling. Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are thinking.

4. It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts.

5. Your thoughts determine your frequency, and your feelings tell you immediately what frequency you are on. When you feel bad, you are on the frequency of drawing more bad things. When you feel good, you are powerfully attracting more good things to you.

6. Secret Shifters, such as pleasant memories, nature, or your favourite music, can change your feelings and shift your frequency in an instant.

7. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. The greater the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.

How to use the Secret

1. Like Aladdin’s Genie, the law of attraction grants our every command.

2. The Creative Process helps you create what you want in three simple steps: ask, believe, and receive.

3. Asking the Universe for what you want is your opportunity to get clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind, you have asked.

4. Believing involves acting, speaking, and thinking as though you have already received what you’ve asked for. When you emit the frequency of having received it, the law of attraction moves people, events, and circumstances for you to receive.

5. Receiving involves feeling the way you will feel once your desire has manifested. Feeling good now puts you on the frequency of what you want.

6. Starting with something small, like a cup of coffee or parking spaces, is an easy way to experience the law of attraction in action. Powerfully intend to attract something small. As you experience the power you have to attract, you will move on to creating much bigger things.

7. Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.

Powerful Processes

1. Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you want, and don’t expect the things you don’t want.

2. Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.

3. Giving thanks for what you want in advance turbo-changes your desires and sends a more powerful signal out into the Universe.

4. Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind.

5. To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

6. At the end of every day, before you go to sleep, go back through the events of the day. Any events or moments that were not what you wanted, replay them in your mind the way you wanted them to go.

The Secret to Money

1. To attract money, focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you focus on the lack of it.

2. It is helpful to use your imagination and make-believe you already have the money you want. Play games of having wealth and you will feel better about money; as you feel better about it, more will flow into your life.

3. Feeling happy mow is the fastest way to bring money into your life.

4. Make it your intention to look at everything you like and say to yourself, “I can afford that. I can buy that.” You will shift your thinking and begin to feel better about money.

5. Give money in order to bring more of it into your life. When you are generous with money and feel good about sharing it, you are saying, “I have plenty.”

6. Visualize checks in the mail.

7. Tip the balance of your thoughts to wealth. Think wealth.

The Secret to Relationships

1. When you want to attract a relationship, make sure your thoughts, words, actions, and surroundings don’t contradict your desires.

2. Your job is you. Unless you fill yourself, you have nothing to give anybody.

3. Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.

4. When you feel bad about yourself, you block the love and instead you attract more people and situations that will continue to make you feel bad about you.

5. Focus on the qualities you love about yourself and the law of attraction will show you more great things about you.

6. To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints. When you focus on the strengths, you will get more of them.

The Secret to Health

1. The placebo effect is an example of the law of attraction in action. When a patient truly believes the tablet is a cure, he receives what he believes and is cured.

2. “Focusing on perfect health” is something we can all do within ourselves, despite what may be happening on the outside.

3. Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures.

4. Disease is held in the body by thought, by observation of the illness, and by the attention given to the illness. If you are feeling a little unwell, don’t talk about it – unless you want more of it. If you listen to people talk about their illness, you add energy to their illness. Instead, change the conversation to good things, and give powerful thoughts to seeing those people in health.

5. Beliefs about aging are all in our minds, so release those thoughts from your consciousness. Focus on health and eternal youth.

6. Do not listen to society’s message about diseases and aging. Negative messages do not serve you.

The Secret to the World

1. What you resist, you attract, because you are powerfully focused on it with emotion. To change anything, go within and emit a new signal with your thoughts and feelings.

2. You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world’s negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.

3. Instead of focusing on the world’s problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace.

4. We will never run out of good things because there’s more than enough to go around for everyone. Life is meant to be abundant.

5. You have the ability to tap into the unlimited supply through your thoughts and feelings and bring it into your experience.

6. Praise and bless everything in the world, and you will dissolve negativity and discord and align yourself with the highest frequency – love.

The Secret to You

1. Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want.

2. You are a spiritual being. You are energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed – it just changes form. Therefore, the pure essence of you has always been and always will be.

3. The Universe emerges from thought. We are the creators not only of our own destiny but also of the Universe.

4. An unlimited supply of ideas is available to you. All knowledge, discoveries, and inventions are in the Universal Mind as possibilities, waiting for the human mind to draw them forth. You hold everything in your consciousness.

5. We are all connected, and we are all One.

6. Let go of difficulties from your past, cultural codes, and social beliefs. You are the only one who can create the life you deserve.

7. A shortcut to manifesting your desires is to see what you want as absolute fact.

8. Your power is in your thoughts, so stay aware. In other words, “Remember to remember.”

The Secret to Life

1. You get to fill the blackboard of your life with whatever you want.

2. The only thing you need to do is feel good now.

3. The more you use the power within you, the more power you will draw through you.

4. The time to embrace your magnificence is now.

5. We are in the midst of a glorious era. As we let go of limiting thoughts, we will experience humanity’s true magnificence, in every area of creation.

6. Do what you love. If you don’t know what brings you joy, ask, “What is my joy?” As you commit to your joy, you will attract an avalanche of joyful things because you are radiating joy.

7. Now that you have learned he knowledge of The Secret, what you do with it is up to you. Whatever you choose is right. The power is all yours.

Merry Christmas !!!

Let Go and Let God …

As children bring their broken toys
With tears for us to mend,

I brought my broken dreams to God,
Because He was my Friend.

But then, instead of leaving Him
In peace to work alone,

I hung around and tried to help
With ways that were my own.

At last I snatched them back and cried,
“How can You be so slow?”

“My Child,” He said, “what could I do?
You never did let go.”

-Unknown

Found Today !!!

I shot the door on yesterday
And threw they key away.
Tomorrow has no fears for me
Since I have found today…

Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do

Principles of Problem:
1. Every living being has problems
2. Every problem has a limited time span
3. Every problem holds positive possibilities
4. Every problem will change you
5. You can choose what your problem will do to you
6. There is a negative and a positive reaction to every problem

12 Principles for Managing Problems Positively:
1. Don’t underestimate
2. Don’t exaggerate
3. Don’t wait
4. Don’t aggravate
5. Illuminate
6. Motivate
7. Bait
8. Date
9. Sublimate
10. Now dedicate
11. Communicate
12. Insulate


Taking Charge and Taking Control:
1. Don’t surrender leadership to outside forces
2. Don’t surrender leadership to faces
3. Don’t surrender leadership to farces
4. Don’t surrender leadership to fences
5. Don’t surrender leadership to frustrations
6. Don’t surrender leadership to your fantasies
7. Don’t surrender leadership to fears
8. Don’t surrender leadership to fatigue
9. Don’t surrender leadership to faults
10. Don’t surrender leadership to facts
11. Don’t surrender leadership to frenzies
12. Don’t surrender leadership to fates
13. Don’t surrender leadership to forecasts
14. Don’t surrender leadership to foes
15. Don’t surrender leadership to friends
16. Don’t surrender leadership to fracturing experiences of life
17. Don’t surrender leadership to the flattering-out experiences of life
18. Do surrender leadership to one thing – faith…

Ten Commandments of Possibility Thinking:
1. Never reject a possibility because you see something wrong with it!
2. Never reject a possibility because you won’t get the credit!
3. Never reject an idea because it’s impossible!
4. Never reject a possibility because your mind is already made up!
5. Never reject an idea because it’s illegal!
6. Never reject an idea because you don’t have the money, manpower, muscle or months to achieve it!
7. Never reject an idea because it will create conflict!
8. Never reject an idea because it’s not your way of doing things!
9. Never reject an idea because it might fail!
10. Never reject and idea because it’s sure to succeed!

Five Phases of Faith:
1. The Nesting Phase
2. The Testing Phase
3. The Investing Phase
4. The Arresting Phase
5. The Cresting Phase

Handling a good idea:
1. Don’t hibernate
2. Don’t luxuriate
3. Don’t commiserate
4. Don’t procrastinate
5. Dedicate yourself to that idea

Alphabet for Action:
1. A – Affirm. Affirm that you can do it.
2. B – Believe. Believe that somehow, some time, somewhere, through someone’s help, you can achieve your heart’s highest goal.
3. C – Commit. Commit yourself to a dream.
4. D – Dare. Dare to try. Dare to take a risk.
5. E – Educate. Educate yourself.
6. F – Find. Find the talent, the possibilities, the time, the money, and the way.
7. G – Give. Have giving attitude.
8. H – Hope. Hope is holding on, praying expectantly.
9. I – Imagine. Possibility thinking is in actuality the exercise of dynamic, creative, sanctified imagination.
10. J – Junk. Junk the junk food of your mind.
11. K – Knock. Knock out depression, discouragement, all kinds of forecasts of gloom and doom.
12. L – Laugh.
13. M – Make it happen.
14. N – Negotiate.
15. O – Overlook and overcome.
16. P – Persevere.
17. Q – Quit. Quit complaining.
18. R – Reorganize.
19. S – Share. Share the credit, power, and the glory.
20. T – Trade-off.
21. U – Unlock. Unlock faith, hope and love.
22. V – Visualize. Visualize the dream before you.
23. W – Work.
24. X – X-ray.
25. Y – Yield.
26. Z – Zip it up.

Risk ...

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your feeling is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The people who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing, are nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.

-- President’s Newsletter, Nov. 1982

Don’t Quit ...

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you are trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have you sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must – but don’t you quit!

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometime learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out,
Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow –
You might succeed with another blow…


Success is failure turned inside out –
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt –
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be bear when it seems afar;
So stick to the flight when you are hardest hit –
It’s when things get worse that you mustn’t quit!

- Edgar A. Guest

Self-doubt !!!

We are all entitled to self-doubt. There will be moments when you feel you are at a crossroads; times when you question the very meaning of life and the existence of God. You are not the only one to feel this way. It is a rite of passage. People who create great impact suffer from moments of great soul-searching. In itself, it is a good sign because from the depth of our self-doubt we learn to let go; from that emerges a conviction and with it comes the capability to go kiss the world...

-- Subroto Bagchi

The Professional...

One more wonderful book by Subroto Bagchi, that I completed last weekend. Last weekend, I visited my uncle's place where he asked me, "Which book keeps you busy these days?" and I replied "The Professional". Then he replied, "Do not go deep into professionalism, then you will miss the real life". Actually I do not believe so, I think, being professionalism is tightly attached to being a good person and possessing good attitude. To him and to the readers, I want to put some excerpts from the book that says all about professionalism and "being professional" ...

‘Profession’ is defined by Dictionary.com as ‘following an occupation for a livelihood or gain’. It is a ‘vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science’. The Oxford Dictionary of English describes it as ‘a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification’. It defines the word ‘Professional’ as ‘relating to or belonging to a profession’.

Actually being a professional is nothing short of a religion and that the capacity to serve is indeed a blessing of life.

Ten attributes of a professional:

1. Integrity
2. Commitment and ownership
3. Action oriented and goal seeking
4. Continuous learning
5. Professional knowledge/skills
6. Communication
7. Planning, organizing and punctuality
8. Quality of work
9. A positive attitude, approachability, responsiveness
10. Being an inspiring reference to others; thought leadership – Tomorrow’s professional must have a beacon-like presence in a world that will ask for memorability. Because being ordinary will no longer be considered professional.

Self-Awareness: This is inevitable quality that each professional should have. Qualities of self-aware people build on the foundation of integrity and ethics.

Knowing who you are: Do not let yourself carried away; do not start believing in the myth about yourself and your achievements. The self-aware understand what their true strengths are; they know exactly how much of their success is because of their inherent strengths and how much is situational.

Being Authentic: There is no point of being inauthentic and insincere. A true professional has no need for unnecessary embellishments of experience, mentioning ‘connections’, or being put-on or plain fake. Being authentic might sometimes get us a ‘no’, but that is better than the ignominy of being unmasked, because we live in a small world where everything is connected, and the hollowness of our sincerity will eventually be revealed.

Being comfortable: If you cannot add value, then you must not add to the problem with your pretence. The more you pretend, the more naked you become. Sometimes, starting your ignorance can be the simplest solution. Others then take it upon themselves to explain complex technical jargon in easy-to-understand language. Concede the ground and wait, emotionally secure. The team will come back to you when they need you, and then you can truly add value.

Seeking Help: Seeking help is not always about solving an organizational problem. Sometimes we may have a personal problem – an emotional issue, an awkward health matter – which we keep to ourselves. Sooner rather later, it will adversely affect our work. There is no shame in signing up for help – in matters of work, or in matters of mental and physical well-being.

Not suffering false Comparisons:

Having a reasonable view of the Future:

Looking beyond money: The day you feel empty, shift the attention from yourself to others – go and spend time with a bunch of colleagues who have just joined the organization, help an intern with his work, write a series of how-to articles based on your experiences, take on pro-bono work with your industry association... See how the pitcher of emptiness begins to fill again…

Being deeply self-observant: Observing yourself on a daily basis and replaying your actions and reactions does not mean you cease to be natural, or lose spontaneity. Just as the player on the sports field is unconcerned with the camera recording the game, the professional is able to go with the flow, be natural and normal, but has the capacity to record events and faithfully reconstruct them to the smallest detail. Such people do not suffer from illusions.

Reining in Reactions: In extremely high pressure situations, often the best emotion to express is control… And a true professional has a calibrated thermostat which prompts the degree of reaction and control required in any given situation.

Welcoming Feedback: As you practice the art of listening to feedback, you begin to pick it up when it is a whisper, like the sound of your own breathing, and you pick it up from unusual sources.

Not suffering false Attractions: Flirting with false attractions makes us lose affection for what is on hand. If you do not have a serious need for the offered job or assignment, do the professional thing and resist the temptress.

Doing something for yourself:

Being proactive: Someone who is proactive in the workplace is more likely to be proactive with his health, and in his relationships with friends and family…

Taking charge: Developing the power within, to have the confidence to take charge in the most difficult and dangerous of situations, is the hallmark of a true professional…

Courtesy and Humility: A professional does not take respect for granted, but is one who actively cultivates respect and understanding for people who are way below him.

The Big Picture: Only the big picture, the context in which we live and work, makes the facts relevant. And it is only when we understand and actively look at the big picture, will we develop into grounded professionals.

Professional Qualities:

Of Time, Body and Soul:

Doing more by doing less:

The to-do list:

Saying NO:

Quit Whining:

A long view of Time:

White Space:

Creating Reuse:

What is your touch-time? :

When paths diverge:

The power of vision:

Affective Regard:

Commitment to Commitment:

Be prepared:

Ask pertinent Questions:

Intent Listening:

Human beings First and Foremost:

The responsibility of Dissent:

The rewards of Transparency:

The Inauguration ...

The day was 25th Nov, 2009. I was invited to inaugurate Z.S. computer center in a village near Chandwak of Jaunpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located near Banaras (40 KMs). Below are some of the photos of the occasion:

Yeh Nayan Dare Dare ...

One good song I came across yesterday night... Liked the lyrics and music very much... Hindi Movie/Album Name: KOHRA and Singer: HEMANT KUMAR. Here the lyrics goes:

Ye Nayan Dare Dare, Ye Jaam Bhare Bhare
Zara Peene Do
Kal Ki Kisko Khabar, Ik Raat Hoke Nidar
Mujhe Jeene Do
Ye Nayan Dare Dare...

Raat Haseen Ye Chand Haseen
Tu Sabse Haseen Mere Dilbar
Aur Tujhse Haseen, Aur Tujhse Haseen Tera Pyaar
Tu Jaane Na
Ye Nayan Dare Dare...

Pyaar Mein Hai Jeevan Ki Khushi
Deti Hai Khushi Kai Gam Bhi
Maein Maan Bhi Loon, Maein Maan Bhi Loon Kabhi Haar
Tu Maane Na
Ye Nayan Dare Dare...