tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95957082024-02-21T08:44:07.516+05:30THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL! Be Happy! Be Healthy! Be Successful!Life is extremely beautiful and it gives beauty to all the things around us. Happiness is the aim of living. Health is the foundation of experiencing this happiness. Success is one of the most sought after way to happiness. Be Happy! Be Healthy! Be Successful! Live The Life Beautiful!Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-84306272611771901512011-01-16T18:26:00.004+05:302011-01-16T18:43:27.537+05:30Heart and other Health Risks of Computer or TVAccording to the finding of a recent research which was published just in the second week of January, 2011 at the University College London people who are on computers or watch television for four or more hours a day are 125% more likely to suffer a major heart problem, often leading to death, compared to those who spend two hours or less in front of computer or TV. Excessive sitting in front of computer or TV not only increases risk of heart attack but, according to the same research, it increases as much as by 48% deaths from any cause.<br />
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Why?<br />
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According to the researchers, inflammation and metabolic problems caused by long periods of inactivity could be to blame for the increased risks — prolonged sitting could cause a 90% reduction in a vital enzyme, lipoprotein lipase, that helps prevent heart disease.<br />
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So, how can one avoid such risks?<br />
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The most worrisome aspect of this is that even exercise can not make up for the damage caused.<br />
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However, we could do the following:<br />
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1. We should, of course, reduce, as much as possible our time in front of computer and TV. Those whose job entails working on computers may, perhaps, not do much about it. But those who play games on computer, use social media excessively (and post such inane comments hourly), or are glued to TV, may, certainly, do something about it.<br />
2. Take short breaks for just standing up or walking to the water/coffee machin every 20-30 minutes.<br />
3. Redesign the workplace and home environments so that working on computer, TV watching and other long periods of time during the workday that currently are strictly sedentary may turn into a mixture of sitting, standing and light intensity activity.<br />
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4. If possible, and Governments all around the world should consider some such measure, computers and TVs should have appropriate health warnings. This could be done easily as the start up screen could show such warnings/suggestions.<br />
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THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL!<br />
LIVE THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL!<br />
BE HAPPY! BE HEALTHY! BE SUCCESSFUL!<br />
TODAY, TOMORROW, FOREVER!Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-16209529996505710232010-12-27T10:38:00.000+05:302010-12-27T10:38:30.788+05:30NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS--MODEL RESOLUTIONS<br />
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People usually make only ten New Year Resolutions! Neither 7 nor 8.</span></div>
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Usually these Resolutions contain many common points cutting across age, sex,
and nationality.</span></div>
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So, what are these 10 top New Year resolutions or 10 best or most popular New
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Based on various 10 great New Year Resolutions and my own view-point and
philosophy of life and universe, I would recommend these 10 top New Year
resolutions regarding the higher values of life:</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO BE HAPPY!:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">If we consider deeply the aim of
human life is to Be Happy! God created the world, and human beings added
many things for people to Be Happy! Even when we go through hardships for
some aim that also is a sort of happiness. <i>Nirvana, Moksha, Liberation,
</i>are noting but eternal and permanent happiness. This includes such
resolutions as enjoying life more, traveling, having more quality time with
your family and friends, etc.</span></li>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO BE HEALTHY!:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">
To enjoy this happiness we must be healthy. Here health is defined in its
wider mental, physical, spiritual, and social, etc. context. We cannot Be
Happy! without healthy body and mind. In fact, we cannot Be Successful! also
without health. This includes all your resolutions like reducing fat, being
less stressed, joining a gym, etc.</span></li>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO BE
SUCCESSFUL!:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Life is incomplete
without realizing your full potential and being successful. However, the
definition of success may vary from individual to individual. Whatever your
definition is, you must resolve to be successful in life. Success is great
tonic for happiness and health. This includes your resolution to earn more
money, set up a new business, time management, and organizing oneself.</span></li>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO EMPOWER
OTHERS TO BE HAPPY!</span></b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">
<b>BE HEALTHY! AND BE SUCCESSFUL!:</b></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">
</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">No person is an island. One does
not live for himself or herself. One cannot be happy without others around
being happy. If one is happy, healthy, and successful, it is also because of
the family and society at large. It is our moral duty and debt to make
others also realize the goals of happiness, health, and success. This
includes doing charitable work.</span></li>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO EMBRACE
CHANGE:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">New Year resolutions are all about change.
If you are not ready to change why resolutions? Change yourself, change your
environment, if necessary, and change your relationships. Don’t be afraid of
change. Change your routines, change your habits, change your working habits
(organize workplace and home), if necessary, change your job, your
priorities, and the way you have been living. This includes learning
something new, being tech savvy (utilizing full potential of computer,
internet, social media, emails, mobile phones, etc.)</span></li>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO BE ADDICTED
TO, OBSESSED WITH, POSSESSD BY YOUR TOP PRIORITY RESOLUTION:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is a must for
success of New Year Resolutions. Be in touch with them constantly. Write
them down, read them often, substitute your morning and bed time prayer and
meditation by praying to God for realizing them and meditation on them.
Review constantly and revise, if need be. Above all don’t abandon them if
forgotten for some time. There are many New Year days in a year (various
religions and nations have their own New Year days). Utilize them and
festival holidays to review your New Year resolutions.</span></li>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO DO BETTER
TIME MANAGEMENT</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">
The key to success is hard work and working more time than others. However,
time is limited and distributed equally to all (so that in a competitive
situation all have equal time allotted). Better time management can give us
the required edge over others. Organize and better manage time. Generally,
one can save much time by limiting or altogether eliminating time spent in
reading newspapers, seeing TV, or surfing internet. Organize your work
space, computer, etc. Even organize your thoughts.</span></li>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO SET YOUR
PRIORITIES AND ACT ON THEM:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Even
after making our New Year Resolutions, we fail to implement them because we
don’t find time to do them! If I have made writing a novel my top New Year
Resolution, I may be so much busy with other things that I may not even
start writing!</span></li>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO PERIODICALLY
REVIEW NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS AND CHECK PROGRESS MADE:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Our New Year Resolutions may be
too ambitious. A few weeks into the year and we will realize what is
possible and what not. We may review our resolutions. Similarly, we must
periodically check progress made. In case of total failure, we must remake
our resolutions. The more time we resolve, the more there are chances of
success.</span></li>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO BE READY TO
ABANDON YOUR WORLDLY AIMS TO HIGHER VALUES AND THINGS IN LIFE:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">
Sacrifice all your resolutions regarding worldly progress to higher things
in life. For love forsake everything. For family forsake everything. Our New
Year Resolutions should not be unadulterated to selfishness and self-centric
life.</span></li>
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The second set of New Year Resolutions should be totally different from the
first set which deals with the bigger general questions of life. The second set
is for personal life and the goals set for it. However, most of the people will
ignore to formulate the first set. Therefore, I will include some overlapping
goals in the second set so that it in itself is complete without the first set.</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">RESOLVE TO START YOGA
OR WALKING/JOGGING IN THE MORNING:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
Yoga is more than physical exercise. It is for physical, mental and
spiritual development and a way of life. With yoga peace of mind, happiness,
success, health will follow automatically. Our way of life and dietary
habits will change drastically. Morning walking/jogging is the easiest yet
very beneficial physical activity and it is generally easy to stick to this
routine as in the morning there is hardly any distractions/engagements. One
could combine both yoga and morning walking/jogging or set, for example,
three days for yoga and three days for walking/jogging. One day rest is
recommended. Of course, these activities can be done in the evening also.</span>
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GAME/SPORT:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Outdoor games/sports are
easy to follow than exercise routine like gym etc. One enjoys games/sports
and if part of a partnership/team one is bound to be regular. Any game/sport
is good depending on your personal choice. Apart from playing game/sport, be
generally active during the day.</span>
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BALANCE AND NUTRITIVE DIET:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Enjoyment
of food is a matter of habit. We enjoy food eating which we have grown up.
Variety is also enjoyed. Junk food can be enjoyed only occasionally. One can
not, and of course, should not eat junk food regularly. If one becomes
health conscious food habits automatically improve.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">DEVOTE
MAXIMUM TIME AND EFFORT TO YOUR SINGLE OVERARCHING PASSION:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
This is the main goal and aim of making New Year Resolutions. What do you
want to do specially in life apart from eating, drinking, and be merry and
working hard and earning money? Is there a writer, painter, or musician
within you desperately trying to express him/her? Don’t commit feticide.
Resolve here that you will write ten pages of your novel daily or you will
write your novel this year.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">ORGANIZE
YOUR THOUGHTS, PLANS, COMPUTER AND HOUSEHOLD:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
Disorganization is the thief of time and energy. One wastes lots of energy
in finding information and things if one is disorganized and works in
haphazard way. Resolve to organize your life and things.</span>
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Though time is the most precious commodity in the world, most of us do not
manage it properly. Are you wasting too much time in activities which are
not related to your New Year Resolutions? Is newspaper, TV, or
email/internet wasting too much of your time? Are you bogged down with the
small issues of life never finding time for bigger and really important
issues of your life.</span>
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ON TOP OF YOUR OFFICE/EMPLOYMENT WORK AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND MAINTAIN GOOD
RELATIONS WITH YOUR BOSS AND COLLEAGUES:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
Generally office does not find a prominent spot in our New Year Resolutions.
It is, in most cases, because in most work places just doing what is
required is enough. In bureaucratic set up promotions and salary increases
are time bound rather than efficiency bound. Office life becomes important
only for those working in private sector where efficiency is demanded and
rewarded. However, both in public and private sector not being able to cope
with one’s work and colleagues creates great tension and may not be good for
one’s health and personal goals. </span>
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HAPPINESS, HEALTH, FAMILY AND FRIENDS MORE THAN MONETARY CONSIDERATIONS:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
New Year Resolutions are generally for success. That is OK. However, don’t
make monetary gains the only measure of success. Be after success but at the
same time don’t sacrifice your happiness, health, family and friends on the
altar of success. A fine balance is to be kept. On the other hand don’t
blame your family and friends for your failure or make them scapegoat. Here
you should also be willing and ready to help others, especially the needy
and poor. The more you are successful, the more you have a responsibility
towards them.</span>
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DOWN YOUR NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> A
written thing is a commitment. If you write down your resolutions you commit
to them. In writing you organize your thoughts and decide your priorities.
You can refer to them time and again. Write them in your diary, write them
in your Notes in your computer or desktop so that they are instantly
available.</span>
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YOUR PROGRESS OR ADHERENCE PERIODICALLY AND DON’T BE DISCOURAGED:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
This is very important. Making New Year Resolution is one thing, following
them another. Measure your progress and adherence periodically. Revise your
resolutions, if needed. Recommit yourself. Don’t be discouraged if you fail.
Making New Year Resolutions and trying is better than not making them at
all. Don’t develop the mentality of all or nothing. Follow your New Year
Resolutions to whatever extent you can.</span>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% red; font-family: Arial;">WISHING YOU A HAPPY, HEALTHY,
AND SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR!</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% red; font-family: Arial;">LIVE THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL!</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% red; font-family: Arial;">BE HAPPY! BE HEALTHY! BE
SUCCESSFUL!</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% red; font-family: Arial;">TODAY, TOMORROW, FOREVER!</span></div>
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I am an avid New Year’s Resolutions writer! In fact, I write them often. May be
two or three times in a year! My success rate with them is mixed. I am more or
less disciplined and hard working person. So I keep on pushing ahead. But my
Resolutions are too ambitious, you may say impractical, to be fulfilled. For
example, I may write, ‘during this year I will write 3 novels, three non-fiction
books, 50 articles, 50 short stories, and 50 poems!’ At the end of the year, I
may not have completed even a single novel, a single non-fiction book, and
written only a Few articles, short stories, and poems!</span></div>
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My experience with New Year Resolutions has taught me some lessons which I am
sharing with you.</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Don’t leave New Year Resolutions for the last
moment to write!</span> If you do, on the last day of the year you may end up
hurriedly writing down something not better than a shopping list. Spend some
time and energy in writing them. At the same time, if you fail to write them
before the New Year commences, don’t think that now it is too late. Write in the
first week of the year or later. It is better writing late than never. In fact,
every religion and, therefore, most of the countries, have different New Year
days. India alone has more than half a dozen New Year days depending upon which
religion you belong to or which calendar you followed!</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Before writing the New Year resolutions, think
about the bigger questions of life:</span> God, creation, life, death, etc. Is
life pre-determined? Is there an after life? What is the aim of life? Is rat
race for success good? What is the place of happiness, health, family and
friends in our life? You need not be or become a philosopher; but do give these
questions some pondering. Before writing about the New Year and future, cast a
glance at your past and the old year also. How has your life been? What are your
successes and failures? What are your regrets? How was the old year? Did you
keep your resolutions? If yes, to what extent? If not, why? Given another
chance, how would you plan and live the old year. Have a vision of the future.
How would you like to see yourself after one year or thereafter? Base your
resolutions on this analysis.</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Make new year resolutions a vehicle for change.</span>
While we are comfortable with status quo, we want to change our life too.
Everybody thinks that he is in a rut. He or she would have been happier in
another job, in different circumstances, in new places. But we fear change.
Don’t just foolhardily jump into change, but plan for it.</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: Arial;">Plan for new and exciting
things in life.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Learn something
new—dancing, playing a musical instrument, a new language, tennis,
web-designing, or writing poetry. If you have never loved, love. It is an
exciting thing. If you are in love, get married. It is intoxicating.</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Write down specific goals rather than general.</span>
Instead of writing, “I will reduce weight,” specify how many pounds or kilograms
you want to reduce within which period and by what means. So write, during the
year I will reduce my weight by 30 pounds. I will aim at reducing 10 pounds
every quarter (so that I have some extra time towards the year-end). I will
regulate my diet (be specific about diet too), will exercise or play some game,
go for morning or evening walk, start yoga, and lead an active life.</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Break down bigger whole year aims to smaller
quarterly and monthly aims.</span> In fact, each week write down the aim for
that week also. Of course, also keep a daily to-do list (to be written at the
start of the day or one day in advance). Revise the monthly and quarterly
targets in the light of progress made and aims abandoned and new aims added. In
fact, write down a continually evolving list of to-do for the year. Whatever you
want to do in the year, just add to this list and Do when the right time comes.</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Supplement the Resolutions list with other
lists:</span> Daily Prayer in which you may pray to God for giving you
happiness, success, and health, etc. Daily Affirmations, in which you may use
the power of affirmations. Daily Do’s in which you may fix your daily routine
which may be helpful in fulfilling your Resolutions, Daily Don’ts, things you
should not do.</span></div>
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Use positive power!</span> Most of our
resolutions fail because they are about negatives rather than positives. We want
to reduce weight or quit smoking, or drinking. But all these are negatives. We
will surely be defeated fighting against them. Instead, if we decide to start
playing tennis, it would be a positive thing. Little by little we will get
interested in it. We will get addicted to it. We will not be able to stay at
home when it is play time, whether it is at 5 a.m. or 5 p.m. We will have to go
when our partner calls us. If we are over-weight, we will jog, eat less and
sensibly. If we get fatigued easily, we will quit smoking and drinking. We would
like to be at the top of our tennis team! We will reduce weight, quit smoking
and drinking easily (because our game of tennis demands it!). <br />
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<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Don’t forget the taken for granted important
things in life!</span> When we write our Resolutions we concentrate what we want
to achieve in worldly sense. But we fail to mention other important things in
life, like: I will be happy, I will love my family, and I will enjoy nature,
etc. These unwritten resolutions are more important than the written ones. If we
fulfill them and even fail at achieving the written aims, we have still won. If
we succeed at both, that is superb! For this, I would suggest, make two lists of
New Year resolutions—one for important basics of life (happiness, love, etc.)
and another for worldly success (you may like to make one separate one for your
job or office life, if required).</span></div>
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New Year resolutions are not for and about you only. They concern others too.
Make resolutions concerning others also. Resolve that you will give more time
and love to your family and friends. You will help the unfortunate and poor
people. You will give a fraction of your gains back to the society who made your
worldly success possible in the first place. These resolutions may be a part of
your other (I would say first) list mentioned in last paragraph. </span></div>
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SHORT STORY </h1>
<h1>
<em>Here is a classic love story on the theme of gift and Christmas by a
master story teller. </em></h1>
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THE GIFT OF THE MAGI </h1>
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One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty
cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing
the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with
the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times
Della counted it. One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the next day would be
Christmas. </div>
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby
little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection
that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from
the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8
per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word
on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. </div>
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In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter
would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.
Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham
Young." </div>
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The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former
period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when
the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of
contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. James Dillingham
Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly
hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which
is all very good. </div>
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Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the
powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a
gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only
$1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could
for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. Expenses had
been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a
present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something
nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling--something just a little bit
near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim. </div>
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There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room.
Perhaps you have seen a pier-glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile
person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal
strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender,
had mastered the art. </div>
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Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the
glass. her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within
twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full
length. </div>
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Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham
Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had
been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the
queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her
hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels
and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in
the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to
see him pluck at his beard from envy. </div>
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So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and
shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made
itself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and
quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two
splashed on the worn red carpet. </div>
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On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With
a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she
fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street. </div>
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Where she stopped the sign read: "Mne. Sofronie. Hair Goods
of All Kinds." One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame,
large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the "Sofronie." </div>
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"Will you buy my hair?" asked Della. </div>
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"I buy hair," said Madame. "Take yer hat off and let's have a
sight at the looks of it." </div>
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Down rippled the brown cascade. </div>
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"Twenty dollars," said Madame, lifting the mass with a
practised hand. </div>
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"Give it to me quick," said Della. </div>
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Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget
the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present. </div>
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She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no
one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned
all of them inside out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design,
properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious
ornamentation--as all good things should do. It was even worthy of The Watch. As
soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness
and value--the description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from
her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch
Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch
was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap
that he used in place of a chain. </div>
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When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to
prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went
to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always
a tremendous task, dear friends--a mammoth task. </div>
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Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny,
close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She
looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically. </div>
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"If Jim doesn't kill me," she said to herself, "before he
takes a second look at me, he'll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But
what could I do--oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty- seven cents?" </div>
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At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on
the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops. </div>
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Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in her hand
and sat on the corner of the table near the door that he always entered. Then
she heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned
white for just a moment. She had a habit for saying little silent prayer about
the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered: "Please God, make him think
I am still pretty." </div>
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The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it. He looked
thin and very serious. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two--and to be burdened
with a family! He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves. </div>
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Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the
scent of quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in
them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor
surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had
been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression
on his face. </div>
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Della wriggled off the table and went for him. </div>
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"Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had
my hair cut off and sold because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without
giving you a present. It'll grow out again--you won't mind, will you? I just had
to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Say `Merry Christmas!' Jim, and let's be
happy. You don't know what a nice-- what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for
you." </div>
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"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he
had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. </div>
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"Cut it off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me just
as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, ain't I?" </div>
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Jim looked about the room curiously. </div>
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"You say your hair is gone?" he said, with an air almost of
idiocy. </div>
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"You needn't look for it," said Della. "It's sold, I tell
you--sold and gone, too. It's Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went for
you. Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered," she went on with sudden serious
sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love for you. Shall I put the chops
on, Jim?" </div>
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Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded his
Della. For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential
object in the other direction. Eight dollars a week or a million a year--what is
the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The
magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion
will be illuminated later on. </div>
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Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon
the table. </div>
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"Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't
think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that
could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may
see why you had me going a while at first." </div>
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White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And
then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then, alas! a quick feminine change to
hysterical tears and wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the
comforting powers of the lord of the flat. </div>
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For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back,
that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure
tortoise shell, with jewelled rims--just the shade to wear in the beautiful
vanished hair. They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply
craved and yearned over them without the least hope of possession. And now, they
were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were
gone. </div>
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But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able
to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!" </div>
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And them Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried,
"Oh, oh!" </div>
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Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out
to him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull precious metal seemed to flash with
a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit. </div>
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"Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it.
You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I
want to see how it looks on it." </div>
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Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his
hands under the back of his head and smiled. </div>
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"Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and
keep 'em a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to
get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on." </div>
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The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise
men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of
giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones,
possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I
have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a
flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their
house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all
who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such
as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi. </div>
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[O. Henry—William Sydney Porter (1862-1910)] </h2>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Success contributes a great deal towards happiness and health. It is so because
success provides a mental state of satisfaction and the physical means to
happiness; this mental state and physical means also contribute towards good
health. Of course, it is not necessary that all successful men and women are in
good health. The rat race for success is often full of stress and indigestion!
Still, looking at the opposite face of the coin, it becomes evident that it is
very difficult to maintain good health and happiness when one is unsuccessful in
life.</span></div>
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As success is the main reason why we make New Year Resolutions in the first
place, and Christmas is immediately followed by New Year, it may be a good idea
to give the gift of success on this Christmas to yourself and others.</span><br />
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Before we proceed further, we my
like to know the fundamentals of Success:</div>
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1.Have a Do or Die Desire to Be
Successful!: For Success it is very essential that you have a do or dies desire
for success. Decide this moment to be successful in all circumstances. Every
morning decide that you will be successful and nothing and nobody would and
could spoil your success.</div>
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2.Condition Your Mind to
Success: Success comes to those who think in terms of success. Use
affirmations and resolutions to condition your mind to success as if you have
already achieved the success.</div>
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3.Have a Fixed, Definite, and
All-Exclusive Aim of Life: Without a clear and over-powering air of life
nothing is possible to be achieved. This aim should be like an obsession
driving your life like crazy.</div>
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4.Plan for Success: No journey
can be successfully completed without a road plan. Here road plan includes
writing down ones aim (s), making resolutions and affirmations, periodically
checking ones progress, and sticking to it despite failures.</div>
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5.Work Hard: Nothing can succeed
without hard work. In addition to hard work one should work smart also.
Working smart means going the extra mile, always being one step ahead in
knowledge, innovation, and application of latest ideas, and keeping ones mind
open.</div>
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6.Use Your Time Optimally: Make
a To-Do list according to importance of task. Dont waste best productive time
on routine matters like flipping through newspaper, magazines, and TV channels,
checking and replying to routine emails, gossiping, telephoning, etc. </div>
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7.Keep Best Company: Keep the
company of the best of the best. If you are a writer or scientist surround
yourself with the best of them and become member of the best writers or
scientists group. If you are a CEO employ the best available brains.</div>
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8.Be Happy! and Be Healthy!:
Happiness and good health are also very essential for success. Many people with
great potential for success leave their pursuit of success mid-way owing to
falling health. Of course, life is more important than success, but if one
follows Be Healthy! Fundamentals of Good Health, he or she will not have to be a
failure due to bad health. Similarly, a person with happy attitude towards life
keeps good health and can work better. He or she is liked by others which also
contributes towards success.</div>
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9.Stick with it despite
Failures: Success comes after repeated failures. Sometimes success keeps on
awaiting us just a step ahead where we stumble. It is best to get up a move
on. </div>
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10.Meditate and Pray: Develop
the habit of meditation. Meditation fills the whole being with peace and calm.
If you are religiously minded pray. Prayer also gives peace and calm and inner
strength.</div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I would recommend following success gifts for this Christmas:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/successgurumantra-20">Books</a>, Audios, Videos, and MP3: Success depends a great deal on the inner
motivation and inspiration. Success is a sort of burning desire, an
addictive-possessive passion, and a haunting dream. The fire of this desire are
fanned and directed by good inspirational books, audios, videos, and MP3s. Give
the gift of these and the recipient will be thankful to you for his (successful)
life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Subliminal and Hypnotic Messages: The latest inspirational and motivational
means are subliminal and hypnotic messages which can be had as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=9595708">MP3 downloads</a>.
These are the ultimate in inspirational and motivational helps. The best thing
with these is that they can be downloaded, from some sites, in MP3 format.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=9595708">Digital Reading Devices</a>: Digital Reading Devices or Electronic Reading Devices
are no longer the future of reading. They are the present! A successful person
takes his library of reading material with him or her. There are thousands of
public domain books which can be freely downloaded. Digital books etc. can also
be downloaded to PC, Mobile. iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android, etc.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=9595708">Magazines</a>: A successful person remains up-to-date on issues of general interest
and on his subject of business or speciality. He or she, therefore, reads
appropriate magazines and newspapers. Subscription to these could be given as a
much appreciated gift.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/successgurumantra-20">Electronic Items</a>: A successful person uses the latest and smartest gadgets to
remain on top of the world and ahead of his or her competitors. He or she has,
therefore, the latest and slimmest laptop, mobile, and ipod. If your budget
permits such gifts could also be given.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Personalized and Home-Made Gifts: Successful persons seem to have everything and
sometime it becomes difficult to decide what to give them, especially if one’s
budget is tight. In such cases, it is best to give something the value of which
is derived from its being personalized or home-made. You may give something very
costly to a rich person and it may not be appreciated. But to the same person if
you give something on which his or her name is engraved, it may become a proud
possession!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=9595708">Jewelry</a>: Well, every woman dies for them. They may be perfect gifts for women
and young girls, specially for one’s sweet heart. Nothing can beat a jewellery
item. Of course, great care and discernment is needed in the selection of the
right item.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=9595708">Golf Set</a>: Successful men blend leisure with business and golf is the game <i>par
excellence</i> which successfully allows to do it. It also does not require
great physical strength or fitness or contact and impact of other games. Best of
all, it gives ample time and opportunity to socialize. Because of these, golf is
increasingly becoming a very popular sport and business tool among executives. A
golf set, therefore, is one of the choicest gift for successful men and women.</span></div>
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Unsuccessful Men and Women: Success requires hard work and persistence. However,
some still don’t succeed despite years of hard work. Some people are successful
because of birth or circumstances—the son or daughter of a film star is very
likely to land his first role as the hero of a film; the son of a king is very
likely to become a king, the son or daughter of a politician can easily inherit
his or her parent’s constituency seat, etc. On the other hand, a competent
person may only rise up to a certain height depending on where from he or she
started the upward journey. Furthermore, some people’s life values may be
different. Their definition of success may be different. An artist may prefer to
remain poor and also risk not being successful in chosen field as well, than to
run after money. So, unsuccessful men and women are not necessarily less
deserving. They also deserve some good gifts. So don’t forget them! </span></div>
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<span class="style48"><b></b></span>Health is the foundation of both happiness and success. It is rare
and extremely difficult for an unhealthy person to either be happy or be
successful.<br />
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During Christmas and Christmas gift giving, it is true, we hardly
think of health. We, however, do think a lot of love and merry making,
which are very necessary for good health. But immediately after
Christmas, we think a lot about health and fitness. It is so because New
Year follows Christmas closely and when we think of New Year
Resolutions health and fitness is our top priority. To go for walking,
jogging, swimming, to start playing a game, to join a gym, to be more
active and near the nature, to eat balanced food, etc. are some of the
New Year Resolutions which people make for good health and superb
fitness.<br />
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Before we discuss what Christmas gifts we could give for health and
fitness, let us see the Fundamentals of Health and Fitness. These are: <br />
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<li><i><u>Decide to Be Healthy!</u></i> </li>
<li><i><u>Condition Your Mind to Health</u></i> </li>
<li><i><u>Eat Healthy</u></i> </li>
<li><i><u>Exercise Regularly</u></i> </li>
<li><i><u>Be Active</u></i></li>
<li><i><u>Live naturally and near Nature</u></i> </li>
<li><i>Fast at least once a week</i></li>
<li><i><u>Be Happy</u></i> </li>
<li><i><u>Adopt a Regular Life Style</u></i> </li>
<li><i><u>Keep away from Bad Habits</u></i></li>
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So, as with happiness, so with health and fitness also. Mind plays great role in keeping us healthy and fit. <br />
Christmas gifts relating to health and fitness would be appreciated very much. Some gifts which we could give are as under:<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9595708&postID=6068641416174034999">Yoga Books</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9595708&postID=6068641416174034999">Accessories</a>:</b>I have put yoga books and accessories at the top because yoga is a health system <i>par excellence.</i>
Of course, yoga is not just a health system. It is a complete way of
life. But it harmonizes body, mind, and soul and for perfect health and
fitness this is very necessary. Yoga can be done indoors or outdoors,
singly or in a group, nearly any time of the day, and by persons of any
age. So, give the gift of yoga this Christmas.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9595708&postID=6068641416174034999">Games and Sports</a>: </b>I
have put games and sports in the second place after yoga as games and
sports keep us active and interested. If we play some game, we are to a
great extent addicted to it. We will make sure that we go to play. In
some other activities this sort of commitment is difficult to maintain.
Furthermore, most of the games and sports involve partners and teams
and, therefore, it becomes sort of an obligation to be present. In a
sense, every activity could be termed as games and sports, and many of
the following activities could come under this heading, here by games
and sports I mean activities like football, hockey, golf, tennis,
badminton, etc.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9595708&postID=6068641416174034999">Outdoors Activities</a>: </b>Most
of the games and sports are outdoor activities. On the other hand,
nearly all the outdoor activities are sports and games. Football is an
outdoor activity as well, and skiing is a sport also. However, by
outdoor activity I mean such things as camping, hunting, mountain
climbing, fishing, and trekking, etc. Being outdoor means being near the
nature. Being near the nature means health and fitness, and also peace
of mind. Though nature is free (sun, moon, river, forest, mountain, cool
breeze, sky, etc. are free) and one could enjoy them freely, most of
the outdoor activities require special equipment which may be little
costly. Giving a gift of such equipment to an outdoor enthusiast would
be appreciated very much.<br />
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<b>Gym/Swimming Club etc. Subscriptions: </b>Gym and
Swimming Club etc. subscriptions are excellent gifts. They are long
lasting also (they would last, at least, the period of subscription).
Personally, I have observed, that it is sometime difficult to keep up
with such activities. People lose interest. So, such gifts are to be
given to the right person if you don't want it to go waste.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9595708&postID=6068641416174034999">Home Exercise Equipments</a>: </b>These
are gaining popularity now-a-days as people are hard pressed for time.
They want to include exercise also in their routine of shaving, taking a
shower, and eating breakfast. A jogging machine in the bathroom is very
convenient. Here also, unfortunately, people lose interest. However, it
is still good as the equipment is at home and sooner or later some
family member would benefit.<br />
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<b>Health and Personal Care Products: </b>These include
diet and nutrition, health and personal care, medicines and household
medical equipments, etc. These help in keeping good health and personal
care. These are also good health gifts.<br />
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<b>Accessories and Clothes: </b>Every sports and game and
activity require accessories and clothes. A good jogging suit, sneaker,
or swim suit is not only necessary, they also inspire to undertake the
activity. Giving such gifts is a signal to the recipient to start the
activity. They also motivate.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9595708&postID=6068641416174034999">Books, Audios/Videos, and MP3 Downloads</a>: </b>As
with happiness gifts, so with health and fitness gifts also, books,
audios/videos, and MP3 downloads are very important to inspire and
motivate. They also teach. For example, yoga and exercise videos are
very popular and many people do their exercise session following them.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9595708&postID=6068641416174034999">Memorabilia and Allied Products</a>: </b>In
games and sports memorabilia and allied products are very important.
The possessor of an autographed baseball bat or world series mascot or
cards would be very proud and happy. Such memorabilia is available as
gift items and would be appreciated very much.<br />
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<b>Sports and Games Items to the Needy:</b> It is true that
many would be great sports persons could not realize their potential as
they had no money to buy even the bare minimum equipments. In the
developing countries the conditions is very pathetic. Only rich and
well-to-do persons could afford the expenditure. So is the case with
health. What to talk of sports equipments many don't have even enough to
buy medicines or food. Hunger is the greatest enemy of good health.
Please also think of in this direction also while giving Christmas gifts
of health and fitness.<br />
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please, visit: The Life Beautiful! <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9595708&postID=6068641416174034999"><b>Health Store</b></a>. You maay also like to search items using the Search boxes on the right maargin.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">TODAY, TOMORROW, AND FOREVER!
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Please also read previous pages:<br />
<b><u><span style="color: red;">CHRISTMAS GIFTS IDEAS<br />
CHRISTMAS GIFTS GIFTS IDEAS--HAPPINESS</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I hope you have already read my webpage on Christmas Gifts Ideas. If not just go to <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.happinessmantra.com/christmas/gifts.html','Gifts','width=600,height=1000,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');%20windowHandle.focus()">Christmas Gifts Ideas</a> and read it first. If you have already read, a second reading would not hurt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Christmas is all about happiness! Aristotle said, <i>"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." </i>Gifts, in general, give happiness to both the giver and the receiver. However, the happiness of the receiver is greater. It can be enhanced many fold if the gift is liked, and, furthermore, is specially intended to increase happiness.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial;">"The purpose of our lives is to be happy"</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">--Dalai Lama</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Being able to give happiness brings happiness. That is the purpose of life."</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">--Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So, the purpose of life is to Be Happy! Give others happiness, which in turn will make you happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So, how do we increase happiness of others by giving Christmas gifts?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Before we go into the details of this, let us see what the <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.happinessmantra.com/christmas/hapfunda.html','HapFunda','width=600,height=1000,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');%20windowHandle.focus()">Fundamentals of Happiness</a> are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The sources of happiness are: Mind (our positive and happy attitude towards life, others, and the world), our body, family and friends, society, nature, human created things (books, music, dance, arts and crafts, films, food, transportation, etc.), love and care, <i>Niskam Karm </i>(action without undue anxiety about its fruits), yoga, and, last but not the least, meditation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now, what is the ideal gift which enhances happiness?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is not an easy question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Because, there are many dimensions to happiness. Nature does give happiness; but somebody may be happier in the company of books. Then gifts have also many aspects. Should it be useful, in the practical sense, or should it be gratifying to our senses only?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Some of the characteristics of an ideal gift would be: It should be useful; it should be long lasting; it should be desirable; it should be something 'cool' and the latest in-thing; it should be unique, if possible; it should be a proud possession; it should be something which one was dreaming of possessing one day, and, last but not the least, if possible, it should be life changing, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now, taking into consideration the Fundamentals of Happiness and Fundamentals of an Ideal Gift, what would I suggest as the Best Happiness Gifts?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness Gifts of Love and Care</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: "<i>There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved</i>"--George Sand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hecato wrote, "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If you would be loved, love."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Christmas is nothing but the Celebration of Love! Intangibles are more important than tangibles. Give your company and understanding to your family and friends; show your love; help them and generally be around them. Your family and friends need your love and care more than any material things you could provide. Providing your family all the material comforts without giving them love and care is useless. On the other hand, even if you are poor but you love and care for your family and friends, they would be happy and would love you in return. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness Gifts <i>Unto This Last</i></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: There are many unfortunate brothers and sisters who have neither near and dear ones for solace to the soul, not food, clothes and shelter for bodily needs. They don't dream of fancy gifts. Your Christmas party leftover food and your discarded clothes would be enough to make them happy this Christmas! One can never be happy without the higher emotions of love, care, sympathy with and empathy for the poor, and philanthropy. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness Gifts of Motivational/Inspirational Books/Audios/Videos and</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">: "<i>We are as happy as we make up our minds to be</i>"--Abraham Lincoln. </span></b><a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.hypnosisdownloads.com/?4636','HypDown','width=600,height=1000,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');%20windowHandle.focus()">MP3 Downloads</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness is in the mind. It is our mind which is in the way of our happiness, health, and success. Freedom from stress, anxiety, depression, lack of confidence, fears and phobias, etc. is also necessary. Here is help utilizing your mind power, which, ultimately, is the greatest power for happiness, health, and success, through hypnosis alone.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness Gifts of a Day Out or Vacation Trips</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: Happiness is to be with your near and dears in the lap of the nature. Most of the sources of happiness are free: nature, our healthy body and mind, and love and care. Take your family and friends out in the lap of nature. In this way, you are near God created sources of happiness (nature, yourself and family and friends, and your soul). What better gift there could be than a vacation trip to some exotic location! Being in the sun, sand, and sea, with one's family and friends, relaxing or reading a book, or swimming, and then gorging on sumptuous feast, is the ultimate dream. Fulfill it for yourself and your near and dears.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness Gifts of Health and Sports</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: Our body and its health is the foundation of happiness. Without a sound body we cannot Be Happy! Christmas is, fortunately, just one week before the New Year. People are already making their New Year Resolutions. One of the foremost Resolutions is often regarding health and fitness. You could give them <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.happinessmantra.com/christmas/haphealth.html','Health','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()">health and fitness</a> gifts. I would recommend giving equipments for a team game or a game where a partner is required has all the likelihood of being continued as, firstly, the game itself is enjoyable (while Gym routine may be "workout", and second, one sometimes stick to it as there is the obligation not to ditch the partner. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness Gifts of Human-Made Things</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: God has created a beautiful world full of things for our enjoyment and happiness. However, human beings have also made innumerable things for our enjoyment and happiness. In fact, we value these things only and gift giving is mostly limited to these only. Some of these are:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness Gifts of Books</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and <b>Kindle</b>: <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.happinessmantra.com/christmas/hapbooks.html','Books','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()">Books</a> not only make us happy, but some books are on happiness too. It would be obvious that it imminently qualifies as the best happiness gift on above criteria of happiness and ideal gift. It is useful, long lasting, desirable, 'cool', the latest in-thing, unique, a proud possession, and life changing, as good books are. <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Reading</city></place> is an eternal joy <i>par excellence</i>.<a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.happinessmantra.com/christmas/hapkindle.html','Kindle','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()">Kindle</a> is not a book or book reading device, it is a portable library! Of course, <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.happinessmantra.com/christmas/hapkindlebooks.html','KindleBooks','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()">Kindle books</a> can be read on other devices like Blueberry, PC, Android, Mac, iPad, and iPhone, etc. after downloading necessary App for free.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness Gifts of Music and MP3s: </span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Vibrates in the memory,"</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">--Percy Bysshe Shelley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Other human-made gift items may be:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness Gifts of Personalized/Home-Made Items</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: Gifts which are something which one was secretly wishing for are the best. One can also give something which one needs but does not have. For example, a diabetic may be given the latest self sugar level checking gadget. Then personalized gifts are much appreciated, one could give a personalized set of wine glasses. The most appreciated gifts are home-made gifts. For example, one can knit a woolen muffler for one's boy friend. <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Happiness Gifts of Yoga Items</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: The ultimate aim of Yoga is eternal bliss. Most of the Yoga followers are concerned with health and fitness only. That too is good as sound body is the home of sound (blissful) mind. However, this eternal bliss or <i>Moksh </i>or <i>Nirvan</i> could be achieved in this world itself through Yoga. Even if we don't reach up to the ultimate goal of eternal bliss, great happiness can be achieved through <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/yoga.html','Yoga','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()">Yoga</a> (and meditation, which is a part of it).<b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Finally, don't give <b>Unhappiness Gifts (Gifts which will Make the Recipient Unhappy)</b>. Great sensibility is needed to give appropriate gift. Don't give a person who is a little obese motivational/Inspirational book/audio/video or MP3 Download on fat reduction. Don't give your framed photo; don't give used things; don't give something received as gift (especially if there is chance of getting caught); don't give cigarettes to non-smoker, alcohol to teetotaler; glue bottle or paint bucket is not a gift item; a two piece swim suit is not for a man, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For a full list of smart happiness gifts items, please, visit: The Life Beautiful! <a <b="" href="http://www.happinessmantra.com/christmas/hapstore.html">Happiness Store!</b></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">LIVE THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">BE HAPPY!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Christmas is fast approaching. All of us might be undecided what Christmas gifts to buy and where to why.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">We will see how to buy best Christmas gifts and what things to keep in mind while doing Christmas shopping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The basic but important point to keep in mind while choosing gifts for Christmas is that what is important is not our liking but the liking of the recipient of the present. We should try to guess this. A gift should be purchased from the point-of-view of the recipient not from the giver. We might like action films but the recipient may not. We may like classical music, but the recipient may not. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Children, obviously, would like different gifts, for example, <b><a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/toys.html','Toys','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()">toys</a> </b>and <b> <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/videogames.html','VideoGames','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()">Video Games</a></b>; teenagers may like to have <b><a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/videos.html','ToyTemp','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()">videos</a></b> and <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/sports.html','Sports','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()"><b>sports and outdoors equipments</b></a>; adults may be more interested in <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/cellphones.html','CellPhones','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()"><b>cell phones</b></a>, <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/electronics.html','Electronics','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()"><b>electronics</b></a>, and <b><a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/office.html','Office','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()">office supplies</a></b>; while to senior citizens we may gift <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/books.html','Books','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()"><b>books</b></a>,<a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/magazines.html','Magazines','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()"> <b>magazines</b></a>, and <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/music.html','Music','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()"><b>music</b></a>, and <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/foodbaskets.html','FoodBaskets','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()"><b>food baskets</b></a>. Then we have to take into consideration the sex of the recipient. First of all some presents are only meant for a particular sex like ladies dress and gents dress. Moreover, there is subtle difference in their likes and dislikes also, even in this age of equality of sexes. A woman may prefer <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/jewelry.html','Jewelry','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()"><b>jewelry</b></a> while a <b><a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/xmas/wallet.html','Wallet','width=610,height=210,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');%20windowHandle.focus()">wallet</a></b> may be a perfect gift for a man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">After the recipient’s age and sex, his or her relationship with the gift giver is also very important in deciding a perfect gift for Christmas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A gift for husband/wife would be different from a gift to boss or colleague which will be different from a gift to a friend. Young people should be very careful in the matter of selecting gifts for their romantic partners. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">What to buy as Christmas present also depends on our emotional attachment to the person for whom a gift is being selected. As mentioned above, sweethearts deserve especial consideration. However, there is another dimension to this. In the matter of gift selection for the persons whom we know intimately we should also know or try to know what one would like to have, what one secretly wishes for, and what one is expecting. Our young child may be dying for a bicycle, while our girl friend may be dreaming of having the dress which is so tantalizingly displayed in the window of the shop by which we together pass nearly everyday. For gifts to such persons we should be keenly aware of their wishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Where is important in the sense that a gift is to be brand new and of reputable brand and bought from a good Christmas Shop or Christmas Store. One should try not to buy cheaper or bad quality stuff. The gift should be properly gift-wrapped and accompanied by a gift card. If possible, the price tag should be removed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Finally, it is also a good idea, wherever possible, to include the gift voucher which entitles return/exchange of the gift, for example, if it does not fit, if it is a dress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">It is also a good idea, wherever suitable, and especially if one is not sure what to give, to give <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Gift%20Vouchers&tag=thelifebeauti-20&index=aps&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">gift vouchers/cards</a> </b>redeemable for products or services. One could also give vacation trips etc. One could also give a pass to some club, gym, or swimming pool. These are available with leading sellers in various denominations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">One could also give personalized gifts. The benefit here is that then the receiver does not bother about the cost of the gift but seeing his/her name/photo on the gift treasures it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A last resort gift is to give cash or check. Here one has to be careful whether this is appropriate or not. One could give cash or heavy tip as a gift to a waiter, driver, night watchman etc. One could also give cash to intimate persons saying that ‘you buy whatever you want to.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Though one may tactfully and sometimes secretly try to find out what a particular person would like as a gift, it is never a good idea to directly ask or discuss this question with the concerned person. There is the danger of the uncomfortable situation when on asking somebody tells his preference which may be difficult to get or out of the range of our budget for the particular person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Depending on who is the recipient of the gift and whether he or she would not take it otherwise, self help and motivational gifts can also be given. There are unlimited resources of this kind available in the market. One of the cutting edge system can be had here: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Also remember, intangible gifts are thousands of times better than tangible gifts. Christmas is the festival of love. Take the trouble of showing your love and helping others. Visit your friends and relatives whom you have not visited since long; invite them at home; or reconcile with an estranged friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">To recapitulate, one has to buy gift for different persons considering their age, sex, likes and dislikes, relationship with the gift giver, and, of course, the budget.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Last, but not the least, one should not forget those unfortunate fellow human beings who don’t have any food to eat, any clothes to wear, and any roof over their head. Gift something to your favorite charity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After all said and done, don’t forget to give a gift to yourself also. Buy for yourself which you had been dreaming of having since long but you thought you could not afford it. It may be a car, a golf set, a cell phone, or a new suit. I would recommend, you either buy a complete library for yourself, i.e. buy a Kindle from above link and them browse for some latest hot releases at: <a href="javascript:windowHandle%20=%20window.open('http://www.amazon.com/b?_encoding=UTF8&site-redirect=&node=133140011&tag=thelifebeauti-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325','Kindle','width=1000,height=400,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');%20windowHandle.focus()">Kindle</a> or, buy some hypnosisdownload products from above link or from following link:
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For wider choice of gifts for others or yourself, please, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">just go to
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">BE HAPPY! BE HEALTHY! BE SUCCESSFUL!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">TODAY, TOMORROW, AND FOR EVER!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am sorry that this blog looks like a Sales Letter. However, illustrations are necessary for better understanding! I hope these gift ideas for Christmas help you in your shopping for the best Christmas gifts.]</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></span></div>
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</script>Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-68703858114584343182010-11-19T21:51:00.002+05:302010-11-19T21:55:57.825+05:30HARD WORK IS ITS OWN REWARD<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><center><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> </a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In August this year, newspapers were full of the story of the discovery of a great Italian painter and sculpture, Pordenone Montanari, 73, who had shut himself away from the world for 18 years to exclusively devote himself to his work and relying for his bare necessities on his wife. He was discovered when his wife was putting up a “For Sale” sign to the gate post and a local businessman of Indian origin was passing by. The businessman bought the house within hours and, in partnership with another Indian businessman, bought the rights to the artist’s work.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">His work prompt comparison to Cézanne, Braque, Bacon, and Picasso. Dr. Rossana Pitteli, art expert at the Italian Cultural Institute said, “Montanari is a truly exciting new Italian discovery.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Edward Lucie-Smith, a leading British art historian to whom the work was shown by the buyers, said that Montanari was unique. She said, “Some contemporary artists pursue fame; others find in an obstacle in the path of their highest ambitions. Montanari belongs to the second category.” </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I would like to make two points here.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In Gita, Lord Krishna tells Arjun, “You have right to action only; not to its results. Don’t be attached to the results to your actions; and don’t be without action too.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It means to do one’s duty without bothering much for its results and rewards.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mind you, this was taught by Krishna with a view to persuade Arjun to fight the great was of Mahabharat.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the world great people, artist, writers, and scientists do work without directly being much bothered about the results and rewards.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In India, nobody knows who wrote their great Vedas and Upanishads. In fact, they seem to be the combined effort of many people over a long period of time. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The second point is that success comes after long and lonely hard work and many times after many failures.<span style=""> </span>Some say that for success in any field seven years of hard work is necessary. Get Rich Overnight, Get Famous Overnight, or Get Successful Overnight schemes don’t work in real world. Only hard work over many years bears fruit.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In this connection, please, also ponder over the following:life history of one of the greatest ‘failures’ of the world:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span>1. Age: 21 years<span style=""> </span>:Failure in business.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span>2. Age: 22 years<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>:Failure in elections.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span>3. Age: 24 years<span style=""> </span>:Failure in business.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span>4. Age: 26 years<span style=""> </span>:Death of wife.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span>5. Age: 27 years<span style=""> </span>:Nervous breakdown.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span>6. Age: 34 years<span style=""> </span>:Defeat in Congress elections.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span>7. Age: 45 years<span style=""> </span>:Defeat in Senate elections.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span>8. Age: 47 years<span style=""> </span>:Defeat in attempt to become Vice-President.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Who was this man?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Abraham Lincoln who became President of America at the age of 52</span></p><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial;">BE SUCCESSFUL!</span></b></p> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" alt="Bookmark and Share" border="0" width="125" height="16" /></a> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'thelifebeautifulguru';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10"></script> </center><!-- AddThis Button END --><div id="divVHSS"></div><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_embed_functions.php?acc=369208&js=1"></script><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">AC_VHost_Embed_369208(300, 400, '', 1, 1, 1507981, 0, 1, 0, '35eabbe40eaf05cce18d5b98f4d17112', 6, '400|300|75|24|L|T|false|1|0|1|0|http%3A//vhss-a.oddcast.com/ccs2/vhss/user/217/369208/thumbs/show_1507981.jpg|Double%20click%20to%20play%20me|1|T|0|2|0|757');</script>Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-89204230082203741712008-05-20T18:21:00.004+05:302008-06-12T21:56:16.559+05:30RUNNING IN THE OLYMPICS WITHOUT LEGS<center>
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<br />Physical disability is no bar to live one's dream. In the
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<br />Helen Keller was deaf and blind. Stephen Hawing suffers from a
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<br />knee. He now uses prosthetics. Pistorius holds the 400m
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<br />Olympics. But on May 16, 2008, Court of Arbitration for
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<br />Sport (CAS) in Switzerland, overturned the ruling. And now
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<br />President said that he is an inspirational man and we look
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<br />Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-5803650458076232732008-05-08T22:48:00.001+05:302008-05-20T19:03:19.760+05:30DEAR MOTHER!<center><br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><a onclick="addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; return addthis_click(this);" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" target="_blank"><img height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" border="0" /></a><script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub = 'thelifebeautifulguru';</script><br /><script src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /><!-- AddThis Button END --><br /><br /></center><br /><br />Imagine if you could remember everything in your life!<br /><br />Then you would surely remember your birth, enfancy, childhood, and a constant presence, life-support, and abode of infinte love and care--your dear mother.<br /><br />Your mother bore you nine and half months in her womb. She nourished you there from her blood. She carried you inside her mindful of your safety and care. She sacrificed her comforts, life style and food habits for you. Your mother might have even sacrificed her career and health for you.<br /><br />Then Your mother went through excruciating pain while giving birth to you. She endnagered her own life and health while giving birth to you. It is said that child birth is second life for the mother--because she could have died during it.<br /><br />After your birth, you were totally dependent on the mother for all of your needs--love and care, security, and nourishment. She nourished you with her milk. She slept pitfully waking at every movement and cry of yours. You pissed and defecated all over her. Your mother did not mind. You scattered food and water all around the house. She did not care. When you fell sick your mother sat awake all night looking at your face.<br /><br />When you grew up a little, she taught you all sorts of things and carried you all around proudly and carefully. She worried everytime when you went outside. She imagined all sorts of bad things happening to you. She worried no end.<br /><br />But, of course, you don't remember all that. You think that you were born adult! That's why even today you don't remember your mother. To serve one's mother is the greatest bliss on earth. Those are fortunate whose mother is alive.<br /><br />If you are a girl, you may be looking eagerly to motherhood. If you are already a mother, you must be taking care of your son or daughter. Then how could you forget somebody who took similar care of yours.<br /><br />If you are a man with children seeing your wife taking care of your children with love, think of your mother too.<br /><br />Are you not ashamed that you have practically forgotten your mother? You have left her to fend for herself in her old age. What would have happned if your mother too had abandoned you at your enfancy? You could not have survived. How, then, you imagine that your mother can survive without your care and love in this old age?<br /><br />Even if your mother is not old and incapable, she still loves you and wants to be near you and your family. Give her opportunities to be a part of your family.<br /><br />And, if she is still with you in a joint family, don't treat her as a burden. This is a great opportunity to serve your mother.<br /><br />On this mother's day, give her the gift of love and care. This is the greatest gift you could give her. She really does not want anything else from you.<br /><br />But in your childhood you pestered her for millions of things and she gave you thousands of gift. So, on this special Mother's Day give her some gift which she would love and cherish.<br /><br />Above all, don't forget Mother's Day. Plan for it from this moment. And choose your gifts (don't give her just one!) with love and care. Don't let money come between you. Sky is the limit where mother's love (or gift) is concerned!<br /><br />Happy Mother's Day!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/?tag=thelifebeauti-20"><b><u>MOTHER OF ALL BOOKS!</u></b></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMothers-Day-Gifts-Sale%2Fb%3Fie%3DUTF8%26node%3D502659011%26pf%5Frd%5Fp%3D392443801%26pf%5Frd%5Fs%3Dleft-nav-2%26pf%5Frd%5Ft%3D101%26pf%5Frd%5Fi%3D507846%26pf%5Frd%5Fm%3DATVPDKIKX0DER%26pf%5Frd%5Fr%3D0K9N57F1VJP3REC6XKTH&tag=thelifebeauti-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">GIFTS FOR DEAR MOTHER!</a><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thelifebeauti-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" border="0" />Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-34550175729608567672008-04-27T18:04:00.000+05:302008-04-27T18:18:30.734+05:30The Beautiful Summer!<p>The beautiful summer is here. Summer is of long sunny days, cool mornings and evenings, extended daylight into the late hours of evenings.<br /><br />It is the time of time of long morning/evening walks/jogs, picnics and all the outdoor activities. It is the time to catch up with your health resolutions, readings, and learning a new skill.<br /><br />The beautiful summer is for activity—both outdoors and indoors!<br /><br />It is also the time to make fresh resolutions after the sad demise of New Year Resolutions!<br /><br />New Year Resolutions were doomed to be broken. They were made at the wrong time.<br /><br />New Year comes at the height of the winter. Days are shorter and outdoors are inhospitable for sports and recreation. It comes after the festival season. Everybody has dined and danced and needs rest rather than the strict regime of New Year Resolutions.<br /></p><p>In many countries and regions, New Year is celebrated in March-April. For example, in Indian National Calendar (Saka Calendar), New Year starts on March 22. Iranian, Zoroastrian, Bahai, Saka (Balinese-Javanese), calendars commence on various days in March. Assyrian, Nepali, Thai, Cambodian, and Sinhalese, etc. New Years are celebrated in April. Within India, various States celebrate their New Years in March or April.<br /></p><p>In Gregorian calendar it falls in winter as the two months of January and February were added later (that is why September, October, November, and December are 9th-12th months rather than 7th-10th months as their names would suggest.<br /></p><p>Summer is for action and catching up on unattended chores and projects.<br /></p><p>Let your Summer Resolutions be:<br />1. You will reactivate your New Year Resolutions. If they have failed miserably just take this as a lesson in knowing what works and what not.<br />2. Since in summers there is extended day light both in the mornings and evenings, resolve to take advantage of this. The obvious choice would be some physical activity—walking, jogging, swimming, playing, etc. Join some team or club so that there is team pressure to be regular to play.<br />3. Develop new interests, for example, in climbing, surfing, fishing, trekking, etc.<br />4. If you are writer or artist, use the extra day light to devote to your work early in the morning or in the evening.<br />5. Go for camping, etc. during the week-ends. Summers are not for staying cooped up in one’s own home.<br /></p><p>Your New Year’s Resolutions failed because the time was not right for those type of activities which you had resolved to do. But another reason was that you had not committed any money or effort before hand into it. What I mean by it is that you might have resolved to play tennis, but perhaps you did not even buy a tennis racket!<br /><br /></p><p>I, therefore, suggest clicking on the following links and preparing yourself for your resolutions before hand.Perhaps, you would say that in the garb of this article, I am only interested in selling something. Well, for The Life Beautiful! our attitude should also be positive. What you are going to gain by enquiring into my motive and getting frustrated. You have to just see whether my advice makes sense or not. Talking of motives, our entire market and service sector has profit motive behind it. Does it follow that they are not useful? Are our leaders, legislators, doctors, and shop keepers not useful by the mere fact that they may be profit oriented too!</p><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26rs%3D3407731%26keywords%3Dgym%2520equipment%26rh%3Dn%253A3375251%252Cn%253A3407731%252Ck%253Agym%2520equipment%26page%3D1&tag=thelifebeauti-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">best selling gym equipments</a><img src="http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/images/gymequipments.jpg" alt="bestselling gym equipments"><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thelifebeauti-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26rs%3D3375251%26hidden-keywords%3Dsoldbyamazon%2520-surcharge%26rh%3Dn%253A3375251%252Cp%255F6%253AATVPDKIKX0DER%26page%3D1&tag=thelifebeauti-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">best selling sports and outdoors equipments</a><img src="http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/images/sportsandoutdoors.jpg" alt="bestselling sports and outdoors equipments"><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thelifebeauti-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26rs%3D3392741%26rh%3Dn%253A3375251%252Cn%253A3392741%26page%3D1&tag=thelifebeauti-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">best selling shoes and slippers</a><img src="http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/images/shoesandslippers.jpg" alt="bestselling shoes and slippers"><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thelifebeauti-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26rs%3D3375311%26rh%3Dn%253A3375251%252Cn%253A3375311%26page%3D1&tag=thelifebeauti-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">best selling apparel</a><img src="http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/images/apparel.jpg" alt="bestselling apparel"><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thelifebeauti-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26rs%3D3422251%26rh%3Dn%253A3375251%252Cn%253A3422251%26page%3D1&tag=thelifebeauti-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">best selling yoga accessories</a><img src="http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/images/yoga.jpg" alt="bestselling yoga accessories"><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thelifebeauti-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fbestsellers%2Fmagazines%2F602340%3Fie%3DUTF8%26pg%3D1&tag=thelifebeauti-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">best selling health magazines</a><img src="http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/images/healthmagazines.jpg" alt="bestselling healthmagazines"><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thelifebeauti-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <br /><br>Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-81736313111116387622006-12-23T23:46:00.000+05:302006-12-23T23:54:18.723+05:30The Gift of the Magi<div align="center">THE GIFT OF THE MAGI<br /></div><div align="center">(O. Henry)<br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.<br /></div><div align="justify">There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.<br /></div><div align="justify">While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.<br /></div><div align="justify">In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."<br /></div><div align="justify">The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very good.<br /></div><div align="justify">Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling--something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.<br /></div><div align="justify">There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen a pier-glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art.<br /></div><div align="justify">Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.<br /></div><div align="justify">Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.<br /></div><div align="justify">So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.<br /></div><div align="justify">On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.<br /></div><div align="justify">Where she stopped the sign read: "Mne. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the "Sofronie."<br /></div><div align="justify">"Will you buy my hair?" asked Della.<br /></div><div align="justify">"I buy hair," said Madame. "Take yer hat off and let's have a sight at the looks of it."<br /></div><div align="justify">Down rippled the brown cascade.<br />"Twenty dollars," said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand.<br />"Give it to me quick," said Della.<br />Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present.<br />She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation--as all good things should do. It was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value--the description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.<br />When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends--a mammoth task.<br />Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically.<br />"If Jim doesn't kill me," she said to herself, "before he takes a second look at me, he'll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do--oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty- seven cents?"<br />At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops.<br />Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in her hand and sat on the corner of the table near the door that he always entered. Then she heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment. She had a habit for saying little silent prayer about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered: "Please God, make him think I am still pretty."<br />The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it. He looked thin and very serious. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two--and to be burdened with a family! He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves.<br />Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.<br />Della wriggled off the table and went for him.<br />"Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without giving you a present. It'll grow out again--you won't mind, will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Say `Merry Christmas!' Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a nice-- what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you."<br />"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor.<br />"Cut it off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, ain't I?"<br />Jim looked about the room curiously.<br />"You say your hair is gone?" he said, with an air almost of idiocy.<br />"You needn't look for it," said Della. "It's sold, I tell you--sold and gone, too. It's Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went for you. Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered," she went on with sudden serious sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love for you. Shall I put the chops on, Jim?"<br />Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded his Della. For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction. Eight dollars a week or a million a year--what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.<br />Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table.<br />"Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first."<br />White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then, alas! a quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat.<br />For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled rims--just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair. They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the least hope of possession. And now, they were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.<br />But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!"<br />And them Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!"<br />Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.<br />"Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks on it."<br />Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled.<br />"Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on."<br />The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.<br />[Reproduced with acknowledgements and thanks]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><style><br /><!-- p {margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; } h1 {margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in; font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-weight:bold} h2 {margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in; font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-weight:bold} p.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in} --><br /></style>Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-83704759382353792272006-11-28T22:43:00.000+05:302006-11-28T22:47:47.820+05:30KNOWLEDGE IS THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL!<div align="left"></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">CONVERT INFORMATION INTO KNOWLEDGE<br /><br />LIVE THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL!<br /><br />Recently in a class where I was sitting as a Co-coordinator, the lecturer posed a question:<br /><br />“What is the difference between Information and knowledge?”<br /><br />Even as I was wondering what could be the best answer and anticipating as many answers as the participants were in the class, a lady replied,<br /><br />“Knowledge is practical application of information.”<br /><br />Just repeat this: Knowledge is practical application of information.<br /><br />Learned people may find fault with this statement. But see the power of it.<br /><br />The world is full of enough information. Nearly all of it is freely available to all of us. But often we fail to practically apply it.<br /><br />Let us just start from smaller things to bigger things:<br /><br />All of us know the basic information about keeping good health (balanced diet, exercise, positive attitude, etc.), we also know the basic information for being successful (definite goal, persistence, planning, etc.), and we also know how to be happy (be near nature, love your family and friends, be positive and cheerful, etc.), but we miserably fail to apply these in our life.<br /></div><div align="left">All the information regarding people and basic emotions and places is known. However, some are able to convert this information into great works of fiction and non-fiction, while others just read them, and get even more information, never being able to write a page.<br />Quite a lot of information about natural laws is available. Working on that great scientists and scholars discover and invent great new things. With the help of technology they make new things.<br />Criminal Code and Law books mention penalties for all sorts of crimes. Yet this information does not deter many of us to commit crimes! This is a negative type of application!<br />All the tenets of good and moral behaviour are there in the great religious books. Just following them we could make this earth a paradise. But we not only fail to apply these in our life, but often we misinterpret them and fight with and kill each other.<br /><br />This list can be expanded indefinitely. But the central point is clear:<br /><br />Knowledge is practical application of information.<br /><br />I am not for a moment saying that this practical application is always simple and easy. Discovering the riddles of life and universe or making a space ship out of the available knowledge is not for everybody. Many of them may lack even sufficient information.<br /><br />But in many spheres of life we do know all the information. Yet it is precisely in these spheres that we fail miserably. These are: Inter-personal relations, being happy, healthy, and successful, controlling our emotions and violent and criminal acts, avoiding harmful substances and drugs, etc.<br /><br />If I may say it differently, I would assert:<br /><br />In the sea of information, we are thirsty of knowledge<br /><br />LIVE THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL!</div>Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-19935152097883059472006-11-13T19:31:00.000+05:302006-11-13T19:34:49.430+05:30SECRETS OF GREATNESSLIVE THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL!<br /><br />Fortune magazine has titled its October 30, 2006 issue as the Excellence Issue. It explores the Secrets of Greatness.<br /><br />The conclusion of its article ‘What It Takes To Be Great’ is that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. Painful and demanding practice and hard work is the secret to success. <br /><br />Greatness is achieved through demanding and painful hard work over many years. Most accomplished people need around ten years of hard work for becoming world class. Greatness in any field requires constant ‘deliberate practice’.<br /><br />Talent has little or nothing to do with greatness. Excellence is not a consequence of possessing innate gift. <br /><br />Even if you possess some natural gift, high-level performance is not possible without experience or practice. Many prodigies don’t achieve greatness. <br /><br />Motivation is the key to constant hard work and practice.<br /><br />In another article, ‘12 Peak Performances’, it talked to twelve successful people - a global trader, drill instructor, test driver, gambler, scientist, pro athlete, rock musician, security expert, movie star, venture capitalist, chief executive and concessionaire.<br /><br />Some of the conclusions derived from the discussions are :-<br /><br />1. Practice makes perfect. This is the explicit or implicit refrain of practically all the 12 persons interviewed.<br /> <br />2. Have obsessive quest for self improvement and staying focused. <br /><br />3. You can not get locked into a mindset. A lot ­of people just keep adding to a bad position. <br /><br />4. A failed experiment is actually rich source of information. People tend to focus on positive results, but people who are successful are often those who also learn from the negative. <br /><br />5. Stress yourself out. You can not go out and expect to do well when the pressure is on if you don’t put the pressure on yourself in practice, in the off-season, or when nobody else is there. <br /><br />6. Be obsessive over the data especially analyze data relating to your practice, experiment, experience or business. <br /><br />But…<br /><br />7. If you spend too much time analyzing reams of data, you become paralyzed and never make interesting decisions.<br /><br />8. Buckle up for a wild ride if your job demands it.<br /><br />9. Embrace ambiguity. <br /><br />10. Think more. <br /><br />LIVE THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL!Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-57075644972805313412006-10-30T08:28:00.000+05:302006-10-30T08:30:00.613+05:30THE POWER OF AFFIRMATION AND VISUALIZATIONThis is a sad story with a powerful message.<br /><br />I think I read it in some Science Fiction story book and it seems to have been written by a famous writer.<br /><br />The story line is very simple but with an unexpected twist at the end.<br /><br />Once a man developed the faculty of seeing the future. When he was convinced that he had really the power to see the future, he became curious about his own future.<br /><br />He visualized and saw that for last 10-20 years of his life he was bed-ridden. In fact, his whole body was paralyzed and he could not even talk.<br /><br />He got panicky and thought that it were better to die than live such a life. He drew his revolver and shot himself in the head to commit suicide.<br /><br />The bullet lodged in his brain and as a result he was paralyzed for life!<br /><br />Well, this is exactly what we do with our future!<br /><br />We see ourselves poor, weak, old and unsuccessful and by the power of visualization we do become so.<br /><br />That is the power of negative visualization.<br /><br />But, even extraordinary is the power of positive visualization. <br /><br />Visualize yourself as sick and you will feel sick.<br /><br />Visualize yourself as on top of the world and you will feel on top of the world.<br /><br />Same is true of Affirmations.<br /><br />Affirmations and Visualizations have great power. Use them.<br /><br />LIVE THE LIFE BEAUTIFUL!<br /><br />BE HAPPY! BE HEALTHY! BE SUCCESSFUL!Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-30250351319467931282006-10-14T19:04:00.000+05:302006-10-26T21:17:32.214+05:30BE SUCCESSFUL! BE PERSISTENT!<em>"A thing of beauty, is a joy forever;</em><br /><em>Its loveliness increases; it shall never Pass into nothingness"</em>--John Keats.<br /><br />Dear Readers,<br /><br />Let me tell you a story.<br /><br />Once a man prayed to God for many years. God was happy with his prayer. He appeared to him and told him to ask any blessing he wanted.<br /><br />The man replied, “O, God! Give me the blessing of immortality.”<br /><br />God was in a tight spot. Human beings were not immortal. Only gods were so. He thought long and hard and ultimately gave the man a bottle filled with nectar.<br /><br />He said to the man, “This is the drink of the gods. It gives immortality. You drink it once daily exactly at 4 in the morning and you will never die. But if you fail to drink it even one day, you will die immediately. This nectar inside the bottle is inexhaustible. It will fill itself daily.”<br /><br />The man became very happy and thanked God profusely. God only smiled enigmatically.<br /><br />The man started drinking the contents of the bottle regularly. But soon he found following the routine difficult. He found it a great burden to get up early in the morning just to drink the nectar. He also thought perhaps God had played a cruel joke on him and there was nothing special in the liquid inside the bottle. It tasted just like plain water.<br /><br />Day by day he found it difficult to get up at 4 a.m. just to drink the water.<br /><br />One day he totally neglected to drink the nectar and died immediately!<br /><br />Well, the moral of the story is that it is practically impossible for human beings to stick to a routine.<br /><br />And that is the reason of fall of the man (and woman) right from Adam and Eve. Had they stuck to their routine life and food, they would not have been tempted to taste the apple.<br /><br />The difference between success and failure is this: Sticking to the routine of working hard and working hard day in and day out.<br /><br />Well, I said that it is not possible humanly. But stick to it as much as possible, at least stick to it more than another person, and you will be successful.<br /><br />Well, what are the lessons of our Odyssey with the Web?<br /><br />The most important one, and the first, is overnight success is impossible. It is not even possible in a few months, perhaps not even in one or two years. You have to slog it out for many years.<br />This should not come as a surprise. Doctors, engineers, and MBs etc. study for years to learn their trade. Then they require many more years to get established. Then only the more persistent and the best ones taste success. All claims of instant and early success are lies.<br /><br />Let us take Internet business itself. Those who sell us sure success formulas for these claim that we could be successful on Internet overnight or within a month. Far from it.<br /><br />You may take days, months, and may be years, thinking to day something on Internet! Even when you are ready you may take days, months, and may be years, to plan exactly what you want to do, get domain name (s), server, and most importantly, somebody who could design a website exactly according to your wishes. He or she will take his or her sweet time to make it. If it is a friend or relative who is doing it for you free, it may never see the light of the day. One have emergencies and other preoccupations!<br /><br />Once your website is ready, you would find that there are many things wrong with it. Belatedly you realize that you must learn elementary, and later advanced, web designing, intricacies of learning all about your web server.<br /><br />But it does not stop there. You have to learn all about search engines and submission to them, ezines and ezine advertising, copywriting, creating and uploading files, traffic exchanges, and thousands of other things. You wish you had full time to devote to your Internet business. But you are still a part timer. And so far no money has come your way. In fact, you feel more and more that you have to invest some money on such softwares as search engine submissions, ezine cover designer, Google AdWords or other advertising activities.<br /><br />You want to bring uniformity in all your web pages. You copy the source code. Add some new material and when you see the outcome, you find that something has gone wrong. Everything has shifted to left or right or up or down. In fact, you would be fortunate if you had saved separately the original code. Now you start tinkering with the code. By the time you have fixed everything, it is already early morning!<br /><br />You have to do all this. You have to do all this in your spare time, late in the night. Some such sort of things I had been doing all these days to revive the website. It is still not perfect but I am too not finished with it.<br /><br />The only solace for you is hope of success. The good thing about all this is the more you do it the more you get interested in it. It seems that you are really not doing it for money. You are doing it for pleasure, for testing yourself, and for success. You no longer get tired doing it. You rather enjoy it. You look forward to it. That is the best work. It has become sort of worship.<br /><br />Below is the life history of one of the greatest ‘failures’ of the world:<br />Age: 21 years :Failure in business.<br />Age: 22 years :Failure in elections.<br />Age: 24 years :Failure in business.<br />Age: 26 years :Death of wife.<br />Age: 27 years :Nervous breakdown.<br />Age: 34 years :Defeat in Congress elections.<br />Age: 45 years :Defeat in Senate elctions.<br />Age: 47 years :Defeat in attempt to become Vice-President.<br /><br />Who was this man?<br /><br />Abraham Lincoln who became President of America at the age of 52.<br /><br />Persist dear friends and you will be successful. Never, dream of overnight success. There is no such thing.<br /><br /><strong>BE SUCCESSFUL!</strong>Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-1160193108458965972006-10-07T09:19:00.000+05:302006-10-07T09:21:48.470+05:30REINCARNATION!Dear Readers,<br /><br />Be Happy! Be Healthy! Be Successful!<br /><br />You must have given us as dead! Gone! Finished! Well, sphinx like we have resurfaced. <br /><br />I am very sorry to have disappeared for such a long time. Much has flown down the Ganga (you will get used to my spellings) since then. Well, much has happened with us also. This is a long story. Someday I may tell this personal story. For the time being let it suffice that it (plus habitual procrastination) interfered with the continuity of the blog.<br /><br />Since this is sort of our rebirth, let us ponder over our future and priorities. Most of the blogs on the net are on current activities, news, happenings, and thoughts and views on them. We had started The Life Beautiful! to Be Happy! Be Healthy! and Be Successful! We would like to stick to these. In our blog we will give you information and view how to be happy, healthy, and successful and make your life beautiful.<br /><br />We have also changed our priorities a little. Previously we used to write Be Happy! Be Successful! Be Healthy! Now we are writing Be Happy! Be Healthy! Be Successful! This reflects our realization that health is more important than success.<br /><br />Like the blog, our website, The Life Beautiful! <a href="http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/">www.thelifebeautiful.com</a> and its three subdomains: <a href="http://www.happinessmantra.com/">www.happinessmantra.com</a>, <a href="http://www.fitnessmantra.com/">www.fitnessmantra.com</a>, and <a href="http://www.successmantra.com/">www.successmantra.com</a>, remained inactive these months. Lately, we have worked on thelifebeautiful, happinessmantra, fitnessmantra, and successmantra. We have painstakingly brought uniformity in all the pages of the website, added quite a lot of material, and, most importantly, checked that all the links were alive and well. This Blog and the website both are being re-launched simultaneously. Please visit the website and subdomains at the above addresses.<br /><br />We have also written new ebooks and fully revised old ones. Now we offer following ebooks:<br /><br />BE HAPPY! GUIDE<br />BE SUCCESSFUL! MINI-GUIDE<br />ACCIDENTAL LOVE (Short story collection)<br />ODYSSEY OF LOVE (A long sweet-sour love poem)<br />INDIAN RELIGION (An Introduction)<br />INDIAN PHILOSOPHY (An Introduction)<br /><br />Please read about them at: <a href="http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/ebookstore.html">www.thelifebeautiful.com/ebookstore.html</a><br /><br />Quite a lot of material has been added to the website and its subdomains and we request you to visit it and let us know your comments either through comments under this blog or through Guest Book or Forum in the main website.<br /><br />We have compiled a Mini-Guide on Happiness which is freely downloadable at <a href="http://www.thelifebeautiful.com/free.html">www.thelifebeautiful.com/free.html</a> and we strongly urge you to read it. <br /><br />We have given quite a thought to the future of the blog. Though we would have liked to write it daily, it seems that it is an unrealistic aim. Even once a week seems somewhat difficult. On the other hand, we are sure, you would like to read new material at least once a week. So, we have decided to begin with once a week. If we are not able to write any significant original material in a given week we will still try to give you some material to read. Let us see how it works.<br /><br />All the difficulties on being unable to maintain the website and the blog, have given us new insights into various aspects of success. As mentioned above, we have also just completed the Mini-Guide on success. We would like to share some of the insights in it with you in next blog (which will, hopefully, be just one week after this one!).<br /><br />With regards,<br /><br />The Life Beautiful!<br /><br />Next Blog: Overnight Success and Hard Work and Persistence.Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-1109869399991658482005-03-03T21:20:00.000+05:302005-03-03T22:46:34.990+05:30WIN MILLIONS OR EARN MILLIONS<div><strong><center><u></p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:blue;">ONCE IN A LIFE-TIME MILLION DOLLARS WIN-WIN OPPORTUNITY</span></u></center></strong></div><p></p>Dear Reader,<br /><br /><div><strong><u><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">WIN A MILLION DOLLARS PROJECT:</p></span></u></strong></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;">On 15th March, 2005, Craig Perrine, The List Profit Coach from Nitro Marketing, will be releasing something that is going to be publicized all over the Internet.</span></div><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Here's a quick glimpse at what the product looks like:</span></p><p align="center"><img height="266" alt="" src="http://www.listprofitreport.com/images/allreportcovers-b.jpg" width="400" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><img height="158" alt="" src="http://www.listprofitreport.com/images/lp-allcases-b.jpg" width="400" border="0" /></p><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;">It is the ONLY complete step by step training system that shows exactly how to build a highly responsive and profitable list quickly and easily. <span style="font-family:Georgia;">The actual product will be a complete home study course (4 manuals, DVD, video tutorials and 28 cd's) that teaches people the keys to building a list, managing and mailing their list, and profiting from their list.</p></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Nitro Affiliates will open up applications for <b>"The Entrepreneur"</b>. </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">The Entrepreneur will be one lucky person that they select to partner with them to run a million dollar project. That's right, this person will get handed a $1,000,000 dollar project!</span></div><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">As part of this project, they'll apprentice with Nitro Affiliates and learn everything they know about marketing. They'll learn Nitro's proprietary business system from the inside (which they've never shared with anyone). This project they work on with Nitro will be their business and they'll have the opportunity to earn a million dollars or more from it. </span></p><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;">The person that is selected for this project needs to be extremely well versed in Nitro's proprietary system for building and profiting from lists. <b>So <u>only</u> the <u>first 1000</u> List Profit Secrets customers will be invited to apply for The Entrepreneur.</b> The training and implementation of that course is absolutely critical to the million dollar project Nitro will hand to The Entrepreneur.</P></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong><u></u></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong><u>EARN MILLION DOLLARS AND MORE ON AND ON:</P></u></strong></span></div><div><strong><u><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></u></strong></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;">What if you don't want to be <strong>The Entrepreneur</strong> or not selected or want to learn more before committing yourself to buy <strong>"List Profit Secrets"</strong>?</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Well, Nitro will have a free webcast to kick off the <b>"List Profit Secrets"</b>. </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">The webcast will run from 8 pm-9:30 pm EST on 15th March, 2005. At the end of the webcast, orders for the <strong>"List Profit Secrets"</strong> will begin to be taken.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">You probably know that building a list and actually making a profit from your email campaigns is probably the most common challenge that holds people back in their business. That is going to be a thing of the past.<br /><br />There are three keys to making money with a list and until now no one actually explained everything in one place.<br /><br />First you have to get subscribers. We all know that. Craig's List Profit Secrets course explains both no cost and paid list building methods that anyone can use.<br /><br />He's got a unique system of taking a step by step approach that before you know it has you raking in targeted subscribers and setting them up to be highly responsive.<br /><br />Craig's sure dug up the cutting edge info for this course.<br /><br />And his guest speakers are like a who's who of Internet Masters.<br /><br />Second, you really have to know how to manage and mail to your list. With all the hub bub about Spam and the ins and outs of autoresponders and all that, most people just suck it up and learn by trial and error.<br /><br />But Craig reveals the 'best practices' that will keep your list clean and avoid problems, while managing your subscribers for maximum profit at the same time.<br /><br />Third, and perhaps most important if you think about it...Craig teaches you how he profits from his lists.<br /><br />And by the way, Craig has built lists totaling 7 million opt in subscribers for himself, clients and customers -- so he knows what it takes to get you started on the right foot.<br /><br />Well, what has this all to do with EARNING A MILLION DOLLARS AND MORE ON AND ON?</P></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Firstly, <u>in order to qualify for <strong>The Entrepreneur </strong>the person must attend the webcast.</P></u></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><u></u></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Secondly, if you attend the webcast you will learn never revealed secrets of list building and will be on your way to a million dollar income which can be earned repeatedly year after year.</P></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">And thirdly, if after the webcast you buy the product you will have a shot at <strong>The Entrepreneur </strong>and the million dollar project with which it is associated.</P></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">What if you are not selected as <strong>The Entrepreneur</strong>? Well, it may be a blessing in disguise! Perhaps with the List Profit Secrets you would be earning even more than a million dollars!</P></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Talk of a win-win situation!</P></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">But the key to all is the webcast. To learn more and register for the webcast, please visit:</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.NitroWebCasts.com/g.o/radhat">Nitro Web Casts</a></p></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">See you at the webcast and Good Luck! </p></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><strong><u><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">WHAT CAN YOU DO TO INCREASE YOUR CHANCES:</p></span></u></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><strong><u><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></u></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Well, even if you are one of the first 1000 buyers from amongst whom <strong>The Entrepreneur </strong>is to be selected, you must prepare for the selection process. For this you must know something about the Internet business. Nitro has a suit of very good books on Internet marketing. I recommend reading most of them. But the most important thing is to know the Nitro Marketing philosophy. To know the Nitro Marketing Mindset.</p></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">This Nitro marketing philosophy or mindset would also be very helpful to you if you are not <strong>The Entrepreneur </strong>but you want to make your own million dollars on and on.</p></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">But, what is Nitro Marketing Mindset?</p></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Simply put, it is an audio package consisting of an interview by Tellman of Kevin Wilke and Matt Gill, two very successful Internet marketers behind Nitro. However, in this interview Kevin and Matt not only reveal the secrets that allow Nitro to consistently create lofty goals and reach or exceed them every time with ease. This package can be said as the philosophy and “how-to” guide of any successful project, and as such is a must “hear” for every aspiring individual in general and Internet marketer in particular. The interview lasts more than four hours. Then there is another session of more than three hours of bonus interviews, and NLP Power Sessions. To learn fully about this incredible package, please visit:</span></span></div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nitromindset.com/g.o/radhat">The Millionaire Mindset!</a></p></span><br />With regards,</p>Yours sincerely,</p><b>Gus</b>Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-1109359626602118512005-02-26T00:50:00.000+05:302005-02-26T00:57:06.606+05:30DRIVING LESSONS (PART IV)--PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTUREFebruary 25, 2005<br /><br />Dear Reader,<br /><br /><br /> I am driving to office. I am a careful driver. May be I have imbibed many of the happiness lessons some of which help me in not getting unnecessarily agitated. I am subconsciously thinking to Be Happy!<br /><br /> A brilliant idea comes to my mind. I am very observant of the traffic around me. Both in the direction I am going and coming from the opposite direction. On cross roads I am especially careful of the traffic moving in all the directions. But what happens when I pass the cross road?<br /><br /> I nearly completely forget the traffic which I had just passed and had paid so much of my undivided attention! It has become of no concern to me! But moments before it was of vital importance to me. My life depended on it. I am not worrying where all those cars and drivers have gone. Whether they were red or blue or green cars, whether the drivers were good or bad. All this does not affect me now at all.<br /><br /> Similarly, I am not concerned what is happening far away and out of my field of vision. What cars will be crossing me at the next cross road is not my concern at present. What is happening far away is not my worry now. If I worry about it just now, I may cause an accident.<br /><br /> What I am completely and totally concerned about is the car in front of me; the car coming from opposite direction; the car coming from my left and right. Then I am concerned about the immediate traffic around me. I occasionally see the rear view mirror; see the side mirrors and glance behind while changing lanes or taking a turn.<br /><br /> Dwelling upon past is futile. Howsoever you worry about past it is not going to change. Whatever has happened has happened. Similarly, worrying about future is useless. What you dread may never happen. Do your best and hope for the best. Live in the present, because,<br /><br />“Life is now in session. Are you present?”—B. Copeland<br /><br />Imagine a drive to a beautiful place. Our destination is a dream-like place. We are thinking of our destination. Beautiful brooks, rivers, forests, country side, hills, cities, morn, day, night, sun, rain, snow, pass by. We remain oblivious of them. We are going to enjoy them when we reach our destination! It is only the one who enjoys the journey who really travels.<br /><br /> Similarly, we go through life planning to be happy on some future day! I will be happy after I finish my education, after I get a job, after I get married, after I buy a computer, a car, a house, after my children have finished their education, after they have got married. I will be happy after I retire. That day will come and go but I will never be happy. If I cannot be happy now, how can I be so on some future day! Happiness does not come automatically after some day; it does not depend on worldly possessions. If you cannot be happy in the process of achieving some goal you cannot be happy after obtaining that goal. If you cannot enjoy the journey you cannot enjoy the destination. To be happy you must live in the present.<br /><br />“Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.”—Old Eskimo saying<br /><br /><br />With warm regards,<br /><br />Yours sincerely,<br /><br />GusPradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-1107737579530090702005-02-07T06:19:00.000+05:302005-02-07T06:26:18.430+05:30DRIVING LESSONS--III--IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPENFebruary 6, 2005
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<br />Dear Reader,
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<br />“Son of a bitch! How dare you pass me!!” shouted Henry. He gassed the car. We shot from a comfortable 40 to 70 miles per hour. Unfortunately, before Henry could teach the stupid teenager one or two lessons in fast driving, the boy turned right on the Main Street oblivious of the brewing rage and competition in his wake.
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<br />“Coward! Come, why are you running away from the battlefield like a mouse?” Henry challenged as if throwing his lance at a fleeing enemy. His face had become red. He was clutching at the steering wheel, sitting at the edge of his seat. I thought if there were really a race Henry’s Civic Honda would be no match to the sports car of the teenager. But I kept quiet. This will infuriate Henry all the more. Suddenly it turned amber at the Fraser. Henry speeded to jump the light, but the car in front of him hesitated and then decided that it was better to stop. He stopped right in the middle of the pedestrian crosswalk. Henry spat an obscenity and slammed on the brakes. The car in front wanted to reverse to clear the pedestrian walkway but Henry rolled down the glass and gave him a finger. The driver gave him two fingers! Henry got down from the car and approached the driver. Just then the light turned green and the driver sped away, leaving Henry stranded outside his car. Before Henry could come back and move, other cars behind us started blowing horns and showing finger to Henry.
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<br />By now Henry was raging mad. He lit another cigarette. “Damn these lights. I always get red light when I am in a hurry.” Sure enough we got another red light at the next crossing. To go faster and possibly avoid the next red light he changed to the left lane. Suddenly, a red car, driven by an oriental talking on the cell phone, overtook him dangerously from the right and came to the left lane in front of us. The light had turned red. Henry stopped. It changed to the green and the red car gave left turn signal and kept standing. It was too late for Henry to change lane.
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<br />“These Orientals! They cannot even see where they are going. Didn’t he know before hand that he had to turn left? He could have turned even when it just turned red. Or, is he being given directions on the cell phone?”
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<br />It turned red again. The red car couldn’t turn left as there was heavy on coming traffic, which didn’t stop even at amber. Henry was insanely mad by now. He tried to change lane, created a near accident scenario and somehow managed to change and go ahead when it turned green again.
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<br />It was uncommonly hot. He started perspiring. He kept on fuming and fussing all the way. Against God (why it was sunny and beautiful that everybody was on the roads); against the Government (why they don’t make the roads wider, why they don’t expand sky train service); against all others on the road (why old men and women drive so slowly, why the teenagers who drive so recklessly are not caught by the police, why…why….) I could see plainly that the blood vessels on Henry’s temple had become swollen and they were palpitating visibly. Within the half an hour driving he had already consumed five cigarettes!
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<br />Henry was my colleague at the office. He was, in fact, our accountant. He was forty-five, married and father of two beautiful daughters. He was fond of eating and drinking. He smoked two packets of cigarettes daily, drank beer like water, and substituted it with coffee in the office. He liked fast food and red meat. He was fond of sports and spent his entire evenings at home watching football and hockey on the TV.
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<br />Henry and I had joined the Universal Imports and Exports together. It was a long long time ago. Nearly twenty-five years. Henry was a lean and thin youth then. He was a tennis player. Those were the good old days! We worked hard, played tennis, and frequented bars and nightclubs. But within a few years things started changing. We got more and more involved in the work. We got married and had children. We don’t remember when we stopped playing tennis, stopped going to gym, and stopped doing any physical work, except carrying files and ledgers in the office!
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<br />It was full of tension for Henry at the office. Every Department committed accounting mistakes. At the end of the day, therefore, the accounts invariably did not tally. Henry swore, called names, and sat late to reconcile the accounts. By the time he reached home, he was tense, tired, and hungry. He flopped on the sofa, turned the TV on, and sat with his beer and potato chips. He talked to his wife and daughters during the commercials and ate dinner in front of the TV. He moved from there only to go to bathroom and finally to the bed.
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<br />We reached the Headquarters. It was always a struggle for Henry to get out of his car. In fact, he had out grown his car. He was excessively bulky and pot-bellied. Yet he drove two-door small Honda Civic. Every time a colleague sat with him, he or she would ask, “Why don’t you buy a bigger car?” His wife also asked the same question. It seemed that just to spite them he was never going to change his car!
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<br />It was nearly one in the afternoon. Office workers were returning from the lunch. There was a mini crowd near the lift. Henry went ahead and pushed the lift button that must have been pushed scores of times already. Within a minute when the lift came, he had again pushed it twice! We entered. Soon it was filled. The door closed. But before the lift moved, the doors opened again and a courier boy tried to enter. Henry snapped at him, “Don’t you see the lift is already full!” The boy still squeezed in. Henry gave him a dirty look.
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<br />We were summoned to discuss the budget. The boss was in a hurry. By now we were also tired and in not very good mood. Henry and the boss got into an argument. Henry got excited. To me it seemed a mere trifle. But Henry wanted to make his point. The boss his own. Henry’s face grew red. He started breathing fast and heavily. He lit yet another cigarette. I intervened. The meeting ended on a sour note.
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<br />All the way back Henry continued to live the anger of their encounter. We stopped at a restaurant. Had a couple of beers each and ate a pizza. I went home. Henry to office.
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<br />Next day, Henry was no more.
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<br />He had a heart attack in the night.
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<br />With warm regards,
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<br />Yours sincerely,
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<br /><strong>Gus</strong>
<br />Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-1107117810794531472005-01-31T03:09:00.000+05:302005-01-31T02:20:48.486+05:30DRIVING LESSONS (PART II)--ENJOYING IT ALL THE WAYJanuary 30, 2005
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<br />Dear Reader,
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<br />I was taking my children to our ancestral home. It was an old house on a mountain slope beside a creek. It was surrounded by pine forest. At this time of year it must be covered by a thick layer of snow. My seven year daughter and five year son were visiting the home for the first time.
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<br />No sooner had I put my car in gear than the children started talking excitedly.
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<br />“I will climb the tallest pine tree and gather the pine cones,” said my son.
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<br />“I will jump into the creek,” replied my daughter.
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<br />“I will ski down the slope and oh, I will enjoy the snow so much,” he exulted.
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<br />They kept on talking and enjoying every bit of it till the panoramic scenery of approaching mountains caught their attention.
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<br />“Oh, see the little water falls! How beautiful they are! Daddy, can we stop, I want to see how cool the water is,” asked my son, little expecting me to stop.
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<br />“See, see, there is a hare in the grass. No, there are two.”
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<br />They kept on talking and enjoying every bit of it till we reached the home. As for me and my wife, we were tired and bored by driving and the constant talk of the children. The drive was routine for us. We hardly cast glance left or right out of the side windows. We too were looking forward to enjoying at the ancestral home. But we were not in the habit of enjoying the scenery on the way.
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<br />The children jumped down the SUV and started gamboling and laughing and throwing snow balls on each other.
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<br />They were happy even before they had reached here or seen it. Even if the mountains and snow were different they would have still enjoyed it. They had pre-decided to enjoy it. They had pre-arranged their mind to enjoy. Their happiness had very little to do with the outer reality. Happiness was in their mind.
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<br />Not only were they happy on reaching here or on the way thinking of it, they were happy in arriving here also. They were happy during the journey. They enjoyed thoroughly the road, the grass, the trees, the scenery, the mountains, and the snow. They enjoyed the way to the destination. Though they looked with anticipation and joy towards the destination, they enjoyed every bit of the journey to the destination. They really lived the interval between starting and reaching.
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<br />With warm regards,
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<br />Yours sincerely,
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<br />Gus
<br />Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-1105936649372071302005-01-17T10:03:00.000+05:302005-01-17T10:07:29.373+05:30DRIVING LESSONS (PART I)--OTHERS ARE ALSO DRIVING FINEJanuary 16, 2005
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<br />Dear Reader,
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<br />My secretary had misplaced the Jovorosky case file. My boss was a pest. My colleagues were a bunch of inexperienced morons. I was in a rage. I left office lamenting how everybody around me was a big incompetent fool.
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<br />I eased my car once I reached the highway. Traffic was, as usual going at a high speed both ways in multiple lanes. It was high speed but smooth. It sort of acted as soothing balm on my brain.
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<br />Who were the drivers of these cars, SUVs and motorcycles? I realized that one of them may be my incompetent secretary or colleague. In fact, they were a motley crowd—educated and uneducated, police officers and criminals, smart and lazy fellows, intelligent and imbecile. It would not have inspired any confidence in me if they were working in my office as my colleagues. But they seemed to be driving fine!
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<br />Their driving concerned me vitally. In fact, my life was in their hands. If any of them made a wrong move, a terrible accident could occur in which I could perish. But there are surprisingly very few accidents on the roads.
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<br />I cannot support low witted, lazy, ignorant people. They give me a lot of headache and tension. But the same people are driving fine on the roads. Perhaps they are doing fine in the world also. It is me who is unnecessarily getting tense. After all the world is running fine. Not only around me but in very very far flung regions also. It is doing fine without my guidance. It has always been doing fine and will be doing fine. The people have always been, are and will be capable of doing fine. I need not worry on account of people. I have to worry about myself. I should be driving fine and everything around me would be fine.
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<br />I remember when I was learning to drive. When I used to get discouraged, my instructor friend used to say, “See, every Tom, Dick and Harry is driving. People less smart than you, people less educated than you, and people less active than you are driving. If they can, you can also.
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<br />Since then, I have observed, if a man or woman can do something, another also can do it. Perhaps do it better. If one person can drive, millions of others can too. If one athlete can run 100 meters in less than 10 seconds other can also. In sports all records are broken sooner or later.
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<br />Millions of people are driving fine around me. Many people we just reject without seeing—because of our prejudice against sex, race, color, religion, language and age, etc. Others we reject on seeing on above grounds but also on the basis of looks. We so often reject people who are not handsome or beautiful. But when it comes to driving on the roads, looks do not count, as, of course, sex, race, color, etc. are also irrelevant.
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<br />With warm regards,
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<br />Yours sincerely,
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<br />Gus
<br />Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9595708.post-1105298859176941232005-01-10T00:38:00.000+05:302005-01-10T01:06:38.956+05:30NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS--PART IIIJanuary 9, 2005
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<br />On top of your New Year Resolutions were some such things:
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<br />To get up at five.
<br />To go for jogging.
<br />To write for two hours.
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<br />You were celebrating the Old Year Night till the early hours of New Year. You went to bed nearly at 2 a.m. You are fast asleep till 10 a.m. if not till mid-day. You have slight hang over. It is difficult even to get up what to talk of jogging or writing for two solid hours. Your New Year Resolutions have been broken on the very first day! The virginity of the resolutions has gone. They have lost their charm. In any case, you now realize, there is nothing new in the New Year. You are the same. The world is the same. Why bother with the New Year Resolutions!
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<br />To keep your New Year Resolutions and motivation, it is, therefore, very necessary to guard against the factors which kill them in the infancy itself. Here are some of my suggestions:
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<br />1. Exceptions do make the rule and one swallow does not make a summer. New Year Resolutions are not “All or Nothing” affair. However, the New Year Resolutions are so dear to us, like a shining brand new car, that often if we fail to observe one of them, we get very disheartened and leave them totally. But that is the first thing we have to guard against. Already when we make New Year Resolutions we make them as if we are living in an ideal world. We have already crammed into our resolutions what no human being will be able to accomplish in ten years. So, don’t worry if some of them are broken on the very first night or very early in the year. What is important is your determination to keep as many New Year Resolutions as possible. Just keep at it. If jogging is broken for a week or month, restart it. If your diet has broken for a week or month, restart it. Come back to your New Year Resolutions.
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<br />2. So, you have re-committed yourself to your New Year Resolutions. Now is the time to revise them. Your New Year Resolutions were theoretical only. They lacked practical reality. You put too much into it. Even if you work twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, you would not be able to do it. You set too many diverse aims to accomplish—you want to excel at job, you want to be a good family member, you want to be the best baseball player, the best writer, the best singer, and so many other things. You want to go on a world tour, you want to learn music, you want to practice Yoga, etc. Well, your intentions are honorable, but not practical. Prune your list. If something is not going to be done any way, why not cut it from your list now. You can add it later, if you want to. Revise your list periodically.
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<br />3. You broke your resolution of going to gym early in the morning. Did you regret? Did your heart break? Did you loathe yourself whole day? If not, the resolution was not worth the paper it was written on. Your heart was not in it. It was not an obsession. See obsessive chatterboxes, smokers, drinkers. No harm making them your role models! Just change the activity. Your New Year Resolutions should be like obsessions.
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<br />4. Do you remember in your New Year Resolutions, in Three Greatest, you had put hard work, discipline, and self-control? Of all the great qualities, why you chose only these three? Because they are the most difficult. First, listen to a story. A man prayed to God for many years. The God became happy and asked him for a boon. The man asked for immortality. The God gave him a bottle of nectar and told him to drink it every morning and evening. The contents of the bottle will never finish. As long as he drank the nectar regularly he would not die. The man kept at the routine for some time. But then he got bored with it. One day he neglected to drink the nectar. He died the same day! To keep the routines is very difficult. But in life and the world all great things are routine—the sun rises routinely, the heart beats routinely, we breathe routinely, and so on. In fact other vital activities are also to be performed every day—drinking of water, taking food, and sleeping etc. On the other hand, if you are in the habit of doing something, like getting up early, you will keep on doing it happily and without any effort. This teaches us two great lessons: first, have discipline and self-control to keep your New Year Resolutions and, secondly, keep on repeating your affirmations and resolutions. They work only when you keep on repeating them. As mentioned above, even life depends on repetition of heart beat and respiration, and so many other things.
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<br />5. What is www? World Wide Web! What is Internet? Interconnected computers! In both of these the concept of connection is paramount. Everything is connected with everything, so to say. And this connection for web pages is through links. So, in your personal life also link. Link one thing with another and you will never fail to do it. If you decide to drink at least ten glasses of water per day, which you should for good health, link drinking of water with routine activities of day-to-day life—drink two glasses first thing early in the morning on getting up, one before breakfast, one before leaving for office, one on reaching office, one each after you go to bathroom, one a couple of hours after lunch, one before leaving for home, one on arriving at home, one after freshening up, one a couple of hours after super, one before retiring. You will easily drink a dozen of glasses of water this way. Link getting up early to playing a game, and you will not be able to even sleep in anticipation of next morning’s game!
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<br />6. Don’t put your resolutions to only in a computer file and forget all about it. Write the resolutions in a diary, on your desktop (StickIt software will do it. Get it at <a href="http://www.singerscreations.com/Files/SIFix.exe">http://www.singerscreations.com/Files/SIFix.exe</a> ), in your Note in Outlook or other program, in you screen saver, on your fridge, on the wall of your room, etc. If you are of shy type and don’t want others to know that you are in the self-improvement business (it is strange, a smoker is not embarrassed, but an adult man who want self-improvement is sometimes laughed at!).
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<br />7. Repeat New Year Resolutions on waking up, in your prayers, and before retiring. In this way you will remain focused. In this way, you will be ordering you subconscious also to work for you and create the circumstances which are optimum for the realization of your New Year Resolutions.
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<br />8. Get a support group. Work with your family. Have a circle of friends to support and encourage each other. Have a jogging group and you will manage to jog all the year round.
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<br />9. Subscribe to inspirational/motivational newsletter. Read books on the subject. Listen to audios or see videos on the subject.
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<br />10. Ultimately, it is not terribly important whether you keep your resolutions in their entirety exactly as they were written at the beginning of the year. What is important is that you work hard, be disciplined and self-controlled. With just a little focus, you will be going in the right direction.
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<br />BE HAPPY! BE SUCCESSFUL! BE HEALTHY!
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<br />With regards,
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<br />Yours sincerely,
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<br />Gus
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<br />(This concludes New Year Resolutions)
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<br />Pradeep Gusainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479704362155357932noreply@blogger.com0