From hedge funds to pizzas!!!

Just read another of this recession stories…. it shocked the hell outta me…

The only good part of this phase is that people are learning a lot and realizing the importance of savings… but do we really implement it till such time that we really face it?! I guess most of us don’t. And me…writing this here… have I really done something yet? No. In fact I just did some crazy shopping this weekend. And I am feeling stupid now. And so I hope I continue feeling this stupid and do something about it soon!!!

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Succisive Moments

Yes…I have lots of them… ‘SUCCISIVE’ moments… and in my view anyone can… you just have to make that effort… be determined to have your own ‘succisive’ time…to be yourself…to be with yourself… to realize yourself… to know yourself…and to do some other random stuff!!!

Well… a proof of the statement that I have a lot of ‘succisive’ time is that I keep stumbling on new and interesting things every single day (apart from being myself).. but I’m not ranting… I love it! This time, thanks to Shivanand, I came across this website called “Save The Words” I think it’s an amazing concept. Herein, you can adopt any word from their huge list of words which are more or less no longer in use… you adopt a word and vow to spread it by using it in your conversations as much as possible…

And now I am a proud parent of the word ‘SUCCISIVE’ 🙂
SUCCISIVE –> of spare or extra time.

So all of you out there… don’t waste your succisive moments… there’s so much to do.. go get one for yourself! And trust me, it’s a nice feeling 🙂

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Think before you ‘Publish’

Yes, you read it right…’publish’ and not ‘speak’ or ‘write’… both of the latter are oh-so-retarded now!

Recently I wrote an article for a magazine saying how social media is becoming more and more powerful. And oh boy…it indeed has become very powerful. Just today I came across a story which is funny, sad and thought-provoking at the same time. There is this person who got a job with Cisco and posted his apprehensions on twitter. The employer somehow read it and the poor thing most likely would have lost the offer, though he tried everything like removing the post and making it private, but it was too late by then. This is how the conversation on twitter went –

“The guy – Cisco just offered me a job. I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.
Cisco’s Reply – Who is the hiring manager? I’m sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We her at Cisco are versed in the web.”

So guys… with the ever-rising power and presence of social media… one must be increasingly cautious of what is typed before he/she hits the ‘Publish’ button!

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This too shall pass!

One amazing article a friend emailed me today –

My Friends,

Money has no memory. Experience has. You will never know what the total cost of your education was, but for a lifetime you will recall and relive the memories of schools and colleges. Few years from now, you will forget the amount you paid to settle the hospitalisation bill, but will ever cherish having saved your mother’s life or the life you get to live with the just born. You won’t remember the cost of your honeymoon, but to the last breath remember the experiences of the bliss of togetherness. Money has no memory. Experience has.

Good times and bad times, times of prosperity and times of poverty, times when the future looked so secure and times when you didn’t know from where the tomorrow will come… life has been in one way or the other a roller-coaster ride for everyone. Beyond all that abundance and beyond all that deprivation, what remains is the memory of experiences. Sometimes the wallet was full… sometimes even the pocket was empty. There was enough and you still had reasons to frown. There wasn’t enough and you still had reasons to smile. Today, you can look back with tears of gratitude for all the times you had laughed together, and also look back with a smile at all the times you cried alone. All in all, life filled you with experiences to create a history of your own self, and you alone can remember them all.

The first time you balanced yourself on your cycle without support…

The first time she said ‘yes’ and it was two years since you proposed…

The first cry… the first steps… the first word… the first kiss… all of your child…

The first gift you bought for your parents and the first gift your daughter gave you…

The first award… the first public appreciation… the first stage performance…

And the list is endless… Experiences, with timeless memory…

No denying that anything that’s material cost money, but the fact remains the cost of the experience will be forgotten, but the experience never.

So, what if it’s economic recession? Let it be, but let there not be a recession to the quality of your life. You can still take your parents, if not on a pilgrimage, at least to the local temple. You can still play with your children, if not on an international holiday, at least in the local park. It doesn’t cost money to lie down or to take a loved one onto your lap. Nice time to train the employees, create leadership availability and be ready for the wonderful times when they arrive. Hey! Aspects like your health, knowledge development and spiritual growth are not economy dependent.

Time will pass… economy will revive… currency will soon be in current… and in all this, I don’t want you to look back and realise you did nothing but stayed in gloom. Recession can make you lose out on money. Let it not make you lose out on experiences… If you are not happy with what you have, no matter how much more you have, you will still not be happy.

Make a statement with the way you live your life: How I feel has nothing to do with how much I have.

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Please spend a minute on my survey

I have started working on a business plan. The whole idea is about making special events even more special for people! Something like helping people celebrate love!

Need a small favor from all of you there. I’ve created a survey to do some private research (link below). Please fill it in. It’s very important for me.

http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=c598b928-0735-471a-9eee-0f897fd25808

P.S. Will tell you more about it once I take it forward (trade secrets you know 😉 )

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Phew!

Keeping crazily busy for sometime now… A friend just reminded me that I’ve been off the blog for sometime… and I liked the way he said it – “Oh btw…if you get sometime do update your blog…you write well.” And this was just 5 mins ago..I thought I should definitely write something right away 🙂

On being busy – I’m enjoying it…haven’t  I always preferred being busy than being idle? People who really know me know the answer! And for those who don’t – Yes, I sure have! And that’s so because this way I don’t get much time to dwell my mind into stupid unecessary stuff that might upset me… you won’t believe but these days even if I feel bad over something, I generally forget it in very li’l time. This has never happened to me before. And I’m happy to be like this… I’ve always wanted to be like this – To get affected by nothing but myself  🙂

I still remember what I heard Diana Hayden saying once –  this

So I’ll leave you here with this… gotta get back to work 🙂

Oh and btw..did I tell you that I got a hard copy of the magazine I wrote for (with my article in it)? I guess I didn’t! Yes I did..and it was such a wonderful feeling…inexplicable! Here’s the link to my article – See page 41 of 83 in this…

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