One afternoon Guru Nanak and his company were resting on the banks of the Ganges at Patna. Mardana was idly inspecting a stone he had picked up along the road, thinking of the vast throngs who had come to hear the Guru. “Master,” said Mardana, “you teach a way for every person to find liberation. …
If you’re frustrated in your efforts to elicit the best from each of your subordinates, chances are it’s not that they can’t be motivated, but that the wrong methods are being used to motivate them. The secret is to package what you want from each individual in a way that makes them want to deliver …
One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from the …
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.It took the remainder of …
Depending on our basic belief system, past experiences and perception (understanding) of the present situations we are in, anger takes different forms, which emerge in our mind and get communicated to others through our behaviour: 1. IrritationYou create this when day-to-day events don’t happen fast enough e.g. your flight gets delayed, you are made to …
1. The Greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.2. Learn from Yesterday, Live for Today, Hope for Tomorrow.3. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.4. Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard n life is to risk nothing.5. There are …
A good lesson from a glass of water….. How heavy is a glass of water . . A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, “how heavy is this glass of water?” Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t …
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When celebrated French cyclist ,Lance Armstrong .was diagnosed with testicular cancer with a 40 percent survival chance and told he’d never be able to cycle again ,his first though was ,I’m going to die. On second thoughts ,he decided to fight back and declared himself a cancer survivor ,instead of a cancer victim. Later ,when …
If you had the opportunity to start a new team and select anyone from your organization to be on it, who would you pick? Assuming that people have the right technical skills for the work to be done, what other factors would you use to select your team members? Teams need strong team players to …
Knowing what is right and what is wrong in your own inner consciousness is insufficient. It is not the knowing of truth that transforms a person; it is the doing of truth that has an impact on you and on the other people whom you interact with. You may know that it is inappropriate to …