ADDICTION TO PROCRASTINATION

Hello Readers. It's been a while. How you guyz been? Haven't updated my blog for quite some time now because of my busy schedule. Anyways let's cut to the chase.
As the title says, This week, I'm going to shed some light on procrastination. (For those of you who does not know what procrastination is, It is the act of putting things off for a later date). Let's face it, we all do it in our day-to-day lives. It's like a drug which gives you a temporary relief, but is not the solution for the problem. That's why I feel procrastination is no different from smoking or drinking.

Let me share something with you I came across a couple of days ago. I hope it will enlighten you, just like it did me.
Monkey hunters use a box with an opening at the top, big enough for the monkey to slide its hand in. Inside the box are nuts and fruits. The monkey grabs the nuts and its hand now becomes a fist. Unfortunately, the hole on the top is big enough for the monkey to put its hand in, but too small for the fist to go out. Now the monkey has a choice, it can either let go off the nuts and escape or hang on to the nuts and get caught. Guess what it chooses everytime? You guessed it. It hangs on to the nuts and gets caught.

We humans are no different from monkeys. We all hang on to some nuts that keeps us from going forward in life. We keep saying "I will do this later because _________" And whatever comes after 'because' are the nuts we're hanging on to. It does no good. It will only hold you back, slow you down and suck on your abilities and talents making you nothing more than a loser. And in the end, when it's too late, you'll reminisce only to regret about it.
So do yourself a favor, and adopt this small exercise in your daily life. The next time you're about to procrastinate, don't do it (:P)

The difference between Winners and losers is that Winners Analyze and losers rationalize. As the proverb goes, NEVER PUT OFF SOMETHING FOR TOMORROW WHEN YOU CAN DO IT TODAY. So friends, put on those procrastination patches and QUIT PROCRASTINATING TODAY!! :)

Hope this helped,
I'll catch you guys later.
Good Luck.

GIVE UP GIVING UP !!!

There are 6 billion people sharing our world, all heading to the same destination- Greatness. But the road leading to Grandeur and splendor is more hostile than the fiercest blizzard or the strongest sandstorm. It is filled with hardships and troubles all the way. And the very few who actually reach greatness, are the ones who move on in spite of the hardships; and the ones who failed, are the ones who turned back.

Every one of us has the desire to reach greatness burning furiously inside of us and yet the slightest drizzle of misfortune and failure dampens our spirits.When problems seem insurmountable, quitting seems to be the easiest solution. It applies for all aspects of life. We turn back instead of learning from our failure and moving on. We quit when we have the opportunity to try again. And therefore we lose when we could have WON.
Failing is inevitable if you want success. Failing does not make us failures but quitting does. Most of us fail not because of the absense of talent and knowledge but because we quit. Success is achieved by persistence and resistence. Always Persist to succeed and resist to quit.

Every great success story is also a great story of failure. Let me share 2 such stories:

-There was a man who failed in business at the age of 21 ; Was defeated in a legislative election at 22 ; failed again in business at 24; lost the love of his life at 26 ; had a nervous breakdown at 27; lost a congressional election at age 34 ; lost a senatorial election at 45; failed to become the vice president at 47; lost again at the senatorial election at 49 and was finally elected as one of the greatest presidents of the united states at the age of 52. This man was Abraham Lincoln.
Do you call him a failure? He could have quit. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour and not a dead end. How many of us would have quit if we were presented with his failures and hardships?

Another story i want to share with you is of Colonel Sanders's.
At the age of 65, with a beat-up car and a 100$ check from Social security, he realized he had to do something. He remembered his mother's recipe and went out selling. It is estimated that he had knocked more than a thousand doors before he got his first order. And today it has become one of the most successful food franchises in the world- KFC.
How many of us quit after 3tries, 10 tries, a hundred tries and then say we tried as hard as we could?
Remember- YOU HAVEN'T TRIED AS HARD AS YOU CAN IF YOU HAVEN'T SUCCEEDED.

SUCCESS IS NOT MEASURED BY HOW HIGH WE BOUNCE UP IN LIFE, BUT BY HOW MANY TIMES WE BOUNCE BACK WHEN WE FALL DOWN.
It is your persistence to succeed and resistance to quit that gets you to great heights.

REMEMBER DONT GIVE UP ANYTHING OTHER THAN GIVING UP!


So the next time you feel like quitting, take a moment, think to yourself- Do you want to reach greatness or do you want to turn back? Do you want to be in the elite group of winners or in the billions of failures? Its Your call.

DO WE REALLY NEED COLLEGE EDUCATION TO GET A JOB?!! I DONT THINK SO...

Hi Dear Reader,
This is my first ever blog post and I hope what follows will benefit and enlighten you. And please remember to leave comments and yes, criticism is most welcome.
I've just finished my high school a couple of weeks ago. I have an average percentile which will grant me admission in most colleges. Traditionally, a person in my shoes would be busy studying for admission exams and applying for an admission in colleges, but I haven't applied to a single college and I am not planning to either this year. I am an aspiring entrepreneur. I believe that you don't need education to make money. I've decided to take an year off and use it to get a job for myself, save for college, start a small time business and also help my parents with the rising expenditure. But everyone I pass by keeps asking me this same question, "Which college are you going to join?" and when i tell them I'm going to start a legitimate business and get a job, they go nuts and allege that my decision is stupid. "You cant start a business now", "You're too young", "You need education to make money", "Businesses will never succeed". And all I want to reply is- "SHUUUTTT UP!!! that is the biggest load of crap I've heard in my life".

People, dont get me wrong. I understand the pivotal importance of education in one's life. Its the advices i get that conflicts with my beliefs. Right from my childhood, adults have given me the same advice. The same advice they got when they were a child - "You have to study hard and get a job so that you can be rich and successful". This thought is so deep rooted in the minds of our society- young and old, they are totally oblivious to the fact that there are other ways to be successful. We blindly follow others and most of us are terrified to try something new or to adopt a method different from others. Some of the most successful people who ever lived were uneducated. They succeded not because of education or a fancy college degree. They succeeded because they thought differently, they had the courage to believe in their thoughts and they Worked Hard to pursue their thoughts.
These people include-
Thomas Alva Edison - The greatest inventor that ever lived.
Dhirubai Ambani - The biggest business magnate in India. ( If he would have been alive today, his assets would be worth more than 100billion $, His sons mukesh and anil are the 4th and 5th richest people today in the world respectively.
Fred Trump - an imigrant who lived in the US, started out with nothing and ended up with all the wealth in the world. His son, Donald Trump, is the biggest real estate developer in Manhattan. He holds the credit for making some of the finest golf courses, hotels, apartments in the world. And many many more. All these people found a niche for themselves in their respective professional world and have redefined success because of the way they think and act. And I assure you, I will also come in this list and some child somewhere, sometime in the future will be writing a similar article setting me as an example.

As a man who fuels his lamp of learning with the oils of others’ experience, let me expound the following maxim: Don't do what others do just because they're doing it. They probably dont know why they are doing it themselves.

I have to go now, so I conclude by saying this- think differently, believe in yourself. You know what is best for you better than anyone else. Dont let others suggestions bring you down. And whatever you do, do it with the best of yout abilities and work hard.
Thank You readers for the precious time you have spent to read my article. I will be back in a couple of days to dip my hands into some other topic.

Until then,
Bubye. Take care.

Thank you.