Give your stress wings and let it fly away!

Stress And 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 matter.It depends on how long you try to hold it.

If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.

If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.

If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.

In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

He continued,"And that's the way it is with stress management.

If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later,

As the burden becomes increasingly heavy,

We won't be able to carry on. "

"As with the glass of water,

You have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again.

When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."

"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down.

Don't carry it home.

You can pick it up tomorrow.

Whatever burdens you're carrying now,

So, my friend put down anything that may be a burden to you right now.

Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.
Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
* Always keep your words soft and sweet,
Just in case you have to eat them.

* Always read stuff that will make you look good
If you die in the middle of it.

* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be
Recalled by their Maker.

* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

* If you lend someone Rs 20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply be kind to others.

* We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.

*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Where there’s a Will, there’s a way

Story of Nick Vujici is an eye opener for everyone who feels that their circumstances stop them in achieving their dreams.

Nick was born with out legs and arms, but he has completed Bachelor’s Degree in both Financial Planning and Accounting and traveled 19 countries inspiring people to reach their dreams.

He has gone through a very tough childhood, where he was rejected, weird and bullied because of his physical difference. But he stood strong and instead of complaining that the circumstances are not right for him, he chose to be independent and now he takes care of all his personal needs! He gets around the house jumping and even comes to street all by himself with the assistance of a wheel chair.

Detailed story of Nick can be found in his website www.lifewithoutlimbs.org  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DxlJWJ_WfA&feature=player_embedded

Work Smart than Working Hard

‘Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.’

One fine day, a bus driver went to the bus garage, started his bus, and drove off along the route. No problems for the first few stops, a few people got on, a few got off, and things went generally well. At the next stop, however, a big hulk of a guy got on. Six feet eight, built like a wrestler, arms hanging down to the ground. He glared at the driver and said, "Big John doesn't pay!" and sat down at the back.
The driver was five feet three, thin, and basically meek. Naturally, he didn't argue with Big John, but he wasn't happy about it. The next day the same thing happened -Big John got on again, said "Big John doesn't pay!" and sat down. It happened next day, and the one after that, and so forth.
This irritated the bus driver, who started losing sleep over the way Big John was taking advantage of his size. Finally he could stand it no longer. He signed up for body building program, karate, judo and all that good stuff. By the end of the summer, he had become quite strong; So on the next Monday, when Big John got on the bus and said, "Big John doesn't pay!" the driver stood up, glared back and screamed, "And why not?"

With a surprised look on his face, Big John replied, "Big John has a Bus pass."

Moral of the story: First be sure is there a problem before working hard to solve it.

The fisherman and the investment banker

A Fisherman and an Investment Banker was at the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were
several large yellow fin tuna.

The investment banker complimented the fisherman  on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The fisherman replied, “Only a little while.”

The investment banker then asked, “Why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more fish?”

The fisherman said, “With this I have more than enough to support my family’s needs.”

The investment banker then asked, “But what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, stroll into the village each evening and spend time with
my family, I have a full and busy life.”

The investment banker scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing; and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat: With
the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor; eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to a big town and eventually to the city where you will run your ever-expanding enterprise.”

The fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”

To which the investment banker replied, “15 to 20 years.”

“But what then?” asked the fisherman.

The investment banker laughed and said that’s the best part. “When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.”

“Millions?…Then what?”

The investment banker  said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids,
take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings and spend time with your family.”

The fisherman replied: “isn’t this exactly what I am doing?”

Lesson: Rich or poor, we will all go through the stages of life!!

Three Habits Of Procrastination

This article deals with understanding and identifying when you are under the influence of poor habits. Here we point out three worst causes of procrastination and provide simple solutions for them.

Its believed that the first and most severe obstacle to any success is procrastination - the habit which makes us say, "Not Now. Wait for the Right Time." What we never understand is that the only Right Time is now. Start this moment, and you succeed. If you wait for the Right Moment in the foggy future, you may be left to wait for that further and this wait goes on.

What makes you Procrastinate?

Once you know who your enemies are, you can keep yourself ready to face them. Procrastination doesn't just exist. It comes and stays till you make the effort to push it out. Its job is just to hold you in abeyance, not letting you go any further towards your goals and awaiting success. Now we discuss three most important causes of procrastination and comment on how to fight them.

1. Waiting for the Right Time
   When we're on to a project or important task, we just feel that this is not the right moment. Sometimes we feel there are some prerequisites undone. Or sometimes think someone else would stand behind to support.
   
   What to do: Learn there is no time better than NOW. If you want to start a new project, just begin - call your team, draft the process and work. If you want to start a new hobby, buy the tools required, get a teacher or a good book and start off. Don't wait till the next weekend.
2. Fear
   Sometimes we do not do what we must because of the fear of failure. We need some backup and wait for it to appear. Sometimes we just keep on waiting for a guarantee or insurance to appear before we start.
   
   What to do: Fight the fear, and you win. What worst can happen if you fail? At most you'll have to begin again from the start. No, there is no waste of time. An urdu poem said "Why to fear of failure? Even the worst will bring you experience." Edison failed - and we still remember him because he wasn't afraid of failures; he kept on doing for years before success.
3. Indecision
   It always happens when we're ready and excited about doing something that we sit at the table, but suddenly we're stuck and don't know how to proceed. Writers suffer from writers' block. I've seen many who pick up a guitar but don't learn anything more than G, C, D chords. Computer programmers get stuck collecting ideas. This is natural and happens even with the experts. The professionals get some solution, but the rest of us feel discouraged and start losing interest towards the target.
   
   What to do: First and foremost, you must have a mentor or a friend in the same field that can help you find an inspiration. Try best to make planners and prepare a track for your course with a deadline. Plan well. If you're writing a novel, write in your planner that you'll finish the character sketch for the hero on Saturday. On Sunday, you'll write about how the hero meets the girl. Same way, prepare tasks for everyday.

These were the major three causes of procrastination. Learn to fight these and keep such situations from happening. Try not to indulge yourself by sitting idle or doing worthless chores. Keep some time separate for each kind of work you have to do every day and stick to it.

Clay Balls

A man was exploring caves by the Seashore. In one of the caves, he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake.

They didn't look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him. As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could.

He thought little about it, until he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock. Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!

Excited, the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls. Each contained a similar treasure. He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left.

Then it struck him. He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls, with their hidden treasure, into the ocean waves. Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands but he had just thrown it away!

It's like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel. It doesn't look like much from the outside. It isn't always beautiful or sparkling, so we discount it.

We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy. But we have not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person.

There is a treasure in each and every one of us. If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask God to show us that person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth.

Choosing the next CEO

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business.
Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together.

He said, 'It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO.I have decided to choose one of you.”

The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued. 'I am going to give each one of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO.'

One man, named Joe, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed. Every day, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.

Joe kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew.
Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing.
By now, others were talking about their plants, but Joe didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.
Six months went by -- still nothing in Joe's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Joe didn't say anything to his colleagues, however.
He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the seed to grow.

A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection.

Joe told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Joe felt sick to his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot to the board room. When Joe arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful -- in all shapes and sizes. Joe put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!

When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives.
Joe just tried to hide in the back.

'My, what great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown,' said the CEO. 'Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!'
All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Joe at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to the front. Joe was terrified. He thought, 'The CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!'

When Joe got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his seed - Joe told him the story.
The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Joe.

He looked at Joe and then announced to the young executives, 'Behold your next Chief Executive Officer!

His name is Joe!' Joe couldn't believe it. Joe couldn't even grow his seed.
'How could he be the new CEO?' the others said.

Then the CEO said, 'One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead – it was not possible for them to grow.

All of you, except Joe, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Joe was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!'