Nature has indeed bestowed its blessings in every creation of it but it has been really kind a bit more to one of its most beautiful creation,mankind.The ability to think is its greatest gift to us!But do we really value this gift and respect its true worth.

Why stay mediocre by not then using our abilities to their complete potential?We all do certainly possess many hidden treasures in us.All we need to do is to find them and bring them to the surface.

Think of it this way,a car full of petrol can never be driven with speed unless you use the accelerator properly.In the very same fashion there is no use of having a bicycle with gears if you don’t bring them to use. Life can then be really compared to a potter shaping the clay in any form he wants.Similarly we too can mould our lives into any shape we want.But then here we again have to make a choice to go uphill or downhill.

It so happens that sometimes circumstances may not be in our favour.Some things are beyond control but what can we then still do is to choose our attitude even though we cannot always choose our circumstances.

So do use your million dollar buried treasure and change your outlook towards life.You have the recipe to claim success but to use it is then again your choice….

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Why is that to get a diamond we have to dig deeper than any other gemstone?Why are we to do a lot of effort to take out the buried treasure?

You definitely need to dig deeper to be able to become a seeker of good!You need to focus on the positive in your life.

It is again not to deny the fact that looking for the good in whatever there is means overlooking follies and mistakes.

It really does happen that there is something positive in every person and situation.It is just about digging deeper!

It so happened that while getting my brother’s homework complete I discovered a great law of human action.We had to find out what was missing in one picture while comparing it to the other one.(For homework’s sake it is completely ok :).But incorporating this very great law would certainly change the way we live.Why can’t we just admire both the pictures for whatever each of them portrayed.Why can’t we admire them both equally!The picture with some of the missing aspects if looked in the positive light with indeed a deeper analysis of it would for sure have amazed us.But this is not the case with us.

We tend to find faults with things and so with people and situations as well!What are we actually looking for?Again this does not mean that by digging deeper we should necessarily look at the sunny side of everything .But atleast we by doing this can make an effort to judge things not by them being at their apparent level but instead to find the true picture or the underlying reality of all situations!

So dig deeper and start looking for what is right in a person or situation instead of looking for what is wrong.Remember also to see the doughnut and not the hole…..

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A word having the perfect capacity to terrorise a whole lot of us and indeed it is true that we ought to be terrorized by the word which is absolutely not at all our fault too.In other words since childhood we form attitudes that last a lifetime.

Conditioning is the keyword here!We have been nurtured in an atmosphere that restricts anything outside that prescribed atmosphere to become a part of our very own lifestyles.The important point here to note is even that life can never revolve on the axis of certainty.

Indeed it is so very true as well that something not happening to the inbuilt certainty mechanism within us makes us feel uncomfortable.

Lets start from the basics …We can’t have the same food everyday,we can’t wear the same outfits daily .Can we?The main point here is that we can’t lead a life of utter monotony.We do need a break from our work or for that matter even for the aspects mentioned above.

Why can’t we apply the same logic to our lives as well.Why can’t we step out of the cocooned lives we live.

Do eat Italian food even if you love Chinese,go for America even if you love Australia.

Fill your life with more adventure and thrill…Yes indeed it is a big,interesting world out there only if you have the guts to venture out in the sea and yes that can surely happen only if you are willing to lose sight of the shore.

So live your life as you want it to be.Don’t go with the flow

Change for your better and enjoy the things that then would unfold….

So Fill your days with colour.Try new things .Make it big.

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Seize today as if there would be no tomorrow.

Life does scream by very fast.Why wait to have a good time with your old school friends when you can do it now.Why wait to have a gala time with your family on a special occasion when you can do it now.Why Wait?Why wait for a mother’s day to shower your mother with all your love and affection,  do it now.In other words make each moment count and make it a special one.So do it all now.

Consider a person who after finishing college says that he would be happy once he gets a job.He again says so, that he’ll be happier if he finds a suitable life partner and hence is settled.Indeed the very person would be the happiest when he has kids and once they get out of school and he retires  his happiness would increase manifold.What does such a person see? Yes his life has just gone by in front of his eyes!!!

So stop procrastinating and learn to live in the moment.

It so much does happen with us too!We all need to stop the habit of procrastination.

Also it must be noted that my point is not to say that we should stop planning or for that matter analyzing things to be done in the long run.It is just that we should stop delaying things.

So do plan, be strategic,prepare things for your future but also always do remember to maintain the balance between just waiting and pondering over things than executing them too!The message is to utilise the present to the fullest and if we do so then we are definitely sowing seeds for a great future ahead…

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Just saw a fight.Yes parking issues indeed!I so much call it a fight because these days our very lives are governed by this phenomena.

Why can’t we just understand each other and live in harmony.The person who had parked his car outside my neighbour’s gate had come only to meet his ailing mother- in- law.My neighbour having no courtesy started shouting and gathered a lot of people who were mere spectators to all that was happening!This can be agreed that it was his parking area and the visitor could have parked the car somewhere else too!But why can’t we resolve issues at peace.Why can’t we show that little humanity that exists in us today.In other words why have we become so inhumane?

Right from the time our day starts till the time we are in bed,we are in constant stress.

We today have totally lost our innocence.An infant because of being totally unbiased or clever or for that matter having other such traits is loved by everyone.Why cant we be like that ?Why are we so enmeshed in such a cobweb which only exudes negativity?

Its very seldom in the current time to find people who don’t harbour grudges against each other.We today have become so intolerable.Now it has become the order of the day to make any trivial issue a much talked about thing.

Forgiveness is also another such thing which has ceased to exist .It should be understood that forgiveness along with giving relief to the person who has wronged us,to a greater extent relieves us too.Infact the grave issue or the problem is that we today find it very difficult to forgive.

So learn to forgive as well as to seek forgiveness as all this would certainly help you be at peace and to be calm as well.Also give as much you can to others as giving does begin the receiving process:)

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Intensity.What a beautiful word indeed!When you go for an interview be so confident that they can’t reject you, when you study for your examinations be so prepared that nothing can fail you, when you play a match be so good that they can’t beat you.Yes have the just do it spirit.

Take risks.Take the road not taken.Go unconventional.I say this because had JK Rowling lost hope for the publishing of harry potter after being rejected by umpteen publishers Harry Potter wouldn’t have been there,had Sachin Tendulkar not played his innings as if there were no tomorrow he would not have achieved such world class records,had Dhirubhai Ambani not left his normal lifestyle and never thought of making it big Reliance would then have been just a dream and that is the stuff visionaries are made of!They go crazy…

Its not in any normal ride that you experience the thrill when in a roller coaster.

It can also not be denied that balance and stability in life are not required. Infact these are the crucial aspects on which the ability to take risks also rests.So do it all with passion and courage.Play it big…  and as it is said that if you aim of reaching the moon you will definitely fall among the stars.

Don’t live a life in which you don’t have a window to peep out and aim for something.Its just as they say like the concept of action and reaction .You play big ,you get big and even if you don’t you considerably fare well atleast.

My point here is not now to negate the concept of being humble or staying grounded but so to fly high by still retaining these traits.

Success also does not come easy.It requires intensity too.The beautiful metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly requires intensity.Iron cannot be melted when cool and so can be moulded only when red hot. Infact everything that is to be achieved require a burning desire to gain it.

Remember when you want success as intensely as you want air to breathe then you will have it!There is no other secret.

So do it all with intensity as all the great ones do!

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Stretching a rubber band beyond its elasticity or for that matter even filling air in a balloon beyond its normal expansion leads to the breakdown of the rubber band or the bursting of the balloon respectively.
Have you ever wondered as to why this happens?Having the best of everything in life is good but having it at the cost of not having that curl of the lip is not acceptable.
We all aim to reach that level of success in life beyond which no more growth is possible.But does that give you true happiness.To an extent you may get temporal joys but would that guarantee your faring in life as to be absolutely perfect!
The simple phenomena of dissolving sugar into water beyond its saturation level leaves the surplus sugar at the bottom.So is with us, the moment we start to over exert ourselves so much so that everything seems to be entangled and life becomes a struggle then!Things just start getting more and more complex.
Then why make it a struggle instead make it a ride and enjoy the goosebumps this very ride gives you.So why make our lives mere cobwebs.
All of us have different aims and aspirations in our lives but does it all boil down to the fact that we stretch ourselves so much so that it ultimately leads to our collapse or downfall.Now the point that we should put a hault to working hard is not meant here.Instead we should always think about this the other way.
Also the fact that then are short cuts the solution to this.Not at all.Life is all about balance.The minute you disturb its equilibrium you are lost.The fact to be paid heed to here is that don’t take things for granted.Work and even work hard but just don’t let this turn into something that disturbs your peace of mind.Nothing has ever been achieved in ideal conditions in life.Everything has ever been achieved in adverse conditions. But remember that beauty lies in that equal ease of working in those adverse conditions as well very smoothly.
So stop ‘SURVIVING’ under ever mounting pressure and start ‘LIVING’!

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While having a walk with one of my friends last evening I started pondering over the question are there really any mistakes in life?.Now what provoked me to come to such a conclusion was my friends situation.She really regretted the things that happened with her the day before.She messed up her exam while having studied all the concepts very thoroughly,had a scolding from her mother for having a fight with her sister over a very petty issue.All this certainly proves that these were some experiences that  spoilt her day.But this brings me to yet another question that was she really responsible for all this and had she really made a mistake.Nobody of us would think deliberately to answer some of the questions in the exam wrong or to have a fight with somebody.Every one of us wakes up in the morning,walks out in the world and does the best we can do. I would not call all such things mistakes but rather experiences which help us to grow,enrich ourselves.Probably as I told my friend her not having a good exam taught her to be even more thorough the next time and also she got a lesson as to not to indulge into arguments and fights.Now such experiences only enhance us.Again I do not dismiss the fact that if we do not learn from our experiences we are inviting the things which hamper our growth to yet again lead us to despair and dejection.If we do not learn from what we have already gone through we are very much digging our own graves. Also to brood over something that has gone wrong is not the solution.Rather we should move on while learning something from it.

So may be there are actually no mistakes.Many of us live in the past than loving the present.So as they say its better to light a candle than curse the darkness .Some people do stay stuck for years over something they did.Coming to a hault while having done something wrong which wasn’t a deliberate attempt is not done.So do remember it is human nature to make errors and also to learn from them.At times pain does actually serve as well.Each day life sends you chances to learn,grow and step into your best .The person who experiences the most wins.So to learn and move on or to regret is a choice!!!

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Life today has become very mechanical.Everybody is in a mad rush to climb the ladder of success.This has then added a new dimension to our life which is stress.We become stressed for every trivial issue.Everyone wants to race agaist time.Indeed it is good.Progress in life is really important but it being there at the cost of increased stress ruins the rosy picture.

I am not at all bringing to light the fact that we should just take a backseat and relax.Ultimately life without hardwork holds no meaning.Shortcut here is not at all the solution .Sometimes it so happens that a person has put in a lot of effort to do something but still he does not accomplish what he wants.Another instance could be at times a person who has worked but has done effective hardwork achieves his target.So ‘efficiency’ here is the keyword

Consider there are two wood cutters one is able to chop off 20 trees in a day,the other is able to chop off 40 trees within the same span of time.Now what bewildered the first wood cutter was the fact that how could his friend do double the amount of work that he was able to do while putting in his best efforts.After observing the other the first one realized that after chopping every tree he would take a break and then sharpen his axe. This gave him an edge over his counterpart.

This again brings me to a very important aspect that we all have  potential within us to do something but how to bring it into execution is where the real challenge lies and nothing but chiseling and honing our latent talents can help us and this definitely cannot be done without smart work.

So is life my dear friends its not just about working but instead it is about working efficiently and smartly.So worry less and do more.Take a break.Also do ponder over the point that when was the last time you sharpened your axe?

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What would be a more better way to give a kick start to this article than by not mentioning my own very recent experience.I just had a perfect day .Yes truly indeed!!!.My day started with the missing of a function at my alma mater which I was very eager to attend.I was all by myself at home but with my grandmother.I tried on to catch up onto my friends but again this didn’t work out owing to their prior commitments.This accepted .

So then me and my granny decided to go out for a lunch at a nearby restaurant.But just  as we stepped outside of our house it started raining heavily.All these events taken into account prove to be paradoxical to what could have made my day a perfect one .But it is then very much true too that had these happenings not taken place my day would have not been what it turned out to be.Had I visited my school it would have been a wonderful experience but then  looking at the other side of it I wouldn’t have got time to spend with my granny.Had my friends turned up at my place we coudn’t have made plans for a lunch out.Also if it had not rained I wount have not got the chance to have steaming hot pakoras with my granny while watching the beautiful spectrum of the rain and getting drenched in it.Sometimes you just don’t need to regret at all.I don’t dismiss the fact that the my presence at my school function or having my friends at my place or for that matter even lunch with my granny would have been just the perfect things to happen but then the moments I shared with my granny ,my being at home,watching the beautiful rainbow and having a gala time with her all that for sure takes over all the other things that could simply have been a treat for me.Sometimes you really don’t need to work hard for all this.Let it just all roll by and see the results unfold.Sometimes you do need to keep it simple . At times its just not about how you want to work something out,it is very important to just let things work out for themselves too.Maybe things won’t fall into their proper places then but  it is in this very ambiguity that the real flavour of life lies.It so very often happens that the best things in life are right in front of you ,you only need to make time to look for them.Time does scream by very fast and in today’s scenario life just has become too mechanised and we all have been so much absorbed into such a routines of ours that we need some space of our own too and remember for that to happen you need the right perspective.Conditions may or may not be according to your own whims and fancies but how you cater to make the most of them solely and entirely depends upon your outlook.So from now on just jump on to that roller coaster ride of yours and live each moment to its best.Laugh and have fun and then see for how you get trapped in the magic of life.Once you let go of what you thought is just ideal or perfect,space is created for something even better to arrive.Hoping that you will definitely enjoy the ride.So stop trying too hard and live in the moment.Also be fearless to ask yourself this question-Do I brood over things or just move on for the better?

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