What is Excellence?

A gentleman was once visiting a temple under construction.

In the temple premises, he saw a sculptor making an idol of God.

Suddenly he saw, just a few meters away, another identical idol was lying.

Surprised he asked the sculptor, do you need two statutes of the same idol.  

No said the sculptor. We need only one,

but the first one got damaged at the last stage.

The gentleman examined the sculptor.  

No apparent damage was visible.  

Where the damage is asked the gentleman.  

There is a scratch on the nose of the idol.

Where are you going to keep the idol?  

The sculptor replied that it will be installed on a pillar 20 feet high.

When the idol will be 20 feet away from the eyes of the beholder,

who is going to know that there is scratch on the nose? The gentleman asked.

The sculptor looked at the gentleman, smiled and said,

"The God knows it and I know it ".

The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone

appreciates it or not.

Excellence is a drive from Inside not Outside.

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Believe in Yourself

If You Try...

The next time you think you don't
measure up or that you can't do it,
remember:

Albert Einstein's parents and teachers
thought he was retarded.

He couldn't speak until he was 9-years old.

He couldn't tie his shoes.

A teacher in Munich wrote in his school report, 
'You will never amount to very much.'

This just goes to show that no one is perfect,
and that you can go far if you try.

The key is believing in yourself
even when others don't believe in you.

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Money, Relatives or Good Deeds

In one of the Kingdoms, there lived a person named John who had committed few petty crimes, for which the King summoned him to his court for trial. John was very much worried & fearful and hence he wanted somebody to accompany him to the court and hence he approached three of his close associates / friends.

The First friend refused fearing any consequences which can be enforced on him; John disgusted with his reply approached his second friend.

The Second friend with a little bit of hesitation accepted that he will come with him till the entrance of the court only. John declined his support since he thought that, what use will his friend be if he is coming only till the entrance which will no way help him and hence approached his Third friend.

Third friend without any hesitation accepted his request and accompanied him not only till the court but also spoke in support of his friend John & freed him from the clutches of the Kings Trial.

The moral:

The first friend is your MONEY, which means to say that he will not support you or come with you till your end

The Second friend is our RELATIVES - they too cannot help in full but they may max accompany us till the burial ground.

The Third friend is our GOOD DEEDS which will accompany us till the end and there after it will further release us from all sorts of problems / bondages of life cycles also.

HENCE PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT MONEY / WEALTH, RELATIVES HAVE THEIR OWN LIMITATIONS.

So Let's all begin the cycle of GOOD DEEDS to one another selflessly, so that we get released from the cycle of Birth and Death & gain entry easily in Heaven after this life.

Let us all rise above our fights & squabbles and take the mighty plunge into good deeds.

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Horse and a donkey

Once upon a time there were two cart-horses. They worked together for many years, pulling the cart of a peasant. Over the years, they often argued with each other, complaining that the other was not keeping to its side, or was going just a little too quickly or just a little too slow. 

One day, one of the two horses suddenly died. 

The remaining horse was very upset about this. 

It realized that in all the time that they had worked together, it had not once told the other horse how much it valued its company and its faithful help in pulling the cart. Now the chance was gone forever. 

The horse also reflected on all the squabbles they had had. It suddenly understood that it need not have taken offence as easily as it had done, that it need not have borne as many grudges, that it could have been less arrogant, in short, it realized that it had wasted all the energy that had been available for friendship and kindness on unworthy and unnecessary thoughts and emotions. 

The horse was ashamed and resolved to lead a different life in future. Whoever its new partner was going to be, things were going to be different. 

But time passed, and the horse forgot. One day, it caught itself in exactly the same kind of behavior that it had sworn never to engage in again. 

The horse could not understand why it had returned to its old ways. 

That evening, in the stable, the horse decided to seek out the peasant's donkey, which had a reputation for wisdom among the animals. 

The donkey listened to the horse's story. Eventually, it replied. "It is good that you have noticed what has happened. If you truly want to change, this is possible; but it will, for a long time, cost you your peace of mind. Are you prepared to accept this?" 

The horse replied that it definitely did not want to return to its old ways. Anything was better than that. 

So the donkey continued, "There is one very simple, and at the same time very hard thing that you have to do. Remember every day that one day, perhaps today, perhaps many years from now, you will die. 

Remember every day that the horse next to you will die. 

Remember every day that every other creature you will see, will one day die. 

Remember that all animals alive today are part of a wave, which will soon break and be lost on the beach forever, to be followed by a new wave, and another, and another. 

No wave is permanent. The only thing that is permanent is the ocean." 

There were tears in the horse's eyes. 

The donkey continued, "Only if you remember death will you become strong-willed and alert enough not to postpone love. This is my advice to you, and in following it, perhaps one day you may come to know that which is deathless." 

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Human Mind Power

There was a man who worked for the railroad. One day as he went into the freezer compartment to do his routine work, the door accidentally closed and he found himself trapped in the compartment.

He shouted for help but no one heard him since it was past midnight. He tried to break down the door but he could not. As he lay in the freezer compartment, he began to feel colder, and colder. Then he began to feel weaker, and weaker, and he wrote on the wall of the compartment, "I am feeling colder, and colder; and I am getting weaker, and weaker. I am dying, and this may be my last words".

In the morning when the other workers opened up the compartment they found him dead. The sad twist to the above story is that the freezing apparatus in the compartment had broke down a few days earlier.

The poor worker did not know about the damaged freezing apparatus and in his mind the freezing apparatus was working perfectly. He felt cold, got weaker and literally willed himself to die.

SUCCESS PRINCIPLES

Our sub-conscious mind can be cheated. The sub-conscious mind can only accept and act on information passed to it by the conscious mind. It has no capacity to reject or decline or authenticate any instructions or information passed to it by the conscious mind. In the case of the poor worker, he consciously thought that he was getting colder, weaker and dying and the sub-conscious mind accepted the above instructions and affected his physical body. That was how he willed himself to die.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."

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The secret of Red Shirt and Brown pants

Long ago, when sailing ships ruled the waves, a captain and his crew were 
in danger of being boarded by a pirate ship. As the crew became frantic, 
the captain bellowed to his First Mate, "Bring me my red shirt!" The First 
Mate quickly retrieved the captain's red shirt, which the captain put on 
and led the crew to battle the pirate boarding party. Although some 
casualties occurred among the crew, the pirates were repelled.

Later that day, the lookout screamed that there were two pirate vessels 
sending boarding parties. The crew cowered in fear, but the captain,
calm as ever bellowed, "Bring me my red shirt!" And once again the battle 
was on, however, the Captain and his crew repelled both boarding parties, 
although this time more casualties occurred.

Weary from the battles, the men sat around on deck that night recounting 
the day's occurrences when an ensign looked to the Captain and asked, "Sir, 
why did you call for your red shirt before the battle?"

The Captain, giving the ensign a look that only a captain can give, 
exhorted, "If I am wounded in battle, the red shirt does not show the wound 
and thus, you men will continue to fight unafraid." The men sat in silence 
marveling at the courage of such a man.

As dawn came the next morning, the lookout screamed that there were pirate 
ships, 10 of them, all with boarding parties on their way. The men became 
silent and looked to the Captain, their leader, for his usual command. The 
Captain, calm as ever, bellowed, "Bring me my brown pants".

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Give someone 5 minutes of your life

While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground.

"That's my son over there," she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.

"He's a fine looking boy" the man said. "That's my daughter on the bike in the white dress."

Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter. "What do you say we go, Melissa?"

Melissa pleaded, "Just five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes."

The man nodded and Melissa continued to ride her bike to her heart's content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter. "Time to go now?"

Again Melissa pleaded, "Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes."

The man smiled and said, "OK."

"My, you certainly are a patient father," the woman responded.

The man smiled and then said, "Her older brother Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I'd give anything for just five more minutes with him. I've vowed not to make the same mistake with Melissa.

She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get Five more minutes to watch her play."

Life is all about making priorities, what are your priorities?
Give someone you love 5 more minutes of your time today!

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What is Positive Attitude?

Story…

One of the most wonderful things about having a positive attitude is
the number of people it touches, many times in ways you'll never know.

Recently, I stopped by a convenience store to get a newspaper and a
pack of gum. The young woman at the checkout counter said, "That'll be
five dollars please" and as I reached into my wallet, the thought
occurred to me that a newspaper and gum didn't quite make it to five
dollars. When I looked up to get a "re-quote", she had a big smile on
her face and said, "Gotcha! I got to get my tip in there somehow!" I
laughed when I knew I'd been had. She then glanced down at the paper I
was buying and said, "I'm sick and tired of all this negative stuff on
the front pages. I want to read some good news for a change." She then
said, "In fact, I think someone should just publish a Good News
newspaper - a paper with wonderful, inspirational stories about people
overcoming adversity and doing good things for others. I'd buy one
every day!" She then thanked me for coming in and said, "Maybe we'll
get lucky tomorrow; maybe we'll get some good news" and she laughed.
She made my day.

The following day after my business appointments, I dropped by the same
store again to pick up bottled water, but a different young lady was
behind the counter. As I checked out I said, "Good afternoon" and
handed her my money for the water. She said nothing – not a word, not a
smile...nothing. She just handed me my change and in a negative tone,
ordered..."Next! "
It hit me right between the eyes: Two people, same age; one made me
feel great, and the other, well, made me feel that I had inconvenienced
her by showing up.
By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing
lives every day in positive or negative ways.....our family, our peers,
our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never
meet again.

So when you brush your teeth every morning, and get ready for work, ask
yourself this important question, "Who do I want to be today?" "The
Grouch" or "The Good News Girl?" Your answer will go a long way toward
determining your success in business and in life. [Please forward this mail to

as many people as you can, it touched your life, now let it touch someone else’s.]

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Live Life to the fullest

Please do read this ... do not be too busy Earning a Living and in the process Forget to Live.  Here is a hair-raising story, which shows the importance of Time Management and understanding what Life and Priorities are all about.

Trust you will enjoy the read and start Living each day.. each moment...!!!

A friend of mine opened his wife's saree drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:

"This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package." He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.

"She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion.
Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:

"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".

I still think those words changed my life.

Now I read more and clean less. 

I sit on the porch without worrying about anything. 

I spend more time with my family, and less at work. 

I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. 

I no longer keep anything. 

I use crystal glasses every day. 

I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it.

I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to. 

The words "Someday..." and "One Day..." are fading away from my dictionary. 

If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now. 

I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.

She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. 

I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food. 

It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come. 

I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters... letters that i wanted to write "One of these days".

I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at least, how much I love them.

Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives.

And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day.

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.

If you got this, it's because someone cares for you and because, probably, there's someone you care about.

If you're too busy to send this out to other people and you say to yourself that you will send it "One of these days", remember that 

"One day" is far away... or might never come...

Live everyday .. every moment as if it is your last day... last moment....!! !!

Who GOD uses?

God, grant me the Serenity

to accept the people I cannot change,

the Courage to change the one I can,

and the Wisdom to know it's me.

The next time you feel like GOD can't use you,

just remember...

Noah was a drunk
Abraham was too old
Isaac was a daydreamer
Jacob was a liar
Leah was ugly
Joseph was abused
Moses had a stuttering problem
Gideon was afraid
Samson had long hair and was a womanizer
Rahab was a prostitute
Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
David had an affair and was a murderer
Elijah was suicidal
Isaiah preached naked
Jonah ran from God
Naomi was a widow
Job went bankrupt
John the Baptist ate bugs
Peter denied Christ
The Disciples fell asleep while praying !

Martha worried about everything
The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once
Zaccheus was too small
Paul was too religious
Timothy had an ulcer...AND  
Lazarus was dead!

No more excuses now.

God can use you to your full potential.

Besides you aren't the message,

you are just the messenger.

1. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
2. Dear God, I have a problem, it's me.
3. Growing old is inevitable . growing UP is optional.
4. There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
5. Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.
6. Do the math. count your blessings.
7. Faith is the ability to not panic.
8. Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging.
9. If you worry, you didn't pray. If you pray, don't worry.
10. As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home everyday.
11. Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.
12. The most important things in your house are the people.
13. When we get tangled up in our problems, be still. God wants us to be still so He can untangle the knot.
14. A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.
15. He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

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Wise thoughts to start the day with....

The greatest handicap - Fear

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The best day - Today

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Hardest thing to do - To begin

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Easiest thing to do - Finding faults

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Most useless asset - Pride

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Most useful asset - Humility

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Most disagreeable person - The complainer

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Great need - Common sense

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Meanest feeling - Regret at another's success

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Best gift - Forgiveness

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The hardest & most painful to accept - Defeat

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The greatest knowledge - Experience 

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The greatest thing - LOVE

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The greatest success in the world - PEACE OF MIND

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Until next time, make it a blessed day,

Make this day good

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Pearls of Wisdom

Look back to where you have been...
For a clue to where you are going.

Worry enough to anticipate trouble...
But not so much as to bring it about.

Melt the icy fingers of fear...
With the sunshine of hope.

Step by gentle step...
You can overcome the greatest sorrow.

The sweetest grapes...
Are picked from the vineyard of friendship.

Gossip is like a river...
It can always be traced back to its source.

An insecure person...
Will soak up flattery like a sponge.

Save the life of a helpless animal...
And you have done the work of God.

A mirror is only as good...
As the reflection in it.

Find something you truly believe in...
And everything else will have meaning as well.

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