Destiny's Torture: Celebration Time!

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"Hi Abhijit," a beaming Sandip came on line when I picked up my mobile, and he continued:

After five months of dry spell, today I received a payment. How I survived during this period with no income is another story that I'd love to share with you some other time, but today is celebration time.

I have been working smart for last few months and the result is clealry visible: Confirmed business for next three months, including the current one, is close to what I did for the whole of last year.

Freedom of Expression on Social Media, But Legitimate!

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I think the time has come to add the word 'Legitimate' before 'Freedom of Expression' as being one of the fundamental rights according to the constitution of our country. For that matter, why only India -- it must apply to every democratically run nation.

Social media has empowered every individual on planet earth to express his/her thoughts, ideas and take on every issues with no restrictions as to what is constructive, beneficial to the society and ' LEGITIMATE' Vs what is destructive, harmful to the society and ILLEGITIMATE.

How to 'Stand Out' in the Crowd of Relationship Network!

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Instinctively, all species, including humans, longe for getting noticed by others through a better performance in the specific areas of interest.

Call it achievement or success, the fights are always on to move ahead of others up the ladder of social hierarchy in terms of recognition by the masses and subsequent acceptance as better than the rest.

The Dark (K)Night Rises! Where is the Batman?

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I am neither a writer nor a political observer, but what I have been watching for more than a year really sadden me beyond my capacity to recover completely.

The sudden demise of a great mass movement against corruption, in view of personal ambitions taking over the selfless desire to fight for a genuine cause, is perhaps one of most unfortunate incidents that I have observed in my life so far.

Power of Relationship: How My Dad Achieved the Impossible

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It was truly an amazing incident that happened more than 2 decades ago: My Father, who was terminally ill with no chance of survival, recovered completely.

How it happened was perhaps more amazing: On the advice of her religious Guru, my Mother decided to give up on her most favorite fruit forever.

Never Be Indecisive in Any Situation

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Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. # Tony Robbins

Reading Donald Trump's 'Think Big' would give you a clear idea about how ruthless is the world you live in, and what you should do to cultivate a mix of situation-specific ruthlessness and humility in decision-making for living an accomplished life.

Through-out your life, you must read the situations correctly and decide your stand eitherway: Ruthless or humble. Right approach would work it out in your favor and the wrong one would spoil it.

How to Land Your Dream Job: Befriend the Best Recruiters!

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Quite often the job seekers ask me about successfully creating a job information network.

They are keen to develop some professional relationships that would keep them informed about the availability of latest relevant opportunities in the market much ahead of others.

Flush out the Germs of Insensitivity from Your Life Ecosystem!

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There must be at least one decisive reason: Why everyone doesn't become successful; why everyone doesn't become rich and famous; why everyone doesn't become popular.

So, what's that reason? Well, I think, it's lack of sensitivity in relationship management!

Wait for the Arrival of A Life Changing Dawn of Success!

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When nothing goes right in your life, you'd notice unbelievable things happening: Dense black clouds of continuous failure, that you could never even dream of experiencing, would surround you from all direction, forcing you surrender to your helplessness and finally give up.

With every passing day, the clouds of failure will become more and more dense and menacingly black, reducing your visibility and mobility to zero. Most of us succumb to destiny's brutal torture at this point of time, but you shouldn't.

Think Big, and Work Hard to Achieve It

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Not all saints are recognized by the world as achievers. It's a different issue that most of them are not actually running for it.

However, common people like you and me, who're yet to achieve the sainthood, do work hard to filter through the mesh of obstacles that holds the failures back from bursting into the realm of success. We want to make it big, really big, in life.

Destiny's Torture: The Lost World of Happiness!

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Having gone through an amazingly successful period of life for little less than a decade, and then embracing an equally devastating period of failure for more than 3 years by now, I think, that, I have realized what can make humans happy in life.

I'm a common man with an average intelligence level, hence, I may be wrong while saying: Happiness is derived out of a feeling of nothingness, when you have no assets or liabilities to manage but your own spiritual self!

Master the Art of Recognition!

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While talking to their sons over telephone, they would never fail to get all family members on line and inquire about their well-being. That would include, one of their grandchildren who was just 3 years old at that time.

Well, I'm highlighting an astonishing attitude of an elderly couple whom I had observed a few times -- talking to their near and dear ones.

The Power of 'Failing to Fail'

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I'm sure, more often than not, you find yourself in a situation when all your sincere efforts to accomplish a goal produce no results. Frustrated, you wonder, what the hell is wrong with you and your mission and, ultimately, feel like giving up.

Yes, giving up is the easiest way to come back within your comfort zone, blaming destiny for aborting your life mission. All of us have gone through similar situations in life, and we know how difficult it is - not to give up.

But never forget, success is not only about performing against all odds but sustaining the mission when luck is deadly against you. If you can survive the worst time, in terms of sticking to your objective, sooner or later the situation will turn in favor and then you must go all out to make it happen.

Smart-Work: How to be A Little More Happy!

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I don't know a single person who hasn't asked himself, at some point in time, about not getting enough return against his hard-work: Job, business or even in relationships, we feel that we are putting in our best effort to make it work, but the corresponding returns, in our opinion, are always much lower than our expectations.

Why it happens? Obviously, something goes wrong that we have no clue about. The mismatch between our effort and corresponding return is perhaps the main cause of unhappiness in every field of life. Can we do something to reduce the gap between the two? Yes we can, and by taking the following steps:

You're Born Extra-ordinary!

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“Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.” – Douglas Adams

You're already an extra-ordinary person, because you're born extra-ordinary. But, unfortunately, you don't realize this fact and do nothing to take its advantage.

You can do wonders, but don't believe so; you're capable of making it big in life, however, you never believe in self; you are the reflection of your thought processes, but you never think that you're extra-ordinary.

Why You Must Live in the Moment

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The world is ruthless! It neither remember your past achievements, nor go by future predictions. For the world, you're, what you stand today. If your past achievements don't carry forward any tangible benefits, you're conveniently forgotten and ignored as intangible liability.

If you're a crest-fallen professional, you're completely forgotten as if you had never existed. If you're hugely successful today, the world don't remember what your past was. You're always assessed on the basis of your current standing in social hierarchy.

Likings Never Die!

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When you start liking someone, do you ever try to find out the reason behind: Why you like that person? No, you don't. Because, liking is the manifestation of a unique shade of your emotional existence and it doesn't follow a definite criteria.

Well, over a period of time, through mutual interactions, you may find that person to be quite different than what you initially thought about. Still, in all probability, you continue with your liking, because, frankly speaking, you don't know why you do so.

The degree of liking or emotional attachment that you develop with that person is mostly determined by your initial assessment of his/her personality and, in most of the cases, it doesn't undergo any major change even if things go wrong in course of time.

Be Open in Every Life Transaction

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'If you have a good intention, sooner or later you'd become successful in life.' Said one of my creditors, whose money I returned a month after the due date but, during that period, never failed to return his call whenever he gave me a tinkle.

The fact that I didn't avoid him, even though I was unable to honor my commitment, was what inspired him to make this statement. My frank admission of the inability to stick to my words, for some compelling reasons though, happened to impress him a bit.

Destiny's Torture: God's Agent on Planet Earth!

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Sandip has always tried to live, more for others than for himself. However, in that process, while trying to keep others happy, he, perhaps, even surrendered his own legitimate claims on a minimum happiness that humans need to remain emotionally alive.

It is true that he is physically alive but I could clearly make out that, emotionally he is almost dead. Because, he has donated his own share of happiness to his near and dear ones.

Well, he belongs to a rare breed of people who value others' happiness more than their own. They just give away, everything, and unconditionally, without any expectations of returns whatsoever.

True Friends Are Forever!

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Nothing really matters in life than a positive response to a call made in distress to an old friend, whom you haven't met for more than a decade.

I don't know about your experience, but, in last few years, all the calls I made to my old friends - trust me, I must have made quite a few - were answered positively with genuine concern, making me realize that I'm not that unsuccessful in building and maintaining a few long term relationship.

No Fear, No Regret, Live Life King-Size!

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My life is an open book, is what I believe in and follow too. What's wrong with it, as long as my self-respect remains intact?

Crying over the mistakes and smiling through the success are what make me comfortable, and I don't find anything wrong in sharing those moments with a few thousand.

Destiny's Torture: Giving Up is Never An Option!

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After a long tine Sandip called up, and the gist of what he told me is as follows:

After a long time Sandip called up, and the gist of what he told me is as follows:

There was a time, when I used think that the success I had achieved would remain with me, and forever; nothing could take it away. But, I was wrong!

Today, while struggling to rebuild my business from ground level, I have realized that being complacent with my achievement was the biggest mistake of my life and I have no option but to pay the price.

Success: Being in the Spotlight?

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What is meant by success? Is there an universal definition of success? Can we pin point, yes, reaching that particular milestone is called success?

For an animal, primary success is all about being alive: For a predator, success means achieving the daunting task of killing her prey for the next meal; for a prey, success is the manifestation of her ability to stay away from those killers on daily basis.

Talent Management: Why is HR Failing to be Proactive?

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Hey Recruiter, you must know that your priority will never match that of your clients; however, if something goes wrong, you would be held responsible for what you have no idea about.

That's what, is, perhaps the darker side of an amazing - love and hate - relationship between a recruiter and her clients.

Is Luck Factor, Only A Myth?

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Some people, who are the normal delivery of FORTUNE, proudly decline the role that luck must have played in shaping up their destiny.

They claim that, it's their hard work and a perfect planning that have contributed to making it happen in life.

They may be right, or wrong. But, I must ask my readers:

1. Is it only our efforts and and planning - independent of luck - that make us successful in life?

2. Doesn't luck play any role in making it happen in life?

3. Is luck factor, only a myth and has no practical relevance?

4. Can we produce the best results through hard-work and dedication, even if the luck is deadly against us?

Please share your own life experience in that regard - not just theoretical assumptions and hypocritical demonstrations - and make a clean statement either in favor or against.

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