Great Thoughts

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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is bliss, taste it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.

Mother Teresa

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Jeremy Collier

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Marquis de Condorcet

Age is a matter of feeling not of years.

Some of Great Motivational Quotes and SMS

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A psychological feature and an internal process Motivation, like intelligence, is what cause us to act towards a desired Goal.

Here is a collection of some of Great motivational SMS and Quotes. 
 
You can have anything you want, 
If you want it badly enough. 
You can be anything you want to be, 
Do anything you set out to accomplish if you 
Hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham Lincoln 
 *** 

Finish each day and be done with it. 
You have done what you could; 
Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; 
Forget them as soon as you can. 
Tomorrow is a new day; 
You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit 
To be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 *** 

In The chase between cat & Mouse, 
The Mouse Mostly Wins bcoz 
The cat Is Running 4 Its Food & Mouse For Its Life 
Purpose Is More Important Than Need! 
 *** 

As far as u think 'NOT NOW', 
Succes bcoms 'NEVER'..But as soon as 
U think 'WHY NOT NOW', Success surely will become 'YOURS'.! 
 *** 

Proverb: WHERE THERE IS LIFE THERE IS HOPE. 
Means: You can never give up hope in life. 
Things may move from bad to worse 
But you never know 
When an opportunity may be 
Waiting for you around the corner. 
 ***

7 Habits

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Get in the Habit

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Effective Teenagers

7 Habits for effective Teenagers

Habit 1   Be Proactive

               Take responsibility for your life

Habit 2    Begin with end in mind

               Define your mission and goals in life

Habit 3   Put first things first

               Prioritize and do the most important things first

Habit 4   Think win-win

               Have an everyone-can-win attitude

Habit 5   Seek first to understand, then to be understood

               Listen to people sincerely

Habit 6   Synergize

               Work together to achieve more

Habit 7   Sharpen the Saw

               Renew yourself regularly

7 Habits of defective Teenagers

Habit 1   React

               Take no responsibility. Blame your problem on your parents, teachers and friends

Habit 2   Begin with no end in mind.

    Don’t plan. Never think about tomorrow.

Habit 3   Put first things last

Habit 4    Think win-lose

                Don’t let anyone else succeed at anything because, remember, if they win, you lose

Habit 5    Seek first to talk, then pretend to listen

Habit 6    Don’t Cooperate

                Be yours own islands

Habits 7   Wear yourself out

                 Be so busy with life that you never take time to renew or improve yourself

Some habits are good, such as

·         Exercising Regularly

·         Planning ahead

·         Sharing respect for others

Some are bad, like

·         Thinking negatively

·         Feeling inferior

·         Blaming others

Some don’t really matters, including

·         Taking showers at night

·         Eating yogurt with a fork

·         Reading magazines from back to front

7 Habits can help you

1.      Get control of your life.

2.      Improve your relationship with your friends

3.      Make smaller decisions

4.      Get along with your parents

5.      Overcome addictions

6.      Define your values and what matters most to you

7.      Get more done in less time

8.      Increase your self-confidence

9.      Be happy

10.  Find balance between school, work, friends and everything else

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life has in general it’s like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription.

E.g. If you believe you are stupid, that very belief will make you stupid.

Paradigms of Self

I can’t do                                                                    I can do

Paradigms of others

To make big changes in our lives, the key is to change our paradigms, or the glasses through which we see the world.

Paradigms of Life

·         Friends centered

·         Stuff centered

·         Boy friend/Girl friend centered

·         School centered

·         Parent centered

·         Other possible centered like sports/hobbies

Principle centered- The Real Things

Putting principles first is the key to doing better in all other centres

If one trusts you, the principles of honesty must be cured.

The Personal Bank Account (PBA)

Inside out approach

Commit yourself, everything changes

For e.g. If I stick to a commitment I’ve made to myself, I feel in control. It’s a deposit.

When I break a promise to myself, I feel disappointed and make a withdrawal.

PBA Deposit	PBA Withdrawal
Keep promise to yourself	Break personal promises
Do small acts of kindness	Keep to yourself
Be gentle with yourself	Beat yourself up
Be honest	Be dishonest
Renew yourself	Wear yourself out
Tap into your talents	Neglect your talents

Habit 1 Be Proactive (I am the force)

·         Be proactive, is the key to unlocking all the other habits

·         Like I am the force, I am the Captain of my life

·         I’m responsible for my own happiness or unhappiness

·         Proactive or Reactive the choice is yours

Listen to your language

Reactive language	Proactive language
I’ll try	I’ll do it
That’s just the way I am	I can do better than that
There’s nothing I can do	Let’s look at all our options
I have to	I choose to
I can’t	There’s got to be a way
You ruined my day	I’m not going to let your bad mood rub off on me

·         The Victimitis Virus

Blame others

Get angry and say things they later regret8u

·         We can control only one thing.

i.e. how we respond to what happens to us.

·         Turning setback into triumphs

Don’t spend the rest of your life dwelling that you lost.

Focus on those that are left

·         Raising Above Abuse

Sharing your secret with another is an important step in the healing and forgiving process

·         Becoming a change agent

·         Growing your proactive muscles

·         Can-do


**A review of Sean Covey’s The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens 

A Nice Collection of Motivational SMS and Quotes

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A psychological feature and an internal process that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal and elicits, controls, and sustains certain goal directed behaviors is called Motivation. Motivation, like intelligence, can’t be directly observed, Instead, can only be inferred by noting a person’s behavior.

Motivation is what causes us to act, whether it is getting a glass of water to reduce thirst or reading a book to gain knowledge or working hard to succeed.

Here is presented a collection of motivational SMS and Quotes. 

Never hold yourself solely responsible for any misfortune in life because 

no single raindrop is ever alone responsible for any flood. 
 *** 

Think of the things that make you happy, 
Not the things that make you sad; 
Think of the fine and true in Mankind, 
Not its sordid side and bad; 
 *** 

Nothing is predestined: 
The obstacles of your past can become 
The gateways that lead to new beginnings! 
 *** 

Imagination is more important than knowledge. 
Knowledge is limited. 
Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein 
 *** 

Take a bowl, put all your mistakes in it, mix them well. 
This collection of mistakes is ... EXPERIENCE!!! 
Don`t worry about what you have mistook think about the experience u got!! 
 *** 

Career Planning: Career goal setting

Failing to Plan is the same as planning to Fail !!

If we don’t know where you are going, we are likely to wind up somewhere else!!

***

One of the toughest issues in making a good career choice and career goal setting is identifying what we want. Even when it seems that we know what you want, we may still have doubts on our career choice.

A career goal helps us focus on what we want to do for a living. When we have a clear goal for our career, we only focus our time and energy to achieve that goal and avoid wasting our time and energy on activities that will take us further away from our goal. 
For instance, if we know our long term goal is to be a world class dress designer or carpenter or musician, a sensible career path would be for us to start working in a shop or under a mentor so we can learn from him or her the basic skills. Without setting a career goal we might be tempted to jump from one job to another without consciously thinking of how it will affect your long term career goal.

Choosing the right career goal requires a lot of soul searching. At the end of the day our career goal should be one that we truly want and not what others want for us. Most importantly we should have a compelling reason why we must achieve this career goal.

 
Usually a career goal is based on our skills, education, experience, interests and job trends.  

Self is MOst important:

Gather information about self (self-assessment)

• Determining talent, skills/Aptitudes, abilities. interest and passion
  

  • Identify Life Purpose 
    

(What is something we would do happily even if we are not getting paid for it?)

• Values (Identify values that drive us).

It is important to recognize driving values of self because they have a lot of influence on what provides the most motivation and gratification in a job. Some of the most common values that drive people are: ( Love, Money, Health and fitness, Fun, Growth, Contribution, Security, Power, Freedom, Recognition in Indian Philosophy Values that drives people are - Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha)

Once we have ascertained our life purpose, skills, passions and  driving values, we can begin to explore the various career options open ahead.

Options

• Explore the occupations in which we are interested
• Research the industries in which we would like to work
• Research the Labour Market and world of work

Get more specific information after narrow down  options by:

• Job Shadowing
• Part time work, internships
  
• Informational interviews
• Seeking guidance

After we have chosen a career, think of all the steps that we need to take to get us closer to our goal. Determine what skills we need to develop further and what other resources are required to accomplish our career goal.

Match

During this phase of the process, we will have to:

• Identify and Evaluate possible occupations
• Explore alternatives
• Choose both a short term and a long term option

We will accomplish our goal faster if  we write down  career action plan. 
Career action plan Must be in written.

Action

 
Have to take steps in order to achieve our goal, for example:

• Working on a job search strategy
• Writing and refining resume
• Researching about companies
• Preparing for job requirements and interviews
• Working on our core competencies
• Honing our skills Continuously
• Becoming a life long learner

To keep track of our long term career goals we have to keep setting new short term career goals. Start with Baby Steps. If our long-term career goal is to become a dress designer or an entrepreneur than some of the short-term goals to consider should be building strong communication skills and being proficient in a specific computer program to acquire marketing skills, trade specific skill basic cutting and designing and learning some software related.

The best method to realize our goal is to take action. Even a small step at the beginning is a good start.

Create a vision so powerful, so desirable, so compelling that it draws all our energy and motivation to it. 

Arise, Awake and Stop not till the Goal is Reached. 

PS: “Career planning is a lifelong process, which includes choosing an occupation, getting a job, growing in job, possibly changing careers (if we are on wrong track), and eventually retiring.”