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Balance Sheet of Life

The happiness of life is made of little things - a smile, a hug, a moment of shared laughter

It’s not the wealth you amass but what you give to others & the lives you touch that you take with you for eternity!

Our Birth is our Opening Balance!
Our Death is our Closing Balance!
Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities

Our Creative Ideas are our Assets
Heart is our Current Asset
Soul is our Fixed Asset

Brain is our Fixed Deposit
Thinking is our Current Account
Achievements are our Capital

Character & Morals, our Stock-in-Trade
Friends are our General Reserves
Values & Behaviour are our Goodwill

Patience is our Interest Earned
Love is our Dividend
Children are our Bonus Issues
Education is Brands / Patents
Knowledge is our Investment
Experience is our Premium Account
The Aim is to Tally the Balance Sheet Accurately.
The Goal is to get the Best Presented Accounts Award.
Some very Good and Very bad things ....

The most destructive habit...............Worry
The greatest Joy......................Giving
The greatest loss.................Loss of self-respect
The most satisfying work..........Helping others
The ugliest personality trait...Selfishness
The most endangered species...Dedicated leaders 

Our greatest natural resource...............Our youth
The greatest 'shot in the arm'..........Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome..................Fear 
The most effective sleeping pill........Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease..............Excuses
The most powerful force in life..................Love
The most dangerous pariah...................A gossiper
The world's most  incredible computer........The brain
The worst thing to be without.................... Hope
The deadliest weapon........................The tongue
The two most power-filled words................'I Can'
The greatest asset...............................Faith
The most worthless emotion...................Self-pity
The most beautiful attire.......................SMILE!
The most prized possession.................Integrity
The most powerful channel of communication.....Prayer
The most contagious spirit.................Enthusiasm

The most important thing in life...........GOD

Wonderful message from an old, experienced man

Wonderful message from an old, experienced man

 .... words to live by!!!!

HOW TO STAY YOUNG


1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, and and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay'them'

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.'

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them , at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Shagun: A Very Short Story

He asked the old man to bribe him with 500 rupees to sign his pension papers.

The old man gave him 501 rupees and said, "the one rupee is shagun, so that the money doesn't bring misfortune to you and your family for being dishonest with a person your father's age."

Shaken, he returned the money that was offered, signed the pension paper immediately.

However he couldn't part away with the little coin of shagun.

It'd stopped him from bringing misfortune to him and his family thereon.

Easy Way to Solve Problems

Quotes to Inspire you for Life

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way

Booker T. Washington

 

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance

Tom Flores

 

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

Colin L. Powell

 

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement

if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day

Booker T. Washington

 

What we hope ever to do with ease,

we must learn first to do with diligence

Samuel Johnson

 

Be great in act, as you have been in thought

William Shakespeare

 

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing

Harriet Braiker

 

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Champions keep playing until they get it right

Billie Jean King

 

The will to win, the desire to succeed,

the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys

that will unlock the door to personal excellence

Eddie Robinson

 

The starting point of all achievement is desire

Napoleon Hill

 

Excellence is an art won by training and habitation.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit .

Aristotle

 

Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day.

Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it .

Charles M. Sheldon

 

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.

Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.

If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves .

Dale Carnegie

 

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment

to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour

Vincent Lombardi 

3 Keys to enjoy life

Keep your Dreams Alive

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have was once among the things
you only hoped for.
Epicurus

 

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
James Dean

 

You see things; and you say, 'Why?'
But I dream things that never were;
and I say, 'Why not?'
George Bernard Shaw

 

Keep your dreams alive.
 Understand to achieve anything requires faith
and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination,
 and dedication.
Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers

 

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith

 

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

 

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, 

when you are between asleep and awake,
when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy,
when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul
that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

 

Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know
who you'll meet in your dreams.
Tom Bradley

 

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

 

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who
 face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas H. Everett

 

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
Calvin & Hobbes

 

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce

 

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake
and reach for hands that are not there.
C.S. Lewis

 

She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter.
The Click Five

 

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams
that you dare to dream really do come true
Lyman Frank Baum

 

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward

 

Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a
waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more
dreams you have, the better chance you have of one coming true.
Tony Arata

 

All men dream: but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds
wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

 

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because
reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss

 

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum
Julia Cameron

 

Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.
Mary Manin Morrissey

 

Life is never easy for those who dream.
Robert James Waller

 

To dream anything that you want to dream.
That's the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do.
That is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself to test your limits.
That is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds

The taste of life

An experienced & wise master grew tired of his apprentice complaining. One morning he sent the apprentice for some salt.

When the apprentice returned, the master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and drink it.

“How does it taste?” the master asked.“Bitter,” spit the apprentice.

The master chuckled and then asked the young man to put a handful of  Salt in the lake nearby.

The two walked to the nearby lake. After the apprentice swirled his

Handful of salt into the water, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake..”

As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the  master asked, “Now How does this taste?”

“Fresh & Sweet” remarked the apprentice.

“Do you taste the salt?” asked the master.

“No,” said the young man.

At this, the master sat beside the young man who so reminded him of Himself at one time and held his hands.

He told the young man, “The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less.

The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. However, the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in.

So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things . . .

“Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”

WHO I AM - MAKES A DIFFERENCE (Presentation)

The Art of Giving - Everyone Must Know

The Art of Giving

"Rivers do not drink their own water, nor do tree eat their own fruit, nor do rain clouds eat the grains reared by them. The wealth of the noble is used solely for the benefit of others!

Even after accepting that giving is good and that one must learn to give, several questions need to be answered.


The first question is:
When should one give?
We all know the famous incident from Mahabharat.
Yudhisthir asks a beggar seeking alms to come the next day. On this, Bhim rejoices that Yudhisthir his brother, has conquered death! For he is sure that he will be around the next day to give. Yudhisthir gets the message.
One does not know really whether one will be there tomorrow to give!
The time to give therefore is now.


The next question is:
'How much to give?'

One recalls the famous incident from history.
Rana Pratap was reeling after defeat from the Moghals. He had lost his army, he had lost his wealth, and most important, he had lost hope, his will to fight. At that time, in his darkest hour, his erstwhile minister, Bhamasha, came seeking him and placed his entire fortune at the disposal of Rana Pratap. With this, Rana Pratap raised an army and lived to fight another day.
The answer to this question how much to give is:
"Give as much as one can!


The next question is:
'What to give?'
It is not only money that can be given away. It could be a flower or even a smile.

It is not how much one gives but how one gives that really matters. When you give a smile to a stranger that may be the only good thing received by him in days and weeks!

"You can give anything but you must give with all your heart!"
One also needs answer to this question  whom to give?
Many times we avoid giving by finding fault with the person who is seeking. However, being judgmental and rejecting a person on the presumption that he may not be the most deserving is not justified.

"Give without being judgmental!"


Next we have to answer:
'How to give?'
Coming to the manner of giving, one has to ensure that the receiver does not feel humiliated, nor the giver feels proud by giving.

In giving, follow the advice 'Let not your left hand know what your right hand gives? Charity without publicity and fanfare is the highest form of charity.'

'Give quietly!'

While giving, let not the recipient feel small or humiliated. After all, what we give never really belonged to us. We come to this world with nothing and will go with nothing. The thing gifted was only with us for a temporary period. Why then take pride in giving away something which really did not belong to us?
Give with grace and with a feeling of gratitude.


"What should one feel after giving?"
We all know the story of Eklavya. When Dronacharya asked him for his right thumb as "Guru Dakshina, he unhesitatingly cut off the thumb and gave it to Dronacharya. 
There is a little known sequel to this story.
Eklavya was asked whether he ever regretted the act of giving away his thumb. He replied, and the reply has to be believed to be true, as it was asked to him when he was dying.

His reply was "Yes! I regretted this only once in my life. It was when Pandavas were coming in to kill Dronacharya who was broken hearted on the false news of death of his son, Ashwathama, and had stopped fighting. It was then that I regretted the loss of my thumb. If the thumb was there, no one could have dared hurt my Guru?

The message to us is clear.
Give and never regret giving!

And the last question is:
'How much should we provide for our heirs?'
Ask yourself 'are we taking away from them the gift of work? - A source of happiness?
The answer is given by Warren Buffett: 
"Leave your kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing!"

I would conclude by saying:
Let us learn the Art of Giving,
and quoting the Saint Kabir:
"When the wealth in the house increases, when water fills a boat, throw them out with both hands!"

This is the wise thing to do!

Somethings to Think Upon...

1. Maybe. . we were supposed to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that, when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

2. Maybe. . . when the door of happiness closes, another opens; but, often times, we look so long at the closed door that we don't even see the new one which has been opened for us.

3. Maybe. . .it is true that we don't know what we have until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we have been missing until it arrives.

4. Maybe. . . the happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

5. Maybe. . . the brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; after all, you can't go on successfully in life until you let go of your past mistakes, failures and heartaches.

6. Maybe. . . you should dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you dream of, and want to do.

7. Maybe. . . there are moments in life when you miss someone -- a parent, a spouse, a friend, a child -- so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real, so that once they are around you appreciate them more.

8. Maybe.. . . the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

9. Maybe. . you should always try to put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that something could hurt you, it probably will hurt the other person, too.

10. Maybe. .you should do something nice for someone every single day, even if it is simply to leave them alone.

11. Maybe. .giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart; but, if it doesn't, be content that it grew in yours.

12. Maybe.. . . happiness waits for all those who cry, all those who hurt, all those who have searched, and all those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of all the people who have touched their lives.

13. Maybe. . . you shouldn't go for looks; they can deceive; don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

14. Maybe. . you should hope for enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to make you happy

15. Maybe. . . you should try to live your life to the fullest because when you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling but when you die, you can be the one who is smiling and everyone around you crying.

Trust in God

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly..

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.

We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!

I asked for Strength.........

And God gave me Difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for Wisdom.........

And God gave me Problems to solve.

I asked for Prosperity.........

And God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.

I asked for Courage..........

And God gave me Danger to overcome.

I asked for Love.........

And God gave me Troubled people to help.

I asked for Favors.........

And God gave me Opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted ........

I received everything I needed!

Trust in God. Always !