Happy Friendship Day!

Probably you can go through Wikipedia or Google to find out the roots of how Friendship Day originated and how it was decided to be celebrated on the first Sunday of every August. However, over the last few years such special days depicting the celebrations of some form of relationship between people have gained huge recognition. If not for the existence of the calendar, such days would have seemed completely meaningless but thanks to our ancestors that we have a calendar completing 365 days every year but the 4th time. Once again wishing you all a very Happy Friendship Day!!!!!!!!!

 

Friendship is that kind of special relationship that doesn't demand any kind of blood relation. It doesn't command a public commitment like that of a marriage. It has even happened on so many occasions that friendship has been the only reason for survival when both the prior relations have failed to help and support. Blood relations and marriage relations generally have an assumed kind of a trust but in friendship the trust has to be earned. An earned pie always teaches more than a passed on pie. Likewise the earned trust teaches us a lot about life and supports us in the most difficult situations than an assumed trust. The best part about earning trust in friendship is that all our friends were strangers to us once upon a time. We earned the trust of strangers and vice versa and that's the reason we have friends today, some of who become an integral part of our lives.

 

At the end of the day, every relationship is based upon trust be it assumed or earned. If we can see a friend in everyone who surrounds us and forget that we knew the person before and start working to earn the trust of the other person then every relation of ours will be as powerful as that of friendship. Man was born as a social animal and he has to engage with everyone in his society. Hence, it's essential for each one of us to see a friend in everyone around us and work for the good of each other. Only when we support each other can our society be a wonderful place to thrive in.

Congratulations! Grab your copy of LS by SL!

All this time, I used to take out phrases from the book 'Life Simplified!' and elaborate on them as blogs. Further more I cannot deny you the opportunity from accessing the book yourself in your hands. Congratulations to all those people who have been waiting to get their hands on this marvellous simple book that carries the power in it to simply life.

 

I have been getting queries from many people all across India that they wanted to get the hardcopies of the book 'Life Simplified!' but were unable to get it due to various reasons. No doubt that in today's world internet has made it highly feasible to access anything that we require by just ordering online while sitting at home in front of our laptops and desktops. Finally, you shall be happy to know that you can order your copy of the book 'Life Simplified!' on www.iuworldwide.com either through your debit/credit cards or netbanking facilities. It shall be no more a dream but a reality soon the moment you order your copy of the book. According to me 'Life Simplified!' is one of the few books that carries immense power in the less number of pages that it contains. It is stripped of the power to bore you at any point of time. You shall not feel like dropping the book down until you finish reading it completely. This was the first book that I, myself completed reading at the first attempt itself.

 

I am sure that everyone of you who has either heard to Mr.Sujit Lalwani's talk or just heard of him would love to know what he has come up with in his first book that has been even appreciated by the networking queen of the world, Carole Stone. You can even order more than one copy for your friends and family and I won't take much time of yours as you want to share this online book launch for purchase with your near and dear ones right away.

Planned and packed

It's time to get back to the powerful phrases from the book 'Life Simplified!' by Sujit Lalwani, serial entrepreneur running a number of businesses and social projects. This time we get into a quote that speaks about the optimum and efficient utilisation of all the time that this Universe has blessed us with during an entire day.

 

The author says that when your days are completely planned and packed, you shall soon realise that the pain of past fades, vision of life gets clearer and all that seemed to poison your life ceases to exist. I have spoke about planning a number of times before and hence shall avoid repeating the same here but definitely I would like to touch upon the point of packed days here. Everyone has only 24 hours in a day and no one can work for more than that in a single day. I have seen people who ask for 10 minutes of rest for every 30 minutes of work. If your work schedule is something like this then definitely you are not making the best use of time. You have to pack your day with different work that you need to cater to with proper time planning. Not all the times just a day is sufficient to complete all that you have planned. Hence it shall be very important to plan and pack your work for days ahead and also stick to the strict plan made by you. Every work's completion should be followed by the beginning of the next work with absolutely no idle time in between.

 

When your days are filled with work and commitments, seldom do you get time or mental space to think about problems of your past and hence the pain of past fades away. As you keep working, you progress nearer to the vision day by day and it gets clearer. More the work less the thought of problems in your head. Just by disallowing the mind from being idle all the above advantages can be exploited. Do let me know what you think on is.mohanbn@gmail.com

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Get out and get it

Get out of your comfort zone if you are looking for comfort in life. Lying in a cushioned sofa and whiling away all your time shall not bring the comfort of parking a luxurious car in the balcony of your huge mansion constructed and customised exclusively for your family which you dreamt of. All your dreams shall come true only if you are not watching them while you're asleep but working for them.

 

Everything is achievable in this world. I don't have to cite the stories of successful men who made a private jet a toy for their kids, people who loved golf and hence built golf courses and many more. All that you want exists on this earth and all you have to do is to go and get it if you want it. The prayers or chants or spells that you cast at home with your empty hands shall not bring any of your dreams back home. You have to get out of your comfort zone and get into the outside world, search for what you want, work to get it and bring it back yourself. I am fed up of seeing people who complain that they don't have what they want and always sit at home. Man was given legs only to get out of his home and find what he needed and not to fold and sit liesurely on the sofa.

 

It is so important for each one of us to realise that we need to work to get what we want time and again. Some of the most important treasures of this planet are hidden deep inside the earth and we need to excavate the ground to find them. Similarly what we desire for also exists deep inside the world outside our homes. We need to excavate through all the noise to reach them. Feel free to share your feedback on is.mohanbn@gmail.com

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Love, Trust, Character, Brotherhood

It's time to hit back at one more awesome quote from the book 'Life Simplified' by Sujit Lalwani, the magician who has changed many lives for the better. In this particular quote mentioned in the picture he speaks of the greatest religion on this earth and that's called humanity. He mentions the key ingredients that form the four pillars of the religion called humanity.

 

Every bron child grows up into an individual because of the love that parents shower. Every soul finds another soul completely unrelated upto the adult age who lasts for lifelong along is because of love. The reason an illiterate child turns into a literate student is because of the love of a teacher. Only love is responsible to create and maintain relationships between people through different means of respect, kindness, generosity, compassion and others and hence love is one of the strongest pillars of humanity. Trust is what keeps the relationship strong and going forward in any case. Lesser the trust, lesser the bond and co-operation between people, more the trust more the bond and co-operation between people. Trust develops in any relationship based on the characters of the two individuals related. If not for the character, trust shall never develop. Hence trust and character form the other two pillars of this sacred religion.

 

Universal brotherhood is what that can bring about unity among all those people habitating the earth. Lack of brotherhood shall always create gaps and loops and give rise to enmity between people. Hence brotherfood forms the binding factor that can keep people united irrespective of their backgrounds. Thus these four qualities shall form the four pillars to uphold the religion of humanity. Feel free to share your views on is.mohanbn@gmail.com

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Keep aside the emotional side

Man was born with emotions and shall die with them. Still at times it's necessary for us to see this life and the life around us from a higher plane. It is just like how we talk about a third person. Every occasion brings along with it some associated emotion. Not just an occasion, people associate feelings and emotions with people and things too. This is what makes life complex and miserable.

 

As I had mentioned in one of my previous blogs named 'Mood matters', the emotions through which a person is going through definitely matter to the reactions s/he will show and decisions s/he will take. We have so many favourites and so many unfavourites and
correspondingly we start
associating different feelings with these two. Unfortunately because of some wrong assignment here and there, we tend to lose the major lessons of life. A very simple example is that of time. We say those times during which we don't enjoy as bad phases. May be those are the phases during which we learn the best lessons of life. We are no one to decide which time is good or bad. So the author Sujit Lalwani drives home the same point in his book 'Life Simplified!' that if we can keep the time devoid of our emotions then there are no such bad times that cause us pain. All that happen shall happen for good and make us feel good.

 

It's difficult to reach the spirtitual stage of life where in we can separate the emotions from things happening around. Bhagvadgita also states that it is the highest level of life to see both good and bad as same and feel hot and cold as the same. It should be an aspiration for each one of us to reach such highly stable levels of life. Please share your feedback on is.mohanbn@gmail.com
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Autograph in my heart

It was yet another powerfully empowering talk at VVN degree college on 12th of February, 2013. The talk was scheduled for the evening college students from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Poornima mam, the Vice Principal for evening college had got this motivational talk organised in order to motivate students to work towards their academic excellence and also to set up goals in their lives. Hitesh.G, a BBM final year student accompanied me during this talk and later Bharath.G.C sir and Kunal sir joined us adding more colour to the event.

 

I started with my initial talk about attitude of gratitude and as I went on there was a small chunk of audience which was responding with irrelevant and careless answers for some of my serious questions. Exactly at the same time even the microphone stopped working. I had to reach out to 250+ crowd with the highest energy possible. It took a real toll on my vocal cords but it was the necessity of the hour. As the talk took its shape empowering those majority who needed the lessons from the talk, the voices of the irritating minority gradually descreased. It was a shocker to the vice-principal to see that those students who would make all the noise possible even if a class extended by a minute after 8:30pm were keenly listening though it was already 9 pm. I touched the topics of inferiority complex, leg-pulling, peer pressure, breaking of fear, self-appreciation and a lot more through examples of Lizzie Velasquez, Ashok Shankar Rathod and others which brought in a new wave of inspiration in all the students. The high decibel level of their applauds and their staying back for half an hour even after the official class hours were the live proofs for the success of the event.

 

At the end of this powerful energetic session, people came on stage to share their past feelings and experiences fearlessly. One of the students even took a challenge that she shall be the best innovator in India in next two years. Photographs and autographs followed when one of the girls came and told me that she wouldn't take my autograph on paper because she had already taken my autograph in her heart during the talk. This was really one of the most heart-touching feedback that I had ever heard. If you want to share any feedback, please share it on is.mohanbn@gmail.com

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