Focussing And Acting On Your Dream

Hi All,

Whatever dream you decide to go after, whether it is a family or a career goal, you must consciously decide that it is your life's mission. Benjamin Disraeli said, "The secret of success is constancy to purpose." You must go at it obsessively and set high standards for yourself along the way. There is no room for compromise when you are charting a course for your life or your career.

I spoke to a group of sharp young people not long ago, and when I finished, some of the fellows came up to me and said they were interested in becoming professional speakers. They invited me to go out with them that evening to have a good time. These fellows looked as though they knew how to have a seriously good time. I had planned to work on my delivery that night by listening to the audio of my speech. (I record my speeches and listen to them later so I can study what works and what does not work with a particular audience. In effect, I listen to the audience listening to me.)

I was tempted to go with these fellows, and back when I was their age, I probably would have given in to that temptation and gone. But I have become more disciplined and more committed to my craft. A friend of mine, wrote a humor book called Welcome to the Real World, and in it, he offered advice to fresh high-school and college graduates. He had a line in the book that pertains to the situation I faced that night. It said, "Having a drink with the boys after work every night is a bad idea. Notice that the boss doesn't do it. That is why he is the boss and they
are still the boys."

He told me that he wrote that line with one particular group of hard-partying young businessmen in mind, and five years after the book came out, he ran into one of them. The guy volunteered that he'd read that line in that book and decided never to go drinking after work again. It paid off, he said. He had risen to a vice presidency at a savings and loan firm.

In my drive to become a public speaker, I developed that kind of focus, too. There is not a lot of time for hard partying if you are pursuing greatness. It was not that these young fellows were not serious about their interest in professional speaking, but that they were just as serious about having a good time. I don't believe they were focused on their goals. They were seeking a profession, but they were not on a mission to make a dramatic difference in the world. I am. You should be, too.

Rather than the party crowd, I prefer to seek out people with knowledge that might be useful. I like to find out what books successful and intelligent people are reading. I want access to the information that contributes to their success and intelligence.

Testing My Memory Power

Hi All,

This is second blog of the day,,, Wat to do no work??? so thought of testing my memory power by writing all my friends name in this blog right from tenth class to my Engineering,,,

Tenth Standard:
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right from first row,,,

Gokul Sarathi
Arun Kumar
Elango
Myself
Sukumar
venkat raman
venkat bhargav
srikanth
karthick
thiyagarajan
swaminathan
chellapan
devendran
sri raghavan
santhana krishnan
anbalagan
mukund
lakshmanan
deva
vigneshwar
devi
ramya
ramyah
rohini
sangeetha
gayathri
gajalakshmi
shankari
revathi
tina

Diploma la
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god only knows why our first bench was always empty till our final year,,,, mistery remains undiscovered,,,

so from the second bench

kalaivani
kalaiselvi
gajalakshmi

arun
arulprakash
muthu balasubramanian
ramkumar
ramalingam
mrudul kumar
rahul rakesh
giri prasad
myself
shiju
senthil kumar
m ramesh (late)
vasanth

Engineering
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In this arena only i understood that it is very difficult to compete with the back benchers,,, as always our ex president says " Indias best brains are available at our back benchers " becase one of our back bencher is a scientist now,,,,

so now starting from the first bench
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upendra kumar
sridhar (scientist who sat in the back bench during the last year of our college)
Myself
srinath s (58)
arun
narendran
ganesan
vasanth
shamil
rakesh
kamesh
rajesh
ashwin
baskar
ramkumar
mirmal kumar
johnson
kiran
robin raju
suresh subramaniam

kalpana
kanakambika
suganya
kanagaraj
srinath (57)
sujal
lakshmi narayanan (kaaks)
lakshmi narayanan (avadi)
zahoor ahamad
rajasekar
bv rajesh
rajesh (aircel)
riaz
rangasayee
pradeep kumar
arun (erwadi)
balachandar
saravanan

geetha lakshmi
caroline
swaroopa isaac (antenna girl)
eshwari
poornima
christina
prathiba
divya
prabhavathy
charubala
mallika
gayathri
sorry i forgot the girl name who comes from pattabiram
suryakala
archana
hemagayathri
anita

i think the list stops with this.... i could also recollect all the nick names of the above list,,,, but it wont be good reveal it out....

bye bye,,,, untill the next interesting blog,,,

shanki

Dream Torture By Dennis Waitley

Hi All,

I think this post would be my one of the good topic, that i have discussed about in the past. Very Recently i read a passage in the above said topic written by Dennis Waitley. It was worth spending time on reading it and it is worth in repblishing the passage here in my blog for you people,,,

Perhaps the greatest torture that could be devised would be for us to be forced, in our later years, to watch a continuously repeating movie of the lives we could have led, had we dared to believe in and pursue the dreams and goals that were available and attainable in our lifetime.

DON'T BE A SPECTATOR

While we all say we don't have enough time to do justice to our goals and dreams, each of us has all the time there is. None of us really has a time-management problem. We really have a dream- and goal-focus problem. We spend too much energy worrying about the things we want to do but can't, instead of concentrating on doing the things we can do but don't. It is the regret for something we did or didn't do yesterday and the apprehension of what we can't do tomorrow that are the biggest energy drains on our lives.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. It is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what, specifically, you intend to make happen. However, many individuals become spectators, resigned to experience success vicariously through others' accomplishments. They can see success for others, but they can't imagine it for themselves. Dreams and goals are previews of coming attractions in your life. You can be the script writer, the star and the producer of an Oscar-winning epic life or an extra in a "B" movie that someone else wrote
and directed for you. Which is it to be?

STAY FOCUSED ON YOU

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others'. Avoid the tendency to measure your own progress by looking over the fence at greener pastures. There are many others who have started a little earlier than you, and you may become discouraged if you see them harvesting success when some of your seeds are barely in the ground. Comparison rarely benefits anyone. You'll always be able to find someone
smarter, younger, older, wiser, richer, more clever, better looking, or working harder or more effectively than you are.

When you make comparisons in which you place yourself beneath others, you're in for a discouragement that will keep you procrastinating, and perhaps even from seriously pursuing your goals. You can also find others who don't measure up to what you have become or are aspiring to be. Avoid the tendency to compare yourself with them as well. You will lower your goals and settle for average when you could have excellence. You may come to think that you deserve more success than others or that success lies ahead for you no matter what you do. Both are false assumptions. Success isn't a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your own success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm or downturns.

Neither is your success measured by what others say or accomplish. Only you can truly define your success, and only you can measure it.