Wednesday, April 1, 2015

 


NARA'S NOTEPAD
 
VOLUME 11
 
APRIL 2015
 
NUMBER 4
 
 
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LINES I LIKED PART II


 
 
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MEMO FROM NARA...


The knowledge we need or we do not need is available today in print and electronic media including the internet. Knowledge of everything is open, not hidden. People say knowledge explosion is on. Yes, when population explodes, knowledge has to explode! That is what happens today. Most of us make use of this available knowledge for our survival and work.
Recently my ayurvedic doctor prescribed medicines for my illness after examining me. I bought them and came home to see what those medicines are? Simply I googled the names of those medicines. Oh, they were there! Not only they were there, it indicated the use of those medicines and their side effects. Even the comments by those who used these medicines were also given. It was amazing.
Thus anyone can click the internet and get what he or she wants. All are available – whether it is science, spirituality, self-help, medicine, engineering, law, literature, music and what not? All are available on line. Books, newspapers, magazines and newsletters are on-lined.
Communicating knowledge to others and sharing written materials including photographs and videos are all possible through internet. One can meet thousands of people in social media like facebook, twitter etc. Getting new friends from all over the world, and renewing contacts of old friends are easy nowadays.
So it is the choice that makes us to enjoy the whole world of knowledge. Indeed what to choose and what not, has become a problem. Everything is available in internet. Who has made it? It is none other than our own kith and kin. Their ability and thinking power have made the world of internet. It is the storehouse of knowledge to provide us all kinds of knowledge.
Teachers and professors were considered to the storehouse of knowledge in olden times. They were highly respected for it. But today even they depend on internet to gather knowledge. Internet is accessible to all – teachers, students, and men and women. Dictionary used to be our reference for words. Every house used to have a bulky dictionary to look into the meaning of difficult words. Dictionary contains needed and unneeded words. It is our choice to pick the needed ones as we do it with internet for knowledge.
Choose what you want, there is the internet. Interestingly internet is available in our smart phones also. They are always with us either in our pockets or inside the lady’s handbag, but most of the time the gadget is held in the hand especially by celebrities like politicians, business people and cine actors. Such phones are available with everyone. So knowledge is everyone’s hands. No need to depend on someone else. We have the knowledge in our hands and we have to make use of it for our life.

TO QUOTE...




The highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. – Jawaharlal Nehru

 The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. – Eckhart Tolle

JUST TO LAUGH...




A young man looking to get married asked his friend. “Every woman I bring home to meet my parents, mother doesn’t like.” Friend: “Oh, that’s easy” replied. “All you have to do is find someone who’s just like your mother”. Young man: “I did that already, and that one my father didn’t like.”

A guy asked a beautiful lady standing next to him. ‘Nice perfume…which one is it?... I want to gift it to my wife…!! Lady: Don’t give her…some idiot will find an excuse to talk to her.

Mohan: My grandfather lived for 96 years and he never used
glasses… Ravi: Yes, I know, some people in my family also drink
directly from the bottle.

CARE FOR ENVIRONMENT...





It is our responsibility to take good care of our planet’s health. We, people, have already made so much damage to our world that pollution has become one of the major problems of today’s society. A variety of animal and plant species have become extinct and others are endangered. The air we breathe is becoming more and more harmful to our health. Junk is cluttering our oceans and threatening ecosystems. We all want to live in a beautiful environment but few of us are taking action to preserve its purity and health. The simplest thing we all can do in order to take care of our planet is to recycle. It reduces the amount of waste which is being sent to landfills, saves energy, reduces greenhouse gas emissions that cause global climate anomalies and it helps sustain the environment for the future generations. These are just a few of the benefits of recycling which can change the world we live in for the better. Another practicable thing we can do is to take care of our planet’s natural resources. Renewable energy sources are a great way to make a positive change in the world and preserve our environment.

THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS...




1.        Problems are just unresolved opportunities.

2.        Live within your budget. Better yet, live beneath your means.

3.        Happy people are focused more on you-you-you than me-me-me.

4.        Don't sell out your integrity because it's almost impossible to buy back.

5.        Trust is a must or the relationship will bust.

6.        Be willing to ask others for help. It will divide your problem and double your joy.

7.        Forgive. Forgiveness is not saying what the other person did was right. It's not about letting them off the hook but letting yourself off the hook.

8.        Make promises sparingly and keep them faithfully.

9.        Be who you are and stand by your beliefs. Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

10.     Make the other person feel important. Compliment often. Don't make someone feel smaller than he is; he will make up for it by behaving like a "big shot."

 

TIPS TO FOLLOW...




1.       The single most important thing is non-judgmental validation. Seek someone else’s thoughts and opinions without judging them.

2.       Suspend your ego. Focus on them.

3.       Really listen, don’t just wait to talk. Ask them questions; don’t try to come up with stories to impress.

4.       Ask people about what’s been challenging them.

5.       Establishing a time constraint early in the conversation can put strangers at ease.

6.       Smile, chin down, blade your body, palms up, open and upward non-verbal.

7.       If you think someone is trying to manipulate you, clarify goals. Don’t be hostile or aggressive, but ask them to be straight about what they want.

WRITING AND READING...




Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation.
They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored.
We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.
It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea.
You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.

LINES I LIKED...




Ø  Believe it or not, you are extraordinary.

Ø  Stop expecting people to know what you are thinking.

Ø  Don’t expect people to be fine all the time.

Ø  Expectations are difficult to deal with.

Ø  Stop relying on others for your own well-being.

 

No one is problem free!


Meet you next month – May, 2015


 


Professor A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP


 


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