NARA'S NOTEPAD
VOLUME 11
JUNE 2015
NUMBER 6
Sunday, May 31, 2015
MEMO FROM NARA
Auditing is done year after
year in every government organization in order to see whether the allotted
amount of budget money is properly spent according to the rule book. It is
indeed a good practice to make the employees to work in accordance with stipulated
rules. In a way, auditing advises the employees to follow the rules strictly in
spending public money. There is a set of people employed by the organizations.
These people are good in keeping the rules in their finger - tips. Invariably
the team asks for all papers, and evidences for the purchases of goods.
Quotations, comparative statements, papers on placement of orders, and entry in
stock books are some important documents to satisfy the auditors. In most of
the time they find some mistakes – minor or major – and make an audit report. I
feel that it is good to have the report for improving the operations in future.
Spending public money needs to be audited and accounted.
Similarly, self-audit is also essential for everyone.
Self-audit is done by every individual not by officially appointed auditors.
Some of us do it very frequently to balance our family budget. Also the
self-audit tell us how to rectify the mistakes committed in the past. Thus it
certainly helps to improve our life-style.
One important aspect about self-auditing is to improve our
time management. Time spent will not come back. So, efficient use of time
certainly helps us to do lot of things, in short period of time. It also will
point out how much we procrastinate our activities. When we think of our
strength and weakness, we ourselves will realize how much we will be able to
carry on our activities efficiently and effectively.
Every one of us has potential skills create new things.
Self-audit should indicate such potentials to put to work. Similarly self-audit
can tell us our weakness regarding health and also knowledge. If the health is
weak or poor one has to look into it with medical check-up and take appropriate
treatments. Since health problems
are the ones which make us inactive and prevent our progress in life. For a
healthy person updating his/her knowledge in terms of skill development is
absolutely essential in this modern age. Since knowledge explosion is occurring
every day we need to update our knowledge with the new. It in fact helps in
improving our work efficiency.
Self-audit need not be annual. It can be monthly or even
shorter period of time. Self-mistakes can be safely corrected if the audit is done more frequently.
Self-audit is a lead to self-help. Therefore it is a good idea to practice
self-audit by every individual to improve his/her life style.
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FOUR LESSONS OF LIFE...
1. Never take down a fence until you know
why it was put up.
2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy.
3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder;
2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy.
3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder;
they helped to get you
higher.
4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.
4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.
—Warren Wiersbe
JUST TO LAUGH...
Ramu: Women live a better, longer and peaceful
life as compared to men.
Gopal: Why?Ramu: Women don’t have a wife!
LINES I LIKED PART II
The book is ready for sale…those who need a copy may send a cheque for
Rs. 120/- (includes postage) favouring A. Narayanan at Coimbatore to: A.
Narayanan, #19, Phase 5, Maharani Avenue, Vadavalli, Coimbatore 641 041, Tamil
Nadu. Ph: 098422 42301. Please send your postal address also.
BENEFITS OF TRAVEL...
There are more benefits of packing your bag and
travelling.
1. Improves Your Social Skills
Meeting new people is one of the great
upsides of travelling. Whether it's chatting up your roommate, making small
talk with your seat-mate on a train or having a lively discussion at a local
bar, you will be forced to improve your social skills (especially if you're
travelling solo). If new situations tend to make you anxious, travelling is a
sure way to take steps toward reducing that anxiety.
Taking time off is an obvious way
to recharge and reduce stress levels. But while staying home and resting is a
worthy use of your time off, travelling removes you from your everyday life and
lets you truly escape. Travelling lets you put aside your daily
responsibilities and focus on yourself for a moment. When you return home
you'll feel refreshed and have the motivation you felt drained of before you
left.
Having a travel "to-do"
list and crossing things off that list keeps you motivated and positive. That
list can include things like visiting certain locations or accomplishing something
such as climbing a mountain or becoming conversational in the language of your
next destination. Achieving those goals also increases confidence and gives a
sense of success.
Sometimes things don't go
according to plan while travelling. Maybe your flight is cancelled or it rains
the day you're scheduled to go on an epic outdoor adventure. It's okay -- there
are other flights to take (or trains, or buses) and maybe on that rainy day
you'll discover a hidden bookstore to explore or an adorable cafe to
experience. Travelling helps you to be more flexible and open minded, making
you more zen in your everyday life.
Travel can involve a lot of waiting.
You'll wait in lines, for flights or at restaurants. Learning how to cope with
those waits, how to make conversation with those you're waiting with and how to
stay calm in frustratingly slow situations will teach you how to remain patient
and calm in all situations.
DESIRE...
Every manifestation of will is preceded by the
desire to act. You must desire something before will can take action. In order
to desire something, you must believe that you will gain a measure of
satisfaction from it.
FUNNY QUESTIONS...
If money doesn't grow on TREES,
then why do banks have BRANCHES ?
then why do banks have BRANCHES ?
If it’s true that we are here to HELP others,
What are others HERE for ?
What are others HERE for ?
LINES I LIKED...
Ø A man doesn’t
know what he knows until he knows what he doesn’t know.
Ø In theory,
there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is.
Ø People
become achievers when they get things done.
Ø The secret
of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence.
TO QUOTE
Put your hand on a hot stove for
a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it
seems like a minute. That is relativity. –
Albert Einstein.
Don’t be afraid to air your thoughts!
Meet you next month – June, 2015
Professor A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP
Ph : 0422 4393017 Mobile : 098422 42301
Friday, May 1, 2015
MEMO FROM NARA
When we had limited access
to information, we wanted to collect and save information. But nowadays at a click
of the mouse, we get information on anything and everything. When I got a
table-top computer from my colleagues on the occasion of my retirement in 1998,
internet was not very popular. However we used to get the information loaded in
cassettes, and then in compact discs (CDs). Information packed in these devices
was sold and we buy them in large number and store at home, thinking that we
may use them later. But even after 10 years they were not used in most cases.
Of late also, I collected
enormous amounts of information on self-help, motivation, photography, science,
and many other topics which I liked. Such information is important but they are
available for all at anytime and anywhere. Hence we need not accumulate them in
files and unnecessarily load our computers. Whenever we need particular
information we can get it through search engines like google or yahoo.
In fact, imagination has
much more importance than the capacity of accumulating information. Since we
have a habit of possession of everything we like including information, we
collect, accumulate and store them whether we use them or not. It has become a
habit for all of us. It is something like buying number of new dresses or new
furniture at different intervals of time and accumulating them without using or
using for once or twice. Every house has enormous number of items accumulated
over time. One way is to use them or give them to others to use; in other words
“declutter” them. Decluttering actually brings abundance.
Psychiatrist Dr. Harish
Shetty said that the sight of unorganized and unused furniture, books and other
articles causes a sense of heaviness inside the brain, leading to irritability,
anger and tiredness. It negatively affects people living with you and your
relationship with them. In fact, clutter is one the major causes of marital
distress, even divorce. Thus accumulation of unwanted/wanted things at home
becomes clutter. So, one has to declutter periodically to keep the house clean.
Most of us are not good at it. However people are anyway compelled to do it
because of paucity of space. Apartment with less than 1000 sq. ft. is not
suitable to accumulate many things. So people are forced to declutter
periodically.
Similarly, so many files
stored in our computer should be decluttered periodically. The best way is to
delete those unused files and store the most important ones in a storing device
such as a CD or external hard disc or memory stick/card. In this way, we carry
less in our sensitive computers, so that the computer speed increases.
Accumulation of information or things appears to be useless beyond a limit. So
everyone should follow “use and throw” principle of the West. Less is More!
LINES I LIKED PART II
LINES I LIKED PART II
The book is ready for sale…those who need a copy may send a cheque for
Rs. 120/- (includes postage) favouring A. Narayanan at Coimbatore to: A.
Narayanan, #19, Phase 5, Maharani Avenue, Vadavalli, Coimbatore 641 041, Tamil
Nadu. Ph: 098422 42301. Please send your postal address also.
NET-NEUTRALITY
Net-neutrality
means all traffic on the internet should be treated equally by internet service
providers (ISP). All data bits are equal and, therefore, should not be
discriminated on the basis of content, site or user.
A man inserted an 'ad'
in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred
letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine.”
First Guy (proudly): “My
wife’s an angel!” Second Guy: “You’re lucky, mine’s still alive.”
"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays and I on Fridays.”
EYE CONTACT
Often times we are so busy thinking about our own
problems or staring at the screens of our smartphones that we forget that the
people around us are human beings who love being appreciated, just like us.
When being around people, one of the easiest and most efficient ways to make
them feel special or at least, acknowledged, is making good eye contacts. It
doesn’t matter if you are hanging out with friends, or having dinner with your
family, or buying groceries at the supermarket, eye contact can make the person
in front of you feel appreciated. It’s a way to show the people around you that
you care for them. Staring at the screen of your smartphone leaves the
impression that you are ignoring the people who you are with which can draw
them away from you. So, when you have company, make the effort to resist the
temptation to constantly look at your phone and concentrate your attention on
the other person.
TO QUOTE...
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. – Stephen Hawking
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me…all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.- Jackie Robinson
SMILING...
Smiling is one of the best and simplest ways to spread
positivity and warm feelings towards the world around us. It doesn’t only have
a great impact on the people around, but on our own health, too. It has been
proven by different studies that smiling fights stress and anxiety boosts
the immune system and the release of endorphins in our bodies which leaves us
feeling happier. It is also contagious which means that when we see someone
smile, our brains’ area which controls the facial expressions activates, which
results in us smiling, too. A simple smile makes us more approachable and
attractive to others. It shows that we are open to socializing and that we are
confident in ourselves.
POWER OF IDEAS...
No
matter how grand or noble our ideas are, they are pointless unless acted upon.
The difference between a pile of rocks and a cathedral is the action we take to
bring our idea to life. Some people have ideas; others put them to work. Ideas
won't work unless we do. The value of action cannot be stressed too greatly.
For sometimes it is action that generates the idea. For example, if I am
smashing rocks, rather than sleeping under a tree, the thought may occur to me
that the rocks could be used to build a cathedral.
Others
won't accept your ideas until they accept you. But don't be guilty of making
the same mistake. A diamond caked in mud is still a diamond. Never judge
another. Anyone can share pearls of wisdom. Don't let prejudices prevent you
from benefiting by them. Always remain open to the ideas of others, and
remember that bright ideas often camouflage themselves as stupid ones.
Not
every idea is worthwhile. The value of an idea is measured by the consequences
it produces when acted upon. Cherish ideas that improve your life and scrap
those that hinder it. Be open-minded, but not gullible. Beware of those who use
the power of ideas to confuse, twist, and control the minds of others. It is
important to realize that there are bad ideas as well as good ideas. Until we
accept this fact, it will be difficult to distinguish between the two. We will
become as immense or small as our ideas, so choose them carefully.
Don't
be like people who treat new ideas like mosquitoes by brushing them aside or
squeezing the life out of them. True, we become set in our ways and sheer force
of habit makes change difficult. But growth is impossible without change, so
don't resist it. Treasure new ideas, for once we gain new insight, we never see
the world the same way. To expand your horizon and elevate your consciousness,
all you have to do is be receptive. Reach out and embrace the ideas that
surround you and are ignored by others. - Chuck Gallozzi
LINES I LIKED...
Ø Nowadays everyone is connected
even on the move.
Ø Notice the things you never
noticed before.
Ø Nothing is permanent in this
world including your problem.
Ø Nothing is a failure, if we learn
something from it.
Ø Never give up on what you want.
The greatest sin is to think of yourself as weak!
Meet you next month – June, 2015
Professor A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP
Ph : 0422 2423017 Mobile : 098422 42301
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