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एक नन्हा तालाब का पंछी

सुनता गरूड़ो की कहानियाँ, 

उसे बहुत पसंद आती 

पहाड़ों की ऊंचाइयाँ।

फिर उसने देखा एक ख्वाब

और दिल में इच्छा जाग उठी, 

पहाड़ों पर तो जाना ही है

ऐसी उसको एक तलब लगी।

"तुम्हारे बस की बात नहीं"

ऐसा सब पंछियों ने कहा, 

वह लगातार यह कहते रहे

और उसको रोकना चाहा।

 

परंतु उस पंछी ने ठान ली, 

अपनी खुद की बात ही मान ली, 

फिर सौ बार उसने प्रयास किया 

और सफलता भी उसने पा ली।

फिर छू लिया उसने गगन को, 

सूरज की सुनहरी किरणों को, 

और ऊंची उड़ान भर के 

उन सुंदर लहराती हवाओं को।

पहुंच गया वह उसके सपनों के पहाड़ों पर 

और एक नई कहावत बन गई, 

एक तालाब का पंछी आसमान छू गया

और एक नई कहानी बन गई।

Siddhi Patil

प्रिय कांदा - Marathi Poem

प्रिय कांदा

नको मला कढीपत्ता ,नको मला कोथिंबीर 

मला तर पोह्यात कांदाच हवा.

धपाट्यातही कांदा भाजीतही कांदा 

मला उत्तप्प्यावरही कांदाच हवा.

अचानक येतो पावसाचा वास 

आणि काहीतरी खायची इच्छा होते, 

पावसाच्या गार लहरीत सुद्धा 

गरम कांदा भजी ची आठवण येते.

काय ती कांद्याची प्रसिद्धी 

दर एक पदार्थ कांदाच मागतो, 

पण बाजारात सुद्धा गाजला हा 

आता कांदा शाम्पूतही येतो.

नको तो कांदा चिरायचा त्रास 

कांदा चिरताना खूप दुःख होतं, 

पण स्वयंपाकाच्या चवीसाठी 

मन तर कांदा टाकच म्हणत.

घरात तर सगळेच असतं

गाजर बटाटा मिरची व संत्री, 

पण कांदाच त्यात मुख्य आहे 

अशी आपली आणि कांद्याची मैत्री.

    

Siddhi Patil

Dedicated to all 'कांदा' lovers.

Holy cow! English joke

 

Holy cow!

A pair of cows were talking in the field. One says, “Have you heard about the mad cow disease that’s going around?”

“Yeah,” the other cow says. “Makes me glad I’m a penguin.”

मराठी विनोद

स्मिता – वजन कसे कमी करू?

डॉक्टर – मान डावीकडे-उजवीकडे-डावीकडे फिरवायची.

स्मिता – कधी? ठरावीक वेळ?

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डॉक्टर – कोणी खायला विचारल्यावर.

Marathi Vinod

फरिश्ता

 किसी सहरा मे मेहकता गुलिस्ता ना हो जाऊ

 हर एब सुधार लुतो फरिश्ता ना हो जाऊ

Joke

why did the banker switch careers?

She lost interest😀 

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Shree Swami Samarth - श्री स्वामी समर्थ

                                                                           श्री स्वामी समर्थ

 

Ego Is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday

 

What is EGO?  Why it is harmful?
A person's disbelief of self-esteem or self-importance is ego. A person with ego always thinks that what he speaks, thinks, does etc. is always right and ready to fight with others for it. In this book author has explained how ego is harmful. Author demonstrated with practical examples that how ego is biggest barrier to ones success and friend of failures. History is made by the people who have kept their ego aside and worked for  a cause.
Author suggests below techniques to get rid of ego
Plus Minus and equals
There are 3 types of people in this world when compared with us. First people better than us, people equal to us and people less than us. People better than us can teach us. People equal to us can compete. Challenge to grow. We can teach to people minus that us to bring them to competitive level
Get out of your own head
Actions are important.Don't be passionate.Imagining what you think success will be like but never taking the action is passionate. Always stay grounded to reality. Purpose is more important than passion. Leave passion for armatures.
Always be a student
Always learning increases our potential. Humbles the ego and reminds us that we have not yet reached to our potential. It opens us for acceptance of failures negative feedback criticism. Promotes us to self assessment. If one always becomes student then there is no room for ego .  Always learn new skills techniques, things Those who do not learn with time and upgrade themselves get wiped out. Swallow your pride
Alive and dead time
Dead time is passive time or waiting Alive time is time used for actions. So act with time and use every second. Convert ego into humility. detach yourself from outcome. Accept failures. Don't get upset for lower results. Start working again.
Evaluate yourself
Constantly evaluate yourself. Maintain a scorecard. Only when free from ego one can perform. Ignore the noise. Accept all criticism. Bounce back from the lower results
Meditate on Immensity -Sympatheia. Ask who am I? What am I doing?  What is my role in this world.
Thus Holiday makes the interesting point, that only when people manage to take their ego back and engage in relentless self-improvement and constant self-assessment, they are going to be successful.  It is not the ego, the charisma or the revolutionary vision that makes someone great.

Eat that frog- Brian Tracy

 

Who should read this book?
This book is must read for the people, who want to be more productive, overcome procrastination and need inspiration to achieve goals.
The frog is representation of the most important/hardest/toughest/biggest  task which is necessary to be done. By doing this thing first in the morning you can get a feeling of worst is over. Also our will power is highest in the morning and decreases as the day progresses. On completing a task brain fills satisfaction and increases positivity in us.
The book tells ways to live better than yesterday. Major reason for procrastination is confusion. Clarity should be there to do things effectively.
We need to be specific on the goal. For ex. If goal is better health then it is unclear. For archiving this we need to decide the actions as exercise track the daily weekly monthly progress. Then we can find the improved health after few months.
Achieve goals by a bite at a time. Book provide great help to get rid of laziness
Thus book suggest to do most difficult thing to do first and take one step to do that at a time.
Below steps are suggested in the book to achieve lifetime goals
1 – Set the table
Procrastination, Lack of clarity needs to be removed with below 7 steps

• Decide what you want.

Find out what I am good at? What do I enjoy the most about my work? What thing I like to do?

• Note down the goals on paper- Goals are rarely achievable if not noted or written down
• Make deadline give milestones- Put pressure on yourself. Develop Sense of urgency. Tell yourself to do it now.
• Make a list- Increase clarity in goals
• Organise the list and make a plan.
• Take action- Goals without action are mere a wish
• Make a resolve to go near to goal: Go closer to goals daily by increasing skills and taking the steps which help to achieve them

2.Plan everyday in advance, time management
Write down goal. Goals not written is just a wish.
Master list- All the master goals will be listed here
Monthly list- This list will be the list of things to be achieved in a month
weekly list- This list will be the list of things to be achieved in a week
daily list- This list will be the list of things to be done to achieve the all above goals

3. Apply ABCDE technique

Practise ABCDE method- Find the value of the things/ tasks and prefer high value label the list items with ABCDE with their priorities based on the value .
First do the A task do not start B task if A is not done go sequentially. Tasks can be further subdivided as A1, A2, B1, B2,B3 etc
Consider the consequences if task not done. You can outsource the less important tasks or even skip
Short term and long term consequences of a thing sacrificing few things for better long term achievements. Practise creative procrastination
In this way by following the principles in this book on can increase his productivity and achieve his goals

The Greatest Salesman in the World(Og Mandino)

 

The Greatest Salesman in the World is a philosophical book serves as a guide to salesmanship, and success.The book was first published in 1968.The book narrates the story of Hafid, a poor camel boy who achieves a life of abundance by following the 10 scrolls described in the book. Mandino suggests 1 month per scroll. Hence it takes 10 months for these scrolls to opt as habit.
Scroll I - I will Form Good Habits and Become their Slave
The first scroll is the basis and key to the other scrolls. It shows the importance of formation of good habits. To change my habits, I must have awareness of them and then replace the bad habits with the good ones. It took years to form bad habits. Only wishful thinking doesn’t work we must act.
Scroll II - Greet Each Day With Love In Your Heart
Everything is possible with a heart filled with love. Love is my greatest weapon says Mandino. I must love myself and others. Hate destroys everything. Love encourages. I have no time for hate. I am accountable for better solutions instead of gossiping, blaming and being divisive.
Scroll III - I Will Persist Until I Succeed
On each failure i will not stop. I will take another step always. I will move forward even if i don't know how many steps i need to take to reach my goal. I must remove from my vocabulary “cannot,” “hopeless,” “impossible.” I will look obstacles as lessons or opportunities. I persist and I will win.
Scroll IV - I am Nature's Greatest Miracle
I am unique with my own talents and my own mission. There is nobody like me. Being goal driven is the key. I constantly seek to learn, grow and improve my manners, speech and skills.
Scroll V - Live Each Day as if it Were Your Last
Past is gone future is yet to come hence live in present.Live today as my last day. Today is the best day of my life to take steps rowards my goal. I will use today to live a better life.
Scroll VI - Master Your Emotions
My moods rise and my moods fall. I will master my emotions. “Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions, strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.” In Buddhism there is a saying: be a master of your mind instead of your mind being your master.
Scroll VII - The Power of Laughter
I Will Laugh.Human beings are the only living creatures who can laugh. I will not take things seriously. I will live like a child will be without ego.
Scroll VIII - Multiply Your Value Every Day
Today I Will Multiply My Value A Hundredfold. I will live out of my vision. I must improve my performance. I will never give up. I must always exceed and make next hour better than the previous one.
Scroll IX - All is Worthless Without Action
I will act now.Actions are important than words.holds . I will act now without hesitation. Fear generates procrastination.
Scroll X - Pray to God for Guidance.
There is a super power above all. I must ask for guidance from God the creator of universe

Power Of Subconscious Mind (Joseph Murphy 1963)

 

A great book which equates subconscious mind with God. Subconscious mind acts automatically based on your thought process emotions and feelings. It saves energy by storing data for skills or daily activities of body. Hence whatever stored in subconscious mind decides our future. This book acts as user manual for human mind. Hence we must be always filled with positive thoughts. We need to reprogram our mind for positivity.
Content from page 8 of the book-
“As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Imagine your subconscious mind as a bed of rich soil that will help all kinds of seeds to sprout and flourish, whether good or bad. Every thought is a cause, and every condition is an effect. This is the reason it is so essential that you take charge of your thoughts. In that way, you can bring forth only desirable conditions.”
The book gives below methods to reprogramme the mind to feed the subconscious properly for better life

1. Repetition: Feeding our subconscious mind with repeated constructive and harmonious thoughts will lead to the formation of new, healthier, habits for  subconscious mind. Always think positive and make it as a habit
2. Visualization- Visualize the better future instances in mind strongly
3. Mental Movie method: Play a movie of success in mind
4.  The Baudoin Technique : Baudoin was a psychotherapist. He discovered that the best way to feed the subconscious mind is when we are in tired state, in which all effort  required is reduced to a minimum. At this state conscious mind is less powerful and subconscious is most active.
5. Thank You Technique: Gratitude brings huge positivity.
6. Affirmation method: Use of positive sentences such as I am confident. I will perform. I will prove I am perfect.
7. Argument method: we must challenge our brain when it refuses to do the things . By doing this we can increase our limits.

Where good ideas come from- Steven Johnson

 

Everybody wants to know from where good ideas come from. How innovation comes into existence? what kind of  environment is needed to breed them? Steven Johnson demonstrates with practical examples of the patterns that breed innovation in his book 'where good ideas come from'.
He breaks innovation/idea generation in 7 step pattern as the adjacent possible, liquid network,s the slow hunch, serendipity, error, exaptation, platforms. Thus he demonstrates innovation is not instantaneous/eureka moment. Ideas are slow hunches cultivated for months, years even for decades. That is the reason city has more innovations/ technology over towns. Ideas develop slowly.

Thus to summarize ideas do not come from individuals working alone they must be connected to share hunches small hunches grow into big hunches and in a environment that fosters innovation generate over time

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