SMART Goals

If we ask people “What is their one major objective in Life?” most of the people would probably give you a vague answer, such as, “I want to be successful, be happy, make a good living.” and that is it. But these all are
wishes and none of them are clear goals.

Goals must be SMART :

 

1.      S – Specific. For example, “I want to lose weight.” This is wishful thinking. It becomes a goal when I pin myself down to “I will lose 15 pounds in 60 days.”

2.      M – must be measurable. If we cannot measure it we cannot accomplish it. Measurement is a way of monitoring our progress.

3.      A – Achievable. Achievable means that it should be out of reach enough to be challenging but it should not be out of sight, otherwise it becomes disheartening.

 

4.      R – Realistic. A person who wants to lose 60 pounds in ~ 30 days is being unrealistic.

5.      T – Time bound. There should be a starting date and a finishing date.

Please comment your opinion on this and do add something of yours......

 

An interview with GOD

I dreamed I had an interview with God.

‘Come in’, God said, ‘So you would like to interview Me?’
‘If you have the time’ – I said.
God smiled and said
‘My time is eternity and is enough to do everything;
what questions do you have in mind to ask me?’

‘What surprises you most about mankind?’ – I asked.
God answered:
‘That they get bored with being children; are in rush to grow up,
and then long to be children again.
That they lose their health to make money
and then lose their money to restore their health.
That by thinking anxiously about their future,
they forget the present, such that they live neither
for the present nor for the future.
That they live as if they will never die, 
and die as if they had never lived…’

God’s hands shook and we were silent for a while.
Then I asked – ‘As a parent, what are some of life’s
lessons you want your children to learn?’

God replied with a smile,
‘To learn that they cannot make anyone love them,
what they can do is to let themselves be loved.
To learn that what is most valuable is not
what they have in their lives,
but how they have in their lives.
To learn that it is not good to compare
themselves to others….

To learn that a rich person, is not the one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.
To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open 
profound wounds in person we love
and that it takes many years to heal them.
 
To learn that there are people who love them dearly,
but simply do not know how to express or show their feelings.
To learn that money can buy everything but happiness.
to learn that two people can look at the same thing
and see it totally differently.
To learn that a true friend is someone who knows everything
about them…and likes them anyway.
To learn that it is not always enough that
they be forgiven by others,
but that they have to forgive themselves’

                        People will forget what you said,
                        People will forget what you did,
                          But people will never forget
                          How you made them feel.

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Grab the first oppurtunity

Once upon a time , in a village there lived a farmer and he had a beautiful daughter. A young man wished to marry the farmer's beautiful daughter. He went to the farmer for his permission.the farmer looked him over and said, "Son, go and stand out in that field. I am going to release three bulls, one at a time and what you have to do is that you have to catch the tail of any one of the three bulls, and if you are successful in this task you can marry my daughter."


The young man stood in the pasture awaiting the first bull.

The barn door opened and out ran meanest-looking,the biggest bull he had ever seen.He decide that one of the next bull had to be the better choice than this one, so he ran over to the side and let the bull pass the pasture out the back gate.

The barn door opened again. Unbelievable. He had never seen so big and fierce in his life. It stood pawing the ground, grunting, slinging slobber as it eyed him.Whatever the next bull was like, it had to be better choice than this one. So he ran to the fence and let the bull pass through the pasture, out the back gate.

The door opened a third time. A smile came across his face. This was the weakest, scrawniest little bull he had ever seen. This one was his bull. As bull came running by, he positioned himself just right and jumped at just moment. He grabbed ... but the bull had no tail!

Life is full of opportunities. Some will be easy to take advantage of, some will be difficult. But once we let them pass (often in hopes of something better), those opportunities may never again be available. So always grab the first opportunity..

Grab the first oppurtunity

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Stress Management, Put the Glass Down

While teaching stress management to an audience, a psychologist walked around in a room with a glass of water in her hand. As she raised a glass of water, everyone in the audience expected they'd be asked the "Half Empty or Half Full" question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired : "How much heavy is this glass of water?"

Answer called out ranged from 8 oz to 20 oz.

She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it's not a problem but if I hold it for an hour, I will have ache in my arm and if I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, Does the weight of the glass change? NO , but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

She continued, "The worries and stresses in life are like glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed - incapable of doing anything."

It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. 
Remember to put the glass down!

I knew you would come

A Touching story on Friendship, an Inspiring one. It will definitely touch your heart !!!!!!!!

In a battle, a soldier was preparing himself in order to bring his wounded friend back from the field.


His Captain said,

"Its of no use soldier! Your friend must have been dead".

But soldier still goes & brings back his friend.

And soldier returns with his dead body.

Looking at the dead body, Captain says,
"I told you its of no worth. He's dead".

The soldier replies with moist eyes:
"No sir, it was really of worth.... .."

When I got to him, my friend saw me, smiled & said his last words:

"I KNEW YOU WOULD COME"...

Moral:

True, Trustworthy, Rare, Precious, Strong friends... are always there when you need them the most....
Never ever leave such friends.

Key to Happiness

When I was 6-7 years old, my mother every now and then used to make breakfast food for dinner, and I remember one night in particular when she had returned home after a long, hard working day, she had made dinner for us.

My mother placed a plate of bread, ketchup, butter and extremely burned biscuits in front of my father.
I was waiting to see if anyone had noticed!!!. Yet what my father did was that , he reach for his biscuit, smiled at my mom and asked me "How was my day at School ?" 


I really don't remember what reply I had given to my father for that question, but I remember one thing for sure that he was putting butter on that biscuit and was eating each and every bite!!!

That evening when I had finished dinner and was leaving the table, I remember that my mother apologize to my father for burned biscuits, and I will never forget the answer my father gave: "Dear, I love burned biscuits."

Later that night, when I and my father were watching TV , I asked my father did he really liked his burned biscuits.My father wrapped me in his arms and said, "Your Mother had a hard working day at work today and she's real tired. And besides – "A little burned biscuits will never hurt anyone!"

Life is full of imperfect people and imperfect things. I'm hardly best at anything, even I forget anniversaries and birthdays just like everyone else. But what I've learned over the years is that, the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship are learning to accept each others faults and choosing to celebrate each others differences.

And that's my advice for you today, learn to take the bad, the ugly , and  the good parts of your life and lay them in front of God.  Because in the end, he's the only one who will be able to give you a relationship where a burnt biscuit isn't a deal-breaker! 

We could extend this to any relationship. In fact, understanding is the base of any relationship, be it a husband-wife or parent-child or friendship! 

"Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket – keep it in your own."

Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. 

"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."

                  God Bless You..... Now, and Always.... 

So Please pass me a biscuit, and yes, the burnt one will do just fine.!.!.!.! And PLEASE pass this along to someone who has enriched your life... I just did!"

So many of us are very quick to argue, get angry, or even end relationships over pretty small things. It is more important to appreciate people for who they are and not to focus on there mistakes. You would not want someone to point out your every mistake so why do it to others ? In fact when someone makes a mistake it is more important to show your love on that moment than to criticize. Not only will that expression of love will stick out and always be remembered, it will help to further deeper the bond of your relationship. 

So let the burned biscuits of life go and be grateful for what you do have.

(Author :Unknown)

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Each and every person on this earth has his/her story.

A 24 year old boy was going to his home by a train.His father was also with him in this journey.

Soon the train started,and a boy was very excited,looking out from a train's window the boy shouted,"Hey! Dad Look the trees are going behind!" His dad smiled.


There was young couple who was sitting just nearby them, looked at the 24 year old boy's childish behavior with pity.

Suddenly he again shouted,"Dad, Look even the cloulds are running with us."

The couple couldn't resist and told to the boy's father,"What is this, Why don't you take your boy to a good doctor ?"

His father smiled and replied,"I did take him to doctor and we are just coming back from the hospital, today my son had an operation , he was blind from birth, my son just got his eyes today."

Moral from the above incident:

"Each and every person on this earth has  his/her own story,we should not judge people before we really know them.
Think before you say anything,the truth might surprise you."

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Hurts in the sand and blessings in the stone

There is saying,"Write your HURTS in the SAND and CARVE your BLESSINGS in the STONE."

Let us Understand what it means.

There were once two friends RAM and SHYAM walking through the desert.
During some point of their journey they had a fight and in that fight SHYAM slapped RAM on his face.

RAM who was slapped was 'hurt', but he didn't say anything, just wrote in the sand:
"Today my best friend slapped me in the face."

They kept on walking till they found an oasis.They both then decided to take bath.
Now in this course RAM started drowning as he got stuck in the mire(area of wet, soggy, muddy ground),
but SHYAM saved him from near drowning.

At this, RAM wrote on a stone,
"Today my best friend saved my life."

Shyam looking at this questioned him,"When I slapped you,you wrote on a sand and when I saved you, you wrote on a stone, why so ?"

RAM replied,
"When someone hurts us, we should write it down on sand, where winds of forgiveness can erase it away, but when someone does something good for us, we must carve it on a stone so that no wind can ever erase it."

Moral :

"Learn to write your hurts in the sand,and to carve your blessings in stone."

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Evaluate yourself(Self Evaluation)

Once a little boy went to a store and dragged a chair close to telephone
He then stood upon the chair so that he could reach the telephone.

He then took out a small piece of paper from his pocket and started pushing the numbers written on that piece of paper.


The owner of the store looking at this went near to the boy so that he can get the idea what the boy was trying to do.

After pushing all 10 numbers on telephone, a lady voice was heard from the opposite end.

The boy asked the lady,"Mam, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn now."

The lady replied,"Sorry dear, I already have someone to cut my lawn."

The boy replied back "Mam, I will cut your lawn for half the amount than the person who is currently cutting your lawn."

The lady replied, "Dear,I am pretty much sattisfied with the person who is currently cutting my lawn."

The little boy again requested her with a new offer that, "Mam, I will sweep your curb and the sidewalk, so by weekend you will have prettiest lawn in all of the society."

Again the woman responded in the negative.The little boy replaced the receiver,with a smile on his face.

The owner of the shop after listening to the whole conversation that happened between little boy and a lady, walked near to the boy and said,

"SON, I am really impressed by your Attitude,I really liked your positive spirit,and I would like to offer you a job at my store."

The little boy replied,"No Thanks sir."

Owner of the shop, "But SON you were really pledding for the job.Then why are you refusing my offer."

The boy,"I was just checking to the job I already have,Sir I am the one who is currently working for that Lady."

Moral Of the Story :

"This is what we call ‘Self Appraisal’/'Self Evaluation'.  Every time we blame others if we don’t get ahead of others. We should look to our self and compare, find own weaknesses and work hard to throw away  that weaknesses.  Always be Honest, Work Hard and with full Dedication.  It will always pay up.."

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Is Web the only Solution of our Life?

Once there was an advertisement in newspaper for job of an "officeboy" at Microsoft. 

A jobless guy looking at the advertisement applied for the Job.

Then HR of Microsoft Interviewed him and then gave him a task to clean the floor as a test.
After the test was over HR told him that "You are Employed".

Then HR said - "Give me your Email Id so that I can send you the forms to fill in as well the date from when you can join"

The boy told sir- "I don't have a Computer neither I do have a mail id".

To this the HR replied "I am sorry" and further said "If you don't have an Email Id,that means you don't exist,and one who doesn't exist cannot have the Job."

The man left the office with no hope ,he didn't know what to do as he was having just $ 10 in his pocket.

He then decided to go to supermarket and buy 10KG Tomatoes.
He then went door to door and sold all 10KG Tomatoes,and within 2 hours he just doubled his capital.

He repeated this same procedure again for three times and by end of the day he returned home with $ 60.The man got an idea that he can survive like this.

So from next day he used to wakeup early for his operation and return late working hard all the day.Soon his capital doubled and tripled everyday.Within no time he bought a cart,then a truck,later on he had his own fleet of vehicles.

After 5 years,this man became one of the biggest food retailers in US.

Then this man decided to plan for his family's future,so he decided to have a life insurance.
He called a insurance broker for choosing a protection plan.

After deciding for a protection plan and lots of conversation ,the broker asked him for his email id.

The man replied "I don't have an email."

The broker with curiosity asked him "You ! you don't have an email id , and yet you have succeeded in building an empire."

The broker further told him "Sir ,Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email id ?!!!!"

The man thought for a while and replied "Yes! I would have been an office boy at Microsoft."

So what do we learn from this:

a) Facebook/Twitter/Google/Internet/Email/Blog/Whatsapp is not the solution to our Life

b) If we don't have Facebook/Twitter/Google/Internet/Email/Blog/Whatsapp   and work hard, we can also become Millionaire.

c) If we are reading this in Facebook/Twitter/Google/Internet/Email/Blog/Whatsapp we're probably already an office Boy/Girl, and not any close to being a Billionaire.

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