GREAT THOUGHTS

• The Biggest room in the world is the room of SELF-DEVELOPMENT.
• There are 3 ages the CHRONOLOGICAL Age, THE BIOLOGICAL Age, and THE PSYCHOLOGICAL Age. The next time somebody asks you about your age ask back “which age you mean?” .
• One thing common to all successful people is that they have wonderful relationships with the members of society.
• What you are is a gift of God. What you make of yourself is a gift to God.
• When you wake up in the morning, there are only two choices- TO BE HAPPY or TO BE UNHAPPY. What do you think you should choose? .
• When somebody, whom you have helped in the past, helps you – treat it as a bonus. This is the remedy for all disappointments in life.
• All inventions in this world were brought about by dissatisfied people. Satisfied people chose to sleep.
• Time is the only thing that is given to all of us perfectly equal amounts, but badly misused.
• The poor and the prime minister get exactly 24 hours – nothing less, nothing more. But look at the quality of the prime minister’s 24 hours.
• I waste time. Time wastes me and it quits.
• It’s said that time is your life; you waste time, you waste your life.
• To become successful in life, it is easy. Copy the person you want to become, after sometime you become him.
• Copy the original. After some time you become the original. Sometimes, the copy may become better than the original.
• People who don’t have goals are doomed to work for people with goals.
• People who set goals much earlier in life become disproportionately successful when compared to their counterparts.
• Help somebody because you wanted to help him, not because you want to get helped in return.
• The more you give, the more you get. Helping somebody can be compared to a boomerang – the more you help, the more you get.
• If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.
• If you do not have a smiling face, you cannot open a shop.
• Smile is a powerful weapon in relationships.
• When you smile, the world smiles with you.
• Think of one of your friends, who are not as intelligent as you are. But he is more successful than you are, entirely because he has a smiling face.
• If you don’t have a smiling face and you want to develop one, as per medical doctor’s suggestion – stand in front of the mirror, practice smiling 20 minutes a day for 4 weeks. If you don’t succeed, go to the best plastic surgeon nearby, fix your face in a smiling position. Life immediately starts working.
• There are six billion inhabitants on this planet. It is my job to be comfortable with them. It is not their job to make me feel comfortable.
• 97% of human beings do not reach their goals because they do not write them down.
• Don’t postpone until 12, lest you may die at 11.30.
• The past does not empower you, but the future does!
• Failure plus a wonderful explanation is not equal to success.
• What you say is not important. What you do is more important.
• Happiness is permanent, pleasure is temporary. Happiness comes from within, pleasure comes from without.

• What gave you pleasure yesterday, stops giving you pleasure today.
• Fake it before you make it, does not matter even if you look artificial.
• Do you like to be criticized? Then why do you think somebody else likes it?
• Expecting nothing from anything/everything is the essence of happiness.
• Appreciating in public, criticize in private.
• Pretend enthusiasm. When you pretend enthusiasm, your life is full of enthusiasm.
• We must be content with what we are, but we ought to be thoroughly dissatisfied with what we have accomplished so far
• Nobody has died of hard work. People have died of heart-attack.
• Don’t hang on to the past. The most important point is what can be done now!.
• In the initial stages, when you appreciate somebody, you may seem artificial. But, later it becomes natural.
• Honesty is simply telling the truth! Integrity is incorporating truth into our life.
• Ask somebody what he wants to become in the next 5 years- he falls in love with you.
• All successful people walk 25% faster than their counterparts. Conversely if you can walk 25% faster, you ought to become successful.
• Relaxation is like a brain tonic. It soothes the tensed nerves and muscles of the body.
• Anybody you known, knows a minimum of 250 people. Do you realise the power of networking?
• When you make demands on people, after some time your network dries up.
• Imagine you have a vehicle. You go on using it only in the first gear. What happens? After 5000 km, the engine seizes. That means the engine is designed to last 100,000kms in the 4^th gear, not in the first gear. Similarly, this body is designed to last 100 years in the 4^th gear and often in the neutral gear. But how often we catch ourselves in the first gear, 2^nd gear and the 3^rd gear, but rarely in the 4^th gear!
• Imagine you are in a special state of mind “you know that you know, but you don’t know”. In this state, the answer is in you throat, but not in the fingers. After you come home and take a cold shower bath, the answer pops out-entirely because of poor memory recall.
• A picture is worth a million words.
• Opportunity knocks but once.
• What you study is not important; what you remember of what you have studied is more important.
• 95% of people read history, only 5% create history.
• Millions of cockroaches came into this world, a similar number left. It is only human beings like us who can create history.
• Put your heart into what you are doing the body follows.
• We come into this world but once.
• Any success aimed at prosperity is not success. Success aimed at contribution is real success.
• Memory is like a knife. The more you use it, the more sharp it becomes.
• Memory is what you make of it.
• Visual memory is always more powerful than auditory memory.
• top of the ladder is never crowded..
  
• All successful people remember a large member of names. Conversely, if you remember a large number of names, you ought to become successful.
• A winner never quits. A quitter never wins.
• The color of a balloon does not matter—what is inside the balloon is what matters.
• People use only 10% of their brain. When we use a little more we look like Einstein’s.
• It is said that people die before the open their eyes.
• There is nothing wrong with your memory. There is everything wrong with you memory recall.
• The word ‘forgetting’ does not exist. What exists is failure to recall at a given time.
• All of us use only 15% of the communication skills. Rest of the time we are only repeating, clarifying and creating confusion.
• Whatever success, prosperity and promotions we have achieved today is the result of 15% communication we are doing rightly. This tantamount to say that if we sharpen our skills of communication to 16%, 17%, 25% the same we ought to become more successful and prosperous.
• I love chocolates. For a strange reason, when I go fishing I don’t dangle chocolates, but earthworms. What I like is not what the fish likes. When you fail in life, when you are not as successful as you should be, ask yourself a very honest question:

“What is there at the other end of the fishing rod?”

For a week’s picnic, we prepare for months. Is there any preparation for an 80- year picnic (Life)!

• What happens is not important; how you take the matter is more important.
• 75% of the Americans decided to develop their speaking and communication skills over and above materialistic things, because they knew that once they master speaking skills, rest of the things are mandatory in life.
• All of us operate in this world with a set of glasses – OPTIMISTIC/PESSIMISTIC; WHICH glass you are wearing determines your future and life’s experience.
• If I look at people with pessimistic glasses, wherever I see, I find dangerous people, non-cooperative people and life looks like a misery. If I look at the same people with optimistic glasses, wherever I see, I find wonderful people, nice people, co-operative people and life looks like an 80-year picnic (life).
• All successful people have an extra spring an extra spring in standing up, an extra spring in sitting down, an extra spring in talking, walking & relationships in the work- place. That is why they are successful.
• Between the hater and the hated, who suffers more?
• In any given situation for any human being, there are only 3 choices in behavior- PASSIVE, AGGRESSIVE, ASSERTIVE.
• Have you seen some people who are 25 and look 45? Have you seen some others who are 45 but look 25? The essence is stress management.
• The funeral fire consumes you at the end of your life. But the fire of stress is consuming you every second, every minute, little by little.
• Technical skills can be hired and fired. But relationships cannot be hired and fired.
• Whatever thoughts you had in the past, results in what you are today. If you don’t change your thoughts today, your future will remain the same.
• The by-product of people’s love is prosperity and success.
• Love people unconditionally and the have only one way of loving you in return that is showering you with prosperity.
• Success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.