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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans !!

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“It’s been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working for them has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It’s a rule.”

Globalized processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general sense of searching for immediate results. Therefore, we have come to possess a need to see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold x quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better results.

1. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants..
2. Stockholm has 500,000 people.
3. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, are some of its renowned companies. Volvo even supplies NASA.

The first time I was in Sweden , one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn’t say anything, neither the second or third days. One morning I asked him, “Do you have a fixed parking space? I’ve noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot.” To which he replied, “Since we’re here early we’ll have time to walk, don’t you think that whoever gets in late will need a place closer to the door?” Imagine my face.

Nowadays, there’s a movement in Europe named Slow Food. This movement establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart, Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week.

Basically, the movement questions the sense of “hurry” and “craziness” generated by globalization, fuelled by the desire of “having in quantity” (life status) versus “having with quality”, “life quality” or the “quality of being”.

French people, even though they work 35 hours per week, are more productive than Americans or British. Germans have established 28.8 hour workweeks and have seen their productivity driven up by 20%. This slow attitude has come to the notice of USA , the pupils of the fast and “do it now” brigade.

This no-rush attitude doesn’t represent doing less or having a lower productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress.

It means re-establishing family values, friends, free and leisure time. Taking the “now”, present and concrete, versus the “global”, undefined and anonymous. It means taking humans’ essential values, the simplicity of living. It stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and more productive work place where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do.

It’s time to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of products and services, without losing the essence.

In the movie, ‘Scent of a Woman’, there’s a scene where Al Pacino asks a girl to dance and she replies, “I can’t, my boyfriend will be here any minute now”. To which Al Pacino responds, “A life is lived in an instant”. Then they dance the tango!

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious to live for the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists.

We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time.
We need to live each moment.

As John Lennon said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”

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Feel The Flow

You know that feeling when everything is going your way, when the stars align, when things fall into place, when you get on a roll? That’s what Flow feels like.

Sportsmen call it being ‘in the zone’, musicians talk about being ‘in the pocket’, others refer to it as being ‘on top form’.

In science, they call it ‘flow’.

The phrase was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, one of the world’s leading researchers of positive psychology. His work on the relationship between happiness and creativity is considered groundbreaking and ultimately culminated in the concept of Flow.

It is often characterized by the perception of a loss or gain of time. In other words, when you are so immersed in and enjoying what you are doing that time seems to fly by, or conversely time stands still allowing you to act with greater clarity and precision than others. Either way, this state is synonymous with enjoyment in the task at hand and excellence in its execution.

To achieve Flow, it helps to be cool, calm and collected. The absence of stress and anxiety means you’re free to concentrate one hundred percent on the job at hand.

This heightened focus allows you to access and perform the skills at your disposal to the best of your ability – if the challenge matches those skills, you’ll likely experience Flow.

But, while this sounds like peak performance is the ultimate goal,it’s important to note that a key component of Flow Theory is simply, pure enjoyment.

Being able to find pleasure in a task is one of the greatest challenges to achieving Flow. However, people who do, achieve better results and in turn enjoy themselves even more. Once you have created this cycle, it self perpetuates and both the level of achievement and associated pleasure increase.

So,when you Feel The Flow, life is pretty awesome.

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[ ::: ♥] From Stress to Strength

Being jobless for the last three months I am depressed now a days. My son has lost his admission from a good school and he might have to go to a less qualitative school. I have moved from a spacious apartment to a less good apartment in order to reduce my living expenses. My wife, being a woman, naturally has built extra stress. On top of that my father in law has died a week ago which has added fuel to fire, putting our family in more miserable state. And now I have met an accident too !!!

In these circumstances I have two mental choices; either to feel depressed and keep thinking about my complications, loosening my peace of mind and impacting my family life OR replace my negative thoughts with 7 super mental powers about self confidence, positivity, consistent courage and implosiveness and keep applying for new jobs with positive momentum. I choose the second option because I believe that that the pain I am undergoing today will empower my character. My strengths will then boost my confidence and make me a successful man one day. I understand that time does not stop and does not remain the same. I understand that good and bad phases are part of the package called life. While good times make me happy; bad times strengthen the ‘inner’ me. I don’t really know how much time it would take to regain my blessings and I don’t know the logic on why God has put me in this exam however I believe in the quote which says that God takes men into deep waters not to drown them but to cleanse them. Although my mind cannot fathom the wisdom behind God’s decision but I truly believe in His decisions. I also believe in the four spiritual powers; one of them says that whatever is happening is the best thing that could have happened.

After two months: By the grace of God, I have landed on a job which is very exciting, full of professional exposure and offers a nice salary. Time has healed my wife’s mental stress due to the death of her father although such kind of demise loss is irreplaceable. My son and daughter have got admission in a good school because the admissions for new academic year were still open !

Overall commentary on this episode of life is that time does not stop and does not remain the same. A person needs to have the resilient approach towards life such that he does not loses his focus from pursuit of happiness and consistently keep applying the great principles of life such as honesty, hard work and positive life approach. Now that I am back on the track of normal life so I can confidently state that the most important things which helped me fight crisis were my consistent trait of patience, firm belief in God and positive attitude towards life applying 7 super mental powers all the times. So, while I wish you all the best life can offer you, I would highly recommend demonstrate the same approach towards life in case you are trapped in any of such situations.

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20 year old Maria Rose Belding, co-founder of MEANS Database, created an APP that’s already saved thousands of pounds of food waste.. A lot of food ended up being wasted after they failed to find a home. The problem lays in bringing the two together—the people who have food to give to the ones who haven’t any to eat.The solution is an APP that connects people, organizations and businesses that have food to give to the people that need it. Her APP allows donors to list the food available, then pick up is arranged and delivered to the done.

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ACTS ABOUT LIFE.
1) No matter how beautiful/ handsome you are, just
remember that baboons and gorillas also attract tourists.

@asoka the gr8 ?

2) No matter how big and strong you are, you shall not carry yourself to the grave.

3) No matter how tall you are, you can never see tomorrow.

4) No matter how light skinned you are, you always need a light in the dark.

5) No matter how rich and how many cars you have,
you will always walk to the toilet. ….
So take it easy….life is short….

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