Personal Development for Smart People – Steve Pavlina
This site is absolutely wonderful. It is just one man – Steve Pavlina. His experiences in life made him what he is and those have directly contributed to the quality of his posts. Has many excellent articles about self discipline like how to be an early riser
During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived – everyone except the Zen master. Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was. When he wasn’t treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger. “You fool,” he shouted as he reached for his sword, “don’t you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!” But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved. “And do you realize,” the master replied calmly, “that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?”
The above story tells us more than one thing.
1: Don’t be afraid: Don’t fear anyone. Fear never leads to productivity. It only leads to restriction. But that doesn’t mean we have to show fearlessness everywhere. Be brave when it matters. Stand up and speak out against injustice. But,
2: Be tactful: Like the Zen master, show tact. Request something and you may get things that you may not have got if you had ordered for it. Inject humor (not satire) and you may be winning hearts even faster.
3: Never give others a chance to devalue you:Ever found yourself shouting against someone to stop shouting? Ever wasted time watching senseless soaps in the television? Then you will understand what I mean by not giving others a chance to devalue you.
Remember: You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Don't Grow Old - Grow Up! by Dorothy Carnegie
Though these are only summaries, they are very useful
Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence
…(1) Ask atheists what caused the Big Bang.
(2) Regardless of their answer, ask how they know this.
(3) Continue process until the atheist admits he doesn’t know the answer to one of your questions.
(4) You win!
(5) Therefore, God exists….
Want to save the world? Already switching off lights and fans when not in use? What next? Make your computer energy efficient. There is (in Windows):
I have set the Power Scheme as follows:
Turn off monitor : After 1 min
Turn off hard disks : After 10 mins
System Standby : After 15 mins
System hibernates : After 20 mins
And it works extremely well for me. Every time I go to drink tea, or fight with my brother, even if i forget to switch off the monitor, it automatically goes off.
Hibernating is a very powerful power saving tool that many often do not use due to lack of awareness. Enabling this is very easy. In Power Options, there is the Hibernate tab. Enable it.
Now is the tricky part. Normally when turning off, you can see stand by towards the left of turn off. When hibernation is enabled also, there is standby there. But now, if you press Shift, you can see that it turns into hibernate button. Click while pressing shift* and your PC hibernates like a polar bear does in winter.
The advantage of hibernating is that you can turn the power supply off like when shut down and you can resume your session from where you stopped as when stood by.
*Note: You can press H instead of pressing shift and clicking.
Finally. Don’t install unnecessary programs. Not that you needn’t install the new browser that google releases. But make sure that you don’t install an audio recording/editing pro software that you don’t even know the use of, just to know how it looks like (like I used to do for years).
I consider reading as the best hobby because it is:
Add your own……
Destination Infinity: The Japanese concept of 5S
Simple management techniques for a better life.
Also some examples for the greatness of Japanese men
The C-DAC (Center for Development of Advanced Computing) developed a Linux operating system for Indians, a few years ago. It is now in its 3rd major version – Tejas.
Unlike Windows, every application in it can use any Indian language as its interface. That is, apart from being able to type in Malayalam or any language, with BOSS, you can actually see Malayalam words instead of File, Edit, etc. And if you are visiting Malayalam websites, on the title bar of the browser, you can see actual Malayalam letters instead of those little rectangles you get with Windows.
BOSS can easily be downloaded from their website.
It also has automatic updates. If you can’t use those in Windows due to pirate concern, you CAN with BOSS.
Installation is quite user friendly, though there can be a slight problem for beginners during disk partitioning. But this can be easily done, if you have a windows system with many disk drives already installed. So you can just delete one partition manually, and tell BOSS to automatically partition the free space that is created.
After that everything is quite easy. Even users new to Linux won’t feel hostility. The taskbar has the ability to hold many desklets, like the Google desktop gadgets or vista desktop gadgets. Languages can easily be changed. Updates easily done. Even installations of new software have been given a graphical end. A synaptic manager, lets you find which all software is available at various web resources, and lets you install those, with just checking and clicking.
There are nice CD/DVD writing tools. A swap disk that lets you free yourself from being tied to the memory limit of your RAM. Simple Games. Everything that you will ever need.
For more information go to bosslinux.in
Any thing that felt good sense for me will appear here.
For Inspiration:
The Don’t Quit Poem: The don’t quit poem
Know Your Value…………: You have a potential
It’s called Mindset!!: As you think, so you are
Beat That Voice Inside You Which Tells You – “You Can’t”: Running and reading
When You Look Back At The End… : Live the best life you can…
Imagining Nothing : It’s possibly impossible
Pale Blue Dot: Looking at earth from a huge distance
Eccentric thoughts:
Making the best out of poverty: Convert poor to trained workers
The Art of Respecting: Respecting is acting
On Spirituality:
The Worst Thing for an Ambitious Young Man is – Spirituality: What advaita is
Why do we do what we do do?: Why are we here?
Do You Think Everything Happened By Chance?: You’d rather believe it otherwise
On Politics:
X Party : “Y and Z are bad, elect us” : Past defects or future promises? What do you need from candidates?
കേരളത്തില് മഴ പെയ്യുമ്പോള്: Can even rain help the innocent?
On Patriotism:
Do you love your nation or fear her?: Importance of loving nation rather than respecting
Valentine’s Day : I Love A Girl: Love your country
On life:
7 simple steps to save earth: written for earth hour 2009
7 things to do during holidays: So that you don’t get bored and spend time productively
What to do when you make a mistake?: Get up and go
On computer:
How to increase the number of people who read your blog: Traffic raising tips
How to Make Blog Post Through Emails in Blogger: Send an Email and It Will Become a Blog Post, How?
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
William Feather
“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg. “
– Abraham Lincoln
“Make yourself indispensable and you’ll be moved up . Act as if you’re indispensable and you’ll be moved out.”
– Jules Ormont
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth
“The formula for a happy marriage? It’s the same as the one for living in California: When you find a fault, don’t dwell on it.”
– Jay Trachman
“If the complexity of brain suggests the existence of God, the insignificance of earth suggests the exact opposite”
“The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.”
– Michael Friedman
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes