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22nd May 2013

 

Valuable Assets Which Money Cannot Buy

 

It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

 

 George Horace Lormier

 

We check our bank passbook to know whether we are secure financially. But do we ever check our `emotional passbook and balance sheet'? We want to know how rich we are in terms of our money and possessions. But do we ever check how poor we are in terms of some emotional assets which we don't have? Such assets include good health, happy family, goods friends, affectionate children, etc.

 

If you think for a while, no amount of money can buy the above assets. In our anxiety to earn money and secure our future, we sacrifice our present. A day will come when we will have enough money but no relationship and health. One day, we will realize that we were more busy acquiring material wealth and lost all our emotional possessions.

 

You need to know that your parents at seventies and children at tens are not going to be like that for long. Your friends and the people around you are too valuable to be ignored. Money cannot buy peace of mind and bliss. Money cannot buy true friendship and affection. Money cannot buy the satisfaction of raising a happy family.

 

Over this weekend, list all those things which money cannot buy and check whether you have any of them!

 

N.C. Sridharan

 

www.thetimefoundation.com

 

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21st May 2013

 

The Commercial Value of Your Time

 

Execution is the reward, not the money – money is just the by-product of perfect execution.

 

Jeffrey Gitomer

 

We need money and without money, we cannot even ensure basic comforts in life. The question is how much money we need and how much we have. The gap is accounted for by the value we create to others using our time. If we create more value, we get more value for money. If we create less, we get less money! Isn't it a simple common sense?

 

We have to understand that our time has a commercial value like any other product or a service. When we buy a computer, we come to know that computers are available in a range of prices. The entry-level computer can execute only a limited range of tasks. Its processing speed will be low and the technology used also will be lower end. If we have a high value project, we will not mind paying a very high price for the right type of computer. We take into account the return on investment when we buy a costly computer.

 

So is our time. We have to `market' our time and the `purchaser' of our time will take into account the return on investment. In any project, there are two investments: investment of money and investment of time. No one will invest on a project which offers very little return.

 

Answer this question honestly: If I resign my job today, will I get another job at the same salary or higher or lesser salary? Will my employer get another replacement for the same, higher or lower salary?

 

The answer to the above question is an index of the commercial value of your time!

 

N.C. Sridharan

 

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20th May 2013

 

Positive vs. Negative

 

Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out.

 

Eleanor Porter

 

Take a sheet of white paper and draw a black dot at the centre. Show the paper to your friend and ask him what he sees. More often than not, he will tell you that he sees a black dot! The white background will not catch his attention. Only the black dot will get noticed. That is human nature.

 

The same principle applies to noticing the virtues or faults of a person. We may not be able to appreciate the good things in a person. We will immediately notice the not-so-good things.

 

The irony in life is what is noticed will grow. If you notice bad things in a person, it will grow in your mind. On the other hand, if you notice good things in a person, it will also grow. One way you can infuse self-confidence in a person is to tell him all the good things he has so that the same is reinforced.

 

We can apply this principle for our self-development also. We get agitated and feel bad when something goes wrong. Small mistakes make us lose our self-confidence and we start brooding over the same even after the event is over. Over a period of time, we become a `gloom factory'!

 

While we go through such a phase in our life, it will be a good idea to list all the good qualities we have and all the good things we have done. When faced with failure, it will be good idea to list all the success stories we have created, big or small. This will help us to bounce back to our original state of mind.

 

Over this weekend, list three people whose good things never appealed to you and list at least five things in which they are good. Give this feedback to them. Make it as a habit. Notice how the quality of your friendship grows over a period of time!

 

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17th May 2013

 

Check the Quality of Your Attention

 

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

 

Diane Sawyer

 

We have often heard that there is no substitute for hard work. In fact, if we think for a while, we cannot work hard if we don't pay attention. Paying attention is a very important quality that we have to develop. Paying attention means that we are fully involved in what we are doing and that our mind is fully on the task on hand. Through our five senses we communicate with the world outside. We see, hear, smell, taste and feel. The quality of these sensations depends upon the quality of our attention and attention span.

 

Attention is the ability to focus our mind on one thing. Attention span is the duration of our attention. Our mind is normally distracted and disturbed and jumping from one thought to another. A wavering mind will not gather any momentum. Our mind and thoughts have to be contained and controlled. It does not come to us naturally. We have to train our mind.

 

The most important pre-requisite for paying attention is our interest level. If we do not have interest in what we are doing, we will not get involved and consequently we will not pay attention. Next time you watch a cricket match or a football match, notice the quality and intensity of the players' attention and evaluate yours on your job.

 

Success or failure depends on the ability to pay attention to details. This factor also determines how much you can climb in your chosen field.

 

Stop reading this and check the quality of your attention: Can you recall the above quotation without reading it again?

 

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