365 Days of Motivation

                                                            Living in the present is effortless to discuss but equally hard to acquire. Look around and you will see most people unhappy these days. Some people are regretting their past and some are worried about their future. People have forgotten the art of living in the present these days. A person who lives in the present is the happiest person in the world. A person who has settled the past and have no concern about the future is the healthiest person mentally. I fail to understand that why people are so worried about the past or the future. They are always regretting the events that happened in the past. They can’t get out of it and don’t comprehend ‘what has happened has happened’. It can’t be altered now and observing the past events is like driving a car while looking in the rear-view mirror. A big accident is bound to happen this way. If you keep this attitude, you can’t move ahead. Others who are always concerned about t

                                                            People often focus on adding skills to their armory, but they forget to monitor their performance from time to time. Successful people always keep an eye on the efforts they make. They are always critical of the fact that there must not be any shortcoming in the efforts they put. This is the habit that you must take from successful people. At the end of each day, you must sit in a quiet place and analyze yourself and your performances. In the morning you must make plans, during the day you must execute your plans but evaluating your day is the most important aspect of self-growth. Get up in the morning and make a to do list. Then at the end of each day, give grades to yourself. Or mark your tasks with numbers out of 10. You must rate yourself in order to see the real picture. It might look strange at beginning but trust me you will be a changed person in a very short time. Look, motivation and inspiration might come from

                                                                      Travel if you are looking for God. Travel if you want to seek tranquility. Travel if you want to see good in others. Travel if you want to know the purpose of life. Travel if you want to become mature. Travel if you want to become successful. Travelling was a trivial subject in the past in most of the Asian countries and was only considered as an activity of the affluent. But people nowadays are travelling more than ever. This increasing trend of travelling has made people sharper and more aware of the international trends. It doesn’t matter whether you travel internationally or within your country. The thing that matters is that you travel at regular intervals. Monthly, quarterly, half yearly or annually. You must have a special budget for travelling as it is an activity that will give you the greatest of satisfaction and learning. Travelling is not that expensive as you think. If you plan well in advance, then

                                                                                Look I am not a fool. Because this is what you are going to tell me if I tell you to avoid gadgets. I will be lying if I say that I am writing this article on a typewriter. Of course not. I will be dishonest if I say that I don’t use a laptop and phone during the day. The fact of the matter is that in today’s era if you want to be successful and connect with the world, you need the support of your gadgets. I have very carefully used the word ‘support’ in the last sentence. Yes, just the support of your gadgets. Don’t make them your life. Don’t indulge in your gadgets so much that you start ignoring the real world. Avoiding gadgets is not the solution. But you can cut down the use. I am a writer by profession, and I am always on my laptop working on a new project. I am a trainer as well and, in these times, I am connected to students across the globe through gadgets. We can all agree that we can’t avoid

                                  Many people dream while sleeping. Some dream when they are awake. But people make the mistake of dreaming too big and the dreams start looking daunting. There is a proper manual on how to dream. These days, I am in a process of writing a book on how to dream. Obviously I can't discuss each and every thing in detail in this blog but I can surely give you an outline. The best way to dream is to dream small things each morning. A person feels a sense of satisfaction when he makes his dreams come true. Satisfaction and success are interlinked. The more you are satisfied, more are the chances of you being successful. Fulfilling your dreams everyday will give you immense satisfaction which in turn will help you to achieve tremendous success. When you wake up in the morning, you must have a dream in your eyes. Have a vision for the day. Write your dreams and plans for each day. Work on those small dreams. Achieve every task and evaluate yourself at th

                                                                                               ‘Knowing yourself is knowing the world’ – Darshan Singh This is something that most people don’t do. It is crucial to talk to yourself. Talking to yourself will unravel so many unsolved questions in your life. In our curriculum or at educational centers, we have been always told to take advice from others. But seldom you hear someone telling you to take your own advice. I am the person of that category who takes his own advice before asking others. This does two things; it helps you to make better decisions and it allows you to know yourself better. Doing inner research about yourself is very important. You must know who you are. What do you do and what do you intend to do ahead? Until and unless you know yourself thoroughly, you can’t do well in life. We often go to other people to take advice about our education, career and marriage. But think logically and guess who knows you better?

                                                                      Successful people dictate their terms, they don’t follow anyone. They don’t seek permissions from their family or friends, they just do it. It is not as easy as it sounds. Especially in a country like India where parents interfere in their kid’s decisions to a great extent. I reckon that the interference from parents in choosing study or career options for their kids is bizarre. It might not look awkward when you are one of those who follow the traditional thinking. But if you think logically, you will find this absolute trash. Why do people need to take permission from their parents or guardians? Parents should guide their kids in every possible way, but they should leave the power of choosing study or career on their kids. Parents must tell their kids about the pros and cons of a certain path. Then they must leave it to their kids as to which path they chose. Not only this but I have also seen adults aged bet

                                                                 No matter what the situation is, you must always have the will to win. Once you surrender your will, you’re dead ideologically if not physically. Your will is everything that you have. Will gives you hope, and hope gives you reason to live. The most successful people might not have the highest of degrees or intelligent minds. But they all had tremendous and never-ending willpower. The determination that could move mountains. Tenacity that could change the world. Real test of willpower comes when you are made to struggle by external forces. The real test comes when you face failure after failure. Most people crumble when they keep on failing. But champions like you know how to not lose the will to win and keep on hoping for the best. Willpower comes from a strong mindset. You’ve got to condition your mind for that. You can’t just blame the reason of your failures on others. You need to take the responsibilities of yo

                                                                 There are two types of people in society when it comes to reacting to the unknown. The first type will ignore the unknown and wouldn’t want to know about it. Or they come to know about the unknown from others. The second type of people will react to the unknown in a dynamic way. They will do research about it; they will dig into the facts and will try to gain as much information about unknown from their research. They will not simply believe what other people will have to say about it. They will not accept the facts of other people about the unknown. They will do their homework and will reveal the unknown. I want you to be the second type. You must always be curious about life and things around us. We are taught endless number of things by our parents and mentors throughout our first half of the life. From our childhood, we are told to believe what they say. There’s no harm in that, but we must also teach our kids to ch

                                                                                   This is a simple mantra that has made people successful, rich and famous. Talking more about business will not make you a better businessperson, working on that will. Similarly, in every other field, most people waste their time in talking and making plans about their career. But the successful one’s talk less and do more. While others are busy in chatting, making plans, discussing about others, debating about politics, doing unnecessary stuff but successful people will have already started their journey. They think less and act more. Thinking out of the box is good but overthinking yourself can lead to a disaster. I am not at all saying that making plans is not a great idea. But people take too long to make plans and simply don’t start with the work in hand. When you do excessive planning, you are likely to not taking up that project. Because when you start thinking about some future prospect, you t

                                                       Being good is not good. Because you need to be best in order to be good. Don’t worry, I will just simplify it for you. Being good is only as good as other people around you. But you my dear, is not an average person. You are going to be different and better than everyone else. If you want to be successful, then being good is not good enough. When you do something, business, job, making music, writing books, you start from good. Most of the people in the world remain good throughout their lives. But you see, there are more than 7 billion people on this Earth. So, your competition is fierce. You can’t be simply good if you want to rise above than everyone else. You’ve got to work on your skill consistently to become better than others and eventually becoming the best. It doesn’t matter what you do in life, you can be the best in your respective fields. If you want to shine brighter than others then you must learn every day, you m

                                                                 The generation gap is increasing day by day and that is partly due to the advents of new technology and largely due to the gap in the thinking of different generations. Most of the youngsters don’t really appreciate their elder’s vision and foresight. There’s nothing wrong in that as youngsters these days have their own vision and way of living life. But there are millions of things that we can learn from our elders. They are the ones who have seen more life than us. They are more experienced and have wealth of knowledge. They have walked the path that you are walking now. We have so much to learn from them. Spending time with elders has a lot of advantages for both young and the old. When you spend time with them, you can learn things that you won’t learn at schools or universities. Elders are the most vulnerable age group of our society. They will feel secure when you spend time with them. They have given so much to

                                                  It is easier said than done. But charity is a wonderful experience. Wherever or whenever you feel, there is a need of helping someone, go for it if you can. Charity in simple words is help. Helping someone with a daily chore, financially, mentally or in whatever way you can is charity. Charity is not that hard as you think. It is not about donating huge bucks to an organization, but it is about those small things that you do in your daily routine and help people around you. Giving a free meal to a needy is a great charity. Helping someone with a small medical treatment is a charity. Gifting your books to someone poor is charity. Providing your professional service to somebody at low cost is charity. There is no perfect definition of charity and no one can draw a line about it. Charity is simply helping others with good intentions and not expecting anything in return. I am a trainer by profession, and I have done charity by providing

                                                                           Life is full of challenges. It is up to you whether to accept them or escape them. Winners never dodge challenges; they will face the obstacles and will conquer their challenges in style. Most people prefer avoiding challenges. That’s the reason why majority of people in the world live an average life. I know there can be challenges that are unavoidable and difficult to tackle, like poverty. But try reading about famous personalities and celebrities, you’ll come to know that most of them are from humble backgrounds. They fight their way up to the pinnacle. Although they are born poor, but their vision is rich. It is that will and desire to be successful that sets them apart from the rest of the world. They are always ready to accept the challenges. They are never afraid of facing a situation that is full of complications.   You must never run away from reality and challenges. Face them with head held high

                                                  Have you ever woken up in the morning thinking that you don’t have a purpose in your life? Did you ever feel that your dreams have been crushed and you don’t have a way forward? If yes, then you don’t really know the magic of a new day. The new day that brings countless of new opportunities in our lives. We often carry our grudges, setbacks, failures into the new day. But that’s not how champions live their lives. People who are successful, leave everything behind and eagerly wait for the new day to begin. They look forward to the new opportunities that a new day brings. Not only failures, but their success as well. They leave behind everything that has happened in the previous day and then they focus on the new day. You’ve got to learn something from these people. You must be good at leaving behind your good and bad and only focus on the new day that brings endless opportunities. Always wake up with zeal everyday in the morning. Wa

                                                                         This is one of the things that most people fail to realize in their lifetime. It is very difficult to understand that our mind and body works separately. Our mind is very powerful and limitless whereas our bodies are fragile and have certain limits. Our body can reach a certain level of flexibility, tolerance, stamina or power. But our mind has no boundaries, no limits and no barriers. Our mind has unlimited potential to achieve what it wants. Most people in life don’t even realize that how powerful is our mind. It is scientifically proven that an average individual uses about 10% capacity of their mind. Isn’t it strange? Indeed. So how can we utilize our brains to achieve maximum output? I might not have the perfect answer, but I am going to discuss the things that has brought a difference in my life. I hope this helps you too. So, we’ll work on a very modest formula. The name of the method is Mind and Body

                                                  Saving for the future is one of the best habits that a person can have. As an Indian, I was taught to save from my childhood. Indians are excellent when it comes to maintaining their savings, we have it in our blood. Indian readers can understand what I am trying to convey. However, these days I see a different trend. I see young people buying super expensive mobile phones that costs equal to their three or even four months of salary. That is absolutely rubbish. I mean for what and why they want to do this? Just to show it off to some people. I think it’s not worth it. A good smartphone worth $250 works as good as a $800 phone. So, what’s the point of spending that $550 extra? I don’t see any reason behind that, and I feel that people must start realizing that saving money will help them in testing times. I am not saying that one must only concentrate on savings, but I am just telling you to spend your money wisely. Savings are gold

                                                        Your work is not your life, it is a part of your life. As a person you have many other things to do in your life other than work. People often make the mistake of trading leisure with money and work. This is the silliest blunder that a person can make. People these days want to work hard and earn more money for the first half of their professional life and they plan to spend the other half more leisurely. But who knows whether they’ll be healthy enough to do that? Whether the situation will allow them to live leisurely or not. No one has the answer to the future. But how senseless it looks when people make claims about spending their future in a certain way. Nothing is certain in future. You must never look too far. Just try to live in the present and maintain work life balance. Although work is worship, but work is not everything. Divide your time in a way that you get maximum time for other activities as well. Normally a perso

                                                 I have seen friendships falling apart, relatives fighting with each other, people forming bitter opinions about others when they indulge in a war of words over religion, sports and politics. Opinions about anything are very personal. One must keep his or her opinion sensibly and politely in front of others. You can never enforce your ideology on others. Everyone has their choices and they have the right to form opinions of their choice. You must only discuss religion, sports and politics if you are a very matured and patient person or you should never do it. We always forget that everyone has the right to form opinions about certain things. When we keep our opinion in front of others, we always think that our opinion is right. It’s not always like that. Opinions about religion, politics and sports are very personal. It’s based-on one’s liking. I might like Lionel Messi; you might like Neymar. That’s fine, there’s no need to discuss

                                                    Family always comes first for me. Family knows you in and out. They are the ones who will stand by you when you need them. They will love and support you unconditionally. I know that humans have become more materialistic and are moving away from families. But that’s not the right sort of attitude. Living at a distance is not a problem but forgetting them is. A person can claim to be self-made. But that’s human nature. We never credit anyone for our success. It is the family in most cases that support you through your rough times and keeps you from falling apart. It could be your mother, wife, father, kids, brother or sister. There is always someone from your family who is behind your success. The sacrifices of your parents, the support of your siblings is all you need to be successful. I can’t deny the contribution of my family in my success. So, it is our duty to give them back. Ask yourself, have you done enough for your family?

                                                This is an interesting formula that works very well in life. There are certain things in life that gives you more when you have less of them. For example, if you have less tensions then your life is smoother. If you have less problems in life, then you have more good times. If you eat less junk food, then you remain fit. If you have less worries in life, then you live more joyful. Enjoy everything in life, but in a limited manner. I have seen people die at young age due to alcoholism. The reason behind that? Not knowing that less is more. Have you ever heard a person dying from eating less?   I haven’t. But you must have heard a person dying because of eating in an excessive manner. If you understand this formula, then you can live your life to the fullest. You must have control over what you eat and think. Sometimes having less has more advantages. You’ve got to figure out things that give you worries. Take them out of your life and

                                Life is like crossing a road. Your focus must always be to reach the other side but by carefully avoiding an accident. So, what happens when you cross a road. You look left, you look right and when everything is clear, you make your move. You must tackle the obstacles in the same way in your life as well. There can be a phase of life when the crossing of the road (reaching your goal) looks impossible due to huge amount of traffic (problems/obstacles in life). Imagine yourself in such situation. What are the possibilities if the traffic is heavy and crossing looks impossible? You might take another route. That’s one way for sure, but it might take a very long time. Apart from that, you might attempt to cross the road with heavy traffic, but that’s a suicide, isn’t it? So, the best alternative is to wait for the traffic to get clear. You can’t control the traffic, but you can carefully observe it. Our problems in life are like the traffic. Sometimes yo

                                   This is an activity that most millennial's lack these days. I am afraid that reading books will soon be a thing of the past. Books are your real friends. When you need inspiration, you can grab a book and read it. You learn greatly through books. I remember that I was never a good reader. I would read occasionally but in 2015 I got my hand on a book ‘Long walk to freedom’ by Nelson Mandela. The reason I bought that book was that I admired him greatly and always wanted to meet him in person. But this is the story of most of the people, we want to meet our heroes but it’s not always easy. Famous people hardly have time to meet others and some of my heroes are from 18 th and 19 th century. So, meeting them was out of question. Long walk to freedom is an autobiography of Nelson Mandela. It contains more than 700 pages and he has put his heart in that book. While reading famous personality’s autobiography, you feel that they are directly talking to

                                         It is not about that how much you’ve given to a thing. It is about how many times you have kept trying despite failures. The only difference between failure and success is persistence. Many people in their lives have succeeded in a short span of time and others have taken years to reach their destination. Successful people never set deadlines for becoming famous. Fame and money are a part of that unknown journey. It will come when it must come. You can’t control it. But you can control the efforts that you put. In order to be successful, you can’t simply leave your destiny in the hands of God. You’ve got to make the necessary efforts and then expect for luck to play a part. I am firm believer of creating luck out of hard work. In my life I have never relied on luck. I have carved my luck out of my hard work. Relying on luck is sign of a weak person. I know that getting fame and money is not in anyone’s hand, but hard work is. So, when you ar

                      Getting up early is one of the best habits that a person can have. From the past many years, I wake up early and utilize my time to the fullest. Waking up early allows you to have more time in your day. There are many people who say that I have a hobby, but I don’t have the time to pursue it. This is just a mere excuse. When you get up early, you have more time to pursue things that you otherwise don’t do. If you go to your work at 8, then wake up at 5. This way, you will have at least one and a half hour to yourself. You will be the king of this time. You will own this time. No one will be able to command you in this time. You can use this time in any way you want. When you are busy in your whole day, it’s people’s time. The early morning time is ‘your time’. Someone likes to read books but don’t get time during the day, then he/she can read books in the morning. If you like to write something, then the morning is yours. If you like doing exercise, then you c

                                    Majority of people who fail in life are very good at making excuses. In your life you must be good in most of the things you do. But be a bad liar and dishonest in making excuses. People who find excuses to do certain things are enemies of their own. This also weakens the character of a person. People who often make excuses are very unreliable and you can’t depend on them for any important task or responsibility. The most common excuse that people make is "I don’t have time". You’ve got to take out time for everything. If you plan your time smartly, then you will be surprised to see that you have an ample amount of time in your life for everything. There can be situations in your life when you are intentionally avoiding a certain thing. Instead of finding a foolish excuse, just say no. Don’t try to use excuses to escape out of a situation. Be truthful and honest to yourself. You must be very straight forward in your approach. A lot