If you have three meals a day; if you have enough clothes to change; if you have shelter over your head, you are more fortunate than many of our brethren. If you have a clean bed to sleep on; if you have a refrigerator at home; if you have a television set at home,...
Vincent Van Ross
Building Boundaries to Protect Your Interests
Sometimes you run into people who are extra friendly—people who are in a tearing hurry to make friends—people who try to get chummy in no time. Some of them might be largest-hearted, genuine people. But, more often than not, most of the people from this tribe are...
Success is Never a Cakewalk
Those who are enamoured by the grand success of their peers need to know that success does not drop from the blue. You have to toil day in and day out. You have to improve yourself by outperforming yourself from how you performed the previous day. You must learn to...
Find The Right Place
No matter where you stand on the academic front. No matter how highly you are qualified, you may still be bandied about and humiliated because the people you choose to work with or are forced to work with due to a quirk of fate, may not value your education or...
Happy Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is, perhaps, the mother of all the days dedicated to different causes in the world. God cannot be everywhere all at once. So, God sent a mother to each family. This resonates with me because I have experienced God on earth in the form of my mother. She...
That’s the Way, I Like it
When someone goes out of one’s way to help you, be ready with a big thank you. And, say that with a smile on your face. And, say that in a way that makes one feel that you are really grateful for what the person did for you. If you don’t do that, you are an ingrate....
Time to Learn Delaying Tactics
Sometimes we don’t want to accept or reject a proposal because we have too many things on our hands. Someone is sitting in front of you trying to push their proposal. But you are not in a mood to say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ without giving due consideration to the pros and cons...
Everybody’s Responsibility is Nobody’s Responsibility
If you are a manager, one of the first thing you need to learn is that everybody’s responsibility is nobody’s responsibility. You have to identify each task and assign the responsibility to a member of your team so that you can take that member to task if the job is...
Traits that Lead to Success
When it comes to success, nothing works like hard work. You may be highly educated; you may be smart and pushy; you may even be lucky; but hard work holds the key to sustainable success stories. If you are a lazy bum, you may not even take off, let alone achieve...
Steering into the Success Zone
The current human population of the world is approximately 8 billion. Out of that, only 800 million people make some serious effort to achieve success in life. That is just 10% of the total population of the world. But what about the rest? It might be shocking to...