Health tips....

Reduce the volume of tea intake;

Do not eat bread which has JUST been toasted;

Stay a good distance away from your charger;

Drink more water in the morning, less at night;

Do not drink coffee more than twice a day;

Reduce your volume of oily food intake;

Best sleeping time is from 10 at night to 6 at the morning;

Do not have HUGE meals after 5pm;

Do not take alcohol more than a cup daily;

Do not take capsules with cold water;

Do not lie down immediately after taking medicine before sleeping;

Have 8 hours sleep. Lack of it will make a person stupid;

People who get used to napping will not get old easily;

If you can't get on early morning runs, 5-8 in the afternoon is a great time for jogging;

When battery left last grid, do not answer the phone. The radiation is 1000 times stronger;

Answer the phone with your left ear. It'll spoil your brain directly if you use your right ear;

Do not use earphone for long time. Rest your ear a while after 1 hour.

For better team work

Following is an e mail i received on team work and its betterment for effective results. i felt it would be of use to readers and here i put them...


Avoid Sarcasm
Sarcasm is some people's favorite choice of humor. but Sarcasm doesn't appeal to everyone. Some people really don't like sarcasm. Sarcasm tends to create a negative environment, even if it is done just in fun. It still creates a negative energy around the team. As a leader you need to avoid sarcasm yourself and discourage sarcasm in your team members.

Build a Culture
Every team has a culture. Is your project culture one where people respect each other or snipe at each other, is it a culture of complements or put downs, is it a culture of praising success or focusing on failures. As a leader you want to influence that culture to be a positive place. You need to intentionally make the culture one where people want to be.

Correct in Private
There will be times when someone needs correction. You must correct in private. Take the team member aside in private, hopefully in person, and make your correction constructive not destructive. Remember the team is watching you. They want to know if you are a safe person to fail with. Failure is not a bad thing. In skiing if you never fall down, you know you aren’t skiing to your full potential. Similarly on a team implementing anything if you don’t fail sometimes they aren’t pushing themselves. But if you publically correct your team will know that it is not safe to fail on this team and you will NEVER reach the potential of which the team is capable.

Delegate Completely
Do you delegate to your team? Do you delegate completely? Do you know the difference? My wife and I have a language we use to talk about this, we say. “Who’s rock is it?” Imagine you have a rock in your hand. That rock is the task you have that needs to get done. If you give that rock to another person they now have that rock. It is no longer in your hand, it is in their hand. You can’t both hold that rock at the same time. Similarly you need to hand over that task completely. If my wife asks me to do clean the kitchen then she agrees to give me that rock. Unless otherwise stated she agrees that she is giving up her definition of “done” and accepts my definition of “done” and my approach to completion. So she can not come to me later and say, “That isn’t done”, or, “That isn’t how you should do it.” She accepts my definition of done. As a leader you need to delegate completely you need to give them the rock. It is OK to have some parameters around your what you expect to get done but you need to give the team member the freedom and respect to do it their way. You will get much better result if you respect their abilities and allow them to fail. Just pick what tasks to assign that you are willing to have fail.

Engage Individually
Teamwork guru Christopher Avery had a nugget that I have kept and is as valuable today as when I first learned it. That nugget is to Engage individually with your team members. Ask them. Ask your team members why they are on this team, and, “my boss assigned me”, doesn’t count. Dig deeper. They felt that, of all the things they could do today, This was the best option. They chose to be there so find out what is motivating them. I found on my first time implementing this idea that my technical lead had been involved in some project failures before and he wanted to prove to himself and his other technical staff that he has what it takes to be a lead. You can bet that I gave him every opportunity to succeed and praised him in front of his peers often.

Foster Faith and Trust
To foster faith and trust is to create an environment where your team feels safe. Safe to offer ideas, safe to offer correction, even safe to speak up to contradict authority figures (You). If you foster a culture of faith and trust you fill find new ideas that would have been suppressed are expressed and you will benefit from the plethora of ideas. Leaders also need to make sure thy are worthy of trust. One way to foster faith and trust is to not talk negatively about people even when they aren’t there. If you talk negatively about someone who isn’t there, those people you are talking with will always wonder what you say about them when they aren’t there.

Give Praise in Public
The flip side of correcting in private is praising in public. You need to be careful how you give praise, some people get embarrassed by too much public praise. However, I have found that even those who say that feel rewarded by some public praise. Public praise doesn’t have to be in a group either. I always make sure to send an email to people when I want to recognize a job well done. This allows them to keep it for themselves and I make sure to copy their supervisor too. People have always appreciated that I copy their supervisor, especially around review time.

Hold to Commitments
All too often people make commitments without really committing to them. As a leader people need to know they can trust you trust extends to anything. What you say, what you do, and what you don’t do. One very practical place to hold to your commitments is in your meeting times. Start on time but even more important, end on time. Even if you get started late. End on time. Even if the conversation is going well, end on time. Even if you don’t get to say what you wanted to, end on time. People will respect your commitment to respect their valuable time. If a meeting is going to go long. I will end the meeting, dismiss anyone who needs to go and then continue the conversation with those who choose to stay.


Influence by Example
As my friend Chris Weidner says, as a leader you are person of influence…read or listen to anything by Chris Weidner (www.madeforsuccess.com) he can explain Influence better than I.
Joke with your team
I don’t mean tell knock-knock jokes. But maybe if that is natural for you. Humor is a great tool for crating workplace that people enjoy coming to. If you are totally serious all the time people will not want to be around. Be light hearted have fun. If you don’t like what you are doing then find another job.

Top 11 Principles to SUCCESSFUL life

Success is not just reserved for a chosen few. Everyone, yes everyone, has the capacity to be successful in every area of his or her life. Success results from cultivating certain habits and sticking to them.
Consistency is a must. Successful people have a certain type of personality. Successful people think in a particular way, talk in a particular way and act in a particular way.
Do you want to be successful too? Here are 11 principles of success that are bound to help you if you follow them.
1. Develop a clear vision of what exactly you want to achieve in your life. Carry this vision in your mind at all times. This is the starting point to success.
2. Believe without any doubt that you will achieve your dreams.

3. Stay away from negative influences such as negative people, books, articles, etc. Surround yourself with things that boost your belief in yourself and your future success.
4. Take responsibility for your future. Do not depend on anybody. Take responsibility for your life and don't doubt success.
5. Make a habit of repeating positive affirmations. Speak out your affirmations in present tense as opposed to future tense. Writing down affirmations is even more effective. This helps your mind stay fixed and focused on your goals. This is also a good way to build your self-confidence and deepen your beliefs.
6. Make a firm commitment to action. Once you decide to take action, stay committed and never give up! Once you deter from commitment, your belief becomes shaky and unstable. If this happens, your efforts will collapse like a deck of cards. You will have wasted all the time and energy you invested in your efforts. So stay committed.
7. Set a specific goal. If you know what you really want to achieve, you need to define it by making it a goal. Set specific goals. Your goals should be precise, measurable, realistic and timed.
8. Work out a plan of action. Break down your plan into smaller tasks or units. Do your task in smaller steps. Take one step or two each day while reminding yourself that each step is taking you closer to your goal. Your actions should be filled with faith, determination and purpose. Consistency is vital to reach your goal.
9. Never give up until you have achieved what you desire. Persistence is the key to success. Treat every failure as a learning opportunity. But push yourself towards your goal with stronger faith.
10. Maintain an attitude of gratitude, realizing that your dream is becoming a reality. Look around you and be grateful for things that you already have such as a home, loving family, etc. Just stay grateful.
11. Be a giver - give your time, money and service to others. Be kind and generous to all.
Now you know the principles of success. Act on it with faith and persistence - and never give up!

Bang ur head

Recently a company had participated in IIM's Placement Sessions.

They asked some interesting questions to students during recruitment.


Here are some of them:-


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1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?


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2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?


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3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water.


The tide rises at 12 inches every 15minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?


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4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?


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5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?


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6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?


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7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?


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8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first?

Same question, but the location is in Canada ?


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9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.


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10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?


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11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?


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1. The word "incorrectly. "


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2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.


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3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Googly ;-)


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4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.


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5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is performed before addition.

So... Half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.


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6. Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters in, which knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him.


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7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of dirt.


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8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again.


The question said nothing about that bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down...


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9. The time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.


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10. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.


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11. The temperature.

Tips for Better Life from ISHA YOGA

1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Sleep for 7 hours.
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did in 2007.
7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink plenty of water.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
18. Smile and laugh more.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Forgive everyone for everything.
26.. What other people think of you is none of your business.
27. GOD ! heals everything.
28. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
29. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
30. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
31. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
32. The best is yet to come.
33. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
34. Do the right thing!
35. Call your family often.
36. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
37. Each day give something good to others.
38. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
39. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.*
40. Please Say about this to everyone you care about.*