One second once

How often do we hear "take it slow," "take it easy," "one step at a time," "one day at a time" "don't be so hard on yourself" etc... Do we follow the advice? Probably not as often as we should.

Each second of the day we are faced with small and seemingly insignificant decisions; constant tests of do or don't, right or wrong. Some of these tests might be so minor we don't even think about them. Perhaps its a q-tip on the floor or a pillow out of place on the bed. Do we take the literal one second to pick up the q-tip or adjust the pillow? Or do we leave the "mess on the floor" so to speak, and allow it to accumulate.

Think of how many areas of our life that these one second challenges are adding up! You probably have piles of "stuff" all around you and fail to even notice it. A great philosophy I recently adopted is "if I think it, I must do it." If I think about taking the trash out, it probably needs to be done. So I do it NOW! By creating this discipline in my life, more gets done and with minimal effort.

Gender Gap

There was a time when the gap between the genders was very big. Then came the time when everybody said that they were putting there the best of their efforts to remove this gap. Most of them got little success.

Who says that there is no Gender Gap in India. According to a recent survey done by World Economic Forum (WEF), there is a big corporate gender gap in the employment of woman in th entry level to the top management of the companies. This survey was based on the 60 of the top best 100 employers of India. Here are some of the results.

* Women employees held only 10 percent of the senior management positions in two-thirds of the surveyed companies.

* None of the companies had women chief executive officers (CEOs) and almost 40 percent of the respondents had only 10 percent women work force.

* The average annual income of a woman is $1,185, which is less than one-third of a man's $3,698, employed in Indian companies.


Do you think we are not having any Gender Gap in our country? Remember, if you cannot respect the work done by others, stop the operations of your company. The most preferable way to remove this type of gap will be to educate the men about the women empowerment.

Remember, a finished road is much better for a vehicle.

There is nothing in everything...

We all try to do our work to the best of our efficiency. Some of us do it more than targeted, some of us just finish it, and some of us just can't manage doing it. Why? I am not questioning the efficiency. But, there is one thing which matters a lot, i.e. efforts.

Nothing comes just by a single attempt. How can we expect that we will be able to achieve all that we desire by just some efforts? And the people who take shortcut in doing the work reach a situation which we all know. Don't stop putting your efforts. It is all like a ladder.

"We cannot cut a tree by just a single strike of Axe"

Touch and Go...

All of us start our journey from NOTHING. I am totally in agreement that whatever we achieve is only because of hard work, dedication, zeal, effort, and risk taking ability. There can be many other reasons depending on the individual. It is because of this that some of us reach the top and others just hang around.

I have seen some people who (in my terms) are really having the above mentioned characteristics, and believe me they reached the success in their life. After just touching the success, they came back to the place from where they started their journey. Why?

Well, the answer is simple. These type of people want to reach the top, but can't be there for long because they stop doing all their work once they reach there, feeling that they will be there. But my friends, it is not true. If you have reached the top, you have to keep working so as to be there for long, and reach higher altitudes. it is just like a slope, if you will keep going you will cross it, if not you will come down quickly.

As Gary Anderson rightly said, "Never stop. ESPECIALLY when things are good."