Be so strong that nothing interferes with your peace of mind. A well-known boxer was once 
unhappy. When asked why, he said that he had allowed himself to think a negative thought. 

 Curb your desires and stay  
.centered and focused - it..   
.gets easier with practice. 

You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought. 

To breathe properly is to live properly

Learn the power of breathing and its relationship with your energy source. The mind is intimately connected with your breathing. For example, when the mind is agitated, your breathing becomes quick and shallow. When you are relaxed and focused, your breathing is deep and calm. 

By practicing deep, abdominal breathing, you will develop a calm, serene demeanor that will remain cool in the hottest of circumstances. 


Remember the rule of the Eastern mountain men: "to breathe properly is to live properly." 

Reward yourself for even the smallest of achievement

Soak in a warm bath at the end of a long, productive day. Reward yourself for even the smallest of achievement. 

Take time out for renewal of your mind, body and spirit. Soon all your more important goals will be met and you will move to the next level of peak performance. 

Be truthful, patient, persevering, modest and generous.

 Be truthful, patient, persevering, modest and generous. 

Never discuss your health, wealth and other personal matters with anyone

Never discuss your health, wealth and other personal matters with anyone outside of your immediate family. 

Be very disciplined in this regard.

Ensure that you are always treated with respect.

Be soft as a flower when it comes to kindness but tough as thunder when it comes to principle. 

Be courteous and polite at all times but never be pushed around. 

Ensure that you are always treated with respect. 

People Want To Feel Important And Appreciated!

Remember people's names and treat everyone well. This habit, along with enthusiasm, is one of the great success secrets. 

Everyone in this world wears an imaginary button that screams out "I WANT TO FEEL IMPORTANT AND APPRECIATED!". 

Take a speed reading course

Take a speed reading course. Reading is a powerful way to gain many years of 
experience from a few hours of study. For example, most biographies reflect the 
strategies and philosophies of great leaders or courageous individuals. Read them and 
model them. Speed reading will allow you to digest large quantities of material in 
relatively small periods of time. 

No one can insult or hurt you without your permission

No one can insult or hurt you without your permission. One of the golden keys to 
happiness and great success is the way you interpret events which unfold before you. 
Highly successful people are master interpreters. People who have attained greatness 
have an ability which they have developed to interpret negative or dis empowering events as positive Brought to you by challenges which will assist them in growing and moving even farther up the ladder of success. 

There are no negative experiences only experiences which aid in your development and toughen your character so that you may soar to new heights. There are no failures, only lessons.

Your Personal Lighthouse

You must have a mission statement in life. This is simply a set of guiding principles which clearly state where you are going and where you want to be at the end of your life. A mission statement embodies your values. It is your personal lighthouse keeping you steadily on the course of your dreams. Over a period of one month, set a few hours aside to write down five or ten principles which will govern your life and which will keep you focused at all times. Examples might be to consistently serve others, to be a considerate citizen, to become highly wealthy or to serve as a powerful leader. 

Whatever the mission statement of your life, refine it and review it regularly. Then when something adverse happens or someone tries to pull you off course, you quickly and precisely return to your chosen path with the full knowledge that you are moving in the direction that you have selected. 

Become Devoted to Having Only Wonderful Experience.

Stephen Hawking, one of the great modern physicists of the world, is reported to have said that we are on a minor planet of a very average star located within the outer limits of one of a hundred thousand million galaxies. Are your problems really significant in light of this? You walk this Earth for but a short time. Why not become devoted to having only a wonderful experience. 

Why not dedicate yourself to leaving a powerful legacy to the world? Sit down now and write out a list of all that you have in your life. Start first with your health or your family - the things we often take for granted. Put down the country we live in and the food we eat. Do not stop until you have written down fifty items. Once every few days, go through this list - you will be uplifted and recognize the richness of your existence. 

Associate Only With Positive, Focused People

Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with complaining and uninspiring attitudes. 

By developing relationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatever mountain you seek to climb. 

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher - Oprah

Become a Highly Disciplined Time Manager.

Become a highly disciplined time manager. There are roughly 168 hours in a week. This surely 
allows plenty of time for achievement of the many goals we desire to accomplish. Be ruthless with your time. Set aside a few minutes each morning to plan your day. Plan around your priorities and focus on not only those tasks which are immediate but not important (i.e., many telephone calls) but especially on those which are important but not urgent, for these allow for the greatest personal and professional development. 

Important but not immediate activities are those which produce long-term, sustainable benefits and include exercise, strategic planning, the development of relationships and professional education. Never let the things which matter most be placed in the backseat as compared to those that matter least.

Enhance Your Will Power

Enhance your will-power; it is likely one of the best training programs you can invest in. Here are some ideas to strengthen your will and become a stronger person:

1. Do not let your mind float like a piece of paper in the wind. Work hard to keep it focused at all times. When doing a task, think of nothing else. When walking to work, count the steps that it takes to get all the way to the office. This is not easy but your mind will soon understand that you hold its reins and not vice versa. Your mind must eventually become as still as a candle flame in a corner where there is no draft.
2. Your will is like a muscle. You must first exercise it and then push before it gets stronger. This necessarily involves short term pain but be assured that the improvements will come and will touch your character in a most positive way. When you are hungry, wait another hour before your meal. When you are labouring over a difficult task and your mind is prompting you to pick up the latest magazine for a break or to get up and go talk to a friend, curb the impulse. Soon you will be able to sit for hours in a precisely concentrated state. Sir Issac Newton, one of the greatest classical physicists the world has produced, once aid: "if I have done the public any service, it is due to patient thought." Newton had a remarkable ability to sit quietly and think without interruption for very long periods of time.  he can develop this so can you.

Learn to be still

Learn to be still. The average person doesn't spend even 30 minutes a month in total silence and tranquility. Develop the skill of sitting quietly, enjoying the powerful silence for at least ten minutes a day. Simply think about what is important to you in your life. Reflect on your mission. Silence indeed is golden. 

As the Zen master once said, it is the space between the bars that holds the cage. 

Learn to meditate effectively

 Learn to meditate effectively. The mind is naturally a very noisy machine which wants to move from one subject to another like an unchained monkey. One must learn to restrain and discipline it one is to achieve anything of substance and to be peaceful. Meditation for twenty minutes in the morning and twenty minutes in the evening will certainly provide you with exceptional results if regularly practiced for six months. 


Learned sages of the East have been advancing the many benefit of meditation for over 5000 years.

Enhance your concentration and powers of focus

To enhance your concentration and powers of focus, count your steps when you walk. This is a particularly strong technique. Take six steps while taking a long inhale, hold your breath for another six steps, and then exhale for six steps. If six steps is too long for the breaths, do whatever you feel comfortable with. You will feel very alert, refreshed, internally quiet and centered after this exercise. So many people allow their minds to be filled with mental chatter. All peak performers appreciate the power of a quiet, clear mind which will concentrate steadily on all important tasks. 

Light a candle beside you when you are reading in the evening.

Light a candle beside you when you are reading in the evening. It is most relaxing and creates a wonderful, soothing atmosphere. Make your home an oasis from the frenzied world outside. Fill it with great music, great books and great friends. 

Laugh for five minutes in the mirror each morning

Laugh for five minutes in the mirror each morning. Steve Martin does. Laughter activates many beneficial chemicals within the body that place us into a very joyous state. Laughter also returns the body to a state of balance. Laughter therapy has been regularly used to heal persons with varied ailments and is a wonderful tonic for life's ills. While the average 4 year old laughs 500 times a day, the average adult is lucky to laugh 15 times a day. Revitalize the habit of laughter, it will put far more living into your life.

Stay on purpose, not on outcome

Stay on purpose, not on outcome. In other words, do the task because it is what you love to do or because it will help someone or is a valuable exercise. Don't do it for the money or the recognition. Those will come naturally. This is the way of the world.

The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.

Always remember the key principle that the quality of your life is the quality of your communication. This means the way you communicate with others and, more importantly, the way you communicate with yourself. What you focus on is what you get. If you look for the positive this is what you get. This is a fundamental law of Nature. 

Recommended Reading :  How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnigie

Set aside every Sunday evening for yourself

Set aside every Sunday evening for yourself and be strongly disciplined with this habit. Use this period to plan your week, visualize your encounters and what you want to achieve, to read new materials and inspirational books, to listen to soft soothing music and to simply relax. This habit will serve as your anchor to keep you focused, motivated and effective throughout the coming week. 

Organize Inspiration

Throughout the day we all get inspiration and excellent ideas. Keep a set of cards (the size of 

business cards; available at most stationary stores) in your wallet along with a pencil to jot down these insights. When you get home, put the ideas in a central place such as a coil notepad and review them from time to time. As noted by Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

Always answer the phone with enthusiasm in your voice

Always answer the phone with enthusiasm in your voice and show your appreciation for the caller. Good phone manners are essential. To convey authority on the line, stand up. This will instill further confidence in your voice. 

Condition your mind to focus solely on the most positive elements in your life

Use the rubber band method to condition your mind to focus solely on the most positive elements in your life. Place a rubber band around your wrist. Each time a negative, energy sapping thought enters your mind, snap the rubber band. Through the power of conditioning, your mind will associate pain with negative thinking and you will soon possess a strongly positive mindset.

Do not allow those things that matter the most in your life be at the mercy of activities that matter the least

Do not allow those things that matter the most in your life be at the mercy of activities that matter the least. Every day, take the time to ask yourself the question "is this the best use of my time and energy?" Time management is life management so guard your time with great care.

Set aside one hour every morning for personal development matters

Set aside one hour every morning for personal development matters. Meditate, visualize your day, read inspirational texts to set the tone of your day, listen to motivational tapes or read great literature. Take this quiet period to vitalize and energize your spirit for the productive day ahead. Watch the sun rise once a week or be with nature.

Starting the day off well is a powerful strategy for self-renewal and personal effectiveness. 

Sleep less

Sleep less. This is one of the best investments you can make to make your life more productive and rewarding. Most people do not need more than 6 hours to maintain an excellent state of health. Try getting up one hour earlier for 21 days and it will develop into a powerful habit. Remember, it is the quality not the quantity of sleep that is important. And just imagine having an extra 30 hours a month to spend on the things that are important to you.

Digital Afterlife

Google launches tool to manage 'digital afterlife'

Houston: Are you worried who will read some of your very personal and saved emails or conversation after you are dead? Stop worries as help is on the way.

Finally Google has found a way by launching inactive account manager page that can be used as a "Digital Will".

Google is asking people what they want to happen to their digital photos, documents and other virtual belongings after they die or become incapacitated.

An "Inactive Account Manager" can be used to direct Google to pass on data from online venues such as Google Drive, Gmail, YouTube, or social network Google+ to particular people, or be deleted after being dormant for too long.

In a message at an account settings page, Google gives people the option of sharing their data with a trusted friend or family member, or having their account deleted.

Google lets people specify how long to wait before taking action, and the California-based internet giant will send account holders email or text message reminders before "timeout" periods are ended.

In setting up the Google Inactive Account Manager, users will be able to select a length of time the account must be inactive before the alert goes out. Then, up to ten trusted individuals will receive a customised information on how to proceed or handle the account.

Finally, Google gives users the option to effectively "burn" their account, wiping all materials from all Google properties -including public Youtube videos, Google+ profiles and Google Voice extensions.

Users can choose 3, 6, 9, or 12 months as the timeout period and Google will send a notification to the secondary email address one month before the period is set to expire.

If that time passes, any trusted contacts will receive a personal email explaining that said individual had left them the data, including instructions on how to download it.

The set-up page reads: "What should happen to your photos, emails and documents when you stop using your account? Google puts you in control.

"You might want your data to be shared with a trusted friend or family member, or you might want your account to be deleted entirely. There are many situations that might prevent you from accessing or using your Google account. Whatever the reason, we give you the option of deciding what happens to your data.

"Using Inactive Account Manager, you can decide if and when your account is treated as inactive, what happens with your data and who is notified." Dealing with digital identities after someone has gone dead or missing is an interesting and still-developing problem on various platforms.

The Inactive Account Manager is a simplified version of the old process for accessing or shutting down an account, which required both birth and death notices from a family member.

Other platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, still require a bit of finagling to secure a loved one's account after he or she dies, but the Inactive Account Manager could provide plenty of information and act as a "digital will" with minimal set-up.

Source : http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/google-launches-tool-to-manage-digital-afterlife-353145

IIM Lucknow reduces fees

Lucknow: In a first, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow on Friday reduced the fees for its post-graduate programme in management for the academic term 2013-2015.

The IIM's director Devi Singh said the fees were being slashed by 10 per cent from the current Rs.12 lakh to Rs.10.80 lakh.

The fee for the same course at IIM Bangalore isRs.17 lakh and Rs.16.6 lakh at IIM Ahmedabad, officials said.

IIM Lucknow has not hiked any fee since 2011.

"In the last nine years, the institute's impetus has been on efficient financial management and broad-basing our revenue sources. We have been successful in achieving this," Mr Singh said.

J.J. Irani, chairman of IIM Lucknow's board of governors, said: "In today's environment, when education is becoming costlier, IIM Lucknow would like to take a lead. This decision will help many needy students to undertake education at institutions like ours."

Source : http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/in-a-first-iim-lucknow-reduces-fees-353447?fb

Indian Institutes of Management - the IIMs

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are a group of 13 public, autonomous institutes of management education in India. The establishment of IIMs was initiated by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, based on the recommendation of the Planning Commission.

They were established with the objective of providing quality management education. The IIMs primarily offer postgraduate, doctoral and executive education programmes. IIMs are registered as societies under the Indian Societies Registration Act. Each IIM is autonomous and exercises independent control over its day-to-day operations. However, the administration of all IIMs and the overall strategy of IIMs is overseen by the IIM council. The IIM Council is headed by India's Minister of Human Resource Development and consists of the chairpersons and directors of all IIMs and senior officials from the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India.

The two-year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), offering the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), is the flagship programme across all IIMs.Some IIMs also offer a one-year Post Graduate Programme for experienced executives.[10] Some IIMs offer the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), a doctoral programme. The Post Graduate Diploma and Fellowship are considered to be equivalent to MBA and PhD respectively. Many IIMs also offer short-term executive education/EMBA courses and part-time programmes.

 There are 13 IIMs in India.

1. Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
2. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
3. Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
4. Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
5. Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
6. Indian Institute of Management Indore<
7. Indian Institute of Management Shillong>
8. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak
9. Indian Institute of Management Ranchi
10. Indian Institute of Management Raipur
11. Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli>
12. Indian Institute of Management Udaipur>
13. Indian Institute of Management Kashipur

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A)

Ranked amongst the top most business schools in India and Asia. The institute offers four programmes in Management. The PGP - Post Graduate Program (equivalent to MBA), the FPM - Fellowship Program in Management(equivalent to Ph.D), the FDP - Faculty Development Program for Management teachers and Trainers and the MDP - Management Development Program - a refresher for middle and top level managers. Admission process for PGP and FPM of IIM Ahemedabad involves taking the Common Admission Test (CAT) followed by group discussion and interviews for short listed candidates.

Top Management Colleges in India

1. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A)
2. Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C) @ Kolkatta
3. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM B)
4. Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM L)
5. XLRI - Xavier Labour Research Institute, Jamshedpur
6. ISB - Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
7. FMS - Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi
8. Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM I)
9. Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM K - Calicut)