Thought for the day - 25/11/2017

• You don't need anybody to tell you, who you are or what you are. You are what you are! ---John Lennon

• Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. ---Buddha

• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ---William Shakespeare

• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. ---Socrates

The Conclusion of all the above quotes; The only person knows you better than anybody else is yourself. Therefore, always try to be true to yourself and control your thoughts. never worry about what others think and how will they react because whatever your actions are only you have to pay for it. Many times we found ourself in such a situation where we have no way out but then we recall our past incidents and find that whatever we are facing today is due to someone else influences. Then we realize that my thinking at that time was correct but then it was too late to come back.

So, always try to be you and only you.

Originally posted on 14/04/2013 at https://brijeshbmehta.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/thought-for-the-day-14042013/

Thought for the day - 24/11/2017

• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. --- Robert Frost.

This is the real way to identify an educated people. Degree can be bought, knowledge of subjects can be gained but politeness, ability to listen to others, etc. can't be gained without true education. In our society, we find many people highly educated (or say "over-educated"!!!) but they don't have the sense of talking or listening to others. If they make debates, instead of putting their argument with the proper justification they just put others down. The mentality of our people for making their line bigger is by cutting others line not by increasing their own. That's where education helps, it will teach you to make your line larger to make others line smaller. Many students are only studying for degrees and that is for getting the good reputation in the society or getting married to good girl! Is this the real purpose of education?

we need to find the answer and need to make education system worthy enough to create good citizens.

Originally posted on 07/04/2013 at https://brijeshbmehta.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/thought-for-the-day-07032013/

The Boiling Frog Syndrome - An Inspiring Short Story

Human Beings and frogs are the two creatures in nature who have tremendous power to adjust.

Put a frog in a vessel of water and start heating the water. As the temperature of the water rises, the frog is able to adjust its body temperature accordingly. The frog keeps on adjusting with the increase in temperature. Just when the water is about to reach boiling point, the frog is not able to adjust anymore. At that point, the frog decides to jump out. The frog tries to jump but is unable to do so, because it lost all its strength in adjusting to the water temperature. Very soon the frog dies.

What killed the frog? Many of us would say the boiling water. But the truth is what killed the frog was its own inability to decide when it had to jump out.

We all need to adjust to people and situations, but we need to be sure when we need to adjust and when we need to face. There are times when we need to face the situation and take the appropriate action. If we allow people to exploit us physically, emotionally or financially, they will continue to do so. We have to decide when to jump. Let us jump while we still have the strength.

I completely agree with this story and always try to jump out of the vessel when I feel overheating. Never lose your own identity in adjusting to the situation.

Originally posted on 03/04/2013 at https://brijeshbmehta.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/the-boiling-frog-syndrome/

Thoughts for the Day - 22/11/2017

• We all have the ability, the difference is how we use it. --- Stevie Wonder

• You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. --- Swami Vivekananda

In above quotes, it is said that we have all the abilities inside but we need to find them. No one is able to teach us new things. Everything is there in our mind, we need to recall it. People can teach us what to think but no one can teach us how to think. There is no competition for yourself with the world but with yourself only. Every day before going to sleep you need to think about what new things you have learned today. When you are unable to answer yourself you will become the sad person on the earth. Be pure and honest with yourself and nothing else matters.

Originally posted on 31/03/2013 at https://brijeshbmehta.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/thoughts-for-the-day-31032013/

Thoughts for the day - 21/11/2017

• Aim for Success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. - Dr. David M. Burns

• Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over, but expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas Edison

• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failures. - Napoleon Hill

The conclusion of all above quotes is, we have to work beyond our failure to get success. Mostly, after few small failures, we came to believe that we can't do it. That's not true. If we believe that something can be done, it will be; but we have to put all our efforts behind it. Focus only on your target, same as Arjuna from Mahabharata. He sees his target only, nothing else and that's why he was a great archer. Same way if we want to be successful in something, we have to focus, then we need to work hard in that direction. In any circumstances, we need not panic or change our path of working due to unfavorable results. Instead, we need to think about unfavorable results and try to rectify it. Never fear of being wrong or asking wrong questions. We have a right to be wrong and then make it right. Isn't it?

Originally posted on 24/03/2013 at https://brijeshbmehta.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/thoughts-for-the-day-24032013/