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Life’s Little Secretslearning all the way
some are copied - some are inspired over 95% have been written personally
my learnings, some practiced, and several yet to be adopted principally
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There’s nothing like family. Invest your time in them. They will always be the first to stand by you whenever required
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Make as many friends as possible during school and college.
They will be the happiest to see you even if you haven’t met them since
over a decade
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Family comes first. Then it’s your friends, respect them as much. Then it’s the material
world
(there are exceptions; they are countable)
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Learning does not have any age. Elders will share experiences. Younger ones will teach you
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Respect your parents the most
They are usually the only ones who will never envy you if you do better than them
and will care for you without prejudice
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Each of your parent will need someone to speak to and you can be their best, and the luckiest listener
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If you’re selfish, tell your friends about it honestly. They’ll never mind it
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It is better to give your money to your family than to your lawyers
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Rigidity grows with age. If at your age you didn’t change according to what your parents advised, at double your age
don’t try to change them
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Never play dirty tricks in your family. It will disturb the entire hierarchy, from the oldest to youngest including you
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Your time to your family, partner, work and friends must be available simultaneously. It’s difficult but that is what life is
about
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Neglect your work and your work will neglect you
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Hard work and smart work have no substitutes
You must work hard towards working smart and continue to work hard
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. It’s not their fault
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People who chisel at everything you say must be explained with (live) examples only. They lack all abilities to understand
you otherwise
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Help a person in need, irrespective of the social status. He / she will never forget you
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Willingly, without expectations, support and help the ones who you find lower than your social status, especially a poor in
need. They will not mind becoming your slave
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HypotheticalYou will always know all five out of five facts someone’s telling you personally, especially when an elder speaks.
The sixth piece of information is bound to come up and that’s where you will learn something new and discover
something significant. Never cut their talks off
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Start with a sorry if you believe you are asking a wrong question. But never hesitate asking
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Learn to listen. It’s the easiest way to learn
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Never interrupt when you know it or are completely aware of something when one’s talking, even if you know the answer. He /
she may never continue to speak or advice you in the future
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Buy some loner time for you, to just do nothing at all. This is the time where you will get to know where you stand and
what you are
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Wasting some time is not bad. Live up to it and learn the art
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Decision-making: Be quick; don’t hurry. Gather timely information; don’t be impulsive. Work with a set date and
deliver
(for indecisive thinkers)
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The quintessence of developmental success is ‘clarity in your speech’
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People will break your trust once in a while. If you didn’t trust them, they wouldn’t have. Give them a couple of reasonable
chances, without conditions
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Don’t procrastinate decision-making and difficult work. Procrastination is probably the smartest way to calculate your
descent in life
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Don’t be cynical; cynicism is never accurate
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Being judgmental based on assumptions will ruin your personal life and peace of mind
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Change is essential. Change with the generation. Make necessary changes with experiences
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Avoid the company of pessimists. They will do everything in their ability sub-consciously to demoralize you. Simply, leave
them. They haven’t a cure
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Marriage will be beautiful only if you’re partner becomes your companion. Never leave opportunities to work towards making
it happen. Companionship is everything
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Spend time loving your child. Each time you think about it in the future, you will only cheer yourself up
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Each time you sing when people are around, they’d smirk or laugh at you. Could you have helped them any better during
the day? Never mind
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You must love your Country
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Remain as much to the point in your explanations; otherwise you will bore others. And next time round, they’d be afraid of
listening you out
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If you’ve taken somebody’s obligation, you will have to repay it sooner or later
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To the next generation, until you succeed, your attempts to question will be an argument and your non-questioning will be
carelessness or guilt. Never mind. Still ask
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If you help the poor, he’d respect you and will be obliged. If you helped the richer as much, he would find it as his right and
‘may’ respect you
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If you borrow money to renovate your house, the market must, and will stop lending you, sooner rather than later
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Everyone wants to be No. 1 in whatever they do. Read that number again (No. 1). It will tell you that its literal meaning is:
“there can only be 1″
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Never say no to any kind of work, be it at the lowest level. You may never do it again, but you will learn how to think
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How you think will always remain more important than what you think
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If you messed up, accept it. Everyone makes mistakes and people appreciate hearing about them in person
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You must know how much money you will need ten years down the line for yourself and especially for others around
you
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The first mistake is a mistake. The same, second time, can be acceptable. The same, third time, is a crime
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Make mistakes early on. When time to make the most important decisions arrive, you’ll be at an advantage
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If you are successful, everyone will be around you
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Learn to say no. You will end up saving a life time lying
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A fixed investment offer that provides you exponentially high interest rates on your money as compared to the general
market rate, will never return your principal amount
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Responsibility is never given. It has to be taken. Don’t lose an opportunity to take up responsibility
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Two things can break any relationship. Money and Tongue. Maintain your transactions timely and in-full. Using the latter
wisely is in your control and mind
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Compromise to the extent that you do not lose your identity
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Sacrifice, but for your satisfaction and for others’ benefits. Not for making someone feel bad or to teach a lesson
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Accepting failures is important. Next time you will aim at accomplishing rather than aiming at diminishing your threats
to the chances of success
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In a relationship, talk and work towards solutions. Digging the ground and the past won’t help any bit
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Try to please all and lose it all. It’s not worth it. You can’t be everywhere
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Respect your competitors and request them to teach you. They will love it and usually will not deny. Their accuracy will be
indisputable
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Take risks if you must grow. Risk-taking has an age. Most people will not be able to take their first risk after they’ve
grown
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Benchmarking is significant in whatever you do. Select your samples wisely
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Your instincts must be believed upon, and your intuitive decisions are correct more often than
not
Considering these two foremost, only then weigh your options
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Work towards only as much as you can handle. Else you will spoil all in hand
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People who disagree with you, with an explanation of their own are some of your best teachers
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Don’t pounce upon people who failed especially if they didn’t take or buy your opinion.
The syndromes: ‘I told you’, ‘I warned you’, ‘I knew it’ will break that individual
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Choose subsequent joy and happiness over ego. Ego will never allow thoughts to channelize and translate
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Tension or tense moments for all, ‘of’ any age, at the highest level are of the same magnitude
Consider a kid’s examination in the next few hours or a mature individual’s important business risk.
Comparing your tensions with others is the worst you can ever do
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Invest money early on. You are bound to make some mistake with your decisions at some point in life
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There is no replacement to a smart education. Doing what you are passionate about and selecting the right career is the key
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Never mind changing your career. Society only watches, hardly contributes
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Success reaches your head quicker than to the people around. Maintain your individuality but use your success wisely
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Never go to sleep angry and upset, resolve the problem before going to bed then the next day will truly be a new beginning
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If you have choices, be happy. It’s remarkable an opportunity to have the chance to make a choice. Many don’t have options.
Taking timely decisions is the key when you have choices
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If you don’t believe in what you are doing, don’t do it. The risk now is the minimum
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While taking crucial decisions never think or assume about what society will think
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Credit system is probably the worst legitimate system that has successfully evolved. Avoid credit as much as you can
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Never fight against power unless you are equally or more powerful
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To finish your accounting, you must understand it once, and learn when required. Then, buy an accountant. You don’t need
to study everything. This example works in all walks of life
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Years of hard work have passed in someone’s success that you see today. Don’t believe even yourself if you think you will become rich or successful as soon as you start your work.
The belief that hard and smart work with commitment will get you ‘there’ holds most
importance. Perseverance pays
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I love those who believed I would not be able to do anything. An important chunk of my success is thanks to them
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Smile when someone’s angry at you and / or is shouting. You can’t demoralize that person any better
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Work round the clock, and your efficiency and thinking ability will get to its worse sooner. Take a break
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If you think you can’t do something, spend little money on it. You will at least try. And then you will learn how to put more
money
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Invest your time and money in books and reading. It will never replace any knowledge. Comfortably, take a look at the last
800 years
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When your job means that you are out of your comfort zone, you’re learning
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Follow work timings. That’s the simplest way to finish your job timely and improve your efficiency
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Punctuality in anything you do will lead to results, irrespective of the nature of the outcome
In addition, it’ll facilitate necessary correction timely
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It’s ‘the scale’ of anything you do that must keep improving. Revise it every three years, if not earlier
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Your brilliance will never be promoted by others. You will have to do it yourself
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Back off if you’re unsure of making only one selection on a crucial decision requested by someone. Ensure that you don’t
confuse them further. It’ll backfire
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Talking about morals will help, but life’s more factual. Performance counts unfortunately
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Never pretend to gain sympathy. You’ll get used to it
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When it comes to educating yourself, the best time to do it is ‘now’. Always
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Don’t be too affected by other people’s judgments, most successful people were written off by many
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If you don’t listen to the music you enjoy, you’ve wasted half your life
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God made mother. And all mothers collectively are handling the world
A mother loves her child the most
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Don’t shrink anyone’s enthusiasm by protruding or interfering; it’s like squelching the life out of someone
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Don’t wait endlessly to define
‘the purpose of your life’
or how you want to live. You don’t have to do this when you’re 50 years old. Live early
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Polite confrontation is always the best solution to resolving a problem. Escaping from it makes it worse
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The time you spend predicting bad circumstances can easily be replaced by forecasting good circumstances. Spend your time
wisely
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The only (and the best) way to look good is to know how best you can carry yourself
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Your job as a leader will not be to do your subordinate’s work but remove obstacles which inhibit and affect their efficiency
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Addiction to perfection is senseless. You will always be afraid and lack a mistake-evaluation system
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Not everyone is useful. But never hesitate helping
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When at work, relationships are secondary
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Invest in medical insurance. It will have to be used someday
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Being mentally healthy is equally or only more important than being physically healthy
Being healthy overall is the best achievement
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If you’re distracted often and can’t finish your work, you will not be able to envisage the larger picture. Ever
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You neither need to provide opinions, recommendations and suggestions to
everything you hear or overhear, nor do you require vomiting when you recollect
something similar / better that happened to you or your friend in the past. If you do it always, you’re wasted
Change that habit
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Penny wise pound foolish idiom applies. Take it seriously. Accept the suggestions of those who point out these mistakes
in you
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Never take a loan for your marriage
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Avoid partnerships at work. Someday you will quarrel with your partner
Working on a percentage-sharing or offering a stake, are the best
alternate solutions
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Crying is good sometimes. It helps you start afresh
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Thank the person who helped you. It will encourage him to continue to help others
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Feel sorry for yourself if you’ve got to be apologetic for the same mistake time and again
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Never forget the one who has ever helped you
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Be high on self-esteem albeit with a selfless attitude. If you don’t believe in yourself, others probably would never
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Being charming is always better than better-looking. Improve your worth
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Laugh like a paranoid when someone’s shouting at you. There’s no better way to exploit their anxiety
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Replace your charming taunts and sarcasms with timely talks. You’ll work towards improving a relationship than purposely
destroying it
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Generations change. Learn from your next generation. They’re the quickest in your current times
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You should spend money, but reasonably. That’s how you’d love other things more than money and satisfy your passions
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If money can buy everything and anything, buy it. For everything else that you want, work hard
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Freedom is more about being able to choose whom to depend on, than being independent
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There’s enormous learning in travel. Invest your money in visiting the world
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Money is money. There is no replacement. Don’t stop earning even if you’ve reached the top and you may have to only donate
it. If you don’t need it for yourself, use it for good work
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Delegation to the right person is ‘the quintessential’ to your growth and success. Don’t fear taking the authority back after
due explanations
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In business, if your offer is not profitable to the next in line, you will only sooner start losing
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Raising kids is not a joke. Never challenge your wife
(for men)
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Society will never completely change
The systems still pronounce ‘Man and Wife’ in marriage, and not ‘Man and Woman’ or ‘Husband and Woman’
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Working towards solutions is more important than working towards problems. Someone’s done enough to make the
problems appear
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Digging the past can ruin your relationship
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Luck is necessary. Working and not just thinking about something will get you closer to luck
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Do anything and everything that makes you happy, within legitimate limits. Never stop your partner too
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A time will come when you must chalk out which relations to keep and which to let go off. Do it periodically and maintain
the important ones
Never leave the ones who’ve helped you
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Proving yourself right is not winning. You will simply lose out on most that’s yet to come
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Grandparents are the only ones who will love your kids the most
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Disregard the achievements of others and your stage will come to face a similar situation
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Don’t point a finger at someone who failed, but at least tried. You will completely break them down. Ask yourself if you had
the balls to do it
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Hurting someone will always haunt your conscience
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Those who can’t respect your family are not worth being around with
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Your life partner will always stay with you irrespective of your age. Work towards building the relationship
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Sad, but everyone will remember who didn’t attend their marriage. You must
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Practice at least one sport. It relieves you of all your pressures in life
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If you don’t get time, you’re perhaps organizing it all incorrectly. Everyone lives for the same number of hours in a
day as you do
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Teaching the stubborn man will frustrate you and aggravate him. Yet, you should give it a couple of tries. Then, leave it
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Smile as often. It heals, it’s free, it’s the best thing that your loved ones would want to see
you doing
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Become very good or possibly the best at something at least. That’s how the people will ask your advice on at least one
matter
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Take all necessary legitimate steps to ensure your work is beneficial to all stakeholders
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Pay your bills timely. Penalties on things you’ve used in the past is a criminal waste of money
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Be careful with your innocence. Everyone around is here to exploit it
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In life, you will get at least one penalty shoot-out. Hope for that opportunity to arrive. You must score a goal
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Starting from scratch is great. Nevertheless, if you have resources, use them and stop struggling
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Repay your loans as early as possible. Never think you will get it all and repay all at once. It will never happen
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Give it all or give in and don’t comment
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(Gujarati Sayings) Stay away for from four Vs as much as possible: Vaid, Vakil, Vaishya,
Vyaaj (meaning in order: Doctor, Lawyer, Prostitute, Interest). Your money and peace will only have a one-way traffic
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Opinions are at a free flow when your time is incorrect
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Share your knowledge. It may change someone’s life
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Your savings are vital. You never know when you will need them. Begin saving early
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If you have never written anything about yourself in the last five years (except for on social networking sites), do it now
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Never hesitate to ask for your pay check timely. That’s as long as you believe you’ve earned it
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Focus on completing one important work at a time. Multi-tasking while working on something significant will increase
the complexity and result in unfinished work
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Impulsive decision-making is not quick decision-making
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Make writing in any language, a habit if possible. While writing you will not want to make mistakes unlike your fidgety mind
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Care for others like they want to be cared; not the way that satisfies you
(if at all you only wanted to care)
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Ultimately, everything that you do boils down to attaining ‘satisfaction’. Start calling it your primary agenda in doing anything that you do.
Then do it
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Being cared exponentially increases others’ morale. Show it
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You must appreciate others’ when they have achieved ‘their desired’. Never delay. Your timely appreciation encourages
them to do better
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Reward yourself in any which way. Everyone needs encouragement and so do you
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Don’t be an escapist. Take initiatives and make decisions.
Be responsible for your decisions even if they must go wrong
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Iterate your attempts of making failure a success if you believe what you’ve thought is correct
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All educated are not learned. Life and experiences teach you extensively. Embrace those learnings. Decentralize them. Then
device them to effectively work towards your long-term passion
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I hate to believe this one but I am made to (perhaps rightly):
Don’t believe anyone completely the minute you go out of your house
(I hate this and I make this mistake purposely sometimes)
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Three things are most important: ‘eating your meals’ — “happily”, ‘sleeping’ — “on a bed which is comfortable”, having a ‘good bathroom’ — “to yourself”. Now that’s where and how you will spend more than half your life. Naturally
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Avoid being driven by circumstances. Make choice a priority
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Murphy’s laws will work the most for all and unfortunately they are unofficial in law books. Ironically, in my opinion, all life’s secrets that you are made to
understand and learn throughout your life, seem to be indirect consequences of these (Murphy’s Laws)
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Calling a fool, “a fool” will not make you any smarter. Learn from his foolishness and avoid making those mistakes that he’s
mastered
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Subject knowledge mastery (strong fundamentals) and continuous research, quality, self efficiency’s constant improvement — are the three keys to become successful in any work you
do.
Then, it’s only the ‘scale of work’ that’s required to grow successfully – a promise
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Discipline is the stepladder that can transit you from where you are to where you want to go.
Do not confuse discipline with willpower. You must also practice when and how to take a break from your disciplinary settings
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Empowerment will not lead to automatic results. It should be followed by a regular check if more responsibilities have been
taken by sub-ordinates successfully
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The way to peace has to become a habit. It has to be practiced and selfishly perfected to suit your needs. You must
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Most people you meet will prolong their talk in the area of knowledge they are (very) good at. You must know how to
subtly alert them of their efforts of wasting your time
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Nearly all you meet will have knowledge on most subjects. You can’t keep talking to all
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If you consider life as a battle, so be it. If you don’t, you’ll still be working to your strengths, and watching the world around
you happily
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Conform if you can’t change situations around you because of lack of control
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You must be able to make or own at least one property besides your own house
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Participate in all festivals as far as possible. It’s a rare sight to find everyone around you happy
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Talent without discipline and improving principles will more often than not, get wasted
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Time and again, if you find yourself against the majority, accept the fact that some aspect in your viewpoint is lacking.
Make inclusions and fortify it timely
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Don’t waste a lifetime on proving that your point was correct
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No I don’t believe that working without targets make any sense. Working for the sake that all work and you must too, is a wasted thought. You must know
where you’re heading even if you fall short or may never achieve your set targets
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Prolonging decisions will ruin your life and of the ones around you
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Don’t make permanent solutions to temporary reactions. All involved will pay for only one person’s mistake
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As you grow with time, your friends will gradually start reducing
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You must realize that your ideals can be wrong. Reassess them every year
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Going up with concrete solutions (on paper) is a better way of approaching your boss when you are going to present
problems
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Keep your points ready on a sheet before discussing with anyone, especially with your boss
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Pay rise will only come with additional responsibilities. And definitely not because of inflation
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Create more responsibilities at your work so that you can grow. You can’t wait for the market or your boss to do that
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Be it the smallest, write your achievements at work. It will either make you happy or tell you where you are lagging
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Competitors must be considered sweethearts. Your industry will grow only with your combined efforts
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Live your student’s life to the fullest. You will never get these years back
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Gift your parents and loved ones whenever and whatever possible. The brightest smile may appear with the smallest
move
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Anytime at whatever scale if you’re stuck or indecisive, pull out your pen and paper and start writing your options. You’ll soon
start weighing them and will be able to decide
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During your academic career you must stage-wise benchmark colleagues who are better than you. Create levels. Then make
your way forward
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The top class can influence the politicians with power and glamour; the lower class, by virtue of voting rights timely. It’s the middle-class that must burn and
wait for what happens, not that they can control or change anything
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Liquor isn’t bad. It’s obscure to get drunk and worst to get noticed
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It does not matter what you are at School. It matters what you are at a School re-union
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If you haven’t tried bad (but safe) things, you wouldn’t understand how good things make a good life
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You must at least have one circle, outside of your work arena, to talk intellectual ‘stuff’
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If you can’t quickly fix your mistake, hiding it is worse. Seeks opinions immediately
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I consider those men wise who: make mistakes, work towards improvements, share their knowledge, live to the fullest
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If you really wanted to make a difference in a real sense, smile at someone else
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Don’t stop your next generation in using newer things even if it means you must practice appropriate levels of parental control
later
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Never speculate with a loaned amount or borrowed money
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The (net) profits you must make in a business annually should be greater than the sum of: maximum interest available in the market on the money invested
for one rotation, the value of the rent of your total business premises, the amount of time you spend on your business
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Any person who starts a working career will take at least 4 years to settle. The time could only get longer
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You must pay higher for high quality products and services
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It’s the foolish who thinks he’s bargained well. It’s really the seller who’s the winner
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Arrogance, ego and ignorance are interrelated, interdependent and your surest way to ruin you.
Choose none
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As much as possible, speak without disclaimers to avoid confusions
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It takes a set of several illogical(s) to unite and make some logic. Never leave that opportunity
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I haven’t met a single individual till date who has never justified his / her thought. It’s their lame excuses and erratic levels of
justifications when they falter that concern me the most
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The one who awaits an apology is hurt the most. Learning how or not to accept, and subsequently react to an apology
requires brilliance
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You must not buy new things only out of necessity. Do buy them because you'd love to
have them
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You're a loser if you credit yourself on someone else's achievement. Sooner, you'll be identified
as a nuisance
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The simplest and the best:
Respect everyone who comes your way without any hidden agendas. Simply, don’t expect anything. Help as much as possible. It’s the best way to live and remain content
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Thanks for your patience
patience