Friday, March 30, 2007

WORTH READING 30 Mar 2007

Some people always enjoy the best that life has to offer.
It's not because more good things come there way.

It's because they find and enjoy the good in everything that comes their
way.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

WORTH READING 28 Mar 2007

The Splashes Of Life

My grandfather took me to the fish pond on the farm when I was about
seven, and he told me to throw a stone into the water. He told me to
watch the circles created by the stone. Then he asked me to think of
myself as that stone person.

You may create lots of splashes in your life but the waves that come
from those splashes will disturb the peace of all your fellow creatures,
he said.

Remember that you are responsible for what you put in your circle and
that circle will also touch many other circles. You will need to live in
a way that allows the good that comes from your circle to send the peace
of that goodness to others. The splash that comes from anger or jealousy
will send those feelings to other circles. You are responsible for both.

That was the first time I realized each person creates the inner peace
or discord that flows out into the world. We cannot create world peace
if we are riddled with inner conflict, hatred, doubt, or anger. We
radiate the feelings and thoughts that we hold inside, whether we speak
them or not. Whatever is splashing around inside of us is spilling out
into the world, creating beauty or discord with all other circles of
life.

Remember the eternal wisdom

WHATEVER YOU FOCUS ON EXPANDS...

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Monday, March 26, 2007

WORTH READING 26 Mar 2007

There was a farmer who grew superior quality and award-winning corn.

Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honor and
prizes.

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt something
interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the
farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors'.

"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors
when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the
reporter asked.

"Why sir, "said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen
from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my
neighbors grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn,
cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn.

If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."

The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His
corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves. So it is
in the other dimensions! Those who choose to be at harmony must help
their neighbors and colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to live
well must help others to live well. The value of a life is measured by
the lives it touches.

Success does not happen in isolation. It is very often a participative
and collective process. So share the good practices, ideas, new
learning's with your family, team members, neighbor

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Friday, March 23, 2007

WORTH READING 23 Mar 2007

Seize The Moment

I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the moment.
Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they
haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know
it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who
passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back.
From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't
suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does
the word "refrigeration" mean nothing to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you
watched Jeopardy on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, "How about going
to lunch in a half hour?" She would gasp and stammer, "I can't."

Check one:
"I have clothes on the line."
"My hair is dirty."
"I wish I had known yesterday."
"I had a late breakfast".
"It looks like rain".
And my personal favorite: "It's Monday".

She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our
headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves
when all the conditions are perfect. We'll go back and visit the
grandparents when we get Stevie toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we
replace the living-room carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon when we
get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way of accelerating, as we get older. The days get shorter,
and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we
awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of "I'm going
to," "I plan on" and "Someday, when things are settled down a bit."

When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure
and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her
enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes,
and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Roller blades and
skip an elevator for a bungee cord.

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's
just that I might as well apply it directly to my hips with a spatula
and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car
and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way
home, I would have died happy.

Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to .... Not
something on your SHOULD DO list.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

WORTH READING 22 Mar 2007

An interesting reflection. : Slow Down Culture

It's been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working for
them has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes
2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It's
a rule.

Globalize processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general
sense of searching for immediate results. Therefore, we have come to
posses a need to see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the
slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate,
debate, hold x quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At
the end, this always yields better results.

Said in another words:
1. Sweden is about the size of San Pablo, a state in Brazil.
2. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants.
3. Stockholm, has 500,000 people.
4. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, Nokia are some of its renowned
companies. Volvo supplies the NASA.

The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the
hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would
arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance
(2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn't say
anything, either the second or third. One morning I asked, "Do you have
a fixed parking space? I've noticed we park far from the entrance even
when there are no other cars in the lot." To which he replied, "Since
we're here early we'll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will
be late and need a place closer to the door. Don't you think? Imagine my
face.

Nowadays, there's a movement in Europe name Slow Food. This movement
establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to
taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing.
Slow Food is against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what
it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger
movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week.

Basically, the movement questions the sense of "hurry" and "craziness"
generated by globalization, fueled by the desire of "having in quantity"
(life status) versus "having with quality", "life quality" or the
"quality of being". French people, even though they work 35 hours per
week, are more productive than Americans or British. Germans have
established 28.8 hour workweeks and have seen their productivity been
driven up by 20%. This slow attitude has brought forth the US's
attention, pupils of the fast and the "do it now!".

This no-rush attitude doesn't represent doing less or having a lower
productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality,
productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress. It
means reestablishing family values, friends, free and leisure time.
Taking the "now", present and concrete, versus the "global", undefined
and anonymous. It means taking humans' essential values, the simplicity
of living.

It stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and
more productive where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do.
It's time to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious
quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of
products and services, without losing the essence of spirit.

In the movie, Scent of a Woman, there's a scene where Al Pacino asks a
girl to dance and she replies, "I can't, my boyfriend will be here any
minute now". To which Al responds, "A life is lived in an instant". Then
they dance to a tango.

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when
we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time.
Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the
present, which is the only time that truly exists. We all have equal
time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies
in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment.
As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy
making other plans".

Congratulations for reading till the end of this message. There are many
who will have stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this
globalize world.

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Monday, March 19, 2007

WORTH READING 19 Mar 2007

Don't Ever
-by Laine Parsons

Don't ever be reluctant
to show your feelings when
you're happy, give in to it.
When you're not, live with it.

Don't ever be afraid to
try to make things better, you might
be surprised at the results.

Don't ever take the weight of the
world on your shoulders.

Don't ever feel threatened by the future,
take life one day at a time.

Don't ever feel guilty about the past,
what's done is done.

Don't stop learning from
any mistakes you might have made.

Don't ever feel that you are alone,
there is always somebody there
for you to reach out to.

Don't ever forget that you can achieve
so many of the things you can imagine...
It's not as hard as it seems.

Don't ever stop loving,
don't ever stop believing,
don't ever stop dreaming your dreams.

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Friday, March 16, 2007

WORTH READING 15 Mar 2007

A small story about Great place to work.

A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said,"
Lord,I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.

The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and
the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round
table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew which smelled
delicious and made the holy man's mouth water. The people sitting around
the table were thin and sickly.

They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long
handles and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and
take a spoonful,but because the handle was longer than their arms, they
could not get the spoons back into their mouths. The holy man shuddered
at the sight of their misery and suffering. The Lord said, "You have
seen Hell."

They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same
as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of
stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped
with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well
nourished and plump,laughing and talking. The holy man said, "I don't
understand"." It is simple said the Lord, "it requires only one skill.
You see, they have learned to feed each other. While the greedy think
only of themselves."

Moral:

Its people's attitude that makes our place of work, a hell or heaven to
them!! 'Help and Seek Help' this makes all the difference to each
individual's life...and makes our lives hell or otherwise.

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Monday, March 12, 2007

WORTH READING 12 Mar 2007

Most Beautiful Heart

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming
that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd
gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was
not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most
beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and
boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said, "Why
your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine."

The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was
beating strongly, but full of scars, it had places where pieces had been
removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't fit quite right and
there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep
gouges where whole pieces were missing. The people stared -- how can he
say his heart is more beautiful, they thought?

The young man looked at the old man's heart and saw its state and
laughed. "You must be joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine,
mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears."

"Yes," said the old man, "Yours is perfect looking but I would never
trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have
given my love - I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and
often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty
place in my heart, but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some
rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we
shared.

"Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person
hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges
-- giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful,
they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too,
and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So
now do you see what true beauty is?"

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He
walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful
heart, and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man with
trembling hands.

The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a
piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young
man's heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.

The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more
beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart flowed into
his. They embraced and walked away side by side.

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Friday, March 09, 2007

WORTH READING 9 Mar 2007

Today
-Gregory L

Today, when I awoke, I suddenly realized that this is the best day of my
life, ever!

There were times when I wondered if I would make it to today; but I did!
And because I did I'm going to celebrate!

Today, I'm going to celebrate what an unbelievable life I have had so
far the accomplishments, the many blessings, and, yes, even the
hardships because they have served to make me stronger.

I will go through this day with my head held high, and a happy heart. I
will marvel at God's seemingly simple gifts the morning dew, the sun,
the clouds, the trees, the flowers, the birds. Today, none of these
miraculous creations will escape my notice.

Today, I will share my excitement for life with other people. I'll make
someone smile. I'll go out of my way to perform an unexpected act of
kindness for someone I don't even know. Today, I'll give a sincere
compliment to someone who seems down. I'll tell a child how special he
is, and I'll tell someone I love just how deeply I care for her and how
much she means to me.

Today is the day I quit worrying about what I don't have and start being
grateful for all the wonderful things God has already given me. I'll
remember that to worry is just a waste of time because my faith in God
and his Divine Plan ensures everything will be just fine.

And tonight, before I go to bed, I'll go outside and raise my eyes to
the heavens. I will stand in awe at the beauty of the stars and the
moon, and I will praise God for these magnificent treasures.

As the day ends and I lay my head down on my pillow, I will thank the
Almighty for the best day of my life. And I will sleep the sleep of a
contented child, excited with expectation because I know tomorrow is
going to be the best day of my life, ever!

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Friday, March 02, 2007

WORTH READING 2 Mar 2007

I'm Still Growing

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29,
1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feet
straight up. He was knighted for his efforts.

He even made American Express card commercials because of it! However,
until we read his book, High Adventure, we don't understand that Hillary
had to grow into this success.

You see, in 1952 he attempted to climb Mount Everest, but failed. A few
weeks later a group in England asked him to address its members.

Hillary walked on stage to a thunderous applause. The audience was
recognizing an attempt at greatness, but Edmund Hillary saw himself as a
failure. He moved away from the microphone and walked to the edge of the
platform.

He made a fist and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a
loud voice, Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you
the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm
still growing!

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