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A Contest to have your Ad on the Blog!

May 24, 2010 / / 0 Comments

It’s that time again. After a long time, I have decided to hold a contest on the blog again. The purpose of having this contest is two fold:-
i)  To interact with bloggers.
ii) To spread the word about the first annual “The MAG” Short Story Writing Contest.

The Prize:
Before I tell you about the contest, let me tell you what you stand to win. If you win the contest, you get to have your 125 X125 ad on the blog for a period of six months. Your ad will be placed right above the “Write Network” badge. Interested? Read on for details.

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What is Your Profession?

May 18, 2010 / / 3 Comments

300 is a nice movie. Admittedly, the movie is mostly blood, gore, screams and half naked men with great abs, yet it is a great movie. The quality of the movie, however, is not what this post is about. This post is about something I realised as I was watching the movie.

In one scene, King Leonidas, and his 300 men, meet a group of Arcadians, led by Daxos. Daxos is dismayed at seeing only 300 men, and he tells Leonidas that he was expecting the number of Spartans to be at least as much as the Arcadians. At that Leonidas asks three Arcadians what their profession was, and the answers he gets are potter, sculptor, and blacksmith respectively.

Spartans, of course, were soldiers by profession, each and every one of them. That was exactly what made Spartans a formidable fighting force.

The lesson to be learnt here is simple.

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Sometimes, it’s not about the Road!

May 13, 2010 / / 4 Comments
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference”

All of us at some point of time or another in our lives come to a point where we stand at crossroads. Roads lie in front of us, and we have to chose one of them. Unlike the poet, Robert Frost, who chose the one less travelled by, most of us chose the one that is well travelled, and that, as they say, makes all the difference.

But it is not always about the road. Sometimes, it does not matter what road you take.

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Searching for that One Thing!

May 7, 2010 / / 2 Comments

All our lives, most of us, are searching for that one secret that would take us from where we are now to where we want to be. This search leads us onto many paths – known and unknown – but most of these paths lead nowhere.

We read books, we listen to speeches, we watch videos, and every time we find something great and inspiring, we think this is it. We believe we have found the secret to success. In a few days, however, the illusion fades. We are still standing where we were, or maybe in a new place, but our destination is still hidden behind dense fog.

Do we fail because we are less capable than others? Or do we fail because we are not as enthusiastic as others?

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The Anatomy of Passion!

February 22, 2010 / / 2 Comments

GreatPassionThere are times when the best of us look towards others for advice to succeed. The advice we are most likely to get is,“Do whatever you do with passion, and you just can’t fail.” Unlike most advice which might, or might not, be applicable to everyone, this little piece of advice is perfect for anyone who wishes to succeed in his, or her, chosen field of work. But, then why aren’t more of us passionate about things? Why aren’t more of us successful?

In the simplest terms passion is  a “boundless enthusiasm” for something. This something is the thing that you are looking to succeed in. So, if we can have boundless enthusiasm for something, we will succeed in it. It is as simple as that. Not really.

The difficulty stems from the fact that most of us end up doing things that we can not be passionate about, and still we want to succeed in that. What stops us from being passionate about what we do?

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