Secrete of Our Happy Married Life….

Read an article on marriage and triggered me to write this….

Ours is arranged marriage. In case of arranged marriage as we all are aware we meet multiple prospective grooms or brides, talk to them and obviously judge them if he or she can be your perfect match. To do so you first need to know yourself well and then evaluate whether you can get along with the other person. This is what I think as I don’t believe in love at first sight. I really wonder if there is something called of love. I feel if you can respect other you automatically love that person and that was my criterion of match making. You should have some common things to spend your time together. You should have common values and beliefs.
I was against spending lot of money on ceremony, I had wish to donate that amount to Indian Army But this is my unfulfilled wish. The clothes, jewelry, make up were not the things that mattered to both of us. We were more than happy with whatever we gifted to each other. We were more interested in knowing and understanding each other because that’s what going to help us to last our relationship. We were busy making future plans, finding our new home. Sachin was looking for new home as per my preferences that was making me more comfortable with him. We both don’t believe in cast or religion. We were frank with each other. I was able to express my thoughts with him freely that’s what mattered to me.
Since then till today we never gave more importance on gifts, flowers, etc. We see to it we spend time together in activities that both of us like. He helps me in cooking sometimes, we go for walk together. I have developed of new hobby of trekking and walking on trails with him. I think for married couples its necessary to develop common interest which you both can enjoy. We make efforts to make each other happy. Our marriage has brought best out of us. We plan for future together and have common goals in life. That binds us tight.

I will always pray for we to be same forever.

Monsoon Trek to Diksal Waterfall

Monsoon season starts around first week of June in Konkan region of Maharashtra. My most favorite season as it takes all heat away from the atmosphere. Dust from Surrounding plant, buildings roads is washed away. Everything appears to be clean and new. Plants are more green. Sahyadri ranges are covered with lush greenery everywhere, cloud cover top of the mountains. These changes in surrounding call for monsoon outings.
This year we planned to go on trek with cousins to Diksal Waterfall with Vranger trekking group. This is adventurous trek comprising of water rappelling at the waterfall.

Saturday, 7th July 2018, morning we caught train at 4:10 to Dadar station from Andheri. We were a group of about 10-12 people including youngest trekker of age 6 yrs old coming from various places from Mumbai. All were excited and geared up. We all gathered at Dadar and boarded train to Kasara. Needless to say fun started the moment then. We reached Bhivpuri station around 8:00 am and met the trekking group. We started trek around 8:30 am after having breakfast and introductory session.

The trek was about 1.5 hrs of walk to reach to waterfall. It was raining heavily. That is what we wanted to trek in rain. We were walking on trails. Wherever we could see we were seeing only greenery. Sahyadri ranges were covered in green and we could see springs everywhere, clouds coming down and covering mountains. We passed many springs on the way. Must to mention the youngest trekker was the best trekker of the group. He was enjoying climbs, jumping in water and super fast. We reached the destination. The trekker gave instructions about how to do rappelling.

As it was raining heavily the waterfall had heavy water flow. The instructors waited till flow was reduced. All the enthusiastic people enjoyed rappelling except me and Sachin as we found it was too adventurous for us. I get scared of heights. So to reach to top of the waterfall itself was conquering my fear. We had food after everyone completed their rappelling and started return back around 5:00pm. Again descending trek was tougher task for me. It was great experience to do it successfully.
This was my third monsoon trek and look forward to do many more.
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Personality – Nourishing vs Toxic

A toxic personality has a negative mindset. A Perfectionist generally has a toxic personality. You won't find anything wrong in this person but being perfect, this concept itself, is a behavior of finding or looking for faults or incompleteness. Such people set high standards, compare things with ideal things, perfection is their goal. Which leads to unhappy life. These people are intellectual. It is difficult to win argument with such people. But they may not be wise. These intellectual people try to impose logic on life. Logic by means is perfect but life can’t be perfect. Perfectionists try to look for ideal things, try to impose them on their life and ignore reality. 

People with nourishing personalities do not look for ideality; they look into the reality of life. These people look into the positive aspects of life. They are happy and satisfied. They know themselves, their strengths and limits. They don’t go against their nature.

Try to be real to yourself. Know what is good for you. If you are idle, that’s your nature. If  you try to go against it you won’t be happy. Don’t set ideal goals. They create abnormality in personality as you get occupied with one thought to achieve something and you tend to be unhappy. Your goal should be to enjoy what you do. Do what you are capable of, accept your limitations. Gradually you will turn to a nourishing personality, and you will enjoy more and you will be more introspective.

Be free, accept and enjoy. All your worries will disappear.

Lived My Dreams

Happy to say I made it.
I don't have any unfulfilled dreams for self.
I worked hard, gave multiple attempts to make it.
Sidi ungli se nahi nikala to rasten badale but never changed my destination.
It makes me complete, contented.
I am ready for next task.... May god give me strength, wisdom, vision to succeed.

Hurricane Irma and Me

Every summer in Florida starts with a prayer that there is no major hurricane. I was happy as August also passed with no storms this year. Just as I was enjoying the Labor Day weekend, we got the news that Hurricane Irma has turned into  a category 5 hurricane and is going to hit Florida in a week. I had absolutely no clue how to deal with this kind of situation. My friends in USA just told me to tune to local news and act as per their advice. This turned out to be the best advice which helped me throughout.

I started preparing for the storm and stocked non-perishable food, water, fruits, torch, etc. To gather these items was not easy as shops were going out of stock. We had to go early morning to shops so that we get essentials such as bread, water, and batteries.

There was lot of uncertainty about the path of Irma: whether it will hit the east coast or west coast of Florida. The state government declared a state of emergency. Mandatory evacuation orders were given for southern Florida as the first landfall was predicted to be there. Tension was building up for me.

Up until Wednesday, we were relaxed as all the models predicated its going to be on the east coast. I was following the local news channel.  People in Tampa also started evacuating. News reporters mentioned on Wednesday evening this is the right time to evacuate if you want to. I was clueless about what to do. We just checked flight tickets but the prices were really high. One of my friends told us about some airlines offering cheap tickets for people trying to evacuate at the last moment, but Sachin was firm not to evacuate, so we remained calm. Thursday morning news update showed that path moved little towards west with lots of uncertainty.  We checked the flight tickets again but by that time all flights were sold out. But we did not panic as the hurricane was predicted to go over land and its severity reduced by the time it hit Tampa.

Friday was the worst day. The morning update showed Irma has gained speed and it has shifted more to the west. Mandatory evacuation orders were given to the coastal area of Hillsborough county. (which is my county). Now the tension started building. Sachin was continuously following news and I was working since I had to complete my deliverables on time. Evening update was scary showing a continuous shift to the west. One model predicated chances of a second landfall in Tampa Bay from the west coast. I was clueless what to be done. I started asking opinions of my friends. They were equally clueless. I called up one of my American client colleague for guidance. She said she will decide to evacuate or not after the 11 pm update. The 11 pm update was more scary. I told Sachin we will evacuate next morning and go to a hurricane shelter. Hurricane shelters were going to open 8 am on the next morning. After making our bag ready for evacuation with all important visa documents, some clothes, and food items, we went to bed. After a few minutes, my friends called up and said they are evacuating to Atlanta (North of Tampa in the state of Georgia) and asked whether we want to join them. And we happily joined them. We got just one suitcase and our laptops and started our journey. To decide at this time to evacuate was also risky as there was lots of traffic jam, gas stations were out of fuel, and there was a high chance that we get stuck on road when the storm hits us.

Bhagwan ka nam leke sab nikal pade. It took us 12 hours to reach destination which normally takes 7-8 hours. We did not have a place to stay in Atlanta when we left. We had one number of Art of Living volunteers somebody had shared on Facebook. They were volunteering to provide accommodation for hurricane stranded people. We contacted them, and in few minutes they replied with an address for us to go to. Saturday morning 6 am we reached Georgia. We started to look for hotel accommodation near the city. Most of the hotels were booked, and the available placed were getting filled before we could book them. Luckily we got one room in a shared house on Airbnb. The owner was offering it for free of cost to hurricane affected people.

We reached at Atlanta on Saturday Afternoon. The room was good, and the owner, Wenwen, was very helpful. She had two dogs. The dogs were extremely friendly. The restaurants and grocery shops were nearby the house so we could manage our stay at ease.

Sunday night the hurricane was going to hit Tampa Bay with a wind speed of 110 mph. We were following live updates on our news channel online and praying for our homes to be safe. We woke up Sunday morning to know that all is well in our community. So were happy about it. Now we had to plan our way back to home. Hurricane Irma had turned to tropical storm and it was heading towards Atlanta. So we decided to start our journey back to home on Tuesday.

On Tuesday morning, we checked flight tickets, but Tampa airport was not operational. We were lucky to get bus tickets to Tampa on the same day. Very soon even bus tickets were sold out.  The bus was scheduled to leave at 8:30 pm. We planned our day accordingly. Just before leaving for the bus, we called the bus station to check if the bus is on time and they informed us that the bus service is suspended for Florida and won't be operational until weekend. We cancelled our tickets and again started for looking out for other options. Just then Tampa airport became operational and we could book flight tickets for the same night. Though we got tickets, we were not sure we will fly back until we get the boarding tickets. At 11 pm, we landed in Tampa and reached home half an hour later. We were happy to see our home in the same state as we left.

Although the entire week the life was tough but it did not feel that bad as there were many helping hands. The help and understanding offered by everyone was very overwhelming. I am falling short of words to express it. And I am highly impressed by the disaster management in USA.

Beauty Lies In The Eyes Of The Beholder

In India only fair skin is considered as beauty. Me, having dark complexion never counted as good looking. But since my childhood my family has cultivated confidence in me by giving values not to give importance to outer beauty and emphasised on how I can be a good human and independent and confident person. Many times I was rejected for being dark skinned person but I never got hurt or felt bad about it as I criticised people for not understanding the true value of qualities of the person. I always waited for right people right opportunity and it worked for me.

I always believe if one accepts self as what he or she is, its hardly matters what the rest think about him or her.

But to my surprise, in Sweden I got compliments by white people for my complexion. Other day here in Tampa, USA, I was greeted by a white woman (mentioning white not for discrimination), she complemented me saying ‘You look very beautiful’ and while she was staring at me I really felt as if I am some beautiful princess. Truly, Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder

Social Media and Me…

Needless to talk about power, impact of social media… but it just fascinates me… not for the likes I get on my photos or posts… not for the number of followers.. by the way I don’t get many :).. but for the inspiration I get from the people when they share the posts..

I have a friend, Divya Navale, who is traveler, travelling is her passion and I got inspired by the photos she posted… I felt the urge to visit those places and worked towards it, fortunate enough to get the opportunity to travel. 

My cousin Shilpa Shinde is amazing photographer, when I saw photos posted by her I thought even I should try my hands on photography. I am an amateur photographer now.

The thoughtful blogs from my friend Ajay Varshney, quotes shared by people inspire me like daily dose to live my life, to feed my cognitive process.

I share the photos from the places that I visit and like so that if people like that place can plan visiting those. One can see the place in photos if they cant travel there. I scribble my thoughts just to express and spread some thoughts I like and feel like sharing. By the way, I got introduced to blogging by Prashant Batra. Thank you Motu ;)

Hope I am also inspirational to someone somewhere the way you all are for me.

What is Freedom?

Freedom is to express what we feel, freedom is to wear what we wish, freedom is to go where we want, freedom is to live the way we want.

Freedom is always comes with responsibilities to maintain harmony in the community hence society or nation has come up with laws and regulation and everyone is abided to follow it.

So are we really free?

You gain freedom with knowledge. Power, money can never give you freedom. With knwoledge you learn to respect and accept everyone and respect their opinion, let other person live as per his/her style which makes you more free.

Sometimes I Wonder…..

Sometimes I wonder am I an abnormal girl?

In my collage days I never liked people complementing my look or clothes. I used to always feel people should appreciate my talent or nature. Every girl has dream to get married and be a mother. It was never dream of my life. I always dreamt to be charming lady with descent career. Sometimes I wonder I always did what I wanted and never followed traditions just for name sake or thinking ‘log kya kahenge’.

I am thankful to God to have supportive parents who always understood me and inculcated ability of rational thinking, questioning obvious in me.

I always wonder its not easy to understand me and get along with me easily… For me it was the biggest challenge to find suitable life partner and then one fine day I found as supportive, understanding and sensible man with whom I am happily married.

Sweet Little Doll Turns To Graceful Princess

My sweet little doll, my younger sister, ten years ago she left India for higher studies and started living independently in Canada. She completed her masters and started working. Every year she visits India for about two weeks and we spend gala time with each other, we eat together, roam together and shop together. But its always I do didigiri all the time with her.

But, this time we met at Florida, USA. She had come on vacation to meet me and visit few nearby places. No need to say we had lots of fun these days. First time I saw her driving car, graciously dealing with Americans, confidently ordering and eating local food, so well she has learnt American mannerism and life style. My sweet little doll, whom I used to pamper and take care of was taking care of me. Best part of all is being successful in life she is so down to earth. I feel proud to see my doll has grown up to graceful princess and has found his charming prince who takes care of her.

God Bless You Dear.

Choice or Destiny

We are aware of saying,  'It's choice that determines destiny', but I wonder is that always true. If we believe that our life is a product of our decisions and if we believe in destiny we believe some forces defines our life. I feel life is blend of choice and destiny.
In spite of scoring good marks, clearing of interviews and having job letters from two top companies due to recession I couldn't start my career on right time is part of destiny but I chose to look for another opportunity is my choice. I got second chance is my destiny.
Because of my health I had to return halfway on my first onsite assignment. It was the worst experience of my life that I had fear in my mind to take up any onsite project.  But I made efforts to overcome my fear and got opportunity to travel abroad for work is again good example of choice and destiny.
Getting into uncontrolled situation whether it's good or bad is destiny, the way you react to it is your choice. So your life is outcome of both.

Mesmerising Valleys Of Malshejghat

Its been a more than a year I had been to Malshejghat, Maharashtra for weekend trip but the memories are still fresh as if I visited there very recently.

Marshejghat is considered as grand Canyon of Maharashtra.  It's Hill station near by pune and Mumbai. Best time to visit is during rain.  We was planning for same but eventually it worked out to be in winter in January 2015 and the climate was pleasing cold and foggy. We went there by public transport (state government bus) from  Kalyan, Mumbai. We booked room at MTDC resort for stay. MTDC resort at Marshejghat are located on top of the mountain and is at the best location. It's surrounded by steep Valley.

The moment I got down from bus and walked towards resort it was just aaha moment. I was spellbound to see surrounding nature.  During rainy season you can see reverse waterfall from this MTDC resort location. Our room was good facing mountains. The entire day we spent at MTDC resort looking at the surrounding mountains, valleys.

Next day after breakfast we walked down to lake nearby and the view was visual treat, huge lake amid the Sahyadri ranges.

As we had planned our trip just for a day we could not go to Harishchandragad and Shivneri but we will surely plan one more trip on some weekend for that.

Wish I Can Travel More..

When I was a kid, my family always went on trips during my school vacations. We visited nearby places like Pune, Shirdi, Nashik, Aurangabad, and Ratnagiri as well as places outside my state like Karnataka, Delhi and Kashmir. I really enjoyed these trips.

I had a collage friend, Asmita, who had come from Sindhudurg to Mumbai for her studies and stayed with her grandmother in Mumbai. I was very impressed with this girl and her independent ways. After my education, I grabbed the opportunity to live independently with friends and went to Bangalore for my job, my dream career. With friends I did many things first time, right from house hunting, grocery shopping, banking, etc… but I didn't travel much. I stayed there almost for three years, but I visited only Hampi, Udupi, and Manipal. I wish I was more active to see more places nearby. Luckily enough, I got to stay in Hyderabad for two months for project work. During my stay, I got to interact with various people and got to know the south Indian culture.

Later for my work I moved to Pune. I stayed there for a year. It was fun to travel on the Mumbai-Pune expressway on every weekend by Shivneri. I went to Parvati, Sinhgad, Lonavala and hung out on FC Road, Tulsibag market, etc. It was a good experience.

Then I got opportunity to travel to Stockholm, Sweden. I tried to explore Swedish way of living as much as I can in my short duration of stay. Experienced snow, walking in subzero temperature… I wanted to explore Sweden more but the stay ended abruptly and had to return back… yet want a lot more to experience, especially northern lights. I have a wish to visit Sweden once more in my lifetime.

Stockholm is an awesome place, wherever you go you feel you are in heaven. After visiting Stockholm I wished I should visit more places in India and around the world. I made short weekend tours to Ratnagiri, Raigad, Malshejghat, Lohagad within Maharashtra. Enjoyed truly.

And now to Florida, USA on work assignment. Its more than three months here now… setting up things here… lots of things to explore..

Along with going to tourist places, I enjoy visiting local hangout places, knowing locals, their eating habits, etc. Every travel is an adventure, you learn something new. It brings more Aaha moments to life. I enjoy being a traveler than being just a tourist. If I had money and ample time, I would certainly travel more.

Wings Of Fire

Wanted to read 'Wings of fire' since long. Finally on demise of A P J Kalam I read it.

It is a story of a boy born in poor but cultured family who went on to become missile man of India, First Citizen of India, and honored by Bharatratna. A story of a dreamer who worked to realize his dreams. A story about how he overcame difficult time, how he faced failures, how he accepted situations beyond his control and moulded himself, how simple and humble lifestyle he had in spite of achieving great heights in life.

The story is real life version of Alchemist boy, how failures or negative forces helps to realize destiny. whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, its because that the desire originated in the soul of the universe. Its your mission on earth. The soul of the universe is nourished by people’s happiness and also by unhappiness, envy and jealousy. To realize once destiny is a person’s only obligation.

He was Karmayogi. He enjoyed his work. All his life he worked for the betterment of society, not for gaining fame or get positions. His achievements were the outcome of his karma.

One can learn many things from his autobiography. His life and his thoughts are truly inspirational. Must read book. It's a guide to live life.

Sagun & Nirgun Bhakti

Sagun Bhakti is serving God. Nirgun Bhakti is doing work given by God.

In Ramayana, when Rama leaved for vanavas, Lakshmana accompanied Rama and served him. He could not imagine is life without Rama. This is form of Saguna Bhakti. Whereas Bharat looked after the kingdom on behalf of Rama and did his duties staying away from Rama is Nirgun Bhakti.

Serving God, serving parents, serving our country is Sagun Bhakti. Doing things for betterment of this world is Nirgun Bhakti. Sagun Bhakti is easier than Nirgun Bhakti. But both kind of Bhakt are equally dear to the God. Sagun Bhakti is full of love and Nirgun Bhakti is based on knowledge. Sagun Bhakti is based on dependence on God. Nirgun Bhakti is based on self dependence.

Both are not complete without each other. When Sagun Bhakt depends on some person when he loses that person he should be able to live life based on his principles. In difficult situation Sagun Bhakt should be able to live life based on principles stated in his Dharama by his God. Hence Bhagwan Buddha says, ‘Buddham Sharanam Gachchami, Sangaham Sharanam Gachchhami, Dharmam Sharanam Gachchhami’.

Similarly although Nirnun Bhakt lives life based on self dependence, principles, knowledge, detachment is not joyful without Sagun Bhakti.

God – As explained in Bahgwat Geeta

Since ages there exist people who believe in God and those who don't.

Bhagwat Geeta says if you believe in God it is easier to live life. It adds happiness to your life. The way we prove theorems based on some hypothesis in geometry, Bhagwat Geeta states art of living based on existence of God.

If you we believe in God we have something to rely upon. Especially one can experience this when he /she is going through extreme pain. For the things which are not in our control we can rely upon God and continue our efforts. We have someone to ask for the things which are not in anyone’s control. You can say sorry for the mistakes in your life to be forgiven and rectify them to continue happy life. By believing God we get strength to face life.

A child believes in his / her mother, he /she feels most secured with his mother. Same way if we believe in God who he is there to take care of us we will always feel secured and this the key to live happier and productive life.

If we surrender to God and become grateful to him, we can never become egoistic. If we see God everywhere in this universe, we will feel this place is better to live. If we see God in things around us we will always love the things around us we will learn to respect and try to not to harm it.

If we believe in God as creator, preserver and destroyer of this universe, we understand the reason behind the good and bad things in this world. Nothing is constant in this world that makes the life going. Existence of only good things in life makes life stagnant and less scope for improvement.

If you believe in God and follow the path to live life with Bhakti it adds additional joy to your life.

RajaYoga

KarmaYoga is doing things without expecting result. One who gets so much engrossed in doing karma that he sacrifices the result of Karma is Karmyogi.

BhaktiYoga is devoting to God. BhaktiYogi finds God everywhere, in every small little things.

RajaYoga is combination of KarmaYoga and BhaktiYoga. RajaYoga says do your karma and offer the result to the God, whether the result is good or bad. Even if your karma gives you bad result, offer it to God. Don’t keep anything with you. Nothing belongs to you, good or bad.

While doing karma think as if you are serving God. While doing karma if we do it with devotion how pure that karma will be. Try to see God everywhere, in every small little thing. Treat everyone as if you are treating God. Do everything thinking you are doing to make God happy. While cooking for family think as if you are serving God. While dealing with criminals try to see God in them, try to kill bad things in them and convert them to better humans.

RajaYoga gives you double pleasure, pleasure of working and pleasure of serving God.

Make your life as Yadnya and offer yourself to God. Practice it throughout your life. Live your life keeping in mind that you are going to die one day. Keep practicing doing good karma, listening good thoughts, reading good things. When you realize your mistake rectify it. It’s natural we to deviate from good things or good Karma. But continuous introspection and being with good people, reading, listening to good thoughts will get you back.

BhaktiYoga as stated in Bhagwat Geeta

This world is full of variety, we see different things, different people, people with different attitude, different mood. When we look at crying person we  feel sad, when we look at smiling person we feel pleasant. But even though these opposite things the base of every small little thing is the same, it’s the same God.

Certain things makes us happy, certain things we don’t like so we avoid it even though its our duty. This is called Moha. To overcome Moha we should understand God. We should be able to see God everywhere, in all living non-living things. Then only we will overcome Moha.

BhaktiYoga is a way to understand God. Bhakti, devotion gives you pleasure. Any karma done with devotion is a pleasant experience. Devotion fulfills your life with happiness. You wont need any external means to make yourself happy. Once you know happiness through devotion you naturally wont enjoy other means to seek pleasure.

Bhagwat Geeta states 3 kind of Devotees.

1.       Sakam Bhakt, 2. Nishkam Bhakt but onsided, 3. Smpoorna Bhakt

1. Sakam bhakt – Devotee with reason goes to God with some desire. He asks God to fulfill his wish. Although the devotee goes to God for some reason such devotee is not considered inferior as he is asking God to fulfil his wish and not some other person. This behavior itself is very uncommon. God is kind enough to help such devotee to continue his devotion, he answers his prayer. This is the first step to be Nishkam Devotee.

2. Nishkam Bhakt – Devotee with no reason, wish in his mind.There are 3 kind of Nishkam Bhakt
Aart – Who loves God, who is desperate to meet God

Jidnyasu – Who is curious to know God, who is curious about everything in this world.

Artharthi – Who always do the things for betterment of society

3. Sampoorna Bhakt – Complete devotee who sees God in every small little things. He finds God everywhere. He sees God in Sun, Moon, Animals, Plants. He doesn't find anything bad anywhere as he sees God everywhere.

DhyanYoga As Stated In Bhagwat Geeta

Generally people think Bhagwat Geeta is not for common man to live day to day life. Its meant for Sadhus. But that is wrong conception. Bhagwat Geeta tells you the ways, the art to live day to day life. Bhagwat Geeta tells you how to improve self to go as close to God. Geeta teaches us how can  our Karma can be pure and pious to give is sense of satisfaction and peace. Geeta believes every human can attain state of being God. That should be aim of every human & should work towards it. Geeta teaches you various ways, Yogas to reach the goal; Bhaktiyoga, Dhyanyoga, Karmayoga, Dyanyoga,etc.

One has to follow 3 things for Dhyanyoga, 1. Concentration, 2. Control, 3. Outlook.

Concentration : Its is required to do any kind of work whether its business, research, politics or any other thing. Concentration can be achieved by stopping unnecessary thoughts in mind. One needs to learn the art. It can be learnt by not giving importance to unnecessary small little external things. Why to waste time in gossiping, why to give importance if food is not tasty, why to give importance if someone hurts you. Instead invest that time to improve yourself so that you can meet God. Try to concentrate while praying to God so that you will forget rest of the world. Generally when one tries to concentrate falls sleep and while trying to sleep the mind is full of thoughts. The first state is Shunyagrata because of Tama qualities and other state is Anekagrata because of Raja qualities. To achieve Ekagrata one has to change himself, he has to improve his Satva qualities. His acts have to be pure and pious.

Control : We should have control on ourselves. Everything should be done in limits. However you like sweets you should eat in limits. Whichever act even if its good should be done in control. Every act of you should be monitored by yourself.

Outlook : Our outlook should be broad. We should think this world is beautiful and everything is meant for good. The way you believe in yourself you should believe in the world. Without this outlook one can not concentrate and do Sadhana. With insecure mind one can not concentrate.

Keep monitoring your thoughts. Let the good thoughts come in, get rid of bad thoughts. Keep listening and reading good thoughts. Get rid of Raja and Tama qualities and improve Satva qualities in you.

Small Little Career Guidance

Since our childhood we have been asked what will you become when you will grow up. When we are about to complete our school we need to be serious about this question, we need to answer this to ourselves and choose our stream for further studies to take it as our profession or career.

Instead of giving you advice about how to choose career I will tell you how did I chose mine.

My mother always told me in my school day, ‘if you want to be a hairdresser be so but excel the skill so that you would be the best hairdresser in city’. She always insisted me to do what I like and enjoy. Apart from schooling I used to go for dance classes and karate classes. But I enjoyed studying maths and science the most. So I chose science stream after 10^th. I happened to attend a short computer course and I topped in the class. I just loved it. So I decided to pursue it as my career. I did my MCA with distinction and got campus recruited in Wipro Technologies. The s/w job is demanding. One needs to work 20 hrs at times. But I don’t feel burdened as I enjoy working , I love programming. I love to learn new things in s/w which makes me successful in my profession. I would say I chose what I love to do as my profession is my key to success.

So my advice to the students is, identify what you like, what are you good at and pursue that as your career. Decide your goal and find the ways to reach to it. As you enjoy what you do you won’t ever feel tired while working hard towards it. And hard work makes you succeed which gives you lots of satisfaction, sense of achievement. There is no alternative to hard work whatever profession you choose. There are no shortcuts for success. Hard work and patience pay off.

meracareerguide.com will help you to identify what are your like and dislike, what kind of profession is suitable for you like with creative skills or with analytical or something else. At meracareerguide you can discuss your doubts and get advice from successful people in various professions. Counselling with these people will help you to take decisions to choose your career.

Give your best, you will rock!!