YOU CAN MAKE SUCCESS HAPPEN

You cannot do everything, but you can do something.
Your success is but a determined action away.
Your life will always be what you make of it.
Your thoughts and actions will lead you to success or failure.
So the keys to your success and fortune are in your hands.
Always accept the responsibility for your actions.
Always set a higher standard for yourself.
No one is going to do it for you.
Only you can make it happen.

Have I Told You Lately...

Have I told you lately how much I need you ?!?
Have I told you lately how much I care??
Have I told you lately I love you ?!?!
and do you know I will always be there!!!!

As I started my day today
my thoughts went to you
and I thought how thankful I was
to know you are there!

Everything I do ..
I do for you
All my hopes and dreams
are based on you!

My heart has never felt so full
as it does now with you
I have not one doubt
of how very much I love you!!

I will do everything I can
to be there for you
anytime you need me
Just call out my name

Have I told you lately how much I love you ?!?!
... well, I am telling you now that
it is more numerous than the stars...
and much deeper than any ocean ..
and higher than the highest mountain top
found anywhere on earth!

DON'T MAKE YOUR THOUGHTS YOUR PRISONS

You're more important than any of your problems.
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
Courage gives you the power to face your difficulties.
It comes from the reserves of your mind
that are more powerful than your outside circumstances.
Your obstacles will look large or small to you
according to whether you are large or small.
Courage gives you the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
It gives you the ability to rise above your present reality.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear,
not absence of fear.
When you recognize that you're bigger than your problems,
you'll gain the courage necessary to overcome anything.

Difference between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on Solutions
Case 1
When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.

Case 2
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan 's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount to do so.

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line.. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral:

1.. Always look for simple solutions...

2.. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems...

3.. Always focus on solutions & not on Problems...

'A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure'

'A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure' (Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam at Wharton India Economic forum, Philadelphia , March 22,2008)

Question: Could you give an example, from your own experience, of how leaders should manage failure?

Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India 's satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India 's 'Rohini' satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.

By 1979 -- I think the month was August -- we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At four minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts -- I had four or five of them with me -- told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal . It was a big failure.

That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India ]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.

The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite -- and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, 'You conduct the press conference today.'

I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.

My Dearest Love

Where do I begin to express how I feel

and define my emotions, so honest and real?

With my pen in hand, I struggle in thought

and holding this in, such pain it has brought.

To love from afar is so bittersweet,
hiding true feelings, remaining discrete.

To hold you in daydreams is how I've survived

but reality still whispers, "I feel so deprived".

So darling just know, as my words start to flow

I'm writing to you from my daydreams' plateau.

It's only on that cloud, I'm free to express

and find enough courage to finally confess.

Each night in my dreams, when slumber sets in

that's when I hold you and our world begins.

My arms wrap around you and off we then soar

to land on a cloud and begin to explore.

I imagine your touch as a warming embrace
I remember your sweet smile time cannot erase.

Unshackled in dreams, your lips search for mine,
as our passion ignites, words cannot define.

With boundaries discarded, no measure of time
the love found in our world, no less then sublime.

My hands cup your face with a gentle carress

as these emotions for you, I try to express.

As I close this letter, know this without doubt

you are the one my heart dreams about.

But again I lose courage, today's not the day

I'll place this letter where all the others lay.