One day, Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, “My teacher gave me this paper and told me to give it only to you.”
09/05/21 Edison enquired from her, “What is written on the Paper?” His mother’s eyes were full of tears as she read the letter out loud to her beloved child, ” Your son is a genius. The school is too small for him& doesn’t have enough good teachers to train him. Please teach him yourself at […]
Dont wait for things to become better
08/05/21 Treat life like one of those races in nursery school, where you race with a marble in a spoon held in your mouth. If the marble falls there is no point coming first. Same is with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Coming first counts only with the marble still in the […]
The curse of Overconfidence
07/05/21 The youth are always high on confidence, like the motorist who has just learned to drive and starts speed racing the car only to increase the chance of an accident, be vary of ‘The curse of Overconfidence.’ I remember an old saying from my college days, “Confidence is I can kiss my girlfriend, but […]
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote Blaise Pascal in the 17th Century.
28/05/21 Action Bias In a penalty situation in soccer, the ball takes less than 0.3 seconds from the player who kicks the ball to the goal. There is not enough time for the goalkeeper to watch the ball’s trajectory and react. He must make a decision before the ball is kicked. Soccer players who take […]
Tithing or Dasvandh
06/05/21 The ancient Babylonians practiced a vital law that was the cause of their immense prosperity – The Tithing Law. They used the tithing law, which involves giving one tenth of all money or riches that you receive. The Tithing law says that you must give to receive, and the Babylonians knew that the practice […]
We believe what we think.
05/05/21 Richard Feynman said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think, it’s permanent, it will be permanent. If you think, you’ve reached your limits, then you have. If you […]
The Power of Prayer
04/05/21 Don’t use your energy to worry, use your energy to believe, to have faith, that whatever will happen, will be for everyone’s good. As it is said in the Gurbani, “Dukh Vele ardas, Sukh Vele shukrana, Har Vele simran.” _During times of hardship, practice prayer, During times of happiness, practice gratitude, During all times, […]
Some studies suggest that big dogs are more well-behaved pets.
03/05/21 They also point out that bigger dogs usually have better behavior than smaller dogs. But it’s not because they’re inherently better animals; it’s because of humans. We tend to put less effort into the discipline of little dogs because we assume they can’t do as much damage – so larger dogs typically end up […]
Our mind is like a muscle, the more we use it the stronger it becomes.
02/05/21 When we think and act in certain ways it makes a neural pathway in our mind. So the more you think and act in this way the stronger the pathway becomes. It is like walking through a forest everyday. The more you walk along the same path, the more that path becomes visible and […]
Optimists Creed For almost Forty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I’m ready to do something really stupid with my anger – a kind face appears in my mind & asks:
01/05/2021 Optimists Creed For almost Forty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I’m ready to do something really stupid with my anger – a kind face appears in my mind & asks: “Problem or inconvenience?” I think of this as the Test of Reality. […]