Life is all about improving oneself. Recently my wife and I took a trip to Gwalior to address a gathering of students and their parents. We were booked in a four-star hotel, but it was far from being a four-star....

If you’re determined to achieve something, there’s no looking back Ships are safe in the harbour, but ships are not profitable if they stay in the harbour! Likewise, your personality is only important because it gives you a head start. Eventually, the ideas in your head and feelings in your heart will take you ahead in life. For this, keep your mental screen turned on: That is Focus....

“Instead of worrying about my losses, I started to count all the things I still had, and it was a revelation,” says Alexis Leon a software engineer with Tata Consultancy Services who met with a road accident, which left him paralysed waist down. Post accident he went through agonies associated with such an accident....

Successful people learn to do more of what they are good at. They don’t allow the things they can’t do to interfere with what they can do well. I often remember a profound experience I had with my Japanese teacher, Sayama Sensei in the Japan America Institute of Management Sciences, Hawaii, USA, in 1986. Sayama Sensei taught Japanese management practices, and also was a Kendo teacher; Kendo is a form of Japanese martial arts....

Once a person travelling with all his belongings on a cart entered a village, and went to the village leader’s house. He sought his permission to settle down in the village. The village head asked him a question, “Why have you left your village?”...

We should identify what we are good at, what we like, and a find a platform where we can add value to society at large....

An elephant can lift a weight in excess of a ton with its trunk, yet neither chains, nor cages holds an elephant, it’s only a small rope tied to its front leg that does the job. ...

Once upon a time an old sage sat meditating under a banyan tree. He was blind. A man came up and said, “Hey old man, did you hear anyone passing this way?” The sage replied, “No my good man, I did not hear anyone.”...

Recently I was conducting a seminar, ‘Creativity and Positive thinking for Success’. There were over eighty participants for the daylong seminar....

One option is no choice, and two options is a dilemma, but three options is a choice. Realise that we have choices about where we spend our time. Most of our stress comes from the fact that we feel that we have no choice. We make everything in our lives a ‘must’ to complete. Remember, there are always at least three options for every situation. But it’s only when we realise these options that we begin to live life by choice. ...