Next Inspiring posts

I found it interesting and useful podcasts.

Every Problem is an Opportunity
Work with Smart People
Creativity Loves Constraint
Think Big and Act Small
Learning from Failure
Luck and Success

I did come across some interesting VC sites 84ideas.com. Web Strategy firm. Check out the below two interesting posts on Basic Website communication Framework V 1.0 and Web Strategy

Updated 17/01/10

Do not let others decide for you
Changing Your Personality Traits
How to Stop Being a People Pleaser
Good Decision Making Strategies
Leaving Your Comfort Zone
Visibility, the art of being noticed.

Get Inspired

"Admire-Aspire-Inspire".. "Learn-Share-Grow"....

For MSFT Interviews I was asked to check site careercup.com by most of my colleagues. Gayle Laakmann is the person who runs the site. She also runs a blog. Lots of Interesting and inspiring stuff posted in her blog

3 Business Ideas: Experiment Often, Carefully, and Singly
Top 10 Best Microsoft Interview Questions
Why I left Google

Kinds of Friendship

A Nice Article which distinguishes kinds of friendship and clear examples link

Garden of Mind - James Allen

Page 50 of James Allen Book "Garden of Mind" Carries a beautiful learning. Learn to overcome the obstacles we face in our surroundings. Great Words....Need to Practice..its worth to understand its the fact...

Outward conditions are necessary for our development and only by meeting and overcoming them you can grow, learn and ripen.

Why relationships a Nice Video from Sadhguru link

Quotable Quotes

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer

"If you're winning, you don't need them. And if you're losing, they can't help you."

"A paper flying in air is due to luck…… But, a bird flying in air is its effort. So, be a bird and struggle with hurdles to become successful person.."

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes -Hugh Downs"

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they have..."

"Your Job tests what’s in your head. Life tests what’s in your heart."

Don't look to money for happiness

A good news I read it in link

Important words to quote out here
  • Pleasure is not happiness because it doesn't last.
  • Other people can't make you happy -- only you can do that.
  • And while you may think a permanent vacation will make you very happy indeed, it likely wouldn't, he says.
  • Happy people are those who have a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives and a life of endless leisure won't provide that. 

Why do you expect people to change as per your expectation

I found this Zen Story Inspiring.

The Turtles

A turtle family decided to go on a picnic. Turtles, being naturally slow about things, took seven years to prepare for their outing. Finally the turtle family left home looking for a suitable place. During the second year of their journey they found a place ideal for them at last!

For about six months they cleaned the area, unpacked the picnic basket, and completed the arrangements. Then they discovered they had forgotten the salt. A picnic without salt would be a disaster, they all agreed. After a lengthy discussion, the youngest turtle was chosen to retrieve the salt from home. Although he was the fastest of the slow moving turtles, the little turtle whined, cried, and wobbled in his shell. He agreed to go on one condition: that no one would eat until he returned. The family consented and the little turtle left.

Three years passed and the little turtle had not returned. Five years... six years... then on the seventh year of his absence, the oldest turtle could no longer contain his hunger. He announced that he was going to eat and begun to unwrap a sandwich. At that point the little turtle suddenly popped out from behind a tree shouting, "See! I knew you wouldn't wait. Now I am not going to go get the salt."

Some of us waste our time waiting for people to live up to our expectations. We are so concerned about what others are doing that we don't do anything ourselves.

Quotes for the Day!!

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway." — Eleanor Roosevelt


"I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday" — Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. " — Eleanor Roosevelt

Leo Tolstoy Inspiring Short Stories

I found below 3 stories inspiring and interesting..

God Sees the Truth, But Waits

Work, Death, and Sickness

How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Fight for you. Believe in you. Bleed. Cry. Conquer - Dan Waldschmidt"