Health:

1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer.
6. Play more games.
7. Read more books than you did in 2008.
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

11. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
14. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake.
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Society:

25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is none of your business.
31. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

32. Do the right thing!
33. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
34. GOD heals everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
37. The best is yet to come.
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Last week has been a dynamic week where I had nice opportunity to link with many fellow entrepreneurs… When things happen right it keeps happening right… Last week I had at least one business networking forum happening every day starting from Tuesday till Saturday… Some how I had to miss startup disco…

It all started with an invite from Business Gyan magazine to attend their panel discussion on importance of Business networking… Panel members were from Headstart.in, HRD forum, TIE & BNI Bangalore chapter and they gave very good insight about the importance of Networking in Business… One good take away importance of being proactive in networking forums… Example if someone joins a business networking forum that is not the end of road, to get results one has to be proactive and a go getter… We had met around 30 entrepreneurs in the meet and exchanged business cards…

Then the next day we had to go to BNI-Awesome chapter… BNI meetings are conducted every week in the mornings at 8 o clock sharp… Chinmaya from Business Gyan gave me an invite and we are pretty interested the way it is organized… This one is a professionally run forum and exclusively for exchanging contacts and businesses… Most folks complement each other than competing… I recommend folks to tryout BNI…

Then the next day we had to attend another BNI-Bdazzlers meet… One good thing about BNI is they never allow companies/individuals with competing products/services to be a part of a chapter… That is one reason that it is a place for complimenting business… I was thrilled to see people sharing references… According to their experience, what they say is any contact is less that 5 degree level… Example if I want the contact of Mr.Narayamurthy it would be less that 5 level like Me -> Reference 1 -> Reference 2 -> Reference 3 -> Reference 4 -> Mr.Narayanamurthy… After attending their session I started believing it…

Bangalore has eight BNI chapters, ironically Chennai doesn’t have any and some folks from Bangalore are taking initiative to start it in Chennai & I’m planning to help them to start it in Chennai… Sadly I missed out on Startup Disco that evening… We exchanged almost 70 business cards on both BNI meetings…

Then on Friday & Saturday it was Proto.in… Hope I need not give any information about Proto as people can visit their site and understand… Proto helped me to interact with Incubators, Startups, and Investors… Got different perspective of businesses and came to know about different business model and innovative approach of young entrepreneurs… Proto boosted my energy levels and kindled fire inside me…

Over all trip to Bangalore was satisfying and self-satisfactory and I’m thank Mr.Bala Murugan my CFO to give good company and support me to make this initiative a success… Over all we came back by distributing 200 of our business cards and collecting 120 business cards… Now it is time to convert these contacts into business… Next week will be concentrating on that…

One of the panel member Mac Srinivasan shared about eight types of wealth creators by Roger Hamilton.

When i visited their website http://www.xlwealthdynamics.org saw a brief about the eight types of wealth creators and i wanted to share it with you.

“The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.” – Andrew Carnegie

Each of the following eight wealth profiles create value and leverage in unique combinations:

CREATOR – create wealth from products
Examples include Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Walt Disney

STAR – create wealth from personal brand
Examples include Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Michael Schumacher

SUPPORTER – create wealth from leadership
Examples include Jack Welch, Steve Balmer, Steve Case

DEAL MAKER – create wealth from deals
Examples include Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch, Li Ka Shing

TRADER – create wealth from trades
Examples include George Soros, Kirk Kerkorian

ACCUMULATOR – create wealth from appreciation
Examples include Warren Buffet, Paul Allen

THE LORD – create wealth from cashflow
Examples include John D Rockefeller, John Paul Getty

THE MECHANIC – create wealth from system
Examples include Sam Walton, Ray Krok, Jeff Bezos

Today was one of great business learning moments in my life… Got an invitation to attend the panel discussion of Business Gyan… To tell about Business Gyan in brief, it is a monthly business magazine to know more visit their site http://www.businessgyan.com…

I’ve been to many businesses networking clubs, they were all unconferences or open clubs, but this time came to know about professionally run business networking clubs… The amount of learning a professionally run club offers better exposure than open clubs…

I learned about 8 types of entrepreneurship, concept behind professionally run Business Networking Clubs etc… The panel members were highly knowledgeable and they gave a entire new dimension to the concept of entrepreneurship…

Next month there is a panel discussion on Entrepreneurship and if any folks like to attend just ping me, I’ve got some invitations…

I’ve requested for the videos of the event and if I get it, will pass it on to interested folks…

Tomorrow will be attending a business networking meeting at 7 o clock in the morning and it is strange that it is happening during the morning… Anyways will keep you posted on the experience tomorrow…

Thank you…

“One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” ~Chinese Proverb

“When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.” ~Bernie Siegel

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~Henry David Thoreau

“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.” ~Buddha

“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” ~Gandhi

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” ~Buddha

“It is always easier to be right than helpful.” ~Barry Magid

“We wonder how people can’t see the most obvious things about themselves, yet we forget those people are us.” ~Ezra Bayda

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?'” ~George Bernard Shaw

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.” ~Confucius

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” ~Stephen Hawking

“Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.” ~Buddha

“Physical gifts will break or fade, but your gift of love will last forever.”

“To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.” ~Buddha

“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.” ~Zen saying

“All that we are attached to is impermanent – so there’s nothing to get ruffled about.” ~Sara L. Weber

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” ~Buddha

Last two days my brain almost stopped working and I didn’t find any interesting topic to write… That is when I thought I can leave it to my followers in twitter and I got couple of ideas…

I want to share some stupid things I did in business, some may be funny, idiotic and stupid but would be interesting to read… Let my rewind and start shooting them…

• First business meeting to get a corporate training project in a company in Guindy, Chennai. I didn’t know java nor any business thoughts… Still a student, I stood like an fool in front of their team… I didn’t give any appropriate answer in a meeting which lasted an hour… Today I can’t believe how I overcame such a situation…
• An inspector from Employee State Insurance (ESI) visited my offer… ESI is like social security an compliance which companies in India must comply… When that lady entered the office with and approached me, I asked her to get out telling I’m not interested in getting any insurance policy…
• Initial days I offered college projects for students to sustain… Three girls MCA girls came to office requesting for project… After talking a lot about java came to know those girls already completed a project in java and wanted to get a certificate… Ended up getting ragged by those girls…
• My office boy brought a guy telling he has come for interview; actually he is a marketing guy and has come to sell his banking product… For fifteen min I was taking the HR round and only after finishing my interview both of us came to know that there was a mess…
• I was hunted by Thiruvanmiyur police for two days and the constable found me after two day and yelled at me telling he was hunting me for 2 days… The address constable had been wrong and he somehow made it… I was scared a lot and he asked me to come to Thiruvanmiyur police station… When I visited the station I came to know that inspector was looking for a groom and the groom was working in my company and he was to get a testimony of his conduct… The way that constable took me to police station was very rude and I had high temperature once I came out from police station and recovered only after a week…

There are still more things, but these are the things I can immediately recollect… When ever I remember things, I’ll add them as sequel…

It is always encouraging to get recognition from people and when they write a blog about us there is nothing more motivating… I must take this opportunity to thank Yu Yu who is an ex-pat and helped me in hunting for people for internet marketing…

This blog of her has some word about me…

Next person is Swami Nathan we are neighbors and childhood friends… Swami is one person who reads my blog regularly and give me recommendations for my blog posts… In fact I must dedicate couple of blog post to him… This blog of him is has a couple of word about me…

Thank you very much folks…

WHAT IS TWITTER?
Twitter is a new social network (similar to Facebook) that lets you send messages to a huge range of people around the world. Your updates are limited to 140 characters, just like an SMS.

WHAT IS FOLLOWING?
Following on Twitter is like friending on Facebook – if you follow somebody you will get their updates. The main difference is that the other person doesn’t have to accept you as a friend for you to connect with them. I might follow you but you don’t have to follow me back.

HOW IS IT DIFFERENT TO FACEBOOK/LINKEDIN?
All of these networks can be used in many different ways – Twitter is just another option for you. I have found it great for connecting with a big range of people in different places around the world. Because each message is limited to 140 characters it means your messages have to be concise and that makes it easier to keep up with.

WHY WON’T PEOPLE FOLLOW ME?
There is some great advice about this at http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://mashable.com%2F2009%2F01%2F06%2Ftwitter-follow-fail%2F – it really helps if you have an interesting profile.

Today was a smooth day and i worked from home, my mind was fully thinking about solutions to the challenges faced with delivery…Had detailed telecom with Mr.Bala Murugan to get his thoughts and we came up with some solutions

• Project Manager is over loaded with work, he
• Trains fresh programmers
• Manages post sales which takes most of his time
• Review daily reports sent by developers and send it back to clients
• Review product development…

Planned to split his responsibilities and assign it to Team leaders so that PM can concentrate in his work…

• For last one month there has been frequent internet disconnection…   

Planned to take another internet connection so that we can we will be backed up when there is any disconnection…

Then asked bala to conduct a Audit on reports and documents done by BDE, Admin, HR & Developers… Since this is the first time we have planned to do an audit, I asked bala to review and prepare a due diligence so that it would be helpful for second and third audits…

Still struck with marketing strategy for Cogzidel Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. Pls visit http://www.cogzidel.in to see the services offered and let me know if you have any ideas to market the service…

Last one week has been extremely exciting days at work… Today had been pretty normal day.. Had no sleep the whole night as myself and bala had some good business discussion…

• Had a nice haircut…
• Went to Maraimalai nagar to see if there is any SBI… There is no SBI from Vandalur onwards… Confirmed it by making a call to Just Dial…
• Then went to Country Club and once again none of their managers were there in office… Poor investors, I think this is the company next to Satyam to con Investors…
• Then attended SBI Property Fair – 2009… SBI representatives told me even they don’t offer loan to empty plots… Must work some loan for settling Pre-EMI with IDBI…
• From there went to Chennai Citi Center had lunch, Aalu Tikki Chenna, Pani Puri & Swiss Coffee Mocca…
• From there went to White Cliffs Hair Studio and enquired about hair replacement… They recommended me to buy a LaserComb… Right now googling to check the testimonials of LaserComb…
• From there went and met Dermatologist and returned home…

There has been couple news/updates which were not that great…