Author: anandnataraj

Entrepreneur, Blogger, Traveller, Pet Lover, Networker, Social Drinker, Party Animal, Movie Addict, Startup Enthusiast, Organic Gardner, Avid Reader....

Had meeting with Bala Murugan


It was long time since I’ve spent time with Bala… Finally it ended to be a productive and fulfilling meeting…

– I had asked him to help me on insurance refunds for my dad and to get it done..
– Discussed about PF…
– Discussed about Group MediClaim…
– Discussed about gratuity…
– About sales team building…

Then it was in-depth discussion on Sales strategy and I covered most of the places where I failed when I was handling the sales team…

We have jotted the points for a 2 week intense training program… And their one month pilot sales project…

Have the training program scheduled by 11 am today… Am rushing to office and will post a separate blog on the experience….

Albert Einstein: 10 of his best quotes


“No problem can be solved at the same level of awareness that created it ”

“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y, and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

“Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.”

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

“I don’t know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Moving with Faith & Determination


I’ve always seen GOD to be crazy as he has given many parameter of experience like happiness, sadness, anger, anxiety, loneliness, relationships, separation, laziness, pain and a lot more…

We are all happy when we FLY GOOD TIMES and mostly when we run through tough most people break some fight it out…

I first had my experience of breakup, backstabbing, losing wealth, dreams shattered and castle broken a couple of years back… My mind was filled with lots of unanswerable questions, unacceptable and dreaming for a miracle…

It took a lot of time for me to understand the reality and come to terms… Slowly I came across a world of experience which I wouldn’t have unless I’ve faced a tough reality….

This experience was on my capacity and I managed to overcome it…

Now god has put me on to the next phase of challenge where I’ve to win my father back, give strength to my mother, motivate my sister, calling (showing) my love to my wife and of course managing professional commitments…

First time god helped me get a trait of gaining self-confidence and a skill of independently handling turbulence…

This time it is managing emotions and managing a team… I keep running with this FAITH;

FAITH is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes sees us darkness…

Last two weeks have shown me how to handle life when it is beyond our control… I did get down on my morals sometimes… But now I started seeing the future where I can motivate a lot depressed people…

I see the future where I’m going to take care of my DAD like how he care-took me…

Prayers and showing more trust on god will definitely pay back….

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting…

Abraham Lincoln’s letter to his son’s School Headmaster


“He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just and are not true. But teach him if you can, the wonder of books.. but also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hillside. 

In school, teach him it is far more honorable to fall than to cheat….. 
Teach to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him he is wrong.

Teach him to be gentle with gentlepeople and tough with the tough.

Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone getting on the bandwagon… 

Teach him to listen to all men; but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen of truth, and take only the good that comes through. 

Teach him, if you can, how to laugh when he is sad… Teach him there is no shame in tears. 

Teach him to scoff at cynics and to be beware of too much sweetness.. Teach him to sell his brawn and brain to highest bidders, but never to put a price on his heart and soul. 

Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob.. and stand and fight if thinks he is right. 

Treat him gently, but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel. Let him have the courage to be impatient.. Let him have the patience to be 
brave. 

Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will have faith in humankind. 

This is a big order, but see what you can do. . He is such a fine little fellow my 
son!

Enjoyed MidNights Children


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Thought of taking a break for couple of hours and went to watch MidNights Children…

I’ve known Salman Rushdie as a controversial writer and playboy but I couldn’t believe if he had this much imagination…

It was a story of kids born during the time of independence and partition… It covers early days of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh War and Emergency…

Now many people would like the movie as it moves slowly and moves like story-telling…

It is perfectly converted into a movie by Deepa Metha and neat performance by characters… Movie genre takes me back to Malgudi Days…

Now I have to buy all the writings of Salman Rushdie and time for some reading…

And here I come flipkart…

How to live a happy married life


Marriage is the most needed thing of our social life and every person wants to live a successful married life so that he can live happily with peace. Chanakaya has given many secrets for a successful marriage in Chanakaya Niti.

While every man wants to marry a beautiful girl but Chanakya has told otherwise. He says that if a girl is beautiful but does not belong to a good family then do not marry with her. He said we should marry with a girl of a good family even if she is not beautiful. He said the marriage should done in a family which is equal to our family.

Chanakaya said the love between husband and wife is the most successful reason behind marriage.

He said the real happiness of a wife lies in the serving of her husband and it is the Swarag of the wife.

He said a successful wife is that who is honest and clever. A wife should love his husband and speak the truth. This kind of behavior of a wife brings happiness to the family.

He says that the wise people should not quarrel over the talks of women as it brings sorrows in the family.

A woman should understand any work done by her with the consent of her husband is beneficial to her and family.

A husband should always protect his wife with his money etc.

A daughter should be married in a good family.

A wife should not quarrel with her husband without any reason.

The couples can live happily by keeping in mind the secrets told by the Great Chanakaya.

Know your COFFEE!!!


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These days I’m developing interest on coffee and planning to start my coffee joint soon… This could be the start for the execution…

Pigeon Chicks in my House


Just noticed a pigeon has formed a nest and has hatched 2 chicks in one of the bedroom window…

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CogzidelHR Beginnings and First Success


After seeing success through Facebook campaign… I immediately thought of creating a FB page and that is when we Launched http://www.facebook.com/cogzidelHR…

After the launch our immediate goal was to generate 10000 targeted likes… Yep our target audience were College passouts in and around Madurai…

After a good start and some drop in the middle… Our CTO Mr.Swami (after hearing our FB case study) took up the challenging of doing a walk-in by only doing a FB promo…

Them we started to concentrate on generating likes… We easily generated first 150 likes who were none other than our staff and friends…

We invented lots of conventional and unconventional methods like;

– giving pamphlets to everyone who attends the interview…
– digitilise data of people who attended interview and send them invites…
– ask employees to request their friends to like the page…

With all this aggression we could just reach 500 likes till date…

Nervous Day


Woke up to take my dad for a CT scan and after 2 hours doctor visited and said he immediately needs a surgery…

We were asked to do the arrangements for surgery and that too by evening and we were never given time to take any opinion…

My sister reached the hospital and consultations with my uncle and our family friends doctor started… There was complete nervousness and confusion…

By now couple of relatives who were informed started giving their opinion… I was already disturbed and when I saw tears in my sisters eye I thought it was time to act…

I asked my sister to talk to the doctor on surgery… I took up an appointment with a doctor referred by my doctor uncle… I had to collect the CT scan CD and take it to get the opinion…

After begging and showing my emotional cry I could get the CD from Radiologist with lot of fuss… After getting the CD immediately rushed to doctor and got our second opinion and he too recommended for a surgery…

Already he has undergone 3 major surgeries under last 4 months… It was a tough decision to take… We decided to go with surgery… It was very delicate in handling the doctors… For them it was yet another surgery but for us it is our dad…

By leaving the burden on god and praying him we are done with surgery which is said to be successful…

Now our concern is to pray for our dads recovery… He has already undergone a lot of pain and trauma… I plead all the renders to pray for hiatus quick and full recovery…