Miracle happens

Well here it's my post related to 80 year Old man......
(1) Have a firm handshake.
(2) Look people in the eye.
(3) If in a fight, hit first and hit hard.
(4) Keep secrets.
(5) Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen Everyday.
(6) Always accept an outstretched hand.
(7) be brave. Even if you're not,pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
(8) avoid sarcastic remarks.
(9) choose your life's mate carefully.from this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
(10) make it a habit to do nice things for people who will never findout.
(11) lend only those books you never care to see again.
(12) never deprive someone of hope ; it might be all that they have.
(13) give people a second chance bit not third.
(14) Be romantic.
(15) become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
(16) loosen up. Relax. Except for rare -life and death- matters,nothing is as important as it first seems.
(17) don't allow the phone to interrupt
Important moments. It's there for our convenience,not the caller's.
(18) Be a good loser.
(19) Be a good winner.
(20) think twice before burdening a friend with secrets.
(21) when someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.
(22) be modest. A lot was accomplished
before you born.
(23) keep it simple.
(24) don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.
(25) live your life so that your epitaph could read no regrets.
(26) Be bold and courageous. When you look back on life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the once you did.
(27) never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
(28) remember no one makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to acknowledge those who helped you.
(29) take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.
(30) visit friend and relatives who are good for you when they're in hospital.you need only stay a few minutes.
(31) begin each day with some of your favourite music.
(32) once in a while,take the scenic route.
(33) answer the phone with enthusiasm and energy in your voice.
(34) keep a note pad and pencil on your bed-side table,million dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 am.
(35) show respect for everyone who works for a living,regardless of how trivial their job.
(36) send your loved ones flowers.think of a reason later.
(37) become someone's hero.
(38) marry only for love.
(39) count your blessings.
(40) compliment the meal when you are a guest in someone's home.
(41) remember that 80 percent of the success in any job is based on your ability to deal with people.

A while back

Almost some time ago I learnt how to fly,

Dreams were new, hopes were high.

A world unseen and unimagined was waiting for me.

Faces were new, some were good, and some were shy.

Finally I learnt how to fly.

Before anything happened, you came by,

Changed every bit of my dreams,

Made me smile and sometimes cry,

For everything wrong that has happened, I still hold onto you.

I am still flying and the reason is you.

Friends, who were close, never came by,

Chasing their dreams, it was their time to fly.

We all have options to fly or to stay,

People will come and go by their own way.

I smile at my lord, for all the courage he has given me

I have now learnt how to fly.

Keep promising :)

Well man is by nature a social animal. In fact society is based on the links and the relationships between people. At a very young age we learn to adapt to our surroundings to get along with the people around us. Before we even start school we learn to keep promises. Be good, behave, and mom or dad will take you out, buy you a toy; if you’re not good, Santa won’t get you presents, etc. By the time we are ready to start school we already know what it takes to keep a promise.

When I was growing up the first thing my parents taught me was how important it is to set goals in our lives, to make promises and be true to them. My dad told “We build strength of character by making and keeping promises to ourselves and to others. The commitments we make and keep to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence of any successful relationship in life. That is what makes possible every other positive thing in our lives, like having friends, being successful in our jobs. It is important to honour your word and keep your promise. Always try to live your life with dignity, integrity and loyalty.”

I grew up on his words and being loyal to my friends became vital for me. But it didn’t always end well. I remember when I was a student in grade six, the teacher who taught us the course gave us too much homework, even though we had him once a week. During this one particular lesson after he assigned us homework of copying so many lessons our whole class agreed to not do the homework. On the day it was due, when asked to hand in the homework, I found out that everyone in class without exception had done it except me. Shocked as I was, when asked where my homework was, I simply said I don’t have it. I was called to stand at the blackboard and was berated of course in front of the whole class and asked to redo the work twenty times.

I didn’t understand why my classmates did what they did, nor did I care at the time. It is our response to what happens to us that hurts the most. I was not hurt. Disappointed with my friends behavior, yes one hundred percent. But I was not hurt, for as Gandhi once said:

“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

I stood in the middle of the classroom with my head held high because I had kept my promise and I felt good about it. But there have been times in my life when my choices have brought consequences I would rather have lived without.

If you want to change your life

I don’t know a single person that doesn’t want to change their life. At the very least, we all want to improve. Why not? I want to grow as a person as time goes on, and so does everyone.

The unfortunate truth is that a lot of the time, the changes we want to make on ourselves never become a reality. Changes always occur, whether we like them to or not, but those changes aren’t necessarily what we wish them to be. It’s not that it’s not possible for one to change their life, rather it’s usually because one hasn’t figured out how to. Or they aren’t driven enough…. I haven’t rid myself of my ego nearly as much as I would like to… yet. I haven’t made it happen, but I haven’t given up.

Change happens whether we like it or not. Changing your life doesn’t always entail changing yourself (although that is a big part). It could be spending time with new people, people that care more about you, or that you feel like you can trust. It could be living in a new environment, which is partly people, but also location, atmosphere. Most of all, it could be how you spend your time. Do you follow your passion? Do you do what feeds your soul? Start doing that, and you’ll see a major change in your life.

There is a lot to manifesting change in your life. You need the right attitude, the right drive to make it happen. You’ve got to be determined, sometimes downright perseverant. But it all comes down to one little element that makes all the difference:

[“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”]
–Thomas Jefferson

This quote sums it up for me. It’s more than just true. I think what Thomas Jefferson said should be a mantra for any that wish to change their lives. You have to be willing to do something you’ve never done. If you aren’t willing and you keep trying the same things, it’s ridiculous to expect to see things transform before your eyes.

This is true not only in discovering parts of ourselves, but also in incurring all kinds of things into our lives. If you continuously fail at something, you’ve got to revise your plan, right? As the old saying goes: if at first you don’t succeed, try, try something new.

In the eye-opening book The Alchemist, there is the perfect example of what I’m talking. The young protagonist takes up work at a merchants crystal shop. The merchant is a middle-aged man losing hope in life, and inspiration and enthusiasm are hard for him to come by. As a result, business weakens with every passing day, and all the customers start shopping in different parts of town.

The young protagonist is an enthusiastic young man and soon after getting hired, asks for permission to try new things. With reluctance, that merchant grants him that access. So the protagonist sets up a stand outside to showcase the crystals, and serves tea to all travelers that can climb up the hill where the shop stands. Within a few weeks, business traffic changes, improves. They improved because new things were attempted. Things that the merchant was unwilling to do on his own, and thus, wasn’t seeing the change, or improvement, that he wanted.

This is the way it is for everything in our lives. If you want to change your life, if you want something you don’t have, never had, you have to, have to be willing to explore and experiment with what you haven’t yet explored and experimented with. You have to be willing to do things you’ve never done.

PS: Please drop in a few comments if you ever had thoughts like these or would just like to say something...I love comments on my posts..:)

A dream you dream together is Reality.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream, but a dream you dream together is reality.”
This quote is one that I hold near and dear to my heart for many reasons.  The major one being that in my life I truly believe those words.  We spend so much time dreaming and for some dreaming even brings a sense of fear, but there is something so incredibly special about not only dreaming but also sharing those dreams with another. 
I used to often say be careful who you share your dreams with, because unfortunately in life there are always doubters, but then there is the other side, the beauty that comes with sharing your dreams with another.  Every now and then throughout our lives if we are so lucky we find another, someone we trust, someone who respects us and someone that will do nothing but encourage us to fulfill our dreams, someone that holds our dreams as close to their heart as we do ours.  Then, there are the times that we find not just an individual but a group of people, a community, a family of individuals who we are able to share our dreams with.  It is in those moments that we realize how many people play a part in making out our dreams.It takes another, it takes someone we love, a community of people, a family, people far and wide, some who we may not know, to come together and help push us towards taking that dream and turning it into a reality. 
As kids we dream, we dream of being a professional athlete, a business owner, an astronaut, an actress or actor, or maybe even the President of the United States, our world is full of dreams.  Then, as we get older we find ourselves at time losing sight of those dreams, having others around us tell us that our dreams are too grand. When we as adults stop dreaming and losing sight of our dreams we risk losing that innocence that we had as children.  Sure, as you get older reality sets in but who is to say that reality can’t be your dreams that you once dreamt?
We have these hopes and dreams for what our life will be, what we will be, how we will leave our mark on this world, but why does it seem that with age people stop dreaming?
At 20 years of age I created my dream of being best and it was then that I realized I couldn’t dream it alone, I needed the support of others, I needed a community of people around me who shared that dream with me in order to succeed.  Now, I am 27 and chasing the most personal dream of them all for myself, my dream of walking. 
Some days, it is hard to consider it a dream because it seems too simple.  I walked for over 18 years of my life.  I woke up every morning and I put one foot in front of the other and I never thought twice about it, it was what I knew.  Now, something that for so long of my life was second nature is one of my biggest dreams and that is a hard thing to explain.  In some ways it seems hard to consider it a dream knowing how freely I was able to do it for majority of my life.  But now, this dream, much like my dream of being best and a tag with business tycoon I know in order to achieve I can’t dream it alone, I need to share this dream with loved ones, with a community, with all of you in order to make it a reality.
I often talk about dreams, and quite honestly I could write about dreams everyday, but I believe it is the ability to dream that gets us out of bed every morning.  The ability to aspire to achieve greatness, and no matter what the age continue to chase our dreams. The reality is until we dream we don’t know our full potential because it is those dreams, simple or grand, that push us each and every day.  If we are lucky enough maybe, just maybe, we will find another to share those dreams with and together it will become a reality.

Fall from grace! Chris Cairns cleaning bus shelters to make ends meet

In what appears to be a drastic turn of events, New Zealand's star all-rounder Chris Cairns has decided to get his hands dirty in order to meet the daily expenses and provide for his family.

The 44-year-old cricket icon, who is currently under investigation by British authorities for alleged match-fixing, has been busy cleaning bus shelters and driving trucks for a mere 17-dollar-an-hour wage.

According to the Mid-Day report, the former cricketer has taken up a job with the Auckland council, where he drives a truck that goes around water-blasting bus shelters in the New Zealand capital.

Dion Nash, former New Zealand cricketer and one of Cairns' best friends, revealed: "He (Cairns) is trying really hard and supporting his family the best way he can. He's not moping around, he's showing guts and doing hard work by cleaning bus shelters," said Nash, adding that he stands by his friend on the fixing issue.

"All I can do is support him, but as a friend it is really hard to watch his name being dragged through the mud with no conclusion in sight. He's a champion guy and he will come through this stronger," Nash told the New Zealand Herald.

Cairns' wife Mel Crosser also revealed their ordeal to a women's magazine and said, "He has no choice, he has to provide for his family.

We have bills to pay like everyone else. We don't own a house, we're paying rent and getting by is a struggle."

Cairns, father of four, is regarded as one of the finest cricketers New Zealand has produced. He followed his father, Lance, into the New Zealand team and in 62 tests, scored 3,320 runs with five centuries at an average of 33.5 and took 218 wickets at 29.4.

He played 215 one-day internationals, scoring 4,950 runs and taking 201 wickets.