8 Reasons to Wake Up Earlier

1. Work on you:
early morning is an excellent time for personal development. How many times you complained you don’t have time to read that self-improvement book? Read it in the morning! Quiet morning time is a god sent gift which you should use for growing yourself – professionally, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. Use this time to “sharpen the saw”.

2. Exercise your body:-
Do I really need to comment it? Exercise at home, go jogging or go to gym (they open early)…

3. Get ready for big stuff:-
Clean up small stuff to take it from your way to big things you plan to do during the day. Jump on that bunch of emails sitting in your inbox so it doesn’t drag your attention later in the day.

4. Increase your productivity:
If you start early, you make your day longer, you can do much more in one day than you usually do. Got a lot of work pressing on you? Wake up earlier, jump to work, you may be done by the afternoon…

5. Use morning time for thinking:
Jim Citrin wrote: “The quiet of the morning is often the time when your mind is at its clearest and most well-suited to solving important problems”. Read his article Tapping the Power of Your Morning Routine to get more insight on how valuable morning time can be. In the same article Jim reports that 80% of executives he questioned wake up at 5:30am or earlier.

6. Go with the nature:
The nature wakes up every day when the sun goes up. So should you because your body is a part of the nature! Of course it depends at what time sun goes up in your area (in some areas, it doesn’t go down for half a year , but you have got the idea…

7. Mediate:
Meditation induces well-being and emotional balance. If you start your day with meditation you will carry that balance through the day, improving your life. Morning is a better time for meditation because you are fresh, your brain is relaxed and mind is much sharper.

8. Beat the traffic:
if you spend too much time commuting to and from work every day, you can actually save time if you wake up and drive to work earlier. Even if you work fixed hours, by arriving to work earlier you can spend the extra time you’ve got on things listed above – reading, exercising, and planning, and so on. It’s free time for you, which otherwise you would waste in traffic jams.

So my dear friends wake up early coz “sleeping fox catch no ducks”!!

kites-------dnt watch it.....why?

So, the Hrithik biggie is finally here and looking all loaded. Picture this, our very own Greek god on the run with this exotic babe from the far-far-away. Together they defy an omnipotent capo and his trigger-happy son who has sworn to hunt them down.

Add a dash of breathtaking locales, adrenalin pumping action and some steamy scenes to the tale of these incongruous lovers and voila... ‘Kites’ is ready to soar at the box-office across the globe or so thinks Mr Anurag basu.

But alas, all the good things about Kites only end up on writer’s desk and what you see on screen is one confused attempt by the director who can’t decide between his Bollywood roots and Hollywood style, and ends up delivering a hackneyed wild goose chase. I mean, come on, it took three people to write a chase film so predictable?

First half, with its monotonous music and prolonged love-dovey glances, hampers the fast paced opening to the story in the sin-city where avaricious J makes his living as a salsa dancer.

As a sideline, he marries immigrant women to get them green cards. When Gina (Kangna), the rich daughter of a powerful casino owner Bob (Kabir Bedi), falls for him, J. goes along in order to marry into money.

He discovers that his future brother-in-law, the vicious, homicidal Tony (Nick Brown), is about to marry a beautiful Mexican woman named Natasha (Barbara Mori), whom J knows as Linda, the last of the immigrant women he married. Love blooms 'again' between the two and they elope by ditching the jilted brother-sister duo.

We, as not so privileged moviegoers, don’t get too see the real taste of Hrithik and Barbara’s steamy romance, which is specially crafted in the 90-minute song-less thriller for their first-world audience. Instead we get to see them as half-naked fugitives squabbling in Spanish, English and god-knows-what at an outpost and at best nuzzling at times.

Even the climax sequence, which was supposed to be the emotional highpoint of the film, evoked mirth from the audience, clearly exposing the chinks in the director’s plot.

To his credit Mr Basu, aptly goes back and forth with the narrative and gives a fine visual appeal to his project but a plot sans any major twists makes J and Natasha's love-on-the-run a non-starter.


Performance-wise, Hrithik shines in his role though, at places, it seems he is pitching a bit too hard for his case in Hollywood. Barbara Mori despite over flashing her toothy smile manages to engage the audience with her Mexican good looks and Spanish charm.

Kangna is merely doing a favour to Mr Basu in Kites with her cameo. Kabir Bedi as suave rich-daddy is a predictable replica of his earlier performances.

Nick Brown, clearly, seems to be watching wrong sort of movies to prepare for his Tony-the-wacko-brother part. If it is his natural style then I'm even more sorry him as an actor. His anger and actions are incomprehensible at times even by his own standards.

Music by Rajesh Roshan not only lacks the magic but also hampers the prospects of Kites being a slick thriller.

As for Mr Basu, he has made a very average effort in Kites. Now it’s time for him to accept the consequences like a man or as they’ll tell it in Spanish- ‘A lo hecho, pecho’, Mr Basu.

also thats the reason why rakesh roshan didn't take the direction of his production house for the first time starring hritik........

The 13 Characteristics of Successful People

hey there, today i just wanted to share a few things that i have experienced in a few years...i know a lots to come but what i known of successful people..i wanted to tell u guys.....ok, its like...

I’ve spent many years studying successful people and have tried to identified the skills, talents, and characteristics that enable them to succeed. As you look at and study these skills, talents, and characteristics, you’ll realize that you possess many of them yourself. Some of these skills and talents are more dominant than others and will play a greater part in your being, or becoming, a success in the business of life. These are the things you do well. The things you do easily and effortlessly. These are your strengths.

When you find you need a skill or talent you don’t have, just go out and look for a person or group of people with the skills, talents, and training you need. Skill and talents that complement your own. These people will become your teammates, colleagues, co-workers, professional advisors, and friends. With these combined skills and talents organizations grow, prosper, and become successful.

These are the five things you’ll find every successful person has in common:

1. They have a dream.

2. They have a plan.

3. They have specific knowledge or training.

4. They’re willing to work hard.

5. They don’t take no for an answer.

Remember: Success begins with a state of mind. You must believe you’ll be successful in order to become a success.

The following is a list of the skills, talents, and characteristics you’ll find in successful people:

1. Successful People Have a Dream. They have a well-defined purpose. They have a definite goal. They know what they want. They aren’t easily influenced by the thoughts and opinions of others. They have willpower. They have ideas. Their strong desire brings strong results. They go out and do things that others say can’t be done.

Remember: It only takes one sound idea to achieve success.

Remember: People who excel in life are those who produce results, not excuses. Anybody can come up with excuses and explanations for why he hasn’t made it. Those who want to succeed badly enough don’t make excuses.

2. Successful People Have Ambition. They want to accomplish something. They have enthusiasm, commitment, and pride. They have self-discipline. They’re willing to work hard and to go the extra mile. They have a burning desire to succeed. They’re willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done.

Remember: With hard work come results. The joy in life comes with working for and achieving something.

3. Successful People Are Strongly Motivated Toward Achievement. They take great satisfaction in accomplishing a task.

4. Successful People Are Focused. They concentrate on their main goals and objectives. They don’t get sidetracked. They don’t procrastinate. They work on the projects that are important, and don’t allow those projects to sit until the last minute. They’re productive, not just busy.

5. Successful People Learn How to Get Things Done. They use their skills, talents, energies, and knowledge to the fullest extent possible. They do the things that need to be done, not just the things they like to do. They are willing to work hard and to commit themselves to getting the job done.

6. Successful People Take Responsibility for Their Actions. They don’t make excuses. They don’t blame others. They don’t whine and complain.

7. Successful People Look for Solutions to Problems. They’re opportunity minded. When they see opportunities they take advantage of them.

8. Successful People Make Decisions. They think about the issues and relevant facts, give them adequate deliberation and consideration, and make a decision. Decisions aren’t put off or delayed, they’re made now!

Success Tip: Spend more time thinking and planning before you make your decision, and you’ll make better decisions.

Success Tip: When you don’t get the expected results from the decision you’ve made, change your course of action. Decisions should never be carved in stone.

9. Successful People Have the Courage to Admit.They’ve Made a Mistake. When you make a mistake, admit it, fix it, and move on. Don’t waste a lot of time, energy, money, and/or other resources trying to defend a mistake or a bad decision.

Remember: When people are wrong, they may admit it to themselves. If they are handled gently and tactfully, they may admit it to others and even take pride in their frankness and broad-mindedness. But people become very defensive and angry when others try to cram their mistakes down their throats.

10. Successful People Are Self-Reliant. They have the skills, talents, and training that is needed in order to be successful.

11. Successful People Have Specific Knowledge, Training, and/or Skills and Talents. They know the things they need to know to be successful. And when they need information, knowledge, or skills and talents that they don’t possess, they find someone who does possess them.

12. Successful People Work with and Cooperate with Other People. They have positive, outgoing personalities. They surround themselves with people who offer them help, support, and encouragement. They are leaders.

13. Successful People Are Enthusiastic. They’re excited by what they’re doing, and that excitement is contagious. They draw people to them because these people want to work with them, do business with them, and be with them.

so, with these points, i think my motive "to help those who wanted to know the basics to become successful & to know about successful people" is a success!! is it guys?

* think like a genius *

think like a genius..........think different!!

"Even if you're not a genius, you can use the same strategies as Aristotle and Einstein to harness the power of your creative mind and better manage your future."

The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems. "These strategies are common to the thinking styles of creative geniuses in science, art, and industry throughout history."

1. Look at problems in many different ways, and find new perspectives that no one else has taken (or no one else has publicized!)

Leonardo da Vinci believed that, to gain knowledge about the form of a problem, you begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. He felt that the first way he looked at a problem was too biased. Often, the problem itself is reconstructed and becomes a new one.

2. Visualize!

When Einstein thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate his subject in as many different ways as possible, including using diagrams. He visualized solutions, and believed that words and numbers as such did not play a significant role in his thinking process.

3. Produce! A distinguishing characteristic of genius is productivity.

Thomas Edison held 1,093 patents. He guaranteed productivity by giving himself and his assistants idea quotas. In a study of 2,036 scientists throughout history, Dean Keith Simonton of the University of California at Davis found that the most respected scientists produced not only great works, but also many "bad" ones. They weren't afraid to fail, or to produce mediocre in order to arrive at excellence.

4. Make novel combinations. Combine, and recombine, ideas, images, and thoughts into different combinations no matter how incongruent or unusual.

The laws of heredity on which the modern science of genetics is based came from the Austrian monk Grego Mendel, who combined mathematics and biology to create a new science.

5. Form relationships; make connections between dissimilar subjects.

Da Vinci forced a relationship between the sound of a bell and a stone hitting water. This enabled him to make the connection that sound travels in waves. Samuel Morse invented relay stations for telegraphic signals when observing relay stations for horses.

6. Think in opposites.

Physicist Niels Bohr believed, that if you held opposites together, then you suspend your thought, and your mind moves to a new level. His ability to imagine light as both a particle and a wave led to his conception of the principle of complementarily. Suspending thought (logic) may allow your mind to create a new form.

7. Think metaphorically.

Aristotle considered metaphor a sign of genius, and believed that the individual who had the capacity to perceive resemblances between two separate areas of existence and link them together was a person of special gifts.

8. Prepare yourself for chance.

Whenever we attempt to do something and fail, we end up doing something else. That is the first principle of creative accident. Failure can be productive only if we do not focus on it as an unproductive result. Instead: analyze the process, its components, and how you can change them, to arrive at other results. Do not ask the question "Why have I failed?", but rather "What have I done?

*think new, think different*

UNION BUDGET-what it brings, take a look!!

Highlights

To waive excise duty on solar panels

Opposition walks out of Parliament over petrol price hike

Petrol prices to go up

Fresh services to be brought under service tax

Service tax to GDP ratio 1%

Service tax to result in net revenue gain of Rs 3000 cr

Customs duty on silver at Rs 1500/kg

Custom duty on gold to be reduced

Mobile phones to be cheaper

No capital gains tax on conversion of a business entity into Limited Liability Partnership

To encourage manufacture of accessories such as battery chargers and hands-free sets, the concessions will be extended the mobile phone sector

5% customs duty on crude petroleum back

Peak customs duty unchanged at 10%

FM raises central excise duty on all non-petroleum products from 8 to 10 per cent

Revenue loss of Rs 26,000 crore on direct tax proposals.

Taxes

• More services to be brought under service tax net
• Service tax to result in net revenue gain of Rs 3000cr
• Customs duty on gold to be reduced; silver at Rs 1500/kg
• Uniform concessional duty of 5% on all medical appliances
• Rationalising of customs on gaming software
• Custom duty of one of the key component of microwave oven reduced
• Peak customs duty unchanged at 10%
• Custom duty for importing of duplication of prints of films revised
• No capital gains tax on conversion of a business entity into Limited Liability Partnership
• Businesses up to Rs 60 lakh and professionals up to Rs 15 lakh to be exempted from auditing obligations
• Nominal duty of 4% electric cars
• Partial rollback of excise duty on cement, cement products, large cars
• To levy excise duty of Re 1/litre on petrol
• R&D Corp Tax break up to 200%
• Uniform Direct Tax receipts to fall by Rs 56,000 cr
• Pilot project for tax grievances extended to 4 cities
• Direct tax scheme to result in revenue loss of Rs 26,000cr
• Corporate tax surcharge down from 10 to 7.5%
• Rs 20,000 additional tax break for infra bonds
• Corp Min Alternate Tax up from 15 to 18%
• New tax rates would offer relief to 60 per cent of tax-payers
• Direct tax slabs: income upto 1.6 lakh = nil, 1.6-5 lakh = 10%, 5-8 lakh = 20%,
• above 8 lakh = 30%
• Centralized Tax Centre at Bengaluru fully functional
• Gross tax receipts Rs 7.46 lakh crore
• Deferment of goods & service tax negative for corporates in FY10-11
• Direct tax to be implemented from April 1, 2011
• Simple tax system with minimum exemptions near completion

Markets

• Realty stock gain after tax sops for developers
• Nifty up 100 pts
• Sensex surges over 350 pts on direct tax sops
• BSE real estate index extends gains to 3% on sops to developers
• 12.30am: Markets responds positively, Sensex up 300 pts
• Banking stocks up, react to banking expansion plans
• Markets up by 100 points
• Fertilizer stocks up, react to reduction of subsidy
• 11.30am: BSE Sensex, Nifty up by 0.5%
• Markets react positively to Pranab speech
• 9am: BSE Sensex at 16,296.59, 0.26%
• 9am: NSE index at 4,880.55 0.4%

Prices

• Gold gets cheaper
• Petrol, Diesel to be expensive
• Mobile phones to be cheaper
• Large cars, SUVs to cost more
• Petro products, cigarettes to be expensive
• Fertilisers to be costlier after the reduction in subsidy
• High fuel prices added to inflation: Pranab
• Pranab Mukherjee said the govt would initiate action to bridge the gap between wholesale and retail prices.
• Govt promises to tackle food inflation in budget
• Calls for fiscal discipline have gained urgency as inflation is forecast by some economists to reach 10 percent in coming weeks as high food prices fuel broader inflation expectations.

MY NAME IS KHAN-m not a terrorist.

He repairs almost anything, including irreparably damaged relationships. But this film about damaged lives needs no repairing. My Name Is Khan is a flawless work, as perfect in content, tone and treatment as any film can get. The ‘message' of humanism doesn't comes across in long pedantic speeches.

The film's longest monologue has our damaged but exceptionally coherent hero Rizwan telling a congregation of Black American church-goers about his dead son.

And if that moment moves us to tears it's because the emotions are neither manipulative nor flamboyant.It isn't because Rizwan's son Sameer perished in a racial attack.

It isn't even because Shah Rukh Khan delivers his life's best performance in that moment of reckoning. Rizwan's heartfelt rhetorics are not about changing the world with words. Born with a physical disability this is a man on the move. And boy, does he move!

In what is possibly the most touching testament on film to the spirit of world peace and humanism (lofty ideals to achieve in the massy-masala format but see how pitch-perfect Johar gets it) Rizwan takes off on a picaresque journey to meet the US President with a message that initially strikes us as being too naïve for reiteration.

But look closer. Some of life's basic values have been lost in recent times. Writer Shibani Bathija's seamless screenplay, arguably the best piece of writing since Rakeysh Mehra's Rang De Basanti, recovers that long -lost message of loving your fellow humanbeing unconditionally without getting trite around the edges.

First and foremost My Name Is Khan is a wonderful story told with a flair and flourish that leave a lingering impact on the viewer.

Almost every frame is composed with a mix of mind and heart creating an irresistible progression of moments so tender and forcible we're simply swept away in the tides of the tale about a very special man who undertakes a very special journey.

My Names Is Khan opens with Rizwan boarding an American flight being frisked after a suspicious co-passenger hears him chanting religious passages.

Before we begin to suspect this to be one more film on the persecution of the innocent Muslim, Karan Johar doing a smart and slick spin away from his trademark content and style, takes his hero on a journey that crosses several emotional, political and geographical borders before stopping with breathless integrity to say, life doesn't go on…it changes colours and textures with the moral values that the individual chooses to confer on the life given to him.

Superbly scripted by Bathija with pithy outstanding dialogues by Niranjan Iyenger, the film is edited by Deepa Bhatia with just that much amount of time allotted to the character's and their thought processes to make them appear warm humane and tangible without over-punctuating their presence.

To take one example, when Rizwan brother (Jimmy Shergil, making the best of his brief but comprehensive role) quietly tells his lovely wife (Sonia Jehan) to not wear her veil to work in the US because God would understand, the scene with beautiful economy conveys the couple's mutual empathy and determination to override the hatred outside their home.

Karan Johar always a master of overstatement, for once holds back. The silences in My Name Is Khan often speak far more eloquently than the spoken words.The relationships that the inarticulate Rizwan forms during the course of his life from child to husband to father to a political individual are contoured with a luminous lack of laboriousness.

Whether it's young Rizwan (played sensitively by Tanay Cheda) and his mother (Zarina Wahab, memorable in her brief appearance) or much later, Rizvan and his step-son (brilliant young discovery Yuvaan Makar) the traditional relationships are done-up in striking but subtle shades.

We look at every moment in the film (even the clumsily-done flood sequences) as special because they are part of vision that goes far beyond the real of hop-in-hop-out entertainment.

The director swerves out of his comfort zone without the sound of screechy wheels. Karan Johar's unconventional take on modern marital mores in Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna faltered due to over-statement.

In Khan he doesn't try hard. The characters and their predicament as America gets increasingly suspicious and hostile about the Muslim presence, are portrayed with a lightness of touch that lights up almost every sequence.

Then there is Kajol to provide the kind of natural light to every frame that no amount of artificial light can supplement. As Rizwan's Hindu wife Mandira with a smart intelligent son she has a distinctly secondary role to Shah Rukh Khan. She leaves a lasting impact as a divorcee and later an angry wife and grieving mother, as only Kajol can.

The narration is carpeted with virtues, both invisible and visible. Ravi K Chandran's cinematography captures the incandescent soul of the pure-hearted protagonist as effectively as the stubbornly unbroken spirit of unknown passersby on the streets of America.

Rizwan, we are told, is petrified of the yellow colour.The offending colour recurs with just a hint of insistence. Rizwan wears shocking pink because he hears Mandira's buddy (Navneet Nishan) say it suits her.

He proposes marriage and sex (in that order) at the most inopportune moments. He suggests Mandira have her dinner when she's traumatized by grief. He wears his dead son's shoes as he takes off to meet the President.Rizwan moves by his clock. But his tale is timeless.

Shah Rukh Khan doesn't PLAY Rizwan. He becomes one with the character's subconscious, portraying the man and his spirit with strokes of an invisible paintbrush until what we see is what we cannot forget. Undoubtedly this is Shah Rukh's best performance ever.

This is no ordinary hero. And My Name Is Khan is no ordinary film. Long after the wary-of-physical-touch Rizwan has finally shaken hands with President Obama, long after the heat and dust of racial and communal hatred has settled down the core of humanism that the film secretes stays with you.

Yes, we finally know what they mean by a feelgood film.