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Njalam karuthinum
kaikoodum..
Smile, please.
To be positive is natural.
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Be cheerful.
Happiness is a state of mind. If
Be open.
Free your mind from prejudices.
Have an open mind. Emptied, you
hold.
Be receptive to ideas.
Be quick to listen. Be slow to respond.
Perceptions differ. What is right in your
view may not be that.
Dont jump to conclusions. See the
other persons point of view.
proportion.
See the things as they
are. See the big as big
and the petty as petty.
Wisdom is knowing what
to overlook.
Seeing negative is not
being negative.
Those who see the
negative are as
important as those
who see the positive.
(Plane & parachute)
Be balanced!
Roudram pazhahu.
(Learn to be angry)
Know what to be angry about.
One cannot be neutral between
childish.
Be a grown up. Be mature.
Be liberal in outlook & considerate
in action.
Be understanding & forgiving.
Refrain from mischief.
An eye for an eye will leave
the whole world blind.
Inna seitharai oruthal . Do
good to the person who has done
you wrong. Let this be his
punishment.
Grow up.
But retain the child in you .
Be playful. Import fun into all
..
If you dont control what you think, you cant control what you d.
work.
We are perfect for
this job.
We are a lean,
mean machine.
Ill be glad to take
responsibility.
It is a
challenge.
alternatives.
We have the
opportunity to be the
first.
Theres room for
improvement.
We shall learn
something new.
Lets try it a few
more times.
No great talent
(J R D Tata)
(a newspaper advt)
Aim high.
Let no horizon be too large for
you to gaze at.
In the long run you hit only
what you aim at.
It is not failure but low aim
which is crime.
Kaana muyal eitha
ambinil (Aiming at an
elephant & failing is more
glorious than targetting a
rabbit & felling it.)
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Build up knowledge.
Imagination helps in exploring the unknown.
Use imagination to go beyond knowledge.
Reinforce your skills. Constantly update
them.
Rich vocabulary helps. Remember 1984 of
George Orwell?
A higher order language allows us
- to deal better with processes and things,
and
to convey more, saying less./
When do I act?
To read is to grow.
To read is also to lead.
Learn something every day.
Katrilan ayinum ketka.. Listen.
Discussions make you richer.
Grow every day. Overtake
yourself.
Practise Kaizen. Make
incremental improvements, every
day.
behaviour.
Change your behaviour, and you change your
results, and your life itself.
Self-limiting beliefs are learnt behaviours.
Anything that is learnt can be unlearnt as well.
List all negative beliefs. Replace them with the
positive.
Begin. Take the first step which is the most
difficult.
Anything worth doing is worth failing at, until
you get it right.
yourself, like
I must always succeed.
Ive to meet everyones expectations of
me.
Im no good unless I do everything right.
Develop strategies to cope with stress &
performance anxiety.
Learn to like yourself.
Make a list of positive things about yourself.
Feel good about who you are & how you feel.
Thoongathey thambi
thoongathey..
(Dont doze off, brother,
wake up)
Also, be not a pretender.
Be a performer.
Being busy is irrelevant. It
is performance that
matters.
Slow performance and
under-performance are
bad enough.
Non-performance takes
the cake: it is plain theft.
Annihilate these
assumptions:
Inefficiency is normal.
Delays are inbuilt &
Weighing problem!
A man carrying a baby wanted to weigh the baby in a
scale.
Our baby weighing machine has gone for repairs. But
we can weigh the baby on the general weighing
machine, the sales attendant offered.
How will you do that? asked the man.
Simple. We do it all the time. The father first stands
on the weighing machine with the baby. Then he stands
without the baby.
It wont work, said the man, looking disappointed.
Why?
Well, you see Im the babys uncle, not his father.
Mind halfused
Dont be rule-bound.
Interpret the rules positively.
Let them enable, and not
inhibit, you.
Precedents should be guides,
not fetters.
Good people follow the rules.
But, it is often the
unscrupulous who quote the
rules.
Breaking norms in order to
frame better ones is an option
to be explored.
Dont be in self-doubt.
Feel & act confident. Stand by
your convictions.
Be positively assertive, when
you are in the right.
Where speech is due, silence
may be betrayal.
Insist on your right to be heard
& reckoned. But, be
accommodative of the other
point of view.
Dont say yes when you want
to say no .
Ennitthuniha karumam..
Thinking first, action only
then.
Act by all means, but only
after considering all
relevant matters.
Dont make decisions
based on just one or two
dimensions. (Many a fellow
in love with a dimple)
Dont act impulsively.
If you have to act, act fast
& decisively.
convictions.
obedience to the unenforceable.
Be performance-oriented.
change in a day.
Be alert to the first signs of
change.
Feel obligated to effect the
change.
Look at opportunities that
change represents.
Keep renewing yourself. Dont
allow routines to become chains.
Keep managing the present
while managing the change.
Be physical. Be dynamic.
Udambai valarthaen, uyir
valarthaenae! Tirumantiram
Take care of the body. It
takes care of the mind.
Physical well-being gives you
stamina, both physical &
mental.
It makes you focussed.
It makes you optimistic &
confident to face the
challenges of life.
Enjoy.
Relish the
journey!
There is more to life than
running non-stop.
Happiness is all along, not
merely at the destination. The
joys along the route are perhaps
more delightful..
If you are enjoying the journey,
you are not upset by a delayed
arrival.
Count your blessings. One rarely
appreciates ones blessings as
much as when they are gone.
Work energises.
(William James)
Strenuous application of
actions automatic as
possible. The more actions
we make automatic, the
more energy we have left
for creative work & pbmsolving.
WJ, again:
grievances.
Sincerely attempt to
heal.
Acquire the quality of
easygoingness.
What is practical is
just.
Relax, for easy power.
Never allow things to
ruffle you.
Be interesting.
Practise liking
people.
Never miss the
opportunity to congratulate,
sympathise, or
express sorrow.
Be a comfortable
person to be with.
Order! Order!
Absent order & regulation,
passion.
Plant seeds of thinking. Let
people think in a breakthrough
fashion.
Institutionalize imbibing ideas &
suggestions.
Acknowledge & reward good
ideas.
Honour errors resulting out of
experimenting.
Create a dream & make the
team go towards it.
Why crib,