Human’s mind

Human mind is one of the most complex creations in the universe. It is really tough to understand the complexity. The complexity has different dimensions and thousands of reasons to develop in a particular way.

Source of Life!

It is often neglected by those who never know the value of that element. It is popularly known as sperm! It is the ultimate source of life! Sperm are millions in number in a small amount of semen. It is really tough to understand the mechanism of introduction of a human life in the world! It starts from sperm. Yes, its sperm!

Flannery O’Connor/Janet Frame (Books Acquired, 6.27.2014)

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Self-Publishing: Do It Your Way

10 Ways to Eliminate Isolation and Connect

Pulling away feels safe, but its destructive!

Leadership Freak

Everything is worse when faced alone. Lousy leaders withdraw, build barriers, condone silos, and stifle relationships.

Pulling away feels safe, but its destructive.

Isolation causes, magnifies, and exacerbates every issue leaders face. For example:

1. Distrust expands when you hide in your office.
2. Arrogance, the deadliest leadership failure, grows in segregation.
3. Earning respect from older, more experienced employees, doesn’t happen from a distance.
4. Fear and insecurity increase in isolation. Everyone knows something’s wrong when you close down and pull away.

Those we push away become the enemy.

Pushing others out is a tragic expression of inexperience. People cause all the problems, but, they solve them, too.

The more you feel like pulling away
the more you must connect.

Leadership in isolation is an empty title.

Connecting:

1. Learning connects. Use four words every colleague wants to hear. “What do you think?” Know-it-alls push away.
2. Fascination connects. Feel people leaning in when you…

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Charlie Brown, existentialist placekicker

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Existentialism has been accused of being defeatist and depressing (and Sartre didn’t help his cause with terms like ‘abandonment’, ‘despair’, and ‘nausea’). But Peanuts also demonstrates the optimism of the philosophy. Why does Charlie Brown continue to go out to the pitcher’s mound, despite his 50 year losing streak? Why try to kick the football, when Lucy has always pulled it away at the last second? Because there is an infinite gap between the past and the present. Regardless of what has come before, there is always the possibility of change. Monstrous freedom is a double edged sword. We exist, and are responsible. This is both liberating and terrifying.

From “Sartre & Peanuts” by Nathan Radke.

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Overcoming the Blindness of Vision

True!

Leadership Freak

 

The down side of seeing the future is blindness.

Your dream makes you willing to do what it takes. Others should feel the same. Passion for the future blinds you to the pressing needs of people, today.

Their reluctance or resistance suggests something’s wrong with them. In reality, something’s wrong with you.

Blind leaders steamroll others
and in the process blame their victims.

Everyone doesn’t see tomorrow as clearly as you. The needs of today are clearer than the dreams of tomorrow, to some.

Forward:

Individuals and teams won’t move forward until their pressing personal needs are met. Prepare people to meet challenges.

Some need comfort. Others need information. Still others, won’t face new challenges until they learn new skills. In any case, accept their pressing personal need.

Open:

1. See and accept their urgent need.  Say, “You seem reluctant to accept this assignment.”
2. Don’t belittle or minimize.  Ask, “What makes…

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Five Leadership Resolutions for 2014

important to keep in mind…..

Leadership Freak

A history of failure prevents you from making New Years resolutions. You fell short last time. Why try again? What’s the point?

One friend said, “The only resolution I’ve kept is the one not to make New Years resolutions. But…

Those who can’t start fresh are doomed to repeat the past.

People who get it right the first time reached too low. Meaningful relationships and noble goals die if you don’t start again.

Those who don’t start again quit.

5 leadership resolutions for 2014:

1. Resolve to spend 15 minutes a day listening. Refuse to make statements, just explore. After you’ve mastered 15 minutes, up it to 30. Most leaders talk too much.
2. Spend an hour every week with someone you admire. The people you hang with reflect your future.
3. Talk about the past in terms of lessons learned. Stop circling the past like a vulture eyeing a carcass. Everyone captivated…

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“To Critics” — Robert Herrick

Nice..

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Don’t Make a Resolution; Find a Word

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Leadership Freak

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What if one word could transform your life?

I don’t blame you if you’ve stopped making resolutions. You’re busy enough and the last ones didn’t work.

One Facebook contributor summed up the challenge of personal change when she wrote, “Successful personal change requires a lot of hard work!”

Plus, you’re already maxed out. But…

Do you have room for one word?

More powerful than resolutions:

You don’t need a list of resolutions. You need, “One Word That Will Change Your Life.”

Dan Britton and Jimmy Page have practiced and taught one word since 1999. They shared the idea with Jon Gordon a few years ago. One word always works. It may not deliver what you expect. It usually delivers more.

One word:

Choose one word that embodies the essence of life for 2014 and let it speak to you everywhere you go. The possibilities…

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