Cordially Yours

You may say that it is natural for others to feel jealous over your success or your earnings. Though you are true, their resentment towards you may make you uneasy. The problem with people is that they will have a low opinion about you if your life is just average and not spectacular enough. On the contrary, if you lead an affluent life or if you have achieved success in your endeavors, they will feel jealous. The question now is: Are there ways to handle these jealous folks ? The following points may help.  Experts advise that it is better to avoid telling people what you earn. But what about your lifestyle? It may make people know that you are wealthy. Let us first look at the first point, i.e. answering people who ask you how much your salary is. If you are an entrepreneur, people may be very much curious to know if you make enough money for your sustenance or if you earn substantially. If the earnings are just average, these jealous people are hap...

You have set your goal and have started putting forth the efforts required to achieve it. You review your efforts periodically to ensure that everything is in order. According to you, everything is moving as you have planned. You are now half-way through in your journey. Suddenly, you have a nagging feeling that there is a loss of steam or things are not moving at the pace as before. You are obviously upset. What may be the reasons? What is holding you back from achieving the success you have been longing for and cherishing in your bosom? Let us find out.  The reasons may be: 1. After reaching a certain point, you have started indulging in what is known as "self-sabotage." True, you have put in place proper systems. But there is some lacuna due to which your plans fall through. You commit avoidable mistakes and these may decelerate the pace of your journey. 2. Not listening to the advice of experts in your field may be another reason for the retardation of your...

You may have a clear vision about your life's goal . You may be putting forth your sincerest efforts to achieve the goal as well. But in the cockles of your heart, you may have a feeling that the speed of the results of your efforts is not satisfactory. Is your feeling right? If so, what should you do to accelerate your success? Let us find out. Is your feeling right? To the question if your feeling that the speed of results of your efforts is far from satisfactory is right, the answer is: Since this feeling has surreptitiously entered your mind and you are not comfortable with it, your feeling is right. Of course, overnight success is a Utopian dream and can happen only in fantasy stories. Further, several instances of overnight successes leading to disasters abound in human history. This means there should be gradual improvements. By "gradual," you need not construe that the improvement should be slow. Your journey should be reasonably paced. If the pace of the improvem...

You will not find a person who does not want to be successful on this planet. Even an ascetic who does penance on the Himalayas may have goals and want to succeed in achieving them. But the question now is: Is the route to success tough or easy? Let us dive deep and find out. What is success? Success is nothing but achieving the goals that we have set. Of course, goals may differ from one person to another because every individual is unique. Some may want to amass wealth, a few others may be looking for leading a peaceful and hassle-free life, and yet a few others may wish to have a fabulous and enviable career.  Is achieving success tough or easy? The fact is achieving success in life is easy provided you follow certain ways. There may be hundreds or thousands of steps that may make your journey towards success smooth but almost all of them come under a few major ones. What are these major steps? 1. Introspect and be clear about what you want to accomplish. Spend some time, in f...

Why do people fail? This question may haunt everyone including you. What is it that can most effectively turn failures into successes ? If you ask this question to successful people, you may get different answers from each one of them. This is because every one of them is unique and their situations are different. But there is a common attribute or trait every successful person may have and this trait plays a major role in their enviable journey. Let us find out what this attribute is. According to successful people, this one attribute or attitude enormously amplifies the results of the efforts they put in. This post will dive deep to know more about this attitude. Now what is the attitude these successful people are talking about? It is what is popularly known as an " optimistic outlook " or "positive attitude." You, like myriad others out there, may argue whether bad things have not happened or will not happen in the lives of positive-minded folks. This argument i...

There is so much more to life than money . But there is a widespread misconception among people that being or becoming affluent is the ultimate goal of life. If you have amassed enormous wealth but if you are not able to enjoy your life due to the  health issues that confront you, what is the use of all your wealth?  Poor health is a bully and a villain and it can ruin everything in life. If any of you have doubts about this in your mind, there is a classic example in recent history that proves beyond doubt that health is more important than anything else. The example is the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. A peek into John D. Rockefeller's life would reveal that he earned his first million when he was just thirty five. He continued his business with such a crazy persistence and passion that his gross business grew to $500,000 a year. But he never believed anyone. He always worried about losing his wealth. This wrecked his health so badly that his daily food intake was e...

"Why am I not getting results for the stubborn efforts I am putting forth to lose fat ?" Since every individual is unique, the answer to the above question is unique as well. Since a fat body is akin to a time bomb that has started ticking, it is high time you wake up and face up to the following reality. The reality is that the efforts you put forth do not match your body. Or, there are flaws in the steps you are taking. Unless you get rid of these flaws, you will continue to remain fat.  This post deals with a modicum of the distilled wisdom of some of the experts in this field. Let us dive down and find out how you can lose the excess fat on your body and get a shapely body. 1. Shun bad fats.  Not all fats are bad. In fact, your body needs good fats such as polyunsaturated fats that can help you feel "full" after eating your meal. In fact, these good fats can help in digestion as well. On the other hand, bad fats such as trans fats can cause is...