Category — Straight from heart

A first impression is the last impression – If you fail to make a good first impression, then you are all set to come last in the race because you will never get a second chance.

This is what  I was taught during my schooling, colleges and even the same advice was passed on to me while taking up employment.

I believed this advice firmly and decided that I will always try to make a good first impression in order to succeed.

While this advice of making a good first impression pushed me to start my career with a bang , but the fact was I was not able to keep the momentum going.

I met with failures very soon and embraced frustration, found myself in clueless situation.

I was a teenager who jumped into information technology industry immediately after my college wrestling with keyboard and learning MS DOS and Word star (which were popular in those days) sitting in front of that monochrome monitors.

When I was trying to make a good first impression my job, I was forcing myself too much during the first few days of employment to make others think that I am the fastest learner and will do everything that was given to me. I was saying yes to every work coming on my way.

My bosses liked my super-charged attitude and  soon trusted me as a valuable player in the team. Their impression about me was that I had learned everything in a short period of time.

But, that image was short lived. I was no more a new employee and since I had set the benchmark high during my initial days (reason: to make a first impression), I was assigned multiple tasks and asked to complete all in stiff deadlines. Soon, my enthusiasm started coming down. Pressure was building up inside me to complete pending tasks.

I just couldn’t handle those. Advice of making a good first impression was working against me.

I failed. I couldn’t complete the tasks and ended up with silly mistakes. Because, I underestimated the value of time for learning the new system.

I thought I had understood everything (at least tried to show like that) .

The first impression thing screwed up everything. I failed miserably.

This was almost a decade back. Then, I was not aware how to progress in life. I didn’t know that the ultimate progress in life is learning things in correct way and implementing them in right way. What I was trying was to build a skyscraper with weak foundation.

Thanks to personal development, which opened my eye to my inner self.

When I took up a task of discovering myself and decided to fix myself, I started experiencing an exact opposite of what I was taught during schooling, colleges.

I realized that first impression is not the last impression. And judging the life based on a ‘first impression’ could bring me dangerous results. And allowing some one to judge me on my first impression would have the same effect too.

My experiences were not limited to my job or competitive areas, there were chunks of lessons in other areas of life such as buying habits, relationships and much more.

Lessons were pretty clear.

First impression is not the last impression.

You just need to be yourself , natural and practical.

Everything falls in the right place if you focus on creating a solid foundation.

Research is always accurate than trusting the hype.

I learned these lessons because I had reversed the popular belief called making a first impression.

Instead of trying hard to make a good first impression, I started involving in the new job as a brand new comer. I was humble, polite and hardworking. I started with smalls steps by putting my efforts into understanding each module of the job and slowly understanding the whole ecosystem of the work.

I was seeking information from seniors and thanked them for their inputs.I admitted my silly mistakes and corrected them immediately and kept going.

Surely, I was on the right path. I started getting more and more support and attention from seniors and the boss over the time. I didn’t focus on making a first impression, I just worked hard and focused on developing a strong knowledge base. I was slow but steady.What I was trying is to release my true potential.

A strong foundation was built.

Results were outstanding and I was appreciated for my contributions and that developed more confidence inside me. This is what I practice after those life changing lessons.

I hope you got the message in the above story.

So, don’t try hard for making a good first impression. You will be MISJUDGED. Because you look artificial when you try to make a good first impression. Instead, be natural, be hardworking and honest.

Nobody can (should) judge a person or a thing based on first impression

This is the core message I wanted to convey in this whole article.

Most of  first impressions are not real. They are either inaccurate, deceiving or fake.

Let’s look at your own daily life examples.

How many times you have seen a new person, and at first thought he looks like a baddy. However later after spending some time with him, you found that he is a humble and a good guy. A first impression about him was unreal.

How many times, you have bought a new phone by it’s first look and later found that it lacks some of the very important functionality? You would have surely surrendered yourself to aggressive marketing which would have created an urge inside you to get this new phone. A first impression of the gadget was worth a 5 star rating. But what you failed to notice is ,first impressions are some created to infuse a sense of urgency within you to buy the new gadget immediately whether you really need it or not. In the age of consumerism, you might have experienced this many times.

As a manager, how many times , you wrote off a new employee thinking that he is  ineffective because he failed to make a good first impression? You later surprised to see that he is doing quite amazing in some other team. First impression of the new employee again deceived you.

You can’t judge anyone based on their first impression because you are ignoring a simple truth that human behavior is complex.

This truth not only applies to human behavior but extends itself to other areas of our life as well.

The worst thing that can happen to people is they might get married to a wrong person if they judge him/her based on the first impression.

I hope you can imagine the consequences.

What is the right way to judge a person/situation/stuff then?

You need to have patience and thankfully, there are plenty of resources available for research.

You need to analyze the pattern over the time, instead of judging a person/stuff/situation instantly based on the first impression.

In fact, it’s no more optional. You SHOULD adopt this habit right away if you want to make RIGHT choices and handle the situations in a better way.

Stay calm and observe the variations over the period of time.

I am sure , you will come to an obvious conclusion soon which is far accurate than the instant opinion which was created based on the first impression.

If you are a boss, don’t judge a new employee on day one or even within a week. He might be misjudged. Instead, give him a month. Extend your support to him and expose him to valuable information. Offer constructive feedback for his silly mistakes. Appreciate his small accomplishments. Soon, he might do wonders for you.

If you are tempted to buy that new gadget by seeing it’s first look on TV or internet, don’t rush to buy it immediately. Instead, hold yourself back and wait for user reviews and feedback. After going through reviews, if the gadget still excites you, go and pick it up. But if user reviews are all negative, do you still want to take the risk?

If you see a business offer coming on your way which is too good to resist and offered with unbelievable goodies, be patient and step back for allowing yourself to do some research. You might even later find that the business offer was nothing more than a scam.

If you are a software programmer and the code you just wrote works perfect in it’s first run (by it’s first impression). don’t hurry to celebrate. Instead, observe the code behavior in the whole ecosystem of the project. Test the code in various scenarios and see that how other modules respond to your code. By doing so, you will be a better programmer. Real programmer spends most of the time in testing, not in programming.

I am sure, above examples showed you the consequences of exercising  judgement by first impression.

I am not saying that first impressions are always false, but they surely need a second look.

Don’t worry. Life will give you a second chance. Observe, analyze and work hard.

A long lasting impression is what you should be aiming for, not for the temporary first impression.

Your turn

How about you? Have you ever judged some one by their first impression? Or have you ever been judged by some one based on your first impression? I am genuinely interested in hearing about your experiences. Tell your story in the comments.

Photo credit : free digital photos

 Dear readers,

I am not doing well since winter has gifted me and my family a horrible cold and I am sneezing more than I type.

However, that doesn’t stop me from wishing my dear readers a very happy new year

A Big Thank-you to you

Really, without your love and support, I wouldn’t be even thinking of writing and running this blog as I play two roles already in my life. One being a full time software programmer at office and other as a responsible family member (husband and father) at home.

Blogging has been a great friend to me. I am now attached to it and with my readers. My passion for writing is deepening by each passing day.

Thank you readers for reading my articles. I am not sure whether all of my articles helped you or not. But, I continue to share tips from my experiences.

Thanks to my email subscribers who opted in and follow my posts. I hope I never spammed you

Thanks to them who downloaded and read my eBook.

Thanks to those wonderful bloggers who hosted my guest posts.

Thanks to those who liked my facebook fan page.

Thanks to those who followed me on twitter.

And finally , thanks to YOU, who is reading this post, right this moment.

This blog is growing

I love to say this. This blog was started in March 2010. Since then, traffic is growing steadily, especially during 2011. To put rest to your curiosity, this blog gets about  1/10th of traffic what ThinkTraffic gets That transforms into about 3500 Page views a month roughly. planetnaveen.com has google pagerank of PR2 and alexa rank of 821206

So, I have a long way to go.

My favorite posts of the year (This includes the posts I wrote on other blogs as well)

The Incredible Benefits Of Saying No

21 Ways To Find Happiness in Simple Things

Release

Why Discovering Your True Passion Is So Important In My Life

Life 1.0

I am keeping this post short and wishing you again a very Happy and prosperous new year 2012.

I found a great new year desktop wallpaper which you can download here.

You don’t need to do something extraordinary to deepen your connection with everlasting happiness and soak yourself in the beauty of life.

You just need to do a simple thing.

Release.

If you work for someone, don’t just work and deliver an ordinary result. Instead, razor sharpen your focus and release your true potential. Make the challenges look small. They are really no match to your intelligence. You will start seeing an amazing growth in your career graph.

If you are a creative writer, don’t just write. Instead, release your thoughts like a flow of water. Let them flow. Don’t hold any of them within you. You will be surprised to have a totally new perspective for your writing. Let an incredible masterpiece begin.

If you are a musician, stop composing that new song now. It’s not the best one, yet. Instead, close you eyes and release all vibrant tunes hidden inside your musical soul. Don’t let music become permutation and combination of few tunes. Instead, release everything. Touch the other tunes. Create a melody which yourself want to listen again and again. Be a versatile composer.

If you are a painter, don’t focus on colors. Instead focus on ideas. Release all your imaginations onto the canvas. Then, let a marvelous piece of art take birth from your imagination. After all, art is such a wonderful media for expressing your creativity. Why have you been limiting yourself so far?

Give your loved one, a warm hug and tell them how much you love them. Love needs to be expressed. Release your affection. Talk to your near and dear ones about how much they are important in your life.

You will be delighted to experience the real warm feeling of being with family.

How did you miss to release these emotions so far?

May be because, the person reading this post is not real you. You are lost somewhere in the overwhelming digital distractions. Or may be immersed yourself too much into an illusion of speedy life.

However, life need not be so fast that you miss to enjoy the prime moments of it. Aren’t the magical moments that are recipe for a wonderful life?

I know, there is real you inside.

You just need to release him.

I promise, your world will be never same.

Minimalism and minimalist lifestyles are getting widely adopted these days by many people.

And why not? After all, we are so much drowned in clutter that we either succumb to too much commitments or suffer from painful stress of not being able to live a happy life.

Joshua from The Minimalists beautifully explains why he doesn’t own a television. Raamdev wrote an awesome essay about his plan of traveling 3 countries with $3000 in his pocket.

LJ Earnest discusses how eliminating choice will help you to get more done

Did you see what’s happening?

We need drive backwards to actually move forward in the right lane.

It doesn’t matter what speed you are going in life, however , what matters is , where are you going?

Reducing unwanted clutter from life and detaching ourselves from unwanted burdens makes us feel light and reclaim the time for doing what we really love.

Having said the above, I want to know your views or definition about minimalism.

According to you, what is minimalism or minimalist lifestyle? And in what ways , becoming a minimalist can benefit your life.

If you ask me the same question , which I love to answer -

Minimalism according to me is , deliberately detaching myself  from attractive options and involuntary participation which make my life unnecessarily busy. Because when I am less busy, I create something of really good quality.

Note that I have used the word deliberately here in above sentence. Because without deliberate efforts, it’s not going to be easy to become a minimalist.

Back to my original question. What is minimalism according to you.  I want to know.

Write your thoughts, ideas in the comment section and let’s start an interesting conversation.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated – Confucius

Isn’t it true? In our quest for success and happiness, we surround ourselves with so much clutter that, our focus gets easily distracted, efforts will be scattered and results will be mediocre.

So, it has become really important for all of us to eliminate unwanted distractions and focus on what we really want to achieve. When you live an uncluttered life, you will have more time, peace of mind and more happiness.

I decided to list some of the amazing blogs which teach you how minimalism can enable you to live a more happier, content life and achieve want you want. They educate you how to simplify your life and  guide you to get more with less.

So without much delay, presenting you some of the best blogs on minimalism and simplicity. They are in no particular order.

1.The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus write essays about minimalism and living a meaningful life.

Recommended articles:

• Why I quit my 6 Figure Job
• Why I don’t own a television

2.Raam Dev

Raam Dev writes essays and journals about creativity, abundance. He explores human nature, our growing planetary social responsibility and our place in the cosmos.

Recommended articles:

• The Circle of Life
• The Lifestyle of a minimalist digital nomad

3. Zen Habits

Leo Babauta is well known for his principles for simple living. He has authored many books on simplicity which are extremely popular.

Recommended articles:

• Create Time To Change Your Life
• 8 Ways Doing Less Can Transform Your Work and Life

4. Miss Minimalist

Francine Jay inspires us to live a beautiful life with less stuff. Check this blog out.

Recommended articles:

• The Minimalist Wardrobe (aka, the 10 item wardrobe)

5. Every Day Minimalist

Living with less, but only with best. That’s what the tagline of this blog reads. How awesome. Check the awesome articles written by Serena.

Recommended articles:

• What does Minimalism Really Mean
• Why Do We Buy to make ourselves Happy

6. Unclutterer

Unclutterer is the blog about getting and staying organized.

Recommended articles:

• A Nice Little Home Out of A Garbage Can

7. Becoming Minimalist

Joshua Becker writes about simplifying your life.

Recommended articles:

• 18 Darn Good Reasons To Get the TV out of The Bedroom

8. Be More With Less

Be more with less is a blog about simplifying your life and really living.

Recommended articles:

• How Simplicity Encourages Creativity
• The One thing standing between you and simplicity

9. Minimalist Packrat

Tanja Hoaglnd and Patrick Ray writes amazing articles on Minimalism.

Recommended articles:

• The Minimalist Take on Clothing
• 5 simple ways to downsize your book collections

10. Minimalism Defined

A Blog about minimalist lifestyle.

Recommended articles:

• Turning my back on a $80,000 job
• What to do when you live with non minimalists

11. Simple Productivity

L J Earnest writes about new ways to be productive and simplify life.

Recommended articles:

• Eliminating choices to get more done
• Clutter and Productivity: Your computer desktop

12 .Rowdy Kittens

Rowdy Kittens is a blog about shedding unnecessary stuff to focus on what matters, like spending time with friends and family.

Recommended articles:

• Why we are building a little tiny house
• Why I ditched my cell phone

13. 365 Less Things

Very interesting and enjoyable blog where author Colleen writes about de-cluttering life.

Recommended articles:

• Break a bad habit
• What holds you back from declutterring

14. Minimal Student

Jessica Dang is a photographer and guitarist and writes about simplicity. She aims to live fearlessly, constantly learning and exploring what it means to be human.

Recommended articles:

• Why minimalism brings happiness
• 10 minimalist reasons to start cycling today

15. Mnmlst

Leo babuta’s blog on minimalism. I don’t think Leo needs another introduction

Recommended articles:

• Live more, need less
• Letting go of fake needs

16. Zen Family Habits

Zen Family Habits is a celebration of all things family. It’s about living simply and with presence of mind. It’s about cultivating healthy, meaningful, relationships with loved ones.

Recommended articles:

• 8 Things people never tell you about having kids
• 43 simple ways to simply your life

17. Momentum Gathering

Katie Tallo is a mother, wife, writer, director, artist, fitness lover, vegetarian, motivator and momentum gatherer. Her mission is to seek out simple, soulful ways to live, eat, move, create and flow with life.

Recommended articles:

• A Simple guide to remembering who you are
• Reflect, Rethink and Cherish: How to transform your time

18. Simple Rabbit

Simple Rabbit shares articles, advice, hacks and tips for achieving an awesome life through minimalism

Recommended articles:

• Confidence in sunshine
• Your inner feeling of bliss

19. Small Simple Life

Small Simple Life is a blog about simplicity.

Recommended articles:

• Top 5 Simple Ideas on how to make new habits a lasting change
• Top 5 small, simple opportunities for a little more energy and zest for life

20. The Minimalist Path

Recommended articles:

• Simple and critical action to save your life in 21st century

I hope you enjoyed this list of some of the best blogs on simplicity and minimalism.

See you in next post.

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Hi dear reader,

Hope you are doing great. Just wanted to let you know that I have guest posted an article titled The Incredible Benefits Of Saying No on one of the amazing personal development blog unlockthedoor.net run by Stuart Mills.

‘The Incredible Benefits Of Saying No’ – tells you about how we are overloading ourselves by saying ‘Yes’ to everything that comes our way. It also explores the scenarios where a ‘Yes’ has actually led to a ‘no. It guides you to optimize your time for your passions and prioritizes your commitments. It helps you to live a stress-free life.

Check this article out. It’s well received by wonderful audience of unlockthedoor.net.

Go and join the amazing discussion happening over there

Here is the link again : The Incredible Benefits of Saying No

Dear reader,
It has been over an year since I started this blog and I am so excited to share that it has been a wonderful and fulfilling experience to me.I am also delighted to share with you that planetnaveen.com is now a PR2 blog.

I might not have posted large number of articles (since I am a full time employee who writes lots of code at day job in software), but what’s delighting for me is, through this part time blogging, I am able to connect with so many new people and it feels really good to see their emails, comments. Another set of people have subscribed to my mailing list and this is a incredible beginning.

For a change, I tried to write an off-topic post today. I thought , let me share my blog tools and a picture of my work station with the most important part of my blog. You, the reader.

So here I go. Below are some of the blog tools and software that I use.

Hardware and Accessories

Desktop Computer – Un-branded and 11 Years old. This one never going to retire
I am amazed by this PC since I am using this since last 11 years and it has well tolerated my numerous experiments whether its software installations or disk partitioning or playing with heavy applications. Though some times its RAM crashed, this PC still rocks. Though currently it has become my secondary computer, I still love to work on it whenever I travel back to India.

Laptop - Acer Core2Duo – 320Gig and 2 GB Ram
I bought this very recently since I relocated to Dubai and badly needed computer to continue my blogging.Acer was good choice since it fit nicely into my budget . I am not one of those who spend lots of money on getting the latest version in everything. I just need basic features.

A Kindle – Kindle has been very useful to me since I love reading. Kindle helped me to read lots of great books especially while I am traveling. You may want to know more about how kindle can change your reading habits here.

Olympus SP600Uz – This medium range camera has been a latest addition to my blog army. Not very sure how much this would be useful but my main idea while buying this was to use it as a tool for capturing creative pictures and use them for my blog posts.

A Notebook – Paper still rules. I scribble ideas onto this.

Software Tools

Adobe Photo Shop : This tool helps me in various ways such as for creating headers and eBook covers.

FileZilla : File upload tool. If you are searching for file upload tool, you can freely download it here.

Adobe Dreamweaver : Excellent tool for editing HTML and php files. I create custom HTML pages using these. It helps in tweaking php code as well. Check, how I created a squeeze page using Dreamweaver.

Open Office : Document creating tool. It also helps in creating eBook since it has save as PDF capabilities.

Image Converter: Image resizing made easy.

Word Web online dictionary : This helps me in improving my vocabulary.

WordPress platform : An amazing content management software. I love WordPress. planetnaveen.com runs on this. Undoubtedly this is the best blog tool available.

Programming Tools

Some of the programming I learned exclusively after I started blogging: CSS, php,FBML, Adobe Photoshop. Check my facebook page which I created using FBML. Simple, yet works for me.

Email Subscription Management

Google feedburner manages my mailing list very well. I did experiment with mailchimp for a while but again back to feedburner because of its simplicity. I have customized feedburner email subscription form a bit so that it includes my free eBook image as well.

Traffic Tracking Tool

Google analytics.

What’s plan for future

An i-Pad (since Dubai has lots of WiFi spots) and a large screen desktop in hardware side. In software side, upgrading to aweber email subscription management tool once my subscriber base reaches large numbers.Another strong reason for switching to aweber would be utilizing the feature of automatic delivery of ebook when someone subscribes to my blog.

I will continue to use free theme Neoclassical theme on this blog since it looks clean and meets my requirement in terms of blog’s look and feel very much.

Above are some of the blog tools I use for blogging.

I would like to hear from you, what blog tools you use for blogging. I would be very much interested to know

Comment.

Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life  ~  Harvey MacKay

Is success in life measured only in terms of the money one has earned or by the position he has reached in his career?

According to me, what matters more than money or the position one holds is the quality of life one is living. One might be successful and have all the money but if his quality of life is poor then he may not live a content life because success alone will not bring peace to life. Quality of life not necessarily depends on the monetary aspects. A content and happy life needs more than money. A passionate living is much more than achieving success.

So, are we living the life which realizes our true potential?  Are we living a content life? Are we living a passionate life?

Passion, is such a wonderful word. This single factor that has created miracles in our world. Great music, wonderful sportsmen, awesome writers , technologists , businessmen, top bloggers and so on and the list is almost endless. They have influenced the world by their achievements. How were they so successful? How they stood different from the crowd? What is the secret for their achievements? Aren’t these questions pop to your mind?

Secret is simple. They were passionate in what they were doing.

In this modern age which is full of chaos and competition, people often measure the quality of life with the degree of success they achieved. This is true to some extent but not entirely.

What if a the person is hugely successful in terms of money he earned yet doesn’t have time for family or leisure? What if he spends his whole day in  stressful conditions and needs to pop a pill to even get a normal sleep?

Don’t get me wrong, I am not against earning money, in fact money is surely vital for all of us. But what I am asking you here is are you passionate in what you are doing currently? Do you actually enjoy your work or business that you are currently in?

If not, then this is the right article for you. Simply because, at the end of this article, you will have lots of information to think upon and look back at  the strategy of your life. I am here on this blog not only to inspire you to do something which brings tangible results but to also to make you realize your true potential. I am here to give you bunch of (winning) ideas.

I am adding few real life examples of what passion can do to your life and how it can transform a medicore life into a passionate and content living.

How do you know what are you actually passionate about?

Next immediate question that may arise in your mind is how one can know what exactly his passion is? One might be passionate about many things and how can passion transform his life?

These are exactly the set of questions I am going to discuss in this post.

You see, most of us believe (or conditioned to believe) that we are successful if we pass out from school or college with high marks and get a great paying job and settle in life. To this level, most of the people make it considering the quality education system and a various job opportunities. Fair enough. We have not yet discussed about role of passion here.Where does passion fit in here?

Passion fits right in the center of your education, career and your quality of life. It is the only life-defining factor which can provide you a great quality life.

A real life example

I have a childhood friend who was top ranking student till our matriculation (of course, I was also in the league of top 5). We all were supposed to choose our next education stream immediately after our results. Most of us chose a science based path or a technical path which could lead to a engineering or medical field.

However our dear friend chose a commerce path and shocked all of us.

I am not saying commerce is not a great education (in fact now I understand it has such importance) path but it appeared less glamorous to all of us ( at our maturity level at the age of 16). We all asked him that why did he do this? Why didn’t he choose a science or engineering path? He would have got a immediate job.

His answer was that,  he was passionate about commerce. He loved numbers. He had passion for reasoning exercises. And, he was right in choosing his future education path.

Over the period of time, he completed his higher secondary , degree and of course the prestigious chartered accountant course with great results. He got the job which he loved. More importantly he is able to live a content life because he chose a life path inspired by his passion.

My own story

Let me share my own story with you which is bit different from above one.
I had chosen a technical route of course not based on my passion but based on the market demands at that moment for the course. My aim was to get a job as soon as possible. I did pretty well in the course with got good results and landed with a decent job in the same area just after immediate completion of the course. I was proud of myself and went with the flow of life. Though I was working at an air-conditioned office with white color job, I started to realize that I was not really enjoying what I was doing. I was not passionate at what I was doing on a daily basis. Since my work life took most of my day’s time, it was getting tough for me to continue in the same field.

At that point, I asked myself, why I am not enjoying this job ,though to the outside world it looks like a well settled job. What I am really passionate about? Am I at a wrong place? Can I shift my career into a field where I can put my passion to work? Is it too late?

These were very important questions that I asked to myself. To find out the answers , I had to retrospect my life and look back at my activities in the past.
My activities were water color painting, writing poems, thinking differently and of course creating new music tunes. What these indicate to me? Now since I had interest in so many things, what is that I was really passionate about? Though it confused me a bit, getting a clue was not difficult. I was actually passionate about creating (something new). I was passionate about experiments and ideas.

Since I was passionate about creating something new and internet technology was booming and revolutionizing the ways people live, software programming seemed a great career option to me.

But with my current job profile and of course, without a engineering degree (I just had a 3 years diploma after matriculation) , the transition goal seemed a tough task to me. But my passion led me to right way. I completed the engineering in computers by studying part time and at the same time, enhanced my knowledge in programming by self learning. I had my breakthrough moment when I switched my career from a non programming to a programming job.

Since then, it has been a wonderful 7 years now, I enjoy each and every moment of my work and this is something which I passionately involve on daily basis. It is not stopping here. I have lots of plans for the future for creating something of my own.It could be a software or a book or something else. This blog is also result of my passion for creating.

The reason I had to share you the above two real life stories because, I want you to listen to your passion. Let your passion enlighten your life. I want you to stop existing and start living.

Don’t choose a career because its well paying in the market, or your friends or relative has chosen it but choose it if you are really passionate about it.

Discover your true passion

Coming back to the essence of this article. How to find out what you are really passionate about? How to find passion in your life?

If you ask me, I will ask you the question right back to you.

Is there something in your life for which you can spend hours of time without even looking at clock. Is there anything that makes you feel good from within ? Is there anything which reflects your true personality? It could be music, photography, writing , technology , programming, accounting, teaching or anything.

Make a list of your passions and retrospect your activities against each passion. You will get your answer. Think about it. Can you nurture your passion. Is it too late now? In my opinion, its never too late to do something good.

If you are a student and reading this article, believe me, you are the luckiest one because you have a wonderful opportunity to talk to your parents about your passion and interests. Do a research before joining a career and choose the one which allows you to put your passion at work. If you are a midlife worker who don’t enjoy your work life, then think about enhancing your knowledge and skills in the area which you are passionate about, You can gain knowledge by learning part time as well. I am sure, down the line, you will eventually move towards a better satisfying job and start enjoying a great work life. And if you feel your are working since a decade in the same field and the switchover is impossible, try to convert your passion into a hobby and start feeling good within. I have already said in the beginning of this article that passion doesn’t always associate itself with money and money is not everything in life.

Discovering the passion can happen at any stage of life. Not necessary that it should happen in childhood only. Discovery is not when you list all your interests, but when you realize that passion alone can transform your life.

So what are you waiting for, start asking questions to yourself, start retrospecting your life. Find out your true passion. Make it your life. Stop existing…Start living.

Remember, world needs passionate people. World needs you.

Good luck and eager to discuss more in the comment section.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance – Socrates

It’s the Web. It’s your faceless friend. It’s your personal coach who doesn’t charge you even a penny.

Web has changed the way we used to live.How? By sharing information. What we want? Information.

Why information? Because, information helps us for taking accurate decisions in life. Who shares this information everyday, every minute and every second? Millions of people around the world including me and you.

What is the magic that made web as god? Magic is in sharing information. When you share information, it helps others. You can be a doctor, an engineer, a SEO or a musician. When you share your knowledge and expertise, you connect yourself to the world and your words can make someone’s life. It is you who is actually doing the magic. Web is your stage.

Why web succeeds every time? Because, it helps you to succeed. Message is when you help someone to succeed, you also succeed.
Dear folks, we all have a great responsibility on our shoulders to make web richer and better place. While all of us take from web, it is also our responsibility to give.

Because,  your advice can change someone’s life. It can help to crack a mysterious problem. Because,  behind the web, there are real people who are waiting for your responses.
So, this short articles requests all those people who are not active in sharing on the web, please share. Web can’t speak. But it’s thirsty of your reply. It is hungry of your knowledge. It needs you.

How you can make web a richer place?
Share your ideas for making things better.Share your best practices in programming languages. What helped you may help others as well.Share your experiences in dealing with a process. Tell what you did to speed up the process. It can help others.Share your money saving tips and secrets.  Answer on yahoo.Join discussion boards and participate.Place a comment when you read a very informative article on a blog or website. Donate to those fantastic open source developers who constantly raise the standards of web technology.Thank various bloggers who influenced your life. Finally, thank the web.

Let us give back what we have taken from web. The information.It is not our choice. It is our responsibility.

Hello folks. I am back from my unauthorized absenteeism from the blog

My sincere apologies for the same.

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