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Set Boundaries to Protect Your Time

We’re all too busy. And we can’t stand people who distract us at work and derail our productivity. There may be no escape from other people, but you can take steps to regain control of your time and schedule.
State your preferred method of communication. Limit aggravation by proactively informing colleagues about the best way to reach you, whether it’s via phone call, text, email, or tweet.
Require an agenda for meetings. Vague or rambling meetings eat up too much of our time. Insist on seeing an agenda before you commit to attending meetings so that you can contribute fully. Model the practice by creating an agenda for any meetings you chair and offering to share the template with others.
Make others prepare. Before you commit to a meeting, ask if people have done their research and if the real decision-makers will be present.

Adapted from “Stop People from Wasting Your Time” by Dorie Clark.

An urgent appeal to the PM..!

Mr. Prime Minister you are requested to immediately dismiss the chairman and the entire board members of the PCB, for playing with the sentiments of the nation and for being inhumanly insensitive to the blood of the Peshawar school martyrs.

I as chairman PCB, would have immediately resigned in case of the failure of match postponement, which was played on the very first day of the national mourning, in total disregard of the feelings of the nation.

No consideration whatsoever, can be bigger than the feelings for the martyrdom of the Peshawar school kids.

In fact, the game of cricket and the PCB as an organisation, could not have made themselves so demeaning and disgraceful, by playing the match on the day when even the soil of the graves of the Peshawar martyrs, was still wet.

PCB, you have insulted the nationhood feeling of the Pakistanis world over.

The century of Younis Khan in an ODI with JUST only four fours must be a world record.

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family… in another city.”

— George Burns

“Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

—Stephen King (born 1947)
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“Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

—Stephen King (born 1947)
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Two Words That Kill Innovation
By Roger Martin
“Prove it.”

When an Australian cricketer died on field, NZ team declined to play Test match Vs Pak in the UAE on the fixed date, which was played on the next day.

Here, we the Pakistanis are having a 3 days official mourning on the world’s biggest massacre of school children in Peshawar, but PCB has the galls to not to postpone the Pak Vs NZ ODI which is scheduled to be played next day of the Peshawar tragedy on 17 December, 2014.

The nation appeals to the PM Pakistan to have some feelings of the martyrdom of about 150 students, teachers and security men of Pakistan and order postponement of the ODI match scheduled on 17th instant, till the last day of the 3 day official mourning period.

Letter to the PM dated 8 September, 2013.

H’able Prime Minister of Pakistan

AoA.

Really want to appreciate your grave concern and subsequent decisions to pull back the city of Karachi from complete anarchy.

In this regard, your strategy to compliment action on ground with the support of the entire political stake holders in Karachi is also really commendable.

However, in order to maximise the success of the action on ground, the motivation of the masses to guide the forces, towards the hideouts of the terrorists, is also no less important. In this connection, I am again resubmitting below, my proposal to curb the menace of terrorism, submitted on 26 November, 2010 for your kind perusal, so that the cooperation of the entire population is available to the government, in making the stay of terrorists at any place impossible.

Terrorism – A proposal to Curb the Menace

Posted at www.snayyar.com by Syed Nayyar Uddin on November 26, 2010 in Counter Terrorism, Pakistan, Terrorism | Edit |
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The sudden increase of acts of terrorism with particular reference to the incidents in May 2011 & PIDC house attack on Nov. 11, 2010 in Karachi, highlights the importance of preventive measures to curb the menace of terrorism, which is causing severe losses to men, material and reputation of the country.

In the cases of terrorist attacks on the GHQ, PIDC house & Pakistan Navy air base it was reported that the gang of attackers was residing in a rented house for wuite some time, in an area not very far away from their targets. It was also reported that the neighbors of these houses were although, suspicious of these tenants yet; they kept quiet and did not tip area police about their apprehensions.

Under the circumstances there is a dire need for motivating general public, to remain extra -vigilant in playing their role of defending the motherland, by involvement of entire population of the country, to look out for the stay and suspicious activities of the terrorist, in their near vicinity.

As such, In order to make the stay of terrorists at any place almost impossible, it is proposed to actively involve the entire population to look out & hunt them. This objective can be easily achieved, by the announcement of the Government, that a reward of Rs. 50 millions shall be paid to any person, who informs the Police about the terrorist staying in a house, hostel, hotel, rest house or any such place.

If the war against terror is to be won quickly, the entire population of the country have to be geared up and involved in the task of watch and vigilence.

With best wishes and kind regards.

Yours truly,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

Lahore.

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“When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens — and when it happens, it lasts.”

— John Wooden