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“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.”

“If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you’re progressing until you step back and see how high you’ve really gone.”

— Donny Osmond

To Manage Your Workload, Defer Early and Often

You can make the greatest contribution to your organization by focusing on your own highest-value work. If you find yourself taking on an increasing number of projects and/or people, deflect tasks that someone else can do — even if you could help — before they ever hit your to-do list. Deferring is different from delegating. Delegating is handing off your responsibilities; deferring incorporates delegating, but also involves passing activities on to another appropriate party before they ever hit your to-do list. For example, if someone asks you an IT question, direct them to the Help Desk. If you’re invited to attend a meeting where you may offer some insight but other attendees could probably offer something similar, consider not going. Deferring shows respect for others’ competency and allows you the bandwidth to get done what only you can do, which is what your team really needs.

Adapted by HBR from “How Office Control Freaks Can Learn to Let Go” by Elizabeth Grace Saunders.

“Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.”

John D. MacDonald (1916-1986);
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Master: Why are you both quarrelling?

Farhan: We found a 100 Rupee note on the road, and we have decided that the one who tells the biggest lie gets to keep it.

Master Angrily: You both are so shameless! When I was your age, I didn’t even know what a lie was

Farhan and Rehan handed the 100 Rupee note to their Master.

“Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged, it’s how I arrange my mind.

I already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.

Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away, just for this time in my life.

Old age is like a bank account, you withdraw from what you’ve put in.

So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories, specially all the time before the advent of old age.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred.

2. Free your mind from worries.

3. Live simply.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”

— Jesse Jackson

Passion is a powerful or compelling emotion or feeling.