“It is your life, make it great.”

It is never late to believe in yourself...

It is never too late to get started on a new path of success. You can shape your life the way you want it to be..... 

The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.” Jim Butcher

“It’s never too late to mend your ways.” 

“It is your life, make it great.” 

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In 1923, nine of the wealthiest people in the world met at Chicago's Edge Water Beach Hotel.

Their combined wealth, it is estimated, exceeded the wealth of the Government of the United States at that time. These men certainly knew how to make a living and accumulate wealth. Attending the meeting were the following men:

1. The president of the largest steel company,

2. The president of the largest utility company,

3. The president of the largest gas company,

4. The president of the New York Stock Exchange,

5. The president of the Bank of International Settlements,

6. The greatest wheat speculator,

7. The greatest bear on Wall Street,

8. The head of the World's greatest monopoly &

9. A member of President Harding's cabinet.

That's a pretty impressive line-up of people by anyone's yardstick.

Yet, 25 years later, where were those nine industrial giants?

Let’s examine what happened to them 25 years later.
1. The President of the then largest steel company (Bethlehem Steel Corp), Charles M Schwab, lived on borrowed capital for five years before he died bankrupt.

2. The President of the then largest gas company, Howard Hubson, went insane.

3. One of the greatest commodity traders (Wheat Speculator), Arthur Cutten, died insolvent.

4. The then President of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, was sent to jail.

5. The member of the US President’s Cabinet (the member of President Harding's cabinet), Albert Fall, was pardoned from jail just to be able to go home and die in peace.

6. The greatest “bear” on Wall Street, Jesse Livermore committed suicide.

7. The President of the then world’s greatest monopoly, Ivar Krueger, committed suicide.

8. The President of the Bank of International Settlement, Leon Fraser, committed Suicide.

9. The president of the largest utility company, Samuel Insull, died penniless.

What they forgot was how to "make" life while they got busy making money!

Money in itself is not evil; it provides food for the hungry, medicine for the sick, clothes for the needy. Money is only a medium of exchange.

We need two kinds of education:

a) One that teaches us how to make a living,

and

b) One that teaches us how to live.

There are many of us who are so engrossed in our professional life that we neglect our family, health and social responsibilities.

If asked why we do this, we would reply that "We are doing it for our family".

Yet, our kids are sleeping when we leave home. They are sleeping when we come back home!! Twenty years later, we’ll turn back, and they’ll all be gone, to pursue their own dreams and their own lives.

Without water, a ship cannot move. The ship needs water, but if the water gets into the ship, the ship will face existential problems. What was once a means of living for the ship will now become a means of destruction.

Similarly we live in a time where earning is a necessity but let not the earning enter our hearts, for what was once a means of living will surely become a means of destruction for us as well.

So take a moment and ask yourself, "Has the water entered my ship?"
I hope not!

Hope the above story will drive all of us in a better direction in life.
 
    ''Alone I can 'Say' but
    together we can 'talk'.

    'Alone I can 'Enjoy' but
     together we can
    'Celebrate'.
 
    'Alone I can 'Smile' but
    together we can 'Laugh'.

    That's the BEAUTY of
    Human Relations.

    We are nothing without
    each other
 
    Stay Connected!! Be inspired!! Make someone smile today.

Dedicated to all my friends reading dis

Are we earning to pay builders and interior designers, caterers and decorators?

Whom do we want to impress with our highly inflated house properties & fat weddings?

Do you remember for more than two days what you ate at someone's marriage?

Why are we working like dogs in our prime years of life?

How many generations do we want to feed?

Most of us have two kids. Many have a single kid.

How much is the "need" and how much do we actually "want"??
Think about it.

Would our next generation be incapable to earn, that we save so much for them!?!

Can not we spare one and a half days a week for friends, family and self??

Do you spend even 5% of your monthly income for your self enjoyment?
Usually...No.

Why can't we enjoy simultaneously while we earn?

Spare time to enjoy before you have slipped discs and cholesterol blocks in your heart!!!

We don't own properties, we just have temporary name on documents.

GOD laughs sarcastically, when someone says,
"I am the owner of this land"!!  

Do not judge a person only by the length of his car.

Many of our science and maths teachers were great personalities riding on scooters!!  

It is not bad to be rich, but it is very unfair, to be only rich.

Let's get a LIFE, before life gets us, instead....


One day, all of us will get  separated  from each other; we will miss our conversations of everything & nothing; the dreams that we had.

Days will pass by, months, years, until this contact becomes rare... One day our children will see our pictures and ask 'Who are these people?' And we will smile with invisible tears  because a heart is touched with a strong word and you will say: 'IT WAS THEM THAT I HAD THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE

*Tomatoes !!!*
🍅A teacher asked her students to bring some tomatoes in a plastic bag to school.
🍅Each tomato was to be given the name of a person whom that child hates.
🍅So, the number of tomatoes would be equal to the number of persons they hate.
🍅On a pre-determined day, All the children brought their tomatoes well addressed.
🍅Some had two, some had three and some had five, some even had 20 tomatoes in accordance with the number of people they hated.
🍅The teacher then told them they had to carry the tomatoes with them everywhere they go for two weeks.
🍅As the days passed the children started to complain about the decay and smell of the tomatoes.
🍅The students who had many tomatoes complained it was very heavy to carry and the smell was too much.
🍅After a week, the teacher asked the students “How did you feel this week?”
🍅The children complained of the awful smell and heavy weight of the tomatoes, especially those who carried several tomatoes.
🍅The teacher said, “This is very similar to what you carry in your heart when you don’t like some people.
🍅Hatred makes the heart unhealthy and you carry that hatred everywhere.
🍅 *If you can’t bear the smell of spoilt tomatoes for a week, imagine the impact of bitterness on your heart as you carry it daily.”*
🍅The heart is a beautiful garden that needs regular cleaning of unwanted weeds.
🍅 Forgive those who have angered you.
🍅This makes room for storing good things.
🍅 *Get Better, Not Bitter!!!*



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Ryan Hreljac heard about the many children in Africa who do not have clean water to drink he decided to do something to help. Ryan, from a small town near Ottawa in Canada, listened as his teacher explained that $70 would provide a well and became determined to raise the money

That night he told his parents that he needed $70. His mother, Susan, said he could do extra chores around the house. Ryan vacuumed, washed windows, and, with amazing determination, patiently worked, saving every dollar in an old cookie tin. It took him from January 1998 to the end of April to collect $70.

Susan took him to Watercan’s office to hand over his donation. Executive Director, Nicole Bosley explained that $70 would only buy a hand pump. It would take $2,000 to drill a well. Undeterred, Ryan replied, “I’ll just do more chores then.”

Nicole told him the Canadian International Development Agency would match Watercan’s contribution 2:1 so Ryan needed to raise $700 for his well. He kept on working and collected donations from school, friends and family. When he had raised the $700, Watercan invited him to meet Gizaw Shibru, director for Uganda at Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief, who actually dug and maintained the wells. Shibru asked Ryan to choose the site for his well. Ryan wanted it to be near a school and they pinpointed Angolo in North Uganda, a village whose closest water was 5 kilometres away. Angolo had also suffered thirteen years of rebel activity, several years of drought and had to contend with AIDS, typhoid and waterborne diseases. One in five children died before the age of five.

Talking with Gizaw Shibru, Ryan discovered that the well would be dug by hand. Wells could be dug much more quickly using mobile drilling equipment costing $25,000, increasing the supply of clean water far faster than at present. Ryan now had a new goal. “I want everyone in Africa to have clean water,” he declared.
Susan set out to help Ryan with this latest challenge. The Ottawa Citizen published an article about Ryan’s Well that generated interest. A TV station took up the story and a number of newspaper articles followed. Cheques began to come in. Ryan’s teacher put a watering can in the classroom for donations and Ryan sold bottled water to raise funds.

Ryan’s teacher arranged for children from his school to be penpals with children in Angolo. Ryan’s penpal Akana Jimmy wrote to him:
Dear Ryan,
My name is Akana Jimmy. I am 8 years old. I like soccer. Our house is made of grass. How is America?
Your friend,
Akana Jimmy.
Ryan wrote back:
Dear Jimmy,
It must be cool to have a house made out of grass. I am 8 now. Do you drink from my well every day? What is your favourite subject in school? I am going to Uganda when I am twelve. My house is made out of bricks.
Write back soon.
Your friend Ryan.

Ryan did not have to wait so long for his visit to Uganda. A neighbour, impressed by Ryan’s dedication, donated some airmiles to the family. The Ottawa Citizen appealed for more airmiles and Watercan also gave some. In July, 2000, Ryan and his parents arrived in Angolo. Ryan looked about in amazement at the 5,000 children lining the route to the school, calling “Ryan, Ryan, Ryan!”

“They know my name!” he cried in astonishment.
“Everybody for a hundred kilometres knows your name, Ryan,” said Shibru.
They arrived at the well next to the school’s vegetable garden. It bore the inscription Ryan’s Well, formed by Ryan Hreljac for Community of Angolo Primary School’. Ryan’s penpal Jimmy led him to cut the ribbon and the celebrations began.

Ryan’s original $70 fundraising has grown to over $750,000 through the Ryan’s Well Foundation, providing clean water and related health services to people in Africa with projects in Nigeria, Tanzania, Malawi and Ethiopia as well as Uganda. By its example, the foundation hopes to inspire present and future leaders of the world to seek and realise their own vision for making the world a better place. Ryan continues to work with his family to fulfil this vision. He has been awarded a meritorious service medal by the Governor General of Canada.

At the Summit, Ryan, now aged 11, was one of UNICEF’s panel of expert speakers on Water Health and Poverty. As a result he has been asked to work on children’s initiatives with the World Health Organisation.
FURTHER INFORMATION : P.O.Box 1120, Kemptville, Ontario, Canada, KOG 1JO
WEB SITE : http://www.ryanswell.ca