Motivation Drive

Being Indian, we have not heard of Benjamin Franklin much but he was a founding father of the United States (US). He was a child prodigy and had invented numerous inventions. His inventions include the lightning rod, bifocals, long arm, and the Franklin stove. Due to his contributions toward mankind and the United States, it was decided to publish his photo on 100 US dollars. His face appears on U.S. postage more than any other notable American except George Washington. He was also a leading political theorist, author, politician, postmaster, Freemason, scientist, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Benjamin Franklin also earned the title of " The First American " for his contributions. There are so many things to tell about Benjamin Franklin but that is not a topic for today. Today we will indulge in the basic tenets of his character and how he built his personality. In his autobiography, he explained how he created a system to develop his character wh...

Do you know there was a time when basic services were provided on the basis of skin color? White people used to get better facilities as compared to black people. This problem was there in most of the countries but it was worst in South Africa where 70% of people were blacks and most of the services were performed by Africans but still they used to get the worst facilities. The racial difference was there since time immemorial but it got worse when the National Party in 1948 decided to create separate places for Blacks and Whites. But due to the persistent efforts of Mr. Nelson Mandela, this differentiation ended. However, that was not easy as Mandela spent 27 years of his life in prison due to this movement. Let us know more about Mr. Mandela. He was a son of a tribal leader and his original name was Rolihlahla Mandela and later became the first Black president of South Africa. He also won Bharata Ratna and Nobel peace prize. He was a great orator and a true Gandhian. So what wa...

London is 5 hours ahead of New York but it does not mean that New York is slow, or that London is fast. They are working based on their own "Time Zone." Someone may be unmarried now, someone else may marry now and wait for 10 years to have a baby and yet another may get a baby within one year of marriage. Someone may become CEO at the age of 17 and die at 40 and another one becomes CEO at the age of 69 and may live until 90. If you will look around, then you will find that many people are ahead of you and many are behind you. Everyone is running at his own pace hence we must not get jealous of other's success and yet not become complacent if we find many people behind us. Also, remember that Obama got retired at 55 and Trump resumed office at the age of 70. Hold on and be strong, all things shall work together for you and please understand that you are running at your own pace. Just try to improve day by day. I had read somewhere, at the age of 19 we wonder wha...

One day I was sitting in a salon waiting for my turn. It was a Sunday morning and many people were there in the queue, all were waiting for there turn. Everyone wants to get out of the salon as soon as possible. Suddenly a person entered with his cute child. That Child had a very attractive smile and other people also started smiling and playing with the child. This is the effect of a smile which can change the whole atmosphere automatically. Similarly, if we want to make our good first impression then we must have a smile on our face. So how can we build a habit of smiling? Remember that it cannot be generated in a fake way. It cannot be like we have a serious mood other times and start smiling when we meet others. We must inculcate this habit over time.  There's a story regarding the power of habit and we must learn from this story. The story is known as "Elephant and Mahawat". In India, Mahawats are those people who used to breed elephants. Mahawat used to tie the ...

Let us first know what famous people said about criticism: Abraham Lincoln : “Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances”. Confucious : " Don't complain about the snow on the roof of the neighbors if your door is unclean". Benjamin Franklin : " Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do". Lets us read a story of Francis Crowley or popularly known as "Two-Gun" Crowley. He was a serial murderer of New York and he also robbed a New Rochelle Bank. On the day he was encountered by New York Police he was enjoying at his girlfriend's home. 300 policemen surrounded the building and bullet started flowing from both sides but when Crowley identified that his bullets are finishing, he had written a letter. In that letter, he had written that " Yes he knows that he is a killer, but he has a kind heart under his coat, a heart that does no harm". Yes, you read it correctly he identifi...

All of us face failures at some moment in our lives. Most of us feel that those moments are the most painful moments but Chanakya had a totally different view. Let us first know something about Chanakya. He was a Professor at Ancient Nalanda University and also a chancellor of Taxila University. Chandragupta Maurya, a very poor person, was able to become king of a Great Mauryan Empire just because of the wisdom and guidance of Chanakya. Chanakya also failed several times and when he got defeated by the mighty army of the Nanda Dynasty then he told below words to his army: He told his army that decision is with them if they want they can live their whole life with this defeat or they can bounce back and prepare better to defeat enemy next time. He always believed that failure is temporary and we can win anytime in our life. A defeated person can anytime prepare for the victory. A person is not defeated when he lost the competition but he loses when he in his mind accept his failu...

If we talk about a country which has a population of mere 10 crores, Tsunami is very common, approximately 1500 earthquakes used to come every year and in the 2nd World war, two atomic bombs were dropped in this country. If we will ask you what are the chances of this country's growth? You might doubt the future of this country. Some of you might have guessed this country's name right. Yes, we are talking about Japan. Now we will discuss that particular secret technique by which they have grown so much from the ashes. That technique is called "KAIZEN Technique". Let's understand the meaning of Kaizen and see how we can apply this technique in our lives to become successful students, professionals, businessman or whatever we want. Kaizen technique says that to achieve any goal we must split the task into very small pieces so that smaller tasks can be done easily. It seems a very simple technique and not so revolutionary but its really amazing. Many industries...