The brand called LIFE - Happy New Year !!!

Oh she was great. I had a wonderful time with her when she was around the last time, the year before and the year before. She has always made sure that there was something unique and nice for me to be busy with all through the years.

Thinking about the goodies that I have received from her makes me wonder if I had returned her due by the least, utilizing them to my fullest. There it is, in one little corner of my heart, trying to hide the shiny nameplate hung around its neck embossed "Guilt". In a few hours she'll be here to meet me, greet me, and shower me with all the beautiful things in life.

What am I going to tell her? Is it right on my part to let the best things that life has to offer us go in vain? So what are the best things in life? Is it the brands that we look out for?

For all the brand loyal pals. Have we been loyal enough to get the best out of the brand that has been around us since the time of our first and fondest of memories? The Brand "ME". Your Personal brand called "Life". Isn't it the best brand one could sport? The brand we could proudly own. For a brand to sell, one has to truly believe in the brand. The interesting thing about this brand is its close integration with one's self that we truly forget to appreciate the very existence of it as a brand. Every person whom we look up to in life, even if it is the one who stares at you every time you look at a mirror, have grown to stunning heights only because they paid due care and attention to their true brand - Life. We are not who we are but what others perceive us to be is one school of thought. I am what I think what I am, is another. The seed I have recognized and have decided to gift my readers is "embrace life - Live, love and care for your brand called life".

I suppose we know what to look out for when we want the best of the things.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention more about the beautiful one. I hope I'll make the best out of everything she gifts. With arms wide open and lots to share I look forward to her.

She is the New Year. I wish all a very happy new year. We may talk resolutions and sometimes even thing about it, a week into the year. But, Lets us remember these words "The Brand called Life". Wishing all again, a very happy and prosperous new year!!! :)

The day's Toast ;)

Life - It's BIGGER, BUSIER and

a LOT MORE...

Still... I'm lovin it ;)

It sure does, The bigger it gets, the faster we move, the faster

we move, the busier it gets... As I type these words, am reminded

of the term "rat race". I do know that the term has got nothing to

do with the context am posting about. Yet, I wonder why???

Hmmm, it is probably because of the unbreakable cycle that gets

created in both the cases.

That's the only relation that I could think of, at this hour.

Human brain is a lot more than just complicated. It's by far the best

machine mankind has ever seen. Wonder how it would be, if one

could tap the entire potential of it...

I guess I've moved miles away from what i actually wanted to post :P

w.r.t the busy schedule...

I happen to have become very busy, tangled up with lots of work.

In a way, my situation could be the perfect example of the term

"Complex Simplicities"

I've been working on paper presentations...

Apart from these, I've also got my self cramped with a business plan.

The business plan was the first one to be started, and it's been in construction

for a good while, and it sure is turning out to be a good one... :)

The paper presentations are actually the latest of the sprouts and they seem

to be eating my time to their fullest.

I'm making sure that, I'm giving no less than a 100% . While am actually

striving for a bit more than just 100%.

Well, 24 hours a day, seems to be a fire in disguise.

It all depends on the way it's handled.

As the "T.D" quote goes...

Am not just playing with fire but have dipped the matches in gasoline...

I hardly get time to sleep. I try to catch up with sleep while traveling

to and fro college by my college bus. And if anything interesting pops up,

the little nap is far off my track ;)

But when it comes to lectures at college, a few do more than just their job.

finally... a little nap ;) :P

With competitions fast approaching, I hope to emerge with flying colours.

Adieu pals >>>

The Seed ... " As you sow, So you reap "

"Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back"

I recieved the below passage as a forward to my mail. I liked it.

It occurred to me that I should blog it and so did I.

Hope you'll like it too...!!!

A successful business man was growing old and
knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business.
Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children,
he decided to do something different. He called all the young
executives in his company together.

He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO.
I have decided to choose one of you. "The young executives were
Shocked, but the boss continued. "I am going to give each one
of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant
the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with
what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then
judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be
the next CEO."

One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others,
received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the
story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted
the seed. Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had
grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began
to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.

Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew.
Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing.
By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have
a plant and he felt like a failure.
Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he
had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but
he had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however.
He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the
seed to grow.

A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company
brought their plants to the CEO for inspection.
Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot.
But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick
to his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment
of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot
to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety
of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful --
in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and
many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!

When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young
executives.

Jim just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees,
and flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you will
be appointed the next CEO!"

All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with
his empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to
the front. Jim was terrified. He thought, "The CEO knows I'm a
failure! Maybe he will have me fired!"

When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened
to his seed - Jim told him the story.

The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim,
and then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next
Chief Executive Officer!

His name is Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow
his seed.

"How could he be the new CEO?" the others said.

Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this
room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it,
and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds;
they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.

All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and
flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you
substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the
only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with
my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new
Chief Executive Officer!"

* If you plant honesty, you will reap trust

* If you plant goodness, you will reap friends

* If you plant humility, you will reap greatness

* If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment

* If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective

* If you plant hard work, you will reap success

* If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation


So, be careful what you plant now;
It will determine what you will reap later...