Random Musings

1 If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities. 2 Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. 3 In unanimity, there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking. 4 Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. 5. You can’t recover a fumble unless you’re on the field. Get out there. 6. First law of holes. If you get in one, stop digging. 7. Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. 8. You pay the same price for doing something halfway as for doing it completely so you might as well do it completely. 9. It is difficulties that show what men are. 10. What you measure, improves. 11. If you are lost, “climb, conserve and confess” 12. It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. 13. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. 14. People don’t spend money ear...

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Multitasking and the effects in the new world..... and why FACE-FACE matters.... Great TedTalk by Cliff Nass

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

"  When you don’t create things, you become defined by  your tastes rather than ability.  Your tastes only  narrow & exclude people. So create!!."

 Read this Story... True Grit!!!... Inside the dark and dingy room on the terrace of a house in Tirupur, Coimbatore--the textile hub in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India -- six women are hard at work. "We have just two hours before the power is out and we have a target," Indumati shouts over the blaring sound of a compressor in the room. Cotton-like dust fills the humid room, but the women seem to be at ease even without masks. I cover my nose with a scarf as I watch them make the biodegradable sanitary napkins. The women bought the machines from a company called Jayashree Industries a little more than a year ago. A social entrepreneur, Arunachalam Muruganantham, manufactures them in a neighboring town, Coimbatore. The women faced resistance from their families: Their mothers-in-law told them, "it was as good as selling shit," and their husbands refused to fund them. So, they micro-financed the venture instead. ...

 if you want time to slow down, become a student again. Learn something that requires sustained effort; do something novel. Put down the thriller when you’re sitting on the beach and break out a book on evolutionary theory or Spanish for beginners or a how-to book on something you’ve always wanted to do. Take a new route to work; vacation at an unknown spot. And take your sweet time about it. Read more here

10 Things I Learned When I Stopped Yelling at My Kids Posted: 03/23/2013 4:57 pm January 20, 2012. I will never forget that date. Thinking I was home alone with my four boys, then ages 5 and under, my handyman caught me in a full on, red in the face, body shaking, throat throbbing scream so bad that all my boys burst into tears. I was mortified. Mortified! And so sad; this was not the mom I had ever dreamed I would be! The next day I decided enough was enough and I promised my boys I would go 365 days straight without yelling. Soon thereafter I discovered that rhinos are calm animals that charge when provoked; I was  so  a rhino (I even have lots of stretch marks and saggy body parts to prove it.) I just charged with my words instead of a horn. I quickly started calling myself The Orange Rhino as a reminder to no longer yell, but instead to be calm like a rhino and warm like the color orange. I proudly share that I am officially an Orange Rhino! I haven't charged ...

Very important read for parents.... " It is now well accepted that physical discipline is not only less effective than other non-coercive methods, it is more harmful than has often been understood — and not just to children.  A  review of two decades worth of studies  has shown that corporal punishment is associated with  antisocial behavior and aggression  in children, and later in life is linked to depression, unhappiness, anxiety, drug and alcohol use and psychological maladjustment. Beyond beating, parents can also hurt children by humiliating them, labeling them in harmful ways (“Why are you so stupid?”), or continually criticizing their behavior." " The essence of the research is that children do best when they receive calm and consistent feedback and assertive discipline that’s based on reasonable expectations – with significantly more encouragement and positive feedback than criticism. “The main mistake parents make is forgetting the importance of ...