Happy New Year!

On the eve of new year, I just want to wish everyone a happy and prosperous new year. I am looking forward to 07 and hope you are too.

For past few years around Christmas time, I start speculating my new year resolution plans. This year I came across thought that rather than making a resolution list, I set myself list of few goals to achieve by the end of year. I think I have already resolved and its time to set sailing towards the achievement of actual goals. Hope all of you guys are ready to move in new year with fresh perspective and intentions, good luck!

"A New Year's resolution is something
that goes in one year and out the other. "

A long journey

"Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career.
Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire."

There's a saying a journey of thousand miles begins with the first step. I want to stretch it a bit more, the journey of thousand of miles actually begins with the intention & desire to make that journey. If one don't have desire to make the journey, how's he or she going to take that first step?

First things first, sit down and decide what you want to do in life, then go about doing it! Success in life is never an accident, in fact it is direct result of the well planned & organized knowledge directed towards attaining whatever you want.

signing off, yazi :)

Unleash The Rocky in u . .

"It ain't how hard you hit
it's about how hard you can get hit
and keep moving forward"

said Rocky Balboa

At age 60, guy is a living legend who went after his dreams. Italian American artist came to Hollywood with $100 in his pocket, with broken jaw and shortcoming in voice, wrote a story of an underdog boxer named Rocky and rest is history...

You can find outrageous courage in yourself too if you look hard enough. You may unleash a Rocky in you

The Cookie Thief . . .

I came across this poem by Valerie Cox, I must share it with the readers; never be too quick to judge otheres. Don't drive to fast in life so that people have to throw bricks at you for you to stop..

A woman was waiting at an airport one night,
With several long hours before her flight.
She hunted for a book in the airport shop,
Bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop.

She was engrossed in her book, but happened to see,
That the man beside her, as bold as could be,
Grabbed a cookie or two from the bag between,
Which she tried to ignore, to avoid a scene.

She read, munched cookies, and watched the clock,
As the gutsy "cookie thief" diminished her stock.
She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by,
Thinking, "If I wasn't so nice, I'd blacken his eye!"

With each cookie she took, he took one too.
When only one was left, she wondered what he'd do.
With a smile on his face and a nervous laugh,
He took the last cookie and broke it in half.

He offered her half, as he ate the other.
She snatched it from him and thought, "Oh brother,
This guy has some nerve, and he's also *rude*,
Why, he didn't even show any gratitude!"

She had never known when she had been so galled,
And sighed with relief when her flight was called.
She gathered her belongings and headed for the gate,
Refusing to look back at the "thieving ingrate."

She boarded the plane and sank in her seat,
Then sought her book, which was almost complete.
As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise.
There was her bag of cookies in front of her eyes!

"If mine are here," she moaned with despair,
"Then the others were *his* and he tried to share!"
Too late to apologize, she realized with grief,
That *she* was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief

Hope you enjoyed the poem.... wishing you better day than good!

Mission Impossible Amina

Need Inspiration.... See Amina accomplishes Mission Impossible IV She's only 2!

Break a goal, n reach a goal

"You can have it all.
You just can't have it all at once"

There are no unachievable goals; there is only unrealistic time frame to achieve them. Setting goals in life is like living your life with purpose, hope and meaning. Once you sit down set a goal with attainable date, you must break it down in pieces and concentrate on one piece at a time. A big achievement in life comes after 100s of small achievements that are never noticed or appreciated by many others.

Once you breakdown a goal into pieces & start moving toward it, It starts moving toward you.

For instance, your goal might be to save $10,000 by the end of year. If you break it down in months that’s about $833 a month, break it further down that’s $208 a week, thus $29 a day. Now resolve and do whatever it takes to meet your goal of $29 a day. Once you start meeting this daily goal, you meet your weekly goal, once you meet weekly goal, you meet monthly goal, and there's no way you cannot meet your end goal

Dictionary defines goal as "the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end." See the goal is the end result; you have to take steps towards it. You wouldn't jump to the top step on stairs to reach next level, would you? Then why expect hitting goals without taking baby steps..

So break your goal, take baby steps
ditch procrastination & start crawling, I will see you at the top tomorrow!

signing off/

Forget balance, Creat tension & Change

"Without Change
there can be no progress

Without progress there can be no future."

Changing is never easy; I always had my fears whenever I thought about changing myself, thus getting out of my comfort zone. Most of us tap into our comfor zone and stay there as long as there's no major event, circumstances that come out in our life and threatens our comfort. Only then are we willing to get out and work hard. But the life doesn't have to be lived that way, it does not have to wait till you are faced with such a decision like life threatening illness, divorce etc. for you to get out, change and live the life to its fullness.

In order to be someone you have never been or to get something you have never had, you are going to have to be someone you have never been or do something you have never done. Only challanges will make you better, if you are not learning you are not growing, so forget balance, create some tension and change...

wishing you better than good day!

signing off/

Finally Alive

...wow and here I am. Amazing for last 6 months or so I have been thinking about going live. having my own blog, diary, whatever to get the world inside me out. Always in my life I have felt that I am a lot more than what I demonstrate. Guess; have heard my inner voice "don't die". I want to use this opportunity to talk about all my passion, hunger, and the quest from making from mediocrity to something more rewarding, purposeful. My prayers have been answered, when you take a tiny step toward your God, he takes a Godly step towards you.

Ever thought about living life with a purpose? For some time I have been thinking about the course of my life, the direction it is heading to. I realized all the things that are working or not working; somehow I have attracted them to my life. In this world, either you are living your dream or you are living someone else dream. Rather than blaming others, circumstances, or thinking that we have been dealt a wrong hand, it is much more beneficial to ask what is in me that is causing this all?

So here I am, have set the course of my ship of life with rudder (finally, haha) with a purpose of designing my life...

signing off... yazi/