A Celebration called ‘Life’

Author: V. Aswatha Ramaiah

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Contents

A. LIFE, ATTITUDE AND SUCCESS       

1. Success Formulae        
2. Formula for Success     
3. Life is Maths and Symbols       
4. Game of life - past, present, future     
5. 3 types of people - Living Vs. dead      
6. Life is a balance           
7. Personality development through your fingers           
8. The value of a smile    
9. Handling the People
10. Different stages of Human life            
11. Think Independently    
12. Attitude            
13. Attitude - 100%            
14. Tips for developing positive attitude  
15. Daily activities             
16. Multi Skilling    
17. 'Good' and 'Not good'              
18. You will see the world not as what it is, but as what you are !           
19. Failure - Redefined !    
20. Welcome the difficulties in life           
21. Face problems of life with courage     
22. Risk and hard work gets you success

Learn to wonder at things 

B. STUDENT SECTION            

1. Guidelines for students and teenagers            
2. How to be good in studies?
3. Fast reading techniques           
4. Your Answer Paper - (Acid test of your studies)          
5. How to face interviews?          
6. Love marriage or arranged marriage?           

 
C. FAMILY LIFE           

1. Guidelines for husband and wife         
2. Art of bringing up children
3. Which type of parent are you ?
4. Accept old age gracefully        
5. Myths and realities of a retiring person         
6. The story of a torn off world map       

 
D. VALUES OF LIFE     

1. Empathy           
2. Humility           
3. Gratitude          
4. Service             

 
E. MONEY      

1. Money              
2. Alexander's dying wish            

 
E. STRESS MANAGEMENT      

1. Effect of stress, tension, negative emotions  
2. Negative emotions and how to handle them?            
3. III effects of anger       

 
G. LIFESTYLES

1. Convert humiliations into achievements         
2. Offload your worries
3. Walking and physical exercises           
4. Guidelines for physical exercises        
5. How to improve the functioning of your body?           
6. Psychosomatic illness              
7. Noise pollution             
8. Benefits of Yoga           
9. Advantages of yogic practices             
10. Different types of Yoga            
11. Meditation
12. Your rate of breathing and health       
13. TV Watching    
14. Shopping
15. Prayer              
16. Silence (Mouna)           
17. Sleeping postures
18. Simple stories - great truths    
19. Holics  

 
H. BAD HABITS           

1. Smoking           
2. Gambling         
3. All the best!      
4. How to quit bad habits?           

 
I. EATING HABITS       

1. Eating habits    
2. Hazards of non-vegetarian food          
3. Over eating      

 
J. OTHERS       

1. Learn with fun              
2. Learnings from a tree              
3. A threatening letter and a showcause notice!            
4. Different folks need different strokes!            
5. Benefits of illness         
6. Birthdays, wedding anniversaries, parties, celebrations, and what not?     
7. Corruption        
8. Common phobias         
9. Crying  
10. Activity or tranquility?             
11. Dreams            
12. Preserve nature
13. Entire Universe is within You  
14. Why have we made this Earth a Hell?            
15. Make this World a Heaven
16. Gap       
17. Your inner voice
18. Normal or abnormal?              
19. Art of forgetting           
20. Be proud that you are an Indian          
21. Make India a better place to live in
22. Life is like driving!       
23. Dual words       
24. Lesson from aero plane seats              
25. Who, on earth, gave you the authority?          
26. The story of a person about to die      
27. Who is blind?
28. Are human relations becoming mechanical?             
29. Factors which form a personality        
30. Where does God stay?             
31. 'Matter' does not matter, but 'No Matter' matters  
32. Our Publications (Books and CDs)     
    
33. Opinions on our Books            

Preface

'What is life?'
If you ask this question to a few persons, you will get as many answers as the number of persons to whom you asked. Each one gives a different answer. Simply because life has offered each one a different perspective and each one has viewed life differently based on his value system, belief system, socio-cultural factors, etc. It is very nicely told 'In the Question Paper called 'Life', do not copy answers from others, because each one has been given a different question paper!'

For some people, life is a struggle whereas, for some others, life means taking things easy. A few people feel that they need to achieve great things in life whereas, for some others, life is meant only for merriment i.e., eating, smoking, liquor, etc., For a few people, life is meant only for amassing wealth whereas, for others, life is meant to serve the humanity. Similarly, on one extreme, we have people who are extremely disciplined in life and, on the other extreme, we find people who have taken life very casually. Whereas some people enjoy the journey of life, some others are always conscious of their life goals. Whereas for some people, life is meant only to work hard, for some others, life is more for relaxation. For some, life is meant for acquiring vast knowledge, but, for many others, life is meant for freaking out. Whereas some people feel that, in life, the work should be given top priority, for others, family stands the first. For some, life is meant more for romance and some others believe in extreme celibacy.

Whereas some people believe in immediate results in life, others believe in gradual improvement. Some people feel life is more of cribbling and, for others, life is constant enjoyment. A few people believe that, in life, you need to speak more, whereas, others feel you need to listen more.

Some people would like to enjoy the first glimpse of Sun and hence get up early in the morning. Others would not like to miss the bliss of morning sleep!  Some people would feel that life is meant to express your thoughts to others, others feel you should talk more within yourself. Whereas, some can never forget the unpleasant past, others get going in life leaving the past behind. Some people believe that anything in life is pre-written and decided by the destiny, whereas others fool your life is scripted by you and you alone need to put in efforts to make your life more worthy and enjoyable. This way, you can go on and on....

The best definition of life I liked is that life is a 'CELEBRATION!' and this book attempts to convince you that life is truly a celebration.

The very first emotion that erupts in you whenever you think of a celebration is 'Joy'. There cannot be a celebration without joy. This book gives you various guidelines to lead a joyful life. The book also helps you to achieve your goals. With lot of inputs on positive attitude, the book helps you to introspect and apply necessary attitudinal corrections to lead a successful and satisfied life. The book also gives you guidelines to inculcate positive life styles i.e. good food habits, physical exercises, peace of mind and stable emotions.

You need people to participate in the celebration. You cannot carry out a celebration all by yourself. This book contains valuable guidelines about how to establish good relations with people - at workplace and in the family.

For celebrating any event, you need to be extremely motivated and this book gives you tips for developing self motivation.

For carrying out any celebration, you need to manage your stress and this book provides effective techniques for stress management.

With a number of insights on the rationale and logics of life, this book is expected to make you more curious and inquisitive to understand, decode and crack the mystery called 'Life'.

In this book, I have attempted to crystallize the learnings I have had in two decades of my professional work and another approximately 25 years of experience a of training 400,000 (4 Iakhs) people in about 500 organisations in India and abroad. It has been my endeavour to arouse the curiosity of the reader enabling him to look at life closely to embark upon the journey of life and be successful.

Throughout this book, it is my sincere endeavour to relieve a battered body, integrate a shattered mind, focus the confused intellect, heal the emotional wounds of mankind enabling people to lead a purposeful, holistic, focused and enjoyable life.

The book has been written in a modular fashion so that you can read any article at your convenience. The objective of every article in this book is to give insight into how to really celebrate one's life.

I am grateful to my wife Rajani, my faculty Padma Hemanth, my team members Sindhu, Shwetha and many others who have lent great support to ensure that this book is brought out.

If there is one person to whom I owe my greatest thanks and gratitude, it is the young and energetic, Ms. Meghana Hanumesh. She is a store house of energy, ever thirsty of knowledge, incredibly efficient in work and a role model in maintaining relationships. She has worked tirelessly with exemplary commitment and tremendous dedication to bring out this book. Every page of this book is a testimony of her passion to work, achieve and, above all, to celebrate life!

If this book convinces the reader that life is truly a celebration I feel my attempt has been worthwhile.

Wish you all the best in celebrating your life!
 
V. Aswatha Ramaiah