Living the Seven Habits

Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space lies our power of choice.
Exercising that power will bring control to our life

To build strong relationships, you need to conquer prideful passion.

Honour the Past,
Live in the Present,
Create the Future

This is just a few of the paradigms of life you'll get to know while reading the 'Living the 7 Habits' by Stephen Covey. The same author who wrote the 'Seven Habits..' The book is filled up with stories of ordinary people who have transformed their lives in some way or the other by applying the seven habits and by living a value based system. The Seven Habits changed my way of thinking quite a lot. By being proactive I found that I could better control my life and not react adversely to other people's behaviour or comments. I lost touch however in these years and I hope that with this book I'll refresh the correct way of living. I'll post other gems like this from this book as I read more of it

Google Games

This topic has become, by now, quite stale. But for people still not acquainted with the topic, here's a few interesting things you can do with Google.

1. Cook - http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001404.shtml - Just enter the ingredients you have, select the type of dish you want, and Google will cook up a dish with the ingredients you've entered. Pretty cool!

2. Google Fight - http://www.googlefight.com/
This site asks you to enter two opposite words and it searches them on Google. The winner is the one which has more hits.

3. define - This hack searches for a defintion of the word(s) you enter. Sometimes it can come up with pretty interesting definitions.
Enter the word you want to define after the 'define' keyword in Google e.g. define

Try out the following define - Bill Gates, Lalu Prasad Yadav (this doesn't work but the page it returns is a hilarous one)

More to come...

New day

The birds were chirping. The porters were shouting, searching for passengers with heaving luggages. The sun had just risen. The dawn sky was red ablaze. I was sitting in a compartment in the Gujarat Express that fine morning. I don't know what made that morning peaceful but here's what i saw, heard and felt.

As I looked out of the window, I could see a tea stall. The owner was pouring steaming hot tea for his customers. I could see them clutching their tea cups as if those cups would protect them from the early morning chill. A cassette player in one corner of the tea stall was playing the pleasant strains of the Gayatri Mantra. And in the background, the call of the muezzin reverberated through the sky. The two sounds blended beautifully, with the birds providing the chorus. It was two years after the Ahmedabad riots. The sounds seemed tell us to get on with our life. To forget all petty differences and live as one society. That peaceful morning Ahmedabad had really woken up.