Life is a Lab! To Learn, read. To understand, think. To know, write. To master, teach.
It is always cheesy when I enter a shop and find those cliché quotes hanging on the wall! 🙂
I like it, except for the “break the rules” one. I would encourage you to be responsible if you want to break the rules
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It does not take a movie, or reading a book to realize that our most precious asset or commodity is time…
I ran into this viral video about the topic of time scarcity:
I loved the metaphor in that movie. Here’s the full transcript:
It carries over no balance from day to day.
Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to used during the day.
What would you do?
Draw out every cent, of course?
Each of us has such a bank, its name is time.
Every morning, it credits you 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off at a lost, whatever of this you failed to invest to a good purpose.
It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft.
Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day.
If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no drawing against ‘tomorrow.’
You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and health.
The clock is running.Make the most of today.
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Relationships never die a natural death, instead, they are always murdered by: Attitude, Behavior, Ego, Hidden Benefits and Ignorance.
From my own experience, let me elaborate a little on each of the “murderers” below. Continue reading “Relationships Never Die a Natural death: the 4 top relationship killers”
I found this picture on the internet and I really loved it and as usual, I would like to use it as a launching pad for today’s article.
I still remember my self when I was young, between the ages of 14 to 23, I used to envy people of my age or slightly older who seemed to have achieved the success that I want for myself.
If I saw another guy with a fancy car, I would immediately justify that by telling myself that he must have rich parents.
If I see a smart guy from a good university, I would say to myself that his parents could afford to educate him in such a prestigious university and then I would say to myself: only if I had the means, then I would have been more successful.
If I saw a guy with a hot looking girl, I would say to myself: “He must have money because that’s why the girl is hanging out with him. I don’t have a car or the money to take her out and give her a nice time”.
Back then, I could not afford to buy all the material possessions that I wanted. I remember when my peers used to have a Game Boy or a Sega Mega drive. They used to come to school and play with those game consoles and it made me feel sad and unhappy because I don’t have one myself. Often times, I would think about my parents with a bit of childish resentment. I had the sense of entitlement because I was immature.
Back then, I could not afford to take vacations or travel wherever I wanted. I was living in a continuous state of perceived lack, holding my happiness hostage to external situations. For a big part of my childhood and adulthood, It felt that my self worth really depends on how others perceive me, how much I have, what car I have, what cloth I wear, what kind of a girl friend I had. Continue reading “The Iceberg Illusion of Success”
Back in the days, when I was learning PUA techniques from pickup artists, I ran into “The Magic Questions pattern” by Jack Ellis (the author of “Forbidden Patterns”). The purpose of these questions is to have a nice and fun topic to talk to women whom you just approached in a public setting. Women like it when men talk about them, compliment them or do anything thing that make them feel special.
Here are the magic questions, ask them in any order:
Take mental note of the answers because you will have to interpret the answers back to them.
After you finish asking the questions and taking notes, it is time to interpret the answers back to the interviewee. The meaning of each question is as follows:
Let me give you an example. You meet a random girl that you want to approach and talk to. You can use the four magic questions as a nice conversation opener: Continue reading “Online Chatting and The 4 Magic Questions”
When Sri Gurudeva Srila Prabhupada ki jaya was walking today he felt his mind reach out over the blue sea to an island shimmering in the distance. When his mind returned it brought a story with it – a story of spiritual instruction. Strange are the ways of inspiration.
I read this nice anecdote while waiting at my friend’s business the other day:
One day, the body got together and decided to have a board meeting.
Here’Â’s what went on behind closed doors.
There was intense discussion to determine who was the most important part of the body.
The BRAIN was the first to speak: without me, nothing would be accomplished.”
Then, the HEART spoke up: without me pumping blood to your brain, you could not function.”
The ARMS laughed. “You’Â’re both wrong: without me to put food in the mouth, nothing would work.”
The STOMACH said: “without me, your food would not digest.”
The LUNGS bellowed back: without me, you could’nt breathe.”
The EYES blinked: “without me, you could not see.”
The KIDNEYS snorted: without me, you could not detoxify and eliminate.”
Then, the COLON meekly spoke up: I am important. You need me to eliminate all of the garbage from your systems.”
Everyone laughed and made fun of him. “How can you be as important as we are? YouÂ’’re just a smelly old sewer.”
The poor colon, —his feelings were hurt! He turned away and thought: I’ll show them. He then shut down.
Then, he sat back and watched what would happen:
- The BRAIN was stupefied.
- The HEARTÂ’s beat was weak and irregular.
- The ARMS were weak and couldnÂ’t move.
- The LUNGS— their breathing was shallow.
- The EYES became clouded.
- The KIDNEYS quit.
Then, the COLON looked around and decided it was time to call another meeting. It wasn’Â’t too lively this time, but everyone was in total agreement.
THE COLON WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT ORGAN.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi once said:
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
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Charbel Makhlouf, also known as Saint Charbel in Annaya Lebanon is very famous amongst Maronite and Catholic Christians. Charbel is famous for his numerous miracles such as healing partial paralysis or eradicating cancer from patients.
It is customary for me and my family to visit Saint Charbel’s monastery once a year at least. In this blog post, I share with you some of the photos I took.
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Recently, I took the 6 session defensive driving course. The following are some of the notes I extracted from the course that I would like to share with my you:
There were lots of information in the course, I highly recommend taking it! You can download the notes as a single PDF file from here:
(The PDF was created using the free Pic2Pdf tool)
Continue reading “Take aways from the Defensive Driving Course”
An old teaching tale goes like this: A young man wanted to know the difference between Heaven and Hell.
The sage led him to two rooms with observation portals, one labeled Heaven and one Hell.
Looking in at Hell he saw a banquet table filled with luscious food but the people at the table were emaciated and distressed. Their spoons had long handles to reach the food, but the handles were too long to bring the food to their mouths.
Then he looked in on Heaven. Same table full of luscious food. Same long spoons. But the people were healthy and happy and using their long-handled spoons to feed one another.
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In this blog post, I am going to share with you how to get the lacking keyboard keys on a MacBook’s keyboard.
Essentially, you are missing the following keys:
Those really are “proven steps”!
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I first learned about stereograms in 2001. Back then, the term was new to me and I had no idea that it was possible to see 3D shapes on a 2D screen with the naked eyes.
What are stereograms you ask?
AÂ diagram or computer-generated image giving a three-dimensional representation of a solid object or surface
Wikipedia, as usual, has a nice article explaining stereograms.
After a long week of trying hard, researching and learning various techniques, I managed to see my first stereogram:
Since I moved to the US, I collected around 350 books. I love books and the thought of giving them up is not a pleasant thought.
Each time I used to move from an apartment to another, the majority of boxes would be packed with books. Each time I travel somewhere for a long period, I miss being able to grab a book from my bookshelf and start reading (most of my books are old and they do no exist in digital format anyway). It is clear that I have attachment to those books.
To break this attachment, I had to make a couple of decisions. The first was whether to just forget about the books, leave them on the shelves and get myself busy with another chore. The other decision was whether to scan and /or give away the books. With that came other questions like how to scan books and convert them to eBooks, what methods to use, how much efforts would it take to convert the books, etc.
I decided to get rid of the books and the trim down on the space they occupy. For the reasons outlined later in this blog post, I chose to destructively scan my books. By scanning the books, I get a digital and searchable copy of my books (in PDF format).
In this blog post, I will share with you different ways you can use to digitize books and then the remainder of this blog post will illustrate how I destructively digitized all of my books and what tools I used. Continue reading “How to turn your bookshelf into an e-book library: Digitizing all of your books”
