The Best Start to 2009!
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Tickler at large | Dec 31, 2008
Over the last few days, we have put together what we believe is a fantastic resource bank of articles that will help you achieve your goals and live life meaningfully and joyfully in 2009! This post consolidates all these articles for easier access.
Dig in and enjoy. Do forward this wonderful collection to friends and family as well.
My secret new year resolutions!- Shalu Wasu
Sing a song with at least one person listening (no, I’ve never done it). Stop feeling guilty about not going jogging. Dance in the rain and jump in the puddle with my son. Sleep outdoors under the stars for a night. Go on a raw food diet for at least a month. Say no to everything that I don’t really want to do. Telling people that not making a ‘V’ sign with their hand every time their picture is taken will not result in the camera exploding in their face. Go on a news fast – no …
Set no wake-up calls in 2009 - Rachana Sharma
The countdown for the New Year has started. Immature persons are thinking hard to decide on a remarkable New Year resolution which can transform their life in a night and experienced persons like us, who are guilty-ridden about breaking their resolutions every year, are working seriously on the reasons of failure and finding a failure-proof resolution. While I was straining my every nerve to find out the answer, one difference kept striking me. ‘Why all those saints who left their homes in search for truth never came back and we, …
Three New Years in a row! - Wan Fatimah
Muslims worldwide have just ushered in the New Year of 1430 Hijriah that is now to be followed by the New Year of 2009. And in a month’s time the Chinese will welcome the Lunar New Year of the Ox. Understandably, when a new year arrives, we all start to look for new resolutions. But to me, the resolutions need not always be new. And it need not be only a resolution but can also be a reflection. Preferably more of a reflection rather than resolution. Also, it can be a …
It is that time of the year when I avoid meeting people. Everyone wants to know about your New Year resolutions. This question just forces me to lie through my teeth just so that I remain politically correct and acceptable to my loved ones. It makes me worry, that, by myself I am not good enough. Like a soap bar I have to be relaunched periodically as “new and improved” every year until someone discovers that the jingle refers only to the wrapping and not the soap. The “new and …
Be careful of what you dream in 2009
My high-school football coach, Coach “Pic” would tell us this every day in his motivational speech as we prepared for the upcoming game. His goal was to get each of us to create a mental picture of what we wanted to do – individually and as a team. So, here are three strategies that I have used successfully and that you can utilize to achieve your dreams as well… Number 1 – Write your dreams down on paper. There are numerous studies that prove the value of writing down and keeping track of …
New year resolutions that will never fail! - Derek Cheshire
This sounds like a pretty wild claim but I never have trouble sticking to my New Year resolutions because I never make them! This sounds like a cop out but just think about it for a moment. Most resolutions are along the following lines:
My New Year resolution: Healing the ‘split personality’ - Priyanka Thakur
Again a new year is coming. What amazes me most is the practice of making resolutions at the start of the year. I really admire those who strictly follow their resolutions, though I am myself extremely poor in these things. But this year I have made a resolution. I have decided to wipe out all traces of the ‘split personality’ in myself! I was the kind of person who never believed in researches and comments made on split personality, but yes, now some real life experiences have made me re-think the issue. I …
A new twist to New Year resolutions - Marilyn Chee
2008 is coming to an end. With the new year approaching, what do you hope to achieve in 2009? Reflecting on the happenings of 2008 gives us a chance to see the lessons that can be learnt, and to make 2009 a better year with added knowledge and wisdom. Sum up your year in a sentence. What would you say? Maybe there’s just one thing you have learnt from 2008. What would it be? Is there a value to New Year Resolutions? Many people have ambivalent attitudes towards New Year resolutions, me …
New Year Resolutions for the New Age Human - Pramod Joshi
It’s that time of the year again – after appearing to plod along for a few lazy months, the present year suddenly starts to show more legs than a caterpillar, and starts slipping away rapidly, almost like the last few grains of sand in an hourglass. We start counting the days to Christmas and the New Year, start to shop for gifts for the kids and other loved ones and get ready to welcome another new baby in our lives – the New Year! Even the most cynical amongst us …
3 powerful tips for making 2009 your best year ever
With 2009 just around the corner, there are three powerful tips I’d like to share with you that’ll not only make 2009 your best year ever, but will lay the essential groundwork for abundance and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams for you and your loved ones in the years to come. Here they are: Powerful Tip #1 – Get your health in order. In his book “The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money”, the infamous P.T. Barnum wrote: “The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the …
HR and 6 new-year resolutions - Shyleswari M Rao
Undoubtedly the issue of business ethics is being taken seriously across the world as people realize that the reputation and success of their organization are linked to their values they play out in times of crisis. The need to argue whether business ethics matter is slowly being laid to rest. It certainly is time that we brought in ethics into organizations in a self-regulatory manner. It would work out in our favour in more ways than one and would be cost effective in the long run. Considering the fall of erstwhile …
What is the difference between Bill Gates and a beggar? - Santhosh Babu
Bill Gates and a beggar in the street have 24 hours to them in a day, seven days in a week and 12 months in a year. Still we all feel that we should have some more time to do what we wanted to do. Life many a time just slips between our fingers before we know what is really happening. As a young boy my years were marked with a monsoon that announced the beginning of an academic year and a summer that saw the peon shutting the huge windows …
4 ways to live happily and meaningfully in the new year! - Vishwanath Seshadri
Be responsive !! What is the sign of life? If someone is alive, a clear sign is that of the person responding to stimulus. If spoken to, a reply; if smiled at, a smile returned; if hurt, a cry, etc. If a person does not respond, he/she may as well be dead. But a response is not just about reacting. It is also about reacting with some thought around it. Reaction is negative. Reaction is impulsive. Reaction is instantaneous. For example, if someone insults us, a normal person would react with …
Tickling new-year thoughts jumping up and down - Arianna Neri
I had always wondered about life. Setting up a toolbox of rules and measures was one of my top priorities until that one (un?)lucky day when I woke up and all the collection of data I was securing was mysteriously gone. Where? How? Why? I recall the heavy sounds of my steps around the house, strolling in panic, opening each and every drawer….Where are you all gone, certainties of mine? And most of all, how can I survive without you? I felt that all my once-tied-up ends were loose again …
Manifest your intentions with the power of words - Anil Bhatnagar
Words are sound symbols that tend to represent standard concepts and images. In other words they are sounds with meanings. Every time you fail to follow through your words you deprive them of their meaning and reduce them to mere sounds. Unfortunately, this not only takes away power from your words but also from you, as your subconscious keeps getting evidence of their emptiness. When you do what you say it strengthens your words with the power to manifest themselves. This means that the more you do what you say to …
Let 2009 be the best year of your life! - Jessica See
It’s that time of the year again to reflect on how we have fared in the year which is about to draw to a close and to make New Year resolutions – promises to ourselves that something in our lives will get better, our finances, our relationships, our career. My husband used to tell everyone around this time of the year that he has kept all the resolutions he made the year before, and when everyone looked suitably impressed, he would add, “See, I kept them all in my wallet!” Let …
Resolved, signed and sealed! - PK
Let us see if we are we going to take the coming of the new year as an excuse for revelry. Or, while we have drunk ourselves to the ground, we might even take on the onerous task of some introspection which should result in some resolutions to be made. I fear that the resolve to stick to resolutions lasts only up to the second drink. But this is not going to stop every individual who takes the coming of the new year seriously to make definite resolves, sign them …
Why wait for new year to draw up resolutions? - Vishwanath Seshadri
I often wonder why people wait till the end of a year to draw up a list of resolutions. Is it a convenient way to continue doing what they have been doing after a brief pause? Does it show a resolve and a firm decision or does it indicate weakness? I was talking to a friend the other day about the ill effects of smoking and why he should give it up. I took great pains to explain and gave examples of people who have benefited by abstaining and those who …
Resolving new-year resolutions! - Dexter J Valles
Ho ho ho ho! The merry season is here. Jingle bells, tinkle bells, plum cake and pudding. Christmas joy and cheer. The yellow brick lane to renewal, resurgence and restitution. Down the lane from Yuletide, is the corner to a big bang new year! One filled with promise, hope and resolutions. Oops !! Where did that slip in from? I guess you already know where we are going to. New-year resolutions, the most exciting to make, and most often, the easiest to break. At least that has been the case with …
My new-year resolutions down the years! - S Deenadayalan
At 58, I reflect upon the last four decades of my life’s journey (starting at 18) and marvel at the number of resolutions taken with all earnestness and broken with equal earnestness. Some of them are given below. 1. From 1969 to 1992, my one resolution was to quit smoking. But Wills power was stronger than my will power. Wills was my favourite brand of cigarettes. 2. Celibacy practice – I stuck to it in the physical sense but never at the mental level. 3. Keeping commitments and time management – as far …
Opt for change this new year! - PK
Another year comes to an end and there will be many words written and repeated on the resolutions we take to bring change into our lives. Here are a few from my pen as well. In the past few days I have been socializing within my old group of family and friends more than is normal for me. Suddenly it hit me like a bomb. Everyone was talking about the wrongs of this world and they have a lot to say too. But nothing in their conversation indicated or gave any …
New-year resolutions and the rule of 21 - KR Ravi
“A life unexamined is not worth living,” said a great thinker. The eve of a new year is the time to introspect. What were our dreams when we were younger and are we heading there? If the answer is ‘no’ then what prevented us from going in that direction? Do we have to revise our goals in the light of our new realities? These are issues over which we have to ponder and then launch a plan of action keeping in mind some significant lessons of life. What many people may not …
Heal your relationships to heal yourself - Chitra Jha
It has been rightly said that this world is a mirror. It reflects back our inner/true reality to us. As within, so without. Everything in our life; our job, our economic condition, our dwellings, and the people in our life reflect one or the other aspect of our reality. Isn’t this a beautiful arrangement made by mother nature to make us understand ourselves? But do we really want to understand ourselves? For ages man has been trying to understand all that is outside of him; be it people, economics, climate, …
Happy New Year 2008? - Shalu Wasu
2008 was not exactly happy for most of us – was it? On top of whatever else happened in the year, I was not able to follow my new-year resolutions for the third year running! I have been actively making new-year resolutions for the last 3 years with very little success. It is usually regular stuff like fitness, skills, jobs, money, etc. It usually lasts for a few weeks. The longest was last year when I started jogging regularly and kept at it for a few months. While analyzing why my resolutions …
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