positive thinking

Humble beginning, Immense outcomes

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Courtesy: www.keralites.net

Come and visit Thennur village near Trichy. Here is a man who was earning Rs 2 lakhs per month 5years ago in the US . One of his ambitions, from the time he was studying in school, is to serve his village. Hence, after earning some money for his parents, he resigned his job in the US and came to his village to start an NGO in order to support the village. He is just 36 years old now which means he resigned his job when he was 31! He is also called as Ilam Gandhi (Young Gandhi). So, what did he do after resigning his job?? He invested Rs 40 lakhs in Thennur to build a community health center and an informal learning center. Out of the Rs 40 lakhs which he spent, Rs 31 lakhs came out of his own pocket. He started an NGO called Payir to help this village

Have a look at his PAYIRs buildings below:

The community health center:

Informal learning center

Now, he has appointed 5 people who are locals and who function as his staff. They teach proper English to the schools available in their locality.

Local staffs working in Payir

And that is not all! He has created a small IT company within that village. This company has 4 employees as of now, who are all graduates from this village. They have a US client and are currently working on a $2500 project. This IT company is in the middle of a Coconut farm.

Have a look at their IT company below:

The IT company in the middle of a farm

Inside the company

Fan inside the IT company

While working in the US , he used to deposit a little money for his parents as one of his mothers wishes was to build a house for themselves. With his savings, his parents now live in a big house at Srirangam.
But, thats not the case with him. He lives in a small hut in that village itself.

Have a look at his room below:

I asked him, how he is able to live without any earnings? His reply was as follows: Payir trust provides me with daily food. My trustees have agreed on this. I have built a hut for myself using my past earnings. So shelter is not a problem. I have 3sets of shirts and Vesti(Dhoti) which I can use for the next 2 years. My friends will get me a few dresses once or twice in a year. What more do I need in my life??.

Have a look at the slipper of the great man who was earning 2 Lakhs a month in US:

When I asked, how he will manage in his old age, if he gets any disease, he coolly replied that he will go to a Govt. hospital where everything is free of cost.
My question is: How many of us will dare to act like Senthil ? Many of us have so many dreams in life like becoming a music director, to become a cricketer, to do MBA, go to the Himalayas, help the schools where we studied, to become a district collector etc etc.. But we all lose our dreams just to earn money and want to reach a position which we call it as Status. We determine our path by seeing what others are doing. We select our needs based on what others have. We select a course to study based on the job availability and its salary rather than our interest for the subject.
Every one forgets that we have only one life to achieve our dream. Many of us chase what we do not want actually. If you still have some of your dreams unfulfilled, remember that you are the reason behind it. Start now and chase your dreams!
Senthil had a dream and he started executing it now! Believe me or not. Senthil started dreaming about Payir organization during his 11th std!

Senthil - The real hero!

Coming to the social aspect of Senthil, how many of us will leave all that we have earned and work for the benefit of others? Have we ever dreamt of doing what Senthil has done?
While returning from Thennur, only one thing was running on my mind. If everyone of us did atleast 0.1% of what Senthil has done, our India will be much better than any other country in this world!!
If many of us continue to focus on personal growth without worrying about our nation, in future, there will be many more Senthils around us who would have sacrificed their personal life for the welfare of this country.
Thennur is not just another village in our India map. It is a start of a new beginning for India. Thennur is a proof of the change that youth can bring in our country.

poitive thinking

Mind Coach - A Tool Must For Trainers

courtesy A.S. TIWARI

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Our emotions have an enormous impact on our life and its events. More often than not these emotions overpower us. Whether its anger, fear, uncertainty, decision making or stress; the surge of these negative emotions make us helpless and thus ineffective. We need some quick ways to control these emotions, channelize the energy and deal with situations effectively, especially when there are about 60,000 thoughts crossing our mind every day.
Mind Coach through scientifically researched psychological questions and solutions stimulates your Brain to answer without you having to make the genuine attempt to answer it and slowly it takes you to a highly cognitive and rationale level. E.g. if we were to ask you your name or where you stay or your favourite colour, you would not have to think and answer since your brain responds to these questions automatically. Similarly, in Mind coach there are brain stimulating questions, statements and solutions which overpower your negative emotion and subsequently you exit it. Mind Coach is mobile software that helps to confront and regenerate the unpleasant emotions into desired positive behavior.
How does MindCoach help?
MindCoach is a software that helps one to live happily and increase productivity of self and others. The scientifically designed questions assists one, cope with current challenges and difficulties and come out as a winner. It helps one to enjoy life to the fullest by empowering to find solutions which otherwise one may find difficult to discover.
The challenge all of us face is to deal with the negative emotions which tend to quietly destroy the life and its realization comes only when we are at the threshold. These unassumingly innocuous negative emotions are the ones which make life unpredictable. As individuals, we are so used to living with them almost everyday and we have seen them come and go on its own several times, making us feel helpless, hopeless and almost convincing us that they are part of our lives, thus, we need to accept them and we cannot do anything about them. We don't value the power they contain to either make our living constructive or destructive.
Psychologically it has been seen that each individual is resourceful and has the ability to overcome any emotion. However, one may not be able to since he does not know How to overcome it. There are scientific Psychological methods which bring an individual out of a powering emotion which he wants to get rid of. And that method is 'empowering self by introspection'.
Usually what happens when an individual is gripped with anger or fear, he is so riveted by it that he keeps looking at the problem or continues to feel hatred towards the person and does not think about the solution. We follow a method of empowering the individual to come out of the said emotion by asking certain questions along with some techniques of attaining solutions. With every question that a person answers internally it makes him feel better and by the end of the exercise, he is liberated from the clutches of the negative emotion.
The emotions that Mind Coach covers are Anger, Anxiety, Fear, Under confidence, Stress, Uncertainty, Decision Making, Impatience, Delaying Decision, Avoiding. Mind coach has very friendly yet highly introspective questions. You can download Mind Coach on your mobile and stay at ease always.

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old carpenter

Courtesy: www.keralites.net

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.
The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.
When the carpenter finished his work the employer came to inspect the house. He handed the front-door key to the carpenter.
This is your house, he said, my gift to you.
The carpenter was shocked! What a shame!
If he had only known he was building his own, he would have done it all so differently.
We do the most of the things having such thoughts in our mind. But we only realize when it comes back to us.
So it is with us. We build our lives, a day at a time, often putting less than our best into the building. Then with a shock we realize we have to live in the house that we have built. If we could do it over, we'd do it much differently. But we cannot go back.
You are the carpenter. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Life is a do-it-yourself project, someone has said. Your attitudes and the choices you make today, build the house you live in tomorrow. Build wisely!

desire to excel

desire to excel

A gentleman once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby.
Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?" "No," said the sculptor without looking up,
"We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage."

The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work.

"Where are you going to install the idol?" The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. "If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.

The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I know it and God knows it!" The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone
appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, notoutside. Excel at a task today - not necessarily for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction! !
Remember whenever we do something with consent of God and for consent of God , their is perfection in the task and satisfaction in heart . "I have felt this