Falling In Love Is Easy, Standing In Love Is Difficult.
As per our mythological scripture, God created a Man (Adam). There wasn’t any other creature to identify with him. So God created a woman as man’s companion. Gradually tremendous longing to be together was born between Man and Woman. With the fleeting time, the euphoric feeling of being attracted to each other was named as Love and so called Love became the integral part of our existence. And then with the evolution of Mankind, Human became self centered. Loving and being loved turned out to be complex.
However, today, love is stimulated by the waves of infatuation. By creating artificial personality and putting a little extra effort, one can compel others to fall for us. But as and when the real persona of an individual surfaces, it makes us upset. When other’s behavior doesn’t match with our expectations, we feel a bump and frustration steals our happiness. Love starts disappointing us. Instead of bond, disagreement gets into our relationship.
The reason of this is: In our society, everyone is carrying the bundle of expectations on their heads and package of dreams in their eyes. Everyone is taming identical ideology. In giving it a try to match the individuality, falling in Love is often easy but sustaining our Love has become difficult.
If we honestly try to figure out, we will observe that the problem lies within us. We are holding out our attitude, our mentality and our views in our hands and our self-esteem doesn’t allow us to give up.
Amid this situation, there is a hope. By practicing few behavioral elements, one can stand in love truly.
Let’s try to fathom how can we sustain love?
Surrender:
The first and foremost step we have to take is to surrender. Get a rid of our self-centered attitude. Throw away the selfish views. Keep the self –esteem aside. Get all negative aspects of life out of your life. Certainly, it is difficult; but not impossible.
Conversation:
Talk. Talk to each other positively. Talk to resolve the crisis, not to accuse. Blaming your partner will worsen the situation. Positive conversation will carve the way out to the path of resolution.
Understand Other:
Thinking about yourself, you have been walking on the wrong way for long time. Just try to understand your partner. Try to figure out what your partner is looking for out of the relationship.
Have Patience:
Patience is a weapon that always compels others to realize. As this change over of personality takes time, don’t rush. Rush will stop the process of change over.
Compromise:
When reaching to the conclusion, avoid sticking to you guns. Confrontation at all times worsens the situation and takes you back to the square. If you compromise, your partner will also follow you.
Give away:
Give Away! Keep on giving away. Don’t expect anything in return while you give away. If both of the partners try to give something away to each other without any expectation, both of the partners will get more or less what they are looking for.
Keep Your Love alive:
You’re not going to get the life ever again. With due respect to each other understand and love your partner at your best. Love is only element that keeps your life healthy, happy and worth living.
What Is Marketing?
While gathering, as if sweeping, papers from the table, I twisted my arm, Timex on my wrist was indicating 7:05pm. I inserted the bunch of papers into attaché case, flipped closed my Dell, pulled my chair to Hotel Network System, punched couple of keys and learned that all of the guests have been checked in, as Hotel was “Sold Out”. Since last one and half year, it was going packed for six out of seven days and it always made me feel better.
Picking up my attaché case, clenching my Dell between my Palm and Fingers, I got up, headed to the door, opened it and was out without bothering to switch the lights off, as the Sensor will put it off after 10 minutes. The sound of door slammed was heard.
Within a few steps, I got to the Front Desk, where a gentleman was literally pleading to Front Desk Agent for a single room of any kind and the Agent was very apologetic as the Hotel was “Sold Out”.
As the gentleman saw me, he insisted me to get him a room from Manager’s special quota. He was from Connecticut. He didn’t have a plan to fly today. It suddenly happened. Due to long week end, all the hotels around the area were sold out. He didn’t bring his car so he can cruise around from one hotel to another. And he was tired.
“Let me try in some other hotel…” I didn’t promise. I started calling to the Manager-Friends of couples of hotels around the area. Fortunately, one of them had a Bridal Suite available for the night. Covering my telephone speaker with my palm, I asked the Gentleman: “Would you like to sleep in a Bridal Suite just by yourself?”
He smiled. The room was expensive. He didn’t have any other option but to accept.
I told my Manager-Friend to hold the room at least for half an hour.
The gentleman took a sigh of relief, appreciated my efforts and thanked me.
“How will you go?” I asked him.
“I’ll call the cab.” He, lifting his suitcase, told me promptly.
“Cab will take 20 minutes to come and another 20 to get to the hotel. By the time, he will sell your room to someone else. “
He dropped his suitcase back on the floor in despair, as if he lost what he got.
“Come on…” Heading to the parking lot, I waved him to follow me:”I will drop you.”
“Thank you very much, “He, lifting his suitcase again, said delightedly and followed me.
On the way, we had interesting conversation. He, Geoff Sprouce, was a corporate executive specialized in turning around the sinking companies. He had a contract in the area and he was going to work there for long time. I dropped him at the Hotel. He checked in. I met my Manager-Friend. Chatted for a while and then Left.
Next day, in the evening, I was leaving for the day. In the parking lot, I saw Geoff getting out of cab. I waited to talk to him. He came to me, told me that he already had checked in today morning before going to office and he was so happy with the quality of the room that he wanted to talk to me and book for the month. We both came back in. I gave him a better deal and he extended his reservation for a month.
After that day, we were friends. Almost every evening he looked for me and we chatted about pin to plane. He was a delight to talk with. I learned so much business from him.
He stayed for one and half year. After couple of months, I even advised him to rent an apartment, which could be cheaper than this room. He smiled:-“Yes I can find, but you won’t be there…“ That was a great compliment. During his stay, he introduced six regulars who stayed couple of days every week. I received very good business from him.
No matter what you deal in, a product, a service or promoting yourself, Marketing means to go beyond the expectation of your customer, client, guest or your employer. Period.
If you give “without” any expectation, you get “beyond” your expectation.
Amazing Babysitting!
Friends,
What exactly flashed into your mind when you saw this image?
Date, Club, Drink, Dance, kiss, Eat, Hotel, and Sex. Is This Valentine Day?
Happy Valentine’s Day…
Valentine’s Day represents celebration of love. Now a days, this celebration of love has become a big business. Millions are being made by Cards, Chocolates and gifts companies. Hotels, Pubs, Clubs and Music make whole of the year’s revenue in just second week of February. Dating Sites are being swamped with Fresh Profiles and memberships hoping to find new Dates for the occasion. On February 14, we get engaged in all sorts of acts to find real love and happiness out of Love. At the end of the day, after all fun and frolics, when we try to figure out: Did we get what we have been looking for? And we get one answer, No. The reason is we didn’t understand Love and we are not looking for it at right place.
Let’s try to get what way and in what form Love comes in your life and how it makes you real happy.
Be Volunteer:
Objective is to do something for other. There are number of ways to help others. Rather than being valentine, let’s try to be a Volunteer. You can volunteer at a local soup kitchen, animal shelter, rest home, hospital or hospice, or favorite nonprofit organization. How about offering your knowledge to the children? You can check your local college campus, school for any organized event or find opportunities on VolunteerMatch
Fundraising:
Why not have your bills go to a good cause rather than pricey dinner? Check your newspaper or online city pages for Valentine-themed fundraisers that support local nonprofit organizations. It would be much better if you arrange your own party, raise the fund and donate the proceeds to charity.
Service:
Just think of all those people who served you every day and made your life easier. Give a thank-you card to the bus driver, big tip to Star Bucks server, gift to the waiter at local restaurant who served you food. You can’t forget to thank the cab driver who often took you to your destination. Remember to wish to the person who pick up your trash. Big smile with kind words at the gas station attendant will be highly appreciated.
Notes & Cards:
Not just to your sweetheart, but to people and organizations that are doing good things for the world, send Valentine day Cards and Notes. Tell them why you respect and appreciate their work. This gesture will definitely make a big difference. They will feel loved and grateful when you do something for other that is difficult for them to do on their own. If you’re feeling extra generous, include a donation check in the envelope.
Households:
Get a head start on spring cleaning and donate clothes, jackets, toys, furniture, household items, books and old computers to the organizations who accept them. Check your local Big Brothers Big Sisters, Salvation Army, or Goodwill Store.
Relief:
Hurricanes effects, mostly every year, in the Gulf region is devastating and is far from forgotten. When you buy Love Letters to the South, a photography book of celebrities paying tribute to those affected by Hurricanes, your purchase will help with rebuilding efforts. Proceeds support the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund and many more other organizations.
Conclusion:
There is a higher purpose to Valentine’s Day. You don’t need to give cards, buy flowers or go to pricey dinner, but you do need to express what’s in your heart. Love keeps refilling itself, whenever you freely give it away. You will experience how good it feels to do something for others. And at the end of the day you will experience the real happiness.
Wishing Happy Valentine’s Day to All…
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Before We Celebrate Valentine’s Day, Let’s Understand the Significance of Love…
Happy Valentine’s Day…
February has long been a month of Love and Romance across the world. Candies, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of Love. Parties and dinners are organized and schools arrange plays and entertainments for the parents. On this Day, before celebration, we need to ponder over some rare views and understand the significance of the feeling called Love.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
- Dorothy Parker
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- Alice Walker
Love is everywhere, it has no distance. All you have to do is stop resistance.
- Matt Zotti
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Love is humanity.
- Ananth Vitlani
We should remember to love everyone who loves others without any expectation. We should feel good for others, think good for others, and do good for others. Love spans throughout every aspect of our lives and it’s up to you how you will celebrate love in your life!
Yuki Bhamri of India Wins Australian Open Junior Grand Slam Title
India has another reason to celebrate in the Junior Australian Open 2009.
Yuki Bhambri of India wins Junior Australian Open Tennis Grand Slam Title 2009 defeating Germany’s Ferdinandos Alexandros by 6-3, 6-1
Yuki Bhambri is a Fourth Indian to win this Grand Slam Title.
After last year’s thrilling experience, Yuki has worked hard for this edition at Melbourne Park and and claimed his maiden junior Grand Slam Title.
Yuki Bhambri, a Delhi youngster, is another rising Tennis star. At 16, Yuki has the skills and the mental toughness to be a tactically sound player. Without these qualities he could not have won the prestigious Junior Australian Open Grand Slam.
Congratulations, Yuki, You made India proud.
