“Your Attitude Counts At The End of The Day” – Short Story – M.Ramakrishna Sayee

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill

                          

 

There was a kingdom surrounded by a thick forest on the one side and an ocean on the other side. It had a king by name Leo and a queen by name Lisa. They were very kind to their people. They were blessed with twins – Gelberth and Gilbert.

 

Although both Gelberth and Gilbert were identical in appearance their mindsets were different. Gelberth was interested in sword fighting and mastered the art. On the other hand, Gilbert was an intellectual and a kindhearted person who never showed any interest in sword fighting. 

 

Finally, the D-day had come where king had to choose successor to his throne. It was indeed a tough task for the king as both were his sons. He asked the people to decide his successor.  The citizens were caught in a dilemma as they were caught between the devil and the deep sea.  If they chose Gelberth they would get an autocratic king, and if they chose Gilbert they would get a democratic king.

 

Seeing the dilemma of citizens, the minister intervened and advised the king to conduct a test for them. Gelberth and Gilbert should go to nearby forest and get two dears within a span of eight hours. Both went on their mission.  Gelberth brought two dears within a span of five hours while Gilbert took nine hours and brought two dears.  Gilbert was chosen as the successor as he brought live dears whereas Gelberth brought the dead dears. When minister gave instructions Gilbert took positively, and brought live dears.  On the other hand, Gelberth took negatively, and brought dead dears. In fact, how you take is more important than what you take. Always take things positively to stand out from the crowd.

 

The moral of the story is that your attitude counts at the end of the day.

 

             

 

 

M.Ramakrishna Sayee

Founder, MRK Leadership Consultants, India

Email: mrkhyd123@gmail.com

Blog: http://mrkhyd.wordpress.com

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“Students Must Overcome Dilemma about Their Careers” – M.Ramakrishna Sayee

It is natural that students dream about their careers while pursuing their education. But some of the students are unrealistic, and often daydream about their careers. There are three categories of students; some are cautious about their career, some follow others’ career and some don’t think about their career. The first category of students will reach the pinnacle of their career success; the second category of students will lead an ordinary life, and the third category of students can’t predict their future and go by destiny.

 

While transiting from campus to corporate, students must set their vision about their careers, then prepare a mission, and roll out the same effectively. While choosing their careers, they must be clear about the stream they intend to pursue, and follow the same strictly. For instance, if they are good at singing or composing music they should opt for a career in film industry, or they should start their own band.  And also, they can convert their hobbies into their careers to reap great rewards. This is applicable for the first category of students.

 

In the case of second category of students who ape others, they must know that they have to be unique in their contributions to add value and stand out from others. Finally, in the case of third category of students, they will not be able to enjoy in the workplace as they don’t dream and plan about their careers.

 

At times, students take up careers due to family and financial constraints.  They must not blame circumstances for such constraints. They must learn to manage external constraints to their advantage and mould themselves to succeed in life.  After all, it is the destiny! To conclude, dream about your career, design a blueprint, roll out effectively, and achieve all-round success in your career.  

 

THE END

 

M.Ramakrishna Sayee

Founder, MRK Leadership Consultants, India

Email: mrkhyd123@gmail.com

Blog: http://mrkhyd.wordpress.com

Speaker Wiki: http://speakerwiki.org/speakers/M_Ramakrishna_Sayee

 

 

 

 

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Publication of M.Ramakrishna Sayee’s Book – Smartness Guide: Success Tools for Students

Dear friends,

 

I would like to share the successful publication of my co-authored book with my father, Professor M.S.Rao and my elder brother, M.Ganesh Sai titled – “Smartness Guide: Success Tools for Students.”  World’s # 1 Communication Guru, Dr. Tony Alessandra wrote foreword for this book. And international management thinkers including Vijay Govindarajan (World’s Third-Ranked Management Guru), Patricia Wheeler and John Spence have endorsed this book. Here are the details of the book:

 

Publisher: Galgotia Publications Pvt Ltd

ISBN: 978-81-75157-0-26

Price: INR 295/- (Hard Bound) US Edition: 60 USD

Price: INR 195/- (Paperback)

Link to purchase:

 

 

About the Book:

“An Invasion by armies can be resisted but not that of an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo

 

This book is a “short course” on achieving smartness and greatness. It presents success tools and techniques on platter and in capsule format so that you can read in one sitting and reap rewards.  The book

 

• Provides a blueprint to unlock your hidden potential and achieve success.
• Awakens the leader in you to come out with flying colors.  
• Paves the way for launching your career successfully.
• Unfolds to cherry-pick essences of success to excel as a successful professional.

 

The book is useful for students, educators and readers who have passion to learn and grow continuously.

 

I would appreciate if you could read the book and provide your valuable feedback.

 

 

 

M.Ramakrishna Sayee

Founder, MRK Leadership Consultants, India

Email: mrkhyd123@gmail.com

Blog: http://mrkhyd.wordpress.com

Speaker Wiki: http://speakerwiki.org/speakers/M_Ramakrishna_Sayee

 

 

 

 

Dear readers,

 

I would appreciate your comments about this article.

 

 

 

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“Importance of Education” – Short Story M.Ramakrishna Sayee

Once there was a person by name, Roger who lived in a village.  He was a teacher and an honest and modest person. He was the first to set up a school in the village to enlighten children living there. When Roger came to village there was no school at all. So he along with some of his friends founded a school.

 

He faced several challenges initially. Nobody was willing to join and the parents thought that it was waste of time. Parents thought that children could assist them in cultivation and by following traditional occupations instead of going to school. Children also disliked going to school as there was no fun in school.

 

Roger brought some parents and students from city and motivated students by highlighting the importance of education. There was some favorable response from few villagers. Some children joined school as many students from city counseled about the importance of education. Roger included play ground and introduced several sports and games for children to encourage en enhance enrolment in the school. As a result, more number of students joined school as the school blended both curricular and extra curricular activities.  

 

After completion of education some students went to cities for higher education. Some of them became great scientists and contributed their best by setting up several educational institutions and developing their village. The village later became a city and people from other places came to this place for quality education. Hence, always emphasize on the importance of education to make a difference in the lives of the people.  At times, education may also become armor at the time of adversity.

                                                 

 

 

M.Ramakrishna Sayee

Founder, MRK Leadership Consultants, India

Email: mrkhyd123@gmail.com

Blog: http://mrkhyd.wordpress.com

Speaker Wiki: http://speakerwiki.org/speakers/M_Ramakrishna_Sayee

 

 

 

 

Dear readers,

 

I would appreciate your comments about this article.

 

 

 

© 2011 MRK Leadership Consultants India.  All Rights Reserved.

This is an educational blog for free sharing of knowledge, not for commercial use. Please don’t cut articles from my blog and redistribute by email or post to the web. The use of this material is free provided copyright is acknowledged and reference or link is made to the Blog http://mrkhyd.wordpress.com  This material may not be sold, or published in any form, or used in the provision of business services to a third party without permission.

Publication of M.Ramakrishna Sayee’s Book – Script Your Success Story: Sky is the Limit

Dear friends,

 

I would like to share the successful publication of my authored book titled – “Script Your Success Story: Sky is the Limit”. World’s Seventh Management Guru, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith wrote foreword for this book. Here are the details of the book:

 

Publisher: Galgotia Publications Pvt Ltd

ISBN 978-81-7515-644-9

Price: INR 110/- (Paper Back)

 

About the Book:

“You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.” – Irene C. Kassorla

 

 

The book is a collection of ideas, information and stories that connect with the readers easily and convey punched messages. It implores students to choose their destiny and helps them script their success story.

 

The book dwells at length on passion, success, career, thinking big, out-of-the-box, perseverance, decision making and happiness.  It presents current challenges in Indian educational system with solutions. It shares several inspirational stories for students. It is an inspiring book easy to read and understand.  You can easily toss the book into a briefcase and read here and there as time allows.

 

The book is useful to children and students and also to those who want to add value for themselves.

 

 

I would appreciate if you could read the book and provide your valuable feedback.

 

 

 

M.Ramakrishna Sayee

Founder, MRK Leadership Consultants, India

Email: mrkhyd123@gmail.com

Blog: http://mrkhyd.wordpress.com

Speaker Wiki: http://speakerwiki.org/speakers/M_Ramakrishna_Sayee

 

 

 

 

 

© 2011 MRK Leadership Consultants India.  All Rights Reserved.

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“Mahatma Gandhi – Inspiration for Indian Youth”

“I don’t have a message. My message is my life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

October 2nd is a very prominent day for all Indians. It is a day to remember Father of our Nation, M.K. Gandhi and is observed as a national holiday. Now-a-days only few people think about Gandhi. The present youth emphasize on their regular studies, spend time with friends and other activities and pay least attention and importance for principles or moral values. Here are the insights and ideas and principles and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of his birth anniversary to awaken and inspire Indian youth.

It is well known that Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 1869 in his ancestral home at Porbandar. He played a very prominent role in our freedom struggle. He led several movements such as Salt Satyagraha and Quit India movement. During his freedom struggle he was imprisoned number of times. In Salt Satyagraha he walked around 400 kilometers from Ahmadabad to Dandi. Gandhi made campaigns to erase poverty and social evil such as untouchability and caste discrimination. He also fought for equality of Harijans on par with higher castes.

Gandhi led an austerely life. He was honest from childhood. Once his master asked him to copy from other person in an examination but he did not copy and eventually got lesser marks than his classmates. But, he never felt bad about it. In his childhood, Gandhi was addicted to smoking and once he stole gold from his house. He rectified his mistake by giving a letter to his father which contained all his mischief. Tears rolled on out of his father’s eyes but his father did not say anything to Gandhi. This incident made a great impact in Gandhi’s life.

The sutras of Gandhi are Satyagraha, simplicity, ahimsa (non-violence) and belief in God. Gandhi always stressed on Satyagraha, he was able to conquer mighty British rule with these sutras. The application of this to our lives is that we should be honest with others and also in all aspects of our lives. The second sutra is simplicity. He always wore khadi dress. He didn’t concern what others would think of it. He was a strict vegetarian and maintained until his death. Even though he spent nearly half of his life in foreign countries he never ate meat. The next sutra is ahimsa. Unlike Subash Chandra Bose, Gandhi adopted a nonviolent path for the freedom struggle. Gandhi quoted, “There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.” The principle signifies that we should try to avoid violent path and anger. Finally, we should have faith as without faith we can’t achieve anything.

Gandhi has many followers throughout the world such Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr, Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi and Barack Obama to name a few. Congressman John Lewis quoted, “I surely believe without (Mahatma) Gandhi – without Gandhi in India – there would be no Barack Obama as president’ of the United States.” Gandhi is an international leader and United Nations declared Gandhi’s birthday i.e. 02 October as “International Day of Non-Violence.” It indicates the international presence and acceptance of Gandhi as a global leader.

On 30 January 1948, Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse. Gandhi led a simple life and sacrificed his life for India’s independence. He is mortal but his principles are immortal. Youth should take inspiration from Gandhi’s ideas and ideals and apply the same for making a peaceful and prosperous India.

Have You Fallen in Love with Facebook?

“The thing I really care about is the mission; making the world open.” – Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is like a person’s identity. It connects people across the world. We are able to chat with our friends and know their status. We can update our status, share our thoughts, opinions, experience and knowledge with our friends. We meet new people and we can upload our photos and videos, create groups, ask questions to friends, play games and many more fun things. This was possible due to innovative thinking of Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of the Facebook.

The merit of Facebook is that it is free for users. Now it has more than 800 million users. It is like a media for communication. However, the demerit is that people spend too much time on it and forget the world. Hence, people should spend limited time on it so that they can concentrate on their goals and objectives. Facebook has become a threat to Orkut, Twitter and other messengers such as yahoo messengers.

Facebook has bright future as it is constantly innovating and including several new features. It is trying to change the profile pages of the users. Recently Facebook made a tie up with music and movie companies such as Spotify and Netflix. The strategy is to include music to social networking site. By tying up with Facebook Spotify gained 1 million new users. It has become advantage for both Facebook and Spotify and it is win-win for both companies. People have fallen in love with Facebook because of all these features.

“Enjoy Nature” – Short Story

Once there were three friends Ken, Ben and Ron who were classmates. They all were studying in high school. One day their entire class was taken to a jungle on tour for five days. They spent their time by trekking, studying about plants and flowers and played in river. They went deep inside the thick forest searching for specific herbs which were available only in that jungle.

They walked a long distance and lost their way. They didn’t know how to get back to their camp site. In the meanwhile, the camp returned. Ken, Ben and Ron were left alone. They spent the night under a tree. In the jungle they didn’t know how to search for food and how to live. But they all enjoyed living in jungle with a fresh air. First they wanted to prepare a home to live. So, they constructed make shift house. Then they started searching for food. Since it was a jungle they had fruits and sometimes they stole eggs of some birds and ate. They spent their time by swimming and studying about plants and animals.

In the mean while, teachers realized Ken, Ben and Ron were not present. They came back and started their search for three and got them after ten days of heavy search.

When these three returned to their normal life they thought that something was missing in their life. They thought that they didn’t have trees, fresh air and some fantastic scenery in city. Hence, they started planting some trees.

The moral of the story is that we enjoy many things but we should also start enjoying the beauty of nature. Hence, protect environment.

“Happiness Vs. Prosperity” – Short Story

There are few people in this world who strive for wealth ignoring precious things in their lives. In fact, wealth is the root of many problems in this world. People neglect their family, happiness and pleasure during the course of their journey towards success. Here goes the story of James who strived for so much for so little.

James hailed from middle class family. He faced several failures in his life. He had a loving wife and affectionate children. He thought of becoming a wealthy person to earn respect in the society. He started doing business and avoided spending money for basic things like food, cloth and shelter. He put his wife and children under tight financial controls and spent most of his time working hard.

After few years he became very rich. He developed several health problems in his life and had no happiness. As a result, his children got separated from him. However, James’ wife remained with him until her last breath. Later he began realizing the value of life and importance of wife and children. Although he had wealth he lost his happiness, health and peace in his quest for wealth.

Therefore, don’t search for stones by leaving gems at home. Don’t bother for wealth ignoring health, happiness and family. It is always the journey that counts, not the destination in life.

“What Kind Of Friend You Want?” – Short Story

Mark was a ten years old boy who lived near seashore. He always felt very lonely. He didn’t have friends because of his unusual behavior such as sitting often near the window, immersing with his dreams and spending most of his time sleeping on his desk in school. His classmates bullied him because of his unusual behavior.

Mark prayed to God regularly for good friends before going to sleep. One day God responded him in dreams that he would find a stone on the seashore. The stone would have all colors of rainbow. With the help of that stone he could call God three times and get three wishes. Upon reaching the seashore Mark found the stone as per the descriptions of God.

He called God for fulfilling his first wish of having a friend who will always respond him, won’t bully him and adjust with his behavior. God thought for a moment and gave him a parrot that satisfied his conditions. Mark was happy initially but gradually felt bored.

Mark requested for accomplishing his second wish of giving better friend than parrot who could play with him. God thought for a moment and gave life to the toys he had so that he could play with them. However, Mark felt that he was missing something in his new toy friends.

Finally, Mark requested God for fulfilling his third wish of having a friend like God so that he would not get bored. God cautioned Mark that it was his third wish and granted his final wish. However, Mark still did not feel happy with his third wish.

Again Mark called God but God did not arrive to grant him a wish as he had run out his three wishes. Finally, God appeared and advised Mark that friend is not meant for chitchatting and playing but for sharing thoughts, sorrows and happiness. And also added that you cannot have friends exactly the way you want. It is better to look at similarities rather than differences for ensuring everlasting friendship.