SELF-BELIEF

Self-belief:-
1. We all have to take our own separate pathways, and choose our own destinations.
2. We all have to make our own contributions, and use our own special talents.
3. We all pursue our own kind of life, and weave our own kinds of dreams.
4. We all have the power to make our wishes come true, as long as we believe in ourselves.

QUALITIES OF WELL-INTEGRATED INDIVIDUALS

Qualities of well-integrated individuals:-
1. Are not secretive
2. Are not bureaucratic
3. Belief in sharing knowledge and insights
4. Patient in putting ideas across people
5. Ready to promote learning in others
6. Eager for further education.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CYBER CRIMINALS

Precautions against cyber criminals:-
1. They often create fake social media profile to befriend potential victims for obtaining their confidential or personal data or gain trust to cause harm in due course.
2. Be careful of online friend requests that you accept.
3. Do not trust online friends, unless you know them and can trust them in real life.
4. Be careful while accepting friend request from strangers on social media, as it could be a trap to cause harm later.
5. Ensure that your personal information, photos and videos, if posted on social media, are accessible only to your trusted ones.
6. Select “privacy settings” on social media accordingly.
7. Don't share your sensitive personal details, such as address, phone number, Aadhaar number, photo, date of birth etc., on social media, as it makes it easier for a stalker to misuse such details to harass you.
8. Be cautious on tiny URLs (appearing like http://tiny.cc/ba1j5y), and don’t click on it as it may take you to a malware infected website.
9. Don't respond to emails like foreign lottery service, offers of money from unknown persons, or requests to transfer funds for a share of the money.
10. These are likely to be false offers to cheat; delete such emails.

AVOID OBSESSIONS OF ANY KIND

Avoid obsessions of any kind:-
1. They can make us arrogant and unbalanced.
2. They can make us too much work-fixated.
3. They can create petty hatred and dislikes.
4. Put your energy in a wider variety of roles, hobbies, spiritual, family and community interests.

LIVE YOUR LIFE

Live your life:-
1. People associate their happiness with love or money, but life is an attempt to balance between living every moment and aspiring to always give your best.
2. Pause and admire the beauty of nature, laugh out with an open heart and pass unperturbed moments.
3. Love yourself, live for yourself, and don't give up your happiness to anyone else.
4. Do not always work for money, do some work for your happiness too.
5. Always keep learning something new, which will keep you excited to do something in life.
6. Learn to forgive others, so that you will be able to keep stress out of your mind.
7. Talk less, do things that make you really happy, and develop a positive attitude towards life.
8. Accept your mistakes and try to overcome them.
9. Only by creating and maintaining loving relationships in life will the capital of love and trust of others go hand in hand.
10. Also, keep preparing yourself to bear your pain and discomfort yourself.

HELP YOUR DEPRESSED LOVED ONES

Help your depressed loved ones:-

(A) Observe and understand their behaviour carefully
1. Are they suddenly quiet?
2. Do they laugh unnecessarily?
3. Are they really into conversations or are they just on autopilot mode?
4. Do they snap at you without a valid reason?
5. Are they irritable more than their usual self?

(B) Make them talk even if they don't want to
1. It is very important that you remain, and make them to trust you.
2. It's very convenient for a healthy person to say, “hey, I'm always here for you; you can reach out to me; my message and inbox is always open for you.”
3. But, remember that anyone who is in depression will not bother you.
4. So, stop this useless message circulation of being always there.
5. Someone who is in depression won't talk to random people about what's bothering them, and will just shut you out of their mind.

(C) It is your responsibility as a family, as a friend, and as a well wisher, to reach him
1. Remain there and make him to trust you, so that he can speak what's bothering him.
2. This is a continuous process, so do not leave them alone with their thoughts ever.
3. Acknowledge their problem, even if you don't believe it to be a big enough problem!
4. It's not your problem, but it's theirs, so don't try to convince them that it's not a problem and that they shouldn't even be worried about it.
5. Please understand that every person is different, so don't measure them against someone.

(D) Do a lot of physical activities with him
1. They may start feeling rejuvenated.
2. Also, increase in physical activities increases the happy hormone production, which can help a person overcome his depression.

(E) Do not give advices 
1. Listen to them, without giving judgement.
2. Advice is the last thing a depression patient wants to hear from you, so don't give it.
3. If you cannot be with him without excuses, without judgements and without suggestions, it's better not to be with him at all.

(F) Lastly, please understand this
1. No amount of money or fame or goodwill can help a person who loses hope.
2. A healthy person sees colours, while a depressed person sees black.
3. So, encourage him to see colours again.

CYBER SAFETY TIP

Cyber safety tip:-
1. Consider using the Media Access Control, or "MAC," address filter in your wireless router.
2. Every electronic device that can connect to a Wi-Fi network has a unique ID called the "physical address" or "MAC" address.
3. Wireless router can screen the MAC addresses of all devices connected to it.
4. Users can set their wireless network to accept connections only from devices with MAC addresses recognized by router.
5. To prevent unauthorized access to your devices, consider activating your wireless router's MAC address filter, to allow your devices only.

GO AN EXTRA MILE

Go an extra mile:-
1. Most people only want to do what they can do easily.
2. But winners are those who are willing to do a little bit more than their quota of work.
3. Try putting into practice the principle of rendering more, to deliver better than expected.
4. This mindset will make you more focussed in performing tasks with best possible attitude.
5. Going an extra mile makes you so useful that you become indispensable and uncompeteable.
6. Your attitude of contributing more will put you in limelight, and generate favourable attention, that will distinguish you from the crowd.
7. "Extraordinary" is "extra" + "ordinary", and such investments will always greatly multiply and return.

FAILURE INSPIRES WINNERS

Failure inspires winners and defeats losers:-
1. Instead of burying your failure, get inspired by it, as it is a formula for all winners.
2. You would have failed many a time, although you may not remember, like the first time you tried:-
(i) to walk - you fell down.
(ii) to swim - you almost drowned.
(iii) to ride a bicycle - you lost balance.
And so on - the list is endless.
3. It may take several attempts before you get success, so don't be overly concerned about getting things right the first time.
4. Winners coax benefits from their defeat by examining their losses, and learning from them.
5. Attaining success will only be a matter of time, if defeat is accepted as an inspiration to retry with renewed confidence and determination.

WILL

Will is more important than skill:-
1. Use your willpower to get things done.
2. Success is based on the will to work, and ambition.
3. All successful people develop the habit of doing things that others don't like to do.
4. Attitude reflects upon one's character and status:-
(i) I won't.. is a stubborn
(ii) I can't.. is a loser
(iii) I don't know.. is lazy
(iv) I wish.. is a dreamer
(v) I might.. is waking up
(vi) I will try.. is on his feet
(vii) I can.. is on his way
(viii) I will.. is at his work

SELF INTEREST

*Self interest:-*
1. No one will work for your interests, unless they are his.
2. Appeals or expectations for selfless help or cooperation from others does not work, as every person is locked in his own needs and priorities.
3. The art of successfully seeking help depends on your ability to understand the needs of the person you are negotiating with.
4. For most people, their own gain attracts them most, as they are always absorbed and engrossed by self interest.
5. Self interest is the lever that moves people; once they understand that promoting your case is in their own interest, then they respond to help.

THE POWER OF EXPRESSION

1. A drop of ink can make millions think.
2. Penned words or spoken words are not letters strung together.
3. They are incarnation of emotions and the stimulators of emotions.
4. A word can be a balm or a bomb, as it can make or break relationships.
5. Words are gifts of God; when wrongly used, they embarrass and dishonour us.
6. Choose words as arefully as an interior decorator selects accessories.
7. One inappropriate selection can wreck horror to the entrie overall effect.

THE ART OF COMMUNICATION

1. It's not What you say, but How you say that matters.
2. Conversation is an art, and like all art, it is improved by experience and patience.
3. People, who are at ease with social conversations, forge valuable personal ties in their business and their relationships.
4. Be a positive, creative communicator.

IF

1. If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs and blaming you;
2. If you can trust yourself, when all men doubt you, but you make allowances for their doubting too;
3. If you can wait, and not be tired of waiting;
4. If you are being lied about, but don't deal in lies;
5. If you are being hated, but don't give way to hating;
6. If you don't look too good, but don't talk too wise;
7. If you can dream, but not make dreams your master;
8. If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim;
9. If you can meet triumph and disaster, and treat them just the same;
10. If you can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it and lose and start again without breathing a word about it;
11. If you can talk with crowds, and keep your virtue intact;
12. If you can walk with kings, and not lose the common touch;
13. If neither foes nor friends can hurt you;
14. If all men count with you, but none too much;
15. If you can fill the minute, with sixty seconds of worthy run;
Then yours is the Earth, and everything that's in it, and you will be a Man.

YESTERDAY VS. TODAY

1. Yesterday, natural resources defined power; today, knowledge is power.
2. Yesterday, heirarchy was the model; today, synergy is the mandate.
3. Yesterday, leaders commanded and controlled; today, leaders empower and coach.
4. Yesterday, shareholders came first; today, customers come first.
5. Yesterday, employees took orders; today, teams make decisions.
6. Yesterday, seniority signified status; today, creativity drives status.
7. Yesterday, production determined availability; today, quality determines demand.
8. Yesterday, value was an extra; today, value is everything.
9. Yesterday, everyone was a competitor; today, everyone is a customer.
10. Yesterday, profits were earned through expediency; today, profits are earned with integrity.