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Principalspeak It takes both rain and sunshine to create a rainbow. Our lives are no different. There is happiness and sorrow, the good and the bad, the dark and the bright spots. We cannot control all events that happen in our lives, but we can control how to deal with them. It is not our position but our disposition that determines our destiny. Thus, if we can handle adversity, it only strengthens us. We can choose our attitude, even though we cannot always choose our circumstances. The choice is in our hands – to act like a victor or a victim. When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, we should react responsibly. We have been given the choice to choose the course of our action and what matters most in one’s life is the attitude. The mind can think positively or negatively. If you have to deal effectively with a problem or situation or an opportunity, you ought to be in a positive mood. It brings out amazing results. So, live with enthusiasm, cheerfulness, sincerity and honesty. “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit”, said Helen Keller. So, do a daily mental dry-cleaning to clear the mind of negative emotions such as jealousy, worries, resentments, which we pick up in course of the day. Don’t clutter your mind with these and convert your brains into dustbins. Our minds are productive factories of thoughts and we must manufacture wonderful and creative thoughts and ideas. Richard Blechnyden wanted to promote Indian tea at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904. It was a very hot season and no one wanted to taste his tea. Blechnyden saw that all the iced drinks were doing thriving business. It dawned on him to make tea into an iced drink, mix in sugar and sell it. People loved it. He had not despaired, instead successfully turned the winds of fortune in his favour. Our attitudes are formed in our childhood and last a lifetime. But it does not mean that if we acquire a negative attitude, knowingly or by default, we are stuck with it. Unshackle your mind from the chains of negativity that suffocate it, and build and maintain a positive attitude. We alone are responsible for our lives. Often, we blame everyone and everything but ourselves. It is up to us to choose our attitude every morning. As adults, we need to accept responsibility for our behaviour and actions. Get away from the past, dust yourself and return to the mainstream. Put your dreams together and move on! Let confidence and conscience be your constant companions. Change your focus and look for what is right in a person and situation, instead of looking for the wrong. If you look for friendship, happiness and the positive, that is what you will find. If you are looking for the negative and the dark, these will wait to envelop them. So, go digging for gold and not dust. “Life is like a cafeteria. You take your tray, select your food and pay at the other end. You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price. In a cafeteria, if you wait for people to serve, you will wait forever. Life is like that too. You make choices and pay the price.” Thus, we realise that life is full of choices and compromises, and our attitude determines its course. “If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost; For out in the world we find Success begins with a fellow’s will; It’s all in the state of mind.” |
MLA accused of amassing
property
New Delhi, January 18 Lokayukt Justice Mohammed Shamim took a serious note of his absence. However, Mr Sharma’s counsel Vinit Malhotra gave an undertaking that his client would be present on January 20, the next date of hearing. Lokayukt had already issued notice to the MLA on a complaint filed by the RWA of Hastsal.
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