TFD : Patanjali

When you are inspired by some great purpose

Some ExtraOrdinary project

All your thought's break their bonds

Your mind transcends limitations

Your conciousness expands in every direction

And you find yourself in a new and wonderful world

Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive

And you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

TFD : If you really hate what you're doing

If you really hate what you're doing, stop telling yourself to hang in there. Your first duty is to yourself. These are hours of your life. Spend them happily.

TFD : In the company of great people

Today, I came across one of the best quotes I have ever heard.

In the company of great people, the journey is its own reward.

This is such a profound quote that for a few minutes I was stuck speechless ! Hope you find it good too !

TFD : Dance Like

Quite a fav quote of mine. Filched from a friend's signature.

Dance like no one is watching

Love like you'll never be hurt

Sing like no one is listening

Live like it's heaven on earth

Work like you don't need the money

Thought for the Day

Love your Job, 

Not your Company

TFD : Great Teacher

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher

Beer will break your heart..

From Hugh's website - the guy who gave us the Blue Monster.

TFD : You cannot schedule creativity

Thought for the Day

life is far to short to not do what you enjoy.

Too Busy being Busy

Sometimes it seems to me that everyone wants to be busy - being busy. Ask them what they do, and the answer is 'i am busy with this crisis'.

And the output - actually nothing.

So, what prompts us to be in this situation where we are busy being busy ? Why can't we grab the time and do things which are actually useful and self-satisfying instead of wondering where our time went.

Thought for the day

Respect your body.

I took the one less traveled

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost.

Thought for the day

We are finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves.

Too often, the way takn is the wrong way, with too much empahsis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

- Louis L'Amour,
Education of a Wandering Man

Thought for the day

Crafting a mission statement is usually one of the first steps entrepreneurs undertake. Unfortunately, this process is usually a painful and frustrating experience that results in exceptional mediocrity.
- Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start.

Better to live outside of the job then think it will define you

There comes a point where one discovers that a job is a means to an end, and not the means. I used to live for the next project, the cool new "thing". If you work in corporate USA that moment is so rare is is better to try for the lottery. Find somethng outside of work and life for that. Company X, the best place in the world to work, will can your ass the moment the numbers do not add up for keeping you.

Start up a company and one day you'll experience the moment when you need to "downsize" and those that had the rose colored glasses will get them stripped off their eyes.

I've spent 28 years in the IT industry, from mainframes, to minis, to Client Server, and what I have learned the most is that the love of a woman far outways a fucking promotion, the joy of doing something you enjoy far outways making the boss happy on Sunday fucking afternoon, that taking time for ones self has a better life expectancy then dieng a slow death for the fucking "Company".

Best places to work for? I had two and they got sold, chewed up and turned into shit holes, so please stop thinking that dragging you're ass to a cube every day, even if they had piano playing in the lobby is going to bring some sort of satisfaction in life. Google is no better no worse then the sweat shop in china. They just give you shinier trinkets to distract you.

Six months ago I rescued a horse from possible auction to slaughter. Today she is healthy, happy, and helping me learn to ride. The job helps me help her have a better life. That is more real, more a sense of accomplishment then pleasing some exec in an irovy tower. Piano bars, flex time, treats tossed from on high as our mouths hang open...slight of hand. To quote Mr Heston "Soylent green is Man"... Better to live outside of the job then think it will define you.

There is not best place to work other then that which fills the soul, and makes us feel like we did goo that day. a janitor may be a king compared to most IT professionals.

From a post on Slashdot. Main article here.

Thought for the day

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try.

Thought for the day

Do the right thing, rather than doing the popular thing.

You will wear clothes you dont like

Thought for the day

Starting a new TFD section as I keep coming across things which pause you to consider. Hope you enjoy the updates !

We aree so afraid to take a risk for fear of losing that we end up missing out on the opportunity to win.