22 Ways to Become Spectacularly Inspirational By Robin Sharma.

22 Ways to Become Spectacularly Inspirational By Robin Sharma, author of the #1 bestseller "The Leader Who Had No Title"

1. Do important work vs. merely offering opinions.

2. Lift people up vs. tear others down.

3. Use the words of leadership vs. the language of victimhood.

4. Don't worry about getting the credit for getting things done.

5. Become part of the solution rather than part of the problem.

6. Take your health to a level called superfit.

7. Commit to mastery of your craft instead of accepting mediocrity in your work.

8. Associate with people whose lives you want to be living.

9. Study for an hour a day. Double your learning and you'll triple your success.

10. Run your own race. "No one can possibly achieve real and lasting success by being a conformist," wrote billionaire J. Paul Getty

11. Do something small yet scary every single day.

12. Lead Without a Title.

13. Focus on people's strengths vs. obsessing around their weaknesses.

14. Remember that potential unused turns into pain. So dedicate yourself to expressing your best.

15. Smile more.

16. Listen more.

17. Read the autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

18. Reflect on the words of Eleanor Roosevelt who said: "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."

19. Persist longer than the critics suggest you should.

20. Say "please" and "thank you".

21. Love your loved ones.

22. Do work that matters

P.S: Thanks to Mr. Senthil Kumar for mailing me this !!! This inspires me, and hope it does for all whoever read this.

Nostalgia!

Today as I was scrolling down through my older mails in my personal folder (the only folder where I stuff the mails that I would like to preserve for the rest of my life), a couple of mails made me to open them to have a look at them. They were sent by the ones who will, without any doubt, be featured in my list of the Top 5 Persons I have met till date. So obviously any mails from them would be special, but still these two mails were top of all. And that's the reason even when I had 'n' no. of mails in my personal folder, only these two, in particular, made me to read them.

One was from my very good pal, Gautham. The mail trail was our conversation between 01/19/2010 and 01/24/2010. It was initiated by me to sort out few things that were causing a rift between us. As usual, like any other mail thread that run for sorting things out between friends end, this one also ended in a happy note. I'm not sure whether he has the mail still in his mailbox like I do, but if by chance he has, and care to look into it, he too will feel happy for sure, as the words in the mail were from the bottom of our heart. I wish to quote one of his lines here - "..... and I think that way, I 've always liked you for what you are and you're quite genuine at that." What more than the words like these would one expect from his pal? I wish our friendship to continue forever (maybe with few kinder-garden fights so that I would get many such lines from him.... LOL....).

The other one was from my sweetest pal (I mention the word 'sweetest' here, and I fail to tell the name. So that's the clue I leave to all to figure out the gender of the person). It was the one I got after a few days of fight with her, but unlike the previous mail, it wasn't a conversation mail to sort things out. In fact it wasn't a conversation mail at all. It was just a mail that she received in appreciation for her work (on 08/20/2009). But she didn't even tell me about it as we were still not in talking terms. It was through some third person that I came to know about it that day, and the fact that she failed to share that with me only made me to feel bad for not talking with her (I wasn't the one who initiated the fight, it was only she who choose not to talk with me. Of course it was because of me... LOL...). 

As a worried person, I called her later that day to patch up with her. When I complained her about her behavior of not saying about the mail to me, she replied, "Believe it or not, it was only you who came to my mind first, the moment I saw the mail. Sorry for not letting you know about it by myself." I got that, it was just the 'Girly Adamancy'. So I erased the disappointment from my memory. The next day (08/21/2009) morning, I opened my mailbox to see that mail forwarded to me. I checked the time it was sent. It meant she forwarded it as soon as she was at her desk that day (Maybe she was really worried for not saying about it to me on the previous day).

Though I have peeked into these mails umpteen times, every time I open them, it only makes me happy for some unknown reasons. Those were the good-olden days. And although both of the mails might give anyone a thought that I fight with people often, trust me, that's not so TRUE. In fact, I mentioned the date only to make clear that they were the things of the past. Nevertheless, it happens sometime, where I 'm not the only reason for that. Anyway thinks like these in the past moulded me to be a more matured person now. In fact, I don't give any room for these issues anymore. 

Once I was like, "Be happy, and make others happy". But nowadays I prefer, "Be or not be happy, but make others happy."

"People go crazy chasing happiness. But sometimes all it takes is a nice conversation with a good friend." - Chetan Bhagat.