Don't let your mind become cluttered with worry. It leaves less room for the good stuff.
. Maria Fontaine

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Return to the Art of Letter Writing

Image
A Return to the Art of Letter Writing It was 9.30 in the morning and I was nearing the front gate of St. Berchmans College. As I saw the arch in front of the college, I felt I had forgotten something. I scratched my hair in hesitation. Thank God! I found it. I took an inland letter out of my pocket. I checked the receiver’s address below the stamp imprinted with Smt. Indira Gandhi’s smiling face. It was my first letter. Till then, I had only written letters in my answer sheets of language papers. And this was the first time I ever wrote a letter in real life. The letter was addressed to my friend who was undergoing priestly formation in Indore. As seminarians, they had restriction in using mobile phones. So, I decided to express my feelings through this piece of paper. I put the letter in the letter box in front of the office room. When I entered my classroom, my friend Ajin asked me what I was doing at the letter box. I told him that I was posting a letter to one of my ...
Read more

The Little Librarian

Image
A.M.D.G May 14, 2017 I still remember the evening when I revealed to my father, my desire to become a Catechism teacher in our Sunday School. My father, appreciated my desire and he insisted to ask our vicar about this. With much anxiety and nervousness, I waited outside Fr. Philip’s room. It was not very easy to be appointed as a Catechist in such a large Sunday School which consisted about 700 students and about 35 teachers. The staff consisted of well qualified and well experienced personalities. There were about 6 college professors, 15 or more school teachers, government employees and many others. I was only 17 years old and just completed Plus Two. Will he accept my request? Fr. Philip who was very friendly to all welcomed me into his room and I told him my desire to become a Catechist. To my surprise, he too encouraged me and asked me to join next month, in which the Sunday school reopened. But, I was not so much happy when I was assigned to the post of libraria...
Read more

THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS TO SUCCEED IN LIFE.

Image
THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS TO SUCCEED IN LIFE. HARD WORK Hard work is the most prominent factor in success. It is said that: "Dreams don't work unless you do". If we have an extreme desire, it will be followed by hard work. We should sacrifice ourselves in order to accomplish our dreams. We should be workaholics. If we glance at the the lives of famous personalities we could see their desire and sacrifice to succeed. NBA legend Michael Jordan spent his off seasons taking hundreds of jump shots a day Venus and Serena Williams were up hitting tennis balls at 6 A.M. from the time they were 7 and 8 years old Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer routinely pulled all nighters and 130 hour work weeks while at Google We all know the chemical formula of water is H2O. But the chemical formula of success is H2W ie; Hard Hard Work. PRAYER Einstein said " Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." But that 1% is very important than 99%. " P...
Read more