Little Deep Thoughts

There is a huge difference between active relaxation and passive relaxation. When we play video or computer games, play cards, work in the garden, walk the dog, or play chess, we are interacting with the unexpected, and our minds are responding. All of these activities increase personal creativity and intellectual motivation. They are all active pursuits. Active relaxation refreshes and restores the mind. It keeps it flexible and toned for thinking. Great thinkers have known this secret for a long time. Winston Churchill used to paint to relax. Albert Einstein played the violin. They could relax one part of the brain while stimulating another. When they returned to workday pursuits they were fresher and sharper than ever. Most of us try to deaden the mind in order to relax. We rent mindless videos, read pulp fiction, drink, smoke, and eat until we're foggy and bloated. The problem with this form of relaxation is that it dulls our spirit and makes it hard to come back to consciou...

When you are in difficulties, when things are not going the way you want them to, when your existence and survival seems to be threatened, when hostile forces raise their hoods and start hissing, as a rationale being, your first reaction should be to think intelligently and bravely and deal with the situation by developing alternative action plans. You need plan A, a plan B and perhaps a plan C or D. You need to give a definite shape and time frame to each of these plans, add necessary details and put them into writing for easy and quick reference. Once you have them in place, you may take up your best plan and initiate action. Action is the best antidote to fear and failure and to all that cause, within and without, that has landed you in the first place into this unfortunate situation. But unless you persevere, action by itself will not be sufficient. You need to be steadfast in your actions, doing what the best of your intelligence tells you to do and keep doing it till you ac...

It's okay if you fail an exam. It's okay if you are getting rejected in your interviews. It's okay if you feel nervous on your first day of work. It's okay if someone doesn't care about your love towards them. It's okay if you have not achieved what you want. It's okay if you're feeling bad about what you have lost. It's okay if you're finding hard to make friends. It's okay if your old friends are enjoying their life and you are stuck at home. It's okay if you haven't got the bike you want. It's okay if you can't buy that dress. It's okay if you haven't still moved on. It's OKAY. Your life hasn't got over yet. You've got days and weeks and years to make things better and do things that you love. You may not achieve it as soon as possible. Good things take time. Make sure you work hard for it. Now tell yourself its okay that you're taking time because good things are worth the wait.