Pay Your Dreams First

I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, "Pay yourself first" – It usually relates to the idea of saving a percentage of your paycheck as soon as you receive it and then living on the remainder. This is a much more effective approach than trying to save whatever is left over at the end of the month because we all know that there’s rarely anything ‘left over’.
What many people don’t realize is that this same principle applies not only to money but also to time and energy.

When you’re working full time and/or raising a family, you may find that at the end of the day you just don’t have enough time or energy left to work on achieving your personal goals and dreams.

In order to make your goals a reality, you must make two important decisions:

(1) Decide that your goals are important and make them a priority in your life.

(2) Decide to work on YOUR dreams before you work for other people.

Now you might be thinking. "Anthony – that sounds good in theory, but what does it mean in the real world?" – Good question…Let’s have a look at an example:

Here is a typical work day for most people:

7:00am - Wake up and get ready for work
8:00am - Travel to work
9:00am – 6:00pm - Work for other people
7:00pm - Dinner
8:00pm – 11.00pm - Spend time with family / watch TV etc
11:00pm - Go to sleep

The most practical and effective system for making your dreams a reality is this:

Step 1: Go to sleep an hour earlier than usual

Step 2: Wake up an hour earlier than usual

Step 3: Spend the first hour of your day working on your personal goals and dreams

By following this system, you make your goals a priority and "Pay Your Dreams First"

Let’s look at a revised timetable:

6:00am - Wake up and get ready for work
7:00am - Work on your goals and dreams
8:00am - Travel to work
9:00am – 6:00pm - Work for other people
7:00pm - Dinner
8:00pm – 10.00pm - Spend time with family / watch TV etc
10:00pm- Go to sleep

Although it might initially be difficult to make these lifestyle changes, if you can adopt this as your new morning routine, you’ll find yourself on the fast track to creating the life you really desire. Each and every day you’ll be gaining momentum and moving steadily towards achieving your goals.

You really can change your life one hour at a time.

Always remember:

"While most people are dreaming of success, a select few wake up and work hard to achieve it."

Change Your Routine – Change Your Life

Change Your Routine – Change Your Life


The word ‘routine’ often has negative connotations associated with repetition and boredom, but this does not have to be the case!

In fact, ‘routine’ can be a highly effective secret weapon for achieving your most important goals.

Whenever you set a major goal, you should ask yourself this important question:

Let me explain how this works using a real world example:

This year, my partner and I have decided to learn to salsa dance. We both have a dancing background so our goal is to perform a dance routine together on stage before the end of the year.

Although our goal has a target date of the 31st December, we know that in order to achieve our goal we have to act NOW and make changes to our routine to include a weekly dance class.

As soon as you make changes to your routine and schedule in the activities necessary to achieve your future goals, you essentially put your goals on ‘autopilot’.

Action Steps:

1. Review your goals and ask yourself, "How can I change my routine today in order to achieve my future goals?"

2. Take action and make the changes to your current routine to set your goals on autopilot.

3. Commit to following your routine, knowing that it is leading you to your goals one day at a time

One of the Best IT Interview (Funny !!!)

Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.
Candidate: I am Rameshwar Kulkarni. I did my Tele Communication engineering from BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology.

Interviewer: BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology? I had never heard of this college before!
Candidate: Great! Even I had not heard of it before getting an admission into it .. What happened is - due to cricket world cup I scored badly! in 12th.I was getting a paid seat in a good college. But my father said (I prefer to call him 'baap') - "I can not invest so much of money".(The baap actually said - "I will never waste so much of money on you"). So I had to join this college. Frankly speaking this name - BabanRao Dhole-Patil, can at the most be related to a Shetakari Mahavidyalaya.

Interviewer: ok, ok. It seems you have taken 6 years to complete your engineering.
Candidate: Actually I tried my best to finish it in 4 years. But you know, these cricket matches and football world cup, and tennis tournaments. It is difficult to concentrate. So I flunked in 2nd and 3rd year. So in all I took 4 + 2 = 7 years.

Interviewer: But 4+2 is 6.
Candidate: Oh, is it? You know I always had KT in maths. But I will try to keep this in mind. 4+2 is 6, good, thanks. These cricket matches really affect exams a lot. I think they should ban it.

Interviewer: Good to know that you want cricket matches to be banned.
Candidate: No, no... I am talking about Exams!!

Interviewer: Ok, What is your biggest achievement in life?
Candidate: Obviously, completing my Engineering. My mom never thought I would complete it. In fact, when i flunked in 3rd year, she was looking for a job for me in BEST (Bus corporation in Maharashtra) through some relative.

Interviewer: Do you have any plans of higher study?
Candidate: he he he.. Are you kidding? Completing 'lower' education itself was so much of pain!!

Interviewer: Let's talk about technical stuff. On which platforms have you worked?
Candidate: Well, I work at SEEPZ, so you can say Andheri is my current platform. Earlier I was at Vashi center. So Vashi was my platform then. As you can see I have experience of different platforms! (Vashi and Andheri are the places in Mumbai)

Interviewer: And which languages have you used?
Candidate: Marathi, Hindi, English. By the way, I can keep quiet in German, French, Russian and many other languages.

Interviewer: Why VC is better than VB?
Candidate: It is a common sense - C comes after B. So VC is a higher version than VB. I heard very soon they are coming up with a new language VD!

Interviewer: Do you know anything about Assembly Language?
Candidate: Well, I have not heard of it. But I guess, this is the language our ministers and MPs use in assembly.

Interviewer: What is your general project experience?
Candidate: My general experience about projects is - most of th! e times they are in pipeline!

Interviewer: Can you tell me about your current job?
Candidate: Sure, Currently I am working for Bata InfoTech ltd. Since joining BIL, I am on Bench. Before joining BIL, I used to think that Bench was another software like Windows.

Interviewer: Do you have any project management experience?
Candidate: No, but I guess it shouldn't be difficult. I know Word and Excel. I can talk a lot. I know how to dial for International phone call and use speaker facility. And very important - I know few words like - 'Showstoppers ' , 'hotfixes', 'SEI-CMM','quality' ,'versioncontrol ','deadlines' , 'Customer Satisfaction' etc. Also I can blame others for my mistakes!

Interviewer: What are your expectations from our company?
Candidate: Not much.
1. I should at least get 40,000 in hand.
2. I would like to work on a live EJB project. But it should not have deadlines. I personally feel that pressure affects natural talent.
3. I believe in flexi-timings.
4. Dress code is against basic freedom, so I would like to wear t-shirt and jeans.
5. We must have sat-sun off. I will suggest Wednesday off also, so as to avoid breakdown due to overwork.
6. I would like to go abroad 3 times a year on short term preferably 1-2 months) assignments. Personally I prefer US, Australia and Europe. But considering the fact that there is Olympics coming up in China in the current year, I don't mind going there in that period. As you can see I am modest and don't have many expectations. So can I assume my selection?

Interviewer: he he he ha ha ha. Thanks for your interest in our organization. In fact I was never entertained so much before.
Welcome to ********
The fellow was appointed in a newly created section 'Stress Management' in the HRD of ********

Safalta

સફળતા જિંદગીની, હસ્તરેખામાં નથી હોતી;
ચણાયેલી ઈમારત એના નકશામાં નથી હોતી.

સુભાગી છે સિતારા કે ગણતરી થાય છે એની,
પ્રણયમાં નહિ તો કોઈ ચીજ ગણનામાં નથી હોતી.

મને દીવાનગી મંજૂર છે આ એક બાબત પર,
મહોબ્બતની મજા તમને સમજવામાં નથી હોતી.

તમે મારાં થયાં નહિ તોય મારાં માનવાનો છું,
કમી સચ્ચાઈમાં હોય છે, ભ્રમણામાં નથી હોતી.

વધુ હસવાથી આંસુ આવતાં જોઈને પૂછું છું,
અસર એનાથી ઊલટી કેમ રોવામાં નથી હોતી ?

હવે આથી વધુ શું ખાલી હાથે દિન વિતાવું હું ?
કે મારી જિંદગી પણ મારા કબજામાં નથી હોતી.

ન શંકા રાખ કે મારી ગરીબી બહુ નિખાલસ છે,
છે એ એવી દશા જે કોઈ પરદામાં નથી હોતી.

ધરાવે છે બધા મારા જ પ્રત્યે સંકુચિત માનસ,
જગા મારે જ માટે જાણે દુનિયામાં નથી હોતી.

કોઈ આ વાત ને સંજોગનો સ્વીકાર ના માને,
જગતની સૌ ખુશી મારી તમન્નામાં નથી હોતી.

મને છે આટલો સંતોષ દુનિયાની બુરાઈનો,
વિકસવાની તો શક્તિ કોઈ કાંટામાં નથી હોતી.

બધે મારાં કદમની છાપ ના જોયા કરે લોકો,
કે મંઝિલ મારી મારા સર્વ રસ્તામાં નથી હોતી.

મળ્યો છે સૌને જીવનમાં સમય થોડોક તો સારો,
ફિકર પોતાની કોઈનેય નિદ્રામાં નથી હોતી.

બીજા તો શું મને અંધકારમાં રાખીને છેતરશે ?
કે મારી જાત ખુદ મારીય છાયામાં નથી હોતી.

ગઝલમાં એ જ કારણથી હું મૌલિક હોઉં છું ‘બેફામ’
પીડા મારાં દુ:ખોની કોઈ બીજામાં નથી હોતી.

A Romantic Sunset at Marin Drive, Mumbai. I think, this one is the most fantastic photograph I have ever taken.