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Life is full of ups and downs. While we exhilarate in the ups, we are totally at a loss when it comes to dealing with the downs. This book has been specifically designed to help you turn the tide in your favour in the face of odds. Each day is a fresh day - look at it with hope and enthusiasm, yesterday is over. Whatever the situation, you can make the best of things by the right approach: *If you wish to rise in your career, begin liking your work. *If you wish to excel, have a healthy approach to criticism. *If you want to scare away failures, preserve your peace of mind in the face of heavy odds. *If you desire a happy married life, learn to respect your spouse. The book covers the entire gamut of social,personal and professional situations and guides you how to come out a winner with hundreds of real-life examples from: *Lincoln * Munshi Prem Chand *Gandhi *Churchill *Napoleon *Marie Curie and many more......presenting inspiring 'lives and times' for you to follow.

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Employabilité, métiers et formations

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Publié par	V & S Publishers
Date de parution	01 avril 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789381384428
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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© Copyright: O.P. Sharma ISBN: 978-93-81384-42-8 Edition: April 2011
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Contents
            Preface
  1. Are You Afraid of Your Mistakes?
  2. Put Your Emotions to Work
  3. How to Like Your Work
  4. Do Not Be Afraid of Criticism
  5. Turn Failure into Success
  6. The Miraculous Power of Imagination
  7. Poise is Power
  8. Get Rid of the Tyranny of Bad Habits
  9. Your Personality is Your Fortune
10. What Enthusiasm Can do for You
11. Youth is No Folly
12. Don’t Foster an Emotional Scar
13. Why Great Men are Great
14. Are You Unconventional?
15. Make Your Mind Behave
16. You Can Hit the Target
17. How to Capitalize on Your Mistakes
18. Tact Triumphs Over Talent
19. The Tonic of Courage and Faith
20. Your Decision is Your Destiny
21. The Anatomy of Success
22. Ambition—The Spur to Success
23. Don’t Be a Grievance Collector
24. Rewards of Right Thinking
25. How to enjoy your work
26. Rewards of Creative Living
27. Learn The Magic Power of Words
28. Need to Spread Moral Sunshine
29. Is Your Marital Boat Sailing Smoothly?
30. Way to Cultural Excellence
31. Cancer of Corruption
Preface
The desire to bask in the glory of success is inherent in all human beings. Why do then some reach the peak of success and others are pushed into obscurity? A facile reply will be: They are darlings of destiny. Those who develop this brand of psyche are wedded to inaction which needless to say is the mother of failure. As a matter of fact we get what we deserve. In other words, fortune favours the prepared mind. This is by no means an ideal syrupy preaching. A peep into the lives of great personages bears testimony to the fact that fruits of labour are sweeter than gifts of fortune. This book intends to develop self-awareness in people and help them evolve their respective strategies and vision which may be enshrined thus: Intelligence and diligence are our best guarantors of success.
Most articles included in this volume were written by me years ago and appeared in magazines like Caravan (now Alive), Mirror, Art of Living, Careers Digest, Current Events, Social Welfare etc. I feel immensely indebted to them for publishing these articles.
I also owe a measure of gratitude to my borther-in-law Devki Nandan Sharma, who though much younger than me, had the wisdom to put me on the right track in my early life and his sister Janak Dulari my wife, who sustained my academic endeavours. Pustak Mahal, publishers of this book too deserve to be highly appreciated for their earnest desire and effort to bring out this volume early.
O.P. Sharma
Are You Afraid of Your Mistakes?

Each day is a fresh day—look at it with hope and enthusiasm. Yesterday is over. Why not remove the garbage from your mind?
Only gods are infallible. Human beings, however intelligent, are liable to err. So we should learn to take mistakes in our stride and should not allow them to overwhelm us.
Mistakes are essential to progress. G.B. Shaw once said, “Man learns to skate by staggering, making a fool of himself. Indeed, he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.” From cave-life to modern civilised life is a story of trial and error. The people in the preceding ages, undaunted by the fear of mistakes, made inventions and discoveries that constitute the glory of modern civilisation.

Each time Nimmi, Kamla’s 14-year old daughter, expresses her desire to prepare vegetables, her mother prevents her by saying, “You will spoil it.” Kamla’s does not realise that her daughter cannot become expert in cooking without spoiling vegetables or burning a loaf. Parents should show tolerance when their children make mistakes. They should not resort to frequent snubbing to prevent the child from making mistakes.
Excessive scolding serves no useful purpose. It shatters the child’s confidence and makes him peevish. It will not be surprising if he starts despising his parents. Let children do things and profit by the mistakes they make in the process. Not to allow your children to do things for fear of mistakes is to handicap their development.
Some persons do not take up a job on the plea that there are already superior persons in the profession. They conclude that the presence of the superior persons will spell their failure. They do not pause for a moment to think that the superior persons did not achieve perfection in their skill overnight. They, too, had to pass through a series of trials and errors before they could attain their present enviable positions. This should be enough to make beginners immune from the fear of being ridiculed by the superior persons. As a matter of fact, persons having superior skill do not ridicule the efforts of beginners. Only those who have remained imperfect due to their waywardness ridicule others.
If you have any plan to implement, do not be afraid of discussing it with your friends. If they point out any defects in your plan, you should not take it as jealousy on their part. Weigh their opinions objectively. It is quite possible that their advice may make your plan still better.
If you make a mistake, have the moral courage to acknowledge it and put it right. Mistakes do little harm if they are acknowledged and corrected without delay. Let mistakes remain unattended and they wil do untold harm to the task in hand and your reputation. Concealment of an error is no less undesirable. In case you camouflage your mistakes, you will have to resort to desperate lying to make your position invulnerable. When your lies are known to others which is only a matter of time, your dignity will be injured even more.
Nobody despises a person who has the moral courage to admit that he is wrong and is immediately prepared to rectify the error. What can you say to a person who candidly admits, “I beg your pardon. You are right, I misunderstood you. Please let me set the matter right.”
It is bad to shift responsibility on to others for your own failures. Among students this tendency is often very marked. When they fail in an examination, they put the blame either on the teacher for his inefficient teaching or the fate. They never admit that they failed for lack of preparation. Some bosses make their subordinates scapegoats when their plans prove a flop. But when these succeed they pat only themselves and deny any credit to the subordinates. When we want to take credit for the success of a thing, we ought to bear responsibility for its miscarriage, too. To disown responsibility for failures is cowardice.
Brooding over past mistakes cripples positive thinking and creates unnecessary tension in the mind. You will do well to clear out the garbage of past mistakes from your mind. Begin next day’s work with a fresh mind and vigour. You will surely find the way to success and happiness smooth.
Put Your Emotions to Work

Emotions can increase your happiness and pleasure in life, or they can be blighters of joy and kill all incentive—the choice is all yours!
We all have emotions. They are inseparable from our life, just as fragrance is from a flower. They vitally affect our happiness. So we should learn to control them properly.
Emotions are of two types—good and bad. Good emotions make our personality attractive and increase happiness. We should cultivate them. Bad emotions prove blighters of happiness and killers of efficiency. We need to discard them.
Do you want to be loved and respected? You do. Then you should learn to like others. Respect the sentiments of the people around you and do not fail to appreciate their achievements when occasion demands. Genuine appreciation is a double blessing. It wins others’ love and inspires the recipient to further achievements.
One day, my wife prepared some tasty dishes for dinner. I silently enjoyed the food. After a few moments, she asked me if I had not liked the dishes. I at once realised my folly and complimented her on her cooking. She beamed all over with joy.
Love is of great importance in all human relations. It is for the sake of love that parents suffer for their children, patriots make great sacrifices for their country, and people help follow-beings distressed by floods and earthquakes.
Other emotions which contribute to our happiness are courage, hope and patience. In all big enterprises of life, courage is essential. If a person does not acquire this quality, he will have to be content with modest achievements only. Fortune favours the brave.
There is none who can claim immunity from failures. Failures bring a lot of misery in their wake. In such circumstances, it is the oar of hope that takes one’s boat out of troubled waters. You can draw ambitious plans, but without patience you cannot carry them out. You can well imagine the consequences of the fiasco of a big business venture in which you showed lack of patience halfway.
Fear, anger and hate should not be allowed free play. Otherwise these can wreck our happiness.
Fear undermines courage and paralyses action. It flings open the gates of misery. I know of a young man who did not take his examination several times for fear of failure. On every occasion, he found one excuse or the other to justify his action. He complained that his mind did not work properly. In fact, nothing was wrong with his mind. He