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Right Man For the Right Job!!!!!

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History ….A Quick Look …..an inspirational story …

Sunday, December 7th, 1941–Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a
concert in Washington, D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone
call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz)
would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet.

Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet.
He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a
spirit of despair, dejection and defeat–you would have thought the
Japanese had already won the war. On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz
was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by
the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the
waters everywhere you looked.

As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat
asked, “Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this
destruction?” Admiral Nimitz’s reply shocked everyone within the sound
of his voice.

Admiral Nimitz said, “The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes
an attack force could ever make or God was taking care of America.
Which do you think it was?”

Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, “What do mean by
saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force
ever made?” Nimitz explained:

Mistake number one: The Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out
of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those
same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk–we would have lost
38,000 men instead of 3,800.

Mistake number two: When the Japanese saw all those battleships lined
in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they
never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had
destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those
ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in
shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry
docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could
have towed them to America . And I already have crews ashore anxious
to man those ships.

Mistake number three: Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war
is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill.
One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel
supply. That’s why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest
mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America
.
Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in that situation and circumstance
where everyone else saw only despair and defeat.

President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job.

source …. input from a friend of mine…
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Message For The Day….Practice the Good Things Learnt …

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One may know the 700 verses of the Bhagavad Gita by heart, but trust Me, the time that was spent in learning by rote and reciting it, is all a waste, if one does not resolutely act upon even a single verse. It is not the resolution that matters; it is resoluteness. Resolution is just a string of words. In fact, that learning might even be a handicap as that skill can affect the head and make one swell with pride. The price of sugarcane is fixed according to the sugar content in it. You evaluate oranges in proportion to the juice they contain, is it not? So too, one is worthy of honour in proportion to the knowledge of the Self acquired. This knowledge alone can confer steadiness, strength and real happiness.

SWAMI SATYA SAI….in one of HIS divine discourses….

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Message For The Day….Mantra For Meditation…

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Install a radio receiver, select the wavelength of the station you propose to listen to, and tune it correctly to that wavelength. You will then hear the radio program loud and clear, is it not? Your ear will tell you the accuracy with which you have tuned. Akin to this, you must enter into a course of spiritual discipline. Choose any mantra or incantation of the Lord that pleases you. Meditate on it and repeat it continuously with accurate care and steady attention; tune in to the Voice of God within you. Do not pay heed to the obstacles that come in the way, in the form of satire and criticism that people around you give freely. They may be experts only on short-lived trivialities of social life or sensual pleasure. Persist on your practices – your own experience will tell you the validity and value of this experiment! – Divine Discourse of Swami Satya Sai..

Message For The Day….Silence to Control Our Senses…

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The silence you maintain in temples and devotional congregation must be carried over to wherever you go. It must be taken as an exercise in the control of the senses. Senses always are exterior oriented. The tongue should not talk evil. The eyes should not look out for evil. The ears should not seek evil. The presence of God in every being makes everyone holy. Thinking low of others amounts to thinking low of God. You must always cultivate the feeling that God is the Father and everyone around you are brothers and sisters. This brotherhood is more real and binding than the blood brotherhood, for here the paternal property for which you struggle can be shared without the share of the other being diminished in any way. Poornasya Poornamaadaaya Poomamevaavasishyate – When the Full is subtracted from the Full, what is left is still Full!
– Divine Discourse….Swami Satya Sai…

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From Garage To Global Top Companies Today…

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 These are among world biggest business entities which every entrepreneur dreams about. Most of us have an idea that to set up business, venture capitalists, big-money consultants and a beautiful office are must. Here we sum up  few companies which started in a small garage and today are among top companies in the world listed by getentrepreneurial.com.

source::::::siliconindia net..

 

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Harley Davidson
It all started when two childhood friends William Harley and Arthur Davidson were fascinated towards a motor bike from a Milwaukee garage. They began to work upon the motor bike but realized that the engine was very much underperforming. They decided to build an engine on their own and that was the historic moment when Harley Davidson invented their first motor bike. Today Harley Davidson is among the best motor bike brand company in the world.
 Dell
While attending the University of Texas in 1984, Michael Dell established the company as PCs Limited. The way to the success that Dell now enjoys started with an idea and only $1,000 investment. Initial operations of Dell’s company executed from Dell’s dorm room, until he resolute to leave college to run his company full time basis. In 1985, the company generated the first computer of its own design, and by 1988 had an IPO that treasured the company at nearly $80 million.
 Amazon
Amazon.com is at present the largest online book selling company. Jeff Bezos initially commenced the business in his garage. It started with marketing books through internet and skyrocketed as an online corporation that sells a varied list of products such as computers and other electronic items. Though the firm has undergone two legal suits but still continues to rise high and maintain the position to be the “world’s largest bookstore”.
. HP
In 1939, two electrical engineering Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, graduates from Stanford, established an electronics manufacturing company in a one-car garage in Palo Alto,
With a total investment of $538, the duo founded the Hewlett-Packard Company, famously called HP. They commenced with developing a few electronic devices and later come into the PC market in 1966. Till date, Hewlett Packard is best known not only for its first-rated electronics and distinctive company culture -“The HP Way”, but also for its corporate social accountability in retrieving billions of pounds of electronics, toner and ink cartridges.
 Google
On September 7, 1998, a company opened its door in Menlo Park, CA. The door came with a remote control, as it was connected to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation’s staff of three, which is how Google Inc. was commenced. Today Google is a colloquial term also often used as a common verb in our daily life. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin moved out of the dorm, officially included the Google name, and ended raising $1 million from a few investors.
For the five months Google worked out of Wojcicki’s garage, Page and Brin exchanged between trifling with their search engine’s now famous algorithm, soaking in the hot tub, and raiding the refrigerator for midnight snacks, a custom that may have stimulated Google’s free-food policy for all its employees.
Apple
Nearly all remember the sight in Forest Gump when he explains that he never has to be troubled about money again because of his investment in the fruit company called “Apple.” This is the scenario with all most all the investors of Apple Inc. Apple commenced in the garage of a young man called Steve Wozniack. Wozniack and his long time friend Steve Jobs were very mush interested to build a computer on their own.
In 1976; both approached a local electronics store to see if they would be interested in buying a personal computer that Wozniack had built. The next very moment they got an order of 50 computers. Though both Wozniack and Steve were out of cash, but then managed to convince few electronic dealers to deal on a credit basis. Apple has established to be the company that creates the industry standard time and time again. The journey from the garage of Steve Wozniack to being ranked 103 on the Fortune 500, Apple persists to grow more and more.

Message For The Day….Be Like a Lotus….

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Unaware of your Divine Status, you revel in low company, you toil and sweat as the slave of mean passions, which drag you into disgrace. Be the royal heir that you really are! Be like the lotus, which though born in the slush at the bottom of the lake, through its sheer will-power, rises above the waters, to see the Sun and be inspired by its rays. The lotus discards contact with water, though it is born and bred in that element. So too, you should avoid being attached to the elemental passions! How long are you to sit content with the minor role of a clown or a clout? Have you no ambition? Why smother your genuine talents under a self-imposed mask? Quit the zero roles today and take on the role of the Hero and shine! This is your right!

Swami Satya Sai in one of HIS divine discourses…

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World”s Oldest Yoga Teacher…@ 98 years!!!!

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Connie is the world’s bendiest pensioner

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She’s a leg-end … Connie Dennison has taught her yoga class at a church for 40 years
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By SAM WHYTE  …THE SUN  UK.

GREAT-GRAN Connie Dennison is set to take the title of world’s oldest yoga teacher — at the age of 98.

Connie — who has done the bendy exercises since the 1930s — has taught a weekly class at a Dunfermline church for 40 years.

She said: “I’d be in a wheelchair if I didn’t have yoga. it’s a great way to look after your body.” Canadian Ida Herbert, 96, currently holds the Guinness World Record title.

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Spry … Connie says yoga keeps her mobile

But Connie, of North Queensferry, said teaching yoga to “the girls” — some of whom are in their EIGHTIES — was more important than the record. Pupil Sophia Henderson, 88, said: “I wouldn’t be surprised to be attending her classes when she turns 100.”

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Life is A Mix of Both Change and Non change ….

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Sorrow simply means that viveka (discrimination) is overshadowed. Viveka means knowing that everything is changing. Your body, your emotions, the people around you and the world-everything is changing. Time and again you have to awaken to this reality. You are often fearful of change. Change is inevitable in many fronts thoug security is hooked on to stability. You know there is a need for change to improve your life, but you feel secure in the old pattern. You need the courage to implement changes whenever it is necessary. You have to evaluate the pros and the cons. You have to see whether that gives you short-term joy and misery in the long run or short-time pain and joy in the long run.
Life is a combination of both change and non-change. So, use your intelligence and courageously implement changes when you feel that there is a need for change.

source::::: SRI SRI Ravishankarji…
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Message For The Day…Good or Bad ..Treat Both Equal….

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Take the ups and downs of life as natural. They are incidental to the world of compounds and components. When an empty plantain leaf is kept, it tends to move up in the wind and fly. But, when you serve dishes on it, the food and the leaf will remain unshaken. So too, fill your mind and heart with the virtues of faith, steady discipline, devotion, detachment and equanimity – these are items of the spiritual menu. Then you will not sink with every blow. When you have attained true wisdom, you will find that good fortune should not be gloated over, nor bad fortune grieved over. A hero treats both with equal unconcern. Pain and Gain are breezes and storms that cannot affect the depths of the ocean of bliss in the heart of a true devotee.

source::::: Swami Satya Sai…in His DISCOURSE…

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