Every year, thousands compete in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (SCMM). Lot of them don’t cross the finish line. That doesn’t mean they failed the marathon. It means they ran more than they have ever done. And the year after that, many of them will run farther.
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They Sent Me To Finish
The Olympic Games, Mexico, 1968. The marathon is the final event of the program. The Olympic stadium is packed and there is excitement as the first athlete, an Ethiopian runner, enters the stadium. The crowd erupts as he crosses the finish line.
Beatles Are Angels Of The Earth
When Beatles appeared on the one hour Ed Sullivan show, there was no crime in US. This myth made the beatles super famous. Mahashri Mahesh Yogi said then, “Beatles are angels of the earth.”
How to become humble?
Ravi was a young man who was bitten by the spirituality bug. He started believing, having spiritual knowledge makes him superior to other people. People started telling him he was being arrogant. He believed, they were being jealous.
Have You Ever Experienced The State Of Flow?
Flow is the transcendent state of being, identified by influential psychologist Mikhaly Csikszentmihalyi. In flow, says Csikszentmihalyi, “a person could work endlessly, for no better reason than to keep on working.” The reward is not the result. The reward is the work itself.
Those Five Little Words
I was parked in front of the huge tower, waiting for my wife to get out of work. Seated on a bench at the bus stand, near the parking place, was what people would call a vagrant. From the looks of him, he had no job, no proper home, no clean clothes, and no money.
Hitting The Rock Bottom
Remember the feeling of being the topper in class. Everyone celebrated you. And then it became too easy to top the class.
Who is a Champion?
Champions are people who remember the lessons but forgive the sinner.
When Champions do not get results, they do not get disappointed. They do not give up. They give it another shot. They stay ‘AT IT’. And attempt better. Again. And again. And even better the next time.
Choose Whose Approval You Want
We are talking about John Kennedy Toole, an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces. He committed suicide because the book he wrote, A Confederacy of Dunces, was rejected by a publisher.
The Birth of a DENT
I remember reading, Indira Nooyi was asked by her mother, “When you grow up, what would you do, to change the world?” I visualized my mother asking me the same question. I had no answer. I was determined to find an answer.