Live the Moment

By Bob Stoess

Always keep faith, have a sense of humour, and do good deeds at random in your life. God always has your back, if only you’ll let Him. Don’t take everything so seriously. Keep levity in your daily life, as it really is the best medicine. Give aid to strangers, because the blessings will come back to you tenfold, impacting their life and yours in a positive way. It might only be a smile, opening a door for someone, or giving guidance along the way but it will leave you with a positive affirmation for your good deeds.

It’s a matter of validation of one person to another that we see them, that we care, and that they matter. We all need that sense of worth. Too often we fail in acknowledging one another as we should. Make a concerted effort to day “Hi, Hello, and Thak You” whenever you can, because it’ll make a difference in keeping a positive attitude.

You don’t need to worry about what others have or don’t have. You don’t need to keep up with the “Jones” or your friends, because you are living your life, not theirs. Be you. Find what you enjoy doing and be that in your living.

Enjoy your work, for one-third of each day is spent in your partner, for your joy and happiness in life depends upon it. Live an exemplary life, for you are an influence to others who are looking for guidance in life.

Don’t wait until you are on your deathbed, talk about your coulda-woulda-shouldas, and regret what you have or have not done. Be prepared to meet your Maker with a smile, reflecting the accomplishments of your life. I’m thankful to have enjoyed what I always wanted — a fulfilled and joyful life. You can’t ask for any more than that.

Slow Down

Have you ever watched children, On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain, Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down. Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short. The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day, On the fly?
When you ask How are you? Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done, Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores, Running through your head?
You’d better slow down. Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short. The music won’t last.

Ever told your child, We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste, Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time, To call and say, ‘Hi’
You’d better slow down. Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short. The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift... Thrown away.
Life is not a race. Do take it slower
Hear the music, Before the song is over.

Love Over Everything Else

By Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj ji

Love and Anger are two extreme emotions in human lives which rule us, both poles apart and lead us to totally different destinies. In the present milieu, pure and divine love is the best gift we can give to this world. Today, in this selfish and chaotic world, a word of care, a word of selfless love can create wonders. An act of kindness, however small, can never go waste, taking us to new heights of inner happiness, peace and satisfaction that probably cannot be expressed in words.

Anger, on the other hand, can destroy almost everything that we have or earned in life. An angry man is not in a stable state of mind and, hence, cannot be expected to act sensibly. He can never be at peace. However, some people argue that it is necessary to get angry sometimes to get things done or to change people’s attitude towards us. But, one must never forget one important lesson we have been taught by the Supreme — that we are not here to change others. Our goal is to change ourselves; work for our mental and emotional uplift. Others will change as per their time and destiny; we cannot force anyone. But our destiny lies in our own hands.

We can choose to make our life beautiful by inculcating the virtues of love, peace, purity, happiness or can make it miserable by remaining engaged in vices.

Remember, God does not give us happiness; He only shows us the path to happiness.

Hence, it is up to us to make happiness a way of life, leaving behind past experiences that had a negative impact on our mind.

The author is a writer at www.brahmakumaris.com. He can be reached at nikunjji@brahmakumaris.in.

Savour Life

Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others, it is because we are different that each of us is special.

Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important, only you know what is best for you.

Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart, cling to that as you would your life, for without them life is meaningless.

Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or the future.

By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.

Don’t give up when you still have something to give, nothing is really over... until the moment you stop trying.

Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect, it is the fragile thread that binds us to each other.

Don’t be afraid to encounter risks, it is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give love.

The fastest way to keep love is to hold on too tightly, and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Don’t dismiss your ‘dreams’. To be without dreams is to be without hope. To be without hope is to be without purpose.

Don’t run through life so fast that you forget where you’ve been, but also know where you’re going.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured every step of the way.

Smartphone Usage Statistics Highlight Its Importance In Our Lives [INFOGRAPHIC]

Have you ever been thinking about how important the smartphones are in our lives? How many people are using smartphones, how many applications are in the different stores we use, or what we had used before iOS and Android started their unstoppable rise?
Did you now that nowadays an average family spends $48 less on food, but $67 more on smartphone entertainment than before? Interesting, right?

Milan Aryal co-produced an infographic with Coupon Audit to share these insights with you. It will truly highlight the smartphones’ importance in our life through some well known and less known statistics.

iPhone 5S Versus iPhone 5C

The similarities are in many ways as exciting as differences between them

By Ken Subedi

Recently Apple launched the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C, and announced the retirement of iPhone 5. No doubt, you can still buy the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, but Apple releasing two brand new iPhones at the same time is a first. So a question whirls arises regarding the difference between iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.

To find out real differences we compared the specifications of both. The iPhone 5C comes in five different colours: green, white, blue, pink, and yellow wheres the iPhone 5S comes in four different colours, gold, silver, space and gray.

Software and display

Both smartphones will start with iOS7, and can be upgraded for free to all new versions of Apple’s OS. One of the areas iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S look too similar is the screen. Both have four inch widescreen multi-touch display, with a 1136x640-pixel resolution that make for a pixel density of 326ppi.

Battery

Both phones have built-in, non-swappable lithium-ion batteries. As per the company, both batteries will give backup for the same time. The iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C will last for up to 250 and 10 hours on standby and talk time. Web surfing is eight hours on 3G, and 10 hours on LTE and Wi-Fi. Apple declares 10 hours for video playback and 40 hours audio playback, for the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.

Camera

Both iPhone 5C and 5S have a front-facing (FaceTime) and a rear-facing (iSight) camera. The modus operandi of the specifications is as follows.

Having eight megapixel sensors, iPhone 5C iSight camera comes with ƒ/2.4 aperture and LED flash. With video stabilisation it supports 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps and 3x zoom in it. The same phone’s FaceTime Camera takes 1.2Mp photos at a resolution of 1280x960 offering up to 720p HD video recording.

On the other side, the iPhone 5S iSight camera has eight Mp sensor, listing it as eight megapixels with 1.5µ pixels. It has aperture of ƒ/2.2 and a true-tone flash. The video capabilities and the FaceTime Camera are like that of iPhone 5C.

Processor

The first smartphone to have 64-bit is iPhone 5S. With 64-bit architecture it comes with a brand new A7 chip. Apple also has M7 coprocessor that means it possesses uncountable apps that uses motion-tracking, for example fitness apps.

On the other hand, iPhone 5C comes with an A6 chip which makes the difference. It can be called as the iPhone 5 with a new appearance. Well, we can’t fairly comment on the level of performance it makes. But one thing is sure that if iPhone 5C’s performance is like that of iPhone 5 it be less valued as a smartphone. We hope that iPhone 5S is an improvement. However, Apple does not talk about the RAM it has put into its new smartphones.

Storage and dimensions

Another marker that makes them different is storage. The iPhone 5C comes in 16 GB and 32 GB ambience, but the iPhone 5S agrees all and goes up to 64 GB. The iphone 5S’s dimensions is 123.8x58.6x7.6mm and weighs 132g.

The similarities between the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S are in many ways as exciting as differences between them. The battery life, display and software offered by them are more or less the same. But the iphone 5S is faster with a better camera and some additional features.

The writer is associated with Braindigit IT solutions and can be reached at kengb1@gmail.com.

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Keep on Going

The current obstacles are the foundation of your future success. There are some persons who didn’t give up no matter what. Thus, if you are failing, keep on going

Albert Einstein, physicist: Most of us take Einstein’s name as synonymous with genius, but he didn’t always show such promise. Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, show and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer, but most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics.

Walt Disney, founder of The Walt Disney Company: Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney himself had a bit of rough start. He was fired by a newspaper editor because, “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn’t last too long and ended with bankruptcy and failure. He kept plugging along, however, and eventually found a recipe for success that worked.

Isaac Newton, scientist: Newton was undoubtedly a genius when it came to math, but he had some failings early on. He never did particularly well in school and when put in charge of running the family farm, he failed miserably, so poorly in fact that an uncle took charge and sent him off to Cambridge where he finally blossomed into the scholar we know today.

Thomas Edison, inventor: In his early years, teachers told Edison he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design that worked.

Henry Ford, founder of ford Motor: While Ford is today known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn’t an instant success. In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.

Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motor: The billion dollar business that is Honda began with a series of failures and fortunate turns of luck. Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation for a job after interviewing for a job as an engineer, leaving him jobless for quite some time. He started making scooters of his own at home, and spurred on by his neighbours, finally started his own business.

Akio Morita, founder of Sony Corporation: You may not have heard of Morita but you’ve undoubtedly heard of his company, Sony. Sony’s first product was a rice cooker that unfortunately didn’t cook rice so much as burn it, selling less than 100 units. This first setback didn’t stop Morita and his partners as they pushed forward to create a multi-billion dollar company.

Orville and Wilbur Wright (Wright Brothers), airplane inventors: These brothers battled depression and family illness before starting the bicycle shop that would lead them to experimenting with fight. After numerous attempts at creating flying machines, several years of hard work, and tons of failed prototypes, the brothers finally created a plane that could get airborne and stay there.

Winston Churchill, politician, UK: This Nobel Prize-winning, twice-elected Prime Minister of the UK wasn’t always as well regarded as he is today. Churchill struggled in school and failed the sixth grade. After school he faced many years of political failures, as he was defeated in every election for public office until he finally became the PM at the age of 62.

Vincent Van Gogh, artist: During his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only one painting, and this was to a friend and for a very small amount. While Van Gogh was never a success during his life, he plugged on with painting, sometimes starving to complete his over 800 known works.

Being Enterprising

Here to strengthen our spirit! Yes we can!

By Jim Rohn

Have you ever wondered how elite people think? Through a short, inspiring speech below, Jim Rohn leads us into the spirit world of highly successful entrepreneurs. Here to strengthen our spirit! Yes we can!

An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

To be enterprising is to keep your eyes open and your mind active. It’s to be skilled enough and disciplined enough to seize opportunities that present themselves... regardless of the economy.

A person with an enterprising attitude says, “Find out what you can before action is taken.” Do the research. Be prepared. Be resourceful. Do all you can in preparation of what’s to come.

Enterprising people always see the future in the present. Enterprising people always find a way to take advantage of a situation, not be burdened by it. And enterprising people aren’t lazy. They don’t wait for opportunities to come to them, they go after the opportunities. Enterprise means always finding a way to keep yourself actively working toward your ambition.

Enterprise is two things. The first is creativity. You need creativity to see what’s out there and to shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

What goes hand-in-hand with the creativity of enterprise is the second requirement: the courage to be creative. You need courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

And lastly, being enterprising doesn’t just relate to the ability to make money. Being enterprising also means feeling good enough about yourself, having enough self worth to want to seek advantages and opportunities that will make a difference in your future. And by doing so you will increase your confidence in your future. And by doing so you will increase your confidence, your courage, your creativity and your self-worth, your enterprising nature.

Cast Away Boredom

Some tips to re-frame the moment, even if you can’t escape a situation, by re-framing your emotions about it, you can transform it.

By Jobs.AOL.com

One thing that can be a source of unhappiness is boredom. And there might be situations and activities at your workplace at that might bore you. Here are some tips to re-frame the moment, even if you can’t escape a situation, by re-framing your emotions about it, you can transform it.

• Put the “mediation” after the activity that’s boring you. If you’re impatient while waiting for, say, a bus, tell yourself you’re doing “Bus waiting mediation.” If you’re waiting for the response of your client, you’re doing “Waiting for reply meditation.”

• If something is boring for two minutes, do it for four minutes. If it’s still boring, do it for eight minutes, then 16, and so on. Eventually you discover that it’s not boring at all.

• Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what’s around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of buildings look like, what noises do you hear, what do the documents show? If you bring your analytical powers to bear, you can make almost anything interesting.

• Find an area of refuge. Have a mental escape route planned. Think about something delightful or uplifting. Review photos of your children on your phone or listen to an audiobook.

• Look for a way to feel grateful. It’s a lot better to be bored while waiting for a meeting to being than to be in an agony of suspense about whether your team failed to meet goals. Maybe your competitor is having an even tougher time.

• And of course, always bring something to read.

Moving Ahead

By Marv Hardin

Some folks ride the train of life, looking out the rear,
Watching miles of life roll by, and marking every year.
They sit in sad remembrance, of wasted days gone by,
And curse their life for what it was, and hang their head and cry.

But I don’t concern myself with that, I took a different bent,
I look forward to what life holds, and not what has been spent.
So strap me to the engine, as securely as I can be,
I want to be out on the front, to see what I can see.

I want to feel the winds of change, blowing in my face,
I want to see what life unfolds, as I move from place to place.
I want to see what’s coming up, not looking at the past,
Life’s too short for yesterdays, it moves along too fast.

So if the ride gets bumpy, while you are looking back,
Go up front, and you may find, your life has jumped the track.
It’s alright to remember, that’s part of history,
But up front’s where it’s happening, there’s so much mystery.

The enjoyment of living, is not where we have been,
It’s looking ever forward, to another year and ten.
It’s searching all the byways, never should you refrain,
For if you want to live your life, you got to drive the train.