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Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore – New on the Shelves – Allow Yourself to be a Better Person by Balroop Singh
Thank you dear Sally for your love and support. Self-help books invoke us to introspect and that is what this book focuses on!
Time is The Most Unknown…
“Time is the most unknown of all unknown things” – Aristotle
Inspired from this observation, I have tried to understand ‘Time’ and would like to share it with you today.
However, at the last moment I got invited to Aha.now, hosted by one of my favorite online friends, Harleena Singh. She has been so benevolent in saying that I could bring all my friends and readers along as special guests!
When I was young, very young, my innocently repeated question was: What is time… Where can we find it?
Nobody could answer it better than my dad. For him time was much more than just a measure in which events could be recorded and seen. He told me to look at the sun and its movement across the sky.
His response helped me see beyond the obvious. It opened vast vistas before me. It gave an impetus to my creative eye. Watching the movement of sun acquainted me with various hues of the sky and much more!
Are you ready to take off? Zooming off but you have to click on this link:
http://www.aha-now.com/understand-utilize-time/
HAPPY READING. Please share your views. Thank you
Balroop Singh.
Do You Know What Is Real Success?
Success!! The magic word that defines our dreams! The potion that intoxicates! The path that seems so tempting, so inspiring, yet so challenging! The chase that is ceaseless, exasperating at times, enlivens our lives the moment we accomplish our goals.
Real success – an enigma for some, conclusive for others.
The definition of real success changes with time and place. It also redesigns itself according to the limitations, the cultural nuances and interpretations.
THE QUESTION:
During my hours of brooding, I often contemplate about success. The question that reverberates around me is: why success eludes some people? While I try to explore the answers, my inner voice speaks eloquently:
Probably they lack focus; they don’t know their potential and are hazy about their goals. They don’t have that determination, that killer instinct to push ahead.
Often we try to relate to such situations and when I think about my potential, I get an affirmation from my conscience…I never had any doubts about that… but all other words swim around, making me a bit weak and I discover the answers to all those questions that have been perturbing me.
THE ANSWER AND THE PARADOX:
- Did I focus on my goals?
- Did I even recognize them as my real goals?
- Did I possess the killer instinct?
- Was I determined to succeed?
- Was I unfortunate?
- Is destiny the culprit?
I have talked about all these shortcomings and possibilities in my e-book:
When Success Eludes Us…A Step – by – Step Guide to Success, which has been launched on 21 July 2014 at Amazon.com
You can click on http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LZGEG6W to look inside. You can borrow it free if you are a kindle member! You are most welcome to write a review.
Successful people follow success despite all odds; they consider the obstacles as stepping-stones. They don’t change their priorities.
IS SUCCESS A PRIORITY?
I know success was never my priority. It never is for a girl child and in that part of the world I lived in, where we are conditioned to believe that higher studies don’t qualify us to be equal, it doesn’t give us all the privileges that women enjoy in liberated societies.
Whatever I achieved despite the societal beliefs and pressures I experienced, is no less than REAL success. The biggest credit for what I am today goes to my mother who refused to be cowed down by the beliefs of the society and let me go in for higher studies despite the limited resources at her disposal.
The pride that swells her heart and the happiness that shimmers on her face when she has been told that I have written my second book is inexplicable!
Have you accomplished your goals? Was success a priority for you? I would love to hear your views.
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Balroop Singh.
Ignorance is Bliss?
This phrase – ‘Ignorance is bliss’ was coined by Thomas Gray in one of his poems – ‘Ode On a Distant Prospect of Eton College’– always gives me great solace. It takes me back into those corridors of life, which were happier mainly because I was less aware; I didn’t pine for things I didn’t know about.
IT KEEPS US HAPPY:
When I was young, quite young, I had no idea that so many books contained so much of knowledge that could be beyond our comprehension. I was happy with whatever reading material I could find and felt that I had all the knowledge of the world.
When I gained some awareness about the vastness of this globe, I had no time to read much. I loved books and during my flights of fantasy, I could see myself writing. I would consciously tell myself – one day I would write my own book.
But I had no time!
IT INTRODUCES SIMPLICITY:
Life became so busy and hectic that I forgot all about reading… writing was a far cry!
As I moved on, balancing various duties of a wife, mother, homemaker and teacher, I started recording my fleeting thoughts on whatever piece of paper or notepad I could find.
It was so easy to write! I didn’t have to struggle with the haphazard placement of syllables on a keyboard, trying to locate them. All of them could flow so spontaneously from my pen!
However, I couldn’t escape the invasion of technology into my life!
But ignorance didn’t end there. It never can!
IT IS ETERNAL:
At last when I could finally manage to type all those thoughts and organize them, I discovered that I had so many poems they could form a book.
My elation went through the roof. I was going to be a published writer!
I was most thankful to my Mac at this time who told me I could self publish!
I thought I was the most knowledgeable person on this earth. I did all the research how to format, how to publish, how to create a cover and wow! I was ready to publish.
And I published my first book of Poetry: SUBLIME SHADOWS OF LIFE
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBLWR0A
Once again, ignorance proved to be bliss for me!
Despite all the hard work that I had put in, my ignorance remained to be my best pal.
I basked in the glory of my published poetry but I didn’t know that books at Amazon.com:
- Need promotion.
- Should have customer reviews
- Can’t be gifted as free copies
- Very few people like poetry.
A NEW BEGINNING:
It has been a long journey of striving to learn and I am not the one who would give up so easily. The writer in me says: KEEP GOING!
So having elbowed some of my ignorance out, I have made another effort. My second book, which is a Non-Fiction, is ready to get published. This time I am requesting the support of all my online friends to make it a success. Ironically its title is: WHEN SUCCESS ELUDES US… A Step – by – Step Guide to Success, which will be launched on 21 July 2014 at Amazon.com.
It contains the most honest and realistic experiences. Who could have written about it, if not me?
I am extremely grateful to all my friends who have promised to help. I also look forward to the support of all those valued visitors who like my blog.
I am open to all the suggestions and advice, which you would like to offer. Please give your suggestions in the form of comments. I value each one of them.
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Balroop Singh.
Emotional Shadows 