A kindergarten teacher has decided to let her class play a game.
The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes.
Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates,
So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.
So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go (even to the toilet) for 1 week.
Days after days passed by, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended....
The teacher asked: "How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?". The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go.
Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The teacher said: "This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime???"
Moral of the story: Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not carry sins for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best attitude to take but never ever forget the lesson they have thought you.
True love is not loving a perfect person but loving an imperfect person perfectly
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
FOR WHOM
An Elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer Contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but the needed to retire. They could get by.
The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favour. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.
When the carpenter finished his work the employer came to inspect the house. He handed the front door key to the carpenter. “THIS IS YOUR HOUSE” he said “MY GIFT TO YOU”.
The carpenter was shocked! What a Shame! If he had only known he was building his own house. He would have done it all so differently.
So it is with us. We build our lives a day at a time, often putting less than our best into the building then with a shock we realize we have to live in the house we have built. If we could do it over, We’d do it much differently. But we cannot go back.
We are the carpenter. Each day we hammer a nail, place a board or erect a wall.
Life is a “DO IT YOURSELF” project, our attitude and the choices we make today, built the HOUSE we live in tomorrow. We must build wisely.
REMBER ………….
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Ia a job is worth doing, it ‘s worth doing well.
The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favour. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.
When the carpenter finished his work the employer came to inspect the house. He handed the front door key to the carpenter. “THIS IS YOUR HOUSE” he said “MY GIFT TO YOU”.
The carpenter was shocked! What a Shame! If he had only known he was building his own house. He would have done it all so differently.
So it is with us. We build our lives a day at a time, often putting less than our best into the building then with a shock we realize we have to live in the house we have built. If we could do it over, We’d do it much differently. But we cannot go back.
We are the carpenter. Each day we hammer a nail, place a board or erect a wall.
Life is a “DO IT YOURSELF” project, our attitude and the choices we make today, built the HOUSE we live in tomorrow. We must build wisely.
REMBER ………….
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Ia a job is worth doing, it ‘s worth doing well.
Successful people help others who are slow in learning so that they are not felt far behind
Here I am sharing one interesting article which was received two years ago through mail in my mail box, sent by one of his friend.
This article is very interesting and teaches us a good lesson.
“It was a sports stadium. Eight students were standing on the track to participate in the running event.
Ready!
Steady!
Bang!
With the sound of toy pistol, all eight girls started running. Hardly have they covered ten to fifteen steps, one of the smaller girl slipped and fell down, due to bruises and pain she started crying. When other seven girls heard this sound, stopped running, stood for a while and turned back, they all ran back to the place where the girl fell down.
One among them bent, picked and kissed the girl gently and enquired “Now pain must have reduced”.
All seven girls lifted the fallen girl, pacified her, two of them held the girl firmly and they all seven joined hands together and walked together and reached the winning post.
Officials were socked.
Clapping of thousands of spectators filled the stadium.
Many eyes were filled with tears and perhaps it had reached the GOD event!
YES. This happened in Hyderabad, recently!
The sport was conducted by national institute of mental health. All these special girl had come to participate in this event and they are spastic children.
Yes, they were mentally challenged.
What did they teach this world?
Teamwork?
Humanity?
Equality among all?
……..????
Successful people help others who are slow in learning so that they are not felt far behind.
Have a good day!
This article is very interesting and teaches us a good lesson.
“It was a sports stadium. Eight students were standing on the track to participate in the running event.
Ready!
Steady!
Bang!
With the sound of toy pistol, all eight girls started running. Hardly have they covered ten to fifteen steps, one of the smaller girl slipped and fell down, due to bruises and pain she started crying. When other seven girls heard this sound, stopped running, stood for a while and turned back, they all ran back to the place where the girl fell down.
One among them bent, picked and kissed the girl gently and enquired “Now pain must have reduced”.
All seven girls lifted the fallen girl, pacified her, two of them held the girl firmly and they all seven joined hands together and walked together and reached the winning post.
Officials were socked.
Clapping of thousands of spectators filled the stadium.
Many eyes were filled with tears and perhaps it had reached the GOD event!
YES. This happened in Hyderabad, recently!
The sport was conducted by national institute of mental health. All these special girl had come to participate in this event and they are spastic children.
Yes, they were mentally challenged.
What did they teach this world?
Teamwork?
Humanity?
Equality among all?
……..????
Successful people help others who are slow in learning so that they are not felt far behind.
Have a good day!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
PRAYER
Our prayer should be just a THANK YOU, it is a prayer. We should never say, do this, do that, don't do this, don't do that.
We should NEVER ADVICE GOD.
That shows our irreligiousness, our lack of TRUST.
We should thank him "Our life is already a benediction, a blessing".
Interesting Facts about India
• India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.
• When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
• The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
• The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name 'Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
• Chess was invented in India.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
• The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.
• The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
• India is the largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest Country in the world, and one of the most ancient civilizations.
• The game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat'. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. In time, the game underwent several modifications, but its meaning remained the same, i.e. good deeds take people to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
• The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
• India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
• The largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
• The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
• India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
• The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'NAVGATIH'. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
• Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
• The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India.Quadratic Equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 (i.e. 10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C.during the Vedic period.Even today, the largest used number is Terra: 10*12(10 to the power of 12).
• Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
(Source: Gemological Institute of America).
• The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
• Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
• Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
• India exports software to 90 countries.
• The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
• Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
• Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
• There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
• The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
• Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively
• The largest religious building in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century.
• The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
• Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.
• Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
• India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.
• His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, runs his government in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.
• Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
• Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
• When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
• The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
• The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name 'Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
• Chess was invented in India.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
• The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.
• The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
• India is the largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest Country in the world, and one of the most ancient civilizations.
• The game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat'. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. In time, the game underwent several modifications, but its meaning remained the same, i.e. good deeds take people to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
• The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
• India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
• The largest employer in the world is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
• The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
• India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
• The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'NAVGATIH'. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
• Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
• The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India.Quadratic Equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 (i.e. 10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C.during the Vedic period.Even today, the largest used number is Terra: 10*12(10 to the power of 12).
• Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
(Source: Gemological Institute of America).
• The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
• Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
• Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
• India exports software to 90 countries.
• The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
• Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
• Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
• There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
• The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
• Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively
• The largest religious building in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century.
• The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
• Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.
• Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
• India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.
• His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, runs his government in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.
• Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
• Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
Do you want to avoid some of the most common and annoying errors when presenting with PowerPoint? Here are the top 100 mistakes presenters make.
1. Make excuses for why the slides don't look that great
2. Keep turning to look at the slides and not the audience
3. Turn your whole back to the audience when looking at a slide
4. Never look the audience in the eye
5. Never, ever practice the presentation
6. Actually go up and touch the slide on the big screen
7. Use an annoying laser pen
8. Make crazy little circles with your laser pen
9. Make zig-zags with your laser pen
10. Don't have a story
11. Show lots and lots of slides
12. Don't have clear messages
13. Have plenty of bullets and lists
14. Don't break your deck into sections or "chapters"
15. Have 100 disconnected slides
16. Don't have an introduction that "wows" people
17. Read the slide word for word
18. To make a point read the slide twice
19. Don't close with a strong and memorable ending
20. Don't use examples
21. Make sure you use at least 10 bullets per slide
22. Change colors on each slide
23. Use titles that are just boring facts
24. Make sure your titles are long enough to go to two lines
25. Have no gestures; just stand there with arms dangling down
26. Or, wave your arms around like Marcel Marceau
27. Or don't move at all, or
28. Pace like a lion in a cage
29. Only stay on one side of the stage
30. Talk to just the left side of the room
31. Talk to just the right side of the room
32. Use humor knowing you can't tell a joke
33. Don't modulate your voice
34. Don't emphasize any words
35. Have no transitions from slide to slide
36. Don't connect any of the ideas from any slides
37. Put a quote on screen and read it word for word
38. Talk very fast
39. Talk very slow
40. Walk with your hands in your pant pockets
41. Fold your arms
42. Never sound passionate or interested in your own material
43. Don't ask any questions
44. Never engage the audience
45. Don't use stories or anecdotes
46. Hold onto a podium or dais
47. Hide behind the podium
48. Memorize your slides and sound like a robot
49. Never use images or pictures on your slides, just lots of text
50. Make the text so small people in the back can't see it
51. Make an excuse about small text, "I know you can't read this..."
52. Use lots and lots of charts and graphs
53. Put two or three charts on one slide
54. Have at least a dozen data points on a graph
55. Use different fonts
56. Never proofread your slides, have spelling and grammar errors
57. Talk about something else that is not on the slide
58. Ramble and get off your topic
59. For a 1-hour presentation, have 60 slides
60. For a 30-minute presentation, have 30 slides
61. For a 15-minute presentation, have 15 slides
62. Be sure to insult the audience's intelligence
63. Use lots of outdated facts and figures
64. Use lots of animations, especially twirls, fly-ins and spinning words
65. Add cheesy annoying sounds to your fly-ins and spins
66. Look over the heads of the audience
67. Don't ask rhetorical questions
68. Never have an agenda
69. Keep referring to "him" and "he," especially if females are in the audience
70. Use the PPT wizard; never vary the slide style or make your own template
71. As you describe ideas on a slide, jump around, don't order your thoughts
72. Use really small images that don't enlarge well
73. Make sure the images are of the poorest quality
74. Use the images your brother-in-law took from his vacation
75. Never buy classy stock photos
76. Be sure your slides don't reinforce your words
77. Use as many builds as you can pack in
78. Make sure the transition builds are different for each slide
79. Chit chat and say thank you to 20 people before you begin to speak
80. Make sure your slides are really crowded
81. Never tell the audience how long you will speaking
82. Skip over ideas and tell people you're running late
83. Point to a slide with your middle finger
84. Point at the audience with any finger
85. Use lots and lots of flash animation
86. Don't have a clear purpose
87. Talk a lot about you and your company and never talk about the audience or their needs
88. Use a screen shot of a web page so no one can read it
89. Insert poorly shot videos
90. Insert videos with muddled sound
91. Never tell listeners what your presentation is about
92. Always choose dark text on a dark slide background or
93. Light text on a light background
94. Use lots of word art and slanted text
95. Use child-like clip art and lots and lots of cartoons
96. Never repeat the agenda so people can follow your ideas
97. Be more concerned about your data than telling a good story
98. Avoid visuals at all costs
99. Always go over, never under you allotted time
100. Never ever be conversational-just drone on and on
The best PPT advice? Have a compelling conversation with the audience; don't rely on slides--rely on a good story that will have meaning for the audience
2. Keep turning to look at the slides and not the audience
3. Turn your whole back to the audience when looking at a slide
4. Never look the audience in the eye
5. Never, ever practice the presentation
6. Actually go up and touch the slide on the big screen
7. Use an annoying laser pen
8. Make crazy little circles with your laser pen
9. Make zig-zags with your laser pen
10. Don't have a story
11. Show lots and lots of slides
12. Don't have clear messages
13. Have plenty of bullets and lists
14. Don't break your deck into sections or "chapters"
15. Have 100 disconnected slides
16. Don't have an introduction that "wows" people
17. Read the slide word for word
18. To make a point read the slide twice
19. Don't close with a strong and memorable ending
20. Don't use examples
21. Make sure you use at least 10 bullets per slide
22. Change colors on each slide
23. Use titles that are just boring facts
24. Make sure your titles are long enough to go to two lines
25. Have no gestures; just stand there with arms dangling down
26. Or, wave your arms around like Marcel Marceau
27. Or don't move at all, or
28. Pace like a lion in a cage
29. Only stay on one side of the stage
30. Talk to just the left side of the room
31. Talk to just the right side of the room
32. Use humor knowing you can't tell a joke
33. Don't modulate your voice
34. Don't emphasize any words
35. Have no transitions from slide to slide
36. Don't connect any of the ideas from any slides
37. Put a quote on screen and read it word for word
38. Talk very fast
39. Talk very slow
40. Walk with your hands in your pant pockets
41. Fold your arms
42. Never sound passionate or interested in your own material
43. Don't ask any questions
44. Never engage the audience
45. Don't use stories or anecdotes
46. Hold onto a podium or dais
47. Hide behind the podium
48. Memorize your slides and sound like a robot
49. Never use images or pictures on your slides, just lots of text
50. Make the text so small people in the back can't see it
51. Make an excuse about small text, "I know you can't read this..."
52. Use lots and lots of charts and graphs
53. Put two or three charts on one slide
54. Have at least a dozen data points on a graph
55. Use different fonts
56. Never proofread your slides, have spelling and grammar errors
57. Talk about something else that is not on the slide
58. Ramble and get off your topic
59. For a 1-hour presentation, have 60 slides
60. For a 30-minute presentation, have 30 slides
61. For a 15-minute presentation, have 15 slides
62. Be sure to insult the audience's intelligence
63. Use lots of outdated facts and figures
64. Use lots of animations, especially twirls, fly-ins and spinning words
65. Add cheesy annoying sounds to your fly-ins and spins
66. Look over the heads of the audience
67. Don't ask rhetorical questions
68. Never have an agenda
69. Keep referring to "him" and "he," especially if females are in the audience
70. Use the PPT wizard; never vary the slide style or make your own template
71. As you describe ideas on a slide, jump around, don't order your thoughts
72. Use really small images that don't enlarge well
73. Make sure the images are of the poorest quality
74. Use the images your brother-in-law took from his vacation
75. Never buy classy stock photos
76. Be sure your slides don't reinforce your words
77. Use as many builds as you can pack in
78. Make sure the transition builds are different for each slide
79. Chit chat and say thank you to 20 people before you begin to speak
80. Make sure your slides are really crowded
81. Never tell the audience how long you will speaking
82. Skip over ideas and tell people you're running late
83. Point to a slide with your middle finger
84. Point at the audience with any finger
85. Use lots and lots of flash animation
86. Don't have a clear purpose
87. Talk a lot about you and your company and never talk about the audience or their needs
88. Use a screen shot of a web page so no one can read it
89. Insert poorly shot videos
90. Insert videos with muddled sound
91. Never tell listeners what your presentation is about
92. Always choose dark text on a dark slide background or
93. Light text on a light background
94. Use lots of word art and slanted text
95. Use child-like clip art and lots and lots of cartoons
96. Never repeat the agenda so people can follow your ideas
97. Be more concerned about your data than telling a good story
98. Avoid visuals at all costs
99. Always go over, never under you allotted time
100. Never ever be conversational-just drone on and on
The best PPT advice? Have a compelling conversation with the audience; don't rely on slides--rely on a good story that will have meaning for the audience
How our inner Ego sometimes misjudges a PERSON.
A lady in a faded grey dress and her husband, dressed in a home-spun suit walked in timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Harvard. "We want to see the President "the ma n said softly. "He'll be busy all day "the secretary snapped.
"We'll wait" the lady replied.
For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn't and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president.. "Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave" she said to him. The President, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.
The lady told him "We had a son who attended Harvard for one y ear. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus."
The president wasn't touched....He was shocked. "Madam "he said, gruffly, " we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery." "Oh, no," the lady explained quickly” We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard."
The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, and then exclaimed, "A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard." For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a university ? Why don't we just start our own?" Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the University that bears their name: -Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
Most of the time we judge people by their outer appearance, which can be misleading. And in this impression, we tend to treat people badly by thinking they can do nothing for us. Thus we tend to lose our potential good friends, employees or customers. Remember In our Life, we seldom get people with whom we want to share & grow our thought process. But because of our inner EGO we miss them forever. It is you who have to decide with whom you are getting associated in day to day life. Small people talk about others, Average people talk about things, Great people talk about ideas
"We'll wait" the lady replied.
For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn't and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president.. "Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave" she said to him. The President, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.
The lady told him "We had a son who attended Harvard for one y ear. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus."
The president wasn't touched....He was shocked. "Madam "he said, gruffly, " we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery." "Oh, no," the lady explained quickly” We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard."
The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, and then exclaimed, "A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard." For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a university ? Why don't we just start our own?" Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the University that bears their name: -Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
Most of the time we judge people by their outer appearance, which can be misleading. And in this impression, we tend to treat people badly by thinking they can do nothing for us. Thus we tend to lose our potential good friends, employees or customers. Remember In our Life, we seldom get people with whom we want to share & grow our thought process. But because of our inner EGO we miss them forever. It is you who have to decide with whom you are getting associated in day to day life. Small people talk about others, Average people talk about things, Great people talk about ideas
45 Lessons in life
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything
29. What other people think of you is none of your business...
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32.Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
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