Three Talisman of King Ravana to Laxman ...... Are these relevant today ?

When the demon king Ravana was attacked by Lord Rama and was nearing his death, Rama asked his brother Lakshman to go to him and learn something which no other person except an erudite Brahmin like Ravana could ever teach him. Ravana told three mantras to lakshman on his deathbed...

1.Shubhasya Shighram ( Good Work to be started as early as possible) : The First mantra of Ravana to laxman- Ram’s Brother is Subhasya Shighram. He told Lakshman was that one should complete any auspicious work as soon as possible and keep delaying the inauspicious work as much possible.

2 –Respect your enemy and don’t underestimate them:  The second thing he taught Lakshman was never to underestimate one’s enemy. He said that he did this mistake of understanding the monekys and bears lesser or incompetent and he lost the battle against them.

 He said, when he asked Lord Brahma to make him immortal, he said no one else except for monkeys and human could kill him. This is because he believed that both these living beings were not capable to kill him. This was his mistake and he suffered life as a result.

3 – Secrecy should be remain Secret : The third and final thing Raavan told Lakshman that one should not reveal one’s life secret to anyone in the world. Here also Raavan made a mistake as Vibhishan knew the secret of his death. Raavan knew this was his biggest mistake of life.

These three rules are very much relevant to today’s world.   Whether it is your personal life or professional life, these three rules should always be kept in mind. 

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TAUPAS Rules : Some thumb rules for professional Email

Your email can have a direct impression of your personality or your etiquette to the reader of your email.  Personal email may does not have any formalities but professional email should have and these should be followed.

Type your Subject, email contents and then email address.  Sometimes , you are in the middle of the email contents , and wrongly the send button pressed, your email will reached to your reader and you can imagine , what image of your will be occur in your reader. So, first write subject, your contents and then type the email address in To, Cc .

A clear cut subject line: Your professional email should have a clear cut subject line by which your reader can have an idea of the contents of email and it should be short.  Without a subject, a professional email can be  a blunder and your receiver can have a negative impact of you and might be possible he / she will treat your email as Spam.  Avoid “wishes” in subject line.

Use professional salutation and then check your CAPITALIZATION of letters: Address the receiver with a proper salutation.  You are sending a professional email, not a personal email.   This professional email can be accessed by other person in company and above all, you are sending an email to a responsible person of the company.  CAPITALIZATION of letters should be avoided in any professional email.  Do it when you need it badly or you want to draw the attention on these words and at the end, add whole signature ( Name, designation, Company, or other relevant information of your company i.e. website, Phone no. etc).  Make email short and to the point.  Lengthy email irritates the reader. Nobody have the patience to read a full page email.

Proof reading of your email: Before hitting the send button, please check your email contents carefully for any spelling mistake or grammatical errors in it.  Your small mistake can leads to a big casual approach of yourself to the reader and reader can take you lightly.

Avoid personal email ID , use company email address :  If you are working in a company , then send the email through your company’s email ID.  Most of the professionals avoid personal IDs email.

Send email to only concerned personnel :  Whenever we got an email , we have a common tendency to reply all in the email.  NO.  A  Big NO.  Think thrice before choosing Reply All.  Do only if this is necessary and relevant to all and if you are sending the email, send it to only concerned people. 

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Tips for conducting an effective corporate meeting…………..

Conducting a corporate meeting is always a tough task but if some basic principle will be followed, this can be an effective meeting otherwise there can be a chaos and non-effectiveness of meeting occurs.

If you are going to conduct a meeting, then following tips can helps you –

• Send an agenda , venue and time  for the meeting well in advance i.e. before 24 hours
• Related data to be prepared and share the same to all concerned.
• Arrange all the required equipments in the meeting hall well in advance and check them all for their functioning.
• Reach at venue before the scheduled time at least 5 minutes earlier.
• Keep a pen and notepad with you during the meeting.
• Keep your phone in silent mode or switched off during the meeting.
• Stay on topic and be brief and concise.
• During a meeting, it is generally assumed that if you are silent on any topic, it means you are agreeing with this point. So, if you have any doubt, raise your voice.
• Stick with the timing of meeting.
• Challenge ideas not an individual.
• Try to avoid any interruption during the meeting.   
• Avoid any type of side conversations or comments during the meeting.
• Allow and encourage the maximum participation in the meeting.
• Someone keeps noting the key point and outcome of the meeting.
• Follow-up email should be send within 24 hours with the participants. 

I hope this will guide you a little bit in organizing an effective meeting in your office.

If you live 60 years then how much years do you live for yourself – A Mathematical calculation

Let us suppose, a man /woman live for 60 years then the followings are the details of your life itinerary in mathematical terms-

 Total days = 21900 days and 525600 Hours in 60 years.

Hours spent unusable Initial 5 years as child Total days= 1825 Days & Total hours = 43800 Hours

Then 15 Years of schooling or college Total days = 5475 Days  & Total hours = 131400 Hours

8 hours of sleeping in next 40 Years Total hours = 116800 Hours

8 hours of working in next 40 years Total hours = 116800 Hours

2 Hours in wasteful things in next 40 years Total Hours =29200 Hours

Total hours we spent on other things,  Total hours= 438000 Hours

The total hours for ourselves

Total Hours – Our spent hours = 525600 ( in 60 Years) – 438000 ( In 60 Years)

Total hours = 87600 Hours &

Total days = 3650 Days &
Total years = 10 Years

Conclusion – We live only 10 years for ourselves and rest of the 50 years we have to spent on other things. So, enjoy every moment of life as it comes. So, my dear friends , every day is very – every important. We only live for 10 years for ourselves.

This is life. So enjoy every second of life.

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