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Once there was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the barn. It was not an ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him.

After searching high and low among the hay for a long while; he gave up and enlisted the help of a group of children playing outside the barn.

He promised them that, the person who found it, would be rewarded.

Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the entire stack of hay but still could not find the watch. Just when the farmer was about to give up looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance. The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not.? After all, this kid looks sincere enough.”

So the farmer sent the little boy back in the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand..!

The farmer was both happy and surprised and so he asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed…!

The boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that direction.”

A Peaceful mind can think better than a worked up mind. Allow a few minutes of Silence to your mind every day. You will soon find your mind sharp and focussed, and your tough life decisions become easier.

Credit: We found the story here. Its been credited to “Stephen”.

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Who cleans up after us? Robin Nagle took this question to heart and she joined the workforce of sanitation workers in the city of New York. What she found that though this work is vital for our well being it is underappreciated. In most places around the world sanitation workers are scorned. This inspite of the fact that sanitation work is both difficult and dangerous. Robin’s talk not only brings our attention to the plight of the sanitation workers but it also draws us to the question of the waste itself. Why do we generate so much of it? How can we safely dispose it? How can we minimize it?

This is a great talk, one that will make you want to rush out and thank the sanitation workers of your town, for the job they so valiantly and effeciently do every day for us.

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Stephen Covey in his best selling book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” revealed that a large portion of our success is contributed by our habits.

Habits are things we do without thinking. These are like little programs that run in our head at a subconscious level that control our actions. For example the way we brush our teeth is automatic. It’s not random; instead it is an exact pattern that we use repeatedly without paying much attention to it. For example some may begin brushing by starting on the right side from the upper back and then stroke the brush in a specific pattern to work from there and progress to all other teeth. Every time they brush they will use the same pattern, without thinking much about it.

Just like brushing teeth, much of our lives are spent on “auto pilot” where our actions are governed by a set of fixed habits. Stephen Covey realized this and found that most successful people had similar underlying habits that propelled them to success.

Just as we have patterns of actions that we do without thinking, are there patterns of thoughts that predispose us to think in a particular way? If we use the term “habits” to describe repetitive behavior without conscious thought, what is the term we use for repetitive patterns of thoughts? The word “Attitude” comes to mind. Our Attitude describes how we are predisposed to think. If Habits are channels along which our actions flow, Attitudes are channels along which our thoughts flow.

What is the connection between Habits and Attitude? Some repetitive patterns of thought turn into repetitive pattern of action, and some of these turn into habits. This shows that attitudes give birth to habits. If we want to change our Habits we must look deeper inside towards our Attitudes. Here are four attitudes that we should cultivate for success:
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