Thrive on current opportunities

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen got 77 rejections for their idea Chicken soup for the soul. In retrospect each rejection could be seen as a turning point. They had the option of throwing the t.. Read full story

Remember, greed has its limits

Aeons Before Cecil Rhodes (the man who wanted to annex other planets, if he could; and who maintained that the empire was always a matter of the stomach), King Midas of Phyrgia wanted to turn the worl.. Read full story

How low can reverence get?

Almost all forms of greeting involve a gesture or movement of the body that expresses deference, homage or, in rare instances, even genuflection towards a person who, for whatever reason, is perceived.. Read full story

A very fine and great difference

Arjun says to Krishna: You praise both the renunciation of work as well as its unselfish performance — so which is better? Krishna’s answer is that the renunciation of work and its unselfi.. Read full story

Speech is silver, silence is golden

The virtue of speaking well, rightly and effectively also includes the capacity to stay silent, when situation demands so.

Besides earning respect and acceptance, needless probl.. Read full story

Gratitude is precious but rare

Ingratitude and all the pretensions that go with this vice, can indeed be galling, especially when one observes that these emanate from those whom he may have sincerely and significantly helped. Shake.. Read full story

The Mahatma as CEO

The great photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White interviewed and photographed Mahatma Gandhi for LIFE magazine just a few hours before his assassination.
The unforgettable portrait of the Mahatma.. Read full story

Sense & high-tech sensibility

The reason technology can't keep up with art is because while technology keeps improving all the time, ideal art doesn't. It has no need to. Take photography.
An entry level digital SLR today is.. Read full story

Mind's play, food or fat

According to the old saw you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. This is not a recipe; it’s an adage about how painful decisions have to be inevitably made in the pursuit of desi.. Read full story

Muster up the will to change oneself

Angelo Siciliano was a £97 stripling. One fateful day, when he’d gone to the beach, a bully kicked sand in his face. Humiliated, young Siciliano joined the YMCA to try out exercise rout.. Read full story