Vijay For Victory

When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn’t work at zero gravity (Ink won’t flow down to the writing surface). In order to solve this problem, they hired Andersen Consulting (Accenture today). It took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

And what did Russians do…???

The Russians used a Pencil instead !!!

“If you look at what you do not have in life, you don’t have anything”
“If you look at what you have in life, you have everything.”

In other words, “Focus on problem leads to inventions! & Focus on solution leads to discoveries!”

Once a boy went to a shop with his mother.The shop keeper looked at the small cute child and showed him a bottle with sweets and said “Dear Child, you can take the sweets”; but the child didn’t take.

The shop keeper was surprised, such a small child he is and why is he not taking the sweets from the bottle. Again he said, “take the sweets”.

Now mother also heard that and said to take the sweets. Yet he didn’t take.

The shopkeeper seeing the child not taking the sweets he himself took the sweets and gave to the child. The child was happy to get two hands full of sweets.

When returned to home Mother asked child, “Why didn’t you take the sweets when shop keeper told you to take?”

Child replies, “Mom! my hands are very small and if I take the sweets I can only take few; but now you see when uncle gave with his big hands, how many more sweets I got!

Moral of the story: When we take we may get little but when God gives, he gives us more beyond our expectations. More than what we can hold.

Once a lady was driving her car in great speed on the motorway. All of a sudden she gets pulled over for speeding.
The lady and the cops.

Lady: Is there a problem, Officer?
Officer: Ma’am, you were speeding.
Lady: Oh, I see.
Officer: Can I see your license please?
Lady: I’d give it to you but I don’t have one.
Officer: Don’t have one?
Lady: Lost it, 4 years ago for drunk driving.
Officer: I see… Can I see your vehicle registration papers please?
Lady: I can’t do that.
Officer: Why not?
Lady: I stole this car.
Officer: Stole it?
Lady: Yes, and I killed and hacked up the owner.
Officer: You what?
Lady: His body parts are in plastic bags in the trunk if you want to see

The Officer looks at the lady and slowly backs away to his car and calls other cops for back up. Within minutes 5 police cars circle the car. A senior officer slowly approaches the car, clasping his half drawn gun.

Officer 2: Ma’am, could you step out of your vehicle please! The lady steps out of her vehicle.
Lady: Is there a problem sir?
Officer 2: One of my officers told me that you have stolen this car and murdered the owner.
Lady: Murdered the owner?
Officer 2: Yes, could you please open the trunk of your car, please.

The lady opens the trunk, revealing nothing but an empty trunk.

Officer 2: Is this your car, ma’am?
Lady: Yes, here are the registration papers. The officer is quite stunned.
Officer 2: One of my officers claims that you do not have a driving license.

The lady digs into her handbag and pulls out a clutch purse and hands it to the officer.
The officer examines the license. He looks quite puzzled.

Officer 2: Thank you ma’am, one of my officers told me you didn’t have a license, that you stole this car, and that you murdered and hacked up the owner.
Lady: Bet the liar told you I was speeding, too.

`Two guys were walking through the jungle when they spotted a tiger that looked both hungry and fast.

One of the guys reached into his pack and pulled out a pair of Nike.

His friend looked at him “Do you really think those shoes are going to make you run faster than that tiger?”

I don’t have to run faster than that tiger, his friend replied. “I just have to run faster than you”.

Welcome to the Corporate World!

A little boy goes into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in seven digits.

Boy: ” Maam , can you give me the job of cutting your lawn??
Woman: “I already have someone to cut my lawn.”

Boy: Maam, I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts your lawn now.”

Woman: “Thank you, but I am very satisfied with the person who is presently cutting my lawn.”

However, the little boy was persistent.

Boy: ” Maam , I’ll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of North-Palm beach, Florida .”
Woman: Thanks again, but I am sorry. I just do not find need for a change.

With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver.

The store-owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy and said,

“Son… I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and would like to offer you a job.”

The little boy replied, “No thanks, I was just checking my performance with the job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady, I was talking to!”

Your ATTITUDE decides your ALTITUDE

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”

Once a professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see and asked the students, “how much do you think this glass weighs? ’50gms!’?…’100gms…’125gms’….

The students answered, “I really don’t know unless I weigh it.”

The professor said, ‘now, my question is: What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?’

‘Nothing’ the students said.

“OK what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?” the professor asked.

“Your arm would begin to ache” said one of the students.

“You’re right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?”

“Your arm could go numb; you might have severe muscle stress & paralysis; have to go to hospital for sure! Ventured another student”, all the students laughed.

“Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?” Asked the professor.

“No” was the reply of all the students.

“Then what caused the arm to ache; the muscle to stress?” After a pause the professor asked “Before my arm ache, what should I do?”

The students were puzzled.

“Put the glass down!” said one of the students.

“Exactly!” said the professor, “Life’s problems are exactly like this. Hold it for a few minutes in your head; they seem OK. Think of them for a long time; they begin to ache. Hold it even longer; they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything.”

It’s important to think of the challenges (problems) in your life, but EVEN MORE IMPORTANT to ‘put them down’ at the end of every day before you go to sleep. That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh; strong; can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!

Remember to put the glass down everyday!