A scientist marveled at how a seemingly harmless
magnifying glass could create such intense heat, when
the suns rays passed through its glassy surface. He
asked the magnifying glass, ‘How can you do what you
do? You have this incredible ability of tapping into the
rays of the sun. You then take those vast rays and bring
them to a powerful point that burns holes in leaves and
sheets of paper.’ The magnifying glass replied to the
scientist by saying, ‘Well sir, I have learnt this one thing
throughout the years. The hotter it gets, the more focused
I become.’

That is what gives the winner in life their greatest
advantage.

THE HOTTER IT GETS……

THE MORE FOCUSED THE WINNER BECOMES

Winners have become tough because they have been
through tough times. Winners become strong because
they have replaced their weaknesses with newfound
strengths. Winners appreciate what it takes to win,
because they know what it is to have tasted the bitter
taste of defeat and yet have risen once again. Winners
have known what it is to be in the heat of battle, and
yet they know that when all else seems beyond their
grasp, the very worst thing that could ever happen to
them would be for them to lose their focus.

Focused people see the good when others see the bad.
They see the opportunity when others see disaster. They
buy when others sell and sell when others buy. They
watch others being carried by the tide and then swim
the other way. They are winners and leaders because
they live not by circumstance but by their inward focus.
This is what sets them apart from the masses and it is
this that others admire and at times misunderstand the
most.

Motivational Memo for the Week: A blind man with
focus can see better than a man with perfect sight who
has no vision.

You can do it!

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“Reach high,
for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep,
for every dream precedes the goal.”
~ Pamela Vaull Starr

The days are getting longer now and the sun sits higher in the sky. The sugar maples stretch after a long cold winter. Soon their sweet sap will run and fires will be lit at maple sugarhouses for all night boiling vigils. The fires must be continually stoked, babied and watched. Dreams are cooking. You can see the evidence as white smoke billows out from the rooftops of maple sugarhouses and sweet steam rises filling the air.
The farmer’s dream is to boil the sap collected from the maple tree into maple syrup in a span of 4 to 6 weeks.

If you ever visit a sugarhouse during boiling season I think you will find a happy crew of farmers, neighbors
and friends talking about the past winter and making predictions
for this year’s maple season. People support one another during the long boiling time while the dream is cooking.
Making maple syrup is not a enture “to go alone” as the process is demanding. Temperatures have to be watched, the fires can’t go out and every year the season depends on just the right weather conditions.

The farmer’s job is to be ready with lines tapped into the sugar maples, enough wood to keep the evaporator
boiling the sap and good company with people who share their passion. In the end, the farmer’s dream of making maple syrup will coming pouring down on our pancakes and waffles.

We can learn a lot from the maple sugar farmer about cooking dreams.
Like the farmer, if we are going to realize our dreams, we must make them
a priority. We need to stay focused by keeping our attention on the end result; the maple syrup. Always share the boil time with other passionate dreamers. It makes the eventual obstacles and distractions easier to overcome and passion is contagious. Most of all be flexible;the weather isn’t always predictable.

Just as the farmer has modernized the process of collecting and boiling sap to be more efficient, we may need to upgrade and look for additional tools and resources to make our dreams
a reality.

Remember some dreams, like maple syrup, come with an expiration date. If we don’t do something about them they will eventually evaporate in the bucket.

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The New Morality

 by: Tushar Jain

In a world where dynamism alters egos and principles in a man every second, where men divest in tenets that secure them from being devout to something natural, where humanity seeks reasons to be ignorant just to feel sly and intelligent – we’re confronted with issues of morality. We can no longer be satisfied with being truthful incessantly, we can no longer be happy for the sake of empathizing, we can no longer be sympathetic in a world that beseeches us to be methodological, we can no longer be human when the invariable pretension has made us lose our ethicality forever – we can only choose to be different moralists altogether. Succinctly – we need a new morality.

Before we understand morality, we must distinguish a little confused, frazzled concept, a question rather – what is humanity? It is a vicious question; it has always changed worlds and time, and it will continue, in a way that is self-righteous and regardless of any man. This is perpetual humanity.

Coming back to the question: what is humanity? A good look in the Thesaurus can befuddle geniuses. No, it is not benevolence, forbearance, benignity, piousness or any of that material bullshit scribbled besides it in Roget’s. Helping a woman cross the street, praying with an earnest heart, being spiritual or virtuous is not humanity – it is simply intention. Humanity and kindness have though a close kinship but they, by no means, are alike or least symmetric. So we remain with the question: what is humanity?

Allow me to explain. Imagine there is a solemn boy on the street. His hair is rangy and mangled due to the heavy soughing wind that flits against the sunset, and his eyes are corked with unconscious thought, a cruel oriented pensiveness. In this mood, he lifts his head towards the azure sky and smiles a little. Now, this particular unerring moment when he saw the sky – he wasn’t happy, he wasn’t sad, he wasn’t sacred or enthused or carefree or independent or loyal or kind or gentle. He was conveniently emotionless. For just that one single breath of moment, he was humane.

Humanity is about irrelevance, small or large. It is about not being an individual, even if for an instant. Humanity needs to feed on manly, ungodly morale. That is the sole reason why, truly, we must live shackled. That is the sole reason why we require a new morality.

Banality is uncommon.

To err is human.

Do not tell lies.

Smoking is injurious to your health.

Peer left, right and left again before you cross the road.

These were few of the unrelenting morals of a doctrine of human elemental mannerism, but as time elapsed, these eternal virtues have been deterred and demurred. They have been rendered useless by an unremitting growth of inborn propensity towards inexorable, irrevocable modernity. A modern world, it’s said, demands modern limits and a new kind of liberty. What is left segregated in a calloused, deformed morality.

The new morality issues a lot. It is specious at present, but vital and anon, shall be the only reason against the vice in virtue. It issues a man to be dominant, to rule his life, to control himself and to heed to every beckoning call of temptation, but however or whichever so path he unfurls to his perdition, he has but himself to impugn. He is bound to the decision he makes with ideality as his independent chores towards his necessity, but there shall assail only his conscience and no other. He can assent with the ‘wrong’ when he knows not the ‘right’, he can always misjudge the ‘yes’ and the ‘no’ from his choicest and deliberate profanity, but the repercussions are his and only his in indulgence. He can be irate, indiscreet, inane, morbid, gruesome, extravagant, kind, benevolent, considerate, loving – but he is not meant to be optimistic or regard himself with the expectation that is supposedly verdant without the earning. He can love and befriend but to the extent that he knows that his intention can be met. He is at ease to be careless with emotion but if he wishes to provide it without innocuous grace, he is meant to be alone to deal with the vicissitudes. He can be extraordinary with the only exception that he is omniscient and ubiquitous else he can be trite and prosaic like the rest of us. He, if endowed with great gifts, is or must be a leader, for the need of one is indispensably great and indefatigable. He can be remorseful to the ills he has caused to a smaller world and be impertinent if the remorse if for humanity at large. In society, he must not express fairly, he must always be discomfited and serene, he must never be expletive in pretension and he must acknowledge absolutely nothing except his own gaiety and revelry; he is bound to do so if he wishes to simply be, to have a countable subsistence. He can be human, only and only if he wishes to be one…

This is the new morality. These are the commandments. This is our epochal tryst. This is what we’ll have to resort to, one day sooner maybe. This is simply, being irrelevant and non-individual for the sake of being human, for the sake of being humane. For the sake of being alive.

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My name is Tushar Jain. I am an author. If you find anything relevant or querulous regarding the article, feel free to contact me. I will be privelged to answer you.

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I’m absolutely convinced that if we look hard enough at any given
situation we can identify a win, win situation in it. “So what’s the
big deal about win, win” you ask? Admittedly, I know a lot of people
(many are friends of mine) that go day to day in their business
dealings (and personal lives for that matter) looking for
opportunities that only benefit themselves directly.

Now I am not saying there’s necessarily anything wrong with this.
Even so, I can’t help but imagine that their personal level of
success might multiply if they only took the extra time to explore
ways to ensure that the opportunity was equally beneficial to all
parties involved.

There’s something magical about focusing on win, win scenarios. When
we’re fortunate enough to develop ourselves to the point where we are
always looking for these types of opportunities it’s as if they
literally come out of the woodwork. The fact is people like to deal
with those that don’t have the “what’s in it for me attitude”, don’t
you agree?

Believe me, I’ll be the first to admit that there are plenty of
people who have done very well for themselves without adhering to the
win, win approach. However, I wonder if one might really consider
them successful? Keep in mind that success has so many facets to it.
Just because someone has attained material wealth for instance does
not make him or her successful nor non-successful.

It is all in the eye of the beholder I guess you might say. For me
personally, I measure my level of success by how much I can give back
to others.

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