I’m not sure about that cause i still haven’t practice it even after reading “The secret” five months ago, it seems I’m not convinced with the idea of law of attraction in the book and DVD. But here what i mean by like attracts like is that even after we are all unique and different from each other but somewhere and somehow we share some common links which helps us to tune in with each other which results in new relationship, friendship or may be love.

- Lord Buddha

That’s ironical, coz theory of enlightenment says we r not our mind, we r not our thoughts, once we realize this we’ll achieve enlightenment. Perhaps Lord Buddha wanted to say since every common man in this world try to relate its existence with it’s never ending thought process, so what we think we become that, we become as our thoughts cause that’s the very one thing which our mind can conceive as real over our actual infinite self.

But what is infinite self? I don’t know how could I cause it is known or being experienced by enlighten being only, may that very thought of mine keeping me away from experiencing infinite self but one thing for sure that we have never ending thought process, that way it seems we have infinite thoughts but 98% of them are same thoughts which keeps on repeating everyday which drives us, keeps us in illusion that we are only what we think and we walk like them, act like them. So to change our self we should change our thoughts coz “we are what we think…We are our thoughts…”

- Carl Sagan

“Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old. ” - Who moved my cheese

I need movement in a new direction to find new Cheese cause it is safer to search in the maze than remain in the cheeseless situation and quicker i let go of old cheese, the sooner i’ll find new cheese. these are few amazing points that learnt from the post “Did someone really moved your cheese?” from Aji Ji aka Webkotler

while moving in new direction in search of our kind of cheese we gotta find out right kind of Cheese Station which will provide us new tasty cheese consistently for good amount of period.

so here is few steps from Aji to decide your new cheese station (employer)

taken from “How to decide your new employer?”

Try hard to join Good companies

There are only few good companies (where you enjoy work and create great things), try hard to join them. Good companies always want good people. Make a good relationship with them even before joining them. It’s not that tough to win competition with good teammates. “Hiring is the key” - Says Jack Welch of GE. Next section will help you answer, whether to join a company or not. It’s not a perfect formula but worked 80% of the time for me.

1. What is their mission statement? - This reflects a lot about how the company is organized. Ideally people from the top management to the peon should know the mission statement and work accordingly . Many companies work on different things but everything is done without a proper mission statement. I have seen some small companies with great mission statements, it was so clear that you could sense their direction with just one single sentence. For a bigger company, the name brand name covers up the mission statement. For a bigger company, ask your prospective team about its mission. and then Match it with your profile/choice.
2. Who manages the company? - Different departments should be managed by different people. If the company is a new startup, assume it to be a little messy but they should have a plan to delegate powers to departments. Ask this, “Who manages your HR policies?”, “How are the appraisals done?”, “Who decides the salary increment?”, “If someone is performing extremely well for the company, then ask the concerned person whether the company treats them same way as they treat other employees or do they have a special provision for them?”. You will be surprised to know that many big companies are struggling with these questions. A good company will always try to answer these questions as clearly as possible.
3. How do you earn money? Who invests in the company? See if they are open about it. If company is not making good money then don’t expect goodies for yourself. Not earning at present is not a big issue but the outline of business plan can be shared (to an impressive level).

Questions about the company?

1. Five day week: MY SUGGESTION is NOT TO JOIN any company that works 6 day a week. 6 days a week is almost impossible for hard working people. Sometimes people do work 7 days a week if needed but the company that wants its employees to work more than 5 days a week on a regular basis is certainly not a people focused company. One doesn’t need to work XXX hours to complete a task but they surely need to work YYY fresh hours to make it successful, where YYY < XXX for sure. One day off a week keeps employees fresh. The company that doesn’t understand this doesn’t deserve good heads, lend them your hands and legs, brains doesn’t work for 6 days. I seriously mean it.
2. How many leaves? Compare it with the industry standards. This is also a big factor that you should consider.
3. Salary break up and Incentives Ask for a clear break up. Promises made is of no use, get it written in black and white. “You will get so and so when so and so happens”, better get it written.
4. Increments This needs a clear guidelines. I know many who say, “I will get an increment only if my boss feels so“. This needs to change, one should get one deserves. If companies don’t have such policies they certainly needs to come up with one. Also see if promotions are performance based.

Ideal companies rarely exists, so one needs to get some of the mix and keep working towards a company that respects its people. See some of the stories that speaks about its culture (basically some viewpoints )

• Former Google chef tells about Google
• Mail sent by Narayan Murthy to all Infosys staff

Last but not the least-

“Don’t ever become prisoners to comfort zone”

Yes I’m alive, I know I can write at least one post a week but somehow I’m not writing or not getting time, busssssssssssssssy with wooooork….. well I’ve shifted blog from .com to .com/blog cause i wanted to use .com for another use.. more over i wanted to make .com as my online portfolio.

Here is one great piece of idea which is designed to increase links. This one is called the Big Bang and the author, Mel over at Monday Morning Power wants to see if we can set a record and get to 1000 sites. Anyone can take part

If you would like to join in please do, even if you haven’t been tagged! Just follow the instructions below.

In my last post i wrote about almost9months.com where Aji is delivering all his ideas as being almost 9 months is useless unless you deliver it.

Ideas are very volatile in nature, sometimes we keep on thinking and it won’t come down no matter how hard we try and sometimes it just clicks our mind even we are not thinking about it, then it just woooooooosh goes away and we keeps on thinking what was it, the thing is before delivering our ideas we need to collect it.

for that best thing is to “carry a small notebook (or whatever capture tool works for you) and write down any tasks, ideas, projects, or other information that pop into your head. Get it out of your head and onto paper, so you don’t forget it. - ZTD Habit 1”

It’s quite helpful cause many times what happens i get out of topics for writing post in my dot net blog but as I started writing all the ideas that i can blog, i never got out of topic stocks, in my 1st exercise of this capturing ideas i wrote 26 different topics that i wanted to or can blog about and before that i used to think i’m out of ideas to blog.

I am pregnant again! been pregnant many times in last few years. Now its time that I start delivering too. Being pregnant and being almost 9 months is useless unless you deliver. - Aji Issac @ almost9months.com

This is great, cause i’ve been thinking how to use this dot com site cause i’m using my dot net site just fine started earning hundred of dollars, so how to make good use of this new dot com just because I love dot com over dot net don’t make any sense. then came across almost9months.com started by one of my favorite blogger Aji.

It’s all about “How to make use of your innovative mind? Don’t let your ideas die, make it work or donate it for free. Recently while thinking over it, I have decided to make some of the ideas float free. - Aji “

Finding your kind of template is really a very tedious job, it consumes hell lot of time. I was looking for simple yet good looking template/theme for my blog, finally i got this Minima Plus template. I think I need to write a post on finding good template to save others time and effort cause there is no point of re-inventing wheel again and again, so here it goes in my to-do-blog list.