Thursday, February 08, 2007

Have faith in your Father in as much as in God.

A young man was getting ready to graduate fromcollege.For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's show room, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As graduation day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation his father called him into his room. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him and handed his son a beautifully wrapped gift box.

Curious, but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather bound bible. Angrily he raised his voice at his father and said, "with all your money you give me a bible?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the HOLY book.

Many years passed and the young man was very succesful in business. He had a beautiful home, and wonderful family, but realised his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him since the graduation day. Before he could make arrangements, he received a teelegram mentioing that his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son.He needed to reach home immediately and take care of things and when he arrived at his father's house, sudeen sadness and regret filleed his heart.

He began to search his father's important papers and saw the still the new bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the bible and began to turn the pages. As he read those words, a car key dropped from an envelope taped behind the bible.. It had a tag with dealer's name , the same dealer whio had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation and the words...".PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss God's blessings because they are not packaged as we expected ?.

J.KANNAN

Determination,Desire,Persistence and endurance-To make dream come true.

Determination & Desire with Persistence & Endurance can make dream come true.

In the year 1883, a creative and innovative engineer named Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with Long Island. However the bridge building experts through out the world thought, this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just cannot be done as it was not practical and had never been done before.


Roebling could not give up and ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge and thought about it all the time, and knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share his vision with some one else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an upcoming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.


Working together, for the first time, the father and son developed the concept of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration and headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.


The project started off well, but only when it was few months under way, a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move.


Negative comments started pouring in

“We told them so”

“Crazy men and their crazy dreams”

“It is foolish to chase a wild vision”


Every one had only negative comments to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap, Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.


He tried to inspire and passion his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay on his bed in the hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside just for a moment.


It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and decided to make best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.


He touched his wife’s arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under the way again.


For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife’s arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man’s indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their teamwork, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the message of her husband and told the engineers what to do.


Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a NEVER-SAY-DIE attitude that overcomes a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal.


Often when we face obstacles in our day-to-day life, our hurdles seem very small in comparison to what many others have to face. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us, dreams that seem impossible can be realized with determination and persistence, no matter what the odds are.


“EVEN THE MOST DISTANT DREAM CAN BE REALISED WITH DETERMINATION, DESIRE, PERSISTENCE & ENDURANCE”


“DO NOT GIVE UP VISION AND AMBITION: DESIRE WITH DETERMINATION CAN CERTAINLY MAKE IT HAPPEN”

J.KANNAN

Time is money

How judiciously one should utilise the time:-

TAKE TIME:-

To Work - Its the price of success.
To think - Its the source of power.
To play - Its the secret of youth.
To read - Its the foundation of wisdom
To be friendly- Its the road to happiness.
To love & be loved - Its the privilege of GOD.
To look around - Its too short a day to be selfish
To laugh - Its music of soul.
&
To serve- Its the only way to be Godly.

These will bring
Clarity of vision
The strength of our resolve.
The will to implement a strategic action plan.
And enable one to take plans to logical and
successful conclusion.
&
Always remember "TIME IS MONEY" use it judiciously & purposefully to yield
better results and returns.

J.KANNAN
RESUME
OF
AN AMZING AND INCREDIBLE PERSONALITY
AND
A
GREAT INDIAN

Be proud of him and pass on this information to as much people as you can and as quick as you are able to




EDUCATION /Qualification:

Stood first in BA (Hons), Economics, Punjab University, Chandigarh,
1952; Stood first in MA (Economics), Punjab University, Chandigarh,
1954; Wright's Prize for distinguished performance at St John's College,
Cambridge, 1955 and 1957;
Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge,1957;
DPhil (Oxford), DLitt (Honoris Causa);
PhD thesis on India's export competitiveness

OCCUPATION /Teaching Experience:

Professor (Senior lecturer, Economics, 1957-59;
Reader, Economics, 1959-63;
Professor, Economics, Punjab University, Chandigarh, 1963-65;
Professor,International Trade, Delhi School of Economics,University of
Delhi,1969-71; Honorary professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University,New
Delhi, 1976 and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi,1996 and
Civil Servant.

Working Experience/ POSITIONS:

1971-72: Economic advisor, Ministry of foreign trade

1972-76: Chief economic advisor, Ministry of finance

1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India; Director, Industrial
Development Bank of India; Alternate governor for India, Board of
governors, Asian Development Bank ;
Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, IBRD

November 1976 - April 1980: Secretary, ministry of finance (Department
of economic affairs); Member, finance, Atomic Energy Commission;
Member, finance, Space Commission

April 1980 - September 15, 1982: Member-secretary, Planning Commission

1980-83: Chairman, India Committee of the Indo-Japan joint study
committee September 16, 1982 - January 14, 1985: Governor, Reserve Bank
of India

1982-85: Alternate Governor for India, Board of governors,
International Monetary Fund

1983-84: Member, economic advisory council to the Prime Minister

1985: President, Indian Economic Association

January 15, 1985 - July 31, 1987: Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

August 1, 1987 - November 10, 1990: Secretary-general and commissioner,
south commission, Geneva

December 10, 1990 - March 14, 1991: Advisor to the Prime Minister on
economic affairs

March 15, 1991 - June 20, 1991: Chairman, UGC

June 21, 1991 - May 15, 1996: Union finance minister

October 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam on Congress ticket

June 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the ministry of finance

August 1, 1996 - December 4, 1997: Chairman, Parliamentary standing
committee on commerce

March 21, 1998 onwards: Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha

June 5, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on finance

August 13, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on rules

Aug 1998-2001: Member, committee of privileges 2000 onwards: Member,
executive committee, Indian parliamentary group

June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

Aug 2001 onwards: Member, general purposes committee

BOOKS:

India's Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth -Clarendon
Press, Oxford University, 1964;
also published a large number of articles in various economic journals.

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge, 1956

Padma Vibhushan, 1987

Euro money Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993;

Asia money Award, Finance Minister of the Year for Asia, 1993 and 1994

INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:

1966: Economic Affairs Officer

1966-69: Chief, financing for trade section, UNCTAD

1972-74: Deputy for India in IMF Committee of Twenty on International
Monetary Reform

1977-79: Indian delegation to Aid-India Consortium Meetings

1980-82: Indo-Soviet joint planning group meeting

1982: Indo-Soviet monitoring group meeting

1993: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Cyprus 1993: Human
Rights World Conference, Vienna

RECREATION:

Gymkhana Club, New Delhi;
Life Member, India International Centre, New Delhi.



Name: Dr Manmohan Singh

DOB: September 26, 1932

Place of Birth: Gah (West Punjab)

Father: S. Gurmukh Singh

Mother: Mrs Amrit Kaur

Married on: September 14, 1958

Wife: Mrs Gursharan Kaur

Children: Three daughters

Our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is the the most qualified PM's all over the world. Let the entire world offer its salutations and reverence to this GREAT INDIAN.
THANK YOUR MOTHER PROFOUNDLY&PROFUSELY ALWAYS:

THE REASONS BEING: -


When you were 1 year old, she fed you and bathed you.

Ø You thanked her by crying all night long.


When you were 2 years old, she taught you to walk.

Ø You thanked her by running away when she called.


When you were 3 years old, she made all your meals with love.

Ø You thanked her by tossing your plate on the floor.


When you were 4 years old, she gave you some crayons.

Ø You thanked her coloring the dining table.


When you were 5 years old she dressed you for the holidays.


Ø You thanked her by plopping in to the nearest pile of mud.


When you were 6 years old, she walked you to school.


Ø You thanked her by screaming “I am not going”.


When you were 7 years old, she bought you a baseball.


Ø You thanked her by throwing it through the next-door neighbor’s window.



When you were 8 years old, she handed you an ice cream.


Ø You thanked her by dripping it all over your lap.


When you were 9 years old, she paid for piano lessons.


Ø You thanked her by never even bothering to practice.


When you were 10 years old, she drove you all day, from soccer to gymnastics, to one birthday party to another.


Ø You thanked her by jumping out of the car and never looking back.


When you were 11 years old, she took you and your friends to the movies.


Ø You thanked her by asking her to sit in a different row.


When you were 12 years old, she warned you not watch certain TV shows.


Ø You thanked her by waiting until she left the house.


When you were 13 years old, she suggested a haircut that was becoming.


Ø You thanked her by telling her she had no taste.


When you were 14 years old she paid for a month away at summer camp


Ø You thanked her by forgetting to write a single letter.


When you were 15 years old, she came home from work, looking for a hug.


Ø You thanked her by having your bedroom door locked.


When you were 16 years old, she taught you how to drive her car.


Ø You thanked her by taking it every chance you could.


When you were 17 years old, she was expecting an important call.


Ø You thanked her by being on the phone all night.


When you were 18 years old, she cried at your high school graduation.


Ø You thanked her by staying out partying until dawn.


When you were 19 years old, she paid for your college tuition, drove you to campus, carried your bags.


Ø You thanked her by saying good-bye outside the dorm, so you would not be embarrassed in front of your friends,


When you were 20 years old, she asked whether you were seeing any one.


Ø You thanked her by saying ” It is none of your business”


When you were 21 years old, she suggested certain careers for your future.


Ø You thanked her by saying “ I don’t want to be like you”.


When you were 22 years old, she hugged you at your college graduation.


Ø You thanked her by asking whether she could pay for a trip to Europe.


When you wetre23 years old, she gave you furniture for your first apartment.


Ø You thanked her by telling your friends it was ugly.


When you were 24 years old, she met your fiancé and asked about your plans for the future.


Ø You thanked her by glaring and growling at her.


When you were 25 years old, she helped to pay for your wedding, and she cried and told you ‘How deeply she loved you”.


Ø You thanked her by moving half way across the country.


When you were 30 years old, she called with some advice on the baby.


Ø You thanked her by telling her, “Things are different now”.


When you were 40 years old, she called to remind you of a relative’s birthday.


Ø You than ked her by saying you were “really busy right now”.


When you were 50 years old, she fell ill and needed you to take care of her.


Ø You thanked her by reading about a burden parents become to their children.


AND IT DID HAPPEN ONE DAY


WHAT ?


One day she quietly died. And everything you never did came crashing down like thunder……….ah, if only………..


IF YOU ARE LUCKY AND SHE IS STILL AROUND-MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR HER- THANK HER PROFOUDLY AND PROFUSELY.


GOD BLESS YOU ALL CHILDREN. Be kind, polite and generous enough towards your Mother, particularly for those without father).

J.KANNAN

Trying & Doing

Trying is the first step towards the failure & doing is the first step towards Success.

" Keep doing and remain succesful always.
J.KANNAN

Do forgive &Do not forget

Flatter me, and I may not believe you, Criticize me, and I may not like you, Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you." I do not want to forget my friends.

Please keep encouraging me at all possible opportunities.

J.KANNAN

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

"The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us.
duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that
duty."

-- Abraham Lincoln


Probably the greatest example of persistence is Abraham Lincoln.
If you want to learn about somebody who didn't quit, look no
Further.

Born into poverty, Lincoln was faced with defeat throughout his
Life. He lost eight elections, twice failed in business and
Suffered a nervous breakdown. He could have quit many times---but
He didn't and because he didn't quit, he became one of the
greatest presidents in the history of our country. Lincoln was a
Champion and he never gave up. Here is a sketch of Lincoln's road
to the White House...

1816 His family was forced out of their home. He had to work to
support them.

1818 His mother died

1831 Failed in business

1832 Ran for state legislature - LOST.

1832 Also lost his job - wanted to go to law school but couldn't
get in.

1833 Borrowed some money from a friend to begin a business & by
the end of the year he was bankrupt. He spent the next 17 years
of his life paying off this debt.

1834 Ran for state legislature again - WON

1835 Was engaged to be married, sweetheart died and his heart was
broken.

1836 Had a total nervous breakdown & was in bed for six months.

1838 Sought to become speaker of the state legislature - DEFEATED


1840 Sought to become elector - DEFEATED

1843 Ran for Congress - LOST

1846 Ran for Congress again - this time he WON

1848 Ran for reelection to Congress - LOST

1849 Sought the job of land officer in his home state. - REJECTED


1854 Ran for Senate of the United State - LOST

1856 Sought the Vice-Presidential nomination at his party's
national convention - got less than 100 votes - LOST

1858 Ran for U. S. Senate again - LOST

1860 Elected president of the United States!


As you can see Mr. Lincoln never gave up, don't you!


The Gettysburg AddressGettysburg, PennsylvaniaNovember 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Friday, February 02, 2007

PRESCRIPTION FOR SUCCESS

Please take this six words formula for success and do it to see success:-

"Think things thorough,then follow through"
1 2 3 4 5 6
Success has no option but COME TO YOU.

JK

What creates What

"Kindness in words creates confidence, Kindness in thinking creates profoundence and kindness in giving creates Love"

Be an embodiment of all the above three creations.

JKANNAN

Ability to Ability

Sources of Ability

Ability is of little use without opportunity.
and
Opportunity will come only when you create it.-BE A CREATOR FOR THYSELF-

Ability is what you are capable of doing, Motivation determines what you do and attitude determines how well you do.-PLEASE NOTE WHAT DETERMINES WHAT-

Ability may get you to the TOP, but it takes character to keep you at TOP.-REMAIN ON TOP ALWAYS-

Behind every able man there are always other able men.

Only continuous efforts, and not strength or intellegence is the key to unlocking your potential.-HOLD ON TO CONTINUOUS EFFORTS-

Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much- BE TOGETHER ALWAYS-

JK
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