E-mail Fwd: Mothers know...

(Forward from a friend! Awesome!)

There was this family with one kid. One day the mother was out and dad was in charge of the kid, who just turned three.

Someone had given the kid a little 'tea set' as a birthday gift and it was one of his favorite toys. Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news when kid brought Daddy a little cup of 'tea', which was just water. After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy tea from father, kid’s Mom came home.

Dad made her wait in the living room to watch the kid bring him a cup of tea, because it was 'just the cutest thing!!'

Mom waited, and sure enough, the kid comes down the hall with a cup of tea for Daddy and she watches him drink it up, then she says to him, 'Did it ever occur to you that the only place that baby can reach to get water is the toilet??'

....Mothers know !

 

10 things I learnt from my life

1) As Colin Sullivan puts it "No one gives it to you. You have to take it"

2) Experience is the best teacher

3) Mistakes are just a form of feedback to improve yourself

4) Learn from people and not things.

5) Most things that you want from your life surround you, you may just need to open up your eyes wider sometimes :-)

6) What's here to stay is your passion, your will-power and your confidence; money, skills, assets, liabilities will come and go :-|. REALLY! 

7) Entrepreneurship is not about making money or starting a business. It's about solving problems. I've to keep reminding this to myself almost everyday. :-)

8) Inspiration is not a one time thing. I should make a list of things that inspire me so I can refer to those things when I'm down. Be it videos, movies, books, people who inspire me when I talk to them. 

9) Efficiency is not a "Supply chain management" term. How efficient are you in your life? No, I'm not talking about to-do lists. I'm talking about those times of lethargy and everytime I did 'NOTHING' - literally. I think some of the most efficient times in my lives have been those where I've spent time meeting new people. 

10) Most of the advice I give to people is often times the one's I need the most!! Not sure why it took so much time for me to figure that out :D

2 random business ideas

1) a store that sells location-based t-shirts - printed locally, sponsored by the tourist destination being printed on it (probably they wouldn't mind doing that). New designs based on current news stories of that geography - cost probably not more than Rs.500 $10 - can be positioned as a universal (didn't-forget-to-get-that-from-my- vacation) gift shop?

 

2) a website that lets you store your HTML signatures (if you're like me you most certainly use these for professional/business) purposes. The trouble with current e-mail clients is that they need to pull up your logo/other images in your signature from a separate server. We might as well just include something that can be used across e-mail clients by using an iFrame tag. 

Vote banks in Mumbai

18072010

Apparently, these folks got flats after a redevelopment effort to remove slums in a nearby area. There are various classes of people who live in the same street - some affluent, some middle-class and some even lower middle class. Of course they can all live in harmony. But instead of going to some playgrounds about a Kilometer away, these kids choose to play cricket right on the same street (mostly during weekends) - so they dig up the road and fixate their stumps. When I drive through the lane, they do not feel the need to remove the stumps for the time being as there's enough space for me to around it. We're talking about a dozen people here - kids and teenagers. Trust me, all hell would break lose if I ever mistakenly hurt one of these guys. No police complaints have helped as I know from my friends in that area.

Democracy idiocracy!