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RokZRooM Special ! You Can Win by Shiv Khera

What difference are we making? Big or small, it does not matter. If everyone made a
small difference, we'd end up with a big difference, wouldn't we?

IS YOUR LIFE WORTH SAVING?

A boy was drowning in a river and he shouted for help. A man passing by jumped in the
river and saved the boy's life. As the man was leaving the boy said, Thank-you.'' The
man asked, "For what?" The boy replied, "For saving my life." The man looked into the
boy's eyes and said, Upon, make sure when you grow up that your life was worth
saving."

It is time to think. This is a wake-up call.
Success without fulfillment is meaningless. Unless there is a sense of meaning and
purpose, life is empty and unhappy regardless of how much prestige, money or degrees
a person has.
Success begins with developing your personal success philosophy, about your health,
money, family, society and values. Without a clearly defined purpose and a philosophy to
guide you, life is guided by fantasies. If people have not defined a philosophy of success,
they have actually defined a philosophy of failure by default.
Sometimes we overlook the things that ought not to be overlooked and don't overlook the
things that ought to be overlooked.
An integral part of a good value system is commitment.

COMMITMENT

When our value system is clear it becomes a lot easier to make decisions and
commitments.
Example: You can't make a commitment to your country by selling secrets to the enemy.
You can't keep a friend by revealing to others what he told you in confidence. You can't
keep a commitment to a job by trying to do as little as possible.
Unkept commitments result in dishonest behavior. I wonder how any relationship,
regardless of whether personal or professional, would work if people said something to
the effect.

♦ I will try but I can't commit.
♦ I will do it but don't count on me.
♦ I will be there if I can, but don't get your hopes up.
♦ I will be there, so long as you do well.
♦ I will be there so long as you are in good health.
♦ I will stick with you till I find something better.

If the following relationships cannot count and depend on one another, I wonder how
anything would ever work in this world.

Parent / child Husband / wife
Student / teacher Customer / salesman
Employer / employee Friend / friend

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