Save yourself

I started my Art Of Living class again and yesterday in class I learnt a way to save myself.

We constantly hear about ways of saving the planet, save water, save electricity; what about saving your self from the mess in your mind. Here are some emotions/reactions that will help you from emotional damage.

1. Be friendly towards happy people
2. Be happy for people that are doing good/well.
3. Show compassion to unfortunate people.
4. Be indifferent towards bad.


When you praise someone, you take on their good karma. When you blame someone, you take on their bad karma ~ Sri Sri Ravishankar

Photo courtesy - Netla

being correct

Facebook, twitter, texting, email - what have these done for us other than remove the need of actual human interaction. Oh they have also ruined our grammar. Our vocabulary has been limited to LOL, OMG and WTH!!

This post is an hope to eloquently speak and write english. I will keep updating this post as I come across my slang grammar.

4/19/11
Today I was having a conversation with my boyfriend and used the word 'but' in my sentence. Immediately he pointed out to me why the word 'but' wasn't necessary and how it made my discuss sound negative. After he pointed this out I realized I use this word very regularly.

Basically every time you use the word 'but, 'however' 'although' or any other contradictory word you are really just disagreeing with the person.
Ex - I love this dress, but I wish it was a lighter color.

Solution - Replace 'but' with 'and'

I love this dress and I really wish they had a lighter color.
Eliminating the word but will strengthen your argument and leave a positive feeling.

6/8/11
Today at work I was dealing with some pricing work. Being an engineer this is so new for me. I was describing to my friend this experience over chat and began to type ' wow, pricing is a whole nother world!'. Before I hit the send key I looked at the sentence like a slight tilt in my head like what the... yes that look. So I looked up ' whole nother' to make sure it was a real word. Yea turns out 'nother' is NOT a word.
Ex - I was living in a whole nother world.

Solution - I was living in another world or in a completely different world.
Hope this helps my readers too!! Also am open to any suggestions and comments :)
Cheers!!

A reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan to a pretty girl seeking a rich husband

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:


Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above.

You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York.

My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married?

I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?

Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit.

If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden(?), $250k annual income is not enough.

I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I've met a few girls who don't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys.
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)


-Ms. Pretty


A philosophical reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan:


Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor.


My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here.
From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain.
Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of "beauty" and "money" : Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square.
However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year.

Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later.
By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a "trading position". If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or "leased".

Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income.This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in "leasing" services, do contact me.


signed,

J.P. Morgan CEO


ps: Just a piece of note I wanted to share with everyone after reading it off from Facebook