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I found this interesting article. Enjoy and may be follow the principle.
Mahendra
The Law of the Garbage Trucks
How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day?
Unless you’re the Terminator, for an instant you’re probably set back on your heels. However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly she can get back her focus on what’s important.
I learned it in the back of a Harare City taxi cab. Here’s what happened. I hopped in a taxi and we took off for Westgate. We were driving when all of a sudden a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his
breaks, skidded, and missed the other car’s back end by just inches!
Here’s what happened next. The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. How do I know? Ask any Zimbabwean, some words in Harare come with a special face.
Now, here’s what blew me away. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was friendly. So, I said, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”
And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck.”
Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. You’ll be happy you did. I guarantee it.
So this was it: The “Law of the Garbage Truck.” I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, at home, on the streets? It was that day I
said, “I’m not going to do it anymore.”
I began to see garbage trucks. Like in the movie “The Sixth Sense,” the little boy said, “I see Dead People.” Well now “I see Garbage Trucks.” I see the load they’re carrying. I see them coming to drop it off. And like my Taxi Driver, I don’t make
it a personal thing; I just smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on.
One of my favourite Football players of all times, Ronaldino, does this every day on the football field. With a smile he always jumps up as quickly as he hits the ground after being tackled. He never dwells on a hit. Ronaldino is always ready to make the next play his best. Good leaders know they have to be ready for their next meeting. Good parents know that they have to welcome their children home from school with hugs and kisses.
Leaders and parents know that they have to be fully present, and at their best for the people they care about.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let Garbage Trucks take over their day.
What about you? What would happen in your life, starting today, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by? You’ll be happier
May God Bless You With Health,Happiness and Prosperity Always
September 30th, 2007
Zindagi hai choti , har pal mein khush raho…
Office mein khush raho, ghar mein khush raho.
Aaj paneer nahi hai, dal mein hi khush raho,
Chapati nahi hai to kya, Rice me hi khush raho
Aaj gym jane ka samay nahi, do kadam chal ke he khush raho,
Aur kabhi kaam hi na ho to vyayaam me hi khush reho.
Aaj Dosto ka sath nahi, TV dekh ke hi khush raho,
Ghar ja nahi sakte to phone kar ke hi khush raho.
Sehwag ka shatak Door hai, 1 darzan me hi khush raho,
Aaj Cable kharab hai, Doordarshan me hi khush raho.
Aaj gf naraaz hai, uske iss andaz mein bhi khush raho..
Jise dekh nahi sakte uski awaz mein hi khush raho…
Jise pa nahi sakte uske yaad mein he khush raho
MBA karne ka socha tha, S/W mein he khush raho…
Laptop na mila to kya, Desktop mein hi khush raho..
Bita hua kal ja chuka hai, usse mili yaadein hain,un mein hi khush raho..
Aane wale pal ka pata nahi..sapno mein hi khush raho..
Hasnte hanste ye pal beetenge, aaj mein hi khush raho
Ek Zindagi hai, wo bhi chhoti, har pal main khush raho…..!!
February 12th, 2007
ક્યારેક અનુભવોમાંથી અમૃત શોધીએ છીએ,
ક્યારેક એ અમૃત વલોવી જહર શોધીએ છીએ.
કદી મનનાં ઉપવન ખૂંદીને અહંને શોધીએ છીએ,
ને અહંના એ કાદવને ખૂંદી કમળ શોધીએ છીએ.
ઉજાગરા સદીઓથી સદી ગયા છે અમને તોય,
કદી દીવો લઇ પેલી નિંદરને શોધીએ છીએ.
વાતો કડવી કરી કરી સ્વજનોને દુભવ્યા છે,
હવે એમનાં દિલમાં મીઠાશ શોધીએ છીએ.
કરી અલવિદા વતનને વસ્યા પરદેશ જઈ,
હવે વતનની પેલી મીઠાશને શોધીએ છીએ.
કદી ન આપ્યો આદર જેને ન હૂંફ આપી છે,
એની પાસેથી હવે સમભાવ શોધીએ છીએ.
સમજતો કેમ નથી જીવડા, વાવ્યું નથી જે,
એ લણવા માટે શી વરાપ શોધીએ છીએ?
સમંદર ને સરોવરને ચાલ્યા ઠોકરે ઠેલી
હવે મૃગજળમાં કાં જળ શોધીએ છીએ?
__ જયંતી
December 24th, 2006
Dear Sista’s,
Thank you for being sisters. Though complicated and sometimes crazy, sisters (and all of you women in general) thank you for always being warm, for caring deeply about me.
Priti, I think you always provided Ashish and I a great person to be mean to when we were younger (sorry 
). You still gave me rides and taught us dances…thanks. Sorry about cutting off your phone calls with your bhenpani’s in Jayakar. Thanks for Parth, and thanks for his cheeks. His cheeks deserve a thanks on their own. Wayyyy too cute.
Nilam, I know you are not officially a sister, but you are like a sister to me so here is some raksha for you too. Thanks for the always deep and interesting conversations and for the nice hugs. We have only known each other well for a few years but it is good to be so close already. Thank you also for Neevudi and for writing in his blog (which eventually led to Medavo).
Sheela, it is great that you are also born in October. One of the few sisters to be non-June. Thanks for the Halloween mask during my first Halloween. Thank you for the multitude of nicknames and some interesting online conversations And also for the good critique on poetry. Also thanks for getting married. That was a wholeeee lotta fun! I am glad we abandoned the poking game.
Dhen, thanks for completing all the grades one year before me. Your notes and positive reputation with teachers were priceless. Oh yeah, and thanks for beating up those boys in the agaasi. And for opening the gallery in jayakar when that little Gaurav locked me in there. Oh yeah and also thanks for always listening to my embarrassing stories and always offering great advice and love. You’re welcome for the perfect height shoulder to sleep on in long car trips 
Ami, Sorry for the music in the car. It probably didn’t hurt much though, cause your most of your friends still stuck by you even after seeing you driving with me with blasting music in our mini-van. You were always a great tennis partner…we are both better players now because of it. I know you deeply care and that always made being your brother warm. You also scold me more than any other sister. So thats always good
Khyati, I am not sure exactly how old you are so I put you in after Ami. I also don’t know if you still read Medavo. But still, thank you your stories when I visit you in Khar. They are truly priceless. It was always fun to talk and joke around with you and now that you read Medavo I feel we keep in touch more often. Thanks for signing up
Avi, First and foremost thank you for the daily updates on Daviess County High School news. Also thank you for being the younger sibling partner whenever we did olders vs youngers with Ami and Dhen. I remember our weird football game in Dreamy Hollow too when it was You and Ami vs Me. Thanks for all those “family hugs.” Also, Too bad you grew up You are still my lil’ sister.
Dipti, you are the youngest sister. Dip-dipa-dee-dip. And now you are in college too!! It was always fun joking with you. It is also fun having philosophical debates with you on IM. I remember when I first realized the idea of how physics is all based on induction. You will have a lot of fun in college. Lets just hope the sun rises tomorrow
I love alllll you sisters very much. Hope you all have a great day and are well.
Love,
Nimit
August 9th, 2006
A lot is being said and discussed about Reservations for castes and tribes for higher education in India.
Current quotas, relaxations and preferences:
The quota system sets aside a proportion of all possible positions for members of a specific social group. Those not belonging to the designated communities can compete only for the remaining positions, while members of the designated communities can compete for all positions (reserved and open). Even if no qualified SC/ST[Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes] applicants are available, the reserved positions can not be released for general population but have to be kept vacant or carried over to the future.
Here are two video recordings of the interview with HRD Minister Arjun Singh
Video 1
Video 2
Share your thoughts and opinions on this topic.
On another note, all the elders in our family are now using Medavo more regularly and commenting also. I appreciate that. Some time ago, commenting was a hurdle for all of you but now you have overcome that. How about creating a bigger hurdle for all of you now? Post regularly and this also goes to say to all my brother sisters who enjoy reading posts and plain commenting. We are interested in knowing how you are doing in your life, how you are dealing with it and what are you accomplishing? When we write the tag line of Medavo as,
it means evbdy is “Sava Lakh” worth..
So all gems and gemini’s of Medavo.. Hope to hear from you soon
June 5th, 2006
Hi everybody, I am done with my exams and now also decided on what i want to do for the summer.
Before starting, i wanted to share a poem i wrote when i was really tensed during my s/w architecture paper.
Here goes:-
No one’s there around me,
No one’s there beside me,
I have to walk this way alone,
I have to carve a niche on my own.
First when i was in darkness
You showed me light,
Now when i need you the most
You are no where in sight.
I am scared to face this world alone,
I am scared to face the ups and downs on my own.
I am writing this poem coz i am really tensed,
My conscience seems to tell me things which make no sense.
My summer plans are to work on projects with Nimit in Sunnyvale and gain some valuable experience. I am right now full of mixed emotions… Excited, Eager to learn and scared. I am probably going to drive up to Sunnyvale this weekend. Looking forward to my summer internship work.
I have also registered with the Kojain event in Washington D.C. for the 14th July weekend. I am the session leader for an event called “Kutchi Acheto”. This event is for people who know very little Kutchi or no Kutchi. I have to plan the entire event.
I have figured out some games and things. Let me know your thoughts, opinions and new suggestions.
There can be several rounds & every team gets 10 points for correct answer and -5 for wrong answer….
1. round is “kutchi word antakshari” 1st team gets a letter from u and they tell a kutchi word…next team should pick last letter and then tell new word…this can continue for 3 rounds and every team can score 30 points…
2. round is mono-acting….u write down some kutchi word(s) in some chits ….1 person from team will come in front, picks up chit and has to convey his/her team the word by way of acting only….team guessing correct word will get full points…time bound game.
3. Round could be 1 min round in which u write words in chits and team has to sing number of kutchi songs in 1 min which contains that word……team can score 50/60 points in a minute.
4. Round could be again puzzle round in which u give 5 envelopes to each team…
each envelope contains some chits with letters on it
e.g. envelope1 - H U J R U P B
team has to find name of a village from kutch “BHUJPUR” by arranging the letters in right order.
5. Round could be question/answer round
u have set of questions for each team…max time 1 min….each question has answer of 1 kutchi word
10 marks for each correct answer.
6. Make the group of participants and give them a situation, and ask them to write some thing or roughly prepare an outline on that situation in whatever writing script since Kutchi doesn’t have script.
You can also prepare some outline scripts in English and provide each group with one Kutchi speaker to help the group in understanding and translation. For example. Just imagine how it would sound when Gabbar speaks ” Ketra Madu va (kitne Aadmi they), and Kaliya says, AAUN anjo Mitho Khadho Ahiyan, Muja seth. (Maine aapka namak khaya hai, sarkar)
I have to come up with a short 2 - 4 sentence paragraph with slightly more detail that will entice people to come listen to it. [This is what we will eventually put in the ‘brochure’].
So, if you can think anything then let me know.
Rest all fine from my side. Hope all of you are doing well.
May 10th, 2006
Since August of 2004, when I joined Cerner in Kansas City, I have been living the single, “bachelor,” life. I have my own apartment, a healthy source of income, a decent amount of “free time.” When I was in college this seemed like a destination, I wasn’t really looking beyond this stage. But now, I am more confused about what next to do with my life. During the day I work for Yahoo! and after work I work on my ideas for “the next big thing.” Anyway…the reason for this post is that all throughout this ride, I have learned some things about life I wanted share with all of you. My intention is not to give everyone advice on how to live life, because I know most of you are older and wiser than me. I had made this list for myself in my diary…my intention is just to share this with you, so you can get a glimpse of where I am mentally in my life. Ok…so here is the list…please share your thoughts and insight
The lessons…
- Doing well in school is not the same as doing well in life.
- This sounds cliche, but it’s true: You must never forget where you come from. Keep your feet on the ground and your eyes on the stars.
- Luxury is over-rated. I have realized I was much more mentally comfortable driving the red 91 Civic than my 2005 Acura.
- Home cooked food is highly under-rated.
- Pressure cookers have a lot of pressure…gotta let them cool down before opening!
- Being authentic (even if it makes you uncomfortable to do so) goes a long way in avoiding communication games and problems in cooperation in the long run
- The best thing about life is no matter how well I think I know myself, I continue to surprise myself each day.
- Just about any career can be frustrating at some point. Dedication is sometimes just as important as “liking” what you are doing.
- Every happiness is temporary (once you get used to it, it no longer makes you happy). In college it was like a dream to think about working for Google. Then when I had the choice, I saw something better…now it doesn’t seem like a big deal.
- Hollywood/Bollywood has really diluted the meaning of the word love. Love is not what I felt for some girl in high school, nor is love buying your wife a necklace or flowers…love is the years and years of dedication and sacrifice my parents have gone through for me. We should love by doing and showing, not by saying.
- Success is more about persistence than intelligence. If you look at most successful entrepreneurs, their successful venture was not their first.
- Days, months, years pass by faster and faster as life goes on. In school, one year seemed so long. Now…just yesterday I was joining Yahoo!, and now it has already been 7 months.
- Life is short, but days are long. It’s surprising how much you can accomplish in one day only. I saw a bracelet in the sky mall catalogue on a plane once that read “Nothing is worth more than this day.” Keep that in mind.
- It is more important to do right than be right.
- Speeding is not worth it.
- While making life decisions, forget about people, because people forget about everything. Next year there will be something else to talk about.
- You can take the man out of kachchh, but you cannot take the kachchh out of the man.
- Loyalty is important. If you don’t toil for your family, who else have you got?
- Obsessive saving is harmful. Never forget why you are saving money in the first place…is it worth sacrificing your (and your family’s) daily well being/comfort to save money? No. It is not. If you spend all day worrying about how to save $1, you will miss the opportunity to make $1000.
- Don’t waste your time on jealousy, sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.
- The best advice I got in high school still applies today in different ways: “Don’t worry about your grades. Worry about what you learn, and your grades will take care of themselves.”
May 8th, 2006
So Nimit and I were chatting the other day. We were talking about how everyone lives so far away from each other now because of their jobs and school and such and how long it’d been since we had gone home. Nimit came up with a brilliant idea. We decided that we all need to buy a big building and all live in it together. It would be like our own little community or city that we would never have to leave! We would have doctors, engineers, lawyers, dentists, businessmen, etc. It would be everything we need right there! With Khayti there too, we would even have our own movie industry What do you guys think of that idea? A big medavo community of our own! 
April 8th, 2006
After work yesterday, at about 8pm, I went to the gym to work out. My usual workout consists of running for 20-25 mins or so, and then lifting weights. I usually run with my mp3 player…which is nice, listening to good music is a good timepass while running. I was under the impression (as you maybe) that I would prefer to listen to upbeat…dhastik dhustik songs while running. Some crazy bhangra or hip hop songs and such. That is what I usually did…but yesterday, it just happened that when I hit play on the mp3 player, Ghulam Ali’s version of Woh Jo Hum Mein Tum Mein came on. This is a very serene ghazal…that I usually listen to it during late nights when I am working. For some reason, I decided to not change the song…and it went on, and I kept running. Then 6-7 minutes later, it changed to Itni Muddat Bad Mile Ho…and that went on, and I kept running. And before I knew it… almost15 minutes had passed! I was really enjoying this Ghulam Ali run.
So I guess there is no real point to this post, except for pointing out my discovery that when you are running, you don’t have to be listening to crazy up beat music to be inspired to keep going
And since showering is a popular topic nowadays…I took a hot shower in the gym after my workout, and man it felt GREAT!
March 31st, 2006
This might seem like an embarrasing type of post. But hey, that’s what family is for. You can be yourself and don’t have to worry about saying anything, right
Dhiren had been leaving early and coming late for the past couple days. And as we shifted Parth from his cradle to crib for his naps and sleep, he had been a little fussy and not taking his usual naps. So I was playing with him and trying to put him to sleep almost for whole days. In the midst of all this, I never had a chance to take a shower for past 2 days 
because unless Parth falls sound asleep, I can’t leave him alone to take even a quick shower. Today Dhiren had some free time in the afternoon, so he came home for couple hours. First thing that came to mind and I told him, “let me go take a shower”. And I swear, being in the shower had never felt so good. What a refreshing experience!
March 29th, 2006
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