Eyes on Your Goal..!
As the old year ends and a new year begins soon, let’s ponder awhile on how we can make the New Year more productive than the last: A story is told about a bloodhound chasing a stag. A fox crossed the path, so the hound chased the fox. After a…
You Cannot Escape Competition..!
Many believe that competition is bad, that life is meant to be peaceful and calm, sitting on a mountain, or playing golf! Gary Player for years was a great competitor in national and international golf tournaments. People constantly said to him, “I’d give anything if I could hit a golf…
Keep The Fizz Going..!
Many authors have a brilliant idea, start a book and soon stop writing as the initial enthusiasm fades! Or someone elected a leader starts work with passion and then boredom or the lack of motivation sets in. Even we, often we are very excited when given a new task, a…
Just Be Yourself..!
Today what the world needs are individuals. What we see more than before are clones. Though we are all created to look different, think different and speak different, we find safety in being similar, and therein lies the problem. In similarity comes lack of conviction and courage. We don’t want…
Pushing Yourself Out of a Grave..!
Many years ago, I worked as a salesman in my dad’s interior decoration company. Something that I feared and dreaded was to get a call in the morning from dad, that a customer who’s place we were supposed to start that morning had changed his mind. The first thing that…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.