Staying Motivated All The Time..!
Many years ago, just out of my teens I read two books that really changed my life. One was ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ by Norman Vincent Peale and the other was “Think and Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill. In those two books I was told I could dramatically improve…
Jes’ Keep Playin’..!
Players win, players lose, players prepare, players practise, players get hurt but players get up. No matter what the outcome is, players keep playin’!. After years of hard work, Thomas Carlyl finished the manuscript of his book and gave it to a friend to read. The friend’s housekeeper mistook the…
Fighting Recession Using ‘R’ Words..!
Like it not, Covid-19 is playing havoc with the world’s economy and there’s fears of the dreadful R word staring at you and me, and the first thing you or even I want to do is run away, rush off to hide or rid oneself of such morbid thought! Notice…
Picture It, Capture it ..!
Life’s battles don’t always go, to the stronger or faster man, But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who sees he can! The above lines were copied neatly by me in longhand on a piece of paper, when a teenager, and stuck near my bed. That’s…
Dare to Get Up..!
I used to love watching boxing matches, especially when they were on the silver screen and you know what the outcome is going to be: Dishum, dishum, dishum, dishum; one shot after another. You shudder as the hero finally gets knocked down. Then you wait with baited breath, knowing something…
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.