My first photoshop painting. It is for a small project and the painting is not complete. I feel I need to work more on it. By the way feedbacks are welcomed.

Don’t Let Success Go to Your Head

There’s an alarming trend: People who have had some degree of good fortune and success tend to lose their humility and become at least slightly arrogant. This is very unfortunate for many reasons. First, and most obviously, no one really wants to be around someone who is arrogant or self-absorbed. It’s boring, and it’s annoying! Arrogance implies a lack of gratitude. The assumption is, “I did this all by myself; it’s all about me.”

Factors such as our good karma, Lord’s blessings and so on are forgotten or disregarded.

In addition, when you allow success to go to your head, your stress levels skyrocket and your quality of life gradually disappears. People will stop liking you, and eventually, you’ll stop liking yourself.

Friendships slip away; obsessive busyness and a lack of time take over. Someone who was happy and relatively easy to please is now impossible to satisfy.

There are many celebrities, athletes, and business people who have done really well – their talent, timing, hard work, luck, and all the rest of it kicked in at just the right time. Yet, rather than being grateful and keeping a sense of perspective, they act as if they are somehow better or more important than others simply because they’re good at something and have enjoyed some success.

Don’t let success go to your head!

Haribol

Even the birds in Mayapur chirp the holy names of the Lord. Shot is Mayapur, this photo is from the Pushpa Samadhi of Srila Prabhupada. Shot in 2006.

The Most Attractive

The Utsava Vigraha (Processional Deity) of Sri Krishna-chandra beautifully dressed for the Jhulan Utsava.

Harmony with Nature

A beautiful railing in Pushpa Samadhi of Srila Prabhupada. The depth in the background behind is what which fascinated me. That is holy Ganges. There was a perfect harmony in air being at that spot at that time.

When people come to you to present their problems …

An executive at a large publishing company was sick and tired of boring and unproductive meetings marked by excessive hand-wringing. He enforced a rule that everyone who wished to present a problem to him first had to submit a memo answering these four questions:

1. What's the problem?

2. What's the cause of the problem?

3. What are all possible solutions to the problem?

4. Which solution do you suggest?

He now rarely has to deal with problems anymore and he doesn't worry about them. He's found that his associates have used the system to find workable solutions without tying up hours in useless meetings. He estimates that he has eliminated three-fourths of his meeting time and has improved his productivity, health and happiness. Is he just passing the buck? Of course not! He's paying those folks to do their jobs, and he's giving them great training at decision-making.

A nice small house in the campus of Radha Madhava Mandir, Mayapur. This site fascinated me a bit. Imagine staying in such a house...