Here are 5 steps to changing your attitude (or improving it) for success personally and professionally:

1. Learn everything you can.
Seek as much knowledge as you can about whatever it is you want to do. Leave no stone unturned. The more you know the more confident you will be. High confidence leads to greater self-worth which builds positive attitude. Your positive attitude has everything to do with your success.

2. Know where the landmines are.
Identify what could go wrong. Not in the way of being a constant devil’s advocate. But knowing the pitfalls ahead of time helps you maneuver your way around them. Leaving these pitfalls unknown breeds fear. Expose them. Evaluate them. Solve them.

Ask yourself these questions: “What is making me hesitate? What skills do I lack? Have I done my homework?” This is the step where you sell yourself on YOU.

3. Practice positive self-talk.
Self-talk is the conversation you have with yourself. Your mind is powerful, especially the subconscious mind. It doesn’t know the difference between what is real and what is imagined. So, tell it, “You are intelligent, confident and strong.” The subconscious mind will always agree with you. Once you mind agrees then it begins encouraging down a path that leads only to success. Of course, the alternative is also true. If you tell your mind that you are dumb, careless, and insecure, your mind with encourage you with these thoughts.

4. Say daily affirmations.
Repeat to yourself constantly: I have the ability to accomplish all my goals. Repeat again and again. Don’t stop. Before long you will believe it. Once something is recorded in the subconscious, it stays there. Claude Bristol, author of The Magic of Believing, says, “Repeated suggestion acts directly on our emotions and our feelings. It’s the repeated suggestion that makes you believe.”

How often should you say your affirmations? I recommend saying them:
• At the beginning of each day – before you get out of bed
• At the end of every day, before going to sleep
• When you hear a negative comment from yourself or others
• Any time you have doubts about your abilities

5. Create a circle of positive people.
Negativity is a virus. It penetrates healthy thoughts and feelings. Shut your mind to people’s negativity. No one can make you feel anything or hurt you unless you allow them to. Again, you choose to let someone or something affect your attitude toward yourself or your situation.

Yes, old feelings from the past can be triggered by others around you but it is your decision or choice as to how you will let it affect you. To help you in this stage, know your hot buttons, examine why they affect you, change your thinking about these buttons and take charge of your present and your future.

Wipro chairman Mr. Azim prem ji’s comment on reservation: Good one.. read on….*

* I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let’s start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation for Muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC/ST like that. Cricket rules should be modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST player. The four hit by an SC/ST/OBC player should be considered as a six and a six hit by a SC/ST/OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An SC/ST/OBC player scoring 60 runs should be declared as a century.

We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like Shoaib Akhtar should not bowl fast balls to our SC/ST/OBC player. Bowlers should bowl maximum speed of 80 kilometer per hour to an SC/ST/OBC player. Any delivery above this speed should be made illegal.

Also we should have reservation in Olympics. In the 100 meters race, an SC/ST/OBC player should be given a gold medal if he runs 80 meters.

There can be reservation in Government jobs also. Let’s recruit SC/ST and OBC pilots for aircrafts which are carrying the ministers and politicians (that can really help the country.. )

Ensure that only SC/ST and OBC doctors do the operations for the ministers and other politicians. (Another way of saving the country..)

Let’s be creative and think of ways and means to guide INDIA forward…

Let’s show the world that INDIA is a GREAT country. Let’s be proud of being an INDIAN..

May the good breed of politicians long live.. *

Washington: U.S. President Barack Obama’s Indian-American IT guy is in full agreement with his boss that the White House is “like 30 years” behind the times when it comes to technology.

“Federal IT is horrible – that’s why we’ve made it a priority to aggressively crack down on wasteful ITspending and turn around poorly performing projects,” says Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer.

Obama had rightly “pointed out how tough the problem really is,” he told Politico, a Washington newspaper focusing on presidential and congressional politics.

The government now spends about $80 billion a year on technology systems – up from $46 billion in 2001.

Kundra said the government wastes billions of dollars on ineffective technology systems. He said he found $3 billion in savings by using the IT Dashboard, a tool he introduced in 2009 that tracks how much the government spends on information technology investments.

Other progress has been made, he said. When the Obama administration came into office, “We had giant boxes on our desks instead of the laptops and docking stations we have now.”

Kundra has pushed consumer-focused companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon to get into the government game.

They are now selling “cloud computing” services, which store information for multiple agencies on large corporate-run servers, instead of each federal agency having to run its own equipment.

Consolidating such data centres will save money and help the government run more efficiently, Kundra told Politico.

The administration will soon issue a $2.5 billion cloud-computing procurement for federal and state agencies. One of Kundra’s first priorities is revamping the government’s email system.

Instead of each agency having its own email scheme, Kundra has been working on creating a governmentwide, cloud-based email network.

The administration expects to save $42 million from moving two agencies’ email systems to the cloud, and the move will eliminate 800 data centres over the next five years.

Six months ago, Kundra unveiled a 25-point plan to help rein in out-of-control IT costs. Kundra has also pushed the government to publish thousands of data sets on Data.gov, so that citizens can use information about hospital patient reviews, for example, or product recalls.

source : www.siliconindia.com

source : www.siliconindia.com