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  • Articles on Motivation

    • Opportunity Knocks Only Once
      Opportunity knocks only once said an old proverb. I believe opportunities are always plenty in this vast world, but how many of us are ready to grab that in our life…? At least how many of us are aware of the opportunities we come across in our lives…? Family and society in which we are [...]
    • Overcoming Creative Avoidance
      Overcoming Procrastination should have been the actual title of this article. But I changed it after my visit to Colombo. I was in Colombo attending Toastmasters District Conference OVATION 2012 during July last year. One of the keynote speakers in that conference was this amazing young man Rory Vaden. Rory Vaden is a Self-Discipline Strategist,  [...]
    • Stephen Covey's Sharpen the Saw
        Seventh habit in Dr.Stephen Covey’s most famous book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” is Sharpen the Saw, which is the very common analogy of a woodcutter who failed to sharpen his saw and become less productive. The very process of continuous sawing, eventually makes the saw to loose it’s sharpness. Hence the [...]

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  • Articles on Happiness

    • Being Right or Being Happy
      When I wrote about being right or happy, many of my readers were keen to know more about it. Here comes my thoughts and understandings on one of the key learning’s from my counselling course. “Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy…?”   Think for a moment when you [...]
    • Hobbies in Pursuit of Happiness
      “What are your Hobbies?” is invariably one of the most common questions asked in any interview, when someone is introduced, when you want to know more about someone, when you meet your prospective life partner and in so many other occasions in life. Typically hobbies are known as set of activities done regularly in one’s [...]
    • Secrets of Happiness in Life
      It’s certain that our ultimate goal in life is to be happy. Our ultimate pursuit is nothing but happiness in life. But we fail to understand the sources of real happiness, instead we spend all our time and energy in earning more money and material. We very well know that money cannot buy us happiness, [...]

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  • Articles on Career Engineering

    • How to study when you have work, family and kids?
      If you are a busy professional who is also planning to take up a part time degree or a certificate course, after getting married and having kids, then you will have this pertinent question. How to study when you have work, family and kids?.  Congratulations…!!! You are one among those very few individuals with great [...]
    • HR Interview Tips for Freshers
      I’ve come across hundred’s of students who think that, once they are selected in Technical interviews, they will be obviously selected in the HR interview as well. Reason, the company is anyway in need of technically qualified people and why would a HR not select me? In today’s changing scenario this is a misconception. I [...]
    • Interview Tips for Freshers
      Are you in the final year of your graduation…? Are you waiting for your placements…? Are you a fresh graduates appearing for an interview…? Here are some thoughts and experiences based on my encounters with thousands of engineering graduates in my profession. Some general Interview Tips for Fresh Engineering Graduates in their final year appearing [...]
    • Strategies for Career Engineering
      Do you have a well crafted strategy to charter your career? or Are you a person who would take what comes in life as it is? Having a strategy is something that is very important for every business and every organisation; no matter how big or small it is. A well thought-out strategy helps in [...]

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  • Articles on Toastmasters

    • How to Start a Toastmasters Club?
      It’s more than a year now, we officially chartered Coimbatore Toastmasters Club in the month of December 2011. We started this club almost from scratch, I was the only one who had some prior experience in Toastmasters (Thanks to Bangalore Toastmasters Club). It was completely new for every one-else in our charter team though they’ve [...]
    • Toastmasters Project 5: The Swimming Pool of Public Speaking
      Dear Friends, Welcome to Anbusivam’s Blog. Coimbatore Toastmasters Club has just started crawling slowly with few more visitors coming for the meetings. I attempted Project 5 from Competent Communicator Manual, in our yesterday’s meeting. Title of my Project 5 Speech is “Toastmasters – The Swimming Pool of Public Speaking”. I deliberately took swimming as my [...]
    • Toastmasters Project 7: Loneliness - The Most Terrible Poverty
      Dear Friends, Welcome to Anbusivam’s Blog. I completed my Project 7 in Competent Communicators Manual this week in our Coimbatore Toastmasters Club . Title of my Project 7 Speech is “Loneliness – The Most Terrible Poverty”. The key objectives of Project 7 are research a topic and support the topic with relevant data and information. [...]
    • Toastmasters Speech 1: The Ice Breaker Speech Tips
      Ice Breaker or Ice breaker Speech is the first step one should take in their journey of public speaking at Toastmasters. According to Wikipedia, “icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters” and “for a ship to be considered an icebreaker, it requires three traits most normal ships [...]

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