Ask yourself the importance of money in your life. Go deeper to find answer and you would find that almost all actions in your life get determined by the element of money. It has such a strong influence that we live and enjoy life at the mercy of it. But if you step back and see you would find that it is all about control. Do you control money or the money controls you. Even a small level of control over money makes one financially sound and get some level …

What does performance mean to you? Do you compromise with the state of affairs and let things work the way they are or you take up inefficiency very seriously and Weed Out The Weak. Anything that involved randomness is generally avoided by human beings. We love comfort and normal state of affairs and anything that go against it is something that is not preferable at all. Such behavior let the under performance to flourish as there is no attempt to weed out the weak. Inefficiency then affects other pillars of …

What is so inherent about your organization that makes it invulnerable to environment forces when you talk about examples of core values? What is the essence of your existence? What do you offer and how customers perceive you as an entity? These and many other questions necessitate the need of core values for any organization. Values are from the core of the company’s soul that helps it prosper and build a culture. They drive the vary existence and remains same across all in an organization.  They promote a feeling of …

Goals vary in their duration. There are short, medium, and long term goals that help us achieve different things in life. One of the important ingredients of achieving big in life is planning. And when you plan you set various milestones and targets. It is such an important step in whole process that any wrong projection exposes us to failure. Adjustments can always be made during the course but it is always better to be right once then to be wrong several times. Setting realistic targets and then achieving them …

Each individual is inherently different. So is their aspirations and outlook towards life. When these diverse set of people converge together and form a part of one group we call it as team. This is more than true if the concept gets followed more in spirit than the literal meaning of it. But this seldom happens and this is the reason that despite having the best of people in the group, the true face of the team seldom shows up. The big question that often pops up are what is …

One of the important aspect of conversation is to convince people and make them do what you feel is best for them. The conversation can be with members of your team, your customers, vendors, or even your near and dear ones. I believe this to be not an art till the time you are clear in your thoughts and hands on with what you have to say. The fact is that People do believe in things that come from heart and have the potential to better their lives and the …

One of the important methods to derive a great idea or to check its viability is by passing it through tough tests. Brainstorming is an important technique that gives the team an opportunity to generate and test various ideas. It starts by introducing a concept followed by dissecting its bits and pieces. It is important to have an appropriate mix of team that shares credibility in evaluating and assessing the various parts of the idea. People with varied experience give a good thrust to exercise because you have a summation …

What is your source of motivation? Do you derive motivation from within or you depend upon external factors. Intrinsic Motivation is the ability of an individual or employee to derive motivation from within rather than depending upon external factors. An intrinsically motivated person is internally mobilized to achieve his goals in life. It is a feeling that come from inside that may or may not have any objective reason. The best example of intrinsic motivation is your hobbies. You enjoy reading, writing, gardening etc. just because you love doing that. …

I have some of my favorite places to read more and more books online for free. This post is an attempt to share some of nice sources to read entire or complte books online for free with readers of Mystic Madness. Reading Books is one the best habit and I personally respect people who read a lot. On contrary I do realize that it is not easy to get time and maintain this habit due to hectic schedule. The beauty of reading free books online is that you don’t have to carry them, you …

Nine out of the ten people I know don’t have good idea on how to invest money. Even if they know how to do it their options are limited.  They have learned about two to three things with which they keep continuing for rest of their lives. Learning to invest money is such a sacred practice they do their best to avoid it. The fear of loss is so high that they prefer to invest in instruments that have been there for generations. While there is no harm in investing …

Desire to excel in one’s career or profession is an ‘instinct’ to most of the successful people these days. Only those who are trying to excel and work hard on their Professional Development skills stand a chance to win. Rest all end up as also-rans. But success and excellence doesn’t come easily to everyone. Given the competitive work environments where everyone is trying to outdo the other; only those who excel in their respective field will always remain ahead of others and are going to survive and move up the …

Believing and Living our Professional Values and Ethics is all about making the Right choices in our career and making them consistently. These are our guiding principles which provide us fabulous clarity to take well thought through decisions in our life. While they can differ across Profession but they serve a common purpose to enlighten an individual and show path that leaves no room for decisions which are way beyond the expected norms. Professional values and ethics gets build over a period of time. From any given list or paper, …

I can’t think of a good time where I would not have a good book beside me to read and enjoy. It is a luxury for me to have books of my taste and the ones that give a kick to my senses. Yes, I do like watching movies but both are just incomparable. My taste is different and more inclined towards how we can make difference to our lives. On contrary my wife likes fiction and loves to live in world of imagination. I still remember hours we spent …

The lure of quick and fast money is just irresistible. I am sure every one of us at some point in our life has got lured by things or ways that promise to make some quick and fast bucks. Search internet and you would find tons of articles that boast of helping you to make that fast money. Some suggestions are just not practical while there are others which are not quick in real sense. Money has got lot of importance in human life and the desire to posses it …

There is no better time than today. There is no better moment than Now. Wake Up Rockstar, this is your day, this is your moment to Rock. Not many of us realize that this is only one life that we have. Where will we go afterwards? No one knows and no one would ever know. If our days are fixed in this world then why not do things that make us happy? Why not do things that we love to do? I understand that we have responsibilities towards ourselves and …