Success

" Your success is for the world, your struggles are for you."

                                                                                                   - Rythum Verma

Success

"Success is, when instead of extinguishing the fire in your belly, your failure, adds fuel to it."

                                                                                                - Rythum Verma

Timeless beauty- Jennifer Aniston

Well if you are in love with the popular TV Series F.R.I.E.N.D.S (1994-2004) just like me, then I don't think you need any introduction to Jennifer Aniston who portrayed our very own Rachel Green on the show. Jennifer Aniston, one of the most successful American actresses, directors, producers, and businesswomen of today, is a living example that success is nothing but failure turned inside out. 

Lets take a look at the beautiful journey of this diva. Jennifer Aniston, born to actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow on February 11, 1969, grew up largely in New York City. Her life was taken aback when her parents split, leaving the 9 year old with her mother who was very critical of her since the beginning. The mother daughter duo did not go along for many years before their relationship harmonized. Jennifer did not do well at school at all. Her childhood was full of tragedies and dramas because she was dyslexic. However, it was not diagnosed until she was in her early 20's. She also has a lazy eye, like a crossed eye, which the photographers always have to correct in photos. In the beginning of her career as an actress, she was quite unsure of her career choice after giving 4 unsuccessful television shows. She use to support herself with several part-time jobs such as working as a telemarketer, waitress and bike messenger. But she did not give up until she got her breakthrough with the television sitcom Friends. It turned out to be the turning point of her life, from where there was no looking back. It made her a worldwide recognizable figure. She got paid $1 million per episode for the 10th season of Friends. She has done a lot of movies, commercials and music videos throughout her career. In 2014, she was ranked 3rd on Forbes Top Earning Actresses, earning 31 million in a year. She is one of the very few celebrities who look like they never age.

From a waitress, Jennifer Aniston went on to become a millionaire. With this I would like to say that, anything is possible in life. Never limit your life by being judgmental about what can and what can not happen. Work limitlessly and hope limitlessly.

Rythum Verma 

Work

"I am looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not knowing what cannot be done."

                                                                                                       - Henry Ford

Attitude of Gratitude

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that i must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

                                                                            - Albert Einstein(1879-1955)

                                                                            Noble Prize-Winning Physicist                         

Winners

"Winners don't do different things. They do things differently."

                                                                                                     - Shiv Khera

Don't Quit

When things go wrong,

As they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit-

Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don't give up though the pace seems slow-

You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out-

The silver tint of the clouds of doubts,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems so far,

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit

It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.

- By Author Unknown

Lehron se dar kar nauka paar nahi hoti...

Lehron se dar kar nauka paar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti

Nanhi cheenti jab daana lekar chalti hai

chadhti deewaron par sau baar fisalti hai 

Mann ka vishwaas ragon mein saahas bharta hai

chadh kar girna, gir kar chadna na akharta hai

Aakhir uski mehnat bekaar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti

Dubkiyan sindhu mein gota khor lagaata hai

ja ja kar khaali haath laut aata hai

Milte na sahaj hi moti paani mein

badta doogna utsaah issi hairaani main

Mutthi uski khaali har baar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti

Asafalta ek chunauti hai, sweekaar karo

kya kami reh gayi, dekho aur sudhaar karo

Jab tak na safal ho neend chain ko tyaago tum

sangharshon ka maidaan chhodh mat bhago tum

Kuch kiye bina he jai jai kaar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti

-By Harivansh Rai Bachchan

"Think outside the shoe" - Jessica Cox

 

Picture worth a thousand words...

"Instead of asking yourself- Can I accomplish it, ask yourself- How can I accomplish it"

- Jessica Cox

Redefining the meaning of the word "ability", Jessica Cox has proven again and again to this world that ability is nothing more than just a vision through obstacles. Its just the willingness to look beyond your roadblocks. Jessica Cox was born in 1983 in Arizona without arms due to a rare birth defect. But she chose to be the master of her destiny and not the slave of her tragedy.

In her own inspiring words,"What everything i have learned about overcoming obstacles is maintaining a positive attitude and to be as creative as possible. Creativity is just crucial because there is only one way to do something but if you are creative enough, you will always figure out a new way of doing something. Whenever I am compelling obstacle in life, I am pretty determined about overcoming it. It starts with acceptance, then you move forward. Its very easy to see ourselves as victim but we can also choose to see ourselves as the empowered ones. Fortunately, my parents brought me up, never letting me see myself as a victim. I believed that i was empowered and I could do anything."

Jessica Cox holds the Guinness World Record for being the first armless person in aviation history to earn a pilot's certificate. She decided to learn how to fly to be able to overcome her fear of flying. She is also the first armless person to earn a black-belt in American Taekwondo Association.( Currently, she has two black-belts in Taekwondo.) She is a psychology graduate and is recognized internationally as an inspirational keynote speaker. She has traveled to 20 countries sharing her inspiring message. She is also a certified SCUBA diver. She drives car without modification, plays piano, types keyboard, uses her phone, writes, put in and removes her contact lenses, surfs, cooks, eat, apply makeup and brush her hair with her feet. "Rightfooted" is the name of the documentary film being made on the life of Jessica Cox.

I think that impossible is a word that Jessica Cox has never learned. There is nothing that this woman can't do. As a motivational speaker she says to the world," Creativity + Persistence + Fearlessness = Nothing is impossible".

In the end I would like to pay my gratitude to this hero for sharing with us her story of courage and triumph and teaching us a beautiful lesson for life that "one's perspective is what makes the difference".

Rythum Verma

Anand Arnold's Will Power

Anand Arnold is a perfect example of a very simple, yet one of the most powerful sayings- "Where there is a will, there is always a way". Anand Arnold is India's First Wheelchair Bodybuilder. Talking about his achievements, Arnold has won Mr. India thrice and Mr. Punjab as many as eleven times. He also has twenty seven other championships credited to his name.

Born on November 11, 1986 in Ludhiana, Punjab, Anand discovered his passion for body building when he was just thirteen years old. But life had its own plan for him. At a tender age of fifteen, his legs stopped functioning due to effect of cancer which he was battling with. After an operation of spinal chord, the doctors had told him that he could lead a normal life after a bed rest of three months. He is still waiting for those "three months" to end. But he did not surrender to his limitations. He waited for three years after his cancer treatment before he started his training. Now he is 28 years old and he still continues to live his dream of body building. Presently, he is The International Model for muscle mania and brand Ambassador of HaleLife Nutrition and Fitness company. His peers call him Arnold due to his underlying respect and fandom for the bodybuilding legend Arnold Schwarzenegger. His biography titled "Waitless: A true story of Courage and Determination", was written by Allen Woodman.

Anand Arnold is a living testimony of the fact that life is what we make it. He proves that in each difficulty lies an opportunity. He won because he refused to become discouraged by his defeats. He has achieved what even the fittest of us cannot even dream about. He succeeded in spite of problems, not in the absence of them.

In the end, I would like to salute the spirit of this hero and would like to pay him my gratitude for being such a great inspiration to all of us.

Rythum Verma

The Butterfly

Nature has its own impeccable way of teaching us some beautiful lessons for life. Butterflies are so tiny and fragile, yet one of the most beautiful creations of God. Butterfly is a combination of two words - butter and fly. Hence, their name itself specifies their ultimate purpose in life and i.e to fly. But are they born with the wings they need to be able to fly? 

A butterfly has four stages in its life cycle. A butterfly first starts out as an egg. Butterfly eggs are protected by a hard- ridged outer layer of shell. About five days after the eggs are laid, a tiny worm like creature called the caterpillar hatches from the egg. A caterpillar grows really fast because they eat a lot. After the caterpillar is done growing it develops a pupa around it, inside which the caterpillar changes into a butterfly. 

But the butterfly has to struggle a lot to come out of the cocoon. This struggle period is what catapults it into a magnificent butterfly it was destined to become. Its a law of nature that the struggle to come out of the cocoon actually helps develop and strengthen the butterfly's wings. If we skip this struggle period, the butterfly will die and hence will never be able to fly.

These little living beings teach us one of the biggest lessons, that trials in life can be tragedies or triumphs, depending on how we handle them. Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. 

The trials of life do not come to destroy us but to give us wings to fly. 

Rythum Verma