Archive for October, 2009

GOOOOoooonNNNNN… That’s the sound (rather noise) my Hard disk is making right now. At first I didn’t notice it but as the noise kept growing. And that sounds like Trouble with Capital T.

Now I am bit worried.

I am worried because I know it is happening one of the 2 reasons.

1. My Hard disk is dieing.
2. Data cable is not processing data properly.

If you have a business like mine, you’d be shit scared right now. WHY? because most of my stuff related to business is in computers. I don’t have to worry about Data back up as I do it often. But more of the passwords, settings my computer has, important email accounts and emails.

Today is Deewali, and I can’t buy a new hard disk because of the festival holiday. ARGHHH…

First is my to Do list for saving back up is

File & User settings. It’ll keep take care of basic User settings.

Next I am going to back up my Outlook Express (incidently I don’t know how, DAMN).

Third I am going to take complete back up of my Master Boot Record and C Drive. So that I can re-install all the softwares and settings in new hard disk. I am worried because this is going to be my first time trying to do this. I’ll Keep my finger crossed and pray it works in 1^st attempt.

As I am taking back up, I am bit stressed.

Before all of this happened, I was working on my Live Online Marketing Seminar Next Week and My 3 Week Workshop on “Effortless writing”. It’s scary because now my focus is divided into many things including seminar and workshop, taking care of seminar attendees etc. Of course, I am worried. But even then I am planning to prepare for it mentally and physically and make my seminar and workshop a SUPER SUCCESS.

I know the distraction caused by this hard disk problem will cost me at least a day. If you are wondering how I am going to cope with it? Well I don’t know. When I focus, I focus completely to my goals. That’s always how I did it and It’s how I am going to do it.

I know, I should have listened to my Hardware friend about backups. But hey, there are always things we learn the hard way.

Varun Pratap

Desire. Commit. Succeed.

It isn’t as big as you though.

LOL. I found this picture while net surfing and just couldn’t help myself posting it.

Personally I don’t know what to think of this news about genetic enhanced food in today’s newspaper.

Horrors of all horrors, the very first food is brinjal… I can already see, kids imagining a fat round brinjal with biceps and thighs embarrassing Arnold’s running after them yelling “eat or be eaten, that’s the question” . lol

For some reason, the word genetically enhanced doesn’t resonate with me. I know it’s all about pest/herbicide/disease resistance, more nutrition etc. Of course the debate about global food shortage also comes up with this. But when it comes humans, take a look at the history, whenever human intervened with nature, the result haven’t been that excited.

May be I am just paranoid. I am so much about natural food, health etc. But hey with all the pollution and colored food, it’s already going towards un-natural. Chances are we are already eating enhanced food and we can’t differentiate. But for some reason, I just can’t get this image out of my head.

I have no doubt that this will be pretty much our future. Yet there are many challenges ahead for governments, especially in the areas of safety testing, regulation, international policy and food labeling.

Damn this post became a little depressing… I’ll post something better in evening.

 

I was talking with a friend from Australia just a while ago and our chat took into direction towards Law of attraction, The secret, Mental blocks about money and wealth.

I was telling him about Lakshmi – The Goddess of Wealth. How people worship Laksmi the day of Deepawali (Indian festival of light, 17^th this weekend). I also told him about “Dhantares”, a festival meant for business people related to provide prosperity and well being.

I was telling him about this and he made an interesting comment.

He told me, “that’s amazing, I don’t think I heard about any kind of festivals in any other culture”.

I realized, yeah, he was right. I too haven’t heard anything like this in other cultures. Heck we have our own goddess of wealth, we can worship whenever we want.

Now what all this have to do with you, me and all of us?

It has everything to do with us. While someone in the past (one of our ancestors) created a goddess of wealth and talked about worshiping. Today we are spending time, programming ourselves and our children about how it is hard to make money.

Things like -

Money doesn’t grow on trees.

Money is root of all evil.

If you make too much money in little time, you are getting black money.

Whoa… hang on there… so much negative programming in our minds. Yikes, Talk about bad picture and programming. So what to do?

Phew, Take a deep breath and release all the bad programming from your mind. Do it 10 times and you’ll notice your shoulders got lighter.

I know it’ll take some time to get rid of these pictures, but keep deep breathing, it helps with more than just getting rid of tension, stress and bad images.

Varun Pratap

Desire. Commit. Succeed.