PARADOXICAL PROVERBS

Look before you leap.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
He who hesitates is lost.

A SAMPLING OF MY MOVING-TOWARD VALUES AND RULES

Health and Vitality: Anytime I feel centered, powerful, or balanced; anytime I do anything that
increases my strength, flexibility, or endurance; anytime I do anything that moves me toward a sense
of physical well-being; anytime I eat water-rich foods or live in accordance with my own health
philosophy.
Love and Warmth: Anytime I'm being warm and supportive of my friends, family, or strangers;
anytime I focus on how to help; anytime I'm loving toward myself; anytime my state of being
enhances how other people feel.
Learning and Growing: Anytime I make a new distinction that's useful; anytime I stretch myself
beyond what was comfortable; anytime I think of a new possibility; anytime I expand or become more
effective; anytime I apply anything I know in a positive way.
Achieving: Anytime I focus on the value of my life as already created; anytime I set an outcome and
make it happen; anytime I learn anything or create value for myself or others.

"THE SOLUTION"

The solution is very simple. All we have to do to make our lives work is set up a system of evaluating
that includes rules that are achievable, that make it easy to feel good and hard to feel bad, that
constantly pull us in the direction we want to go. Certainly it's useful to have some rules that give us
pain. We need to have limits; we need to have some kind of pressure that drives us. I can't taste fresh
orange juice unless I have a glass, something with limits to contain the juice. We all have limits, both
as a society and as individuals. For starters, though, we should at least rewire ourselves so we can
experience pleasure more consistently in life. When people are feeling good all the time, they tend to
treat others better, and they tend to maximize their potential as human beings.
So what's our goal? Once we design our values, we must decide what evidence we need to have before
we give ourselves pleasure. We need to design rules that will move us in the direction of our values,
that will clearly be achievable, using criteria we can control personally so that we're ringing the bell
instead of waiting for the outside world to do it.
Based on these requirements, Laurie changed the order of some of her values and completely changed
her rules for achieving them.

IF YOU'RE NOT HAPPY, HERE'S WHY!

As I write these words, I'm looking out over the deep blue Pacific from my room at the Hyatt Regency
Waikoloa resort on the Big Island of Hawaii. I've just observed something that won't happen in North
America again until the year 2017: a total eclipse of the sun. Becky and I got up this morning at 5:30
a.m. so that we, along with thousands of other visitors, could witness this rare astronomical event.
As crowds of people gathered at the viewing site, I began to entertain myself by watching the diversity
of people who had come to share this occasion: everyone from top businessmen to vacationing
families, from scientists lugging dozens of telescopes to hikers who'd pitched their tents in the lava pits
overnight, and little children who knew this was an exciting event only because their parents had told
them so. Here were hordes of people who had flown in from all over the world, at a cost of thousands
of dollars, just for the chance to see something that would take about four minutes! What were we
doing here? We wanted to stand in a shadow! We're an interesting species, aren't we?
By 6:28 a.m., the drama had begun to unfold. There was anxiety in the air, not just the anticipation of
seeing the eclipse, but the fear of disappointment. For on this unique morning, the clouds had begun
to gather, and the sky was becoming overcast. It was interesting to see how people were dealing with
the possibility that their expectations would not be met. What they had come to see was not merely a
brief flitting139 of the moon over the sun, but a four-minute total eclipse—when the shadow of
the moon would completely block the sun's rays and envelop us in darkness. They even had a name
for it: totality!
By 7:10 a.m., the clouds had increased and were getting larger by the minute. Suddenly, the sun
broke through a hole in the clouds, and for a moment we could all see a partial eclipse. The crowd
greeted it with excited applause, but soon the clouds rolled back in, thicker and thicker, completely
obscuring our view. Nearing the moment of totality—utter darkness—it became obvious that we
wouldn't be able to watch the moon overtake the sun.
Suddenly, thousands of people began to run over to a big-screen television set that one of the many
TV crews had erected. There we sat, watching the eclipse on national television, just like everyone else
in the world! In those moments I had a chance to observe an unlimited range of human emotion. Each
person responded according to their rules: their beliefs about what had to happen in order for them to
feel good about this experience.

"Black out"

This story is about a black out. Suddenly power has been vanished from world. No light, no power in batteries. People start living without power, light. Only few people knows that black out is going to be happened, one of them was banjman.

Charlie was the daughter of banjman. After 15 years black out, some police officers find banjman and try to arrest him. But because of deny, banjman got shot, and police take deny with them self. Banjman told Charlie to go to Chicago and find his brother miles, because miles can help you to find deny. Charlie decided to go to Chicago and find miles.

On the way to Chicago Charlie meet with net, and she takes net with himself to Chicago. Net was the enemy of miles but Charlie don’t know this think. When they meet with miles, he knows that net is his enemy, he fought with net and net run back and take other people to kill miles.

 Miles was brave and fought back and he was saved. Then Charlie comes to know that she has done a big mistake to take net with himself.   

"The New Great Game"

The Great Game was an intense rivalry between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia, beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing through 1907. Britain sought influence or control in much of Central Asia, to buffer the "crown jewel" of its empire. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. In the post-WW2 post-colonial period, it would evolve into the Cold War era, termed "Great Game II" by some scholars.

The British perspective, the Russian Empire's expansion into Central Asia threatened to destroy the "jewel in the crown" of the British Empire, India. The British feared that Afghanistan would become a staging post for a Russian invasion of India. It was with these thoughts in mind that in 1838 the British launched the First Anglo-Afghan War and attempted to impose a puppet regime on Afghanistan under Shuja Shah.

Pakistan remains a pawn, moved around for the strategic and ideological purpose of the great power. Weather in proxy wars against Russia or against 9/11 jihadis or whoever may be the next. At best it can only rent out its military or territory, for other battles. The New Great Game is of modern geopolitics in Central Eurasia as a competition between the United States, the United Kingdom and other NATO countries against Russia. In this great game Russia, Pakistan, America plays a great role.

This game is on Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, because they have natural resources (Oil, gas) more than any other country in the world, so many countries want to take advantage for them.   America is creating his relations strong with these countries for resources but Russia is against it. Same is the case with Russia; they are building new relations with Pakistan to avoid entry of America in these states. America wants to create a pipe line which consists of natural resources, which passes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, to India, and from Pakistan to Iran and last to Turkey.

America have start building relations with India and that can be dangerous for Pakistan, because Pakistan have to build a new relations with neighbor country India for the benefits of both countries. Now the problem is for Pakistan, if they want to be the part of the game they have to build relations with India and build strong relations with America.

Pakistan could become such a model if its fledgling democratic system succeeds. Pakistan, at this time, is deeply involved in containing the rise of Islamic extremism. One way to deal with it is to combine the use of force with accommodation. Those not prepared to work within the established legal framework must be dealt with firmly while those inclined to use the norms of democracy to advance their agendas must be given accommodation. Pakistan’s difficult political evolution is being watched by many in the Middle East. If it succeeds, it will be seen as an example to be replicated.

 However, the United States by withdrawing its support at such a critical time and forcing the new Great Game on South Asia, will unleash another dynamic that could seriously set back the Pakistani experiment.

"MASTER YOUR TIME AND YOUR LIFE"

If you've ever felt stress -and who hasn't?-chances are excellent that it's because you felt you just didn't have enough time to do what you wanted to at the level of quality to which you were committed. You could be feeling this frustration, for example, because you're focusing exclusively on the demands of the moment: present requests, present challenges, present events. In this stressed and overloaded state, your effectiveness is rapidly diminished. The solution is simple: Take control of the time frame you're focusing upon.
It the present is stressful, then become more resourceful in dealing with your challenges by focusing on the future and the successful completion or resolution of the tasks before you.
This new focus will instantly change your state and give you the very resources you need to turn things around in the present. Stress is so often the result of feeling "stuck" in a particular time frame. One example of this is when a person keeps thinking of their future in disempowering ways. You can help this person or yourself by getting them to refocus on what they can control in the present. Or some people, when they're called upon to take on a challenge, begin to focus exclusively on their past poor performance.
As they remain in the past, their stress increases. A shift to the present, or an anticipation of a positive future,could instantly change their emotional state. Our emotions, then, are powerfully impacted by the time frame in which we're operating at the moment.