Secret of Success by Richard St. John

One of my close know source (I hold him in high regards) shared this TED video of Richard St. John on research of Secret of Success. I thought of putting it down here what I saw after relating it to my personal journey on many success & failure i have come across professionally & personally as I could really relate to each point shown by him.

Passion : Most of the successful will be passionate of what they are doing, But most difficult part is to find you what you are really passionate about, I myself tried to figure it out for past around 2years really hard but believe me it very difficult to find out(But know people who due to God grace found out easily what they really like or some events of situation happen in their life that brought them to there passion and what I saw was once this people come to know what their passion is they are ready to go for it even though if they know the journey is difficult (beauty is in it)

Work : Found your passion now be ready to work, work and work (though you will never feel like you really worked) I could connect to this point very well because in one of my past assignment I got it so much worked out that I literally forget to live life as I was really disconnected from the world to make it happen even after lots of odds..

Focus: I pretty sure now day with so much of distraction it very important that one focus continuously on one thing which he is passionate or likes and keep on hitting it again and again till the end results are seen. (Do always try to innovate & know where to stop it. Here i mean to do differently or have cut off.
Persist: Don't give up easily
Ideas for doing Good: Always remember your idea should add value & do good to others, It as more chances of success
Push & Have mentor: I really missed not having some one really to push or mentor during one of my failure, I came to know it bit later but i guess it was meant to be like that. So always have mentor or person who will keen you pushing for achieving big things in life.

Leads to Success by Richard St. John (Above are based on his research of 7 years and I can really relate and vouch for most of them personally I have being using most of it for my professional success

My View of Budget 2013 highlights – Not much for investors (Average Budget)

Budget 2013 was much awaited, however it did not excite investors as there was nothing much for them. It was a flop show for investors considering they had high expectations from finance minister(But you cannot expect much from Chindu (this time considering he is slideline by top guys in Congress and I hope it will be his last budget also) but I consider him to be above average FM delivered by Congress till now this according to me was one of his not so best budget. Here is a quick summary for things which you should know
A) No Change in Tax Slabs (It's good news to middle class but could have done better to include around 80% of people who don't pay taxes with some innovative approach)

B) Inflation Linked Bonds to be introduced

C) Claim upto Rs 2.5 lacs as tax exemption if home loan less than Rs 25 lacs in 2013-14 this is for 
only first year only and new loans only..:( (something is better than nothing)

D) Service tax to be levied on AC restaurants of all kinds (My hotel bill will be increase atleast few times in year, if you eat lot out special in AC rest. bad news for you

E)1% TDS on Real Estate Sale of Rs 50 lacs-This clause is on not much use i guess as most of the Black money in India is only i real estate sector one more reason for common people to under value property and pay less.


F)RGESS first time investors income limit increased to 12 lacs

G). Reduction of STT on Derivatives , ETF’s and Mutual Funds-Though good news for traders but if you are commodity trade than CTT is introduced.

H) Mobiles, High end SUV car’s are expensive--Bad news to people who wish to buy SUV sometimes soon.

What do you think about this budget? Apart from these there are lot of other updates as well, but I think these 10 points are enough to know for investors.