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Raising sons
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Raising sons

Our boys are spaced out. We have a major boy-raising problem which should be addressed urgently. Boys are raised badly thanks to a combination of disinterested fathers and overindulgent mothers. Mothers ruin boys. They don’t ruin girls. Girls are taught boundaries, manners, caring, responsibility and accountability. But not boys. Especially not in Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures. Boys are indulged and their hormone induced bad behavior is tolerated and indulged and explained away as, “Boys will be boys.” That leeway is not given to girls.

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What is in my control
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What is in my control

... My motto is: “I will not allow what is not in my control to prevent me from doing what is in my control.” There is no copyright on this. You are welcome to use it without giving me credit. You are even more welcome to practice it yourself, because results come only from action.

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Home is where the mango is
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Home is where the mango is

We have been in America for the past six years in a lovely small town (they call them City, in America) called West Springfield, South of Boston. T...

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Being a Blackbuck
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Being a Blackbuck

We spent two nights at the Karnataka Jungle Lodges & Resorts, Blackbuck Resort in Bidar. Lovely cottages, set in natural forest, on the bank of...

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Tyger Tyger, burning bright
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Tyger Tyger, burning bright

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night" is the opening couplet of the famous 1794 poem "The Tyger" by English poet William Bla...

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What do you measure?
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What do you measure?

You get what you measure... so let us ask, “How do we measure human worth?”

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How to stay clean in a messy world
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How to stay clean in a messy world

Please share how does an upright honest Yawar survive and operate in this Messi Middle? Fancy leg work? 

Excell...

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Marriage in Islam – Khutba Nikah
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Marriage in Islam – Khutba Nikah

A marriage is a relationship without defenses, because it is based on trust, that the spouse is someone who will never deliberately hurt the other. If that trust is broken, then there is no marriage. That is why Sukoon is the platform, the fundamental foundation of all good marriages.

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How to beat Goliath
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How to beat Goliath

You are among those to whom personal safety is not Goal # 1 in life. You are among those who recognize that everything has a price and that if you want to achieve great things, you have to be prepared to pay the price they demand. It’s not that you don’t recognize the danger. To recognize danger is a sign of intelligence and you are no fool. It is that you are willing to take the risk for the reward. So you ignore the advice and step forward.

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Build the Nation and Win Elections
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Build the Nation and Win Elections

I propose a two-pronged strategy: Empower through technical education and enable entrepreneurship through interest free financing. The goal is not to create jobs, but to create job-creators who will create employment.

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‘Patient’ is not a title. It is an attitude
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‘Patient’ is not a title. It is an attitude

My father said that he thanked the examiner and told me that it was the most valuable lesson that he had ever learned. “Your first task is to comfort the patient so that he feels he has been understood.”

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Stand up if you are alive
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Stand up if you are alive

Remember, in the end, your choices define your brand-value and character. Choose wisely because that is how you will be remembered.

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