Good Morning

Do you get up groggy and irritated and carry that feeling for the rest of the day? Do you wish that you were packed with energy to make the most of your day? Well the answer is, what Starts well, Ends well. If the snooze button is your best buddy and you get up at the last possible moment to rush into your day, then the whole day goes by without realisation. Take some time out for yourself and feel the surroundings around you. Follow these tips, even if just a few and you will feel the difference!

1. Greet the day with a SMILE: If you respect your day the day will reciprocate the same way. As simple as that! Smiling the minute you wake up sends positive signals to your brains reassuring the brain that everything is alright. This will also help you carry the same mood throughout. Go to your balcony or the window to see the sunrise, and breathe the fresh early morning air. Take a moment to think of something good and positive that brings a smile to your face. It’s the best trend-setter for the day.

2. Drink Water: Drinking a glass of water even before that morning cup of coffee is very important. Most experts say that water is essential and comes second only to oxygen. It is nature’s appetite suppressant and helps to metabolize the fat content in your body that makes you sluggish. Hallelujah to WATER!

3. Exercise those sleeping muscles: The timing is not really that important. One can exercise at any time of the day, but kick-starting the day with a little exercise can give the required boost of energy. Pumping those sleeping muscles will wake you up and get your brain working. Besides, you can avoid additional shower during the day.

4. Breakfast like a KING: Everybody knows food gives energy but still shy away from breakfast. Utter nonsense! If you know it is important then why skip it? But yes, it is more important to know what to eat. Breakfast essentially should be healthy so give stuffed parathas a miss and instead go for cereals, muesli, eggs, fruits, juices, milkshakes, and nuts these are low in calories and have all the essentials of day-drivers. Experiment with your breakfast each day; try not to repeat the menu. Also try and make citrus fruits, eggs, honey, chocolate, cherry tomatoes a part of your meal. These are known as anti-depressants, and will make you happy and healthy too.

5. Goal Time: Got goals? Well, you should. And there’s no better time to review them and plan for them and do your goal tasks first thing in the morning. You should have one goal that you want to accomplish this week. And every morning, you should decide what one thing you can do today to move yourself further towards that goal. And then, if possible, do that first thing in the morning.

6. Listen to some good music: Music is one of the greatest anti-depressants and stress buster. So turn up the volume while you carry on with your morning rituals. Make a playlist of your most favourite songs, it will charge your senses indefinitely.

7. Laugh out loud: You will be surprised but laughing like a hyena actually has a lot of benefits. It helps in lowering blood pressure, increases vascular blood flow and oxygenation of the blood and if these reasons aren’t enough for you then laughing also helps you to forget sorrows and deal with your stress with vigor. Read something funny in the newspaper or internet, even if just a few lines. If not, then call up that one person who always cracks you up.

Lastly have one good look in the mirror before you leave the House and tell yourself, “you pretty thing!” or, “you smart-ass”.

source:Karmic Mantra.

Free Tax Return for Year 2011-12 (A.Y. 2012-13)

Go to government website here and follow steps given below:

1. Select appropriate type of Return Form

2. Download Return Preparation Software for selected Return Form.

3. Fill your return offline and generate a XML file.

4. Register and create a user id/password

5. Login and click on relevant form on left panel and select "Submit Return"

6. Browse to select XML file and click on "Upload" button

7. On successful upload acknowledgement details would be displayed. Click on "Print" to generate printout of acknowledgement/ITR-V Form.

8. Incase the return is digitally signed, on generation of "Acknowledgement" the Return Filing process gets completed. You may take a printout of the Acknowledgement for your record.

9. Incase the return is not digitally signed, on successful uploading of e-Return, the ITR-V Form would be generated which needs to be printed by the tax payers. This is an acknowledgement cum verification form. A duly signed ITR-V form should be mailed to “Income Tax Department – CPC, Post Bag No - 1, Electronic City Post Office, Bengaluru - 560100, Karnataka, ” BY ORDINARY POST OR SPEED POST ONLY within 120 days of transmitting the data electronically.
ITR-V sent by Registered Post or Courier will not be accepted. No Form ITR-V shall be received in any other office of the Income-tax Department or in any other manner. In case, Form ITR-V, is furnished after the above mentioned period, it will be deemed that the return in respect of which the Form ITR-V has been filed was never furnished and it shall be incumbent on the assessee to electronically re-transmit the data and follow it up by submitting the new Form ITR-V within 120 days. This completes the Return filing process for non-digitally signed Returns.

10. To reset the password, click on the forget password link from the login page. In the password reset page, enter either of the following data :
Enter your secret question and answer which you entered during registration
(OR)
Enter the assessment-year and acknowledgement number of any of the e-returns filed by you since assessment year 2007-08.
Then enter the new password twice and then the text from the image below. Click on Reset Password to reset the password of your user.

11. For any assistance in electronic filing please contact the Public Relations Officer of the local Income Tax Office.

Attitude

A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.”
The Lord led the holy man to two doors.

He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water.

The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths. The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering.

The Lord said, "You have seen Hell."

They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking.
The holy man said, "I don't understand"."

It is simple said the Lord, "it requires only one skill. You see, they have learned to feed each other. While the greedy think only of them."

Moral of the story:
Its people's attitude that makes our life or even place of work, a hell or heaven to them. ’Help and Seek Help' this makes all the difference to each individual's life and makes our lives hell or otherwise

Source: Thank god Its Monday

Be Positive

In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us!

This can be read as "GOD IS NO WHERE" or as "GOD IS NOW HERE" everything depends on how you see it. So think positive always. Thinking positive is the key to your success. All successful people have one thing in common: Positive thinking and passion for what they are doing!

Norman Vincent Peale, the famous author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" once told this story.

A man once telephoned Norman Vincent Peale. He was despondent and told the reverend that he had nothing left to live for. Norman Vincent Peale invited the man over to his office. "Everything is gone, hopeless," the man told him. "I'm living in deepest darkness. In fact, I've lost heart for living altogether."
Norman Vincent Peale smiled sympathetically.

"Let's take a look at your situation," he said calmly. On a sheet of paper he drew a vertical line down the middle. He suggested that they list on the left side the things the man had lost, and on the right, the things he had left. "You won't need that column on the right side," said the man sadly. "I have nothing left, period."
Norman Vincent Peale asked, "When did your wife leave you?"

"What do you mean? She hasn't left me. My wife loves me!"

"That's great!" said Norman Vincent Peale enthusiastically. "Then that will be number one in the right-hand column - Wife hasn't left. Now, when were your children jailed?"

"That's silly. My children aren't in jail!"

"Good! That's number two in the right-hand column - Children not in jail," said Norman Vincent Peale, jotting it down.

After a few more questions in the same vein, the man finally got the point and smiled in spite of himself. "Funny, how things change when you think of them that way," he said."Be sure that you appreciate everything you've got; and be thankful for the little things in life that mean a lot."

It is not what you have but it is how you think has a profound effect on your life

source: Thank God Its Monday.

Important things in life

A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “Yes.”

“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter – like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff.”If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued “there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house and give a dinner party.

Take care of the rocks first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. Pebbles is part of your life. The rest is just sand.

Set your priorities in life at right time.