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What do you think of Ads?
We have so many times cribbed of ads. Ads on TV, radio, internet, spam, on and on.
But don't you think there have been at least a few times that we have benefited from ads?
On TV, I have seen new products which have excited me and I have wanted to try them out. For ex, a new soap, a new kind of eatable (say chips), a new cereal or an entirely new product like an electronic mosquito swatter (what is available on the traffic junctions of Bangalore as Mosquito bats). Oh and what about the ads about the Sales which are on in the city?!
These are things i would not have known about if I had not seen the ads.
Today I signed up for Google AdSense. I thought long and hard about it before signing up for it.
The first impulse was to say I don't want ads on my page. Then I remembered the times that these ads have helped me.
Whenever I use the google search page. They also show the sponsored links. Believe me there have been times when those sponsored links have been more helpful than the search results.
Since then I keep wondering if it is a win win situation. They (and me) get revenue for the viewing of ads, the linked sites themselves may get business, while for the reader also it might help if thats what you have been looking for. As long as Ads don't come in the way of you doing whatever you want to do (like those pop up ones that actually block the visibility of the page itself! I hate those, some even follow you around!!), Ads are good.
I also think similarly of the tele marketing calls. If I am taking a nap and this call disturbs me, I am wild. But if I am free and they call about a offer. Well my hearing them out for 30 sec will earn them a good salary, so OK! That is such an easy way of supporting a whole industry. I have not registered in the Do not Call Registry for this sake.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Cross Roads
How many times in a journey do we come at cross roads, unsure of which one to take?
Maybe a few times, but they seem so many.
I encountered a few persons who are at cross roads recently.
Should I leave my well paying corporate job after 11 years to start up a company of my own?
Should I leave my corporate job for non profit work - development sector?
Should I join a job and give up my current start up initiative?
Should I join a 'regular' job and give up on my dream job?
Should I have s baby and take the risk of loosing a career?
One of the persons that I met over the weekend has been working in a prestigious MNC for 11 years and getting a good salary for some hard work. But the dream he always had was of starting a company. To go through the experience of preparing the soil, planting the seed, nurturing the seedling, protect it and see it grow, maybe even enjoy the fruits when it grows big enough to give you fruits. The dream was to work hard for something that is his, to take risk, strive and put effort to make something grow.
He has finally come to the day where he is ready with a draft of his business plan and has to send it people and approach for funding.
Would'nt you think that he will be excited that his dreams are finally coming true? Truth is he is feeling very insecure of what this is going to bring him. He is going away from something he knew. He has never failed in his life so far. Does that mean he will succeed here also? Or is that making him over confident? Life is fair right ? - atleast in an overall sense, so if he works hard for this, he should succeed.
What I hear in all this is the age old hesitation before the big leap.
The way I see it, there is no guarantee that life offers you in terms of success in a project or not. The end result is far away and dependent on a million things- too many of them beyond your control or even thought. What you have in hand is the process or means of achieving the result. Here you can do your best and thats it as far as assuring success goes.
Happiness will depend on how you feel throughout the process of achieving your goal. If you chose to define success in ways that don't really tug at your heart, you will spend a life time hankering after something you don't really want.
On the other hand if you go get a goal that your heart really desires, than you are working for your heart. If you put your best effort here- you are happy and satisfied at least till the result comes out . If you don't succeed, you will be disappointed for sometime. But you will not have spent a life time chasing the wrong thing.
Since, life does not guarantee success, as far as failing goes, better fail at something that you did really want than something that you never really wanted.
This leads me to the next question - which one is better - failing at something that you really wanted or succeeding in something that you never really wanted?
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Now playing: Unknown Artist - Track 6
via FoxyTunes
Maybe a few times, but they seem so many.
I encountered a few persons who are at cross roads recently.
Should I leave my well paying corporate job after 11 years to start up a company of my own?
Should I leave my corporate job for non profit work - development sector?
Should I join a job and give up my current start up initiative?
Should I join a 'regular' job and give up on my dream job?
Should I have s baby and take the risk of loosing a career?
One of the persons that I met over the weekend has been working in a prestigious MNC for 11 years and getting a good salary for some hard work. But the dream he always had was of starting a company. To go through the experience of preparing the soil, planting the seed, nurturing the seedling, protect it and see it grow, maybe even enjoy the fruits when it grows big enough to give you fruits. The dream was to work hard for something that is his, to take risk, strive and put effort to make something grow.
He has finally come to the day where he is ready with a draft of his business plan and has to send it people and approach for funding.
Would'nt you think that he will be excited that his dreams are finally coming true? Truth is he is feeling very insecure of what this is going to bring him. He is going away from something he knew. He has never failed in his life so far. Does that mean he will succeed here also? Or is that making him over confident? Life is fair right ? - atleast in an overall sense, so if he works hard for this, he should succeed.
What I hear in all this is the age old hesitation before the big leap.
The way I see it, there is no guarantee that life offers you in terms of success in a project or not. The end result is far away and dependent on a million things- too many of them beyond your control or even thought. What you have in hand is the process or means of achieving the result. Here you can do your best and thats it as far as assuring success goes.
Happiness will depend on how you feel throughout the process of achieving your goal. If you chose to define success in ways that don't really tug at your heart, you will spend a life time hankering after something you don't really want.
On the other hand if you go get a goal that your heart really desires, than you are working for your heart. If you put your best effort here- you are happy and satisfied at least till the result comes out . If you don't succeed, you will be disappointed for sometime. But you will not have spent a life time chasing the wrong thing.
Since, life does not guarantee success, as far as failing goes, better fail at something that you did really want than something that you never really wanted.
This leads me to the next question - which one is better - failing at something that you really wanted or succeeding in something that you never really wanted?
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Now playing: Unknown Artist - Track 6
via FoxyTunes
Friday, June 20, 2008
Friends
Yesterday, I met with a very good friend of mine. We also met up with a very good friend of my husband's - friend, wife and child.
It is interesting how friends mean different things and relationships grow.
My friend was moving out of the city. I ought to have been sad. Though we don't meet often, we are quite close and will miss at least the feeling that we cant meet whenever we want.
But I am excited as I hear her plans for moving. She is planning to move away from urban life to semi urban and then to rural life. She is idealistic, yet has a way of being realistic of her position and living her ideals. I am excited about this experiment of hers in her life. Quite an adventure. I want to learn about it through her. (Maybe I will do it sometime later in my own life, once I have figured what I want to do with my life)
On the other hand with the other friend or ours, though we are much more in touch with them, our plans for lives seem so different. While we are keen in achieving something in life, they seem to be keen on raising a family and enjoying a good family life. Their life revolves around their child and ours around our work. There seem to be few common topics.
In both cases, this 2 sets of friends - me and my friend, my husband and his friend, became friends when we shared a lot of common things - problems, goals, ideals. But over the years , we have grown. We have all grown in our own individual ways which take us towards different directions. Our desire of enjoying each others company seems to depend on how we share our ideas and more importantly how we listen to each other and support each other.
While I and my friend differ in what we want for ourselves in life, we are intrigued by each other's experiments and support in this process of experimentation. I am not keen on having children (as of now), she adopts a child out of a desire to do so. Are we different? Definitely. What do I think of her adopting a child - Great Move! What an brave decision! Imagine the amount of possible resistance from family. She has all my support.
When I start an initiative of my own - training youth in a Govt. School, consultancy job, etc. she goes - what a way of contributing to development, way to go girl!
Instead of this if we were on a trip of one oneupmanship , we would be going all out to prove to the other why what I am doing is more correct than yours. Any guesses on what that would bring us to?
It is interesting how friends mean different things and relationships grow.
My friend was moving out of the city. I ought to have been sad. Though we don't meet often, we are quite close and will miss at least the feeling that we cant meet whenever we want.
But I am excited as I hear her plans for moving. She is planning to move away from urban life to semi urban and then to rural life. She is idealistic, yet has a way of being realistic of her position and living her ideals. I am excited about this experiment of hers in her life. Quite an adventure. I want to learn about it through her. (Maybe I will do it sometime later in my own life, once I have figured what I want to do with my life)
On the other hand with the other friend or ours, though we are much more in touch with them, our plans for lives seem so different. While we are keen in achieving something in life, they seem to be keen on raising a family and enjoying a good family life. Their life revolves around their child and ours around our work. There seem to be few common topics.
In both cases, this 2 sets of friends - me and my friend, my husband and his friend, became friends when we shared a lot of common things - problems, goals, ideals. But over the years , we have grown. We have all grown in our own individual ways which take us towards different directions. Our desire of enjoying each others company seems to depend on how we share our ideas and more importantly how we listen to each other and support each other.
While I and my friend differ in what we want for ourselves in life, we are intrigued by each other's experiments and support in this process of experimentation. I am not keen on having children (as of now), she adopts a child out of a desire to do so. Are we different? Definitely. What do I think of her adopting a child - Great Move! What an brave decision! Imagine the amount of possible resistance from family. She has all my support.
When I start an initiative of my own - training youth in a Govt. School, consultancy job, etc. she goes - what a way of contributing to development, way to go girl!
Instead of this if we were on a trip of one oneupmanship , we would be going all out to prove to the other why what I am doing is more correct than yours. Any guesses on what that would bring us to?
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Welcome to seeing Life!
Welcome all!
Life is happening all the time! Of all the things that are happening, one is me starting this blog today and welcoming you to take a peek at life with me.
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a step said Confucius. This first post in the fist blog of mine, I hope will be my first step in sharing my thoughts with the world.
The more that join me in this journey, the more interesting will be the journey!
Life is happening all the time! Of all the things that are happening, one is me starting this blog today and welcoming you to take a peek at life with me.
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a step said Confucius. This first post in the fist blog of mine, I hope will be my first step in sharing my thoughts with the world.
The more that join me in this journey, the more interesting will be the journey!
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