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How To Manage Phone Calls And Cut A Call Short Print E-mail
Arts - Art Of Time
Written by ~*Ramakant*~   
Monday, 28 June 2010 17:27

How Not To Let People Hijack Your Day With Phone Calls

Unchecked, the people in your life can hijack your entire day with phone calls, drop-ins, “quick” questions, e-mail, correspondence,text messages, favors, commitments, visits, breakfast meetings, lunches, dinners, school conferences, and so on.
We certainly want and need people in our lives.And often there’s no one person to blame for our lost days. Most of us are blessed with too many people in our lives, too much of a good thing.“Dealing with people” can refer to managing a sales force, teaching a college course, interacting with family members, or persuading an audience to enroll in your insurance plan.


The Telephone
Not much has changed. It’s up to you to decide whether the telephone is your friend or your worst enemy. The average American spends about 40 minutes per day on the telephone. If you’re spending much more than this, you might examine where your telephone time goes.


Never answer the telephone.

- Use voice mail or an answering service or machine, or have an assistant take messages. (Caller ID allows you to take a call you’re expecting.) If you testdrive this strategy for several weeks, you will note an increase in productivity. (And don’t feel bad—many people prefer leaving a message to speaking with an actual person.)

- Return all calls once or twice a day (perhaps before lunch or before quitting time or dinner, times that provide a natural excuse for keeping calls brief). The person who makes the call generally controls the conversation, which means that you can determine its length.

- When appropriate, get the other person’s direct telephone number, so that you don’t have to go through a third party.

- Your voice mail, answering machine, or assistant should state clearly when you will return calls—for example, morning calls before noon and afternoon calls before leaving the office.When you are out of the office, your message says that you will return calls on such-and-such a date. If you use an answering machine, alert callers if their response time is limited (“You have 90 seconds to leave a message”). Tell people the best time to reach you, for example, “after 4:00 p.m.”

Last Updated on Monday, 28 June 2010 17:41
 
The Four Wives Print E-mail
Arts - Art Of Happiness
Written by ~*Ramakant*~   
Wednesday, 09 June 2010 19:05

The Four Wives

There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies. He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best.
He also loved the 3rd wife very much. He's very proud of her and always wanted to show off her to his friends. However, the merchant is always in great fear that she might run away with some other men.
He too, loved his 2nd wife. She is a very considerate person, always patient and in fact is the merchant's confidante. Whenever the merchant faced some problems, he always turned to his 2nd wife and she would always help him out and tide him through difficult times.
Now, the merchant's 1st wife is a very loyal partner and has made great contributions in maintaining his wealth and business as well as taking care of the household. However, the merchant did not love the first wife and although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her.
One day, the merchant fell ill. Before long, he knew that he was going to die soon. He thought of his luxurious life and told himself, "Now I have 4 wives with me. But when I die, I'll be alone. How lonely I'll be!"
Thus, he asked the 4th wife, "I loved you most, endowed you with the finest clothing and showered great care over you. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" "No way!" replied the 4th wife and she walked away without another word.
The answer cut like a sharp knife right into the merchant's heart. The sad merchant then asked the 3rd wife, "I have loved you so much for all my life. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" "No!" replied the 3rd wife. "Life is so good over here! I'm going to remarry when you die!" The merchant's heart sank and turned cold.

 
The Same Old Word Sacrifice Print E-mail
Arts - Art Of Love
Written by Rama   
Friday, 14 May 2010 05:54

 

The Same Old Word Sacrifice

 



Friend: Happy birthday!
She : Haan...tha......nk yo....u...was just getting up from the bed.

Friend : Oh! That means I am the first to wish you!
She : Naa! He has already wished me at 12 in the night.

Friend : Who???
She : Come on, who else, Nitin.

Friend : Oh, ok. So, what's the plan for today?
She : Nitin told me that he has a surprise gift for me for my Birthday. And also we are going to Flower Show today. I am excited! I have never seen the flower show that happens in Lal Baug. Actually that itself is the most wonderful gift for me.

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Friend : "Did you go to Palace grounds all the way from Basavanagudi, to see Bryan Adam's show!!! Who accompanied you?"
She : Nitin

Friend : By the way, who referred your CV in SoCrates? I mean you don't know anyone there, right?
She : No, he forwarded my CV to one of his friends there.

Friend : I heard that the HR round interview went on till 8pm in the night. I think you faced difficulty in returning to your room.
She : No, he had come to pick me up. He came from his office, dropped me to my room and he returned to his room at around 11pm. He didn't have dinner also. I asked him to have at my room. Poor Nitin.

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Friend : If you are supposed to go home tomorrow itself then what about reservation?
She : I have told him, he will go to Majestic and would get it done, and he told he has some work in Majestic. That's why I am relaxed a bit.

Last Updated on Friday, 14 May 2010 06:02
 
Most Of The Girl's Life After Marriage Print E-mail
Arts - Art Of Living
Written by ~*Ramakant*~   
Wednesday, 09 June 2010 18:39

Most Of The Girl's Life After Marriage

A little help......here the word AVAR  means "him"......kalyani's husband   
   
It’s a story of a Brahmin gal who loved a non-Brahmin and due to father’s compulsion married a Brahmin guy and leading a perfect life with little happiness!!  This may be a story, but the content, characters and the sentences of the story were “Heart Throbbing” and “Breath Taking”…  Please do read it completely, it takes around 15 mins… But, I say, its really worth reading this story… This may even lead to a change of attitude or the character or the mindset in you, in the future…

(Some tamil words included)…
 
    Dearest Appa,
    27th Jan’1965
    Hope this letter finds you, Amma, Raji and Seenu in good health.  The weather here in New York City is icy cold.  But Avar sollraar- I have missed this winter’s biting cold. I still wish I had seen the snow… But then, I still wish I had not left Trichy at all. I do miss Trichy, Appa. You, Amma, Raji, Seenu, pakkatthaathu Rama, Vikatan,Ucchi Pillaiyaar Koil, filter coffee, Holy Cross College, the Maths Department and of course Sakthi. I know you wish I hadn’t brought his name in this letter.But not to worry Appa, I understand that you got me married to Visu because you thought it was best for your daughter.
I still remember Amma wiping her silent tears with her madisaar thalappu and you shouting at me the day I told you about Sakthi.Later, when the initial shock wore off you patiently listed umpteen reasons why I should not marry Sakthi. I agree Appa, that 20 is too young to decide, that Raji and Seenu would have been affected greatly by my ‘mistake’, the Agrahaaram would have scoffed at you… a meat eater was not a good match for someone who had never even tasted onion and garlic. The reasons were innumerous. I knew you’d still have objected and offered other reasons even if he had become a     Dhigambara monk.
Visu on the other hand, wore a poonal, he is the son of Neelakanta Sastri, an Engineer and he researched about computers which is what made you jump for this alliance. Am not complaining Appa, Visu is a nice man. Tell Amma that I could not try her kozhakkattai recipe this Pongal because coconuts were too expensive and Avar nenacchar that it was ridiculous.
Anyway, we went out on Sankaranthi day and dined out. He thought it would be a good idea to invite the Chatterjees also. But I didn’t speak Bengali and Mrs.Chatterjee spoke English in an accent that comes with living years in America. Hence I made myself busy with the menu card. They ordered various species of fish,shrimp and a lot more of items I had never seen in my life. I ordered orange juice and a sandwich. The other diners thought it was queer coming to a seafood restaurant and settling for a sandwich. That day, I learnt  that Avar prefer pannradhu beef, pork, bacon and seafood.

 
Horrible Body Facts Print E-mail
Arts - Art Of Health
Written by ~*Ramakant*~   
Saturday, 08 May 2010 14:16

Weird Body Facts

 

The acid in your stomach is so strong that it can dissolve steel razor blades – it’s still not a good idea to eat them, though!

Anne Boleyn, one of King Henry VIII’s six wives, had six fingers on each hand and an extra nipple.This was claimed to be evidence of witchcraft and was used in her trial when Henry had her executed in 1536.

A beef tapeworm, caught from eating eggs in infected beef, can grow to 12 metres (39 feet) long in the human gut.

Egyptian mummies that have been dead for 3,000 years still have their fingerprints intact.

In the old days, children being trained as acrobats for circuses were strapped into strange and often very painful positions to make their bodies more bendy.

In 1970, a thief was caught in Zurich, Switzerland, when a finger that had been cut off by broken glass at the crime scene was matched to his finger prints in police records.

 
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