Keep your New Alive....

It is easy to be negative about past mistakes and unhappiness.

But it is much more healing to look at ourselves and our past in the light of experience, acceptance, and growth.

Our past is a series of lessons that advance us to higher levels of living and loving. The relationships we entered, stayed in, or ended taught us necessary lessons.

Some of us have emerged from the most painful circumstances with strong insights about who we are and what we want. Our mistakes?

Necessary. Our frustrations, failures, and sometimes stumbling attempts at growth and progress? Necessary too. Each step of the way, we learned. We went through exactly the experiences we need to, to become who we are today.

Each step of the way, we progressed. Is our past a mistake? No. The only mistake we can make is mistaking that for the truth.

Today, God, help me let go of negative thoughts I may be harboring about my past circumstances or relationships. I can accept, with gratitude, all that has brought me to today.

Go Ahead...and Lead

There comes a time when you must stand alone.

You must feel confident enough within yourself to follow your own dreams.

You must be willing to make sacrifices.

You must be capable of changing and rearranging your priorities so that your final goal can be achieved.

Sometimes, familiarity and comfort need to be challenged.

There are times when you must take a few extra chances and create your own realities.

Be strong enough to at least try to make your life better.

Be confident enough that you won't settle for a compromise just to get by.

Appreciate yourself by allowing yourself the opportunities to grow, develop, and find your true sense of purpose in this life.

Don't stand in someone else's shadow when it's your sunlight that should lead the way.

College DroupOuts'''

Hear is the List of Few College Droupout who made the end count...... U TOO CAN DO IT...


Bill Gates

Bill Gates has been named the richest man in the world, and in 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that Gates’ net worth had reached an estimated $40 billion. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, was a promising student with a very high IQ and even enrolled at Harvard. Gates had already started a company with Steve Allen as a teenager, and at Harvard, he continued to grow his network of the computer scientists and professionals who would eventually run Microsoft. Gates eventually dropped out to start his career, but in 2007, Harvard awarded him an honorary degree.


Steve Jobs

As co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc., Steve Jobs is one of the most successful and respected executives in business and in the computer science industry. Steve Jobs grew up in California and attended Reed College in Portland, though he dropped out after one semester. Jobs continued to audit classes at Reed, and even credits a calligraphy class he attended as the inspiration for all of the fonts on Macintosh computers. Four years after enrolling at Reed, Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak founded Apple.



Michael Dell

Dell CEO Michael Dell actually started his first computer company as a student at the University of Texas at Austin. His grandparents helped fund the company, and Dell dropped out of college to run his company, PC’s Limited. PC’s Limited ultimately became Dell, Inc.

Michael Dell who began at the age of 15 building PCs by taking apart the Apple II and putting it back together. He began building PCs from spare parts in his garage and also introduced "just-in-time" marketing and supply chain management to the world by building PCs to order.

He entered the University of Texas but dropped out to run his computer business full-time. (He was selling PCs and direct marketing them out of his dorm room).

John Glenn

John Glenn is the first man to orbit the Earth and has enjoyed a successful career in the Navy, Marine Corps, space exploration, and U.S. politics. Glenn is also one of the most famous astronauts in U.S. history and was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. As a young man, Glenn studied chemistry at Muskingum College in Ohio, where he earned his pilot’s license.


Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt is one of the most famous movie stars on the planet. People around the world have seen his movies and recognize his face, though he’s a college dropout, he’s also supremely rich. Pitt was born in Shawnee, OK, and attended the University of Missouri the early 1980s, studying journalism. Two weeks before he was set to graduate, Pitt dropped out of school and moved to Los Angeles to take acting classes. Today, he has two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe, and a career that doesn’t seem like it will ever end.



Ted Turner

Outspoken media mogul Ted Turner has founded multiple TV stations including CNN and TNT. He is considered to be one of the richest Americans and even donated $1 billion to UN causes. Turner, who was born in Cincinnati, OH, in 1938, attended a prep school as a boy in Tennessee and attended Brown University, studying classics, and later, economics. Turner, however, was eventually expelled after getting caught with a girl in his dorm room.

Sir Richard Branson

Estimated net worth: 8.6 billion USD

Sir Branson left school when he was only 16. Ironically, his first successful business was publishing a magazine called Student. Today, Branson is known for his brand Virgin, which includes Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and over 300 other companies. Also adding to his grandeur, Sir Branson bought his own 79-acre Caribbean island when he was just 24 and he was knighted in 1999.

Dean Kamen

Estimated net worth: Unclear, but thought to be in the billions USD

Dean Kamen, a prolific and ingenious inventor, dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute before graduating. Although best known for the Segway PT, Kamen holds more than 80 US patents and has created many products such as the AutoSyringe and iBOT robotic wheelchair. When Kamen travels to work, he has to decide which of his two helicopters to take. For longer trips, he pilots his own private jet. He also owns a small island near Connecticut that generates its own electricity from wind.

Paul Allen

Estimated net worth: 18.0 billion USD

Paul Allen befriended Bill Gates while they were both attending a private school in Seattle. Allen went on to attend Washington State University, but dropped out after two years. He was also the one who convinced Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard in order to start Microsoft. The two co-founded the company in 1975, but Allen has distanced himself from the company since then. In addition to more than 100 million shares of Microsoft, Allen owns 12 professional sports teams, plenty of real estate, and has stakes in dozens of technology and media companies such as Dreamworks Studios.

Larry Ellison

Estimated net worth: 18.4 billion USD

In 1977, Larry Ellison put up $2,000 to start what would become Oracle Corporation, the world’s second-largest software company. Ellison briefly attended the University of Illinois as well as the University of Chicago, but received a degree from neither. Today he is known for his extravagant lifestyle. He owns a 450 ft, $200 million yacht, exotic cars including a McLaren F1, over a dozen multi-million dollar estates in California, and several jets, which he is licensed to pilot himself.

Kirk Kerkorian

Estimated net worth: 18.0 billion USD

Kirk Kerkorian dropped out of school in the 8th grade. His first venture was an airline that flew from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. In 1962, he bought 80 acres of land along the Las Vegas strip for just under $1 million, and he continued making his fortune from buying and developing properties in Las Vegas. Currently, Kerkorian has a large stake in all of the following hotels: Bellagio, Excaliber, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, New York-New York, Circus Circus, The Mirage, and more.

Also, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is a college dropout.


Craig McCaw (McCaw Cellular, later AT&T Wireless) and J.R. Simplot, potato guy from Idaho.

Lets not Forget Albert Einstien and Thomos Edison They were too College Droupouts.....


Message that is loud and Clear from all these businessmen is that you have your success in your hands. The lack of a formal education does not have to be an excuse not to succeed in life unless you want it to be. In my case, I better not let my college degree be an excuse not to succeed!

Do get Kicked Off From these all Fact......... U too Can Do it.. Go find your Share and Show them U can do it..................

Down But Not Out

In every part of life—romance, work, family—there are disappointments. And these can indeed set you back. But setbacks actually force us to take risks, learn and grow.

So you just got fired?
Don't wallow in misery. You may be the new CEO of the next biggest thing.

Licking your wounds over a bitter Divorce ?
You may end up meeting the love of your life—today. So don't sit around. You may meet him on a plane or even at the grocery store. In fact, a lot of good can come out of a big disappointment. Setbacks actually force us to take risks, learn and grow.

In every part of life—romance, work, family—stuff happens. And these disappointments can indeed set you back, make you feel anxious and fearful. In moving through the recovery process, you may likely feel a range of emotions including anger, anxiety, confusion, low self-esteem and self-doubt. These represent stages of response and cannot be rushed. But over time you will begin to feel acceptance and hopefulness. When you let go of the past, you will experience increased self-esteem and renewed optimism.

"Don't focus on what you lost or what didn't work. You have to rewrite your script and see yourself differently—such as seeing yourself with another person, or at another job."

Easier said than done. Some people flounder in frustration and blame after a disappointment. Worse, some people fall into deep depression. But then again others bounce back quickly and with energy. While you can argue that these people may well be born more resilient, resilience can certainly be learned. Practice and experience help. Most successful people have had their hard knocks, but they recover and move on. They, in fact, see disappointment as a prospect for something new.

"Big losses provide the biggest opportunities for change," "They make a person more open to trying new things."

Here are a few tips to learn how you can become more resilient and overcome life's big disappointments:

• Accept the setback. Know that setbacks happen to everyone. And realize that you may never understand what happened.

• Face your fears. It's normal to feel insecure, but don't cower and avoid uncertainty.

• Be patient. Reflect and think about what you plan to do; but don't rush, it will only aggravate the process.

• Go beyond your comfort zone. Take risks. Go after that job you think you can't do, doing so will build self-esteem and resilience.

• Find your hero. Think about people who have survived Often termed as your role models.

• Know what you want. If you have goals, it's easier to make plans and move forward.

• Be a problem-solver. Don't be the victim, instead learn to behave proactively.

• One step at a time. To move forward, the enormity of the task (such as finding a new job after a lay-off) may seem insurmountable. Focus on each step you must take, not the entire undertaking.

• Seek support. Talk to friends, family or a therapist.

• Be kind to yourself. Disappointments are a source of stress, so exercise, eat right and get rest.

BOL For your Effort.... I know You can Bounce back and will bounce back to show the WORLD than I Can and I will.

Take Care

by Lubi ma...... Extracts from Net -EMail

College DropOut to MBA

Success story: From College dropout to MBA

"Here I am -- this is me -- there's nowhere else on earth I'd rather be."

I can identify with Bryan Adam's lyrics now, but I wasn't exactly singing the same tune a few years ago.

I'm 30 years old and come from an upper middle-class family. The only child of my doting parents, sports and music were my passions when I was growing up -- as for academics, I loathed the very sight of my school and college books. Still, I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in History from the University of Mumbai [ Images ], went on to do my MBA and today hold a cushy position in a media company. Regular story, right? With one minor difference -- I dropped out of college at the age of 17 and picked up the pen once more only at the age of 24, seven years later. Here is my story.

I passed out of school in 1993, a mere one percent extra responsible for my Class I grade. My parents were reasonably well-off and only wished for me to graduate from college before starting out upon a career -- any career -- of my choice. Only, at the age of 15, I wasn't ready to take my future seriously. I attended college for two years and had enough of it. So I did what most youngsters with a foolish head on their shoulders do -- I dropped out of college after my HSC examinations, in 1995.

I began to look around for a job, but I didn't give anything much of a chance before voicing my distaste and moving onto something else. I soon gave up looking altogether and began to spend my days as I chose, hanging out with friends and doing what teenagers do. Looking back, maybe I was a little disillusioned as well, because the two things I loved -- sports and music -- didn't seem to be working out for me. A knee injury in my teens had put to rest my dreams of a career in cricket and as for music, if you're under the Western influence, you can forget about a successful career here in India.

The years wore on and I did nothing with my life -- 17, 18, 19 years of age. The teenage years were gone and with their departure arrived a hint of good sense. I slowly began to realise that my parents were supporting me at an age when I should have been supporting them. Going to my mother everyday for a mere 50 rupees for motorcycle fuel translated from a routine into a nightmare. She never ever said anything, but her look was enough. I became desperate to do something, anything, that would allow me the tiniest bit of financial independence.

Being a guitar player, I had always wanted to do something in music. Now, with the illusions of grandeur finally vaporised, I began to visit a music studio for advertisement, jingle and radio recordings, earning 500 bucks a day for a gruelling 8-hour shift. It was enough to sustain me then, but it's not a very pleasant memory now. I was 20 and a cool youngster musician. Nothing could go wrong. I joined a rock band -- all of us were focused on making it big, but none of us had a clue as to how we would go about establishing a reputation. We played at college fests, restaurants and corporate parties. We used to make Rs 1000 each per gig and we played two or three gigs a week.

At the age of 20, I was making between Rs 8000-10,000 a month through music. I was glad not to rely on my parents anymore, but a serious career was nowhere on the horizon. I could afford a couple of meals at a nice restaurant and buy a set of imported guitar strings once in a while, but not much byond that.

A few months down the line I was introduced through a friend to someone who owned a recording studio. He was looking for someone to handle assignments at the studio -- a recording engineer. I had no sound engineering background, so I was taken aback when I was offered the job -- I took it up anyway. I was hired at a salary of Rs 3500 per month, but I could continue my gigs with the band alongside. Still, I was dissatisfied. I couldn't figure it out -- I had a job, was making a little money in music and still had this yearning within me to do something worthwhile.

Then it happened, in the year 2001. I attended a school friend's wedding and was looking forward to meeting long-lost pals from my boyhood days. That wedding changed my life and my haphazard career -- if I can call it that -- forever. The friends I met weren't the ones I knew in school. They had changed a lot. Some had joined their fathers' businesses and many were studying abroad at world-famous business schools. The internship money that they were making per month was more than my annual salary. I suddenly felt like I was a misfit. Not that they made me feel that way, but they were all educated, grown-up individuaIs -- and I wasn't.

I didn't know what to do. I got home that night with my mind in a tizzy -- was it too late for me? Was I going to be a wasted dropout, making a buck here and a buck there, all my life? When the next day dawned, I was still awake and I had arrived at a conclusion -- I was going to try and salvage my academic career. Maybe I would succeed, maybe I wouldn't. Realistically speaking, it had been seven years since I had opened a book and the thought of studying again curled my toes.

But I did it anyway. I went to Mumbai University and filled out the distance education admission forms -- luckily, it was the month of May and I could enroll for the coming academic year. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to pursue as a serious career, but I wanted to become a graduate for sure. "Graduation is a must," as Mom always says. The two years in college before I dropped out, I was a commerce student. However, subjects like economics and accounts had never been my cup of tea and my favourite subject in school had been history. So I would pursue history.

I kept earning Rs 3500 per month at the recording studio, kept studying and kept pacifying myself -- 'It's never too late' became my mantra. I struggled with my books as I had not read one in seven years and now I had a job to balance alongside. But for the first time in my life, I decided I would follow through with something I had taken up. Looking back, I don't think anyone at home expected me to go through with it all the way, but my parents were supportive nontheless.

The day of the FYBA results was the day of reckoning. When my marksheet was thrust in my hand and I saw that I had passed, albeit with a Second Class, I couldn't believe it. "One down, two to go," I thought to myself. With a lot of difficulty, I got through the second year and then, finally, took my final exams for BA. I became a graduate in 2004, a History Major from the University of Mumbai.

When I received my certificate, I was on cloud nine. My parents were overjoyed -- it was all they had ever hoped I would accomplish academically. I started applying for jobs in the media industry, lower executive positions. After all, I was now a graduate and no longer a misfit. Or was I?

I soon realised that most company peons were graduates -- and an arts background was scoffed at. But I had come so far -- I wasn't going to stop here. If there was anything I had learned from the three years I spent graduating, it was never give up. I began to explore further academic options. I had heard of executive MBA courses offered by leading b-schools for working candidates, but how was I going to get into one of these institutions? I was a graduate, but you needed to be a brilliant student to even be considered and nerve-wracking entrance tests had to be given before any school worthy of mention would accept you.

All I could think of was the 6000 rupees I was earning per month. My girlfriend made more than me and it scared me to think that after three brain-busting years of studying I was only an average candidate among millions, looking for a dream job that would never come at this rate. Finally -- and I think that this was a gift straight from heaven, in appreciation of my committment to graduating -- I heard of a management course offered by a prestigious institute that was tailor-made for me. You didn't need to give an entrance exam, all you needed was to be a graduate and to have four years of work experience at a junior position.

Moreover, this was only the second year that the course was being offered -- it hadn't existed up until I was in my last year of college. A two-year post-graduation diploma in management, recognised by the country's leading companies. The fees were hefty, but I took a loan from a bank -- I wasn't about to burden my parents with paying for something I didn't know I could accomplish. Graduation was one thing -- a management diploma from a leading b-school quite another. Accounts and economics were compulsory subjects in the first year! How was I going to do this? But I knew I had to try.

With my arts background, I had to sign up for tutorials in accounts. Through the week I would attend early morning lectures at the institute before heading off to my job, then weekends I had my tuition. I'll never forget the first day of the course. I walked into class in jeans and a tee-shirt, only to find 50 students in formalwear, complete with jackets and ties, awaiting the professor! There was no one there without a laptop -- the syllabus stipulated that you had to have one. If you didn't own one, the institute would loan you a laptop for a fee, for the duration of your course. This certainly wasn't Mumbai University!

"All this just for a post-graduate diploma?" I wondered. It wasn't even a degree course. My friends later explained that many private b-schools didn't offer degrees for the simple reason that they are not recognised by Mumbai University. But the diplomas are recognised by companies and that's all that matters. A diploma from a reputed private b-school is equivalent to a degree from a university-recognised institute .

To say that I worked hard for my exams would be an understatement. This time around, I was determined that I wouldn't just scrape through -- I would do my best. And I did -- each semester saw me pass with a Class I grade and last year I obtained my PGDBA, specialising in marketing.

Today I have a job I love with a well-established media company. My days in the studio and my music also paid off -- I help prepare jingles, promos and advertisements for corporate giants. My package is Rs 12,00,000 per year. I often wonder where I would have been on the corporate ladder if I hadn't dropped out of college, but I regret nothing. I'm earning well, my parents are happy and I've done what I set out to do -- study hard and pursue my dream career.

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