Thursday, September 16, 2010

Make A Right Choice Between Formal and Informal Education!

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." Jim Rohn

Today there are millions of graduates all over the world who have received their formal education from the prestigious and not so famous universities with good grades but many of them are still jobless searching for jobs and employment opportunities. These people didn't make a right choice between formal and informal education. Formal education here refers to the academic qualification while the informal education means the self-education that is undertaken by individuals to excel in life without much formal education.

The 96% of world population are well aware of the formal education system and they count on it for the living. They look for jobs to earn a living so that they could feed their family. This is the only way they know and they take up whether they like their jobs or not. As long as they get their regular paychecks to survive, they are happy about it and wish that this goes on forever. Formal education is important no doubt but that is alone not enough in this 21st century. The combination of both is perhaps the best solution to challenge the changing period of history.

It is better that the youngsters make a right choice between a living and a fortune. There is a great difference between these two. Whichever suits, you must choose that and take upon yourself the responsibility to make it happen. Working for a living is limited while working for a fortune is expansive. There is more to gain in pursuing one's fortunes than a living. Making a living doesn't require all our passion, talents and interests, it just needs our formal education to qualify for the post.

There are people who have quit their formal education and embraced informal type of education. These people are successful, rich and are having a better lifestyle. They equipped themselves through the process of self-education that they are very much qualified today to attract all the fortune that they aspire to acquire. It is their particular choice, which made them make a fortune for having a great lifestyle. They don't look for jobs rather job opportunities come in search of these highly enterprising people.


What we can do is to encourage people to take upon themselves the informal education so that they can continue to grow and improve their skills according to the changing trends. Taking upon oneself self-education for life time makes a great sense than formal education which lasts for few years. Self-education is continuous and unending. It is always updated freshly and matches with time.

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and many others made a right choice between these two types of education. It is very clear what education system they chose and followed. There is freedom in choosing self-education because one works smart to make a fortune come true. In my opinion, people must learn to make a right choice for themselves and follow the decision to the full.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Follow Your Own Passion!

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle." Steve Jobs

What is your passion? What do you think you will love to do during your lifetime? Do you know anything that drives you or interests you so much that you want to put in all your efforts, time and money in it? If you don't have, find it because it is there within you for sure.

Follow your own passion and don't follow others' passions for they will never make you happy and provide you a rich lifestyle. It is important that you choose your passion and be passionate about it to pursue whole your life. I believe you can realize it like others who have followed their passions.

Let's see the people who have discovered their passions and followed them minutely.

Wright Brothers

These two brothers are the true example of following one's ultimate passion. Their love for birds and the desire to fly like birds was the ultimate passion, which prompted them to innovate machines heavier than air that could fly. They invested all their energy, money and time just to make their passion come true. Did they succeed in pursuing their passion? Of course, they did and we know how they have assisted humans to travel faster and quicker across different continents within short time.

Henry Ford

This is another person who showed an exemplary role to follow one's passion than to follow others. He wanted to design cars and help people travel across the country smoothly. Did he realize his passion? There is no doubt about it. He revolutionized the car industries and paved the way for other manufacturers to follow his footprints. Today, the passion is alive and moving all over the globe.

Bill Gates

The real example of following one's passion is Bill Gates. At early age, he discovered his passion for the computers and he went after that passion. He was very young to decide whether to follow his passion or to study others' passion. Upon listening to his intuition or gut, he decided to adhere to his own passion and the dedication to that passion has revolutionized the entire world. If he had not followed his passion, then there wouldn't be any much technological advancement. Following one's passion is the key to better life here on earth.

Steve Jobs

Another important person who loved his passion is Steve Jobs. He closely followed his heart and today you know better, who has the biggest market share in the whole world? At young age dropping out of college was not a wise decision according to conventional wisdom. He would have been a failure in the conventional world without good certificates or degrees. But he gave up the academic pursuit and dedicated his time, energy and desire following his passion. Passion is the major key to growth, happiness, abundance and satisfaction. Find out your passion and be true to it until its final day.

Mahatma Gandhi

Many of us don't know what is our passion. But we shouldn't give up the search to find our passion. Mahatma Gandhi studied law and worked as a lawyer but soon he found out that he was leaning on a wrong ladder. That was not his passion. That was his profession. He gave up his profession and decided to follow his own passion to liberate people from clutches and exploitation of British Empire. He followed vehemently his passion and succeeded in achieving the freedom he was looking for his people. When people follow their own unique passions, there is freedom, a feeling of salvation.

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison understood the profound secret that to succeed you have to follow your own ultimate passion and that can never fail you even after many setbacks and failures. His passion was to invent the electric light bulb and failed many times. But he didn't give up his own passion for he knew there was a way out.

There are many great successful people who have followed their own passions and they are today shining in the world. They have shown us the real examples that when we follow our passion, there is no obstacles, no failures, no loss but there is only success and rewards.

Find out today, what is your passion? What do you really aspire to be, do, have and enjoy? Don't ever say, you don't have any passion or love. You have within you the passion, which you suppose to go after.

Entrepreneurs, singers, dancers, artists, sportsmen and women, designers etc. all followed their own passions. To be successful, rich and happy, you better follow your inner voice to find out your ultimate passion of life. Think of the great people all over the world and learn from them how to be true to one's passion.

Be true to your passion; follow your passion to become what you want to be and live with passion. Go after what drives you and make it a discipline to do something everyday.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Affirm, "when I Grow Up I Want To Be Rich"!

If we ask little children, "When you grow up what do you want to become?" we get the same replies as we ourselves had given when we were asked while we were little kids. The children quickly reply and say that they want to become doctors, engineers, scientists, architects, designers, artists, actor or actress, dancers or singers etc. Nobody ever dares to say' "when I grow up I want to be rich." The children are conditioned from small to go to schools to become doctors, engineers etc. so that they can get safe and secured jobs for lifetime. That is the only world, their parents know and teach their children too.

From homes to schools and colleges, the children learn only about getting good grades and secured jobs as doctors or engineers. The career guidance is given in the school but it focuses only in being employees and working for somebody. The schools and colleges don't teach people how to become rich or how to make money work for them. Instead the schools and colleges only talk about the irrelevant subjects which don't really interest the students.

When children are not taught correctly, then naturally they will become what they have been conditioned from childhood not pursuing their own passion and love. They forgo their hobbies and interests that could transform their lives and provide a great lifestyle. In my opinion, all children must say this, "When I grow up I want to become rich." When they change their mindset and thinking from jobs seeking to jobs creating or creating wealth, there will be a birth of new system in the world which could include everyone in the economic development system.

The natural talents and skills of the students are killed undeveloped and unexplored. The answers to great mysteries that surround us about the origin of universe and people could be answered if students are encouraged to go after their passions. If students choose to become rich, automatically there will be abundant atmosphere in the neighbourhood and everybody will be happy to be part of the system.

Academic institutes are part of a great conspiracy theories and they will never teach young children about money in the schools and colleges rather they will complicate things so much that the children will lose interest in pursuing them. The only way the children can learn such wise information is from the non-academic sources. The students must be left alone to decide for their future careers. If they make mistakes, they can excel more and more in life though. If they are afraid to make mistakes, they will lose everything that they have as their own.

My advice to the young people and parents would be to teach children to be rich first in this 21st century. The children must be supported enough through good education to become wealthy with good intention. The mindset must be pure and genuine. College education is not necessary to become rich, without education too a person can acquire a great wealth, if his or her intentions are good.

Honestly, I want you to say this, "When I grow up I want to be rich, I want to be multi-millionaire, I want to be a multi-billionaire in order to contribute to growth and development of the world and its people, nature and environment." It is possible to be rich if you sincerely want to be.

There is a lot of information available for you to make use of them to your best advantage. When I encourage you to choose first to become rich, there is a reason or a great purpose behind it. If I explain that now, you won't believe me. Therefore the first thing at least you can do is to desire to be rich with good intention and the rest of the things will fall in place.

When I was a kid, my parents didn't teach me to say, 'when you grow up become rich.' However my mother often reminded me of possibilities of making more and more money with less work. I am grateful for my mom because she at least planted in me a different world, a world of less work not hard work.

Therefore, learn to affirm today if you haven't had the opportunity to say,'when I grow up I want to be rich.' There is so much to achieve and do for the world if you become rich. Think about the number of people you can help and feed, if you become rich. Becoming rich is not bad or evil, remaining poor is evil and bad. In this 21st century, it is your birthright to become rich and abundant so choose to be rich for better lifestyle.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Monday, September 13, 2010

Academic Learning Institutes have become EARNING Institutes today.

Just like the rules of money changed in 1971 from gold backed currency to debt based system, the rules of education too has drastically changed in the information age today. A very large percentage of world population though still considers the industrial rules of education important and applicable and play the games of security, freedom based on academic qualification. They don't realize the truth that the rules of education have changed and the new rules have been incorporated to suit those who understand and follow the changing trends.

During the industrial age, the educational institutes were considered the centres of learning and a gateway to secured jobs, comfort and financial freedom. But the same education institutes have undergone a drastic change in their operations. The education institutes are no longer today the institutes of learning, they are the institutes of Earning profits. The 'L' is missing in learning, there is only Earning. There is no real learning or education.

Many parents look upon education institutes as gateways to find jobs. The parents who think going to schools and colleges only to find jobs have not updated their knowledge and information. These parents were either born during the industrial age or were the products of industrial age and their thinking and attitudes haven't changed over the years.

No doubt the academic schools and colleges provide foundation to the students but the staff, management and the government systems do penalize the students with tilted growth and opportunity. There is no designs for developing multi intelligence.

The cost of schools and college studies have sky-rocketed today that it seems only those with money can afford such high academic education. The tertiary industry or education has not been hit by the recent recession. The parents have been battered down with the recession but education institutes have kept their fees intact.

I see many students attend tuition classes apart from going to schools every day. One question that arises in my mind is why do they need to go for extra tuition classes when they already attend the schools? What is wrong with school system? Are the teachers not equipped enough to explain concepts during the class that the students seek private tuition? If schools are not sufficient then the students shouldn't go to schools for studies rather they should go to private academies to prepare for the exams.

A dental student recently narrated to me her plight how she was penalized by a university professor by giving her failing grades in the oral examination because she had sprayed a strong perfume. The lady professor didn't ask her any questions related to the subject instead she asked why the student had sprayed perfume and she failed her in the exam. To clear that exam, the student had to pay extra $1100 US dollars other than her 5 year course fees of $32,000 US dollars.

There is no doubt the quality of education has been deteriorated over the years. The schools and colleges don't teach the young students to think and solve the problems. They expect only the right answers for the questions that have answers.

To conclude, beware of the academic institutes which suppose to be the centres of learning are no longer the centres of learning today. The academic institutes have become the centres of Earning profits. Learning is missing at the expense of Earning. Let your children learn first and then use their learned skills to earn a living or a fortune. The choice can be theirs.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Learning is the key to better future.

No one can deny the fact that in order to see a glimpse of our better future, we need to learn all that interests us. The academic education are only the beginning and we need to begin the process of designing our own better future by continuously learning and reforming our skills.

Learning is the beginning of wealth.
If we continuously learn, then we will attract the wealth and prosperity that we seek to accomplish. We must therefore take upon ourselves the important task of learning always so that we keep our skills sharpened and ready to be used when the time demands. Those who have amassed wealth and are financially free, kept the learning momentum alive while those who are just getting by, quit after their graduation ceremony.

Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning does contribute to the improvement of our health at large. Many people are ignorant about diseases and medicines that they consume daily. Many lack the knowledge and information regarding particular diseases. For them the privilege of enjoying good health is bleak because they don't learn about health and how to stay healthy. Learning about health is indeed the beginning of living a healthy life.

Learning is the beginning of all miracles of life.
In my view, people must learn whatever they stumble upon so that the spirit of learning is vibrant and active. Learning throughout one's life is very important if we expect some miracles to happen for us. All kinds of miracles happen when we learn something everyday.

Learning allows us to design our own future.
Those who don't learn anything other than their academic education, leave their future in someone else's hands. They lose the control over their destiny and fall into anywhere without any clear direction. Learning helps us to design our own extraordinary future and live life according to our plans.

Therefore, we need to take advantage of every opportunity to learn new things and put them into use. The people who do well in life, they learn always and that they are the envy of many who don't learn at all. Learn to bring value to the market place through constant learning. Keep in mind, learning is the major key to abundant, prosperous, happy and quality life.


Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Saturday, September 11, 2010

The Power of Meditation!

Many enlightened philosophers, leaders, successful entrepreneurs and other religious people over the years have validated time and time again one truth that there lies within us amazing powers, powers that could revolutionize our life if we arouse and put into action. Meditation is the only way possible for us to tap that supreme God like power which is within us. From my own personal experiences to the experiences of other successful people, I am convinced more than enough that to bring a revolutionary transformation in our life we must practice a daily meditation for 30 minutes to 1 hour. I recommend all of you to do a daily meditation to get the outstanding benefits that you will enjoy.

1. Meditation connects us with God/Spiritual Energy.

As for me, I believe in the "Spiritual Energy" or "A Life Particle" which is prevalent in the entire Universe who does the work of creation. I don't know whether you believe in God or any other creator. Meditation is for everybody irrespective of one's belief systems. Meditation helps us to connect with God/Spiritual Energy which I like to call "A Life Particle". The moment you close the door and sit down, you connect with the 'Spiritual Energy' which is within you and is available every where. Through silent observation and listening, we establish a strong connection or relationship with this power.

You can soon realize that we share a common energy that is there in the entire universe. Through meditation we become more conscious because we connect with the Conscious Energy that creates the universe. Once you are conscious because you are 'A Life Particle' you will begin to understand and appreciate the power that dwells with you. Meditation helps us to connect with the Spiritual Energy and simultaneously we establish a strong relationship with our amazing powers.

Albert Einstein was a great scientist who ever lived on this beautiful planet earth. According to conventional wisdom he was thought to be an atheist but he wasn't in the unconventional world. He understood the most 'the Spiritual Energy' and he was very spiritual. Religions are not Gods or Gods are not religions. You just need to do the meditation to connect with your true self, the God self or Spiritual self. Practice meditation to align yourself with the universal truth which is never ending but ever lasting forever.

2. Meditation heals and gives us good health.

A daily meditation heals all kinds of mental illnesses. If you practice meditation, you are sure to enjoy the good health through out your life. As you know by now that we have within us the amazing powers that could revolutionize our life, any sickness, diseases, maladies, stress, worries, guilt feelings, pain etc. that you undergo on a daily basis will be healed through the daily discipline of meditation. There is no doubt about its usefulness and validity. You do your own research and follow your intuition to begin this.

I personally engage and immerse myself in deep meditation on a daily basis and I have realized a sense of deep self-healing through meditation. I haven't experienced so far any physical ailments. On the contrary, when I don't do meditation in silence, I feel frustrated, angry or sick. I understand why there are so many people who visit health care centres everyday and their health cost is rising high? People usually don't take full responsibility for their existence. They depend on others' for their errors.

Many sick patients visit doctors and hospitals every day and talk about their sickness to the doctor who examines for 5 minutes and then prescribes some medicine. The patients feel very happy to have visited the doctor and paid money, but they don't realize that doctor does practically nothing. The doctor doesn't do the healing, he only collects the consultation fees. The healing process is activated by the patients themselves. The patients have the inner power to heal any kind of diseases if they access that power through meditation.

3. Meditation unleashes the inner power of talents and skills.

The academic education in the schools and colleges don't educate students on the power of meditation. The schools and colleges only teach students the power of report cards and the certificates, which only give limited rewards. In order to unleash the inner power, you must sit for meditation in the noise free location to excavate the talents, skills, niches and unique passions.

If you see people who are successful enjoying the best of everything, you must understand the power of meditation. No successful man or woman would directly endorse others to do meditation because it is an individual choice but they do engage in some kind of meditation or thinking in solitude themselves. Jesus of Nazareth did it and gained wisdom of God; Mahatma Gandhi practised it, and achieved independence; Steve Jobs visited India and spent some time in deep thinking and you know how he has revolutionized the world with best apple creations ever. These are few examples, you must do your own searching. Tap your inner power to employ your unique talents and skills to bring a revolution in your life.

4. Meditation helps us create and achieve success, wealth and prosperity.

Success, wealth, money or prosperity are spiritual in nature. Since we are spiritual beings in the physical and mental world, we need to attract prosperity through meditation. Meditation has the power to create wealth and success and thereby help us achieve all that we truly desire. Success, wealth and prosperity can be accomplished over the period even if you are struggling right now.

People are successful and rich because they have utilized the power of meditation to achieve what they wanted. The universe being the Spiritual Energy, rewarded them when they established a strong connection. Nobody has a clear answer how meditation can aid us achieve prosperity but it does work if you take action. That is the power of meditation. You must meditate in order to accomplish success, wealth and prosperity. You mustn't sit down to think about filthy stuffs which could deviate your super-concentration. Many people don't believe in the truth as a result many don't achieve what they want. You be the one who believes and get what you want.

Meditation generates million and billion dollars worth of business ideas. There are businesses in the world, which emerged due to the ideas that were acted upon by doers. Don't assume your life will be changed by leaving your future to third party. Your income and wealth will increase only when you spiritually connect with wealth that you are looking for. Think about the million and billion dollars businesses in the world feeding thousands upon thousands of people and families.

5. Meditation ignites, empowers and guides people.

Whenever I sit for meditation, I feel a vibration of energy surrounding me from all 360 degree angles. The moment I close my eyes and connect with the Spiritual Energy or 'the Life Particle' I feel so energetic and revived that nothing seems to stop me from doing the things that I want to accomplish. After spending some time, I receive the guidance as if somebody is guiding me and prompting me to do something. I don't have to explain how I get ignited, empowered and guided, it is you who need to do it by yourself and examine whether there is any truth.

When Jesus of Nazareth, spent 40 days of fasting, prayers and meditation, he was so empowered that everything seemed possible for him. He could perform miracles, cure diseases, forgive sinners, feed the hungry, guide the people with no good leaders and even raise himself up. Another example is Mahatma Gandhi who was a lawyer by profession but through meditation he was guided by the Spiritual Energy to liberate his people from bondage. He was so empowered and ignited that no sharp swords or strong British armies could distract and dissuade him from the truth. By now you must be getting enlightened and empowered to follow your own dreams and desires.


6. Meditation brings happiness, peace, love and freedom.

Through meditation people have experienced happiness, peace and harmony in life. Meditation unfolds the path to happiness, peace and love that we ever desire to achieve and experience. The couples who engage together in meditation, will live in happiness, peace and abounding love because they learn to establish a deep connection with their Spiritual Energy. Whoever is connected with the 'Life Particle' there is always a promise of good things.

If married couples or people who are in relationship dating or looking for don't practice meditation whole their life, then we can predict they won't last long and there won't be any guarantee for enjoying happiness, peace and love. Since we are spiritual beings, we need to establish a connection with the 'Life Particle'. Ask around people who seem very happy, peaceful and loved, you will learn for sure some kind of thinking or meditation done to sustain their life here on earth.

The real freedom emerges from within and not outside. You can enjoy this ultimate freedom to do anything good that you want to perform in life. The rich people enjoy financial freedom, others enjoy different kinds of freedom. We all can live in freedom, happiness, peace and love if we practice meditation. I am not advocating anybody to do it, however if you think it is important you can take a chance.

The inner powers that dwell within us can be easily tapped in order to revolutionize our lifestyle here on earth. Establish first the connection with the Spiritual Energy or the Life Particle that pervades all around and then go on with empowered, ignited spirit to realize your dreams and goals.


Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor

Friday, September 10, 2010

Re-educate, Unlearn and Reprogram yourself!

As children, we received tons of programmings regarding money, education, health, friendship, spirituality, emotions and many other influencing factors of life. We didn't decide and choose what to learn, when to learn, how to learn and why to learn. We were simply spoon fed because we didn't know anything much when we depended upon others for our learning and growth.

The early part of education that we acquired through our parents, relatives, friends, education institutes, media and other sources filled one stage of our learning needs and we devoured anything that came our way. But as adults all the knowledge and education that we have received so far won't contribute much to the dreams and goals that we want to accomplish. Here are some helpful guidelines that we can follow in order to create an ideal life style worthy of our efforts and time.

1. Unlearn and relearn what we have been programmed in our childhood.
As kids we were programmed by a host of people around us while we were tender and growing in age. We as kids assumed everything to be normal and noble even though things were not right. We learned to pray and go to church or temples. As adults we are supposed to unlearn what we accumulated during our upbringing and relearn the stuffs that we supposedly should learn again. for instance while we were small we heard a lot of negative programmings about the subject of money at home and we formed our own ideas about it. Those ideas are affecting us so much today that we resent or repel the abundance that we should attract.

The subconscious mind has received all kinds of programming languages that we reap our external results based on our inner conditioning. Let's unlearn the things we assumed as true but they are not true according to our understanding and experience. If we unlearn the old and relearn the new, we can create a great revolution in our personal life. I can't unlearn and relearn the things for you. It is only you who must examine deeply to figure things out.

2. Let's Educate and Re-educate ourselves constantly.
To obtain big and new results we must educate ourselves constantly about all the things that are related to our growth and development. We got to re-educate ourselves for the acquired knowledge may not be supporting us in our efforts to pursue the desired goals. Education is a life long process and it is our duty to acquire true and real knowledge and information. The best way to live in truth and fairness is to re-educate our philosophy, attitudes, imagination, mind, thinking and belief systems.

We may think we have received good education from the best schools, colleges and university but they are purely academic in nature and they won't help much as they touch only our left brain leaving the right brain uneducated and unattended. So take a few minutes of time to think about the education you have received and weigh whether they are applicable or not.

3. Reprogram your programmed mind and imprint abounding health, prosperity and happiness.

Reach out to your hard drive and write new programs. The programs here mean the list of goals that you want to accomplish during your life time. You better imprint the list of goals or goal programs on the hard drive of your computer, your brain, which will determine the greater outcomes of your life.

You can easily uproot the old programming,if you are disciplined enough to take action regularly. You must pay full attention to sufficiently imprint the new list of programs or goals so that they get registered in the deeper part of your unconscious brain. Any success that you are looking for will come with the ability to imprint your goals and nobody is better qualified and equipped than yourself.

So reprogram your computer by imprinting the new life, new attitude, goals and prosperity that you want with all your heart, mind and soul. The value of a good education doesn't count much here. What counts the most is the programs in your mind.

To sum up, we must consistently re-educate, unlearn and reprogram our old programs, habits, attitudes and thoughts so that we can enjoy the abounding health, wealth and happiness through out our life. We must super-concentrate our mind power to install the major goals we desire strongly.

Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor