If youth is infinity, creative infinity is youthfulness!
Sandeep Dutt
SD@EBD.in
The beginning of a new year brings along with it new aspirations, resolutions and expectations. The beginning of a new year marks the beginning of a new journey...a fresh start. As we embark on a new journey, let us look back and cherish the path travelled.
Just like you all, the Youth Engaging Society has come a long way. We cannot believe that it has just been six months since the time we commenced operations in Delhi. These six months have changed a lot in the lives of all those who have been directly or indirectly involved with any or all of our projects.
The Youth Engaging Society being a young organization, inspires the young guns of today, to add a pinch of the following ingredients to their lives: leadership, dynamism, creativity, innovation, risk taking and open mindedness, since all of the aforementioned ingredients are vital for a successful life. Our motto is to empower the youth by providing them with appropriate guidance which in turn helps them to develop the right set of skills.
Being a part of the youth and interacting with the youth on a regular basis makes us aware of the various types of pressures that are existent in today’s society; peer pressure, pressure to compete, pressure to focus just on studies, etc. In order to free the young minds from such a complicated and pressurizing system, we started conducting YES workshops in schools and colleges. These workshops focused on the YES way which redefines the term ‘EDUCATION’. People at YES believe that education means much more than just gaining bookish knowledge. It means to focus on each of the elements of the 4S formula – Study, Service, Sports and Skills.
Over the past six months, we have conducted successful workshops in schools like Tagore International, Assam Valley, Doon School, Hopetown, G.D. Goenka, etc. We are elated and obliged to receive such a positive response from people pertaining to different age groups. We intend to organize these enriching workshops in many more organizations because we wish to motivate and encourage as many young people as possible.
We wish you all a very happy new year and hope to inspire you to have a challenging life filled with loads of success and happiness.
All the best!
V Shruti
Yes@EBD.in
Some things we CANNOT be reminded of often enough…
Why are some people more successful than others? Why do some people make more money, live happier lives and accomplish much more in the same number of years than the great majority?
I started out in life with few advantages. I did not graduate from high school. I worked at menial jobs. I had limited education, limited skills and a limited future.
And then I began asking, "Why are some people more successful than others?" This question changed my life.
Over the years, I have read thousands of books and articles on the subjects of success and achievement. It seems that the reasons for these accomplishments have been discussed and written about for more than two thousand years, in every conceivable way. One quality that most philosophers, teachers and experts agree on is the importance of self-discipline. As Al Tomsik summarized it years ago, "Success is tons of discipline."
Some years ago, I attended a conference in Washington. It was the lunch break and I was eating at a nearby food fair. The area was crowded and I sat down at the last open table by myself, even though it was a table for four.
A few minutes later, an older gentleman and a younger woman who was his assistant came along carrying trays of food, obviously looking for a place to sit.
With plenty of room at my table, I immediately arose and invited the older gentleman to join me. He was hesitant, but I insisted. Finally, thanking me as he sat down, we began to chat over lunch.
It turned out that his name was Kop Kopmeyer. As it happened, I immediately knew who he was. He was a legend in the field of success and achievement. Kop Kopmeyer had written four large books, each of which contained 250 success principles that he had derived from more than fifty years of research and study. I had read all four books from cover to cover, more than once.
After we had chatted for awhile, I asked him the question that many people in this situation would ask, "Of all the one thousand success principles that you have discovered, which do you think is the most important?"
He smiled at me with a twinkle in his eye, as if he had been asked this question many times, and replied, without hesitating, "The most important success principle of all was stated by Thomas Huxley many years ago. He said, 'Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.'"
He went on to say, "There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work."
Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.
Courtesy
Anupam Vaid
Anupam@traveltolearn.in