But not everyone seems to respect that. It isn’t hidden that the people with power and ability to do something then others are often self-centred. Well not all, but most of them are.

I find it annoying when someone who has more powers in  the same field as me tries to obstruct my advancement and guards the gates of success with his filthy methods. Just because they have the power and authority they don’t have any rights to stop us from achieving our goals and targets. That is not playing fair, but in most of the cases, that is what happens!

The wise man who said ‘with great powers comes great responsibility’ was true, but he could have never realized that with ‘great power comes great ego and attitude’ as well.  You can take your boss for example, he is the boss and he is the one who pays you. So he has the power to make you do whatever he desired, of course within your job capabilities. But as we know they will find out ways to cut short on your salary, give you harder tasks, disturb you while your out on vacation, call you late at night or even make you work longer then your required time. Those all are signs of  ‘power’ but hey, they never mentioned that in your contract did they?

Some prefer to stay far away, while some would suck up

I am sorry for using the work ‘suck up’ but i can’t find anything else to describe the situation. I find it very sad and pathetic when i see people buttering up the ones with ‘power’ for a gain. Why do you have to suck up to someone? Don’t you have any dignity and self respect get what you want yourself? With hard work and dedication?

Let me put it this way, if my teacher told me that the sun rises from the north, then that would be the ‘correct’ answer. If i write anything else in the paper then i would be punished, because the one with the ‘power’ to correct the paper holds the keys to your marks. This is one reason why you will find students and even parents sucking up to the teachers, sending them presents and inviting them for dinner. This  is common, not just in this case – but in every professional and personal fields of life.

And of course there are some people that would prefer to stay ‘as far as possible’ form the people with powers. Such people might be the big players or the scared class. But in most cases they either succeed in there goals or keep trying for their entire life. But whatever it is, they at least have the self respect to not to ‘suck up’ in order to gain something. Hard work and sincerity is the only way around, like it goes ‘there is no shortcut to sucess’ and even if there was, then that success is short-lived. Because one day or the other your cover will be blown up.

With power comes corruption, money and women

I find it hilarious when some women are attracted to the rich and wealthy people. Yes, there is nothing bad in a women falling in love with you. But it is unethical if they do it for money only. And often the rich are the ones with power.

Which brings me to another concern of having power. That is ‘corruption’. Corruption is everywhere and is not stoppable. You can’t stop corruption unless you stop being a corrupt yourself. There is no denial that everyone is corrupted, once in your lifetime you would commit a mistake or do something illegal or immoral that will count as corrupt. Be it being a corrupt wife/husband, a corrupt worker, a corrupt professional or even a corrupt politician. Corruption is visible on every face of life and its clear that corruption is directly related with power. The more power you have the more corrupt you are likely to get.

Money always plays a important role in everything. Be it deciding who gets to be the next president or what car your going to buy. Someone wise once said, that ‘money is the root of all evil’. In some cases that holds true. If you have money you can do everything and perhaps buy everything you ever wanted. And money will make you so corrupt that you will get a higher tendency to gain even more money! Like in business terms, multiplying your money, but of course you need to have money in order to multiply it.

Power savvy people can make or ruin your life

This is the sore truth. Let me give you some real life examples. Lets say you want to be a doctor, but you are not getting admission in any of the colleges or universities. However, if you had a close relative who was a dean or better yet someone in the education ministry, then your doorways to the university are open. Irrespective of your qualifications, talents and skills – power has made your life so easy.

But in the opposite of the above. Lets say you have few friends that you dislike. In other words, someone who has worked hard to reach where he is now, and you are jealous of him/her. Or even for mere case of boy friend/girl friend issues. In either way, if you had contacts in the government or say the police department. Then you can ruin the life’s of those people with a single case. You see it is very easy to ‘frame’ someone when you have power.

People with ‘power’ always wins – even in the online world

Sad but true. Let me put it this way, you are a member of some forums. And you have a fight with another member for some reason. Now you earn a living on those forums by selling your services and products. Imagine if that member who hates you were to become a moderator of that forum! He gets power you are doomed, he can close and shut all your threads, delete your posts or worse off even ban you. And all you could do is try and contact the authority above him.

In another situation, your hosting company has ‘power’ over your websites. They can ruin your business in a single ban. The thing is that if you have power and you have issues with someone – you can literally destroy them. When people start getting power they often misuse them and they get more wilder with each passing day. Is there anything you can do? I doubt so.

Even if it were a game you were playing online, you will find the people with power controlling a aspect of the game. Everyone will listen to these people weather they are right or wrong. And if you were to fall in there way then you will make more enemies faster then you can say ‘huh?’

The higher you go the greater you fall

Just to remind you that, karma is unavoidable. If you abuse your powers then your going to get hit back some day even harder. There is no escape to the ill-fate you have to face.

Take real life examples. People with power who misuse them or are corrupted often end of in a bad situation. You can find information about dictators and rulers, who often exercised the power they had wrongfully. In the end people stood up against them and they had to face a sudden decline.

The lesson you should learn is that, the higher you go the greater you will fall. If you have powers then use the for the good and betterment of the society, of yourself and of the ones you love. But at the same time making sure that your luxuries aren’t costing someone there career. Keep in mind, karma is unavoidable and when it comes to you, the situation will be painful. So why be bad?

How to fight corruption

If you are a victim of corruption then you need to face the truth. There might not always be ways to prevent power abusing and corruption, because most power abusers don’t do it alone. They form rings and groups among each other to abuse to a greater extent.

However there are always ways to fight and stop corruption. One such way is exposing the corrupted. Expose them to the world, report them to the police or any authority that you think can help you and are not involved. But keep in mind that you will need enough proof to back your statement, it’s a sad truth that people with power can also bribe anyone to work for them and create their own paths for you to follow.

It may be different depending on your locality, the country, your culture and your professional and personal lives. But people with power are dangerous and its your responsibility that you play safe.

In the end, most of us become power abusers as well when we get some power too. This is how it spread. If you had power then i would advice you to stick to your areas where the powers are needed. Don’t exercise them unnecessarily or use your professional powers with personal ones. Play safe and don’t do bad. And if your surrounded by corrupts then be careful, because the bad effects of these people are likely to hit you as well.

I will take the leave now, but i think i have warned you about the people with powers and why you need to be careful. Good day,

SJ

‘Work’ is already hard enough, right? We all know that. Weather you work on a full time job or you study in a school, its boring and its hard. But what is actually the importance of this work? Why do people keep telling us to do hard work in order to achieve something? Does hard work really matters?

Hard work is important. Hard work merely means putting more efforts and dedication in any ‘work’ you do. This is what hard work is. If you have a goal to achieve or a target to reach then you need to put in more efforts and dedication. I won’t lie we all are lazy, that’s the human nature. Like how its being said in the holy books. Satan is always trying to misguide you.

Ok lets forget that part and come  to the point. Without hard work i won’t probably be here and writing this. And you are probably reading this because you need guidance. But i am not to guide you, i can only show you the path – you will have to walk on it yourself.

Why work hard when you can work smart?

True, in fact this has been said everywhere. But do you realize that in order to be smart – you need to work hard? Except for the exception of natural smartness, which is very rare.

Every online marketer will tell you that you are able to work smart and avoid the hard work. But the truth is – they are the smart ones and you are being fooled. They worked hard to become smart and reach the position where they are able to use that smartness in order to make money. While you are the desperate one who needs money and they easily fool you into buying their products. That line ‘why work hard when you can work smart’ is for the marketers, it won’t work for you.

The hard truth is you need to work hard to climb the ladders of smartness, there is no shortcut to success.

I can’t find a way to earn online – help me!

That is the same question i use to ask others when i first started out. I was always looking for a ‘get rich quick’ method. A easy way to millions online. I was wrong and it took me very long to realize that.

Right now i am not even earning anything from this blog. But i earn online by doing hard work. My highest income stream is by offering services. I offer writing services to others. Such as article writing, content creation, sales letter writing, pdf creations, email marketing campaigns, etc. I earn anywhere between $300 – $2000 doing this every month.

Now you might be thinking that $2k is nothing, others make a lot more then that. However $2k is a realistic amount you can make online monthly. That too by doing hard work. And now i am expanding myself. Once i am fully established and all my websites and online projects are up and running. I might stop writing for others and just write for myself. I am glad that the money i earn is invested back into my other online endeavors. And am only 18 and still doing my schooling. Imagine where i will be in 10 years time. The hard work i do now will certainly pay back. Not to forget that this is only my passion, i don’t really need money that bad. I am building myself a better future and perhaps help others in my journey as well.

Of course you don’t have to earn the same way i do. But whatever you undertake it will require hard work. I am continuously experimenting with all sorts of possible income streams. Which is why i blog about them. Be it adsense, CPA/CPC, affiliate marketing, blogging, forex, selling own products and ebooks. Or just running your own websites in different niches.

Find your talent. What you are good in. Look for a online relevant way with your talent and go for it. In other words, lets say you are good in poetry. So you can start a website about poems, show your work to the world and in few years you will find yourself very close to your goal. But they key is ‘hard work’. Don’t indulge in activities which you have no knowledge about, you will only waste your time. But of course no harm in experimenting. Real life plays a big part in online success. Your real talent is what counts, because people use the Internet to find information on everything and anything, so whatever it is you will find others. Then you will just need to monetize your talent, look for ways to earn and you will start earning. But once again this all requires hard work.

The more harder you work the more smarter you get and less harder you work in the future. Because you will always find alternatives and discover easier ways to do that work.

Investment is unavoidable

Every online business needs a initial investment. For websites you need hosting and domain. For affiliate marketing you need a list and advertising. For forex you need lots of investment to do.

Everything on the Internet requires investment. This is why you need to experiment and work hard. For me hard work has given a level of satisfaction. Because i never wanted to spend my or my parents money online. It is a self challenge. I wanted to establish myself with my own ‘online’ earnings. The money i make online i just re-invest them back. This is how i pay for this website and everything else that i am a part off.

And yes of course i will tell you frankly that 80% of my earning goes to online gaming. After all am a mmorpg addict. I play online games for fun and i love the feeling because what ever i do in those game i have payed with my hard earned money.

It might be a good idea to reinvest your income back to expand further. This is what i am doing and will keep doing till i reach a stage where the income is far too much to keep investing back.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Remember that slow and steady wins the race. There is no method on the Internet that can give you overnight success or a million dollars. If there is any then it will require lots of investment and there will be lots of catches.

Which brings me to the next important point of hard work. You see hard work won’t give you results until there is a purpose. You work on your daily jobs because you have a purpose to earn. You go to school because you have a purpose to fulfil dreams and get qualified. The point is no matter how much hard work you put in, but the purpose should be strong. I can give a guitar to my brother and ask him to practise on it for hours. However it won’t work, his hard work will be useless because he is not interested in playing a guitar. If instead i gave him a piano and he is very egar to learn it. Then at the end of the day his hard work will pay. Because he had a purpose!

But all this takes time, time – hard work – purpose. These all are co-related. Without anyone of them you won’t achieve anything. You need to put in the required time to learn those new things and explore all possibilities. Slow and steady wins the race. Don’t over do yourself or push too far in any activity you take. Relax both physically and mentally and think with a calm mind. Then you will find the solutions to your problems quite easily.

What is the lesson to learn? – ‘Hard work never killed anyone’

Hard work matters. You need to realize its importance if you want to succeed. Be it online or in the real world. If it weren’t for the people who worked hard to invent the computer – you won’t be here.

If you want to gain something you need to work hard for it. Laziness won’t get you anywhere. I hope this article is motivating enough to get you into doing something productive. If you have reached till here then i think you already know the value of hard work.

So in the end. Hard work hasn’t killed anyone – why worry about it? Good luck in anything you undertake.

Just trust me on one thing. The result you get after putting in hard work and dedication is very fruitful. And the feeling of satisfaction which you get afterward is worth the hard work you put in.

Till then have a great day,

SJ

This is my personal review of Hunch.com, a recommendation engine that helps you make good & informed decisions – SJ

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Don’t forget to share this post, subscribe to my RSS feeds & follow me on twitter @sameerjoad till then have a good day,

SJ

This is a Personal Development article on how to be a good son or daughter – SJ

The world we live in is changing every second and everyone plays their part, like Shakespeare said ‘all the world is a stage and all men and women are the actors’, the same can be applied to the natural cycle of human life, we play many roles in our life’s and the very first of those roles is childhood.

I am sure you must have remembered the sweet memories of your childhood when i said the word ‘childhood’, but my question to you is are you still a good son or daughter?? Do you still respect the fact that 2 certain people brought you in this world and you have your duties towards them?? Do you still remember the days when mom and dad sat by your bed all night when you fell sick?? or the time on your birthdays when bought you exciting gifts??

The list of my questions is very long and yet again their are some others who still hate their parents for sending them to school or college, they hate their dad or mom for not letting them hang out with certain friends, or for not letting them watch the movies late at night, or for not letting them marry a girl they loved?

No matter if you hate your parents or not [i hope you don't], you must still keep it deep in your heart somewhere that without them you won’t be here and you defiantly won’t be reading this if they had not send you to school! I am not going to make you cry or give a lecture, all i will ask you is are you a good child?

It does not matter if your 15 or 45, for your parents you will always be their child and they will always behave the same way they did with you when you were 10 because they love you and their is nothing in the world that could kill the bond between a healthy family, even if you did something awfully wrong the first people to support and back you up will be your parents, they are the ones who had removed those fears you had when you were young and they are the ones who have guided you to this stage of life, to adulthood.

But to every thing that is good, there is something bad even tho we love our parents most of us forget to care for them, when we were young and when we most needed care and love, we got them from our mom and dad, but when we grow up its our mom and dad who needs love and care when they reach the older stage of their life’s but its that stage where most of us forget to give back, imagine the pain of a orphan and consider yourself lucky, put yourself in a orphans place and think from his point of view the value of parents.

Now comes the most important question how can you pay back? Well first of all, the word ‘pay back’ sounds very disgraceful in this case and like i was saying most of us think the best way to be a good son or daughter is by making your parents feel happy, proud and satisfied with you – but how can we do that? Well defiantly not with money, but with care, love, attention, devotion and sharing responsibilities.

Lets start with care, if your still a youngster now is the perfect time to care! you do realize that your dad and mom works so hard and lives a stressful life just to get you educated and set your career so its your responsibility to care for them and understand them, i know its hard to get along specially in the teenage years and a quarrel or fight between child and parents is normal but it would really make your parents proud if you actually did something for them, like getting good grades or obeying rules, be happy when they buy you something and be content with what you have don’t give them a hard time by demanding more then they can afford, try to compromise and understand the situation only then you will enter then stage of adulthood, share your pains and clear your doubts, don’t hide things to them that needs their attention, be nice to your siblings and everyone in your family, respect your parents privacy – don’t throw parties in your house- do them at other places instead, follow and respect the things they teach you and try to put it in action, be active and stay healthy always remember that ‘prevention is better then cure’ don’t do things that spoils your health and creates more stress for your family, don’t bunk school, respect teachers and do your homework so that your teachers never complain [even tho i don't do that but my teachers never complain], don’t stay up very late and keep the volume of your tv or stereo low as your parents worked all day they might be looking for some rest and also give others the opportunity to enjoy in their leisure time, don’t become a tv addict [or any addict for that matter], be civil and respect your country and try to build a better society around you and last but not the least don’t forget to wish them happy mothers/fathers day!

If your already a grown up and your parents are old and living away, then the advice i would give you is be considerate about them, they took care of you when you were young, now its your job to take care of them when they are old, share all your happiness with them, every bit of news regarding you will make your parents very happy, so be it a job promotion, your marriage or a child – don’t ignore your parents, even tho they might be living away from you they are still part of your family and you should make them feel that! the luckiest are those who’s parents lives right under their eyes and everyone enjoys the daily life together shares and cares for everything and anything.The best way you can serve your parents when they are old is the same way they served you when you were young, as they age they will be just like kids and you will have to treat them with lots of love and care and the most important thing is devoting your time to them, no matter what happens don’t miss the moments that come once a year or those that comes once in a lifetime! Never show or let them feel that you care more for your work then them or anything for that matter, it hurts a lot if they feel useless.

I won’t make it long but the message i wanted to deliver was that we need to be good children to our parents so that one day when our own children grow up we can expect the same treatment from them, always remember that you won’t always be what you are now, things change and in a matter of time you will find yourself in  the same position as your parents might by finding themselves now!

Its never too late for anything and if you have hurt your parents its never late to make it up back to them, learn their value and treasure the moments, the more you learn and observe the better idea you have of how to be a good child to your parents, so enjoy those moments because we might not always have such good times! If you loved this post then check out these great books on amazon, i recommend reading ‘the good children’ title by Kate Wilhelm.

Don’t forget to share this post, subscribe to my RSS Feed & follow me on twitter @sameerjoad till then have a good day,

SJ