I cannot express in words how proud I am to be part of Dreamaniac Incorporated Group – yet another story of successful smiles and happiness that Dreamaniac #MadeIthappen. See CEO’s blog post by RC Dreamaniac below – -
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“Dream Big. Make It Happen!” is official motto of the Dreamaniac Incorporated Group. Sometimes these dreams are small, but they make a big difference and bring smiles to many faces. That is exactly what happened last week at Shagun’s Birthday Party!
Originally, Dreamaniac.com, the designer label of Dreamaniac Incorporated Group set out to award the prize winning to Neha Aggarwal for being the winner of Delhi Dreams Contest. Neha had another idea in her mind; she wanted to donate the amount equivalent to the prize for a good cause. Team Dreamaniac loved the idea because in association with Global Human Rights People that is exactly what we aim to do every single time we can.
A prize that was going to buy two cups of Coffee for Neha and a friend, ended up in cake-cutting and blowing birthday-wish candles with an adorable and cute little angel – Shagun, who turned six. She is tiny little innocent girl with Big Dreams and it was her birthday. In late afternoon we arrived at the address we were given and found an eagerly waiting pair, the birthday girl and her older sister Suhani, 9, at the door. We were told they have been waiting since early morning for a cake, a present and most importantly their first birthday party ever.
We were greeted by cheerful, excited and nervous voice of Shagun “Uncle Ji, Namaste”, [Translation: Respect Uncle, Good Afternoon] – which was out of this world adorable and heart melting. It was a little one-room unit that was an All-in-One Living Room, Bedroom and Kitchen. Honestly speaking, it was the first time I realized how much bigger my own room is, which I often thought was too small. Shagun’s family room could barely fit…..
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“If the government has tanks, we should have tanks!”
Sean Zevran explains gun control:
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Continued from – - - Startups & Leadership – Part I
Being a reliable leader
Being a reliable leader often requires following six traits/abilities, but it is not limited to just these six. Every leader, every success story has its own additional highlights and strengths. These six can be used as a guideline nonetheless.
- Research
- Appreciate
- Challenge
- Enable
- Evaluate
- Network
Research
To lead, you need to know what you are talking about, why and how it all works. You need to know the need, the plan, the direction and the destination. You need to have explored all aspects our brand is about, needs to become and how it will get there. Not just that, you also must know your competitors as well as roadblocks before even you begin the journey.
Appreciate
Leading a team is not just about directing, commanding and managing people, resources and deadlines but is also about recognizing their efforts and contribution. A good leader has a keen eye for detail, and ability to identify when someone in the team, or team itself does a good job, irrespective of the immediate outcome of the task. There is no reward bigger and better than appreciation at the right time, in right setting and recognizing a team member or team’s contribution in a task.
Challenge
This brings me back to the point where I mentioned being a leader by example. To motivate your team, you need to challenge them and the challenge begins by being a leader by example. To do things really well, to do them before they are expecting and to do them better than before, inspires and challenges your team at the same time. You can also create competition amongst them or put a reward in front, but there is nothing as motivating as having a leader who says, ‘I dare you to do this better than me!’
Enable
Your knowledge, appreciation and daring the team is only useful if you are ready to give them the power to perform without you, as much as with you. To give them the confidence that you trust their ability and you give them a fair level of independence and decision making authority, will give them the desire to perform and excel. If they feel trusted, authorized and welcomed to perform, they WILL perform.
Evaluate
Now I will use the very well-known dictum “It is better to control than to trust”. While I do not entirely believe in it, I don’t either NOT believe in it. There has to be a level of check and safeguards to ensure people are doing what they are required to do and they are not abusing the authority and trust you have ‘enabled’ them with. It is important to evaluate at certain check points and reassure, mentor, guide or highlight aspects they need to constantly work on. Constructive criticism and deserving appreciation again makes a big and positive difference.
Network
You need to KNOW your team, your followers. You need to know who they are, what they do, what they are about and how they work – both in their professional and personal lives, to a limit. You need to make them feel you are one of them and you care what they are about and what their lives are at the desk, in the workplace and beyond, keeping in mind, as much as they are comfortable with sharing. Being aware of the important events of their lives like, birthday, anniversary, their term with the company etc. and wishing them on these events – makes them feel noticed, recognized and most importantly valued. It makes a HUGE difference on how they believe in your abilities as a leader.
Startups & Leadership – Part I
To be continued …
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The startup reality: Many Start, Few Succeed
Startup companies are like house flies, millions are born each day and millions die within a few days if not hours. Everyone with a desire to be their own boss starts something and wants it to become big, bold and beautiful but only few continue their journey and even few succeed in making their dreams a reality. This is often the result of over or under zealous start without enough action and leadership that needs to be applied in right time, at right place; in a precise manner. Leader is the brain and backbone of a startup and team is the nervous system that engages the entire body functions. Without a leader a startup is as likely to succeed as there is a chance for a building without foundation to stand tall. None!
Some are born leaders, and some learn to lead; but both are equally capable of making dreams into a reality if they lead smart, with genuine desire and clear priorities.
Leader from the inside
To lead a team, the leader needs to feel it from the inside of his own heart and capable of believing he can lead. You may not be a born and natural leader but you need the willingness to explore your ability to lead and learn from your own experiences. Some learn to lead from their mentors, be it a senior family member or a past colleague or a successful friend. Others learn to lead by self-initiative or formal training – classroom based or practical work-experience or both. Irrespective of being a natural or formed leader, the desire to lead does need to come from within – there is no mentor, coach, family member, colleague or a friend who can help you become a leader if the desire is not deep inside you. You can learn to lead but you must WANT to learn, to lead, to initiate and to begin something for others to follow your footsteps.
Leading with example
Do the big words and passionate speeches stimulate your team? Of course they do. But is the lip-service going to do the magic for them to want to make the contribution that makes your team, your business a successful brand? The simple and straight answer is NO.
To be a leader, it is important you are the first one to initiate things, first one to show them how and; first one ready to show them again and again, each time getting better than before. When you act on your words, show them in action and keep getting better at it, it challenges your team and gives them a high to want to be like you or even aim to ‘become’ you one day. This does not mean you will not make mistakes, unless of course you are some mythical figurehead that never falters – if so, I’d like to hire you as my clone! I digress. You are bound to make mistakes but once again you can lead by example by showing your team how you accept your mistake, how to learn from it and how exactly you benefit from the experience by getting more accurate, confident and smart than the last time.
Leading by adaptability
We have heard it all, over and over and over – but the fact is, it actually is the only truth of human life, personal or professional. (Or extra-terrestrial if that is what interests you really!) – CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT.
A leader does not have a choice to be rigid and inflexible. If you refuse to adapt, evolve and in fact even change with the need of time you are stunting your growth and that of everyone following your lead. You cannot afford to say ‘This/I will not change’ – you can question the need of change, you can even seek more clarification, information and education on the change expected of you, but if a change is taking place and the time needs it, you must be ready to adapt before everyone else in the team. If your statements begin with ‘NO’, ‘BUT’, ‘CANNOT’, ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ (or hundred other negative forms of expressions) your team is going to lose their confidence, in you, in themselves and in each-other. They will be lost for direction and will not know where to go and who to follow. Their trust in your ability to lead will weaken with every rejection and objection that does not come with a responsible and smart reasoning.
One important thing to keep in mind always is – DO NOT wait for a REACTION before you decide to change. Research proactively, evaluate constantly and evolve in-time, on-time and every time the business needs you to. If you are open to different, new and changing realities so will be your team and change management will be an easy process to apply and perform with. To the contrary, if you are reluctant and you find reasons (read as excuses) to not change and/or adapt with the need of the hour, your team will be too scared to even try and feel insecure with the slightest hint of something different than their routine, tried and tested, well laid-out plan of things that may not be good enough to keep progressing. Unless of course your aim is to be stagnant, just surviving and being content in not progressing any further after a point. Mind you, you then can prepare yourself for the demise of your brand, sooner than you think it can happen.
Leading by reliability
In a leader, people seek reliability. They want to feel secure and they want to know exactly what to expect from their leader, over and again. A leader is someone they look up to for sure-shot, tried-and-tested success formulae, so to speak, that they can apply in their own work methods to succeed like their leader.
But that is not all, when one speaks of a reliable leader they also mean the one who can be counted on for being consistent, punctual, on-time, in-time, accurate, with a clear vision and determined vision of where the path of success is. Remember, as I said before, you are bound to make mistakes but as long as you are learning from them and it is visible to your team that you are getting better each time, you are still leading them by example and you are still their reliable source of strength, learning and determination. It is when you refuse to learn, grow and evolve they doubt your leaderships and their own ability to perform their roles efficiently.
This also reiterates the need to ACT on the SPEECH a leader delivers. Your passionate speech only means something to your team if you can be seen acting on your own words, delivering your promises and making the efforts that lead towards the path of success.
[Note: You may not use the word ‘Promise’, but when you express an aim, a goal or a destination; you’ve automatically made a promise and you are required to deliver it, irrespective of using THE word or not.]
Leading by integrity
As a leader what you say, how much you mean it and how do your deliver what you say gets watched every moment of your living life. I have over and over said, you are human and you are bound to make mistakes but it is how you learn from these mistakes and how you improve increases the confidence of your team in your leadership. It is also vital, how honest and genuine you are in admitting when you err; and, do you stumble so frequently that you’ve become more of a joke than an experienced leader who learned from his mistakes?
If you are constantly coming up with reasons to explain why you could not deliver a task assigned to you (most likely by yourself or someone with the authority to choose you as a leader of a team or brand), you are clearly becoming unreliable in the eyes of your team. They will lose the faith in your ability and they will not know when to believe your words. Simply put, they cannot rely on you.
As a leader, you cannot afford to be unreliable. Not today, not ever. Your team needs to be able to believe every word you say, trust every plan you have and have faith in every direction you lead them in. you are the torch bearer for them in a dark cave they are trying to find the treasure of success. If your torch has low or dead batteries and you are constantly changing them with another set of bad batteries that you did not test before starting the journey – brace yourself for massive conflict, disregard and dethroning by your very own team. The only person then responsible for your fall is YOU.
Continued to - – - Startups & Leadership – Part II
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Let me introduce you to a friend of mine – Peter Punchard. He is funny, hilarious and outrageous fun person to hang out with. I met him late 2011 and we used to go walking and used to talk heart to heart our personal and professional lives. He is like an unspoken brother with a charming smile, and heartwarming personality. I’ll let the photos do the talking!
Anyone who knows him can but only fall in love with him for the amazing friend, colleague and person he is. His alter ego Danya is not any lesser – she is stunning, outrageous and obsessed about her hair – And I tell you so is he – obsessed – with his hair – be it styling, growing them long, coloring, experimenting every few months – he just loves it. And in a few days he is going to be even MORE amazing than ever before because he is letting go of his sexy locks for a great cause!
Peter, is shaving his head (NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Ah, Well!)
on the 16th February 2013
in support of his Sister-in-Law who has been dealing with the breast cancer, to raise funds for Breast Cancer Research. Not just that, Peter is donating his lovely locks to a Wig Maker, yet again adding more value to the charitable cause.
And on mother’s day, the luscious beauty Danya (alter ego of Peter) is doing the Pink March through Melbourne supporting National Breast Cancer Foundation (Australia) for supporting Breast Cancer Research. I appeal to you to please dig deep in your pockets, and donate with an open heart!
If you are in Australia, any donation above $2 is tax deductible. But even if it is not and you donated $2 or more, you will be supporting a cause that can help a research which is working to save all our mothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends, colleagues and more!
And men, even YOU can get Breast Cancer!
More Importantly, you don’t have to GET or BE AFFECTED by it to support it. I have been volunteering and donating since many years and I am proud to do it without any story directly affecting my family or loved ones. I just support the cause for us ALL!!
You can visit Peter & Danya’s Cause Page at
https://register.eventarc.com/sponsor/view/170779/peter-punchard
and please donate with open hearts!! So let’s see what Peter will look like with his shaved look, he’s lucky I am not there right now to ‘knock knock’ 
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A few friends and I got talking today about the obsession of the humankind with the measurements of the penises and the breasts. Often, we’ll deny the size-mania outright but confess to a confidante, when scratched with some determination, pun intended. Straight or Gay, Men or Women – we often discuss the sizes with our close friends, and more frequently direct than in innuendo. Some will deny it, but you know the facts as well as I do.
Our conversation began with the size queens, (both women and gay men) but suddenly we were discussing on a different tangent. We decided to focus on two facts –
- Most men like to ‘enhance’ the size when describing their penises
- Most women ‘complain’ they have smaller breasts (than they would like to have had!)
Note here, the group was a mix of straight men and women, as well as gay men and women and some ‘alleged bisexuals’. I say alleged not because I believe there is no bisexuality because I for sure know some bisexuals way too well, no pun intended; to know it is as real as the sun and the soil. I digress. So, given the mix of the group we had a fair balance to decide for the rest of the creation how humans think. Or so we claim! * ahem! *
Amusingly, the entire bunch agreed that ‘most’ men claim to have bigger schlongs than they really do, irrespective of sexual orientation and/or gender of their sexual partners (same or opposite sex, for those who need it spelled out). Both women and gay men agreed that they are often ‘led to believe’ they are in for a bigger treat than it turns out to be. Surprisingly though, most individuals expect a ‘little less’ than advertised goods and are not too often surprised because they are accustomed to lowering the expectations at the ‘big’ reveal; and I use the word big loosely.
Not just that, it was established in this ever important ‘measurement summit’ (as we decided to call it halfway through the discussion session) that men often found ways to justify their size, if questioned and they were often prepared with elaborate answers and willing to get measured – as long as the measurement method was applied by THEIR logic, which often proved them almost correct. Did I just say almost with the italicized, bold and underlined emphasis? Oh well!
balloon penises (Photo credit: Chris Makarsky)
Women, on other hand, were found to be complaining that their breasts are a cup size (or three) smaller than they wanted. In fact, it was observed, women often believed they deserved a size or three bigger in proportion to their body and were robbed by the nature. Somehow they seem to justify that it is not genetic shortcoming (or normal inheritance, as I believe) but they were intentionally, arrogantly robbed by the nature of their legal rights to be bigger and better. Ahem!
It was also concluded in this measurement summit that the said bigger women who were actually seen complaining about the ‘two big babies’ they have to carry around, secretly loved their size and the attention it gets them. There will be backlash and public denial but secretly they love that they got the better deal, so was inferred. It was also established that 6 in 10 women with decently proportionate breasts would happily get breast implants if they could afford, financially and other factors. Hmm!
Now before you claim, I am not a size queen and/or I don’t care about the size, this summit also extrapolated on your behalf (and you do not get to object, so shut the drama queen trap up!) that 9.9/10 humans are size queens (or kings for that matter) and cared about the sizes of their partners boobs and cocks! Ha, there I said it, boobs and cocks! Boobs and Cocks! RELEASE!!!! Oh, where was I?
Screw it! Now I’ve said it and this is a NSFW blog , so there will be no censoring! Hence the ‘Governance Committee of the Measurement Summit’ hereby declares, that Breasts and Penises have a liberal bias! (read as men and women are both size queens!)
Your confessions go underneath in the comment section, begin NOW!
That Is All!
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NEW DELHI: When was the last time winter in Delhi was as harsh and as long as this? This bone-rattling spell that began on New Year’s Eve hasn’t had a parallel since 1973 — the year since when continuous daily temperature records could be accessed and analysed. Szebastian was not even born then, not even close to being born, not even conceptualized. Nature wanted to ensure that he does not have to go through the agony of this harshness and hence it scheduled this chill much before his very existence in this creation.
For nine straight days since December 31, the capital hasn’t seen temperatures rise above 16 degrees Celsius and the minimum has remained below 6 degrees. Taking these two temperature limits as cutoff, TOI sifted through data for the past 40 years. No other unbroken spell of biting chill — both minimum and maximum temperatures staying this low — had sustained for as long as this, it was found. 
The closest Delhi came to such a prolonged period of severe cold was a six-day spell that began on January 4, 2011. While there have been longer periods of either the maximum temperature staying below 16 degrees or the minimum not rising beyond 6 degrees, the double whammy of cold days and freezing nights — as seen in the past nine days — was unmatched in the period studied. Szebastian alleges there is a conspiracy going on against him because of which Nature and the anti-social elements have decreased the lowest temperature to the extremes. It is being speculated that Delhi may be too scared to see Szebastian in his world famous aussieBum outfit and Almost Naked imagery and to stop that outstanding fashion statement from becoming a trend, an organized sabotage is being run under the name ‘Operation Winter’.
While it is common for the minimum temperature to stay below 6 degrees during December-January, ‘cold day’ conditions — that is, day temperatures staying much below normal — are uncommon. According to temperature records since 1973, the longest spell of below-16 degree temperatures was for 10 days in Jan 2003. In this period, there were only four winters (December-January) when the total number of below-16 degree days was 10 or more. By contrast, there were as many as 33 ‘coldest nights’ (minimum below 6 degree C) out of the 62 days in the 1996-97 winter. 
Keeping in view the importance of Szebastian’s sexiness, aussieBum style and Almost Naked ambitions, it is being considered to declare this a global emergency and a SZEE-20 Submit to be called to draw an urgent action plan to ensure nice and sexy weather for Szebastian no matter where he goes. The nations are trying to ensure that Szebastian has to never wear anything else except the aussieBum’s as a direct result of this action. While the world suffers with their tiny little issues, this issue is critical and life changing and hence Szebastian hopes, the world will gets its priorities right and make Szebastian the highest profile case and fix the winter issue right away.
Here’s hoping!
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Disclaimer & Credit: The original news was published by Times of India at this link and is a serious news. Szebastian’s parody is not meant to offend anyone but only add a little bit of humor and should only be sees as so. Wishing everyone safe and happy winters.
That Is All!
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Virginia Trujillo is an inspiration and a real joy and I am truly honored to be her friend and a fan of hers. I am sharing below an open letter that she has written to Senator McCain regarding Republicans blocking the United States Government again in taking necessary steps to save the economy from falling into the ‘fiscal cliff’. You Go Girl!
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Dear Senator McCain;
It is with real concern that I write this letter. I have been hearing all the talks regarding the “Fiscal Cliff” and I am wondering what the problem is with the Senate. It seems to me that a few things need to happen right away and they are not that difficult. The problem lies within the Republican factions in the Senate that are apparently still working for lobbyist rather than for their constituents. I say this, because the Republicans lost the election. This means that there was rejection to the plans that were put forth by the Romney/Ryan team and the people were overall more in agreement with the Obama/Biden plan. So, why are we still getting those same arguments from the Republican senate? Why are we still having these problems with a stalled government?
To hear Senators actually use the term “Hold the Debt Ceiling Hostage” is, in my estimation, an act of domestic terrorism on the people of the United States. How long do think this can go on without having serious repercussions to the country and also to the Republican party?
Senator, I ask that you not be part of yet another attempt to block and blame in the government. The top 20% of our citizens should NOT control 80% of all the wealth. Corporations are NOT people. Corporations don’t have families to feed and bills to pay. In actuality Corporations feed off of American families.
If you consider the wealth distribution as a pie chart, it’s easy to see that when you have 80% of the population trying to share only 20% of the pie there just isn’t enough to go around. The other highlight of that equation is that no amount of hard work on the part of the 80% will increase the 20% of the pie that they are trying to share. It just doesn’t work that way. Trickle down economics is a complete sham and has been used to dupe the American public for far too many years.
If Congressmen on the hill are stumped for solutions here are a few suggestions.
1. Raise the debt ceiling. (Disaster avoided)
2. Reduce the Defense budget. (Foreign, not Domestic)
3. Let the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% expire.
4. Continue tax cuts for the middle class.
5. Change social security eligibility age to 67.
6. End the entitlements for retired members of Congress. I see no reason why a 2 to 8 year stint by anyone as a representative or senator should be glorified with a continuous hefty paycheck at the expense of the American public for the rest of that persons life.
If we are to look at the government as a business, which is what Republicans like to do, then it doesn’t make good economic sense for us to continue to carry that financial burden when we are fiscally in the red. The country can’t afford it.
Please consider these factors when you next go to the Senate floor. I believe America is waking up to some of the shenanigans that have been going on up on that hill. Things really have got to change. It is not going to serve the Republican party well to continue to block measures to balance the budget. There is no way to balance the budget without redistributing a portion of the wealth back down to the people. It just can’t happen any other way. Taking away more of 20% of a pie that 80% of the public is trying to share right now would result in disaster. If you’re looking for a breakdown of our society, that would certainly be the way to get it.
I wish you and your family the happiest of holidays.
Sincerely,
Virginia M. Trujillo
That Is All!
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