Celebs from Bihar share their views on being tolerant

Celebs from Bihar share their views on being tolerant

It was in 1996 when the United Nations declared November 16 as the International Day for Tolerance to honour the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As the world celebrates the day with much hope, celebs from Bihar talk about its importance. Actor-politician Ravi Kishan believes that we live in an era of rising violence and hatred, where people are not ready to accept everything easily. He said, “Our country is divided on various grounds, including culture, religion and language. Even today, when literacy is on a rise across India, people have failed to broaden their thought process. Youngsters, who are the future of our nation, easily become violent. This is the reason why we all must work together to create an awareness about being tolerant. Through this, we will be able to maintain peace everywhere.” For actress Amrapali Dubey, being tolerant means to protect oneself from the negativity that prevails in society. She said, “If you decide to promote tolerance, you need to start with yourself and your family. You must understand the need for it. If we don’t work upon it soon enough, our society will become hollow.” In Bollywood, this is one of the hottest topics of discussion these days. Actor Dinesh Lal Yadav, said, “Tolerance is required in every field of work, even in Bollywood. The lesson of tolerance must be included in school syllabus in some way or the other.”
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Self discipline in Home and work

Jim Rohn On How To Become More Self-Disciplined At Home And In Business

Jim Rohn was an American businessman, a self-made millionaire before he turned 31, author, motivational speaker and even Anthony Robbins’s mentor.

The author of dozens of books, Rohn was also a big believer in the power of self-discipline to achieve one's ambitions at home and in business. Rohn offered three steps for practicing self-discipline, which anyone can apply.

Accept Self-Discipline Isn't The Easiest Option 

Most of us want quick fixes, but self-discipline is tough. Perhaps because of our hunter-gatherer origins, it's human nature to conserve our energy, time and resources.

In the Power of Ambition, Rohn said,

“It’s easier to go to bed late, sleep late, show up late, leave early...It’s easier to do just enough than to do it all.”

Let's say your company has an important checklist you loathe filling out. Instead of finding a workaround, use this checklist as an opportunity to cultivate self-discipline.

Several years ago, I worked in a healthcare setting. Every day, we had to complete a series of monotonous checklists documenting accounted-for medication and first aid supplies.

Completing these checklists every day was tedious and repetitious, especially if you'd worked several days in a row and knew the counts were accurate.

However, after a dressing down by my manager for an incomplete checklist, I quickly regretted my mistake. Any professional worth their paycheck must sometimes complete important but tedious tasks anyway if they're worth their paycheck.

As Rohn said, “Our life will always be a constant battle by the life of ease and its momentary rewards…and the life of discipline and its more significant rewards.”

Discipline Is A Full-time Activity

Did you ever have a boss who constantly changed what they expected from you? Or perhaps you worked with a colleague who showed up only at the start or end of a big project?

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Rohn said,“These people seem to wander aimlessly changing procedures, changing standards, changing loyalties and shifting from one commitment to another leaving behind a trail of broken friendships, unfinished projects and unfilled promises."

Don't be that person.

Elon Musk is an admired CEO, but lately he's raising the ire of Tesla shareholders and customers for missed shipment deadlines among other issues.

If you commit to customers to deliver a product by a particular day, do all you can to ship your products on time. Or let people know, "It'll be ready, when it's ready."

For Every Disciplined Effort, A Multiple Reward

Rohn believed, "Everything of value requires care and attention."

The iPhone, Macbook and iMac are valuable pieces of tech. Consider how Apple is self-disciplined about packing their expensive products in elegant white and grey boxes to give customers a sensory experience they remember.

The trillion dollar company even employs a designer with responsibility for packaging.

According to tech journalist and author Adam Lashinsky, before the release of the iPod, "a packaging designer was holed up in [a packing room] room performing the most mundane of tasks—opening boxes."

Today, there's a cottage industry of YouTubers who film un-boxings of the latest Apple products and effectively market the latest tech for Apple, for free. This in turn helps Apple sell more of its high-end products.

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Cultivate Self-Discipline Instead Of Regret 

Rohn spent much of his live advocating for the power of self-discipline, and he delivered his seminars for more than 40 years. He died in 2009 with a net worth of more than $500 million dollars.

Rohn once said, “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

In short, you can wait for somebody else to exercise discipline upon you and complain about it, as Musk did back in March about several journalists who criticized his company.

Or you can exercise consistent self-discipline and become the type of colleague or business person your peers or customers come to respect and trust.

What will you choose?

Neighbors: Captain Jim Rohn, a train and a ballroom

Neighbors: Captain Jim Rohn, a train and a ballroom

Today, Neighbors readers are talking about being fans of a person, a train and a ballroom.The person is “Captain” Jim Rohn.“I remember getting to be on that program once for my birthday when I was a kid and getting to ring the bell,” Steve Runck, Horace, N.D., writes.Steve is talking about the children’s program on KXJB-TV hosted by Jim.Sadly, Jim, a long-time announcer for the station, died in Fargo recently, leaving behind many fans such as Steve.The GooseThen there’s the old Galloping Goose branch line trains.Columns about them led Bill Devlin, Finley, N.D., to write that as a boy, he and members of his family “got to ride the train from Sharon to Finley as well as Finley to Blabon.”Bill and his wife, Margie, owned the Steele County Press in Finley for 33 years. He’s now serving in the North Dakota House of Representatives, where he has been House speaker.Red Foley and GrandpaThe ballroom is the Crystal, in Fargo. Neighbors has carried several people’s memories of the big names who played there.John Dahl, Moorhead, writes he and his wife heard Red Foley there, as well as comedian Grandpa Jones in the late 1950s.Harriet Holler, 80, writes that “after moving to Fargo in 1952 from Hunter, N.D., I went there (to the Crystal) all the time.”Harriet also has memories of her mother’s friend Don Wardwell, who was with WDAY Radio for years.He and Harriet’s mom Fanny grew up together. After he joined WDAY, Don and his wife, Gerta, would come to visit her. Sometimes he’d bring along his friends from the station, including pianist Frank Scott and a singer who did all right for herself named Peggy Lee.“Us kids were young at the time,” Harriet says, “so we were sent upstairs to bed, but they made a lot of noise and seemed to have a good time.“It would have been fun to have been older so we could join in,” she says.Yes, kids miss out on a lot of adult high-jinks, Harriet. But maybe it’s just as well.