Wisdom of the week!

If you know Tamil, here is a gem from Thirukural.

Thaeran thelivum thelindankann aiyuravum
Theera idumbai tharum

The translation is as follows.
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Email tip for better productivity

Do you read your mails, but forget to take action sometimes? And swear to yourself when you see that reminder mail for action not taken?

Or do you lose track of mails that need to be followed up? Like the mail you sent to your HR for tax related information to which she did not reply. And when you remembered it, it was well past the deadline.

Here is a handy tip, courtesy David Allen (Author of Getting things done)

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The bible of investing

In the movie “The pursuit of happyness”, when Chris Gardner is an intern at Dean Whitter, the training manager gives them all a copy of a book and says this is your bible!

I couldn’t see the name of the book at first, but guessed it alright. I thought it had to be Intelligent Investor or Security analysis.

Paused the movie…..and went back to the scene again. It was indeed Security analysis!

Then satisfactorily, I resumed watching the movie.

The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to Be One

More than 85 years old. Less than 85 pages.And the story sounds dumb as you are half way through. But when you keep the book down, you cant deny that it was really inspiring.

Thats Go-Getter, a fantastic book written in the 1920s.

Its a small book (and the mother of all fable based business books like Who moved my cheese?) that I finished in one sitting flat. It talks about being a go-getter. The attitude and qualities that you have to have to be a go-getter.

It cost me only Rs 100. But it will occupy a higher value place in my shelf of books.

Buy today! Without fail!

PS: You may not like the book until the first half is over. So I suggest that you dont keep the book after reading a few pages. Its only when the story is over, you realize how valuable the lessons in it are.

Getting things done

I would recommend reading “Getting things done” by David Allen to improve your productivity and to improve your organizing skills.

For a start, I would suggest you visit David’s website and download a few of his articles and read them. Here is the link to download a few articles (free).