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Often referenced study suggests that failing to take a nice long vacation over a period of years can increase your likelihood of heart disease.
Mark Twain asserted “make your vocation –vacation.”I believe in loving vocations. “Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.” Said profoundly by Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
We all need profession by choice not by chance. Founder of Jerry Yang Yahoo says,” it was all fun and joy it was never a business. Founder of Elan Musk PayPal says,” I need only three things internet, environment and income to pat rent only. No idea of making profit and I had not gone for vacation for 3 years. Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates had worked for more than 2 years before finding out his first software” DOS “for IBM.He ranged his mother to communicate that this may be last call from my side as I get the first software contract in my life.”
Stress free and pleasure work place cannot be created .Pleasure and peace is the byproduct of love. Once you start loving it pleasure will be created. Most of the people do not love their work; hence the pressure is created at the work place.
Working hours are never long enough. It never makes someone tired if someone love it. See it is always a fun and joy . In my eyes, vocation is spring to life. How someone can be away for a day in his life from his vocation.
“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity.” Asserted by Viktor Frankl quotes (Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist. 1905-1997).

We all need to nourish our spirit with new scenery, abandoned routines, and time devoted entirely to stress-free pleasure. But you’ve also probably heard or read me say that balance is BS.

Dwight Howard, The four times NBA All stars and two time defensive player of the year, is one of the most aggressive players of the basket ball of the world but he never lost his cool spirit on the ground. Basket ball legend says, “It is a fun for me. I fell in love with the game when I was three years old. I grew it up enjoying it. Knowing more games also but I love only basketball. I had conquered the world by loving game.”
Life becomes more memorable by loving your passion. Love your work and work with love, success is a byproduct. Doing passionately with madness attitude helps us in creating miracles. I believe loving something and doing it for life time with madness make a big difference in the respective field. Conquering the world is never a main goal. To love it, doing for years always give direction to the career and life. There is no other remedy to create high level of success except loving it fullest.
Loving what you are doing every moment creates every moment.
Pretending our real love and engaging in other activities slowly invites pain and discomfort in the life. A life lived with loving passion never make us dull.

“So it was clear that one of the things that’s really a big part of Harpo is the responsibility that  organization and its leaders—all of them—feel, because they have impact and because that’s where the world is going. People expect new things from business, and this organization has a sense of that. I spoke with Tim Bennett at some point about mission and social responsibility in the context of Harvard Business School’s purpose, and Tim said, ‘You know, I think you need to talk to Oprah about this.’” And that’s what happened.

At the end of March 2005, Winfrey phoned Koehn precisely as arranged, and the interview, originally scheduled for twenty minutes, lasted an hour and twenty minutes.

Koehn reflected, “Her message to our case was about purpose: one’s purpose and one’s service. I thought it was a very important, clear, and surprisingly rare message from the public stage at this moment in history. And it was said so accessibly, with great inspiration but also with great humility. That combination of inspiration and humility I found absolutely compelling.”
Oprah attends class

Last May as Koehn prepared to teach the new case to two sections of The Coming of Managerial Capitalism course, she invited Harpo executives and Winfrey herself to come to class. No one dared to imagine that Winfrey would take the time to attend, but she did.

“The students all did double takes when they saw Oprah sitting at the back of the classroom. I thought they would be a little nervous. But they were fantastic in each class I taught.”

After both sessions, Winfrey took the floor for half an hour to speak informally and address specific questions that the students had raised about her company. Winfrey said,
If you only desire to make money, you can do that. Obviously, everybody in here is going to make money. Everybody in here is going to have a level of financial success that most people in the world will not know. But what I will tell you—and I know this for sure too—that the money only lasts for a while in terms of making you feel great about yourself. In the beginning, the money is to get nice things. And once you’ve gotten those nice things, I think some of the most unhappy people I know are the people who’ve acquired all the things and now they feel like, ‘What else is there?’ What else is there? What else is there? And that feeling of ‘what else is there’ is the calling—is the calling trying to say to you [that] there is more than this. There is more than this.

“It was just a great message. And the students heard it.”

In the end, says Koehn, “I think what really impressed the students was Oprah Winfrey’s sense of the big picture and how individuals matter to that big picture. That’s really the essence of leadership.”

Koehn took away some other observations. “Many people attribute some of her success to the apparent contradictions or anomalies about her: She’s a woman in what is mostly a man’s world. Entertainment at both the corporate and entertainer level is still dominated primarily by men. She’s an African American in what is still predominantly a white person’s world. And for many years, off and on, she’s been a heavy person in a skinny person’s world.”

“And therein, I think, lies another lesson for the twenty-first century. Success, despite or because of such contradictions, shows us where people’s focus is, and where some of the new drivers of inspiration are. We are moving to a world that is more diverse, that is more comfortable with that difference.

“We are moving into a world in which just the self as a primary unit of analysis may no longer be enough; where benefits, satisfaction, and purpose are about connecting not only one’s own needs, but also with one’s needs in relation to helping others, or trying to help others, however indirectly.

“This was another level that I didn’t see before this project, and I think it’s very important in this case. It’s another reason the students are engaged by the message ‘find your purpose, it’s about service.’ And it’s a lesson we at Harvard Business School, I think, understand, as very much in keeping with our mission. In that sense we need to be very conscious of our responsibility as a school, as an educational institution, of where the world is going.” by Nancy Koehn and Erica Helms

Oprah Winfrey:

The calendar never lies. Our personality should match with calendar. Our priority, Our commitment, Our communication and Our behavior should match with calendar.
Once, it is declare and published .That’s all. No change is incorporated in the calendar as it is pure, perfect, truth, clarity and reality. These all qualities are to be incorporated in the leader. Most important quality of calendar is never lies.
Commitment to decisions is the essence of leadership. Vincent Lombardi said “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
We have to follow our commitments one by one . We cannot change our commitments as the situation, condition and priority changes.  Lot of time situations comes when we want to give up but because of calendar we go for it as the calendar never lies.
Leader never lies to themselves.

Lao Tsu said, “What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly”.
How you can know that you are proactive? Have you been fired by your boss for taking initiative? Do your peers have laughed on you for becoming initiator in the organization? Do you have tears in the eyes? Are you fired for mistake in the company?
All of us are passing from same tunnel.
Proactiveness is a heart of success and accomplishment. None of us is perfect. We all have to focus on the strength. Great things can be accomplished by strength and unstoppable efforts. Remember, every end Is a new beginning. In my views, Proactiveness is a great source of success. Just love proactiveness. Today is a world of results. Everyone wants to go with the people “who makes things happened”. Be a result oriented leader.
Remember, someone will come and create result is an illusion. One has to walk on the path of success and history is a witness. So love proactiveness. Of course, proactive people produces success.
If leaders want to create results they have to take things in to hands .They has to jump in to wale of efforts.
Work with proactiveness, of course, it gives pain or failure or mistakes (who is complete in the world) but leaders love to go with initiativeness. To me it is a very important tool of compass of success. Using tools is everything for life….success. It is a great source behind success. Success of getting things done is lie in the getting started.
Louis L’Amour said, “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning”.
You cannot see success without proactiveness. History is a witness of proactiveness. From Jesus to Mandela, who were not proactive. “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” Very well asserted by T. S. Eliot.