Month: May 2015

Over 500 Area Residents Attend Inauguration Of Sadhu Vaswani Center of Central New Jersey

By Kumar Balani East Brunswick, New Jersey – Jashan Pahlajrai Vaswani is revered by millions the world over as a non-sectarian spiritual leader and humanitarian who has been traveling around the globe for decades spreading the message of love, truth, and simple living from the Pune, India-based Sadhu Vaswani Mission (SVM). This message transcends caste, creed, color and religion. The 97-year-old indefatigable philosopher and speaker, adoringly called Dada Vaswani, came back to the United States recently on another of his many trips here to inaugurate the new Sadhu Vaswani Center (SVC) of Central New Jersey on Sunday May 17,...

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Getting Ahead in Business: Delete Your Negative Thoughts

By Milton Paris Business people that have negative thoughts will always have negative results and never be successful or reach their goals in life. Negative thoughts distract your focus from what is important and drain your energy. Like a computer, our mind was programmed to work at its best. Over the years, as we confront adversities that attack our well-being like viruses, we lose our optimism. When a virus attacks a hard drive or our bodies, neither works properly. Let’s scan our thoughts and bring our mind up to date with only positive thoughts. This way as a business...

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Financing Tips: Change is Adaptable Once Understood

By Parag Nevatia No: We all started hearing this word as we were growing up from the cusp of our pre-teens into our early adult life. It seemed like it was the end of the world when we heard this word from our parents. Fast forward, when we became parents, we went through that all over again with our own children. I have a 12-year-old going on 20. I feel, and I’m sure most of the parent readers will agree, that many times it’s our own guilt which makes us give in to accepting the faults of our children. By the way, we don’t admit it to ourselves so easily. So what is the significance of this special word No? Why can’t we say Yes instead? Does Yes reveal a weakness or surrendering? Or maybe it’s just not ok to surrender as a parent. So we tend to succumb, maybe at a later time, while some others just claim to demonstrate valor by being principally correct or proper in their own way. Those who stand up against it, and don’t throw their towels in, are not really afraid of the consequences. So which is better, subtle succumb or a flat out no. We are going to talk about such things in this week’s column, but turn the direction towards Financing. So imagine the time in early 2000s, when small...

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Zoya Captures the Moves of Ranveer-Anushka in Pehli Baar

Actors choreograph their own dance moves for a Dil Dhadakne Do track By a Staff Writer Fans of Dil Dhadakne Do have another reason to celebrate as Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma will be seen choreographing their own dance moves for an upcoming song in the movie. The peppy, Punjabi dance number is called Pehli Baar and has been sung by Sukriti Kakkar and Siddharth Mahadevan. This is the third song released from the film, the first one being the title track sung by Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar and the second Gallan Goodiyaan. Within hours of its release, #PehliBaarOutNow began trending on Twitter. While Anushka, who plays a dancer in the movie, described Pehli Baar...

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People: Rising to the Top – Smitha Ramchandani

Rising to the Top – You Don’t Need an MBA: All You Need is A Dream and Drive: One Woman’s “Lessons” “It’s a Lot More Fun Being Rich” By Smitha Ramchandani I’ve been poor, I’ve been rich. I’ve lived in India, I’ve lived in the United States. I have to be honest: it’s a lot more fun being rich in New Jersey than poor in Bombay, but my journey from home to a new homeland gave me a business education that transcends cultures. I left Bombay at the age of 24 with nothing more than an American dream and a business drive to make something of myself. I now live in Morris County, New Jersey where I run my own real estate agency in what is the wealthiest state in the U.S. It’s a very competitive market where everyone is looking for the next big deal. I humbly rose to the top .5 percent of the state’s highest performing realtors. Here are a few of the lessons I learned and applied in business that I believe can help any aspiring Indian business owner or entrepreneur: Tip 1 – Scale in Reverse – Most MBA programs teach you to “scale up” but I “scaled in reverse”. Most realtors have only 10 to 12 clients a year, but in 2013-14, I closed 140 deals. Don’t always assume that bigger is better. Most people...

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