What stops you from reaching the zenith? What could ever have the power to control or keep bound the greatest creation of the Almighty God—YOU!!

The answer is, or to be more accurate, one of the answers is, COMPLACENCY!!

An apple when not properly refrigerated decays sooner and becomes obsolete. A man or woman experiences decadence, like that innocent apple, when the virus of complacency assails him or her.

Ruben Gonzalez, the great champion in the sport of luge, along with his bulldog-persistence,  never ever became complacent neither with his practice nor with his performance.

He started ever competition with a fresher mindset!!

People who are successful at any greater level and who are in the vanguard inevitably don’t lose their sense of who they were and what they did before they became what they are.

They always instinctively seem to know that their results depend mainly on what they do now and not on their merits or advantages.

They know at the back of their minds, what they are capable of and have accomplished but also that the present is a different and a new situation that they must overcome as a new man or woman.

Dear reader, be on the qui vive when it comes to complacency; never allow this fatal beast swallow your hard-earned success and to destroy the meticulously arranged and constructed stack of cards!!

You may be a man or a woman, boy or a girl just starting out on the venture towards the paradise of success. Just keep reminding yourself about this destructive thinking of being self-satisfied.

An apple can rot but not you or your life just because of a small yet the most malignant of habits!!

Discrimination is your weapon against complacency, as it is with every successful man and woman.

Winners always distinguish between what is good and what is bad; what is right and what is wrong; what is beneficial and what is pernicious, and certainly they eliminate this trait of self-satisfaction from their dictionary.

Start each project as a fresher and always have the mind-set that of a tyro. And face your challenges with alertness and reverence though you feel extremely confident.

Forget about your track record and even forget about your winning moments earlier today and keep going.

Be shielded from the “Complacency” syndrome and you will increase your chances of sustaining your success.

Yes success is important but more important is the retention of success and this habit will boost your chances apart from protecting you from slipping from your standards.

Riches is not just  in money, it means a lot of other things as well.

Keep going beyond your limits habitually.

It is your moment to stretch to become rich!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

From dawn till dusk, the day is impregnated with Santa Claus – the ubiquitous uncanny Santa showering his gifts and amusing children and adult alike!!

This day is your gift day!

Until today you may have been impervious to that thing called “TRUMP CARD”, your trump card to a majestic life.

Just allow the Santa to pour out some incessant and hearty gifts for you.

Once you get your gifts watch out, for a wonderful life would be imminent!!

Come on get aboard. It’s sleigh time with Santa!

1. You can clean up the whole mess!

Don’t think even for a moment, that you cannot change or get rid of the things which you don’t like or things that you have created unconsciously which are haunting and keeping you down!

The decision to see your life differently and the passion to break the jinx are the factors that can take you from where you are to where you would like to go.

The criterion is to start to develop the trust in yourself, that “inner” ability of you which knows no boundaries and controls all the “outer” circumstances!!

What you have created for you in your life that you detest you can stop and start creating something new and that’s absolutely possible!!

2. Let candor be your forte:

Candor or uprightness never fail you. Maybe, this is that elusive element in the makeup of your personality.

The quintessence of success is and has always been HONESTY, INTEGRITY, and OUTSPOKENNESS AND UPRIGHTNESS.

The world may become more deceptive and treacherous but you, my dear companion, don’t digress from the path of being candid and a man/woman of integrity and frankness.

In fact, success, be it monetary or otherwise go hand-in-glove with straightforwardness that has soft touch to it.

3. Develop your inner stamina:

Men and women of matchless victories and achievements have mental stamina that surpasses even the physical stamina of the likes of Hercules and Samson!!

More often than not, it is this shortage of mental power to carry on in the face of chaos and pressures and discouragements that cause the havoc.

Mental stamina can be developed by shifting your focus from “outside” to the “inner”— the task at hand and completely immersing yourself in the job.

Be a “result repellent” – don’t be morbidly worried about the outcomes.

4. Don’t live up to the (ir) hypes:

Most of the time the reason for your lack of peace of mind, ineffectiveness, inefficiencies  and a host of other “problems” is trying to live up to other’s expectations. On top of that, the sad thing is that these expectations are self-created and assumed.

Life should “flow freely” for maximum benefit and discoveries and development.

Just cut off the cord and soon you’ll see that you live on a higher plane and have abilities which were before hidden.

5. Love is all:

Love everyone. Spread love and cheerfulness where you go. You’ll see something pushes you upward be it in your career or any facet of your life.

Unconditional love is not at all a tough thing to adopt. In reality, it is in your very nature.

Belligerence is not your nature.

The “Golden Rule” can never go wrong nor is it a fad. It is here to stay for as long as our earth exists.

Be like a child that is innocuous and pure.

You’ll realize that the ultimate power lies in loving and treating others kindly and gently.

They may be harsh on you but never slip from your place. Be strong on this.

6. Adopt a new powerful paradigm:

Your old ways of looking at things may have been holding you back and the reason for all your sufferings.

It’s always you—your principles and beliefs and your actions.

Adopt principles and values that are sound. Let them lead and guide your life.

Adopt principles that are powerful, pure, rigid, up-lifting, and magnificent. They’ll carry you to high-places for the rest of your life.

7. Become an orphan:

“Dependent” mentality chains you to a place. Don’t allow yourself to be completely dependent on others. Think that you are an orphan.

“Dependent” mentality will thwart your success.

Be a good team player but again don’t lose your “individuality and independency”.

In whatever team you are a part of, always strive to be the “most efficient and effective” individual.

Okay then, that’s what the Santa has to say. It’s been his hope that you’ll get started immediately on a new path.

The ride may have come to an end but your part has started now. Santa is so sure that when you open these gifts and use them, you’ll have no options but to succeed wildly!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A GRAND AND A SPLENDID NEW YEAR!!!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

NOTE: Of course, the “me”, “I” or “I am” indicates you. So please read the poem like it’s written for you, and know what, it is!!

On a sunny morning I was wishing

A life of smooth ride!

Soon I realized, to hold the trophy

I must go against the tide!!

Being on the losing side of a game

I was feeling solemn and hopeless

Only soon to realize the

experience can make me fearless or spineless!!

Amazed and inspired to witness in a shipyard

A majestic and a big ship evolving!

The similar majesty residing in me, I realized

around which my success was revolving!!

Day and night everyday had I been

Worried about my insomnia

Until I realized I hadn’t woken up, more importantly

from my sleep to reach the acme!!

With affluent and achievers around me

I shrank into a small old rag

Only to realize suddenly and quickly

that infinity was my price tag!!

So my goal from this very point on:

To stamp on my fears with my feet

To crush the long-held delusion of fate

To deploy positive thoughts in my fleet

To conquer feat after feat after feat!!

And to fly high above thousands of feet!!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

Who helped Steve Jobs to succeed?

Who supported Michael Jordan to be a legend in his field?

Who was behind the success of Johnny Depp?

Guess what—they are the ones who supported and nurtured and nourished themselves and brought them where they were to where they are now!!

This may sound incredible but that‘s the truth with all of us. Of course these magnificent ones were helped and lifted by others but the truth is the ultimate climb of them was in their hands and so is with you!!

Yes it’s an absolute truth that for big success or success of any magnitude you need people to succeed. But the starting point of all the success you will have in your life and sustaining it hinges entirely in your hands!!

It all depends upon how you carry yourself particularly during your initial years. Deciding upon your major aim in life completely make you to focus on the purpose and spend your energy on that purpose. But at the same time, once you have formed your purpose, it’s kind of starting to drive in a particular direction. You are changing roads and for the first time you are going to travel on a particular road for a much longer time.

That means you are going to see what you haven’t seen and experience what you haven’t experienced in your life and will be hit by new things that you may haven’t seen up until then.

But these personal obstacles and roadblocks, you are to overcome and that’s entirely depends on you. Michael Jordan, when he was practicing intently and with extreme concentration would have felt many days of pain and disappointments.  Remember, this after “conceiving a purpose and starting in different direction”.

If he had thought about what he was doing as a punishment or some insurmountable challenge he wouldn’t have become what he was and is. It entirely was up to him.

The “EXPERIENCING” of disappointments and temporary defeat, as Mr. Napoleon Hill would call it and taking them as an integral part of your journey and more importantly your growth is the starting point of greatness, YOUR GREATNESS!!

Don’t shy away from these “good” pains and defeats. Maybe people can say consoling words and encourage you at the maximum, take them and absorb them for your vitality, but the real champion you are, you must transcend these trails by being tougher than your challenges.

You must play your game solo when it comes to personal challenges and tackling your defeats and shortcomings.

The secret is people who have reached zenith would tell you that their greatest moments of “enlightenment” came during their greatest moments of trials and tribulation and failures!!  Keep breaking the walls that come your way and one day you’ll find yourself to have grown stronger and bigger!!

That’s what these legends did. They experienced the discomforts and didn’t give up. They went through hole of pain. And when they came out on the other side they were unbelievably far better and thousands of stairs above the rest of the pack!!

This takes mental toughness and a white hot burning desire.

If you want to drive home only one point from this, take this:

“If they can do it, so can YOU. It’s absolutely possible for you to achieve whatever you have decided to reach and grab, no matter how high it may be placed. Just do it!!”

It all starts from you and continue to grow from you!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

We hear people often say something like, “I had a golden age a decade back. I wish I could enjoy the same era again!”

But the sad fact is that they can enjoy an era which they would and could call as “Diamond age” if they only realize the power that they have inside them!!

If you are one of them remember you still have hope for a better tomorrow and the key lies in your thinking; believing that you have a better and bright future ahead and expecting it with stupendous faith!!

Successful men and women start each and every day with a great attitude of expectancy whatever challenges they had been facing. They know that with this kind of mental attitude they possess a secret power which is not available to men and women who always expect gloomy thing to turn out in their lives—and they get them as per their anticipation!!

From this moment forward have FAITH in yourself, in your Creator and your fellow human beings and hence in a great future!! Never stop believing that you have a marvelous future no matter what you have accomplished so far in your life. Every great achievement is built on this simple yet tremendously powerful truth.

FAITH can move and at times shatter mountains. If you want to be successful then you got to expect good things. But what people do normally? They link their beliefs and moods to the outer circumstances.

In stark contrast, victorious men and women choose to hope for great things to happen and the challenges to melt away soon with their constructive actions. That’s the kind of attitude you must assume to become one!!

Looking forward to a joyous and successful life may be a bit uncomfortable for you at the outset as it is a frame of mind but with passage of this new great attitude of mind becomes second nature to you and you’ll see things that you had never seen until then.

Now let’s look at some of the great traits men and women of extraordinary mettle possess:

1.  They keep moving:

Yes, of course they expect a blessed future with riches of all kind but they don’t get stuck when they hit a wall. You know what they do? They break the wall!! They just keep moving with all their might in action. Nothing can stop them and this attitude complements them enormously.

2. They are well prepared:

Why people are gloomy and solemn and don’t have any hope in the future? Because they don’t have any goals or purpose and they aren’t prepared well for any opportunity that may show up. Opportunity comes to the person who are prepared like a ball falling from the sky—it will definitely fall and a well prepared person will definitely catch it.

It’s this UNPREPAREDNESS that creates an attitude of failure among people and many people at that. So the key is to learn your trade well and be so good at it and you’ll automatically expect good things to happen in your precious life.

3. Past doesn’t equal your future:

You may haven’t had many successes in your life. You may have failed and had to bear thunders after thunders that may have torn your heart apart. But know what – YOUR PAST CAN NEVER CONTROL YOUR FUTURE. Yes you can have a wonderful future and realizing this simple truth that your future depends upon the changes that happen to you today and the kind of actions you take from this moment on!!

So, whatever label you were given in the past—SHY, WORTHLESS, FIT FOR NOTHING, ROGUE, SPINELESS, etc. know that your change is the starting point of a shining life ahead!!

So, don’t dwell in a dark place.  come out and live life the way you were created to live!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

Put on your complete armor of success

Lift your head up and charge!

Until all your dreams come to a pass

Proving you can live a life that is large!!

 ***

Tighten the belt of priority and clarity

See only the “Goal posts” and “Baskets”

To make yourself a grand rarity!!

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Wear the breastplate of integrity and character

Feel the unique strength that you get right away

Remember for your life you are the director!!

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Grab the shield of faith and hope

Touch with humility peaks after peaks

Knowing your answer to quitting is always a nope!!

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Embrace the helmet of hard and quality work

Speak always only through your actions

And never mind if your acts appear as quirk!!

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Hold the sword of high thoughts

Tasting a good life of heavenly riches

And joining the packs of all-time greats!!!

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Put on your complete armor of success

Now move on with a fierce

Without a doubt you’ll make progress

Now change gears and banish all your fears!!!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

Most people want to keep getting to that place called “Success” on a regular basis or even want to be there permanently. And indeed it is their station in life to be highly successful and lead a great life that is full of richness.

In stark contrast, people tend to lose things in their life or achieve anything worthwhile just because of their mentality toward life. They want success but don’t want to ever see or experience any failure at all; even at the smallest level!!

They are taught that life failure is the end; that failure is bad; that failure is something they must be ashamed of; that if or when they fail they are finished!! What a weak way to look at life!!

In reality, Success and failure will change places with you in your lifetime. No one can live a life that full of failures or full of successes. If you think you are failing now don’t worry for you will succeed if you keep going and keep taking actions in the right direction toward your goals!! If you are a success now, that’s good and don’t get carried away when you fail.

Before embarking on your life mission, just make up your mind to this fact: Failure and success will keep having their turns and it is absolutely normal for anyone to experience both. This attitude when fixed even before you start any big venture would provide you that determined heart and steadfastness that all the real champions possess.

In fact, most of the great products and services and most of the successful people in all walks of life are made in the furnace of both their success and failure experiences. They succeeded at one thing and at last discovered the secret or became what they had dreamed. The same goes for failure experience too. Some learned from their failure experiences and changed according to the need.

How do you do it?

Whether it is your success experience or your failure experience, you must learn from them and then you do the following things:

1. Change your strategy: You modify your ineffective plan if you have failed or just capture that effective planned which paved the way for your success and try to improve it.
2. Change your attitude or any qualities: Sometimes a failure experience shows you that a particular character trait of yours is in the way between you and your success. It may be pessimistic thinking or lack of boldness or a combination of many qualities. If you are sure about this then go about acquiring these qualities for you can always change yourself for the better.

In contrast, if you discovered that a success was the result of a particular inherent quality that you have, be sure to record this finding and put efforts to develop it.

Then again continue with your plans and with time and with each modification you’ll succeed.

Does it end there?

Nope! Again you may fail at one point or another. Just know that that’s failure’s time. When failure shows up it always means that need to “modify” things—little bit or sometimes vastly!!

Don’t allow your ego to get in the way and make you to quit. Don’t allow your fear to dishearten you. Don’t allow you self-created bad beliefs to stop you.

Remember, the only person who can stop you from what you want in life is YOU. But the only person who can always be with you until the day of your great success and even after is your inner self.

The inner self is what you make it with your thoughts of courage. So take hold of your life today and start to cruise with both successes and failures.

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

What brings victory?

VICTORY! Now that is the word that many people are after. They want to represent VICTORY and they want to be VICTORIOUS.

What it really takes one to really become a great success in life. What is that elusive-factor of the commons? What is that single habit that the highly victorious people have that 99.9999% of the rest don’t have? Yes you read that right—99.9999%!

What is that one thing that when you come to possess you too would become different from the pack and would make your way through every obstacle?

What is that one success trait that convincingly guarantees you your success as it did for greats like Michael Faraday, Mahatma Gandhi, Alexander Graham Bell, William Shakespeare and many others?

It is Singleness of purpose—having single aim.

The world now have a lot of facilities and advancements which facilitate a great life but at the same time there are lots of distractions and stress-builders around which fights 24/7 to take people away from concentrating on any single big ideal!

Ironically, it is through high-focus and singleness of purpose that these very advancements and breakthrough have been arrived at!

Big success really calls for a lot of single-minded efforts and concentration on one single purpose that you set for yourself. Ever looked an eagle when it catches it prey?

It can look at the prey even from 4 to 5 km distance! As soon as it sites its prey it narrows its focus and wouldn’t think of anything until it has its prey!!

Now that’s exactly what the really marvelous achievers do not just once in a blue moon but every single day!!!

They would always have their purpose or their major goal in front of them. They always think about their goal and how to achieve them. Nothing can distract them and hence nothing can stop them from achieving them what they set out to do!

Now only this kind of obsessiveness can bring big success. Now what does the dictionary says about the “being obsessive”?

It says that one is unable to stop thinking about someone or something.

Yes that the key-the master key! You must never be able to stop thinking about your dream even if you try to!!

Simplification is the secret. You just simplify your life by conceiving one aim and then putting all the energy you have now to attain it and know what, you’ll definitely succeed!!

Just take a look at the following three steps and then internalize them. You’ll do many miracles once they become one in you!

Taking charge of one’s life and deciding what one wants is the first key:

First one must understand the truth. What truth? The truth that one is in a certain position now just because of all the efforts that he/she has put whether in the right things or in the wrong ones.

This signifies the importance of knowing what one wants before starting to put the efforts because if one is fuzzy about what he/she wants then the effort may go in the wrong direction. Gaining clarity and deciding up on ones life purpose is the first step and a very important step!

Purity is the second key:

Being pure means not allowing external poisons to enter your mind. Like said before, there are a lot of distractions around which tempt one to just take his/her eyes from the purpose. But it is ones utmost responsibility to keep staring at the dream. Many opportunities would start become visible to you which never be seen by people who lack a purpose in life. You put yourself in the top category of people!!

Only seriousness and sincerity brings success-the third key:

Success is a serious business and the more you meditate on your purpose the more you are prone to change the way you must in order to succeed. Being a sincere man/woman who diligently does whatever ought to be done whether one likes or not is the character trait that brings to you the success that you have been thirstily looking!!

Involve yourself only in those important things that will take you toward your success.

The catchword here is “ONE”

One life

One purpose

One way movement

One kind of thought

And one of the greatest achievements!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

Did you not know how miracles take place?

Have you not ever been told how to lead the way?

For winning is a knack that you either pick up or just be blind to!

Millions have succeeded and still many heavy-duty hearts

are Joining the big league!

Why not you be one among the purest diamonds-a rarity!?

Life may have been unfair to you so far

Impoverishment all over could have been your experience

Bad times may have superseded good seasons!!

Anemia of education or boldness or cheerfulness

may very well have been slowing you down

That first big break may have eluded you

Remind yourself—second to none are your

powers to change!

Change that can change anything you wish

to change!

Get on to rebuild what you have lost

Be a Spartan, be a Hercules or Samson

Sheer determination and boldness will see

you through in most instances!!

Never forget this!

Let one hand nurse your wounds and

the other wipe out your problems!!

Wounds? Yes wounds, for you will

have many before you taste success!!

Never be surprised by life’s twists and turns

Face them, face them and without fail, face them!!!

It’s better to die and rot than

to be a spineless being!!

Break off!

Let steadfastness be your food, braveness

your drink and common sense the air you breathe!

Stop stopping yourself from doing what you

must do, under the PRECARIOUS label.

Know that life has gifted the ones

who dared not the ones who were scared!

Kill even the smallest of “Can-I” and “Only-if”

Liberate yourself from their colonization

Only superior being can colonize the inferior ones

And you are not at all inferior to anything!!

The world is both a heaven and a hell

More heaven or more hell—that’s your choice

Even the worst and ugliest of hardship

must never be able to pierce through you!

Train yourself for it!

It’s all in how you make yourself, how you

mold yourself, and how strong you become.

Love others but never be afraid of anyone

Be humble but never become a laughing stock

Care for the less privileged

But care for yourself as well!!

Be your natural self

And see how your positive personality unfolds!

Start every day reminding yourself

about how you are going to change your circumstances!!

This time your enthusiasm is here to stay and multiply and bring

riches of all kind to you!

Gladly make yourself wet

With that magic liquid called sweat

And let the angel of success

Put you on its wanted list!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

What is life? It means different things to different people. But surely most of us, you including I suppose, see it as series of cause and effect. It’s true in all its sense! Life is a series of results that you get for the examinations that you undertake.

Know what, successful people take much more exams than the mediocre ones and they are never afraid of what the results might be. They keep taking the tests that life throws their way without fear and thus they march forward successfully.

People who don’t know about this secret just hide from these tests and they never take chances or make more attempts at life’s battery of tests!

If there was one piece of advice that could really have a great impact for your precious life it is this: Never leave a stone unturned!

Yes dear reader you have got to keep making attempts after attempts in order to make your goal a reality and this is done by taking whatever test that life asks you to take bravely and come out like a dragon!

“TRY AND KEEP TRYING” is the slogan of those men and women who heap success after success. You too can become like them just by changing the way you look at this life. Be bold and never think about whether you’d fail in a venture but single-heartedly and single-mindedly put all your effort and keep pushing forward!!

This three letter word is the king of success principles. Many a men/women did and have done things that sometimes surpass the logic just because they kept knocking at doors without losing their confidence. Many big business empires are built by valiant people who just TRIED and tried and asked for what they want.

Let TRY be the word that you love hereafter. Let it get soaked in every fiber of your body. Let it emerge and shine every single time when you are told that you can’t achieve a certain goal or a purpose.

Say to yourself “come on TRY and keep TRYING” every single day of your life from hereon. Never hesitate to attempt for there’s nothing wrong with it. Only when you TRY would you know where you stand and what are the buried talents that you have deep within you.

One more fact is that when you TRY more, you are more likely to discover many things about life, about others, about your profession, about yourself and so on. This discovery may lead you into a different direction which can altogether change your life for better—a divine destiny!!

People don’t give a TRY for many reasons and some of them are:

1. That’s-not-for-me mentality: People simply get satisfied with whatever they have not because of “Be happy with what you have” principle but because of lack of self-confidence. They simply don’t trust themselves and believe in their ability. They just think that they don’t deserve success and so they lead a passive, dull and languid life.

But mark the following words for they are as true as your existence is: EVERY SINGLE SOUL IS CAPABLE OF DOING MARVELOUS THINGS AND YOU, BY THE SAME TOKEN CAN WORK MIRACLES BOTH IN YOUR OWN LIFE AND IN OTHERS IF YOU BUT BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!!!

2. Anyways-I-am-going-to-fail mentality: “Assumption” has done more damage to humanity than you could ever think. People assume that they’d fail terribly and be humiliated and face all sorts of problems. They SUUCESSFULLY do this even before they TRY and hence they SUCCESSFULLY avoid TRYING and SUCCESSFULLY fail to SUCCEED!!

It’s 1000 times better if one attempts and fails rather than not starting or attempting at all!!

But the truth is it’s in those attempts that your success is made!

3. Great buddies of the great hare:  

Ever heard the racing-tale between the HARE AND THE TORTOISE? People are close buddies to this great hare in the sense that they are lazy and sluggish. This is one of the primary reasons why people don’t take chances.

Even if you think you are a tortoise, just TRY and keep pushing upward and give as many shots as you can. You will and must eventually succeed and would one day know that you are not a tortoise but a powerful angel!

4. It’s-foggy-all-around mentality: Unlike the winners others they don’t TRY just because they can’t see things as clearly as they want. But one secret is successful people they keep going forward in spite of the fog and as they make their make their way forward, they start to see things that hadn’t been clear before. But in the first place they had the mind to MOVE from the initial place!

As you move you’ll discover more resources that could help you with your goals, more energy, more hope, more faith, more courage, more support, more clarity and more of what you need!

TRYING is the twin brother of another principle which is “PERSISTENCE”.  TRYING is extensive and PERSISTING in a single goal is intensive. With these both you cruise like a gigantic ship in the ocean of life. TRYING increases you “COMBINATIONS” which in turn increases you chances for success. PERSISTENCE, once the TRYING stage is over, allows you to become a master at what you do and literally take you to the summit of success.

English dramatist & novelist W. Somerset Maugham once said,

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

And when you TRY and never stop TRYING you are getting the best out of your life and going to be the best without a shadow of a doubt!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand