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Government yesterday took a very bold decision by deregulating the price of petroleum products as they wanted the prices to be more of market driven. Extract of this decision is that the oil marketing companies will decide the price at which the products are to be made available in the market and government will not have any sort of control on the prices. Till yesterday Government use to decide and fix the prices and the oil marketing companies use to sell the products at the defined prices.

Decision had an obvious effect on pricing of petroleum products. The prices jacked up by 8-10% from Friday midnight itself and this became a hot topic discussed across the media. People started feeling the heat and consequences of the increased prices and expressed there views and opinion through whatever means they can. It’s buzzing news across the city people discussing inflation and recent price hike of petro products.

With inflation running in double digit figures people are already finding it difficult to meet their ends; and with a recent hike in petro products things are going to be more challenging. In days to come we will find every thing going dearer; a tough struggle seems to be waiting because there seems to be no respite/chances of roll back of the decision.

But this seems to be good news for many? Puzzled…… wait! I will add to the story.

1) Raining for private players: With government having control on the prices many private players who ventured into the retail market couldn’t sustain the competition from state run oil marketing companies. State run oil companies were selling products at a cheaper rate because they were having an advantage of government subsidiary and this was not the case with private players; as a result of this private players withdraw themselves from the retail market. Now the deregulated prices will help those private players to enter the retail market, because they can see there bottom line growing multifold. Profit margin of private players will increase and so the resulting taxes which the government will collect

2) Foreign Participation: Foreign players who are into oil exploration, refining and retail will find the Indian market lucrative and will venture the Indian market. The obvious benefit which they are having is high end technology which can increase there profit, have the latest technology that allows them to extract more high-value products from inferior crude varieties that come cheaper and maximize returns on refining. Again tax Collection on the profit margin will increase which will add to government’s kitty.

3) Disinvestment: Since long Government wanted to dilute it’s holding in oil marketing companies and for which the new guidelines are already in place. But due to regulated prices profit margin of oil marketing companies was low and there FPO might have got a subdued response in this scenario. But with price getting deregulated; profit margin of those companies will increase multiple fold and because of which the FPO’s are bound to receive excellent response from the market.

This is all about a segment that is getting benefited. The only benefit that we can expect is that if the private players use improved better technology and practices and if the prices of crude falls globally then we can expect a cheaper petro products, otherwise life seems to be difficult with the current inflation and petro price hike.

Classifying Problems

Compelled by the habit of interacting with peoples, reading in between the line and zeal to know more about the individuals; I come across lot many complexities and problems the individuals are facing. And a close observations to those problem revels that the problems are specific to the age group and they all fall in certain problem domain based on the age group.

Kids generally have a leverage to share their problems with parents, friends and elders but stages above that doesn’t have that leverage to share the problems so easily until and unless the person is very outspoken. Youth are struggling generally with affairs related to love and educations; once this stage is over people start feeling the heat and carry anxiety and struggle for job or business.

Once the individuals are settled with the prevailing problem there are issues related to workplace which the individuals has to face, simultaneously there appears complexities of marriage. Though in western countries these are not complex issues but we Indians take marriage seriously.

Post marriage there are issues related to kids, family, social life, and appetite for money, growth which start daunting the individuals. Problems take a U turn once kids enter the adolescence stage and individual start living with their problems and aspirations. This seems to be a cycle common to which are problems related to health.

I have illustrated all such problems into a cosmic triangle interweaving each element and stages in a chart…I would like readers to comment and suggest any other problems that I have missed

To be or not to!

Being very systematic didn’t help always; there are failures in making others understand the requirement of system, getting into the system, living with the system and adopting system. I want to excel, I wanted to go to next level very immediately. What I’m today; tomorrow I should be better placed than what I am today and the day after tomorrow should be much better than tomorrow. Past to present was good, present to future should be much better if not excellent.

Challenges will be there and so the Dynamism, zing should not be lost in any circumstances. It’s a never ending race with the time and destiny and no matter what is the fate the fight will be on, in-fact it should be on till the last breath. One can’t change the destiny but can strive for a change and control to a larger extend. Have broader mind set, appreciate people for the job they do and prove a stepping stone for each other, so that tomorrow everyone can take a leap.

Zeal for betterment, for a better tomorrow is what differentiates us from the animal otherwise we are just a social animal. Every social animal meets his requirement in one or the other way and what the time has for him in cards. But relying on destiny and giving up the things and excuses of destiny will hamper the growth, Ambitions should be high, spirit should be even higher and that’s what is called a human and that’s the reason humans strives for success.

Every one of us Juggles 5 balls in air namely; work, health, trust, friendship and dreams, only ball which is made of rubber is the work ball, so no excuse to be given in case if the work ball falls down, it being a rubber ball will bounce and we have a chance to catch it next time, but the other balls are made up of glass, once they fell there are chances that they will be never like before. They may suffer irreversible damage, marked, nick or may even shatter. Value has a value only if is valued.

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Kismat Connection….

Till my initial college days I never believed in horoscope, planetary position, fortune, destiny etc as I was an avid follower of saying that “Hard work can change one’s destiny”. But during those days even after giving my 1000% percent efforts I was not able to score big in the exams and I merely use to get passing marks. That incident forced me to think that there are some factors which are beyond my control and even after putting my best in the right direction, right time and with right strategy things are falling in my accordance.

With lot of questions, ifs and buts, I visited an astrologer. He suggested me to wear a ring with certain specification and things started moved drastically after that and during the last stages of my academics I was able to score big numbers. Since then timely visit to an astrologer is a practice that I follow religiously, the way people have a practice to go for a body checkup after certain intervals.

From last few sessions I’m seeking an answer to a specific question which probably the astrologer is not able to understand. The question is that “How to establish a connection with the fortune i.e. Kismat connection?” I have realized and understood that most of the people are getting limited returns w.r.t. effort they invest in. Everyone is working hard, giving his best and striving for success but still the ROI is less for some and high for other. I felt that my ROI is less as compared to others and this proposition is not acceptable to me.

Based on some calculation of planetary position he feels that I’m happy (which actually I’m not and I don’t know what made him feel that ‘m happy ) but the fact is that I’m not happy from within looking at the ROI I’m getting, and I seriously feel that; it is very is less. My Investment is in terms of efforts; dedication, inclination, hard word and what not are much higher and outcome which I measure in terms of money is too low.

I’ve been a looser in all the risk based transactions made till date. I like to enter risk based agreement & transaction as in such transactions the rewards are on the higher side with obvious risk of loosing your investment. I invested in all the risk based instrument of equity, commodity, currency and capital market but as I said that the kismat connection is not happening and that’s the reason I emerged as a looser from those risky propositions.

Market reacted reverse to my calculation and as these type of trading are high risk prone and are calculated on mark to market basis I made huge losses. The losses are enough to pull me down crashing. But I’m not deter and neither my interest has died out as I’m sure that one day kismat connection will happen and cards will be in my favor. Because if I get afraid of the risks and refrain myself from entering such agreements then chances are there that it will become my practice to avoid risk and I will never agree to enter a risky agreement. And as rightly said “No risk no gain.” With this ideology my hunt for getting kismat connection is on.

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Success…!!!

Whenever we come across interviews of big/ successful personalities we find some commonality with all of them. The way they talk, Respond, perspective of looking at the thing, they all have a positive outlook and are confident about there vision and mission. Most of the famous personalities of today have struggled a lot in there past and it only because of there desire to do something great and efforts in that direction had bought success to them. If we start to count such people they are endless right from industrialist, sports personalities, silver screen personalities, politician and what not

On thing that you will agree that on close follow up of the interviews we feel that the interviewed personality is expressing what is hidden inside us and there are a lot of commonality between us as an individual and the interviewee thoughts.

Even I feel the same J and as an individual; am very high on my aspiration and dreams; even didn’t know that will it happen to me (“Mera number kab aayega”) L. I getting interviewed for my achievement and success mantra

Jokes apart but the point is that we all have a success mantra within us, which we need to explore, test and execute. After all “Success consist of doing common things uncommonly well” but most of us define “Success” as “Successes is a matter of luck ask any failure.”

I'm working on my success mantra. Are you too?

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