BlackBerry: Between Reanimation and Death!

The endangered Toronto-based mobile phone company, the defunct RIM and now the newly rebranded BlackBerry is presently really playing in the big leagues since yesterday, following the launch of its new revamped operating system christened as BlackBerry 10. Because innovation is comparable to a fast moving train, like the EuroStar, especially in a market where the top dogs do not spare any of their competitors, failing to follow the trend can eventually and naturally cost you your survival and your iconic and once imposing image.

Therefore, to counter the long, the very long delay I must say, of the race towards excellence, BlackBerry was still relying on its existing niche market and the company continues to rest on its laurels, which it considered to be a well-deserved break after being labelled as the reference in the business. Just like Aesop's famous tale; the hare and the tortoise, BlackBerry was overconfident about retaining its business-oriented customers while its competitors took the opportunity of its lethargy and its over-optimism and they keep paving on the way to innovation.

Moreover, BlackBerry’s rivals continue to cook up delicacies, for instances useful and interesting features, for their customers. They followed the trend dictated by the market. Customer is King! They have understood it more than anyone else and they were dedicated in serving the King, who is really very exigent and spoilt as well. The King is fond of novelty and is always hungry over new delicacies presented before him, may it be a nice touchscreen with the latest technology, say the Super AMOLED Plus or a quad core processor or an 8 or 13 megapixel camera.

This is where BlackBerry has failed, to fulfil the basic concept of marketing, that is to give satisfaction to its customers by providing them with top notch updated and advanced devices. BlackBerry’s marketing team also failed to retain existing customers and to capture/conquer market share. Furthermore, the Research and Development team is also pointed finger over BlackBerry’s free-fall. They were short of innovation, creativity and proactivity and facing the law of the jungle, the toughest would survive, whereas the weak would consequently perish due to their self-emanated helplessness.

At the point the Toronto-based company was being bullied and intimidated by the other players, the company finally heard the wake-up call. We people when we are stuck in a nightmare which invades and torments our sub-conscience, we would get through it when hearing the wake-up call and we would jump on our feet, terrified for a moment, but safe and sound. However, it is surely not the case for a company which plays global and with vicious and hungry vultures waiting to make a feast out of your body once you are left with no water, no amenities, nothing, in that deadly desert.

As such, though analysts tagged BlackBerry as the underdog of the industry, the company remains optimistic over turning the table and to keep its head above water, significantly to get a breath of fresh air. BlackBerry put its cards on the table by betting, for the last time, on the overhauled operating system BlackBerry 10 and the Z10 and Q10 respectively. The specifications of both handsets would have created a wow effect if it was launched 2 years back, hence putting in its armor and valiantly go in the battlefield with a notorious Samsung Galaxy S2.

Despite the Rebranding, Innovation and Celebrity Endorsement which are the usual recipe for success, the strategy driven by BlackBerry is now obsolete. Changing RIM to BlackBerry is a mere marketing exercise of rebranding comprising the restructuring of the company to bring it back to its glory days. The appointment of Alicia Keys is yet another marketing strategy to force the singer’s fans to get themselves a BlackBerry. While BlackBerry has chosen the following slogan ‘Re-designed, Re-engineered, Re-invented’, will the company succeed to ‘Re-capture, Re-glorified, Re-dress’? Only the future holds the answer!

Relationship and Gold Digger (When Money Euthanises Love, Trust and Truth)

A relationship is a bond which is ‘welded’ (firmly or loosely, depending on the importance attached to it) between two or more persons with the purpose of giving a meaning to the new link. A relationship can be in any sphere, irrespective of its nature.

Despite the fact that a relationship takes its foundation from elements like trust, love, mutual comprehension (understanding), compassion, compromise, passion, communication, to mention only a few, people do not hesitate to go against the above rule.

Love certainly blinds, but money, not only has it a blinding effect, but it also possess a vile power for obsession. Love is one of the constituents necessary for a true relationship to take shape; Money and Power are yet other elements which give birth to a relationship, a fake one.

Gold Digger! A Gold Digger is a person who is more focussed on a Mercenary motive, rather than that of trust and love. His/Her sole interest is monetary gain, nothing less and nothing more. A Gold Digger restricts himself/herself to the closed and small world where Money reigns.

Besides, a Gold Digger, term which I will subjectively define as being a person who evolves unscrupulously in the world of ‘Licit Prostitution’ by not bothering of not skimping on the means to get hold and to grip firmly to worldly wealth.

Moreover, the lust for money is so intense that the Gold Digger, who is also a Mercenary, prefers to sacrifice his/her existing valuable and ‘permanent’ relationship and to engage in a fake and ephemeral relationship which emerges because of the thirst for worldly materials.

As Money is the evil cause of all problems and as Money is the root for superficial pleasure, it will undoubtedly never ever procure happiness, health and intellectual wealth. Therefore, to avoid confusion, it is worth stating that pleasure is never happiness and vice versa.

As such, Gold Diggers will consciously bury their true relationship into the tombs they have dug and they prefer to enjoy with their blinded rich and ‘bling bling’ companion, with who they have webbed a relationship as fragile as the spider web itself and as illusory as the horizon.

Building a relationship with Money and Greed as its base is like:

1. Building a palace in a marshy land which will slowly but surely engulf the dream mansion.
2. Erecting a card palace outside the house and facing the windy weather which is undoubtedly sway away the cards in less than no time.
3. Building a sand castle on the beach where the sea is under the influenced of a maritime storm, which will pitilessly causing the waves to ‘dissolve’ the aforesaid castle.

Consequently, always think for the long term, rather than the short term. Always pave the way to happiness instead to that of pleasure. Give yourself the opportunity to be surrounded by people who are sincere, honest, unconditionally helpful and supportive persons rather than ‘vultures’, which only by your side for their own motives and which will desert you in your bad times, when your exhaustive monetary resources are gone!

Gold Diggers are people who have never been satisfied with what they possess and they exist only to serve and to worship Money to the detriment of GOD. A Gold Digger is someone who digs his own grave by turning their back to real things and to jump on and to illusory things.

To excel at full capacity; not during hard times, but all the time!

It is only in hard times that the ‘gears’ inside the grey matter work at their full capacity. No matter how weak or strong you are, but difficult situations surely make people to thrive for their survival or for them to see light at the end of the tunnel.

Call it apocalypse or by any name you want, but this situation whereby there exists the willingness and the determination to get out of the hole is a crucial time where enthusiasm is not necessarily linked to the same passion and excitement as it should been in any normal cases, but instead the situation is related to a mixture of feeling; that of being highly desperate to reach the shore after a shipwreck and to be as combative as a private in the war field in view to stay alive and to see his family once again.

It is a state whereby you cannot allow yourself to blame fate for it’s happening, but to play the last card which you hold in your hand. The end results in resolving a problem which you would have never thought to resolve in case there was not the siren call for urgency.

To this situation, scientists normally refer the abnormal, but yet normal and extraordinary boost to the secretion of a hormone known as adrenaline. However, adrenaline tends to reveal its ‘sight’ when fright has self-invited itself for an occasion, where its presence was unexpected and thus questioned!

Hence, forget about the psychological mind game and the scientific connotation. All we need to do in order for us to rich the stars and the moon is to always giving the best of ourselves, to maintain a constant flow of energy and to apply an optimal use the resources, which we normally waste or which is stay idle.

Motivation is what has given shape to many dreams. Confidence is what has given birth to motivation, which has opened the gate for success. This is an urgent need for action, a proof to the statement ‘when there is a will, there is a way’.

Horizon, the Unlimited and Mysterious Boundary, the 10 Mantras to Nirvana

1. Inspired by triumph, powered by desire, driven by competition, controlled by focus, supported by creativity and act provocatively with a ruthless mind in view to TOP (Tear Off Players). Considering the conquest of success such that it appears as picturesque battlefield scenario.

2. The limit is all what we can see and do, but the power of imagination defies all borderlines and expectations, thus proving limit to be only a self-restricted perception of vision and action established by human. The sky is the limit for those who have already credulously and unconsciously drawn the line of restriction.

3. The will to go beyond all set parameters derive from the aspiration to do what was not prohibited, but what most people seldom do, that is to prematurely build a vacuum in their vision. An adventurous mind is one which fearlessly jumps over all the imposing hurdles on its way.

4. Bringing forward restriction and to wrongly interpret it into constructing a visionary mind into being a transgression of the law of nature has always given rise to a world infected by a deficiency of optimism and progress. For growth to be always in the rendezvous, one must deal with the weaknesses set by him.

5. A severe drought of new and revolutionary ideas and a deathly famine of proactive actions move the individual adrift, whereby the latter has lost an important asset which is innovation. Do not be indifferent to critics, but rather welcome them and treat them well as VIP guests, as they will open new horizons to you.

6. Believing success to be destined to only a ‘few’, that is the ‘elite’, fate is the only excuse and support for why people who once stumbled, failed to stand on their feet and to give themselves a new try. The very first space shuttle failed on its launch, but people never gave up. Instead, they kept on believing in their dreams.

7. The courage to start an unsuccessful mission afresh is already washed out and wasted not even on the quarter way in case a person, in a hypocrite way, put his flop on the account of bad Luck. Do not waste the very last match-stick which can light the fire to ensure you comfort in the stormy winter.

8. Setting the goals which is sought by the portfolio of your life to top the list, the achievement of something is the reason of you being always dynamic, devoted and courageously outstanding. As a matter of fact, each of your success will open the doors to future endeavours. So being said, success can sometimes be addictive.

9. No success has ever travelled to its initially designed path, that is, straight away from path of its origination to that of its destination and desired expectation. Adjustment was never perceived as being a sign of potential failure, but fine-tuning is pivotal and as such, inevitable but acceptable.

10. Opportunities, yet cyclical but are not frequent. Once you pull in the trigger, the bullet is gone! So are opportunities. At the very first instant, grab it and make good use of it. From a plan, gather all the necessary ingredients and cook it accordingly and here is the success-pie ready to savour.

One shall fall certainly not because of the withstanding unfavourable conditions or because of the tough and yet challengeable opponents but only because the mind, the body and the spirit are on their knees and are not of the same wavelength. The blatant absence of trust is conspicuous, hence ignoring its importance and impact! The psychology (mind game) is yet to play another of its tricks so as to boost us up and to drive away the latency. For instance, remove the pebble which caused a blockage in the hose and allow this inexhaustible resource, which is water, to irrigate the field and to make the lively green colour to spread.

A New Day, A New Journey and the Same Desire to Succeed

A new day, a new start despite being on the way of continuity.
New challenges ahead, new experience and same or new degree of stress, which is really stimulating and which drives us for exploring and conquering new horizons and to leave a footprint.
What will make the difference is your love for what you do, your joy for always being admired and your passion for success and your determination to jump over the hurdles coming on your ways.
At the end of a 24-hour duration, you have a look at the mirror and with satisfaction and with a smile; you say 'Yes, I have done something great and constructive!’
Life is a vast ocean of opportunities, it is also an immense galaxy of situations, may it be good and decisive or bad and challenging one, but paradoxically we say that life is short.
In this very short time, love yourself, admire your courage, build yourself to be the role-model of tomorrow and be a fan of success and get yourself of a collection of achievements in your portfolio and you can always rely of GOD and on your parents for that.
Have a nice daily experience and keep smiling and be the best ever and thank GOD for seeing the rays of the sun each and every day.

Influence, Inspiration and Aspiration, en route to Success

The fact of being influenced by a person comes into existence of a belief of the inability of the influenced mind to accept its own personality, to accept the way he or she was born and the way through which he or she is experiencing growth. Diverting towards a personality other than yours reveals a certain weakness in the person who has chosen to live his life by emulating and by taking refuge into his supposedly ‘role model’ personality. We have all in our life being influenced once or several times by not only persons, but by trends and by beliefs as well, but is it that indoctrinating these things which have a magnetised effect on us proves that we are only moulding ourselves in such a way that we ought to reach the summit of our happiness and satisfaction. Another school of thinking could also hypothesise on the fact that influence is not but only an opportunity to discard our own characteristics and qualities in quest of a new more or less imposing character, which not ours, but ‘leased’ from what we can call as our ‘idol’, our ‘icon’.

Nevertheless, since influence is more or less of the same taste to inspiration, there is a reason to believe that they must be of the same DNA, which is something acceptable. However, the degree of perception seems to be quite reasonable if one take into consideration of the literal meaning. Inspiration is more about accepting oneself, but by reworking our psychological traits, by ‘injecting’ new approaches to create an innovative, holistic and substantial personality which derives from our expectation of renewing oneself; growing from a smaller perspective to a greater one, without sacrificing our existing qualities and without hibernating our initial personality. Inspiration is all about driving oneself to the temple of excellence, to liberate oneself from the lethargic state and to create stimuli for a better growth in the future, but as well as to make the distinction between the black and the white. Inspiration is more about creating a synergy, rather than neutralising the inner self in us, which is referred as a driver of our philosophy, actions, conduct and perception.

Besides, inspiration is sine-qua-non to aspiration. It is very the vital condition for both personal and collective growth, may it be in team at school or at work. Influence is more of a bond, which is of an adhesive nature as compared to inspiration which is of a reflective state and which does not shelter and which does not take the upper hand of our conviction and our identity. The very reason of the existence of inspiration resides in the development of our identity, but not in the extinction of our own personality to the expense of that borrowed from another person. Comparatively, influence is the tip of an iceberg which tries to beget domination thanks to its grandeur, whereas inspiration is more like the newly semi crystallised sea water in the rock which appears to be visible through the granular state, yet wet, hence giving us an overview of the progress which took place, without the dissolving its very origin. Therefore, it is profitable to be inspired rather than influenced so as to aspire in reaching the stars. Accepting oneself in line with our traits is the greatest challenge ever. Speaking of originality, make it a must to be in love with yourselves through adaptation, instead of loving and adopting other’s character.

The Odyssey, The Adventurer and The Labyrinth, (The business of knowledge; a win-win situation case scenario)

Some years back, on my way to the greatest journey on Earth, which is life, I noted that I have penetrated in a labyrinth. I kept on treading round and round. Everytime and then, after walking for some time, I saw the very same bonsai, without even realising for a moment that I was trapped in a viscous circle.

Doubts invaded me, which in turn gave a golden card invitation to fear. Without any sense of orientation, I failed to find the way out. The walls of the labyrinth were made of thorny plants, whereas the path was that of a treated green glass, which is as soft as cotton. I looked into the sky as a sign of a call and plea to GOD.

My misfortune was that the sun never set, but on the contrary, it was very dark, like the obscurity on a night when the moon has taken leave of the sky. I could barely see the sun, because of the thick cloud. Not even could a single ray of light could pity me and stealthily bring some light at the end of the tunnel, a ray of hope.

Forget about the Polar star, forget about the compass, my only way to get out of this nightmare was to pray GOD. Crying for help! I was all alone, like in a vast desert with only cactus here and there and my only companion was darkness. Giving up was not the solution to my problem. I closed my eyes, trying to recall the way out.

All of a sudden, coming from nowhere, a man appeared. He was shaved-head and was wearing a white cloth with a thin yellow border, like a Monk. His face was gleaming and he appeared to be living for 100 years, yet his face was wrinkleless. He came towards me and like a Leader he only said 3 words 'Follow Me Son'.

P.S Whatever situation you are today, you will not stay in this very position all your life; provided that you never give up and you believe in yourself and you cultivate a positive and calm mind. Being a blessing in disguised, darkness is the only way to help you in seeing light and this is the nature of life.

Be a source of your own motivation, bury negation and give birth to solution and welcome satisfaction. Never surrender yourself to abandonment! A constant cultivation of the land makes the soil fertile and productive, which will in turn gives the planter juicy fruits or fresh vegetables. You nourish the mind and the enlightened mind contribute to your success.

It is the business of knowledge, where only a win-win situation exists!