If you have already decided to commit a cold blooded murder, here are some friendly tips for you

So you have decided to have your go. But you surely don't want to end up landing in an electric chair or have a prick of those lethal dose injections, right? If you are a newbie, this is a must for you and if you are an old hand, then also you should follow these in case if you feel a bit rusty.

Write in bold letters MY CONSCIENCE in an 8 inch by 6 inch paper. Then help yourself with a liberal dose of your favorite alcohol drink preferably in empty stomach and under the sun. The booze will take effect quickly. When you are done, flung out your knife and stab the paper repeatedly till you are exhausted. Also dont frget to murmur your favorite slang while stabbing. It will have an added effect. Writing in paper, in fact will help you visualising it in reality.

Make a list of those bloody sleuths and their canine friends who might pick up your trail once you have murdered your prime target. Now murder them anyway. You figure it out how to. That's your business not mine.

You may or may not have to write the paper again, depending on how much pounding your conscience have taken.

Find out that creepy creature, the journalist in your area. He derives a sadistic pleasure in making mountain out of a molehill. Murder him downright. God musn't have created him knowingly. He surely is the byproduct of the gross mistake committed by his parents one night.

Plan meticulously about murdering your prime target. For gents, it might be your office boss or the Mother of all bosses at your home, I guess. For ladies, it can be your rascal husband or the guy who is threatning to spill the beans about your occasional night stints with him. The best time for committing the murder is at night when all are asleep ( including your victim ) and deep down in their dreams. Ofcourse if you are busy that night with with some more priority job, then fix it for another night but if you can't defer your night job for a single night, then try for any evening, under cover of darkness. Now, just two hours before committing the gruesome murder, have some pegs of that drink,not more not less. It's a very delicate balance which should be decided by you and you only, not me. When your conscience gets slightly blurred(it might be dead already if you have followed my advice sincerely), have a last laugh on your victim and start stabbing with the same knife repeatedly until your hand limps down. Make sure your victim is dead, with a couple of more stabs, before wiping your hands with a sense of acheivement at last. Relish your accomplishment as long as you can because this is the last spare time you will have in your life, I presume so.

Now feeel the touch of the cold revolver nozzle at your right temple if your are a right hander. I know you are intelligent enough to have it with you in spite of me forgetting to remind about it. You know very well(every idiots know), you can't wipe out all the sleuths and their canine friends because of the Govt. sponsored breeding grounds for them.
Pull the trigger.
May your soul rest in peace.

We are what we are, because of our decisions. Before taking any decision, we should justify it properly, reason it carefully and then only take the decision. We can change our decision but we can not change it's outcome. Several factors influence our decisions. Some of these are:


1)Perception:
Perception depends on how we see ourselves and the world around us through our own lens. It may be right or it may be wrong. Two different person may have differnt perceptions about a particular situation.
As the story goes: Two salesman were sent to India for assessing the market potentiality there of Bata shoes, before setting up of the first Bata factory in India. When they returned back, their boss asked them about their observations. The first one replied, "There is hardly any oppurtunity there, because nobody wears shoes in India." But the second guy responded with enthusiasm, " Great potentiality, because millions are without shoes in India."
Now we see, how the two guys reacted to the same situation. One viewed it negatively through his own lens but the other viewed it from a positive angle.
So we should change our perception if we feel it is wrong.
But as Marilyn Ferguson observed, "No one can persuade another to change.Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from inside. We can not open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal." Positive things will only happen if we decide to open our "gate of change." Here comes the role of our 'Attitude.'



2)Attitude:
Attitude is the foundation of success. The thing inside of us that makes us go up is our attitude. It is what inside that only counts. Factors determining our attitude are 1)environment, 2)experience, 3)education and 4)enter genetics.
1)Environment: It depends on positive or negative atmosphere at home, peer pressure at school and college, supportive or over-critical boss at work place, media, social environment, tradition and beliefs etc.
2)Experience: Our behavior changes according to our experience with people and events in our life. If we have a positive experience with a person or an event our attitude becomes positive and vice versa.
3)Education: It means both formal and informal education, not just academic qualification. Knowledge strategically applied translates into wisdom, ensuring success.
4)Enter genetics: It says, "It's all in your blood. That's why you have such a temper. Your grandparents had short tempers and it's in your DNA. It just goes through the generations and you inherited it.

Attitude is mainly formed during our childhood formative years whether by design or by default. So if we acquire a negative attitude, shall we have to stuck with it life long? Definitely not. Surely we can change, but it is not at all easy also. We will have to change our attitude consciously by:
a) Becoming aware of the principles that builds a positive attitude.
b)Desire to be positive.
c)Cultivating the discipline and dedication to practice those principles.
Another thing affecting our attitude is:

Reactive mentality and proactive mentality
Reactive mentality:
It is based on the stimulus/response theory we most often think in connection with Pavlov's experiments with dogs. The basic idea is that we are conditioned to respond in a particular way to a particular stimulus. If our lives are a function of conditioning and conditions, it is because we have, by conscious decision or by default, chosen to empower those things to control us.We are by default, reactive in nature. We react instinctively to any event or situation without questioning the merits of it. It may happen in our home, in our work place or anywhere within our sphere of activities. But because of our impulsive reaction, we are hardly able to take the right decision, which the situation demands. We rather fall prey to the situation because of not judging it properly. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and their performance.



Proactive mentality:
It is based on the fact that, "Between stimulus and response, we have the freedom to choose." The endowments that makes us uniquely human are self-awareness, imagination, conscience and independent will. The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values-carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
Proactive people are still influenced by external stimuli, whether physical, social, or psychological. But their response to the stimuli, conscious or unconscious, is a value-based choice or response. In other words proactive people take charge of the situation and act accordingly. Our basic nature is to act, and not to be acted upon. Proactive people chooses their response to particular circumstances, thus empowering them to create circumstances.
Now the last factor which plays role in our decision making is:



3)Belief:
We should have total belief on ourselves that we can succeed whatever the conditions are. Success means personal prosperity, financial security, self-respect. Success means freedom: freedom from worries, fears, frustations, and failure.Success means winning.
There is nothing magical nor mystical about the power of believing in success.
Belief works this way: Belief, the "I am positive, I can" attitude, generates the power, skill and energy needed to do. When we believe, "We can do it", the how to do it develops. Belief, strong belief, triggers the mind to figuring ways and means and how-to. And believing we can succeed makes others place confidence in us.

So we all can succeed in our life and reach our goals by following the above mentioned universal laws.



Acknowledgements:
The following books have been immensely helpful for compiling the article:
1) The 7 habits of highly effective people: Stephen R. Covey.
2) You can win: Shiv Khera.
3) Magic of thinking big: David J. Schwartz.

To wrap up it all;
What would be a better wake up call:
1) Tighten your belts.
or
2) Pull up your socks.


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