really cool stuff from google

I found some new features of Google when I was trying to create my personalize Google home page for me. Actually there are so many things we can add to our home page. Any way I really love this new thing called as Google Notebook, Sticky Notes etc.

I was wondering how nice if I can have a online work space for so many years. Now this is what Google offers. This customized Google home page is like virtual desktop. Im having my mails, word processor, Spread sheets, Calender, Notes etc etc. What else I miss and what I need ? ? ? Now I can do my documents, spread sheets, notes on the Google. As a business development guy this is something I can manage my day to day work. Now I can keep all the necessary stuff on this Google docs and I can access, work on those from any where. Its just a matter fo finding a Internet connectivity. What a great thing.....

I strongly advice all the people to try out this and feel the difference. This is really cool. You can have your own virtual desktop kind of thing on Google.

work according to defined plan

Its time to work on some thing really urgent and reasonably hard. But still you got to go ahead and do this. This what Im going to do.

1. Take a book and write your task.
2. Work on an action plan to achieve your goal.
3. Define the time period and put deal lines to your plan.
4. Start work according to the plan you work out.
5. Believe on what your doing.
6. Never give up.
7. Work hard and meet your dead lines with positive out comes.
8. Always review the progress.

I really believe on this and I hope I'll able to get best out of this.

need to move fast

I don't know whats the mistake I did but this should be a mistake from my side. I was always on run but some things didn't work out in right way. This can be bcos I didn't follow some rules which I use to follow when I was doing like nothing. Any way its high time to move forward.

I think I capture the ground but I didn't put much attention to strength my power with the captured ground. But now its time to stand up with all the forces and go ahead and finish the job fully. This should be a really fast thing and should be workable too. I got very little time to complete all these things.

need to work on time managment

Its again an end of other busy week. I closed my first deal here at my new work place. There are so many happenings here. Now we need to keep going things. Its not so easy but if you really try and work hard you will able to repeat the success.

We need to work on qualified prospects as well as need to add more prospects to funnel. Then only we will able to keep things going. Since Im on run, adding new prospects is happening bit slowly. Now need to think about it do the necessary adjustments to my daily planes. This is the time I need to do my time management very strictly. Need to work on the things during the week end.

visit to my 1st client site

One of my prospects wanted to visit my exisiting customer and see how they are using our solution and etc etc. I took him to Hemas Marketing who is the 1st client for our CRM/ Sales Force Automation Solution. It was the Maharagama distributor of Hemas Marketing. This is the first site we did the pilot test when we are doing Hemas project.

I was working for differnt company at that time but I was a part of project since we(that time I was working for Logical) were part of this project. Logical was sub-contracted by X-ONT and I developed the palm application for this project. I was just a programer at that time (back in 2005) with very little experience. But I learned a lot during that development and implementation cycle and It was a real challenge. Palm developmets and palm applications are very new to SL at that time. After lots of effort and hard working we manage to implement it successfully.

Now its after 6 years I went their(customer site) as Business Development Manager of X-ONT. This visit helps me to look back and see how things went during so many years. Its not too bad. In 2001 I was a developmer and 2007 Im working as a Business Development Manager. (its a long story how I started as a Tech guy and now in Business Development). Not too bad ha..??

back to normal

This working week starts yesterday after long week end. My wife started work at her new place and Im also going to be really busy during this week. Both of us going to be busy with our work than in the past. We need to concentrate a lot about our career for next so many months. Need to arrange everything at home and should make sure everything is going well.

Week end was kind of good. Both of us were at home and we got lots of time for us. Managed to finished lots of pending work at home (cleaning, washing etc) too.

Now its again at office. Im about to close a deal. But anything can happen and not too sure till last minute.

i think it starts to happen

I think that things starts to happen. Few minutes back I was writing that things are happening slowly. Any way I herd the good news from my CEO.

One of our prospect selected our RD solution for them (for the moment I don;t want to talk about the prospect).

This is a result of hard working and lots of team effort. My CEO get ready for the demo with no time and I did the proposal within one day. This won't come 100% under my name since initial contact was from my CEO. Any way this is what I wanted after I joined here three months back.

We'll able to see more fire works very soon.

its soo slow

Things are happening very slowly. Slow & Steady is good but not at this time. This is the time I need things to happen its phase. I stop thinking about the environment and expecting help from others to do my things. Then whats the reason for this. Did I loose my rhythm or what?

Its time to refresh the things and come up with something different. I need to make things happen. There are some good things but need to increase the number of good things. I should read a book or something which helps me to feel good.

Warren Buffett

I got this as a email form one of my colleague. After reading this mail I fell that I should post this in my blog. This is a really interesting story which we can learn a lot.





There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffett,

The second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

1) He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets
that he started too late!

2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from
delivering newspapers.

3) He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in
mid-town Omaha , that he bought after he got married 50 years
ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house.
His house does not have a boundary wall or a fence.

4) He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a
driver or security people around him.

5) He never travels by private jet, although he owns the
world's largest private jet company.

6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He
writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these
companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds
meetings or calls them on a regular basis.

7) He has given his CEO's only two rules. Rule number 1: do
not lose any of your share holder's money. Rule number 2: Do
not forget rule number 1.

8) He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His
pastime after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn
and watch television.

9) Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first
time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had
anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled
his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the
meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee
of Warren Buffet.

10) Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a
computer on his desk.

11) His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards
and invest in yourself.

t i m e . . .

Time is the most valuable factor in today's world. Time is so important to us. But the problem is are we using our time in effective and efficient way. Are we using our time correctly? How many hours we are wasting in one single day?

Like this I can write number of questions when it comes to time and the way we are using time.

"Sorry, I didn't have time."

This is the most popular excuse people made when they didn't able to do something. But the question is you really didn't have time or something else. If your running out of time how we can address to that problem.

The most common answer is TIME MANAGEMENT. People talk a lot about time management. But are we managing our time in real way. There are many things we can talk about. But I suppose not to talk much about all those mistakes and all. Lets see how we can save our time and spent our time more efficiently.

But not in this post. Bcos I don't have time to writ more. lolzz :)

friends should be online

My best friend(Anupa) is out of country for a while. But we are sharing our things better than ever. We almost chat online every day. But when both are in same country (Sri Lanka) we didn't able to even exchange SMS once a week.

I read a joke some times back telling that "your not keep in touch with your friends bcos they don't have email". I think this joke has happened to me. lollz :)

2 0 0 7

Its new year 2007. New year is the tiem which we can think about what we did during the last year and look forward for the next year. This is the time to evaluvate and identify the good and bad things we did and look forward to minimize bad and increase good things.