Self Analysis of my life based on the feedback I received:
Life:
Satisfied: Yes, I am with the occasional dips
Successful: Yes, but there is a long way to go.
Balanced: Yes, I am but then there are occassions....
Capable: Sky is the limit
Valuable: Immensely, to all people whom I love
Happy: Definition keeps on changing
Mind:
Absolutely True. I agree to every word of it.
Body:
True.
Spirit:
I am all confused on this one.
Friends / Family:
Family - Absolutely absurd. I am lucky to have so many loving people around me in my family. Friends - Somewhat true. I am very choosy in selecting my best friends, but once I select them, they ARE THE BEST.
Finance:
The comment "You have a rather good financial score, which is not all that common these days" is somewhat wrong. WELCOME TO THE NEW AND EMERGING INDIA.
Category: Philosophy, Personality
Friday, February 03, 2006
This was a third person analysis of my life based on the feedback I provided.
Your Life Analysis:
Life: Your life rating is a score of the sum total of your life, and accounts for how satisfied, successful, balanced, capable, valuable, and happy you are. The quiz attempts to put a number on the summation of all of these things, based on your answers. Your life score is reasonably high. This means that you are on a good path. Continue doing what is working and set about to improve in areas which continue to lag. Do this starting today and you will begin to reap the benefits immediately. (Read more on improving your life)
Mind: Your mind rating is a score of your mind's clarity, ability, and health. Higher scores indicate an advancement in knowledge, clear and capable thinking, high mental health, and pure thought free of interference. Your mind score is not bad, but could be improved upon. Your mental health is not weak, but you are not achieving full mental clarity and function. Learn how to unclutter your mind. Keep learning, keep improving, continue moving forward. Read advice from other quiz-takers on improving the mind.
Body: Your body rating measures your body's health, fitness, and general wellness. A healthy body contributes to a happy life, however many of us are lacking in this area. You have a rather good body score, which is an indication that you take care of yourself. There is room for improvement, however. Please keep doing what works. Eat right, exercise, reduce your stress, treat any illness. Doing these things will help ensure your body will be in good working order for a long time to come. Read advice from other quiz-takers on improving the body.
Spirit: Your spirit rating seeks to capture in a number that elusive quality which is found in your faith, your attitude, and your philosophy on life. A higher score indicates a greater sense of inner peace and balance. Your spirit score leaves room for improvement. Consider making a concerted effort to redefine your attitudes and focus your beliefs. Boosting your spirit will lead to greater life satisfaction. Read advice from other quiz-takers on improving the spirit.
Friends/Family: Your friends and family rating measures your relationships with those around you, and is based on how large, healthy, and dependable your social network is. Your friends and family score suffers, yet it does not need to be this way. Strengthen your social network by reaffirming old bonds. Seek out new friendships, and they will provide you the reward you need. Try using MeetUp.com to find people near you who share your interests.
Love: Your love rating is a measure of your current romantic situation. Sharing your heart with another person is one of life's most glorious, terrifying, rewarding experiences. Your love score is in good shape, meaning that things are going well. Do all you can to maintain it, and continue to grow and move ahead. Read advice from other quiz-takers on finding and maintaining love.
Finance: Your finance rating is a score that rates your current financial health and stability. You have a rather good financial score, which is not all that common these days. Keep doing what works. Avoid common pitfalls and save for the future. You will be glad you did. Read advice from other quiz-takers on improving your finances.
Category: Philosophy, Personality
Your Life Analysis:
Life: Your life rating is a score of the sum total of your life, and accounts for how satisfied, successful, balanced, capable, valuable, and happy you are. The quiz attempts to put a number on the summation of all of these things, based on your answers. Your life score is reasonably high. This means that you are on a good path. Continue doing what is working and set about to improve in areas which continue to lag. Do this starting today and you will begin to reap the benefits immediately. (Read more on improving your life)
Mind: Your mind rating is a score of your mind's clarity, ability, and health. Higher scores indicate an advancement in knowledge, clear and capable thinking, high mental health, and pure thought free of interference. Your mind score is not bad, but could be improved upon. Your mental health is not weak, but you are not achieving full mental clarity and function. Learn how to unclutter your mind. Keep learning, keep improving, continue moving forward. Read advice from other quiz-takers on improving the mind.
Body: Your body rating measures your body's health, fitness, and general wellness. A healthy body contributes to a happy life, however many of us are lacking in this area. You have a rather good body score, which is an indication that you take care of yourself. There is room for improvement, however. Please keep doing what works. Eat right, exercise, reduce your stress, treat any illness. Doing these things will help ensure your body will be in good working order for a long time to come. Read advice from other quiz-takers on improving the body.
Spirit: Your spirit rating seeks to capture in a number that elusive quality which is found in your faith, your attitude, and your philosophy on life. A higher score indicates a greater sense of inner peace and balance. Your spirit score leaves room for improvement. Consider making a concerted effort to redefine your attitudes and focus your beliefs. Boosting your spirit will lead to greater life satisfaction. Read advice from other quiz-takers on improving the spirit.
Friends/Family: Your friends and family rating measures your relationships with those around you, and is based on how large, healthy, and dependable your social network is. Your friends and family score suffers, yet it does not need to be this way. Strengthen your social network by reaffirming old bonds. Seek out new friendships, and they will provide you the reward you need. Try using MeetUp.com to find people near you who share your interests.
Love: Your love rating is a measure of your current romantic situation. Sharing your heart with another person is one of life's most glorious, terrifying, rewarding experiences. Your love score is in good shape, meaning that things are going well. Do all you can to maintain it, and continue to grow and move ahead. Read advice from other quiz-takers on finding and maintaining love.
Finance: Your finance rating is a score that rates your current financial health and stability. You have a rather good financial score, which is not all that common these days. Keep doing what works. Avoid common pitfalls and save for the future. You will be glad you did. Read advice from other quiz-takers on improving your finances.
Category: Philosophy, Personality
| This Is My Life, Rated | |
| Life: |  7.1 |
| Mind: |  6.2 |
| Body: |  8.2 |
| Spirit: | 6.3 |
| Friends/Family: |  3.2 |
| Love: | 6.9 |
| Finance: | 7.7 |
| Take the Rate My Life Quiz | |
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For the past month, I had visited blog of lots of people. Many of them had statistics on how many people have visited them over the past, how much time they spent on the site and usual mathematics. Statistics and numbers have somehow always fascinated me, as I believe that they represent a sign of progress. For ex. The amount of pay hike I get during a year is an indicator of my performance. The willingness to add the site meter to my blogsite had been at the back of my mind for quite some time. I decided to implement it. Following are the steps to do it:
a) Go to Sitemeter
b) Follow the instructions given on the site. They are more or less complete in information. You need to have the blogsite to add to the sitemeter.
c) The "Your Current Time" on one the sign up pages was disappointing, as it is at a granularity of 1 hour. My statisitics would now be shifted by half an hour, not that it makes a huge difference, but it was a thing which you will note very easily.
d) After having done all the usual stuff, you need to confirm that the information you have entered is correct.
e) After having accepted that "Jo kuch bhi likhunga, sab sach likhunga aur sach ke siva kuch nahin likhunga", it is time to add the Site Meter to your website.
f) Select "Add html for your counter to your web pages" in one of the followup pages after you have signed up. This will help you to add the SiteMeter to your blog site and you are through.
For the past month, I had visited blog of lots of people. Many of them had statistics on how many people have visited them over the past, how much time they spent on the site and usual mathematics. Statistics and numbers have somehow always fascinated me, as I believe that they represent a sign of progress. For ex. The amount of pay hike I get during a year is an indicator of my performance. The willingness to add the site meter to my blogsite had been at the back of my mind for quite some time. I decided to implement it. Following are the steps to do it:
a) Go to Sitemeter
b) Follow the instructions given on the site. They are more or less complete in information. You need to have the blogsite to add to the sitemeter.
c) The "Your Current Time" on one the sign up pages was disappointing, as it is at a granularity of 1 hour. My statisitics would now be shifted by half an hour, not that it makes a huge difference, but it was a thing which you will note very easily.
d) After having done all the usual stuff, you need to confirm that the information you have entered is correct.
e) After having accepted that "Jo kuch bhi likhunga, sab sach likhunga aur sach ke siva kuch nahin likhunga", it is time to add the Site Meter to your website.
f) Select "Add html for your counter to your web pages" in one of the followup pages after you have signed up. This will help you to add the SiteMeter to your blog site and you are through.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
How do I go about paying my ICICI Prudential life insurance premium the second time around?
The first step involves getting the Customer Care number of the ICICI Prudential people. This would be available commonly across any website or on the policy that you would have received when you would have taken the policy the first time.
Call the customer care centre. It would be better if you have your policy number with you when you place the call.
There are normally lots of options available when you dial into the customer care centre of any customer oriented company. It is very important to listen to the multitude of available options, otherwise it becomes a Jantar Mantar riddle. I normally prefer to go in for "Press to speak to the customer care executive " if such an option exists. It is much easier to deal with humans than with machines. If the company prefers the other way round i.e. if they want you to deal with machines, then I need to stretch the muscles of my brain. Being an engineer helps me in doing that and I do not mind doing that once a while during the year.
Coming back to the topic, the customer care executive told me the way to go about it.
Executive: Sir, will you pay by cash or cheque?
Me: Cheque
Executive: You need to prepare the cheque in favour of "ICICI Prulife Policy No." and behind the cheque you need to write the Policy Holders FullName and Contact number.
Me: Where do I need to drop the cheque?
Executive: Where are you calling from - Delhi?
Me: No, I am calling from Noida.
Executive: You can go to "Plot No. 3, Fifth Floor, Brahma Dutt Tower, Sector 18 - 201301" The office is open from 9.30 a.m. till 5.30 p.m. on working days and 10 a.m. till 1.00 p.m. on Saturday.
Me: Thats cool.
Executive: Anything else I can do to help you out sir.
Me: Yes. I also need access to my internet account. I do not remember receiving it.
Executive: Please go to www.iciciprulife.com. There is a link to "Forgot Username / Password" at the top right corner. Press the link. It will take you to a form where you need to fill in the policy number, policy holders name and E-Mail id. The account name and password will be E-Mailed to you.
Me: Thats even cooler.
Executive: Anything else sir.
Me: Thats it.
So, it was short, sweet and simple. Let us see if it works as explained to me.
Category: Official
The first step involves getting the Customer Care number of the ICICI Prudential people. This would be available commonly across any website or on the policy that you would have received when you would have taken the policy the first time.
Call the customer care centre. It would be better if you have your policy number with you when you place the call.
There are normally lots of options available when you dial into the customer care centre of any customer oriented company. It is very important to listen to the multitude of available options, otherwise it becomes a Jantar Mantar riddle. I normally prefer to go in for "Press
Coming back to the topic, the customer care executive told me the way to go about it.
Executive: Sir, will you pay by cash or cheque?
Me: Cheque
Executive: You need to prepare the cheque in favour of "ICICI Prulife Policy No.
Me: Where do I need to drop the cheque?
Executive: Where are you calling from - Delhi?
Me: No, I am calling from Noida.
Executive: You can go to "Plot No. 3, Fifth Floor, Brahma Dutt Tower, Sector 18 - 201301" The office is open from 9.30 a.m. till 5.30 p.m. on working days and 10 a.m. till 1.00 p.m. on Saturday.
Me: Thats cool.
Executive: Anything else I can do to help you out sir.
Me: Yes. I also need access to my internet account. I do not remember receiving it.
Executive: Please go to www.iciciprulife.com. There is a link to "Forgot Username / Password" at the top right corner. Press the link. It will take you to a form where you need to fill in the policy number, policy holders name and E-Mail id. The account name and password will be E-Mailed to you.
Me: Thats even cooler.
Executive: Anything else sir.
Me: Thats it.
So, it was short, sweet and simple. Let us see if it works as explained to me.
Monday, January 30, 2006
How do you tell a person you are not interested in the offer?
Background: An AVIVA Life Insurance agent visits me in the office and wants to sell an offer from Aviva. He is one of the countless agents who suddenly become active (or rather hyper-active) at this time of the year as the financial year closes. He explains me the PROS of the scheme (There are absolutely NO CONS in this scheme SIR. I did not think I look like a moron by face value ;)) Anyways, after the PROS without any CONS were over, I told him I will get back to him. I received around 3 calls (within a 2 week duration) from him reminding me that the date of 8th Feb (the time by which we need to give the investment proofs to the Finance Department) was fast approaching and I needed to take a decision (thats what I call social service). Even after having read lots of articles on "How to say NO?", the brainy part in me told me that "I will get back to you" would be sufficient in sending the message across to the agent that I am not interested.
Finally the climax
Transcript between a person trying to sell Aviva Life Insurance and me (30th January, 2006)
Note: All the comments within the () are the thoughts of my brain.
Agent: Hello Sir, I am Mr Agent calling from Aviva
Me: Hi, How are you?
Agent: Fine, Sir. Sir, I wanted to remind you about our talk. You said that you would be taking a decision. (Oops, I did not say that buddy. I said that when I take a decision (which may be never in this case), I will get back to you)
Me: I haven't decided yet.
Agent: Can I do anything to help you out? (Wow, the social service has begun.)
Me: Not really. (I am a trained anti-social element who accepts help only when requested for :))
Agent: Maybe we can talk about some other plan.
Me: Not now, maybe if I need to, I will get back to you.
Agent: Sir, please be assured that I am not trying to sell Aviva to you.
Me: Yes, I understand. (Do I? That was not TRUE, unless he agrees that he is really doing social service, in which case I would really appreciate his wastage of time on a moron like me)
Agent: 8th Feb is the last date. I need a week to get the proofs, so that you can show it to your Finance Department (Now, IS HE or IS HE NOT selling Aviva?)
Me: Thats True, but actually my investment of 1,00,000 is almost over. I have taken a House Loan and the principal part is added to 1,00,000. (Time to speak the truth.)
Agent: Sir, maybe we can meet tomorrow.
Me: I will get back to you. I have your phone number.
Agent: Sir, do you want to take the insurance? (Atlast, he has set the gun in the right direction)
Me: No (I could not get more blunt than that. Sighhhhh)
Agent: That was what I wanted to hear, so that I do not disturb you any more. (It is the time to fire the bullets. Am I supposed to be grateful now?)
Me: Okie, so now that you have managed to test my "How to say NO?" skills, I really appreciate if you do not disturb me any more.
Agent: Bye, bye (If the phone lines could be used as a mode to carry heat waves, then the BYE would have been sufficient for me to cook a cup of tea :))
Me: Bye (Maybe, this one BYE would cook his cup of tea also :). What do they call it - Tit for Tat?)
Of course, this is only my part of the story. If the agent has his own blog, he would be equally bewildered by my attitude and he would be writing his version somewhere. Anyways, this brings back me to the question:
"How do you tell a person that you are not interested in the offer?"
Anyone with any interested tricks to do that can E-Mail me at
vaibhav.madan@gmail.com
Category: Creativity
Background: An AVIVA Life Insurance agent visits me in the office and wants to sell an offer from Aviva. He is one of the countless agents who suddenly become active (or rather hyper-active) at this time of the year as the financial year closes. He explains me the PROS of the scheme (There are absolutely NO CONS in this scheme SIR. I did not think I look like a moron by face value ;)) Anyways, after the PROS without any CONS were over, I told him I will get back to him. I received around 3 calls (within a 2 week duration) from him reminding me that the date of 8th Feb (the time by which we need to give the investment proofs to the Finance Department) was fast approaching and I needed to take a decision (thats what I call social service). Even after having read lots of articles on "How to say NO?", the brainy part in me told me that "I will get back to you" would be sufficient in sending the message across to the agent that I am not interested.
Finally the climax
Transcript between a person trying to sell Aviva Life Insurance and me (30th January, 2006)
Note: All the comments within the () are the thoughts of my brain.
Agent: Hello Sir, I am Mr Agent calling from Aviva
Me: Hi, How are you?
Agent: Fine, Sir. Sir, I wanted to remind you about our talk. You said that you would be taking a decision. (Oops, I did not say that buddy. I said that when I take a decision (which may be never in this case), I will get back to you)
Me: I haven't decided yet.
Agent: Can I do anything to help you out? (Wow, the social service has begun.)
Me: Not really. (I am a trained anti-social element who accepts help only when requested for :))
Agent: Maybe we can talk about some other plan.
Me: Not now, maybe if I need to, I will get back to you.
Agent: Sir, please be assured that I am not trying to sell Aviva to you.
Me: Yes, I understand. (Do I? That was not TRUE, unless he agrees that he is really doing social service, in which case I would really appreciate his wastage of time on a moron like me)
Agent: 8th Feb is the last date. I need a week to get the proofs, so that you can show it to your Finance Department (Now, IS HE or IS HE NOT selling Aviva?)
Me: Thats True, but actually my investment of 1,00,000 is almost over. I have taken a House Loan and the principal part is added to 1,00,000. (Time to speak the truth.)
Agent: Sir, maybe we can meet tomorrow.
Me: I will get back to you. I have your phone number.
Agent: Sir, do you want to take the insurance? (Atlast, he has set the gun in the right direction)
Me: No (I could not get more blunt than that. Sighhhhh)
Agent: That was what I wanted to hear, so that I do not disturb you any more. (It is the time to fire the bullets. Am I supposed to be grateful now?)
Me: Okie, so now that you have managed to test my "How to say NO?" skills, I really appreciate if you do not disturb me any more.
Agent: Bye, bye (If the phone lines could be used as a mode to carry heat waves, then the BYE would have been sufficient for me to cook a cup of tea :))
Me: Bye (Maybe, this one BYE would cook his cup of tea also :). What do they call it - Tit for Tat?)
Of course, this is only my part of the story. If the agent has his own blog, he would be equally bewildered by my attitude and he would be writing his version somewhere. Anyways, this brings back me to the question:
"How do you tell a person that you are not interested in the offer?"
Anyone with any interested tricks to do that can E-Mail me at
vaibhav.madan@gmail.com
Category: Creativity
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