90/10 Princple

What is this principle?

10% of life is made up of what happens to you.
90% of life is decided by how you react.

What does this mean?

We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane may be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic. We have no control over this 10%. The other 90% is different.

You determine the other 90%.

How?
By your reaction.

You cannot control a red light, but you can control your reaction.
Don’t let people fool you; YOU can control how you react.

Let’s use an example.

You are eating breakfast with your family.
Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt.
You have no control over what just what happened.
What happens when the next will be determined by how you react.
You curse. You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over.
She breaks down in tears.
After scolding her, you turn to your spouse and criticize them for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table.
A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt.
Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish breakfast and get ready for school. She misses the bus.

Your spouse must leave immediately for work.
You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school.
Because you are late, you drive 40 miles an hour in a 30 mph speed limit.
After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 (traffic fine) away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying
goodbye.
After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your briefcase.
Your day has started terrible.
As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse.
You look forward to coming home .
When you arrive home, you find small wedge in your relationship with your spouse and daughter.

Why? Because of how you reacted in the morning.

Why did you have a bad day?

A) Did the coffee cause it?
B) Did your daughter cause it?
C) Did the policeman cause it?
D) Did you cause it?

The answer is D.

You had no control over what happened with the coffee.
How you reacted in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day.
Here is what could have and should have happened.
Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry.
You gently say, “It’s ok honey, you just need to be more careful next time”.
Grabbing a towel you rush upstairs. After grabbing a new shirt and your briefcase, you come back down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves.

You and your spouse kiss before you go to work.
You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff.
Your boss comments on how good the day you are having.
Notice the difference? Two different scenarios.
Both started the same. Both ended different.
Why? Because of how you REACTED.
You really do not have any control over 10% of what happens.
The other 90% was determined by your reaction.

Here are some ” says ” to apply the 90/10 principle.
If someone says something negative about you, don’t be a sponge.
Let the attack roll off like water on glass.
You don’t have to let the negative comment affect you!
React properly and it will not ruin your day.
A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, getting stressed out etc.
How do you react if someone cuts you off in traffic?
Do you lose your temper? Pound on the steering wheel?
(A friend of mine had the steering wheel fall off)
Do you curse? Does your blood pressure skyrocket?
Do you try and bump them?
WHO CARES if you arrive ten seconds later at work?
Why let the cars ruin your drive?
Remember the 90/10 principle, and do not worry about it.
You are told you lost your job.
Why lose sleep and get irritated?
It will work out.
Use your worrying energy and time into finding another job.

The plane is late; it is going to mangle your schedule for the day.
Why take out your frustration on the flight attendant?
She has no control over what is going on.
Use your time to study, get to know the other passenger.
Why get stressed out? It will just make things worse.

Now you know the 90-10 principle.
Apply it and you will be amazed at the results.
You will lose nothing if you try it.
The 90-10 principle is incredible.

Very few know and apply this principle.
The result? Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress, trials, problems and heartache.
There never seem to be a success in life.
Bad days follow bad days. Terrible things seem to be constantly happening.
There is constant stress, lack of joy and broken relationships.
Worry consumes time.
Anger breaks friendships and life seems dreary and is not enjoyed to the fullest.
Friends are lost.
Life is a bore and often seems cruel.

Body Language

Body language makes up 50-100% of a conversation, whether we mean it to or not. Since people don’t always speak what they mean at work, Robert Phipps, body language expert, tells you how to interpret those non-verbal clues:

The eyes have it. Eye contact is one of the most important aspects of body language. Most of us are comfortable with a few seconds’ eye contact, but anything longer can seem aggressive or intense. Equally, if you’re talking to a colleague who looks away a lot, assume they are bore (or perhaps just shy).

Be a copy cat. If someone is on the same wavelength as you, they’ll often adopt the same postures as you. So if people start to copy you, it means they’re open to your ideas. But if a person’s body and feet are turned away from you, even though they’re looking at you, it means they’d rather be moving the way their feet are pointing.

Cross it off. Most people cross their arms if they’re feeling defensive or negative. So even if someone verbally says they agree with you, if then they cross their arms they really don’t want. Their critical stance will continue until they have uncrossed their arms, so try to find out what’s bothering them or draw them out by handling them something to look at or asking them to do a task, such as writing something down.

Thought provoking. If you’re training someone, it’s useful to know how their mind works. If a person’s eyes move up and to the left while you’re talking to them, they process information visually, if the eyes only move left they think in terms of sounds, but eyes moving to the right and down indicates they learn through their feelings.

True lies. When someone is lying they tend to become generally less expressive with their hands, but make a lot of shrugging and hand-to-face gestures. Hands or fingers covering the mouth indicate deceit – the brain is subconsciously telling the hand to suppress the deceitful words.

Getting ahead. Tilting the head to the side indicates an interest in what’s being said. When people drop their heads the displaying a negative, judgmental or critical attitude. Using a hand to support your head suggests boredom has set in.

Advantage LCD..

"LCDs are bright and beautiful, even when watched in the hot scorching desert. They also use less power than plasma or CRT sets because, and I read this on C-Net, they're magic."

LCDs are cool, we'll give you that. They're usually a bit brighter than other sets, and are usually easier to watch in brightly lit rooms. However, if you want to turn off the lights and watch something fairly dark and creepy -- you might not want a set that's too incredibly bright. Besides that, plasmas and CRTs usually have much better color capabilities, and don't have problems with response-time (and motion artifacting) as LCD screens do.Japan's Green Purchasing, an organization that's dedicated to promoting environmentally-friendly purchasing for all manner of consumers, recently did a study which concluded that in general, power consumption is nearly the same in similar-sized plasma, CRT and LCD displays. We should mention, however, that the next generation of LCDs will be using LED backlighting (while delivering much, much better color), and will consume almost twice as much power as they do now.

High Definition TV

HDTV stands for High Definition Television. HDTV images contain significantly more detail than normal television and have several differences. First let us get some terminology out of the way, before we review various HDTV related gadgets.

Pixels: The smallest element of a TV picture or a monitors display is called a pixel. Each of these pixels comprises of a red, blue and green element. Pixels in an HDTV set are usually square, smaller and placed closer together than on a regular TV screen. This results in a 4 to 6 time higher visual detail.

Line: A row of pixels is called a line.
A standard NTSC television displays 480 lines with 720 pixels on every line (resulting in 345,600 pixels being used). A HDTV display can show upto 1024 lines with 1920 pixels being used in each line resulting in 2,073,600 pixels being used.

Aspect Ratio: This is the ratio of the width of the screen v/s the height of the screen. Like widescreen cinema displays the HDTV aspect ratio is 16:9. Normal TV ratio is 4:3. The images attached show the difference between 16:9 and 4:3 displays.
16:9 Image Ratio
4:3 Image Ratio

In addition to the increase in number of lines, there is also a difference in how HDTVs display the individual lines -- this is called "scan or scanning mode".
Interlaced Scanning: In this mode, which is designated by the letter "i" ( 480i for example ) every alternate line is redrawn at a rate of once every 60th of a second, allowing a whole frame to be redrawn in a 30th of a second.
Progressive Scanning: In this mode, which is designated by the letter "p" ( 480p for example ) every line is redrawn once every 60th of a second, implying that a frame is redrawn in a 60th of a second.
By specification, HDTVs are supposed to be able to handle SDTV signals.

How Plasma TV Works?

How Plasma Works
Plasma is a flat, lightweight surface covered with millions of tiny glass bubbles. Each bubble contains a gas-like substance, the plasma, and has a phosphor coating. Think of the bubbles as the pixels.Now, think of each pixel-bubble as having three sub-pixels - one red, one green, one blue. When it is time to display an image signal (RGB or video), a digitally controlled electric current flows through the flat screen, causing the plasma inside designated bubbles to give off ultraviolet rays. This light in turn causes the phosphor coatings to glow the appropriate color.Millions of RGB bubbles glow and dim to make a rich, vivid image on your plasma TV.

How LCD TVworks?

What Is LCD Technology?
Like popular LCD monitors you commonly see used with computers, LCD TVs have a slim design and a flat viewing surface, but have been fine tuned for video display. Recent advances in flat panel LCD technology now allow for larger screens, wider viewing angles, and higher-quality video images. LCD TVs are also competition for trendy-but-heavy, plasma display technology. They are several times lighter than comparably sized plasmas, and are far more durable.

How do LCD TV's work?
Two sheets of polarized transparent material, one with a special polymer coating that holds liquid crystals, are adhered together. Electric current is passed through individual crystals, which interpret the information from the broadcast signal to allow or disallow light through them to create an image. The crystals themselves do not produce light, so the technology is "non-emissive" and therefore does not give off radiation like an older television does. Fluorescent tubes housed behind the transparent material illuminate the image. They require less power to operate than CRT and plasma televisions which require powering hundreds of electrodes to stimulate the phosphorous.

LCD TVs At-A-Glance:
Use non-emissive technology; do not emit radiation.
Use fluorescent tubes which require less power to operate.
Use non-emissive technology; do not emit radiation.

Plasma Vs LCD !

LCD TVs versus Plasma TVs
Compare the two most popular flat screen TV technologies.
Comparison
1)Plasma televisions
2)LCD televisions
Advantage
Screen Size
Screen sizes range from 32 inches to 63 inches. Larger plasmas, like a 103 inch unit from Panasonic, are in production, but are still prohibitively expensive for consumer use.
Sizes range from 13 inches to 45 inches. As with plasma, there are larger LCD TVs made, like a 100 inch display recently released by LG, but they are not readily available or affordable at the consumer level.
Plasma TVs are the current size champions, particularly when comparing TVs that consumers can easily purchase. LCDs are catching up in size with their developing technology, however, and may surpass Plasmas in the near future. This may be due to difficulties in producing glass large enough for larger plasmas.


Viewing Angle
Up to 160°
Up to 175°
LCD TVs have the advantage here, but by a small margin. Your viewing experience is not going to be ideal at 160 or 175 degree angles. LCD TVs used to have a problem in this area, primarily because LCDs were originally used as single person computer monitors.


Screen Refresh Rates
Plasma displays refresh and handle rapid movements in video about as well as CRT televisions.
LCD TVs were originally designed for data display, and not video. Therefore refresh rates had to be improved. LCD TVs with refresh rates below 16 ms or lower (5-15 ms) show very few noticeable artifacts. LCD TVs are now available with refresh rates as low as 5ms.
Slight edge to plasma technology.


Burn-in or Stuck Pixels
Plasma TVs can suffer from burn-in produced by static images. After extended periods, stationary images "burn in" and produce an after-image ghost which remains permanently on the screen. With technologies such as 'pixel orbitor,' new plasma TVs have addressed burn-in and significantly reduced the issues of older models.
LCD TVs do not suffer from burn-in, but can have a "retained pixel charge" which may also produce ghosting. Stuck pixels are also possible with an LCD display.
With the latest plasma technology, this is less of an issue than ever before. "Pixel orbitor," for example, is one method of reducing burn in used by plasma manufacturers. It requires no additional programing from the end user as some older burn-in prevention techniques did. If you plan to use a plasma for gaming, some games with permanent 'dashboards' may still cause some burn-in. Check user-manuals for available solutions by model.


Product Life-span
Plasma TVs have a reported half life of 30,000 to 60,000 hours. Half-life is the time it takes the lamp to fade to half its original brightness.
LCD TVs also have replaceable backlights, but the expense of replacing one when the time comes may be greater than simply replacing the entire TV.
Both Plasma and LCD technology should more than adequately satisfy most consumers. The average CRT TV (the kind most of us have at home) has a half-life of around 25,000 hours. If the average American household watches an average of four to six hours of television a day, even a 30,000 hour lamp would give you over 16 years of use. By then you'll be enjoying your new 'Holodeck.'


Weight
Plasma displays are fairly heavy, and may need additional supports to be mounted onto a wall.
LCD TVs weigh less than comparably sized plasma TVs.
LCD TVs are considerably lighter, more portable, and cheaper to ship.


Durability
Plasmas are very fragile making them tricky to ship and install. Unlike the commercials where plasmas are mounted on the ceiling, plasmas are best installed by a professional, and should be installed on a wall that can bear a good deal of weight.
Much more durable than plasmas. End users can easily mount an LCD TV themselves if desired.
LCD TVs are far less fragile than plasmas.


Shipping
Due to their fragile nature, plasma TVs need to be shipped by specialty carriers. Overnight or fast delivery options are not recommended. Special shipping methods and their heavier weight add to higher shipping costs.
Shipping LCD TVs is not difficult, and is not as expensive as shipping plasma displays.
LCD TVs are lighter and far less fragile than plasma displays making shipping easier and less expensive.


Installation
Plasmas are heavier, use more power, and run hotter than LCD TVs, and therefore require more planning when mounting them. Plasmas are generally best installed by professionals.
End users can easily install LCD TVs themselves, or can use them just as they use a traditional TV using a stand.
LCD TVs are much easier to install than plasma TVs.


Brightness/Contrast
Plasma TVs report higher brightness and contrast levels than LCDs. Under ideal conditions (no ambient light) this is a true advantage of plasma technology, because LCD TVs are backlit and therefore light must be blocked to create blacks. Plasmas have individual pixels that either on or off, creating deeper blacks and better contrast.
LCD TVs can often look better in 'real-world' situations. Plasmas are made with a special glass surface that can reflect light, which dulls the brightness and contrast of the image. LCD TVs reflect very little light, allowing them to maintain levels in well-lit rooms.
Both LCD and plasma TVs will meet the brightness expectations of most consumers. However, in 'real world' situations with ambient light, LCD TVs will generally look a little brighter.


Thickness
As thin as 3 inches deep.
As thin as 2 inches deep.
LCDs TVs are just a bit thinner.


Performance at High Altitude
High altitudes can affect the performance of plasma displays because the gas held inside each pixel is stressed, and has to work harder to perform. Some manufacturers make plasmas that are specifically designed for high-altitudes, but they may be priced higher than standard models.
LCD TVs are not affected by high altitudes.
LCD TVs.