About me
Hello,
My name is Gowripathi. I live in Bangalore, the IT capital/Silicon Valley of India. I hold a degree Electronics Engineering. I worked in one of the very big reputed public sector industry. I joined as an R&D engineer. My field of expertise is Power Electronics. I worked for 29 years in the organization. One year before my retirement from the active service, I started thinking of what my activity would be after my retirement. I did not want to take things easy and live a lazy retired life- because, when you don't have an aim or a goal, your body and mind become inactive and start breeding illness. Illness in turn causes inactivity. The problem is, if you don't have anything to concentrate on, your mind is not inactive in the true sense- it becomes a breeding ground for all sorts of stupid and negative thoughts. Thoughts affect physical and mental health. I should have thought about it much earlier- about what to do after retirement. But no worry- past is past. I always loved to be a writer. Why shouldn't I become a freelance writer and earn some money in the process? It seemed to be a good idea. I wanted to hone my writing skills to write non-fiction because, I found, fiction is not my cup of tea. I enrolled with The Writers Bureau. It helped me in fine-tuning my writing skills. During this course, the concept of online writing caught me- You can publish what you write! concept. Have your own website(s). You need not send queries, cope up with rejections, re-write the way the editors want... and the best part online publishing is, you will reach much wider section of audience- world wide. But what am I going to write about in my first website? During my long career, I dealt with people- people brought up in different environments with different backgrounds, qualifications, skills, attitudes, motivation levels, outlooks and aspirations. As varied as India with so many languages, religions and economic and social levels. I had opportunity to interact with people and understand them- the bosses, colleagues, assistants and others outside my workplace. People are the biggest and the most important asset of any organization. It is wonderful to understand and utilize this asset effectively for the growth of all people involved and for the growth of the organization. During this interaction, I gained a good amount of knowledge in dealing with people- people skills. I was not a professional trainer in people skills nor am I now. I wanted to share this knowledge through my website. It seemed to be a good niche. It is how my site about was born. My site deals with the concept of Success through Self Improvement. Free information on self awareness, health and fitness, motivation, leadership and many other self improvement topics are presented in simple language. I hope you will make use of the concepts presented here. I depended much on the internet for free information about website building and web hosting as I did not want to spend much money. I explored free articles and books on HTML, read something about Search Engines, web hosting solutions, writing for internet and a lot of other stuff. During this search for information, I came across an excellent package of tools: SBI I liked the fundamental Advice of SBI!: Follow the Content- Traffic- PREsell- Monetize process. But the price was a bit high- for a public sector executive in India, retiring in six months. Or it seemed so. Added to that, so many websites promised free tools for building and launching your own website in a couple of days! I was lured to this free stuff and dropped the idea of buying SBI!. I regret that decision. I bought it one and half years later- one year after my retirement. Better late than never. What is SBI! and why did I buy it? But finally, here it is- happening and growing. I very much appreciate your feedback on the information available here. Use the Contact Me form below to leave your comments / to contact me. All the best and happy reading.
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