Taking a Positive Action

By Following nicely outlined principles of success, anybody could lead an interesting life. Whether once goal is to achieve small things or universal wonder, there is a general truth that we need to have definite outcome at the end of our effort. We need to be sure that we clearly know where we are heading. Having a clear vision of our destination, we might feel fully satisfied. However, there is another very important point that we have to consider, that is taking a positive action that leads us to the desired outcome.

Before five months you might have planed to complete that nice Inspiring Book and release it in four months to the community as a big gift to really change lives of a number of people. Probably you might have clearly specified the day of the release of the book will be in September 17 2011. As the day approaches sure enough there is a bad feeling in you, which sounds like "You Didn't do that!" where is that book? and so on. And right in this day I would have seen your mouth zipped, your head down and your whole body tight all because you were not successful. What do you think the problem is?


I would like to mention too, that you have measured your outcome in terms of time, energy, and related resources in case your answer to the above question is one of these resources. Taking a positive action in the right time is a key to most of the hindrance you might get in the way to your clearly outlined outcome.


In this context I am assuming that your intended outcome is save to you, to others and to the universe in general. If so taking the right action is always the right way to your goal. This is because always our outcomes at the end of the day are the commutative sum of the successive actions we take in the course of the process to the the desired result.


Whether it is in education, relation, career, recognition or whatever there are five principle of success you would apply. but the second one outweigh the others in being the critical and the most important bridge to success (Take a Positive action). The five principles are:
1. Know your Outcomes
2. Take Positive Action
3. Have Enough sensory awareness to know if you are being effective (that is if the series of actions are right)
4. Have behavioral flexibility
5. Operate from a physiology and a psychology of excellence

With these principles you can reach to your success, remember and focus on No. 2.
+Action, +Action ... Success!


September 17 For me and for life!

pdftotext: Linux / UNIX Convert a PDF File To Text Format

While developing EriCloud Educational, particularly the E-Learning system I found out the system requires PDF files to be converted to text. I was not able to get a suitable package to do it.
It was just before I was to quite it that I have found this.

Pdftotext is installed part of a package or utility called as poppler-utils. so to install pdftotext in a linux system in my case ubuntu just run this command and you are done.

$Sudo apt-get install poppler-utils.

To use the utility:
$sudo pdftotext {PDF-file} {text-file}

that is it

EriCloud Educational

This is the Logo of EriCloud Educational.

The Power of Waiting

Today I have intentionally visited my blog just to publish this post 'The Power of Waiting'. Although the core reason that made me eager to post this was a personal case, finally I decided to make it a global one. Have you ever waited for something to happen or someone to come for a long long time? Have you ever felt a special feeling in such occasions where your expectations grow from time to time. Have you ever waited in Green Lovely Garden for someone to come and looked here and there in all direction only to find out it was a killer expectation? Was there any time you expected more than anything that there to come a reply message right in your e-mail in-box or new instant messages. Have you ever waited for a public transport until you feel something deep inside your heart? Waiting, waiting ....or great expectation ...? How is the power of waiting? Expectation? in your own feeling.



Consider the farmer who has just ploughed his land and put his seeds in the ground. Now he is waiting for the rain to come, looking to the sky with great eager. It has been three days since the seed was buried and there was no sign of rain at all. And Imagine the farmer is just waiting.

Think of the Mom who has written a long lovely letter to her son, who is very very far away from her site and now she is waiting and waiting until the time she didn't know. Replies and a bit communication is a big relief, but who do that?

Imagine an obedient and trusted girl that has been in love with that awesome boy for about three years and now they are apart for some reason for about five years. If you can imagine the power of waiting, she is still waiting with an absolute trust and honesty. In the contrary we are not sure whether the other side is trapped with the power of waiting or is relieved.



The power of waiting with patience has been a long term irresistible solution of many uncountable challenges through out the world. waiting for peace, justice, love, relief, life, unity, integrity, security. waiting for communication, association, and organization. Waiting for the unknown, property, humanity and prosperity. The list is infinite, but there is one thing in common for all sort of waiting. That is EXPECTATION. Everybody drafts his/her own prose of expectation, draws maps of great expectation on how that a big waiting would happen.

The life of waiting is full of imagination. Activities like outlining, drafting, stroking, drawing, erasing, redrawing, mapping, matching, selecting, dropping, adding all sort of things, ideas, comments, random questions and more. That is the perfect waiting, where outcomes are outlined in advance. But what if you are waiting for the unknown, waiting for the unfair, unbelievable with your hands crossed. That is the damn cheap, the killer in life. Keeping your hands in your pocket, waiting for dreams to come true or expecting the tangled to be solved. This is all killing the perfect life while defining the perfect waiting.



The power of waiting is strong enough to dead-end your life. Hey, stop waiting, input your power of identity to revile a wider world just from the inside of YOU. The Power of Waiting is External and unmanageable, but The Power of identity is internal and it is all about YOU.

Stop waiting and dig in you, drawing the map of expectations and analyzing them with a series of effective strategies.

Cultural Gathering a Life Long Lesson

In Eritrea we have a very attractive monasteries. Some of which have great historical and cultural peculiarity. one of such wondrous places in Eritrea is The Monastery of Sina (Known as Debre Sina) or St. Marry of Debre Sina. During the yearly cultural gathering at the monastery thousands people come from every corner of the nation. They celebrate spiritual and cultural get together.



Last year I visited to the Monastery and I saw every activity is quite impressive and attractive. Especially the love, the respect, the motivation and the desire of every visitor more than anything unique.

The Church of St. Marry is located at a very high rocky mountain, where a number of miraculous things reside. when you see the myriad people right from the mountain all over the rest of the land and in the mountain, you come to think that every Eritrean could be there.

Many personal things happened last year. I remember I dragged myself into a long lasting love, a love of a life. That love is in my heart. Oh! it is hard to say it here , but I have you some wonderful photos.

The Last of May

If life was what we count in days, we would say everybody is living. But the true purpose of a meaning full life is when you a difference everyday. If yesterday was elapsed without your Concern, why can't we say it was a waste.
However, if you have done a bit today and at least a small go from what it was yesterday, we can say you are with those living the life of this day. If possible it a very meaningful to make a difference every second, every minute and every hour which make the day. By this way you come up to the last of a month in this occasion it is the last of May which flips away a month from your life.

Did you make a difference? Was this month a continuation of the previous one or it is Just a GO. Pause, and think before you sleep and rewind the activities you have being doing though out the month, tell to your self whether it was a collection of GOs or a Record of consecutive great deeds.

I have never wished to see a month passed without a point for its remembrance. It there should be a talk, a walk , a communication, a relation or there should be a construction of a bridge for the next day that begins the next month.

Oh! Great here comes a call which bridges this month to the next one in this day. It is a cloud call, a call to widen and boost the cloud and its result. I will be back with updates from the cloud.

From Dream To Reality (from a letter to face-to-face)

It was last year in June, I dare to dream for the impossible to be possible. I wanted to transform an instant sight to lasting memory. I saw a face not a heart in a body. That body looked fine for my eyes ant there was no question of keeping this look and feel in the deep part of my memories. My heart always ponders for this. It was a push to a new world,a world very common but new for me. I was a child in that event in which my heart was not dare enough to start the fight.
But any way I fought and if I am not mistaken I was beaten in the battle. However the good news is that I come out experienced from the struggle, a struggle to see daydreams realized.

Simply I saw a saw seated beside me. It was a new face, attractive and inviting. There I created a short conversation and was able to learn the First Name of that new face. Alas, there was no time, opportunity and condition to continue the killer conversation. Just the first name in my heart, I was separated leaving my heart behind. The next day after a long suffering of the unknown feeling I decided to script a letter addressed to First Name, in a place I guess it could be an address. I wrote every piece the heart was feeling as much as I can do and mailed it enclosed in an envelop addressed prospective address and First Name of that face.

After a time that seemed longer that my age, there was a reply from First name followed by Second name through an instant messenger that triggered my heart to its earliest feelings.

Well, here came a reply which means there is a probability of looking that very face again. I started to send a series of Long Letters (not e-mail as there was no tech to support it) and waited for one day to see that face again. Again came phone calls and sweet voices pronouncing that full name from a location where its body resides.

Waiting for new days to come with new events, I prayed to God things to come true. If it is not again a dream, there came a call today and the sound seems familiar, and there came the Identity
" I am FirstName SecondName Form Address"
"Where are you?" I dropped a Question.
"I am here around there"
"really I am also there." I replied and continued "shall we meet today?" with eager.
Reasons started to flow, this that and this ...
I did not have the patience to wait any more and to see that face again I would not hesitate.
"Hi, we are almost together, I am coming in a minute just wait me there. Today must be the last day I wait."
"Ok that is fine"

Another call "I am already there. Are you coming?"
"Yes, I am coming," I replied and waked forward.

It is almost one year, precisely 11 months. I did not miss that face's look and feel. But now it was slimmer.Is this who have that name?
Yes, Dreams realized and a letter was transformed to face-to-face just today May 24, 2011.

Before I was sure that dream was realized, there came another separation. Time, situation, condition were the criterion.

Waiting for the next day...