You are a Diamond! Now Dazzle!!

Thanks to Anish, could get a copy of 'Discover The Diamond In You: By Arindam Chaudhuri' to Master the 9 powerful principles Inside. It will not take you more than an hour to complete reading this book..and the author says 59 minutes, the Bata way..

Four qualities that makes Diamond sought after:

CARAT:
• Passion,
• Positive Energy.
CUT:
• Performance,
• Perseverance.
COLOUR:
• Personality,
• People skill
CLARITY:
• Perspective,
• Principles,
• Patriotism.

A] The Forward by SRK:

Life is not just a checklist of acquisitions, achievements and fulfillments. Your qualifications and CV does not matter. Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone’s control. The humility to know that and the ability to respect your failure will help you survive life’s unknown qualities and quantities…Courage is doing what you are afraid to do….

B] The 9P Success Trilliant: MG: “Almost anything you do will seem insignificant. But its very important that you do it. You must be the change you wish to see in this world!”

C] 9 P’s:

Question: How many CARATS is the diamond within you?
1. PASSION:

There is nothing more powerful than a human soul on fire!

Bill Bowerman: One person Interested in Running
Facets: Educator, trainer, all time great track & field legendary coach, ultra-innovator, inventor, brand builder, successful businessman, author & change agent. (Co-founder of Nike)

2. POSITIVE ENERGY:

Success occurs twice in life, once in your mind and once in reality!

Rabindranath Tagore: “ Jobi tor dak shume keo na aashe, tobe ekla chalo re”..(If nobody responds to your call, then walk it alone)

Bruce Lee: Had written a letter to himself: “By 1980, I will be the best known Oriental movie star in US……& in return give best acting…..& I will live in peace & harmony….Dt. 9th Jan. 1970; but he died in 1973. Now the letter is in Planet Hollywood, New York.

Question: How well CUT is the Diamond within you?

Sustained Sincerity: The two most important words that make an achiever!

3. PERFORMANCE:

Failure is not when you don’t reach your goals. It is when you don’t have any goal to reach!

‘Continuing the same behaviour and expecting a different result’ is Insanity. Be the change agent! Act now! Dreaming & Believing is fine – it’s the one who outperforms others, who win.

In the book ‘Outliers’: Malcolm Gladwell: Its nothing else but the number of hours of practice that differentiate world class performers from the not so good ones…Start early…

4. PERSEVERANCE:

The result of the journey is not the reward. The journey is the reward! The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Life can quite be a roller-coaster. It can prove to be a hard task master and make you put up with the worst.
J. Paul Getty- ‘A man may fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else’.
Be prepared to fail, but have the perseverance to try again & again. Success will not be far behind.

Question: What is the COLOUR of the Diamond within you?

If you want to multiply your success score, focus on the colour of human diamond.

5. PERSONALITY:
Add a magnetic personality to your hardwork and perseverance and you can reach much further than you can with hardwork alone. Personality hones in you the synergy effect…Its not just great talent but a feeling of Camaraderie & Commitment within a team that leads to its success.
Groom yourself+Great Communicator+Law of Personality Building(LOP)
LOP= Looks+Action+Words
Looks is not good or bad, but how you present yourself.
Action is how you walk, sit etc.

6. PEOPLE:
“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together” You need to have the ability & the knack of building a great team. It’s easy to get good players but getting them to play together is the hard part.

Jack Welch: ‘Great People, not great strategies, are what made it all work’.

Question: What is the CLARITY of the Diamond within you?

7. PERSPECTIVE:
If you know where you are traveling to & what you want in life, everything else becomes clear, & your journey reaps the maximum reward. Don’t choose paths that give you short term result, but is harmful in the long run..A clear perspective gives you the insight and the guts to believe in your dreams and carry on.
It is power, courage, motivation, direction…

8. PRINCIPLES:
Let there never be any doubt about what you stand for. Try and chanse what you believe in. Subash Chandra Bose/Che Guevana: Never saw success but they were not failures. Success is the courage to take the journey, you believe in.

That is the true meaning of success for a principled man…Contrast TATA, CTS: Satyam, Enron: The latter are behind the bars. (Cognizant was founded in 1994 as an IT development and maintenance services arm of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. The company was spunoff as an independent organization two years later. I believe both Satyam and Cognizant got spunoff as independent organisation from D&B.)
In the long run it pays to be ethical..

Gita: ‘Karm Kiye ja, phal ki chinta mat kar….’

Book worth reading: The journey is the reward: By Steve Job.

9. PATRIOTISM:
Inglorious is that success, which comes without patriotism.. If you want to find the dazzling & clear diamond within you, never forget to love your country and the people of the world on the whole, especially the underprivileged and the exploited.

In trying times, Never stop trying!

After all, the Word ‘diamond’ originates from the Greek word ‘adamas’, meaning Unconquerable!

You are a Diamond!

Now Dazzle!!