Mantra 1: Goals
Story - An young professor asked a class of 300, how many had written down their goals in life - written down in their own handwriting? Just 3% i.e. 9 people had put up their hands. This was in one of the best known university. 30 years later, there is a reunion of the class of 1963 - The professor ask them what is their respective net worth? The individual net worth of the 9 individuals where more than the 291 others, and all others were outstanding achievers. If there is nothing you pick up this evening, write down your goals.
Mantra 2: Yes We Can
It was Barack Obama who said this. Breath Positivity. If you think you have to be extraordinary intelligent you are wrong. Example Albert Einstein was taken out of school, and tutored by his mother, as teacher thought him to be stupid and he gave the formula E= MC2. Ramanujan failed the Entrance exam to Madras university. Henry Ford, when he made the first car forgot it should have reverse gear. Bill Gates, was Harvard drop out. Dherubhai Ambani was a petrol pump attended. What you lose out in intelligence you can always make up with hard work.
Pete Sampras, who held the record of highest number of grand slams, once after winning, when he was interviewed by a journalist, who asked, what do you do after you play tennis? Sampras said, after I play tennis, I play tennis. Asked again what do you do after you play tennis? Sampras said, after I play tennis, I play tennis.
Nowhere other than dictionary success precede work. Work, toil upward in the night.
Date is 12th March 2006; Venue: New Wanderers Stadium Johannesberg, Magical number of 434 - Australia had scored against South Africa. The game was already lost. Story going around is that South Africa's young captain said, it's easy, just score 4 runs more than Australia.
Power of positivity, ability to put in hardwork, and luck.
Mantra 3: Power of Process
Three quick activities to understand how process is powerful:
1) Take a paper and pen - Think of a number under 10 (0 to 9); multiply the number by 2, to the result add 8; divide the number by 2; from this number subtract the original number you thought. Find out the equivalent english alphabet. eg. 3-C; Now think of a European country, that begins with this letter. Think of an animal, whose name starts with the last alphabet of the name of the country. Pick up the last letter of the animal, and think of a fruit. How many of you are thinking of Denmark/Kangaroo/Orange. Its because, the process was so laid out, people would come with this answer. 98% will have the same reason. This is why , we need to have step by step process, or have check list. If you feed the right raw material, you will have right finished product.
2) When there are jumbled numbers, it is difficult to identify, but if we arrange them in some systematic manner or in quadrants, we will be able to find them. First it was a maze of numbers, then there was a method in the madness. Break things into small parts, and you will be able to master it. This is the power of the process.
3) Read what is in front of you.
This message, serves to prove, how our minds can do amazing things, impressive things, In the beginning it was hard, but your mind is reading it automatically, Be proud , only certain people can read this.
Don't give up when you see struggle. When you battle it, you will win.
It is important to have a process, break it, and not give up.
Mantra 4: Preparation/Training
1) Before - Understand
2) During - Participate, Take notes, Ask Questions - Example Story - Accountants know what you do is right or wrong. Rules of science are copied from rules of accounting, Newtons third law of motion discovered in 19th century - to every action there is equal and opposite reaction, 15th century Luca Pacioli laid down that every debit has a credit. So it was cut, copy, paste. Why liabilities always appear on the left and assets on the right? No body knew the answer, but only one person asked. One teacher said - Young man, go home today, take a look at the wedding photograph and you will know. The boy said, it is good to ask a question, and be counted as a fool for 5 second, than to never ask the question, never know the answer, and be counted as a fool forever. Where you have doubt, ask question and have the query clarified.
3) After - Revise - you tend to remember more.
It is important how you conduct yourself, it is important to have a good atmosphere. When you have deadline to meet, go underground, forget everything around. Put a timetable and execute it.
Mantra 5: Manage time
Resource available at finite quantity to all of us. Understand, appreciate and follow remember:
1) have uncluttered desk
2) have a to do list with 4-5 items; and be happy ticking them off, and not a long one
3) get out of and throw aside the smart phone - after distraction, to come back it takes 7 minutes to get back to work.
4) In the To Do list - First eat the frog. The day ahead will be smooth. Finish off the most tough task first. Do not procrastinate.
5) have all the crucial documents, with you, and read what is important. Don't postponed your things.
Mantra 6: Crucial Event
Delivery of the BAU is crucial, if it is Month End, and you are assigned a BAU, its a match, you owe it to you to do well.
1)Stick to notes. Relax, get sufficient sleep before
3) Do not panic. Do not Fret. Do not bluff. Don't get excited. Stay till end and Move on
4) Communicate, Communicate, Communicate. Ask, discuss, Inform.
5) Don't leave till the end.
Mantra 7: Wholesomeness
Life is a lot more. There are three important things to move up and move on.
1) Faith - When you go to pray for rain, you need to take umbrella. Only one man did.
2) Trust - A child being thrown up by father smile, because the child knows/trust that father will hold
3) Hope - We set alarm for every morning, with the hope we will wake up.
A story, of a young boy 9 year old selling newspapers, was extremely hungry. Knocked the door of a house, thought a known old lady would open the door, but an young girl opened, and he was unable to say he was hungry. But the girl felt he was hungry and gave him a big glass of milk. Few years later, there is a lady admitted in a hospital, on whom only one doctor could do surgery and save her. The doctor when consulted, asked about the patient. Doctor said the invoice be send to him. When the bill got into her end, it read, paid in full by a glass of milk. Dr. Howard Kelley.
One attribute you should never never ever forget, is the attribute of gratitude.
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