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Increase your Business Performance using Money Making Model!

Introduction

A survey says that 88% of the employees in an organization are passengers while only 12% are the drivers.

  • How will you increase the drivers in your organization?
  • How will you increase your business performance? 

To get the answer to the above questions, you need to first answer the questions given below:

Q1. What is the Money Making Model of your Department or Organization?

Money making model is one thing that drives the business performance of your department or your organization. 

According to the Pareto Principle, “if you do that one thing, it will be most impacting to the entire business.”

It further says that your 20% activities will give you 80% results and your 80% activities will not give you even 20% results. 

You need to identify the one thing that enables you to get 80% results by doing 20% activities. This one thing will be your money making business model.

Q2. What is Your Contribution to the Money Making Model of Your Department or Organization?
  

Do you know what exactly your responsibilities are in the money making business model? 

If you don’t know this, then your vision, mission, strategy, and plan everything will fail.

How much time you are investing in making the money making model for your department or your organization? 

You need to identify the answer to this question. 

Q3. Does Everybody in Your Department have the Answer to the Above Two Questions?
 

If you got the answer to all the questions discussed above, you will be able to align the entire business performance in one direction. 

If the entire team or entire organization is working on the most impacting activity and in one direction, it will increase the organization’s revenues, productivity, and profitability and make it grow. 

This should be your money making business model.

If you want to drive your business performance and improve employee engagement, then make sure each and every employee in the organization has the answer to the above three questions. They should have the knowledge of money making model of your business.

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How to Handle Tough Situations in Life

?Introduction

  • Do you get nervous in tough situations?
  • Do you want to know how to handle tough situations?

For handling tough situations, there is only one formula, i.e.

Event + Response = Outcome
 

Event means what is happening around you or what are the circumstances.

The response is your choice, i.e., how do you respond or deal with the circumstance. 

The outcome is the result of your response to that event.

Out of event, response, and outcome, what is in your hands?

You neither have event nor outcome in your hands. There is only one thing in your hands, i.e. response.

So, to know how to handle tough situations, you need to understand the event and response or react accordingly.

Reaction is thoughtless while response is thoughtful.
 

The problem (or event) that is happening in your life is not the problem. But, considering a problem as a problem is actually a bigger problem. 

How do you respond to that problem or the circumstance? This is important.

Be Mentally Strong, Not Strongly Mental
 

Circumstances can be anything. They can either make things or break things. They can either make you strongly mental or mentally strong. 

It depends on your choice how would you like to lead your life: 

  • By chance or by choice
  • By default or by design

Lots of people are not choosing or controlling their emotions but their emotions are choosing or controlling them.

For handling tough situations, you need to make your mind mentally strong.

Some people are directed by their emotions while some are directing their emotions.

Some people take instructions from their mind while some are giving instructions to their mind.

 

Event should not have the capability to change your outcome instead your response to the event should have the ability to change your outcome. 

If an event is bad and your response is also bad, then the outcome will definitely be bad.

If an event is bad but the response is good, then it may be possible that outcome is good. 

Lord Krishna said in Gita, ’Karam karenge; ho sakta hai fal mile, ho sakta hai fal na mile.’

If you do not do your job, then it is confirmed that you will not get the output.

How to handle tough situations?

For handling tough situations, you need to bounce back in tough times. 

Every successful man whether Picasso, Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi or any other successful man in the world, ’All the success stories in the world are the stories of great failures.’ But, it is their ability to bounce back in tough times that makes them successful.

You don’t become successful just by reacting. You become successful by responding to a tough time. 

Tough times tell a person that you are tougher than the tough times. 

Choice is power.

Don’t be push-start, be self-start. 

You have the power to start yourself right now.
 

Response is Everything

There is nothing in the event; everything is in the response. How do you respond to this event will determine your outcome.

So, for handling tough situations, you need to understand how to respond to an event. 

For Example:

A small boy lost his father at a young age and his mother and relatives left him. Now, the same event:

1. can make the boy mentally strong or strongly mental

2. can give him either a hopeless end or endless hope 

3. can give him either breakdown or breakthrough

It will all depend on what he chooses.

 

Whatever has happened is your experience. What you are is your existence. Experience and existence are different. Do not depend on your experiences. You can’t go back.

Have a better response to having a great outcome in your life.

According to the 2.14 Shloka of Bhagavad Gita:

?gam?p?yino ’nity?s

tans-titik?hasva bh?rata

Shri Krishna said in Bhagavad Gita, ’winter, summer, happiness, grief, respect or disrespect will come and go as they are temporary, but one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.’

The event is temporary. Your response is always with you. Keep choosing.

Whenever you fall, you should bounce back in tough times always. Your response will create a great outcome. You are born to create history on the planet earth.

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Learn Stress Free Life Tips!

Introduction

  • Does your performance decreases due to stress?
  • Are you not able to manage stress in life?

Today, stress has become an inevitable part of our life.

You have various commitments and responsibilities towards your family and work. While fulfilling these responsibilities, you might get stressed. This will directly affect your performance.

The following are some of the stress free life tips.

Tip #1: Event has no meaning; you give meaning to the event

It is one of the stress free life tips.

Any situation of our daily life is called an event. Examples – you incurred huge business loss or some loved one passed away in your life.

An event is good or bad depends on how you see it. An event is meaningless in itself. You give meaning to an event and behave accordingly.

For Example:

Your boss shouted at you publically. Is it a good event or bad?

If you give it a positive meaning, you will have positive behavior.

If you give it a negative meaning, you will have negative behavior.

This same event can make you or break you.

What is the reason of stress?

Stress is either due to people or your past experiences. Whenever you try to change the people or your past, you become stressed.
To manage stress in life, you should give new or positive meaning to the event and your behavior will change automatically.

Tip #2: Things turn out best for those who have made the best out of the way, the things have turned out

Your behavior depends on your reaction to the events or things. A positive reaction will result in positive behavior and negative reaction will result in negative behavior. It is also one of the stress free life tips.
When you change the way you look at the things,
The things you look at will change.
? You cannot change the people or your past, you just need to change the way you look at them.
So, you have to change your outlook to see things to manage stress in life.

Tip #3: You don’t behave based on what has happened to you, you behave based on what you feel has happened to you.

You don’t behave based on somebody abusing you, you behave based on what do you feel about somebody abusing you. Here, how you feel is the driving force behind your behavior. It is also one of the stress free life tips.
According to a Shloka of Bhagavad Gita:
Upadrastanumanta ca bharta bhokta mahesvarah
paramatmeti capy ukto dehe ‘smin purusah parah
Krishna is Overseer and Permitter. He looks at an event or situation from a distance and does not get involved in it. Therefore, he is not affected by any situation or event.
You should also become overseer and permitter like Krishna. Look at a situation or event from a distance and have a better understanding of the event before reacting.
This will help you to manage stress in life.
 

Do not get involved in a situation because existence and experience are different. You need to look at things from a different perspective.
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How to Develop Positive Attitude in Life

Introduction

  • Is your negative attitude a hurdle in your growth?
  • What is the role of a positive attitude in your growth and success?
  • Do you want to develop positive attitude in life?

Attitude plays a vital role in our growth and success. Attitude comes from the seed of the flow of desire that we have developed.

The higher you go in an organization; people use 90% attitude and 10% skills.

However, if you go lower in an organization, people use 90% skills and 10% attitude.

For Example:

The CEO of an organization always uses attitude but less skill whereas a carpenter or shopkeeper uses more skills and less attitude.

So, for your growth, it is necessary that you develop positive attitude towards your life and career.

Seed Pattern and Flow of Desire
You have multiple types of seed patterns and the flow of desires that form your attitude.

Let us study the creative thinking patterns of replacement.

According to the Shloka 2.59 of Bhagavad Gita:

viṣayā vinivartante

nirāhārasya dehinaḥ

rasa-varjaḿ raso ‘py asya

paraḿ dṛṣṭvā nivartate

Lord Krishna says that you have to develop a higher taste to discard the lower one. This is called alternative thinking philosophy.

You have different seed patterns. So, you can choose a seed pattern.

Life is the result of choices you made.

For Example:

If you give sweet dishes to a pig, he will not eat it. But, if you give him feces to eat, he will like to eat it. This is because he has not developed a higher taste.

Similarly, we also develop certain lower mental patterns, we get conditioned with them and we develop a belief system about them.

But we are not an animal; we have a possibility to choose a new seed pattern.

How can we do so?

We can do so by developing a higher taste and discarding a lower one.

Question arises-

How to develop a higher taste?

Whenever you get into a negative situation, do not get dumped too easily.

You should create new roots, new options, new choices, new creations, and new alternatives for yourself to develop positive attitude in life.

You should choose positive roots, positive options, positive choices, positive creations, and positive alternatives.

A shloka related to this is as follows:

vitarka badhane pratipaksha bhavanam

It means that whenever a negative thought acts as a roadblock in your life, develop a positive thought.

Do not get stuck into a circle of difficulty, better to develop a circle of possibility.
Allow yourself to think differently, in a new creative pattern, and have a new flow of desires.
You can develop positive attitude in life by adopting the following steps:

#1: See the Pattern of Your Existing Desire.

How you react in a particular situation?
In a particular situation, you behave in a particular manner and you repeat this behavior when a similar situation occurs in the future.
You need to find out about this situation and your behavior in this situation.

#2: Take a Decision to Process and Dissolve this Existing Pattern.

So as to develop positive attitude in life, first, you have to believe that you are ready to change. Then, allow yourself to change.

#3: Replace and Reinforce a New Pattern.

  • First, replace your old pattern. Then, reinforce the new pattern and consciously hold on these new positive thoughts.
  • Start thinking from a new perspective.
  • Cultivate a new seed and your new life will be started from here.

When you take a new action, new behavior develops. This new behavior turns into a new attitude. In this manner, you can develop positive attitude from negative attitude.
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How to Deal with a Difficult Boss

Introduction

  • Do you keep on switching your job?
  • Do you know how to deal with a difficult boss?
  • Are you not satisfied with your job?

If YES, then here are a couple of magical tips pertaining to how to deal with a difficult boss that is going to be your support system in your job journey.

Tip #1: Connect, Convey & Convince

For dealing with a difficult boss, you need to apply the technique of Connecting, Conveying, and Convincing. If you are connected with your boss, then even if you convey less to him, he will be more convinced. But, if the case is opposite, no matter how much you convey, the boss will not be convinced at all.

But, connecting with the boss is not easy.

The 2nd tip will help you how to deal with a difficult boss by developing a connection.

Tip #2: Needs, Interests & Concerns

  • Are you an employee, who speaks his needs, interests, & concerns to the boss? or
  • Are you an employee who listens to his boss’s needs, interests, & concerns?

As your growth is directly linked with your boss’s growth, learn to dealing with a difficult boss by-

  • Understanding his needs, interests, & concerns
  • Understanding his top three priorities
  • Understanding his top three goals in the present year

Seek to understand first, then to be understood!

Tip #3: Listen, Acknowledge, Clarify, & Explain

If your boss is an insecure person, then-

  • Try to make your boss feel more secure.
  • Listen and acknowledge your boss’s ideas, his difference of opinion rather than explaining your concerns first.

Do not listen to your Boss to clarify or respond but listen to him to understand & acknowledge his concerns.

Tip #4: Give Your 110%

Are you giving 100% in your job?

If YES, then even that is not enough. So, start giving 110% as this little 10% extra is the key to influence, inspire your boss.

Tip #5: Develop a Loving Relationship With Boss

Even the most difficult boss is still a person, not a position.
  • Boss is also seeking for right employees around him.
  • Boss is also looking for a more secure relationship with employees.
  • Your good intent will automatically give rise to good content along with improving your credibility. So, always remember-

“If you don’t distinct, you will extinct.”

Tip #6: Never Equate Your Potential with Salary

  • Your salary may be X but your potential may be 100X. Because you are equating yourself with your salary right now, therefore you are not performing well.
  • Some people say-

“Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram, Jitni Tankhwah Utna Kaam”

“रघुपति राघव राजा राम जितनी तनख्वाह उतना काम”

  • Even some people believe in the Principle of-

“Do bar Punch, Ek bar Lunch, Life hai Tunch”

  • Despite being manifold talented, people are not able to justify their position or role in the organization. If you are also one of them, who are equating an existing potential with salary or who do not want to explore his potential, leave this tendency.
  • Try to become Navratna of your boss. Be the one who works beyond potential, who is different, who works to work not just to earn.

“Unleash your potential right now, be the creator of your own destiny.”

Implementing these tips on how to deal with a difficult boss in your professional life will help you understand his concerns and excel in your career as never before.

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How to Achieve Goals in Life?

Introduction

  • Do you want to achieve all your life goals?
  • Do you change your goals frequently if not achieved?

You definitely have some dreams and aspirations in life and have also put in relentless efforts to achieve these aspirations.

But still, you don’t know how to achieve goals in life.

Now What?

You abandon and change your Goals. Isn’t it?

But, you do not have to change your goals frequently. Rather you have to direct your efforts in a proper direction and achieve your goals.

In this article, we will discuss 5 important steps to achieve goals:

1. Hold on to a Conscious Goal

When you are unable to achieve your goal after relentless efforts, you change it, and let your dreams die consciously.

99% of people either don’t set their goal or change it after one failure.

Rather than changing your goal repeatedly, change your strategy and hold on to your conscious goal.

Don’t Change Your Goal, Change the Strategy…

2. Set Unusual Reminder Mechanism

Setting an unusual reminder is one of the most significant steps to achieve goals. 

After choosing your goal consciously, you should create unusual reminders amid your day-to-day activities, to achieve your goal. 

You need to put some awkward signs and indicators around you, which don’t let you forget your goal.

99 percent of people do not hold on to their goals. Either they do not make any goals or change their goals frequently.

But the question arises, ‘How to set unusual reminders’? 

Here are 5 ideas through which you can set unusual reminders.

A. Wear your wristwatch on a different hand

If you wear a wristwatch on your right hand, then start wearing it on the left hand. It will perplex you whenever you try to see time on your right hand. This will remind you of your goal repeatedly.

B. Disturbing Sign Post

Put disturbing signposts on your way so that every time you go there, you get disturbed by these posts and recall your goal.

C. Cover Your Bathroom Mirror by 89%

When you will cover your bathroom mirror by 80% with cloth or paper, you will face difficulty in seeing a mirror while shaving and combing hair. This will make you feel uncomfortable.

Now in order to see in the mirror properly, you will move here and there or bend down, which will remind you about your goal.

D. Unusual Wallpaper on your Computer and WhatsApp

In order to achieve your goal, you need to put very unusual or strange background wallpaper on your computer desktop that makes you feel awkward while working on it and reminds your goal. You can put a similar kind of wallpaper on your WhatsApp.

The more you get reminded of your goal, the more you move towards it.

If you practice your goal for 66 days and convert it into an actionable behavior, it will become your habit. This process is called Hedonic Adaptation.
Psychologists say that ’when you perform the same thing repeatedly, it loses its enthusiasm and happiness.’
For Example
When you get a hike in salary, you feel happy for the first 2 months, afterward, it becomes usual for you.
Similarly, when you purchase a new car you feel awesome for the first few months, and then it becomes normal.

3. What Will I Do and When Will I Do?
 

To understand the better ways of how to achieve your goals in life, first of all, you just need to identify at least 5 Critical Success Factors that can lead you towards your goal.

Second, you need to define timelines and practice these Actionables daily.

4. Constant Review Mechanism with the Scoreboard

It is the mechanism to review your progress in achieving your goal on the basis of Effort Score and Result Score.

  • It keeps you on track, and don’t let you deviate from your goal.
  • It will tell what you have to achieve, what are your gaps and how to fill them.
  • Prepare a review mechanism on the basis of the critical success factors and their results.

Effort Score is how much hard work you have put in, while the Result Score is the output of your hard work.

For Example:

How much you run on the treadmill is your Effort Score, and how much weight you lose is the Result Score.

You have to control your Efforts Score to control Result Score.

5. Your Accountability Structure

Among all, it is the most important step to keep yourself moving on the path of success.

You have to make yourself accountable and answerable to someone in order to be focused on the goal. It can be your friend, mentor, guide, counselor, teacher, coach, or partner.

  • You must have a mentor in your life that you can trust.
  • You can share your review structure with him every week. 
  • Every week you have to report your accountability structure along with effort and result score with him.
  • He should be trustworthy enough to share your achievements and failures.
  • You must listen to him and follow his advice.

If you follow these steps, it will your quench your thrust to knowing how to achieve your goals in life and realize your dreams.

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3 Tips on How to Stay Focused on Your Goal

Introduction

  • Are you focused on Main Thing or Multiple Thing to achieve success in business?
  • Do you want to know how to achieve success in business by focusing on Main Thing?
  • How to stay focused on your goal?

Some people focus on multiple things at a time, while others focus on only one thing.

 

When you focus on the main thing, your goal will follow you, but when you focus on multiple things, nothing will follow you.

 

Below are tips on how to stay focused on your goal?
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Don’t Let Multiple Things Distract your Attention

Many people make a list of 10-15 things that they want to do in a day.

 

They keep bouncing between one to another without accomplishing any of them properly.

 

They keep reorienting and disorienting from one work to another.

 

The best way to make your to-do list – divide your day into 2 parts.

8 am to 2 pm- Main Thing (Key Drivers)
2 pm to 8 pm – Multiple things

Between 8 am to 2 pm perform the Main Thing that is your Key Driver and gives 2 pm to 8 pm to Multiple Things.

Multitasking is just a Myth

If you are seeking the ways of how to stay focused on your goal simultaneously being a “multitasker’, then you are running after a myth.

Nowadays, multitasking has become a very fashionable term. From students, working professionals to entrepreneurs, everyone wants to be an expert in many things at a time.

Famous author Steve Uzzell said, ’Multitasking is merely an opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.’

Multitasking makes a person orient and disorients from one work to another repeatedly, which decreases his productivity.

For Example :
?If five horses of a chariot start running towards five different directions, then chariot will turn upside down.But, if they run with full speed in one direction, then a chariot will run faster and smoother.

Chariot is like your life, and horses are your 5 senses.

If your 5 senses will perform 5 different tasks at a time, then your productivity will come down.

But, if they stay focused on one main thing at a time, your productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness will be the highest.

Eminent Italian Economist Vilfredo Pareto has strongly refuted the theory of multitasking.

Pareto said, ’Your 20% work gives you 80% result, while your 80 % work gives you only 20% result.’

In other words, your 20% focus on one main thing, will give you 80% results. But if you stay focused on multiple things, you will get neither Main nor multiple things.


Extraordinary business comes from minimum busyness.

You should drive one main focus instead of getting derived by 10 different focuses. 

Multi-Activity vs. Multi-Focus

It is not your capability of performing multi activities at one time that determines how well you have mastered the skill of how to stay focused on your goal.

Because there is a fundamental difference between Multi-Activity and Multi-Focus. One can perform multiple activities physically at a time, but their mental focus cannot be on multiple things.

For Example

You can talk on the mobile phone while walking on the road, but you cannot write your exam while watching a movie.

It is also written in Bhagavad Gita:

Ekeha kuru-nandana bahu-sakha hy anantas ca

 

Ancient Hindu scriptures also confirm that ’The intelligence of those who are irresolute is many-branched.’ It means Focus on multiple things doesn’t help you attain your goal.

Bouncing between multiple works and shifting the orientation results into 40% of quality loss.


When you shift your mental orientation frequently, your efficiency level goes down and productivity gets reduced.
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Learn Quick Success Formula

?Introduction

  • Do you want to know the secret of a quick success formula?
  • How to increase your speed of implementation? 

All the successful people whether they are top millionaires, billionaires, sportspersons, entrepreneurs, etc. have one thing in common and that is, their Speed of Implementation. Their speed of implementation is very high.

If any of these people find a new idea or knowledge, they do not wait, they implement it immediately. 

Their implementation time is almost zero.

Speed of Implementation is the quick success formula.

Implementation of Information Leads to Transformation

Information will not give you transformation. The implementation of information will give you transformation. 

  • information is not power, it is only potential power. 
  • Knowledge is not power, it is only potential power. 
  • Only applied information and applied knowledge is real power. 
  • If successful people read a book, they implement their learning immediately. 
  • If they watch a video, they implement the learning from it immediately. 

With time, we develop certain patterns and it becomes difficult for us to change these patterns.

You can change these patterns people only through the speed of implementation.

If you keep on implementing your daily learning, then your ability to change these patterns and bring flexibility in these patterns increases.

Start Now!

Sometimes, people try hard to implement certain things but they are not able to do so. 

Here is a solution for this. You can implement your learning only if you implement it immediately, that is, right now. 

If you are waiting for the right time to come, then it has come, it is now. 

Implement it right now. 

Speed of implementation comes with the word now. 

  • Not tomorrow – start now!
  • Not when the season is nice ’ start now!
  • Not when the reason is nice ’ start now!
  • Not when your vacations are over ’ start now!
  • Not when your horoscope is perfect ’ start now!
  • Not When You Are Not There! Therefore Start Now!
  • The best time to start was only yesterday but the next best time to start is right now. If not now, then never.

Steps to Implement the Knowledge

To increase the speed of implementation of a concept or knowledge, you should take the following five steps:

Step #1: Hear
’ First hear the concept. 

Step #2: Understand
’ After hearing, understand the concept.

Step #3: Meditate
’ After understanding, meditate on the concept.

Step #4: Digest
’ Identify the things in the concept that are not important and leave them. Determine the actionable things in the concept.

Step #5: Apply
’ Now, implement the actionable things.  

So, the quick success formula or the formula for success is- the speed of implementation.

As fast as you implement knowledge or learning in your life, as quick as you will grow.

Therefore, start implementing the right here and right now.

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Change Your Destiny with Power of Belief System

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Introduction

  • What is the power of Belief System?
  • What Belief System do you possess – Negative or Positive?

Your ’Belief System’ is the core strength that you believe in. Your belief system can make you or break you. It can give you a hopeless end or endless hope or it can make you cry or try.

Belief System can make you strongly mental or mentally strong

What is Real Motivation?

The motivation which depends on an external source is always temporary in nature, but the motivation which comes from an internal source is permanent. 

’Belief system is the real source of motivation which comes from internal source’.

Belief System can be of two types:

Negative Belief System

Positive Belief System

Believe system can make you do the worst or greatest of the things depending upon what kind of the belief system you possess.

You can understand the power of a belief system is so much that:

  • In Thailand, women pierce their whole body with bamboo sticks, because they think that God Buddha gets pleased, and they get purified, while it is torture for others. 
  • In Eastern parts of India, women walk barefoot on burning coal, because they believe that Goddess Durga gets pleased and they get purified. But it is torture for others.
  • In some places on the earth, people kill innocent women and children, thinking that their God is getting pleased, and they will get heaven because it is their belief system.
Wherever you are today is based on Belief System that you have developed

The belief system is that one strength which can help you conceive, believe and achieve. Whatever you conceive, and you firmly believe, and there is a great possibility that you will be able to achieve.

Convert Your Anger into Resolution

Mahatma Gandhi was thrown out of 1st class coach of the train by white people because of his skin color in South Africa during the British era. 

Gandhi protested saying that ’I am a barrister and I have a first-class ticket’. But white people didn’t allow him in 1st class owing to his skin color and threw him out of the train. 

Agonized from this act, Gandhi said, ’You threw me out of the train, I will throw you out of my country.’

It was the power belief system that he convert his Anger into Resolution, which led a mass movement for the independence of India.

It’s okay to have Anger, but it’s bad to get angry.

People who created history in the world are the people who were able to convert their anger into resolution. One revolution can bring a major revolutionary resolution.

Be the Only One

If you try to be the best you will become number one, but if you try to remain unique you will become only one. 

  • Be that unique ’Blue Ocean’, where you are the only one by creating your competitive strength. 
  • Your competitive advantage will finish all competitors in ’Red Ocean’ and you will become a competition yourself.

Speed of Implementation

People who implement their learning at lightning speed are those who grow fast, while others remain stuck in their patterns.

One top quality in every successful CEO is Speed of Implementation.

These people have a mental thermostat which helps then convert their every learning into the actionable plan at lightning speed. 

Your success depends on your speed of converting your learning into an actionable plan. You can make your business successful by increasing the speed of your implementation. 

Speed of Implementation will follow the below steps:

  • Hearing
  • Understanding 
  • Mediating
  • Digesting 
  • Applying

Implementation of Knowledge is Real Power.

Knowledge is not the real power, it is only potential power. It is the implementation of information that gets you real transformation

The kind of patterns you develop through your learning and their actual implementation in business will actually determine your future.

Power of ’NOW’

One most powerful word that can change your life is ’ ’Now’. 

You cannot improve the future in the future; you have to improve the future right now or never. The notion that good days are coming is actually bogus.

Good days will never come in the future, they will come right now, right here.

The people who have been successful in the world understood the power of a belief system, so do can you script the new history of success.

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Learn How to Develop Personal Effectiveness with 3 Tips

how to develop your personal effectiveness, increasing personal effectiveness

Introduction

  • Are you a manager trying to become a leader?
  • Do you want to develop personal power or positional power?
  • Do you know how to develop personal effectiveness?

Every manager in an organization someday wants to become a leader of an organization.
But do you know, what matters the most in becoming a leader? It is ‘people skills’.

“The higher you go in an organization, 90% is people skills and only 10% is technical skills.”

If you want growth, develop your technical skills.
If you want to grow more, then develop your managerial skills.
For unlimited growth, develop your people skills.

So, you have to develop people skills for growing from managerial positions to leadership positions.

But before dwelling into how to develop ‘people skills’, let’s understand the difference between ‘personal power’ and ‘positional power’.

Personal Power vs. Positional Power
Let us take an example to understand the difference between personal power and positional power, and how to develop personal effectiveness from them.

For Example
Mahatma Gandhi had personal power while Rahul Gandhi has positional power. Similarly, Amitabh Bachchan has personal power while Abhishek Bachchan has positional power.

So ‘personal power’ means ‘ability to influence masses by virtue of their own charisma. On the other hand, ‘positional power’ means ‘deriving power from the position, and it may or may not influence the masses’.

Which kind of power would you like to develop?
According to Verse 3.21 of Bhagavad Gita:

yad yad acharati srestha tad tad evetaro janah

It means ‘जैसा जैसा, वैसा वैसा’, that is, ‘Leading by Example.’
To put it simply, the way a leader does anything, the followers will also do the same.
However, it is not necessary that followers will obey everything instructed by the leader.

Leadership is not by positional power, it is by personal power.
Leadership is not by instruction; it is by inspiration.

So, before developing interpersonal effectiveness, you need to work on increasing personal effectiveness to be a successful leader.

Below given are some of the tips on how to develop your personal effectiveness:

Tip #1: Don’t See Things Worse Than They Are

In an organization, various things happen around you, don’t see things worse than they actually are.

You don’t behave based on what has happened to you, you behave based on what you feel has happened to you.

When you feel bad about something, you behave badly. When you do so, it creates a Negative Cyclic Reciprocation.

When you feel negative, you deal negative.

Tip #2: Try to See Things as They Are
When you try to see things as they are, you give benefit of doubt to a given situation. This, in turn, enables you to see things with a newer perspective. So,

When you change the way you look at the things

The things you look at they change

For Example
If you clicked pictures of a mountain, ocean, or a building and the picture taken is not looking good, then what you will do?

Do you shift the position of mountain, ocean, or building? No, you cannot.

You have to shift your vision to take a better picture. So, change your vision to look at things that are where the need arises to increase personal effectiveness.

Tip #3: Try to See Things Better Than They Are
When you see things better than they are, then you will behave better and develop people skills. It will also help you to develop great relationships.

Beyond a particular point, it is not your technical skills that help you grow; it is your people skills that help you grow. Hence you need to focus on increasing personal effectiveness, not positional effectiveness.
You have to feel better if you want to deal better.