Using Higher Forces - From the Book 'The Tools' by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

Man himself is quite limited in capabilities. He is a bunch of learned things, conditionings of his environment, opinion of his near and dears and exposure of social media. When he try to perform with these limited capabilities, off course the output will also be limited. Garbage in - Garbage Out !

What most of us don't know or don't realize is that there is an infinite reservoir of higher forces available for us to use. If only we know what these are and how to make use of these, to achieve unlimited outcomes.

These higher forces are

1. Embracing the pain of going out of comfort zone - the higher force is available in that particular moment when we decide to love the pain of going out of our comfort zone, and decide to go ahead with whatever we want to do. The evolution will push us to do that, if only we embrace the pain.

2. Unconditional Love - Resentments make you a closed person. Extend your unconditional love towards the person you are resenting against, and see the results yourselves. There will be an immediate relief in your chest !

3. Make your SELF , your PARTNER - The Self though is limited, has a very beneficial use. It can be used as a conduit for flow of high energy. Only condition is that you need to recognize the SELF( it is hungry for recognition) and make it your Partner in whatever you want to do. Amazing things will happen, your insecurities will go away, and things will be done through you. 

4. Gratefulness - The universe is here to help you not only survive but thrive. The only ask from the universe if Gratefulness towards it. Gratefulness if the Gate, the Conduit or the Way to the Higher Source from where everything flows. The more you use Gratefulness, more abundance will come into your life. 

5. Continuous Development - You need will power in order for you to exercise the above four higher forces. That can only be done by willpower. Will power can only come if you have the view that you are her eon this Earth for a limited time. Each second not utilized properly if a waste, 

Bring it on,  keep embracing new problems. Problems will help you grow and achieve your potential. You are here to Create, just like God Creates. Don't be a consumer, be a Creator.

Key Take Aways from Book 'The 5AM Club' by Robin Sharma

Letting go of Mediocrity and All That's Ordinary

To find your best self, you must lose your weak self.     

Words of Khalil Gibran about his creative process for his book 'The Prophet'
"I wanted to be sure, very sure, that every word of it was the best I had to offer "

An addiction to distraction is end of your creative production.

Take one hour in the serenity of early morning hours, away from the complexity, to prepare yourselves for a world-class day

Excuses breed no genius.

Small Daily improvements, when done consistently over time, lead to stunning results.

All Change is Hard at First, Messy in the Middle, and Gorgeous at the end.

When you feel like surrendering, continue. Triumph loves the relentless.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the Genius or the madman. It's only you and I , with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

Framework for expression of Greatness

BETTER AWARENESS -> BETTER CHOICES -> BETTER RESULTS - All this done with more Granularity rather than Superficiality leads to Greatness.

Gamble everything for Love, if you are a true human being.If not, leave the gathering. Halfheartedness doesn't reach into majesty.

4 Focuses of History Makers

1. CAPITALISATION IQ - it's not the size of the Dog in a Fight, but size of Fight in the Dog that matters. The importance of intelligently exploiting our Strengths.
Dedication and discipline beats brilliance and giftedness everyday of the week.


2. FREEDOM FROM DISTRACTION - An addiction to distraction is death of your creative production. Don't waste your time on Zero-Value activities.

3. PERSONAL MASTERY PRACTICE -  Sweat more in practice, Bleed less in war. Victories occur before warriors walk into the field. Triumph belongs to the one who prepares the most.

The so-called 'Natural' Genius is basically 10000 hrs of hard-work into mastering a skill.

The 2x3x formula- if you want to double your income, triple your effort into the personal mastery in your field.

Your influence in the world mirrors the glory, nobility, vitality and luminosity you 've accessed in yourself.

4. DAY STACKING - How we stack our each day, will define our future. Small daily, seemingly insignificant improvements, when done consistently over time, yield staggering results.


4 Interior Empires

MINDSET - A positive and creative mindset , optimistic outlook, improve your mind to improve your life.

HEARTSET - Hearthset is the emotional part of your life. Even with bulletproofed beliefs and distinguished thinking of a world-class Mindset, you won't win if your heart is full of Anger, Sadness, Disappointment, Resentment and Fear. Toxic feeling Weigh you down.

HEALTHSET - Quite obviously, this is about having a good health, eating good, exercise well, physical activities etc.

SOULSET - This is about having a good spiritual life. Having God in the heart and mind all the time.

You need to strengthen all these four parts of your interior Empire for a true mastery.

The Best and the most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with a Heart - Helen Keller

The Lifetime Habit Arc

THE TRIGGER -> THE RITUAL -> THE REWARD -> THE REPETITION 

When faced with a choice , always chose the one that pushes you th emost, increases your growth, and promotes the unfoldment of your gifts, talents and personal prowess.

When you feel like quitting, persevere.


What to do when you wakeup at 5:00am 

Do at least these 3 Activities, in the same order as below

1. Move - Do Physical Excercise
2. Reflect - Journal , Meditation , Contemplate
3. Grow - Review Goals, Read Books, Study Online, work on your Professional Areas for growth.


The re-Sleep evening Ritual in order to Wakeup at 5:00am

7:00pm - 8:00pm - Last mean of the Day, All devices Turned-off , Isolation from over-stimulation
8:00pm - 9:00pm - Family conversations, Reading a Book, Bath , Re-creation
9:00om- 10:00pm - Meditation, Pray, Technology-free bedroom, Sleep


The Amazing Day Deconstruction

My learnings for a satisfying career and a fulfilling life

Some of my learnings for a satisfying career and a fulfilling life:

·       No matter what, always follow your heart - The more you follow, the stronger your inside mind, which directs you, gets. It starts to give you better and better direction once you start to honor it. Never be afraid to take action based on what your heart says, no matter how late it has become, no matter what people will say. Nobody, I mean nobody, not even your parents or your spouse can think better about you more than what you can do yourself. Rely on yourself, this is the only thing you got, everything else is temporary.
       There is nothing impossible if you trust yourself. You can pretty much do anything which you want to do and are passionate about. Doesn't matter if you made a wrong career choice, change it mid-way. You will feel the heat but you will be happy.

·       Always strive for more than what you are or what you have - This is the only life you have. To live it fully you need to take up bigger responsibilities, which could add bigger value to the world. Trust me , bigger the responsibility, bigger the breathing room it has. Smaller responsibility is like living in a small enclosure, with no room to move around. Strive for bigger roles, if you do not get it, offer your services for free in a bigger responsibility. The idea is to play a bigger game. Bigger and more challenging the game, the more you are going to enjoy it. Value the people who have bigger visions, be around them, as they will pull you up. 

·       Develop relationships with trust - Keep on building new relationships and nourishing old relationships. Be fair and straight to people. Trusted people are a huge support for you to keep standing in any circumstances. At the end of the day, the only thing that will count will be the number of people you have trusted relationship with.
 

·       Develop a similar trusted relationship with yourself - Most of the time, we are afraid of ourselves only, when we are afraid of public speaking, of confronting others, of meeting your friend who has done too well in life. These are all internal fears because we do not trust ourselves. We always doubt ourselves, are we good enough? Do we have the same capabilities as others do? Of course we do, if only we could eliminate internal hesitations. Start building a good relationship with yourself, like it because that's all you got.

 There are a lot of time when I followed these principles and gained tremendously, professionally and personally. There a lot of other times when I did not follow these principles and ended up repenting those decisions.

Balance and Middle Way

Finding the Right Balance

I think it is all about finding the right balance, be it personal life, work life, student life. There are extremes everywhere, but finding the right balance is the key to a well lead life.

Most of the people get caught in the extremes. What is an extreme,  for example if somebody puts all his life, all his time and energy in work, with no social life, no home life, well...I don't know what he/she going to feel at the dawn of his/her life.

Be Professional

Be Professional

There is no friendship in professional life, there could be rapport, there could be reasonable favors, but no friendship. No going extra mile for anybody. Clear the expectations and work as per those. Never ever let any thing slip-by because of friendship, be straight when it comes to deliverable.

How to provide feedback

Appraisal time( might be over for some of us) , some tips on providing feedback:

Feedback should be provided only when somebody seeks it badly. Providing it proactively startles the receiver and turns him or her defensive.

To be effective, feedback should always be constructive feedback, and never as negative feedback. If you just want to indicate a fault in a person, please restrain. Only provide feedback if you have an idea on how something could be unlocked in that person for him or her to realize full his or her full potential.

Even after providing the information on how he or she can improve, you need to work with that person on this improvement so that he or she does not deviate again towards the status quo.

So a good feedback is not just a statement for anybody, it is a responsibility which has to be exercised very diligently.

Negative Marking

Impact of Speaking without Meaning

Sometimes in a meeting, we make a comment just for the sake of it. Might be that we are under pressure to say something for the sake of our position or role. Might be that we think, we will be perceived as a person with nothing to contribute, so we should speak something, should ask some question. Might be that we just want to be in agreement with rest of the group.

But speaking just for the sake of it, without adding value, without being aware of what you are saying and why you are saying, is disastrous. Never ever do it.

Rather be aware of what you are saying, mean it and say it with conviction.

Life's Teachings are the Best

Experiencing Life

This world is like an experience zone. Every experience, good or bad, teaches us a bit more about life, a bit more about this world. It is like a huge jig-saw puzzle, with each experience, the peices get fitted here and there and then we say ahha.... now I understand why it happened so.

Same way our point-of-views keep changing as we understand the laws-of-life better with new experiences. Point-of-view is like a colored filter through which we see the world. The color of this filter keeps changing as we gain new experiences.

Do you ever wonder how you used to look at the world few years ago, and how different it is when you see it now? And it is a continuous process, that is, the way you think about anything right now, might not be the same few years from now. The same world start to look different than it used to be, although nothing really has changed. It is just that your understanding of laws-of-life has become a bit better with new experiences.

The most important skill in professional life

At least my professional experience leads me to the conclusion that Effective Communication is the most important skill in professional life.

What does Effective communication mean? It means:
1. Clear and concise communication
2. Appropriate amount of information as per the audience
3. Display of right amount of emotions in the communication
4. Finally, the ability to convey the core message

It is such a basic skill for a human being and yet is not mastered by many. If you have good communication skills, chances are that you have a lot of other good skills as well. Because good communication comes with the interplay of lot of other things like, vast knowledge, vast experience, emotional stability, sharpness of the mind, presence of mind.

But the reverse is not ture, that is, you might have vast knowledge, vast experience but still might not have good communication skills.

It is highly recommended for parents to train their children in this basic skill to the best of their abilities.

How to get Energized at work?

How to we get energized at work? Well, how do we get energized in a game or whatever else we like to do.May be because it has:

• Our Interest
• Challenge
• Positive Stress
• Support and Cooperation
• Our 100% Participation
• Support and Cooperation
• The Goal
• Fun! 

If we carry the same factors as above to our work, let's see how exciting the work becomes.

Our interest: Like in a football game, you enjoy your position if you are best skilled in that position and reinforce your team from that position. Same way, in an organization, be in a position where you are most skilled at. Having the right people in the right places makes the whole work or business to flow smoothly.   
It is a very trite statement, but we have to have interest in whatever we are doing. Otherwise work becomes a load which we have to carry everyday.

Managers should take into account personal interests of people, as much as possible, while giving ownership of tasks.

Challenge: Do you enjoy playing with a weak opponent or a strong opponent? Probably the latter one. Why? Because the Challenge is more in that case. Challenge gives energy. Raise the bar for whatever you are doing. Stretch yourselves for a few extra miles.Take calculated risks. In your target settings, commit for a little more than what seems feasible and then try your best to achieve it. Managers should appreciate over-commitment and some failures than under-commitment and all successes. 

Positive Stress: Can you remember tense moments in a Game, and then suddenly, with team effort, the Game turns around. The whole experience is thrilling. Same way in workplace, some amount of positive stress is healthy to maintain the excitement. Working under pressure to complete our commitments gives a kind of positive stress, which is healthy for personal growth. Break the boundaries and push ourselves to achieve whatever we targeted for.

Support and Cooperation: Just like in a Game, do whatever you are best at and seek support and cooperation for the rest. Our eyes should be on the bigger Goal, than just our part. Align yourselves with the Goal of organization one level above you. Do whatever it takes to achieve the organization Goal, not just your personal part. In the end, what matters is the win of the whole team, not just your part.

Our 100% Participation: What does 100% mean? Is it just 100% of your physical presence? Or is it 100% presence of your body, mind and spirit? Energy comes when we are 100% present with our Body, Mind and Spirit.Imagine what could happen in a game, if your mind is somewhere else, no matter how fit you physically are, you will not succeed and your team will not succeed. Give your 100% to your work place during the work hours. Get yourself immersed fully.

The Goal: Have you felt the exhilaration when our favorite team in a game does a Goal? When the whole organization is clear about the Goal and synergizes towards it to achieve that Goal, success is inevitable. Clarity of the Goal gives Energy and Clarity of the Strategy gives direction. Combine this with team spirit and you have a winning formula. Everyone in an organization should be clear on what the Goal is. If we are not clear, we should ask your team leader and align yourselves with the organization goal. Make sure you are running in the right direction.

  

Fun! : Above all, a game is fun. Let your work place also be so. Plan and achieve smaller milestones during the course of the project or work you are doing. Celebrate these small milestones with full enthusiasm! Share your achievements (and sweets) with others. You are the one to make your workplace - a fun-place.

Don't let your work be just work, Let it be a Game and let's play it with full heart !