- Refuse to allow a weakness or a lack of ability in any area to hold you back. Everything is learnable. And what others have learned, you can learn as well – Eat That Frog
- Happiness, as it’s said, is just results minus expectations – The Psychology of Money
- Choose to not let the next five years be a continuum of the last. Choose to change your life, once and for all – The Compound Effect
- You know by now that saying you’re ready to make the necessary changes and actually making them isn’t the same thing. To get different results, you’re going to have to do things differently and choose to Be The Exception – The Compound Effect
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- Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment – Eat That Frog
- Take a look at your relationships. Make sure you’re not spending three hours with a three-minute person – The Compound Effect
- After an Internet interruption, it takes about seventeen minutes for you to shift your total attention back to your task and continue working – Eat That Frog
- A strategy—whether in companies or in life—is created through hundreds of everyday decisions about how you spend your time, energy, and money. With every moment of your time, every decision about how you spend your energy and your money, you are making a statement about what really matters to you – How Will You Measure Your Life
- First, recognize troublemakers by their overbearing presence, or by their complaining nature. Once you spot them do not try to reform them or appease them— that will only make things worse. Do not attack them, whether directly or indirectly, for they are poisonous in nature and will work underground to destroy you. Do as the Athenians did: Banish them before it is too late. Separate them from the group before they become the eye of a whirlpool – The 48 Laws of Power
- Maybe you can’t improve your execution from 45 to 85 percent in one week, but you can move from 45 to 55 or 60 percent – The 12 Week Year
- You’ll only find your true limit when you go to fallure, not failure. Commitments by definition demand you “go to fallure, not failure – The 12 Week Year
- Once you start your most important task, discipline yourself to persevere without diversion or distraction until it is 100 percent complete. See it as a test to determine whether you are the kind of person who can make a decision to complete something and then carry it out. Once you begin, refuse to stop until the job is finished – Eat That Frog
- Only the weak rest on their laurels and dote on past triumphs; in the game of power there is never time to rest – The 48 Laws of Power
- Going to bed and waking up at the same time of day no matter what is perhaps the single most effective way of helping improve your sleep, even though it involves the use of an alarm clock – Why We Sleep
- If you live with the intentionality of effective time use, you will become a more effective leader of those around you, and you will build your business and personal success at a faster rate – The 12 Week Year
- It’s likely that, if you wore such a device, you would find out that on the nights you slept more you ate less food the next day, and of a healthy kind; felt brighter, happier, and more positive; had better relationship interactions; and accomplished more in less time at work. Moreover, you would discover that during months of the year when you were averaging more sleep, you were sick less; your weight, blood pressure, and medication use were all lower; and your relationship or marriage satisfaction were better- Why We Sleep
- Create and maintain a compelling vision of the future that you want even more than you desire your own short- term comfort, and then aligning your shorter term goals and plans, with that long- term vision – The 12 Week Year
- Success in any area requires tons of discipline. Self discipline, self-mastery, and self-control are the basic building blocks of both character and high performance – Eat that Frog
- Take every course and seminar available on the key skills that can help you. Attend the conventions and business meetings of your profession or occupation. Go to the sessions and workshops. Sit up front and take notes – Eat that Frog
- If these tactics get done, you’ve had a great week; if not, you’ve lost a week. Having this level of clarity each week is not only powerful, it’s life changing – The 12 Week Year
- The odds increase, the more you try
- If you don’t sleep the very first night after learning, you lose the chance to consolidate those memories, even if you get lots of “catch-up” sleep thereafter – Why we sleep
- I would venture to say that personal self-discipline is the number-one delineating factor between the rich, the poor, and the middle class – Rich Dad Poor Dad
- Sometimes you have to make a list of every step in a process and examine every activity to determine exactly what is holding you back – Eat that Frog
- People rarely act unless compelled to. If you create no need for yourself, then you will be done away with at first opportunity – The 48 Laws of Power
- Your current actions are creating your current results – The 12 Week Year
You go to a party or anywhere outside and you want everyone to like you, everyone to appreciate you sincerely.
Guess what, there is a simple magic for it and it doesn’t even take efforts.
Cool, Right ????
It is the expression one wears on one’s face.
SMILE. ????
Smile, you know increases the face value.
When you see somebody angry, he/she will have the most ugliest form of face.
It is far more important than the clothes one wears on one’s back.
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.’
That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.
A baby’s smile has the same effect and we know if there is a baby in room smiling at you, you cannot resist to love him and take the baby in your arms.
Beware not an insincere grin. That doesn’t fool anybody. We know it is mechanical and we resent it.
I am talking about a real smile, a heartwarming smile, a smile that comes from within, the kind of smile that will bring a good price in the marketplace.
‘People who smile,’ he said, ‘tend to manage, teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children. There’s far more information in a smile than a frown. That’s why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.’
James V. McConnell
Professor, University of Michigan
We learnt in one of the articles,
Be lavish in giving appreciation and miser in giving criticism.
Remember if you are leading a group,
Encouragement will always be much more effective teaching device than punishment.
The effect of a smile is powerful – even when it is unseen.
Your ‘smile’ comes through in your voice.
Now, when you smile your voice will be different when you do that and even the other person can feel that you are smiling and making the other person feel comfortable and
feel happy about the call.
You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.
Eliminate criticism from your system.
Give appreciation and praise instead of condemnation.
More clarity on Appreciation and Criticism is just a click away.
These things will literally revolutionize your life.
You will be a totally different man, a happier man, a richer man, richer in friendships and happiness – the only things that matter much after all.’
You don’t feel like smiling? Then what?
Practice simple things.
First, force yourself to smile. If you are alone, force yourself to whistle or hum a tune or sing. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
So, every time when you look at the mirror, just remember to add that smile ????
‘Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James
‘Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there ’
William James
You want happiness.
There is a simple way to find it.
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
You Don’t Believe me, just Try it and write me if you are successful.
Let’s see one more powerful use of smile.
If you want to say No to someone, I would suggest you that, when you say No, say it calmly, take no tension, do not show any stress on your face, let your face have a Smile, but do not laugh or smile in such a manner the other person feels offended that you are ridiculing.
Just give a very calm, comfortable smile and say No, so that will not offend other person.
And by Power of your calmness and Smile they will realize that okay, maybe you are really serious, and you cannot really offer to help them, so that is why you are saying No. So, that calmness will show them that you cannot be controlled or persuaded to change your opinion but if they see slight stress, slight tension on your face they know that they can try to dominate, control you and then looking at
your body language and behavior, they will try to persuade you to say Yes, so say it calmly.
And the Power of Smile will not offend them and will also maintain the relationship needed.
Smiling releases endorphins, serotonins and other natural painkillers. Together, these brain chemicals make us feel good from head to toe. Not only do they elevate your mood, but they also relax your body and reduce physical pain.
“A smile is the shortest distance between
Victor Borge
two people.”
So before starting the conversation give a gentle smile to strangers, unknown people or even people who have some kind of misunderstanding and it will reduce the distance between you and them.
Just by giving smile, some people are able to captivate the hearts of others. We all like Smiling faces.
So smile has this positive impact of capturing people, healing them, connecting them and binding them.
Peruse this bit of sage advice from the essayist and publisher Elbert Hubbard – but remember, perusing it won’t do you any good unless you apply it.
Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.
Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding away, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the element it needs.
Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual.
Thought is supreme.
Preserve a right mental attitude, the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. To think rightly is to create.
All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered.
We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high.
Smile ????????????
Social health can be defined as our ability to interact and form meaningful relationships with others. It also relates to how comfortably we can adapt in social situations.
Don’t get into these technicalities of definitions ????
Making Friends Easily are integral part of one’s Social Health.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Of course, it doesn’t work. People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me.
They are interested in themselves – morning, noon and after dinner.
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Alfred Adler
Do You want to make friends ??
Then, We would have to put our efforts but we will put in the simplest and most efficient way to Maximize Output from our Efforts.
Let’s put ourselves out to do things for other people – things that require time, energy, unselfishness and thoughtfulness.
If we want to make friends, let’s greet people with animation and enthusiasm.
If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this in mind always,
Become genuinely interested in other people