1. Manage your time. The way we utilise our resources defines our success. Time is the most important of these, because it is irreversible. We all have the same 24 hours in a day, but only a few can efficiently utilise it to realise their outcomes. Others waste time on the unimportant. What you do with your time is always your choice: use it or lose it!
2. Read more. The knowledge one can gather by reading books on various topics is immense. It is learning at your own pace. This habit should be inculcated at the earliest. Every book that you read, impacts your life in a big or small way. Autobiographies are the best. It can spark an idea or a change in your life, it expands your horizons, gives you different perspectives, solutions, exposure to different worlds. New audible books and podcasts are equally good, especially while commuting.
3. Plan targets. Target planning is an art. A lot of people set goals or targets for themselves, but very few know how to plan for its execution, which the most crucial part of ensuring that you achieve your targets. It is an ability to breakdown the process into smaller, achievable milestones with a timeline for each process. It is a fool-proof method to guarantee the result you are aiming for.
4. Analyse. You can only improve when you find a flaw, or when you realise your method of doing something is not producing the desired result; this makes the analysis of your daily or weekly input crucial. It is the only way to guarantee success in your daily endeavors. Tracking your processes, finding loop-holes and rectifying them at the earliest. Everything can be analysed, your work, bank-balance, body weight, even your emotions.
5. Develop Emotional Intelligence. It is your ability to interact with people, it is a social skill. We have good days and bad days, but how we empathise, connect, relate with people and situations on a daily basis, is of importance for our well-being. People with a higher emotional quotient are generally more successful.
6. Value yourself. People treat you the way you treat yourself, not the way you treat others. It is crucial that you realise who you are as a person, as that sets the way you behave and interact. It sets a definition of your personality, principles and values. Why would people value you if you don’t value yourself?
7. Be creative. This skill is what we Indians call jugaad. It is easy to accomplish anything when you have all the required resources to perform a certain task perfectly. It takes creativity to perform the task as perfectly when these resources are unavailable. This requires thinking outside the box and evolving. Overcoming obstacles in creative and ingenious ways is a skill that will never fail you. Our mind is the most powerful tool we have. The ideas we focus on, materialise. A single idea can change your life.
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