“From tonight onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.”
~ Robin Sharma
Our happiness in our life is directly linked to the amount of control we have over our life. We feel happy, excited when we are in control of our life.
We either feel stressed out or unhappy when we are not in control of our life.
our job is to take control of our life by accepting complete responsibility, by doing the necessary things to bring our life in balance.
We could take control of our life in 4 ways
1. start doing something new
One of the way we could take control of our lives is by start doing something new which could benefit us.
It may be something as simple as waking up early in the morning, reading books, doing exercise or yoga, start investing money, learning a new skill, and something life-changing like starting a new business or changing your carrier.
List any 5 new activities which would you like to start doing this week/month/year?
2. Start doing something more of
Start doing more of what you are already doing that is beneficial to you.
We all have many habits and activities that we do every day which are making our lives easier and reaping rewards.
Our job now is to find out the things we are already doing that benefit us and start doing more of it.
It could be something like increasing the time of exercise we do every day, spending more time on our projects.
List any five activities that you do every day that benefit you the most? And start doing more of it.
3. Start doing less of
Every day we indulge in certain activities that make less or no significant changes in our lives.
These activities including watching long hours of Television, too much intake of unhealthy foods, spending too much time unproductively.
These are all some of the activities which we could consider start doing less of.
List any 5 activities that you could consider start doing less of every day?
4. Stop and replace it
These are all activities that are no longer beneficial to you in the short term as well as in the long term.
The best thing you could do is to consider abandoning or replacing it with something that could benefit you in the short term and long term.
List any 5 activities in your routine that you could consider stopping doing? And consider replacing it with any other productive activities or habits.
“Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.”
At every moment of our life, we always have a choice.
There is nothing we should do, we are free to choose whatever we want.
As Louise hay author of the book “you can heal your life” says “should” is one of the most damaging words and every time we say we should do something, We are wrong.
The word “should” frightens us and puts more pressure on us.
We could replace “should” with “could”
As I mentioned earlier we always have a choice, why don’t we choose “could” over “should”.
Because “could” gives us more freedom.
How do the following lines sound: ” I should buy a new car by December 2021″ or ” I could buy a new car by December 2021.
Which of the above statement sounds more convincing.
When we use “could” over “should” we are ultimately giving ourselves more freedom and thereby we increase our chance of hitting our goals with “ease and peace”.
“we are here to have peace,harmony and prosperity and let’s have it.”
“Be miserable or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it is always your choice.”
“A person’s self concept is the core of his personality.”
Joyce brothers
We all have a self concept about who we are and how we do things.
Many of us may not be aware of our self concept and some of us may be aware of it.
Our self determines our results in our life.
We all have a self concept about how we should dress, how we should speak , how we should work, with whom we should associate, what kind of person we are, what kind of father, mother, son, daughter we are and also on what food we should eat and not to eat etc.,
Change for the better
To lead a successful life, we must be aware of our self concept.
We must aim for a greater self concept to become a better person as possessed by some of the great people.
We must be willing to make changes in our self concept in order to get better results in our life.
Changing our self concept requires change in our attitude.
” To many people overvalue what they are and undervalue what they are.”
“Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.”
Tim ferriss
One of our most important goals in our life has to be financially independent.
Most of us think about and worry about money all the time.
Most of us feel like we don’t have or make the money we want.
Becoming rich may seem uphill.
But some people with limited education and limited talents and ability making a lot.
They are proof that we can be rich. Rich means real rich and can remain the same for generations.
All we need to know is “how”.
“When your why is big enough you will find your how.”
Les brown
Believe it’s possible
Our belief is everything.
One of the important difference between someone who makes a million and the who don’t is just a belief.
We are just a belief away.
Changing our beliefs, change your life.
Try more things
Just try more things.
The law of probability says the more things we try chances are that soon or later we will find the one that best works.
It’s not easy but it’s possible.
Create more values to others
Money comes to us from other people.
People give us money for creating value for them. It may be through our job or our business.
If we want to make more money then we must focus on creating more values for others.
Decide how much and by when
Have a target to aim at.
Decide how much you want to make and by when.
Clarity brings awareness and awareness brings change.
Focus on making your first million by a definite time. Commit yourself to it.
Find the best way to make it either through your job or business or through your passion.
Manage your time and money wisely.
Don’t look for easy money.
You can only become successful by doing what you are good at in an excellent fashion.
Someone somewhere can do it, we can do it as well.
Let’s start the journey……..
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
“The more you try, the better you get, the better you get, the better decisions you will make, the better decisions you will make, the better results you will get”
Brian Tracy
One of the major differences between successful people and unSuccessful people is that successful people try far more things than unsuccessful people ever do.
Successful people fail far more times than unsuccessful people do.
Successful people know that the more things they try, the luckier they get.
The more things you try, the chances are that soon or later you will find the one that works perfectly for you.
One of the reality is that most of the things we try in our lives don’t work, at least for the first few times.
To be successful in our lives we must be willing to try more things, expect and accept the temporary setbacks and failures, course correct, and carry on your journey till we get the desired results.
” To increase your success rate, double your failure rate“
“only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go”
T.S.Eliot
The word “How” is one of the most powerful words in any language.
I remember the rich dad’s advice to Robert Kiyosaki in the book rich dad’s poor Dad, don’t say I can’t afford, instead, say how can I afford it?.
Yes, it is true in every area of our life.
Replace I can’t do that with how can I do that or get that?
Don’t say I don’t have the money, instead say how can I get the money?
I don’t have the time=how can I get the time?
I am a failure,= how can I succeed?
I am done, =how can I start again?
When you ask yourself “how”?, you will get the what.
When you ask yourself “how”?, you open up the possibilities.
Don’t just stop there asking ” how” can I get that or do that, further ask yourself what I need to do, to get what Ineed to get?
Write down as many as ways as you can think of to achieve your goals.
Choose the best one.
Make a plan.
Then do what you need to do, you will get,what you need to get.
“when you’re in a situation you can complain about, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?”
“The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time.”
Mozart
Time management is often called life management because our ability to use and manage our time effectively plays a great role in the quality of the life we lead.
Time cannot be saved, it can only be used effectively.
How we start a day is how we live a day, how we live a day is how we live our life.
Techniques for time management:
Plan every day, every week and month in advance.
Always focus on the most important activities rather than trivial.
Have a to-do list
Use the ABCDE method of sorting out every task to be completed. Consider A – being the most important and E- being the least important.
Complete your tasks on schedule.
Avoid time wasters like watching too much tv, listening to music or surfing the web, idle talk.
Make a list of things has to be done every day, Every week and month. Complete those activities.
Do one thing at a time. Avoid multi-tasking. Multi-tasking causes confusion and time-consuming.
Take a task, finish it, and move on to the other task.
Always focus on the results, not on the process.
“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
“If you believe that you can do a thing, or if you believe you cannot, in either case, you are right.”
Henry Ford
The law of belief plays an important role in our life, for both success and failure.
According to the law of belief, whatever you believe with feeling, becomes your reality.
The more intensely that you believe something to be true, the more likely it is that will be true for us.
If you absolutely believe that you are meant to be a great success in life, then no matter what happens, you will continue to press forward towards your goals. Nothing will stop you.
On the other hand, if you believe that success is a matter of luck or accident, then you will become easily discouraged and disappointed whenever things don’t work out for you.
“your beliefs set you up for either success or failure”.
This is an excerpt from” maximum achievement” by Brian tracy
