Benazir - A profile in "COURAGE"......

As the news breaks in that the 'Daughter of the East' Benazir Bhutto has fallen prey to an act of cowardice and terror on the soil Liaquat park at Rawapindi, one single quality that is worth emulation her courage... One of the tallest leadership qualities be it in politics, business or personal life... courage in the face of life's challenges, utmost adversity and in the face of life threatening situations.
While most of us get fazed by even the smallest trial and tribulation in any front of our lives, and sure many amongst even would get temporarily incapacited to act by minor setbacks, here is a profile in courage... an Oxford educated daughter of Pakistan's former president and tallest leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, destined to Pakistani politics after the most gruesome hanging of father by the militia, getting her act together, put behind the bar for many years, sent in exile for a few years and then, the tigress making a comeback... knowingly well that her life is at risk..... despite that, arrives in the country - welcomed by a dastardly suicide attack that almost killed her. Undeterred, she moves on with her goal to restore democracy in a blood-soaked country and alas, no sooner falls to a devilish attack.....
Most of the challenges, are atleast percieved challenges and setbacks we encounter would pall in comparison to the challenges such mass leaders come across and live with in life..... In fact most of the difficult situations in our lives are by imagination in the mind than that in reality.....
Such leaders and incidents, grief apart, should inspire us to take life's challenges head-on and make us pursue our goals steadfast..... That would be the best learning for the future leaders in all of us.... leaders in life, family, organisation.......

To ACT is to Lead.... Robin Sharma

As Robin wrote in Who Will Cry When You Die?, "The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions." Leadership is a lot more than just dreaming up big idea. It's about acting on them.What separates the ordinary ones from The Great Ones is a simple fact: the best of the best execute brilliantly around their most vital priorities.

In a leadership presentation Robin gave to BP, he called the concept BRBO: Best Resources on Biggest Opportunities.Leadership is, in so many ways, about getting good stuff done. Not started. Not in process. Done.

So today, let all of us make a decision that will revolutionize our careers/life/self: never leave the site of an opportunity without doing something to seize it. And be less about talk - and more about DO.

Perseverence... the winning quality....

If there is one quality that makes people win and achieve, it is not the amount of knowledge or being excellent in what you do, but it is just about the ability to persevere in the task on hand.... And why is it so difficult to persevere... it is to because of the wandering mind.... read any book and you see that the mind thinks anything like 60000 thoughts a day... he is a wandering generalist that a specific goal focussed person.. so the more focussed the mind is on what is important the more the quality of perseverence is cultivated......

Don't miss the point.... gaining a new skill or improving on the job and climbing in the corporate ladder are all things that may not be such a huge challenge, if the mind and body are tuned and drilled to persevere.......

Taking forward what i wrote in the previous post, to accomplish our GOALS, it would be best to associate the ability to persevere or willingness to stay put on the task-at-hand to being in a pleasurable state of mind and body... and the opposite... not persevering or not focusing on the task as something that is unbearable pain... That moment there would be paradigm shift in what the mind instructs the body to do..... PERSEVERE, GAIN IMMENSE PLEASURE AND ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL......

The goal to persevere may be small or big, but once the pleasure - persevere association gets stronger and stronger, the motivation to be focussed and task driven increases and that habit will be all needed to WIN LIFE.....

Power of relating with pain and pleasure.....

Change does not take ages to happen..... Tony Robbins in 'Awaken the giant within' iterates this fact and I have seen this work... try and associate what you want to move away from or change with 'pain' and what you intend to do or what state of mind you want to be in with 'pleasure' and change - in the state of mind, body and physique happens that moment, not a minute sooner or later.... For something as simple of keeping a gloomy mood or rather a grouchy face you relate the same with 'pain', and if that is a persistent condition in you, associate it with 'immense pain' and you will in no time move away from that undesirable state of mind... I have tried doing this and am succeeding, and it is my conviction that it will work for all my friends out there.... All my dear friends who want to win, be happy, and keep smiling......

To further help, let me say what is 'pain' and 'pleasure'
Being sad is pain, being happy is immense pleasure
Losing is pain and winning is pleasure
Smiling at others - family and elsewhere is pleasure, and not doing so is pain
Allowing a garbage truck mindset person to hold a sway on your 'mind power' is immense pain and ignoring and moving on is great pleasure....
Grieving over all trivia is pain and moving on with your tasks ahead is pleasure....

So, every condition of ours and every mental disposition of ours can be related like this, and changed from bad to good and pain to pleasure in a minute......

Your singular goal everyday ought to be to just eliminate all PAIN and get in all the PLEASURE.....

Have a great day and great life....

Work goals for the new year... from Beyond.com

-- Take Every Opportunity - Take advantage of work-life benefits offered by your employer; feel free to suggest ideas that will help you meet your goal while still being productive.
-- Devise a Realistic Strategy - Although you may know what you want to do this year, chances are you don't have the first clue how to achieve them. Create a detailed plan that will help you easily measure and reach your goals. Plan the work, and work the plan!
-- Set the Bar Appropriately - A goal that looks intimating from the start will probably never be accomplished. Instead of planning to never work on vacation, set a resolution to limit the time spent checking email to 15 minutes per day.
-- Utilize the People Who Know You Best - Enlist friends and co-workers to encourage and support you in reaching a resolution.
-- Make Daily Reminders - Jot down your daily successes and failures; use failures as suggestions for improvement. Place daily reminders in your computers calendar and receive daily notices of encouragement. Lastly, don't be afraid to have others personally remind you.

Get up early in the morning! - Thanks Tom Peters...

Ten Good Reasons to “Get Up In The Morning”

1 Empower one and all to vigorously seek WOW! in their work/projects. (Or
else.) Foster the “Brand You Spirit” and the “Entrepreneurial Urge” at every
turn. (Or else.)
2 Blow up “education” as we know it today! Re-tool education to emphasize the
arts, creativity, entrepreneurial behavior. (Or else.)
3 Seek out the bold, the strange, the misfits, the dreamers—and welcome their
presence in our midst.
4 Drag enthusiasm, passion, Technicolor, and bold commitment out of the closet!
Make Passion your Passion! (Hint: Passion makes the world go ’round.)
5 Be a champion for: Women Roar! Women Rule!
6 Underscore the importance of/stupendous opportunities associated with the
“cool new markets”: Women, Boomers and Geezers, Hispanics, Greenies,
Wellness.
7 Dramatically re-orient healthcare from after-the-fact “fixes” to before-the-fact
attention to prevention-Wellness. (And “kindly suggest” that the “acute-care”
“industry” give some passing thought to Quality.)
8 Ensure that the historically neglected “intangibles” become the prime basis for
individual and enterprise success.
9 Support Globalization as the best—if indeed messy—path to maximum human
freedom, security, and welfare.
10 Swear by the motto: “Reward excellent failures; punish mediocre successes.”

Power of Imaging in the mind

Most of us do the motions in life without realising the fact that very simple mind imaging techniques would help us achieve our goals in life and make our dreams come into reality... While one can quote tons of examples on the power of imaging, I would urge each one of you to try and do image whatever small and bigs things you seek out of life - be it in personal life, professional life or on the psychological front.....
For example you could even image something like a simple and happy stress free daily routine... something that has offlate come to be a luxury.... On the previous day night before you sleep, image the next morning to be a morning of happiness and power.... and image that the day is one of activity, that lead to accomplishments.... these could be big, small or trivial... no matter, the power of imaging with put your subconcious mind to work, and make sure that the day is a greater day than what you had visualised and imaged.....
Make it a habit to image only positive energy, success and winning in every thing and every task you do...... and it will be that you start radiating amazing power and energy that the things that follow will change the way you have lived life......
For most of us life has been what it has been only because of our own thoughts and not owing to anything external...... I am the easiest example and I have seen that by imaging, things begin to happen than just passing days and years by not imaging........