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A Journey of Enthusiastic Persistance

2023-08-23T15:31:00.009+05:30

Once upon a time, in a quaint village nestled between rolling hills, lived a young and aspiring inventor named Mia. Mia was known throughout the village for her boundless enthusiasm and her insatiable curiosity about the world around her.

From an early age, Mia had a dream—to invent something that would make life easier for everyone in the village. She started by attempting to create a water-powered contraption to carry heavy loads, but her initial designs were met with failure. Undeterred, Mia tinkered, adjusted, and tried again, learning from each setback.

As the years went by, Mia's workshop became a hub of activity. The villagers watched as Mia's experiments sometimes resulted in small explosions or amusing mishaps, but her enthusiasm never waned. She faced failure after failure, yet her optimism remained unshaken.

One day, the village announced a grand innovation fair, inviting inventors from neighboring towns to showcase their creations. Mia was determined to seize this opportunity to present her latest invention—a device to automate the village's irrigation system.

The weeks leading up to the fair were a whirlwind of activity. Mia poured her heart and soul into refining her invention. As the fair day approached, doubts crept in. What if she failed in front of everyone? What if her invention didn't work as planned?

The day of the fair arrived, and the village square was bustling with inventors and curious onlookers. Mia nervously stood beside her invention, hoping for the best but prepared for the worst. When her turn came to demonstrate, she activated the device, and to everyone's amazement, water flowed smoothly through the intricate network of tubes and channels.

The villagers applauded, and Mia's face lit up with a mix of relief and joy. She had succeeded, not because she had never failed, but because she had persisted through failures with unwavering enthusiasm.

In her victory speech, Mia shared her journey of failures and the countless hours spent refining her invention. She proudly declared, "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Each stumble taught me something new, brought me closer to my goal, and today, that enthusiasm has led me to success."

Mia's story became an inspiration, not just for her fellow villagers but for inventors from all around. Her journey reminded everyone that failure was a natural part of progress, and the key to success was to approach each stumble with renewed determination.

And so, Mia's enthusiastic persistence became a guiding light for generations to come, reminding them that setbacks were stepping stones, failures were fuel for growth, and enthusiasm was the driving force that could turn stumbling blocks into triumphant leaps.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

#7 Motivational Quotes

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You Are BRAVER

Than You Believe

STRONGER

Than You Seem,

SMARTER

Than You Think,

And

LOVED

More Than You Will Ever Know.

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Be What You Want To Be,

Not Others Want To See.

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When You Focus On Problems

you Have More Problems.

When You Focus On Possibilities

You Have More Opportunities.

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Never Stop Learning

Because

Life Never Stops Teaching.

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It's Difficult To Move Foreward,

If You Don't Leave The Past.

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When Everything Seems To Be Against You,

Remember That The Airplane Takes Off

Against The Wind Not With It.

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Never Complain About The Difficulties In Life.

Because The Director(God) Always Gives The Hardest Roles To His

Best Actors.

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Talk To Yourself Once In A Day.

Otherwise You May Miss Meeting an Excellent Person In This World.

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If You Believe Your Are Right But Still People Criticize You, Hurt You,

Shout At You.

Just Remember "In Every Game Audience Make Noise Not Players".

Be A Player

Believe In Yourself

And

Do The Best.

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Life Is Like A Bicycle

To Keep Your Balance, You Must

Keep Moving.

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#6 Motivational Quotes

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Your Mind Is A Powerful Thing.

When you Fill It With Positive Thoughts;

Your Life Will Start To Change.

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Stop Hating Yourself For Everything You Aren't

AND

Start Loving Yourself For Everything You Already Are.

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Intelligence Without Ambition

Bird Without Wings.

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The True Sign Of Intelligence Is

Not Knowledge But

Imagination.

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Black Color Is Sentimentally Bad

But

Every Black Board Makes The Students's Life

Bright.

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Failure Is The Opportunity To Begin again With More

Intelligently.

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Stop Wishing

Start Doing.

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4 Simple Rules For Happy Life:

1. Don't Be Overlay Emotional - Have Faith

2. Don't Ever Give up - Keep Trying.

3. Don't Make Things Too Complicated - Keep It Simple.

4. Don't Take Things Too Seriously - Laugh At Problems.

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Life Is Like A Sea.

We Are Moving Without End.

Nothing Stay With Us.

What Remains Is Just The Memories Of Some People Who touched Us As Waves.

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EGO

Is Just Small Three Letter Word,

Which Destroys A Big Twelve Letter Word Called

Relationship.

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The Brain

2020-08-13T08:07:00.000+05:30

A Broadcasting And Receiving Station For Thought

The Twelfth Step Toward Riches

More than twenty years ago the author working in conjunction with the late Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Dr. Elmer our gates observed that every human brain is both broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.Through the medium of the ether in a fashion similar to that employed by the radio broadcasting principle every human brains capable of picking up vibrations of thought which are being released by other brains, in connection with the statement in the preceding paragraph compare and consider the description of the creative imagination as outlined in the chapter on imagination.

The creative imagination is the receiving set of the brain which receives thoughts released by the brains of others it is the agency of communication between one's conscious or reasoning mind and the four sources from which one may receive thought stimuli. When stimulated or stepped up to a high rate of vibration the mind becomes more receptive to the vibration of thought which reaches it through the ether from outside sources. This stepping up process takes place through positive emotions or negative emotions. Through the emotions the vibrations of thought may be increased vibrations of an exceedingly high rate are the only vibrations picked up and carried by the ether from one brain to another pot is energy traveling at an exceedingly high rate of vibration. Thought which has been modified or stepped up by any of the major emotions vibrates at a much higher rate than ordinary thought and it is this type of thought which passes from one brain to another through the broadcasting machinery of the human brain. The emotion of sex stands at the head of the list of human emotions as far as intensity and driving force are concerned.

The brain which has been stimulated by the emotion of sex vibrates at a much more rapid rate than it does when that emotion is questioned or absent the result of sex transmutation is the increase of the rate of vibration of thoughts to such a pitch that the rate of imagination becomes highly receptive to ideas which it picks up from the ether. on the other hand when the brain is vibrating at a rapid rate it not only attracts thoughts and ideas released by other brains through the medium of the ether but it gives to one's own thoughts that feeling which is essential before those thoughts will be picked up and acted upon by one subconscious mind. thus you will see that the broadcasting principle is the factor through which you mix feeling or emotion with your thoughts and pass them on to your subconscious mind.

The subconscious mind is the sending station of the brain through which vibrations of thought are broadcast the creative imagination is the receiving set through which the vibrations of thought are picked up from the ether, along with the important factors of the subconscious mind and the Faculty of the creative imagination which constitute the sending and receiving sets of your mental broadcasting machinery consider how the principle of Autosuggestion which is the medium by which you may put into operation your broadcasting station. through the instructions described in the chapter on Autosuggestion you are definitely informed of them by which desire may be transmuted into its monetary equivalent. Operation of your mental broadcasting station is a comparatively simple procedure you have but three principles to bear in mind and to apply when you wish to use your broadcasting station the subconscious mind creative imagination and Autosuggestion the stimuli through which you put these three principles into action has been described the procedure begins with desire the greatest forces are intangible.

The depression brought the world to the very borderline of understanding of the forces which are intangible and unseen, through the ages which have passed man has depended too much upon his physical senses and has limited his knowledge to physical things which he could see touch weigh and measure we are now entering the most marvelous of all ages and age which will teach us something of the intangible forces of the world about us, perhaps we shall learn as we pass through this age that the another self is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror. Sometimes men speak lightly of the intangibles the things which they cannot perceive through any of their five senses and when we hear them it should remind us that all of us are controlled by forces which are unseen and intangible. The whole of mankind has not the power to cope with nor to control the intangible force wrapped up in the rolling waves of the oceans. man has not the capacity to understand the intangible force of gravity which keeps this little earth suspended in mid-air and keeps man from falling from it, much less the power to control that force man is entirely subservient to the intangible force which comes with a thunderstorm and he is just as helpless in the presence of the intangible force of electricity, may he does not even know what electricity is, where it comes from or what is its purpose, nor is this by any means the end of man's ignorant in connection with things unseen and intangible he does not understand the intangible force and intelligence wrapped up in the soil of the earth the force which provides him with every morsel of food he eats every article of clothing he wears, every dollar he carries in his pockets is the dramatic story of the brain.

Last but not least man with all of his boasted culture and education understands little or nothing of the intangible force the greatest of all the intangibles of thought, he knows but little concerning the physical brain and its vast network of interconnect machinery through which the power of thought is translated into it's material equivalent but he is now entering an age which shall yield enlightenment on the subject, already men of science have begun to turn their attention to the study of the stupendous thing called a brain and while they are still in the kindergarten stage of their studies they have uncovered enough knowledge to know that the central switchboard of the human brain the number of lines which connect the brain cells with one another equal the figure one followed by 15million ciphers. The figure is so stupendous said Dr. C Judson Herrick of the University of Chicago that astronomical figures dealing with hundreds of millions of light-years become insignificant by comparison it has been determined that there are from 10billion to 14 billion nerve cells in the human cerebral cortex; and we know that these are arranged in definite patterns these arrangements are not haphazard they are orderly recently developed materials of electrophysiology draw-off action currents from very precisely located cells or fibers with microelectrodes amplify them with radio tube sand record potential differences to a millionth of a volt. It is inconceivable that such a network of intricate machinery should be in existence for the sole purpose of carrying on the physical functions incidental to growth and maintenance of the physical body is it not likely that the same system which gives billions of brain cells the media for communication one with another provides also the means of communication with other intangible forces.

After this book had been written just before the manuscript went to the publisher there appeared in the New York Times and editorials showing that at least one great University and one intelligent investigator in the field of mental phenomena are carrying on organized research through which conclusions have been reached that parallel many of those described in this and the following chapter the editorial briefly analyzed the work carried on by Dr.Rhine and his associates at Duke University visa is telepathy quoting the editorial now. A month ago we cited on this page some of the remarkable results achieved by professor Ryan in his associates at Duke University from more than a hundred thousand tests to determine the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance. These results were summarized in the first two articles in Harper's Magazine in the second which has now appeared the author Wright attempts to summarize what has been learned or what it seems reasonable to infer regarding the exact nature of these extrasensory modes of perception.

The actual existence of telepathy and clairvoyance now seems to some scientists enormously probable as the result of Ryan's experiments. various participants were asked to name as many cards in a special pack as they could without looking at them and with other sensory access to them about as core of men and women were discovered who could regularly name so many of the cards correctly that there was not one chance in many a million of their having done their feats by luck or accident, but how did they do them these powers assuming that they exist do not seem to be sensory there is no known organ for them the experiments work just as well at distances of several hundred miles as they did in the same room these facts also dispose in Mr. Wright's opinion of the attempt to explain telepathy or clairvoyance through any physical theory of radiation all known forms of radiant energy decline inversely as the square of the distance traversed telepathy and clairvoyance do not but they do vary through physical causes as our other mental powers do. Contrary to widespread opinion they do not improve when the participant is asleep or half-asleep but on the contrary when he is most wide awake and alert. Ryan discovered that a narcotic will invariably lower a participants score while a stimulant will always send it higher.

The most reliable performer apparently cannot make a good score unless he tries to do his best, one conclusion that right draws with some confidence is that telepathy and clairvoyance are really one and the same gift that is the Faculty that sees a card facedown on the table seems to be exactly the same one that reads a thought residing only in another mind. There are several grounds for believing this so far, for example, the two gifts have been found in every person who enjoys either of them in every one so far the two have been of equal vigor almost exactly screens, walls, distances have no effect at all on either right advances from this conclusion to express what he puts forward as no more than the mere hunch that other extrasensory experiences prophetic dreams premonitions of disaster and the like may also prove to be part of the same faculty. The reader is not asked to accept any of these conclusions unless he finds it necessary but the evidence that Ryan has piled up must remain impressive. In view of Dr.Ryan's announcement in connection with the conditions under which the mind responds to what he terms extrasensory modes of perception I now feel privileged to add to his testimony by stating that my associates and I have discovered what we believe to be the ideal conditions under which the mind can be stimulated so that the sixth sense described in the next chapter can be made to function in a practical way.

The conditions to which I refer consists of a close work in the alliance between myself and two members of my staff, through experimentation and practice we have discovered how to stimulate our minds by applying the principle used in connection with the invisible counselors described in the next chapter; so that we can by a process of blending our three minds into one find the solution to a great variety of personal problems which are submitted by my clients the procedure is very simple: We sit down at a conference table clearly state the nature of the problem we have under consideration then begin discussing it each contributes whatever thoughts that may occur the strange thing about this method of mind stimulation is that it places each participant in communication with unknown sources of knowledge definitely outside his own experience. If you understand the principle described in the chapter on Master Mind you of course recognize the round table procedure here described as being a practical application of the mastermind, this method of mind stimulation through harmonious discussion of definite subjects between three people illustrates the simplest and most practical use of the mastermind. By adopting and following a similar plan any student of this philosophy may come into possession of the famous Carnegie formula briefly described in the introduction if it means nothing to you at all by this time mark this page and read it again after you have finished the last chapter the depression was a blessing in disguise it reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives everyone a new opportunity.

#5 Motivational Quotes

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The Best Preparation For Tomorrow

Doing Your Best Today.

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A Man Who Falls Ans

Gets Up Is Much Stronger Than

A Person Who Never Fall.

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<-- SUCCESS -->

WORK Very Hard (Not Easy but Fun).

IMPROVE Yourself and Do What You Can Do.

FOCUS In Order To Master.

PASSION Do It For The Love Not For Money.

PUSH Yourself Through Shyness and Self-Doubt.

SERVE other Something of Value.

IDEAS To Solve Identified Problems.

PERSIST Throughout Failure and Crap.

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Deal With Your Problems

Before They Deal With

Your Happiness.

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Before You Can Win,

You Have To Believe You Worthy.

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Before You Act, Listen

Before You React, Think

Before You Spend, Earn

Before You Criticize, Wait

Before You Pray, Forgive

Before You Quit, TRY.

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The Successful Warriors Is The Average Man

With

Laser-Like Focus.

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Life Is Unpredictable and You Never Know What is Coming next.

Don't Ever Get Too Comfortable.

Always Be Ready For Change.

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Our Greatest Weakness Lies In Giving Up.

The Most Certain Way To succeed Is Always To

Try Just One More Time.

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A Little Progress Each Day

Adds up To Big Result.

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#4 Motivational Quotes

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Successful People Always Have Two Things In Their Lips'

1. Silence

2. Smile

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Never Feel Sad About Losing Anything In Life

Because

Whenever A Tree Loses A Leaf

A New Leaf Grow's In Its Place.

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Change Is The Nature Of Life

But

Challenge Is The Future Of Life.

So Challenge The Changes,

Never Change The Challenges.

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People Don't Care About What You Say,

They Care About what You Build.

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If You Salute Your Duty,

You Need Not Salute Anybody.

But If You Pollute Your Duty, You Need To Salute Everybody.

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Life Isn't About Finding Yourself;

Life Is About Creating Yourself.

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There Is Only One Difference Between Dream & Aim.

"Dream Requires Effortless Sleep.

Whereas Aim Requires Sleepless Effort".

So Sleep For Dreams

And

Wake Up For your Aim.

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When Flood Comes, The Fish Eas Ants;

But

When Water Dries Ant Eat Fish.

"LIFE GIVE CHANCE TO EVERYONE

JUST WAIT FOR YOUR TURN".

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Action May Not Always Bring Happiness

But

There Is No Happiness Without Action.

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START Where You Are.

USE What You Have.

DO What You Can.

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#3 Motivational Quotes

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It Always Seems Impossible

Until Its Done.

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Imagination Is Everything.

It Is The Previews Of Lifes Coming Attraction.

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It is A Great Mistake To Think

Your Enemy Is Weak

Without Having Knowledge Of

His Weakness.

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There Is Never A Wrong Way To Do The

Right Thing.

And

There Is Never A Right Way To Do

The Right Thing.

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If You Think You Are Too Small To Make A Big Difference;

Try To Sleep With Mosquito.

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One Best Book Is Equal To

Hundred Good Freinds

But

One Good Friend Is Equal To

A Library.

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Confidence & Hardwork Is The Best Medicine To Kill

The Disease Called Failure.

It Will Make You Successful Person.

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Speak 5 Things To Every Morning:

I Am The Best
I Can Do It.
God Is Always With Me
I Am A Winner.
Today Is My Day.

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Your Future Is Created By

What You Do Today

Not Tomorrow.

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Hard work Is Like Stairs And Luck Is Like Life...

Sometimes Lift May Fail

But

Stairs Will always Take You To The

Top.

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#1 Motivational Quotes

#2 Motivational Quotes

#2 Motivation Quotes

2020-08-02T21:26:00.004+05:30

Never Waste Your Time Trying To Explain

Who you Are To People

Who Are Committed To Misunderstanding You.!

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Work Hard In Silence

Let Your Success

Make Noise.

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If Everything Is "Perfect"

You Would Never "Learn"

And

You Would Never "Grow Up."

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Knowing Yourself is The Begining of All Wisdom.

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A Paper flying in Air is Due to Luck.

But

A Kite Flying in Air is Due To Effort.

Don't Worry If Luck Doesn't Support You

Effort Are Always With You.

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The Dream Is Not What You See In Sleep

Dream Is The Think Which Doesn't

Let You Sleep.

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Don't read Success Stories, You Will Get Only Message;

Read Failure Stories, You Will Get Some Ideas To Get

"Success".

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Confidence Is Key!

Sometimes You Need To Look Loke You Are Confident,

Even You Are Not.

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Dreams Gives Support To Hope.

Hope Inspires Effort.

Effort Results In Your Success.

So Dream Are Root Of Success.

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If You Wait For Happy Moments,

You Will Wait Forever.

But

If You Start Believing That You Are Happy,

You Will Be Happy Forever.

That Is Life.

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#1 Motivational Quotes

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Silence and Smile are Two Powerful Tools

Smile is the Way to Solve Many Problem

Silence is the Way To Avoid Many Problems.

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Mistakes are Painful But Years Later A Collection Of Mistakes Called "Experience" Leads To Success.

So; Don't Be Afraid of "Mistakes".

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Always "Try", Because If You Fail You Can

"Guide"

If You Win You Can

"Lead".

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Don't Take Rest After Your First Success, Because,

There Are So Many Mouths TO Say You That Your First Success Only A "Luck".

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Winners Are Not Those People Who Never Fail.

But

People Who Never Quit.

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A Strong Person Is Not One Who Doesn't cry.

A Strong Is Noe Who Quiet And Sheds Tears For A Moment,

Then Pickup The Sword And Fight Again.

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If You Fail, Never Give Up Because, F.A.I.L Means

First Attempt In Learning.

End Means not End It means E.N.D

Effort Never Dies

If You Got No in Answer Remember N.O means

Next Opportunity.

Moral is "ALWAYS BE POSITIVE".

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Sometimes Life Just Seems Like Chapters Of A Book;

Some Good, Some Bad, But all Comes Together To Create

The Story of Your Life.

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"TIME" Decides Who You Meet In Your Life.

"YOUR HEART" Decides Who Want In Your Life.

"BEHAVIOUR" Decides Who Will Stay In Your Life.

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Yesterday Is A "History"

Tomorrow Is A "Mystery"

But Today Is A "Gift"

That's Why It Is Called "Present".

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The Subconscious Mind

2020-07-31T21:18:00.001+05:30

The Connecting Link

The Eleventh Step Towards Riches

Do You remember the feeling of riding a cycle/bike for the first time?

Have you ever tried to learn a new thing? How was the feeling?

Most likely, first attempts to synchronize a new set of complex actions are always difficult. Till it became a habit for us.

Do you ever think about why this happens to us?

Yes, Right this is why this blog

The answer is the Subconscious mind.

While we try to learn a new thing which we never did before, that feels difficult for us. Because we never did this before, but when slowly doing it repeatedly it becomes our habit it feels comfortable and easy to repeat that work. When we start doing a thing again and again our mind tries to capture its pattern and try to understand the work; when our subconscious mind catches the pattern of the work it saves into its memory; just like a computer. And when we try to do the same thing again it retrieves the experience regarding that work and works on comfortably.

When we learn bikes for the first time it is so difficult to remember all the things like gear on left foot, back tier break is on right side foot, an accelerator is on right side hand, and light switch, horn clutch, etc. But when we repeat the riding we slowly remember all those things and without any hesitation and fear we ride a bike, that means our subconscious mind memorized all the pattern regarding handle a bike.

Like this, our subconscious mind helps us in our daily life. Our mind is just the tip of an ice-berg, which hides a lot of things inside itself.

The subconscious mind consists of a field of consciousness, in which every impulse of thought that reaches the conscious mind through any of the five senses, is classified and recorded, and from which thoughts may be recalled or withdrawn as letters may be taken from a filing cabinet.

The subconscious mind works daily either it is day or night. The subconscious mind plays a crucial rule in transmutes ones desire into their physical equivalent.

We can't entirely control our subconscious mind, but we can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form. We discuss this topic before on Desire and Autosuggestion topic. Remember that the subconscious mind may be voluntarily directed only through habit.

Everything in this world which man creates begins with a thought impulse. Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in thought. through the aid of imagination, thought impulses may be assembled into plans. The imagination when, when under control, may be used for the creation of plans or purposes that lead to success in ones's chosen occupation. All thought impulses, intended for transmutation into their physical equivalent, voluntarily planted in the subconscious mind must pass through the imagination and be mixed with faith.

The subconscious mind takes decision mainly depends upon our "feelings" or emotions. If the feelings are strong, the subconscious mind tries to learn that thing rapidly and it will. There are several positive and negative emotions which trigger the subconscious mind, they are;

The Seven Major Positive Emotions

The emotions of Desire

The emotion of Faith

The emotions of Love

The emotion of Sex

The emotion of Enthusiasm

The emotion of Romance

The emotion of Hope

The Seven Major Negative Emotions

(To Be Avoided)

The emotion of Fear

The emotion of Jealously

the emotion of Hatred

the emotion of Revenge

The emotion of Greed

The emotion of Superstition

The emotion of Anger.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or other must dominate. It is our responsibility to make sure that positive constitute the dominating influence of your mind. If you pray for a thing but have fear as you pray that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by infinite intelligence, your prayer will have been vain.

The subconscious mind is the intermediary, which translates one's prayer into terms which infinite intelligence can recognize, presents the message, and brings back the answer in the form of a definite plan or idea for procuring the object of the prayer. Understand this principle and you will know why mere words read from a prayer book cannot, and will never serve as an agency of communication between the mind of man and Infinite Intelligence.

The best description of The Subconscious Mind is described on You Can Win Chapter 6. Visit here.

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The Mystery of Sex Transmutation

2020-07-21T11:43:00.004+05:30

The Tenth Step Toward Riches

The meaning of the word “transmute” is, in simple language, “the changing, or transferring of one element, or form of energy, into another.”The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.
Because of ignorance on the subject, this state of mind is generally associated with the physical, and because of improper influences, to which most people have been subjected, in acquiring knowledge of sex, things essentially physical have highly biased the mind.
The emotion of sex has back of it the possibility of three constructive potentialities, they are:—
The perpetuation of mankind.
The maintenance of health, (as a therapeutic agency, it has no equal).
The transformation of mediocrity into genius through transmutation.
Sex transmutation is simple and easily explained. It means the switching of the mind from thoughts of physical expression, to thoughts of some other nature.
Sex desire is the most powerful of human desires. When driven by this desire, men develop keenness of imagination, courage, will-power, persistence, and creative ability unknown to them at other times. So strong and impelling is the desire for sexual contact that men freely run the risk of life and reputation to indulge it. When harnessed, and redirected along other lines, this motivating force maintains all of its attributes of keenness of imagination, courage, etc., which may be used as powerful creative forces in literature, art, or in any other profession or calling, including, of course, the accumulation of riches.
The transmutation of sex energy calls for the exercise of will-power, to be sure, but the reward is worth the effort. The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerged or eliminated. But it should be given an outlet through forms of expression which enrich the body, mind, and spirit of man. If not given this form of outlet, through transmutation, it will seek outlets through purely physical channels.
A river may be dammed, and its water controlled for a time, but eventually, it will force an outlet. The same is true of the emotion of sex. It may be submerged and controlled for a time, but its very nature causes it to be ever seeking means of expression. If it is not transmuted into some creative effort it will find a less worthy outlet.
Fortunate, indeed, is the person who has discovered how to give sex emotion an outlet through some form of creative effort, for he has, by that discovery, lifted himself to the status of a genius.
Scientific research has disclosed these significant facts:
The men of greatest achievement are men with highly developed sex natures; men who have learned the art of sex transmutation.
The men who have accumulated great fortunes and achieved outstanding recognition in literature, art, industry, architecture, and the professions, were motivated by the influence of a woman.
The research from which these astounding discoveries were made, went back through the pages of biography and history for more than two thousand years. Wherever there was evidence available in connection with the lives of men and women of great achievement, it indicated most convincingly that they possessed highly developed sex natures.
The emotion of sex is an “irresistible force,” against which there can be no such opposition as an “immovable body.” When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a superpower for action. Understand this truth, and you will catch the significance of the statement that sex transmutation will lift one to the status of a genius.
The emotion of sex contains the secret of creative ability.
Destroy the sex glands, whether in man or beast, and you have removed the major source of action. For proof of this, observe what happens to any animal after it has been castrated. A bull becomes as docile as a cow after it has been altered sexually. Sex alteration takes out of the male, whether man or beast, all the fight that was in him. Sex alteration of the female has the same effect.
The humankind responds to stimuli, through which it may be "keys up" to high rated of vibration, known as enthusiasm, creative imagination, intense desire, etc.

The Ten Mind Stimuli( Something that produces a reaction in human being)

The stimuli to which the mind responds most freely are: -
The desire of sex expression
Love.
A burning desire for fame, power or financial gain, money.
Music.
Friendship between either those of the same sex, or those of the opposite sex.
A mastermind alliance based upon the harmony of two or more people who ally themselves for spiritual or temporal advancement.
Mutual suffering, such as that experienced by people who are persecuted.
Autosuggestion.
Fear.
Narcotics and alcohol.
Let's come back again to our topic;
Most people especially men will not admit that they are easily influenced by the women they prefer, because it is in nature if the male wants to be recognized as the stronger of the species. Moreover, the intelligent woman recognizes this manly trait and very wisely makes no issues of it.
Some men know that they are being influenced by the woman of their choice - their wives, sweethearts, mothers, or sisters -- but they tactfully refrain from rebelling against the influence because they are intelligent enough to know that man is happy or complete without the modifying influence of the right woman.
The man who does not recognize this important truth deprives himself of the power which has done more to help men achieve success than all other forces combined.

The Power of Master Mind

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The Power of Master Mind

The Driving Force

The Ninth Step Toward Riches

Mastermind group as a select group of people who work together to help each member of the group overcome challenges and achieve their goals.

The term was first coined by Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich. Hill defined the “Master Mind” as a “coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”

Power is essential for success om the accumulation of money. Plans are inert, without sufficient power to translate them into action. This chapter will describe the method by which an individual may attain and apply power.

Power is required for the accumulation of money! Power is necessary for the retention of money after it has been accumulated!

Let us ascertain how the power may be acquired. If power is "organized knowledge", let us examine the source of knowledge.

Infinite intelligence:-

This source of knowledge may be contacted through the procedure described in another chapter, with the aid of creative imagination.

Accumulated experience:-

The accumulated experience of man may be found in any well-equipped public library. An important part of this accumulated experience is taught in public schools and colleges, where it has been classified and organized.

Experiment and research:-

In the field of science, and in practically every other walk of life, men are gathering, classifying, and organizing new facts daily. This is the source to which one must turn when knowledge is not available through "accumulated experience." Here, too, the creative imagination must often be used.

The "mastermind" may be defined as: "Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose. Mastermind group will here explain two characteristics of the mastermind principle, one of which is Economic in nature and the other one is Psychic. The economic feature is obvious. Economic advantage may be created by any person who surrounds himself with the advice, counsel, and personal cooperation of a group of men who are willing to lend him wholehearted aid, in a spirit of perfect harmony.

The psychic phase of the mastermind principle is much more difficult to comprehend. You may catch a significant suggestion from this statement: "No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind."

What are the Benefits of a Mastermind Group?

There are many benefits of being a part of a mastermind group including:

Support: you have a group of other people to help you succeed.
Ideas: other members of your group give you new ideas, different perspectives, and critical feedback. My favorite ideas are when other members of the group explain what’s currently working best in their businesses; and you can then just apply this to your business with great success.
Resources and connections: members of your mastermind group will each have their own Rolodexes and can introduce you to people and resources that will help your business grow
Partnerships: oftentimes you will find other business owners in your mastermind group in complementary businesses that you can work with to collectively grow.
Quick learning curve: members of your mastermind group will possess skills and ideas that may have taken them years to develop; and they can often share them with you in a matter of minutes.
Accountability: your mastermind group keeps you inspired and accountable, so you achieve your goals.

There are so many examples of a mastermind group in our real life, some of them are;

In England, a mastermind group of writers and poets included CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield among others. Two classic works of literature emerged from this group: The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings.

President Theodore Roosevelt started a mastermind group during his presidency. Roosevelt was only 42 years old when he became president (the youngest age ever for an American president). He needed help working with many of the other politicians who were much older than he, and turned to his mastermind group for this guidance, support, and help.

And finally, my favorite historical mastermind group was called “The Vagabonds.” It included Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, President Warren G. Harding and Harvey Firestone (founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company).

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery. It is a well-known fact that a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

The brain functions in a similar fashion. This accounts for the fact that some brains are more efficient than others, and leads to this significant statement-a group of brains coordinated(or connected) in a spirit of harmony will provide more thought-energy than a single brain, just as a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

We have already mentioned Mahatma Gandhi.

Let us study the method by which he attained his stupendous power. It may be explained in a few words. He came by power through inducing over two hundred million people to coordinate, with mind and body, in a spirit of harmony, for a definite purpose.

In a brief, Gandhi accomplished a miracle, for it is a miracle when two hundred million people can be induced-not forced -to cooperate in a spirit of harmony. If you doubt that this is a miracle, try to induce any two people to cooperate in the spirit of harmony for any length of time.

When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of infinite intelligence. This is the greatest of all sources of power. It is the source to which the genius and every great leader turn (whether they may be conscious of the fact pr not).

Power, when successfully used in the pursuit of money must be mixed with faith. It must be mixed with desire. It must be mixed with persistence. It must be applied through a plan, and that plan, and that plan must be set into action.

Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

--Napolean Hill

Persistence

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Persistence

The Sustained Effort Necessary To Induce Faith

The Eighth Step Toward Riches

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent.

In psychology, persistence is a personality trait. It is measured in the Temperament and Character Inventory(TCI).

Persistence is an essential factor in the procedure of transmuting desire into its monetary equivalent. The basis of persistence is the power of will.

Will-power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair. There may be no heroic

connotation to the word "persistence", but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack pf persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome by effort. The ease with which a lack of persistence may be conquered will depend entirely upon the intensity of one’s desire.

The starting point of all achievers is desire. We have to keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

If you find your weak in persistence, center your attention upon the instruction contained in the chapter on “Power”, surround yourself with a “Master Mind” group, and through the cooperative efforts of the members of this group, you can develop persistence like this. You will find additional instruction for the development of persistence in the chapter on Autosuggestion.

Your subconscious mind works continuously, while you are awake, and while you are asleep. Spasmodic(occasional) effort to apply the rules will be one of no value to you. To get results, you must apply all of the rules until their application becomes a fixed habit with you.

If you have ever experienced a nightmare, you will realize the value of persistence. You are lying in bed, half-awake, with a feeling that you are about to smother. You are unable to turn over or to move a muscle. You realize that you must begin to regain control over your muscles. Through persistent effort of will-power, you finally to move your fingers, you extend your control to the muscles of one arm, until you lift it. Then you gain control of the other arm in the same manner. You finally gain control over the muscles of one leg, and then extend it to the other leg, and then extend to the other leg. Then with one supreme effort of will, you regain complete control over your muscular system, and “snap” out of your nightmare. The trick has been turned step by step.

You may find it necessary to “snap out of” your mental inertia, through a similar procedure, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

Persistence is a state of mind; therefore, it can be cultivated. Like all states of mind, persistence is based upon definite causes, among them these: --

a. Definiteness of purpose => Knowing what one wants is the first and, and perhaps, the most important step toward the development of persistence. A strong motive forces one to surmount many difficulties.

b. Desire => It is comparatively easy to acquire and to maintain persistence in pursuing the object of intense desire.

c. Self-reliance => Belief in one’s ability to carry out a plan encourages one to follow the plan through with persistence.

· Self-reliance can be developed through the principle described in the chapter on Autosuggestion.

d. Definiteness of plans => Organized plans, even though they may be weak and entirely impractical, encourage persistence.

e. Accurate knowledge => Knowing that one’s plans are sound, based upon experience or observation, encourages persistence; “guessing” instead of “knowing” destroys persistence.

f. Cooperation=> Sympathy, understanding, and harmonious cooperation with others tend to develop persistence.

g. Will power=> The habit of concentrating one’s thoughts upon the building of plans for the attainment of a definite purpose leads to persistence.

h. Habit=> Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which if feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage. Everyone who has seen active service in war knows this.

Here you will find the real enemies which stand between you and noteworthy achievement. Here you will find not only the “symptoms” indicating weakness of persistence, but also the deeply seated subconscious causes of this weakness.

A. Failure to recognize and to define clearly exactly what one wants.

B. Procrastination, with or without cause.

C. Lack of interest in acquiring specialized knowledge.

D. Indecision, the habit of “passing of bucks” on all occasions, instead of facing issues squarely.

E. Self-satisfaction. There is but little remedy for this affliction, and no hope for those who suffer from it.

F. The habit of blaming others for one’s mistake, and accepting unfavorable circumstances as being unavoidable.

G. Weakness of desire.

H. Lack of organized planning.

I. The habit of neglecting to move on ideas, or to grasp the opportunity when it presents itself.

J. Wishing instead of willing.

K. Searching of all the shortcuts to reaches.

L. Fear of criticism, failure to create plans and to put them into action, because of what other people will think.

M. The habit of compromising with poverty instead of aiming at riches.

There are four simple steps which lead to the habit of persistence. They call for no great amount of intelligence, no particular amount of education, but little time or effort. The steps are;

I. A definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment.

II. A definite plan, expressed in continuous action.

III. A mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends and acquaintances.

IV. A friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage one to follow through with both plan and purpose.

These are the steps by which one may control one’s economic destiny.

They are the steps that lead to reaches, in all small to great quantities.

They are that lead to freedom and independence of thought.

They lead the way to power, fame, and worldly recognition.

They are the four steps which guarantee favorable “breaks”.

They are the steps that convert dreams into physical realities.

They lead, also, to the mastery of fear, discouragement indifference.

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Decision

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Decision

The Mastery of Procrastination

The 7th Step Towards Riches.

Welcome to the next step to financial freedom taken from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Decision

The decision is a choice or judgment that you make after thinking about possibilities. In psychology decision making is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options. Decision making is the process of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values, preferences, and beliefs of the decision-maker.

Accurate analysis of over the twenty-five thousand men and women who have experienced failure in their lives have admitted that lack of decision-making was the main cause of their failures. This is no mere statement of a theory, this is fact.

Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy that practically every man must conquer.

One of Henry Ford's most outstanding qualities is his habit of reaching decisions quickly and definitely, and changing them slowly. The quality is so pronounced in Mr. Ford, that it gave him the reputation of being obstinate. It was the quality that prompted Mr. Ford continues to manufacture his famous Model T (Worlds ugliest car), when all of his advisors, and many of the purchasers of the car, were urging him to change it.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on the earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by opinions when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting your own desire into money.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.

You have a brain and a mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

Keep in mind the fact that every person with whom you associate is, like yourself, seeking the opportunity to accumulate money. If you talk about your plans too freely, you may be surprised when you learn some other person has beaten you to your goal by putting into action ahead of you, that plan of which you talked unwisely.

Work Hard in Silence; Let your Success Make Noise.

Those who reach a decision promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it. The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly, and firmly. That is the major reason why they are leaders.

Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the declaration fo Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signature to that document. The person who reaches a definite decision to procedure the particular job, and make life pay the price he asks, does not stake his life on that decision; he stakes his economic freedom. Financial independence, riches, desirable business and professional position are not within reach of the person who neglects or refuses to expect, plan, and demand these things. The person who desires riches in the same spirit that Samuel Adams desired freedom for the colonies is sure to accumulate wealth.

That's all about Decision from Think and Grow Rich.

Thank You.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2020

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World Environment Day 2020

World Environment Day celebrated on 5th June every year. It is the Principe of United Nations vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment which is our Mighty Earth. It has been a flagship campaign for raising awareness on emerging from environmental issues to marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime.

Each year the world environment day has a new theme based on which issue has to care more as compared to others.

World Environment Day campaign was established to bring awareness among the people regarding environmental issues like; Deforestation, Water Pollution, Population growth, Acid Rain, Overfishing, Air pollution, Waste production, Ozon layer depletion, Lower biodiversity, Polar ice melts, Climate change, species extinction, soil degradation, etc..

What is the theme for World Environment Day 2020?

"Celebrate Biodiversity"

Theme for world environment day 2020 is "Celebrate Biodiversity", and will be hosted by Colombia in partnership with Germany.

Colombia is the country with the worlds second-highest biodiversity in the world, after Brazil. As the report of 2016, 56,343 species are registered in Colombia. It holds 10% of the planet's biodiversity.

Colombia ranks first in the bird and orchid species diversity and seconds in plants, butterflies, freshwater fish, and amphibians.

2019 world environment day theme was "Beat Air Pollution" and it is hosted by China.

When was World Environment Day started?

This is our 46th world environment day.

World environment day was established by the UN General Assembly in the year 1972 on the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Two years letter, in 1974 the first world environment day was held with the theme;

Only One Earth

Even though the world environment day celebration has been held annually since 1974. In 1987 the idea for rotating the center of these activities through selecting different host countries began.

For the first time Russia hosted the world environment day, in 1998 and the theme is "For life on Earth -- Save our Seas".

Despite all our technological advancements, we are completely dependent on healthy and vibrant ecosystems for our water, food, medicines,, clothes, fuel, shelter, and energy. ----Mrema

Biodiversity ensures that we have fertile soil, as well as a variety of foods, including fruits and vegetables to eat. It is the foundation of most of our industries and livelihoods and helps regulate climate through carbon storage and regulating rainfall. It also filters our air and water and mitigates the impact of natural disasters such as landslides and coastal storms.

Healthy ecosystems can protect the spread of disease: Where native biodiversity can protect for some zoonotic diseases can be lowered. ---- United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) biodiversity expert Doreen Robinson.

Nature is in crisis, threatened by biodiversity and habitat loss, global heating, and toxic pollution. Failure to act is failing humanity. Addressing the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and protecting ourselves against future global threats requires sound management of hazardous medical and chemical waste; strong and global stewardship of nature and biodiversity; and a clear commitment to “building back better”, creating green jobs and facilitating the transition to carbon-neutral economies. Humanity depends on action now for a resilient and sustainable future.

In this COVID-19 pandemic, by UNEP director 4 major sustainable development goals that helps future proof global recovery. Click Here to know that;

The mighty planet gives us food, breathable air, water to drink, and a habitable environment where we can survive comfortably. On the day of the environment, we have that holy chance to serve our mighty planet/environment and show the caring for our nature.

On the world environment day, we all take a day off from our work. And join various campaigns to spread awareness about environment protection. We all knew that the main reason for pollution and other problems in our earth is no other than deforestation, so let's plant a tree on this holy day. These types of little things can make a very big change in our life.

Conclusion

World environment day is a day especially celebrated to know and solve all the environmental issues. It is also known as the Environment Day, Eco Day or WED. It is a great annual event focusing on the issues of the environment and trying to solve them completely. It is being celebrated for years worldwide with lots of creative activities and enthusiasm to bring positive changes in the environment. It aims to protect the natural environment forever on the earth for the healthy possibility of life.

Go Green, Save Green

Organized Planning

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Organized Planning

The Crystallization of Desire into Action

The Sixth Step towards Riches

Welcome back achievers, we are on the other step to be riches that is organized planning from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Organized Planning is the process of thinking about the activities required to achieve the desired goal. Everything the people create from ideas to products begins in the form of desire. To get the dream we have to take some steps to take something from our mind and turn into reality, this is where your plans come into the spotlight. Remember one thing first we have to clear that plan should be definitely don't need to be perfect and that plan should be executed as soon as you can.

Without a plan you cant achieve anything. Here plan takes a crucial rule in the way of achieving our desire/goal/success. Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

There is a list of tasks to do regarding organized planning.

Form a group of like-minded people to discuss and create a plan for your main desire. Working together to achieving the goal you want to achieve. In short, this is called MMA(Master Mind Alliance).
Before forming a group, decide the positive and advantages you can give to the team members of your group in return for their advice/effort. No one will work indefinitely without some form of compensation. Remember this may not always be in the form of money.
Arrange to meet with your group at least twice a week, until you have finalized your plan. So that you can know what is the current status of your plan/desire.
Maintain a perfect harmony with every member of your group.

These are the main key points to ensure success you must plans that are almost faultless and tap into the minds of other successful minds and nearly absorb as much information you can.

Keep in mind these facts:--

First: - You are engaged in an understanding of major importance to you. to be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

Second: - You must have the advantage of the experience, education, native ability, and imagination of other minds. This is in harmony with the methods followed by every person who has accumulated a great fortune.

If unfortunately, some plan fails don't worry about what you have to do, just remember a good concept, winners always have backups like Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, and even Plan D.

James J. Hill met with temporary defeat when he first endeavored to raise the necessary capital to build a railroad from the East to West, but he, too, turned defeat into victory through new plans.

Henry Ford met with temporary defeat, not only at the beginning of his automobile career, but after he had gone far toward and the top. He created new plans and went marching on to financial victory.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sounds, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter".

A Quitter Never Wins-- A Winner Never Quits

Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. your achievements can be no greater than your plans are sound.

To organize all these tasks you must need a great deal of leadership. The 11 qualities of leadership that must have in a leader, that are defined below;

Unwillingness courage based upon knowledge of self, and of one's occupation too.
Self-control The man who can't control himself can never control others.
A keen sense of justice. Without a sense of fairness and justice, no leader can command and retain the respect of his followers.
Definiteness of plan.
Definiteness of decision.
Habit doing more than paid for.
A pleasing personality.
Sympathy and understanding.
Mastery of detail.
Willingness to fulfill responsibilities.
Cooperation.

Now we are the stage where we are going to know what are the major faults of leaders who fail, because it is just as essential to know what not to do as it is to know what to do.

Inability to organize details.
Unwillingness to render humble service.
Expectation of pay for what they "know" instead of what they do with that which they know.
Fear of competition from followers.
Lack of Imagination.
Selfishness.
Intemperance.
Disloyalty.
Emphasis on the "authority" of leadership.
Emphasis of title.

These are among the more common of the causes of failed leadership. Any of these faults is sufficient to induce failure.

So in this session, we learn about what is organized planning and how it take nearer towards our goal. In our next topic we are going to know about Decision.

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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill { Step 5 -- Imagination }

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Imagination

The Workshop of the Mind

The fifth step towards Riches.

"The man can create anything which he can imagine."

The above quote is enough to define the power of imagination. The imagination is literally a workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man. The impulse, the desire, is given shape, form, and action through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind.

Through the aid of imaginative faculty, man has discovered, and harnessed, more of nature's forces during the past fifty years than during the entire history of the human race, previous to that time. He has analyzed, and weighed the sun at a distance of millions of miles, and has determined, through the aid fo imagination, the elements of which it consists.

The imaginative functions are of two types. One is known as "Synthetic imagination" and the other one is "Creative imagination".

SYNTHETIC IMAGINATION:-

In this form of imagination, one may arrange old concepts, ideas, or plans into new combinations. In this form man creates nothing, it frequently works with the material of experience, education, and observation with which it is fed. It is the faculty used most by the inventor, with the exception of the who draws upon the creative imagination, when he cannot solve his problem through synthetic imagination.

CREATIVE IMAGINATION:-

Through the form of creative imagination, the finite mind of man has direct communication with infinite intelligence. It is the faculty through which "inspiration" received. It is by this faculty that all basic, or new ideas are handed over to the man.

The great leaders of business, industry, finance, and the great artists, musicians, poets, and writers became great, because they develop the faculty of creative imagination. Both synthetic and creative imagination become more alert with use, just as any muscle or organ of the body develops through use.

"Ideas are Beginning of all Fortunes. Ideas are the Product of Imagination."

Here is an example of imagination.

THE ENCHANTED KETTLE

Fifty years ago, an old doctor went to a chemist shop. He told to the clerk who is working there that; the old doctor has a Kettle, a paddle( used to mix the drink of the kettle), and special magic formula; by the use of these things that clerk can be rich, but the as cost of those things he(clerk) has to pay $500 dollar to that old doctor. While the clerk listened that he gave all his savings $500 to that old doctor and he takes all the three things. Old doctor takes that $500 and went from there. That old doctor really needs that money and he went to solve his problems and to repay the borrowed amount. Now that young clerk gave all the savings he has and invested in that formula. Then he mixed those three things and make a solution by using that formula he has bought.

Then the clerk realizes that he got a magical formula through that huge sugar industries came into the market, and buy that so many unemployed got jobs in those industries. He turns a small capita of south in the business capital of the country.

Like this that old kettle was useful for everyone. Did you know what the mixture made in that kettle, "Coca-cola"? Yes it is coca-cola. The father of this mixture was Asa Candler.

The secret of his success is not that 3 things he bought in $500 dollars, the main secret was his imagination.

The moral of this story was;

To fulfill our dream, our goal we have to imagine it first so that it will be turned into reality.

The thing is stopping you to get your goal, that is not anything, that is only your thinking, your imagination.

First, change the thinking you have, use your imagination, and see the difference.

Unlike Coca-cola, before it is formed it is just an idea, and now it is a multi-million company.

Everything is just an idea until it is fulfilled. So be confident and believe in yourself that "you can do it".

This story proves the truth of that old saying, "where there's a will. there's a way."

With this observation let get towards our next step Organized Planning.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill { Step 4 Specialized Knowledge}

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Specialized Knowledge

Personal Experience Or Observation

The Fourth Step Toward Riches

Here is a story about specialized knowledge, after this story we describe specialized knowledge. Let's read the story;

During the world war, a Chicago newspaper published certain editorials in which, among other statements, Henry Ford was called "an ignorant pacifist." Mr. Ford objected to the statements, and brought suit against the paper for labeling him. When the suit was tried in the Courts, the attorneys for paper pleaded justification, and placed Mr. Ford himself, on the witness stand, for the purpose of proving to the jury that he was ignorant.

The attorneys asked Mr. Ford a great variety of questions, all of them intended to prove, by his own evidence, that, while he might possess considerable specialized knowledge pertaining to the manufacture of automobiles, he was, in the main, ignorant.

Mr. Ford was plied with such a question has the following: "Who was Benedict Arnold?" and "How many soldiers did the British send over to America to put down the Rebellion of 1776?" In answer to the last question, Mr. Ford replied."I don't know the exact number of soldiers the British sent over, but I have heard that it was a considerably larger number than ever went back."
Finally, Mr. Ford became tired of this line of questioning, and in reply to a particularly offensive, he leaned over, pointed his finger at the lawyer who had asked the questions, and said "If I should really want to answer the foolish questions you have just asked or any of the questions you have been asking me, let me remind you that I have a row of electric push-buttons on my desk, and by pushing the right button, I can summon to my aid men who answer any question I desire to ask concerning the business to which I am devoting most of my effort.
Now, will you kindly tell me, Why I should clutter up my mind with general knowledge, for the purpose fo being able to answer questions when I have around me who can supply any knowledge I required? "
That answer floored the lawyer. Every person in the courtroom realized it was the answer, not for an ignorant man, but of a man of Education.

We have to remember that there are two kinds of knowledge, One is general knowledge and the other is specialized knowledge. General knowledge, no matter ho great in quality or variety it may be, is of but little use in the accumulation of money. The faculties of the great university possess, in the aggregate, practically every form of general knowledge known to civilization. Most of the professors have but little or no memory. They specialize in teaching knowledge, but they do not specialize in the organization, or the use of knowledge.
Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money. Knowledge is only potential power only when,, and if it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
Many people make the mistake of assuming that, because Henry Ford had but little "schooling", he is not a man of "education". Those who make this the word "educate". That word is derived from the Latin word "Educo", meaning to reduce, to draw out, to develop from within.
An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. Henry Ford comes well within the meaning of the definition that we already knew from the above example.

Before you can be sure of your ability to transmute Desire into its monetary equivalent, you will require Specialized Knowledge of the service, merchandise, or profession which you intend to offer in return for fortune.
In the process of gain specialized knowledge we have to decide the reason behind gaining specialized knowledge and the sort notes of the specialized knowledge or the topics in which you want to gain much knowledge. Consider that not to import unnecessary knowledge in the process of gaining knowledge. And the more important of these are:
a) Ones's own experience and education
b) Experience and education available through the cooperation of others (Master Mind Alliance).
c) Colleges and Universities
d) Public libraries( Following books or listen to the stories of corresponding knowledge )
e) Special Training Courses (By taking your interested courses and that should be useful in your goal achieving process)
Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. This one reason why college degrees are not valid more highly. They represent nothing but miscellaneous knowledge.
Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when one finishes school.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of the Lack of Ambition! Persons, especially salaried people, who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study, seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their actions opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gain the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity.
Specialized knowledge, plus imagination, were the ingredients that went into the unique and successful business. The beginning of the successful business was an Idea.
In this philosophy, the author wants to tell us that normally we rise to high position or remain at the bottom because of the condition we can control if we desire to control them.
If you have Imagination this chapter may present you with an idea sufficient to serve as the beginning of the riches you desire. Remember, the Idea is the main thing. Specialized knowledge may be found just around the corner -- any corner!...

Through this step we leaned that, we should have to focus on our interesting knowledge, which knowledge is going to take us towards our goal. We have to learn always, no matter what is our age or position or anything else, this is the only way through which we are going to achieve our goal.

That's all about this step 4 Specialized Knowledge. And let's go to our next topic "Imagination".

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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill ( Step 3 Autosuggestion }

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Autosuggestion

The Medium For Influencing The Subconscious Mind

Autosuggestion is a term that applies to all suggestions and all self-administered stimuli which reach one's mind through the five senses. Stated in another way, autosuggestion is a self-suggestion. It is an agency of communication between that part of the mind where conscious thoughts take place, and that which serves as the seat of action for the subconscious mind.

Auto-suggestion is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind.

You were instructed, in the last of the six steps described in the chapter on Desire, to read aloud twice daily the written statement of your desire for money, and so See and Feel yourself Already in possession of the money! By following these instructions, you communicate the object of your desire directly to your subconscious mind in a spirit of absolute faith.

Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon only thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling. Plain, unemotional words do not influence the subconscious mind. You will get no appreciable results until you learn to reach your subconscious mind with thoughts, or spoken words that have been well emotionalized with belief.

Do not become discouraged, if you cannot control and direct your emotions the first time you try to do so. Remember, there is no such possibility as something for nothing. The ability to reach, and influence your subconscious mind has its price, and you must pay that price. You cannot cheat even if you desire to do so.

Your ability to use the principle of auto-suggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire it'll that become a burning obsession.

Here is a most significant fact- the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute faith, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind.

When visualizing the money you intend to accumulate with closed eyes, see yourself rendering the service, or delivering the merchandise you intend to give in return for this money. This is important.

The fact that you are reading this book is an indication that you earnestly seek knowledge. The instruction given in connection with the six steps in the second chapter will now be summarized, you can see the summary of chapter 2 that is Faith steps.

Remember faith is the strongest, and most productive of the emotions. Follow the instructions given in the chapter on Faith.

These instructions may, at the first seem abstract. Do not let this disturb you. Follow the instructions, no matter how abstract or impractical they may, at first, appear to be. The time will soon come, if you do as you have been instructed, in spirit as well as in act, when a whole new universe of power will unfold to you.

Many philosophers have made the statement, that man is the master if his own earthly destiny, but most of them have failed to say why he is the master. The reason that man may be the master if his own earthly status, and especially his financial status, is thoroughly explained in this chapter. Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind, and through it, gain the cooperation of infinite intelligence.

The actual performance of transmuting Desire into money, involves the use of auto-suggestion as an agency by which one may reach, and influence, the subconscious mind. Carry out these instructions as though you were a small child. Inject into your efforts something of the Faith of a child and see the difference.

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Think And Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill { Step 2 Faith }

2020-05-14T10:00:00.002+05:30

Faith

Visualization of, And Belief In Attainment of Desire

[The Second Step towards Riches]

Faith is the head of the chemist of the mind. When faith is blended with thought, the subconscious mind is instantly picking up the vibrations, translates it into the spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to infinite intelligence, as in the case of prayer.

The emotion of faith, love, and sex are the most powerful al all the major positive emotions. When the three are blended, they have the effect of "coloring" thought in such a way that it instantly reaches the subconscious mind, where it is changed into its spiritual equivalent, the only form that induces a response from Infinite Intelligence.

How To Develop Faith

Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of Auto-suggestions. By following the instruction laid down in the chapter on autosuggestion and the subconscious mind, as summarized in the chapter on auto-suggestion, you may convince the subconscious mind that you believe you will receive that for which you ask, and it will act upon the belief, which your subconscious mind passes back to you in the form of "faith" followed by definite plans for procuring they which you desire.

Faith is a state of mind which you may develop at will after you have mastered the thirteen principles, because it is a mind which develops,, voluntarily, through application and use of these principles.

Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.

Not only thought impulses which have bees mixed with faith, but those which have been mixed with any of the positive emotions, or any of the negative emotions, may reach, and influence the subconscious mind. There are millions of people who believed themselves "doomed" to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe they have no control. They are the creators of their own "misfortune", because of this negativity belief, which is picked up by the subconscious mind, and translated into physical equivalent.

Your belief or faith is the element that determines the action of your subconscious mind. It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage- and eliminate negative emotions. A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

Faith is a state of Mind which Maybe Induced Auto-suggestion

"Faith is the state of mind that may be induced by self-suggestion." Simple principles of faith, so that common people can understand easily, are following below.

" Have faith in yourself; faith infinite;

" Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches!

"Faith is the basis of all "miracles", and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science!

"Faith is the only known antidote for failure.

"Faith is the only element, the 'chemical' which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with infinite intelligence.

"Faith is the element which transforms the ordinary vibration of thought, created by the finite mind of man into spiritual equivalent.

"Thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions constitute a 'magnetic' force which attracts other similar or related thoughts".

The human mind is constantly attracting vibrations that harmonize with that which dominates the mind. We are what we are because of other vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment. Taking inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you may discover that your greatest weakness is a lack of self-confidence. These obstacles are clear through the aid of the principle of auto-suggestion. There are some steps through which you can easily auto-suggest.

First-- I know that I have the ability to achieve the demand of my definite purpose in life; therefore, I demand for my self persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

Second-- I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality; therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture.

Third-- I know through the principle of autosuggestion, any desire that I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some practical means of attaining the object back of it; therefore, I will devote ten minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of self-confidence.

Fourth-- I have clearly written down a description of my definite chief aim in life, and I will never stop trying until I shall have developed sufficient self-confidence for its attainment.

Fifth-- I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. I will succeed by attracting to myself the forces I wish to use, and the cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve me, because of my willingness to serve others. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me because I will sign my name to this formula, commit it to memory, and repeat it aloud once a day, with full faith that it will gradually influence my thoughts and actions so that I will become a self-reliant, and successful person.

The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thoughts impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage, or faith.

The law of autosuggestion, through which any person may rise to an altitude of achievement which stagger the imagination, is well described the following verse;

"If you think you are beaten, you are,

If you think you dare not, you don't.

If you like to win, but you think you can't,

It is almost certain you won't."

"If you think you'll lose, you're lost,

For out in the world we find,

Success begins with fellow's will--

It's all in the state of mind."

"Life's battle don't always go,

To the stronger or faster man,

But soon or late the man who wins

Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!"

Observe the words which have been emphasized, and you will catch the deep meaning which the poet had in mind.

Abraham Lincoln was a failure at everything he tried until he was well past she of forty. He was a Mr.Nobody from Nowhere, until a great experience came into his life, aroused the sleeping genius within his heart and brain, and gave the world one of its really great men. The "experience" was mixed with the emotions of sorrow and life. It came to him through Ann Rutledge, the only woman whom he never truly loved.

Riches begin in the form of thought!
The amount is limited only by the person in whose mind the thought is put into motion. Faith removes limitations! Remember this when you are ready to bargain with life for whatever it is that you ask as your price for having passed this way.

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Think and Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill [ Step 1 Desire ]

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{ Introduction }

So let's get start our second book summary which is Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It means just think about be rich and get rich.

So in this book, we learn about how to think to become rich, when we have to start thinking to get rich, and how we get start to become rich. In this book there are some steps to become rich and how we have to work hard and smartly too. And give as much as effort to get rich, In this book, you can learn how and what you have to do to become successful in life. In this chapter there are 13 steps recommended by Napoleon Hill to get rich, anyone can get success by following these steps. While you complete these steps simultaneously, you will be getting to know how they reach people get rich the story behind their success. Napoleon Hill also gave us some clues to know how some people get success by following these rules.

One of the common causes of failure is the habit of "Quitting" when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another. When we begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness to purpose, with little or no hard work. Everyone ought to be interested in knowing how to acquire that state of mind which will attract riches.

One of the main weakness of mankind is the average mans familiarity with the word “Impossible.” He knows all the rules which will not work. He knows all the things which cannot be done. This book was written for those who seek the riles which made others successful and are willing to stake everything on those rules.

Success comes to those who become success conscious. And Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious. As like money comes to those who become money conscious.

In this book we already mentioned the 13 steps to become rich in life, that is;

Desire
Faith
Autosuggestion
Specialized knowledge
Imagination
Organized planning
Decision
Persistence
Power of the mastermind
The mystery of sex transmutation
The subconscious mind
The brain
The sixth sense

Desire (The starting point of all achievements & The first step towards Riches)

Desire is the first step towards to rich. When you want something wholeheartedly, it comes to you as a reality. When you think continuously about your dream or desire, you will find a way to get your desire. There was a term called Money conscious, in this term a person completely thinks that itself as a rich person. When you became money conscious, you try to earn money in any situation.

The methods by which desire for riches can be transmuted into financial equivalent, consists of six definite, practical steps, viz;

First step:-- Fix your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not merely to say “I want plenty of money.” Be definite as to the amount.

Second step:-- Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. There is no such reality as “something for nothing”.

Third step:-- Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.

Fourth step:-- Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Fifth step:-- Write out a clear concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for this acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.

Sixth step:-- Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. As you read – see, feel, and believe yourself already in possession of the money.

If you have that burning desire and wish to be rich then these few steps may not be so difficult for you. Remember one thing that any big desire or wish is always a dream until you achieve it. You may complain that it is impossible for you to "see yourself in possession of money" before you actually have it. Here is where our burning desire will come to your mind. If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

If the thing you wish to do it right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across, and never mind what "they" say if you meet with temporary defeat, for "they" perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with the seed of an equivalent success.

"Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit!"

"The Wright brothers dreamed of a machine that would fly through the air. Now one may see evidence all over the world they dreamed soundly."

"Whelan dreamed of a chain of cigar stores, transformed his dream into action, and now the United Cigar Stores occupy the some of best corners in America."

The world is filled with an abundance of opportunity which the dreamers of the pat knew. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. A burning desire to need to give the kickstart towards your desire/dream. Remember that all who succeed in life get off to bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive".

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief. Remember no one is required to aim high in life to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

Through some strange and powerful principle of "mental chemistry" which she has never divulged. Nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire "that something" which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

Conclusion

Towards the first step towards getting rich we learned that "To be rich first we have to rich in mentally and we have to strongly believe, then automatically our dream and believe comes true".
By following the six steps as mentioned in this topic Desire we can get rich.
The given six steps we have to repeat follow strictly, until we succeed in our dream.
Like Thomas Edison, The Wright Brothers and Whelan we have to dream it first and then work sincerely and give as much effort to turn our dream into reality.

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You can Win -- {Chapter 8} Values and Vision

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Chapter 8 Values and VIsion

[ Doing the Right Thing for the Right reason ]

In our life values are so important because they help us to grow and develop. They help us to create the future we want to experience. Our values reflect what is important to us in life. Values guide our behavior in all aspects of our life, including our home life, our work life, and our social life. Values are important because they can help us to predict each other's choices, and can help us avoid misunderstanding, frustration, and district.

How Do We Judge Our Value System?

How do we put our value system to the test? I believe there are only two tests. The ultimate test is called the Mama Test. Whenever you are doing, whatever you are doing, wherever and with whomever, at home or at work, alone or with someone, if values are in question, ask yourself, "If my mama were to see me doing what I am doing right now, would she be proud of me and say "Attaboy!" or would she hang her head in shame?" Your values would be clarified rather quickly. If you passed the Mama Test and failed all other tests, you have passed. If you failed the Mama Test and passed all other tests, you have failed.

This is worth repeating. Think about it. Whenever you need value clarification, ask yourself, "If my mama were to see me doing whatever I am doing would she be proud of me and say "Attaboy!" or would she hang her head in shame?" The clouds will clear rather quickly and you will get your answers easily.

If the Mama Test doesn't do it, I have another test called the Baba Test. Whenever you are doing, whatever you are doing, wherever and with whomever, at home or at work, alone or with someone, if values are in question, ask yourself, "If my children were to see me doing what I am doing right now, would I want them to see it, or would I be embarrassed?" Again the clouds will clear rather quickly and you will get your answers. If these two tests don't clarify a person's values, then that person is no longer a human being and has no conscience left.

There are some benefits of identifying your value;

Values help you find your purpose.
Values help you react in different situations.
Values help you make decisions.
Values help clear our clutter.
Values help you to choose the right career.
Values help you develop a sense of self.
Values help increase your confidence.
Values help your overall happiness level.

What we do for a Living Versus What we do with a Living

Hard work teaches a person the value of money. That is why it is important that parents teach their children this lesson. People who have values have no price tag and neither do they value themselves. But nowadays this younger generation who inherits money without value. Money is not that payoff for every kind of work. Parents bring up the children with no paycheck in mind.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. --Helen Keller

It is good to have money and the things it can buy, but in the process of acquiring money, we don't want to lose the things that money cant buy. Money can only buy what money can buy. And in fact, the most precious things are those that money just can't buy.

What money won't buy

We learn from the above paragraph that money just can't buy. People with character, integrity, and the right values are not for sale. Money will buy:

Amusements but not happiness.
A bed but not sleep.
Books but not wisdom.
A clock but not more time.
Companions bot not friends.
Finery but not beauty.
Food but not appetite.
A house but not a home.
Medicine but not health.
A ring but not health.
A ring but not a marriage.

The MIDAS touch

We all know the story of the greedy king named Midas. He had a lot of gold and the more he had the more he wanted. He stored all the gold in his vaults and used to spend time every day counting it. One day while he was counting a stranger came from nowhere and said he would grant him a wish. The king was delighted and said, "I would like everything I touch to turn to gold." The stranger asked the king, Are you sure?" The king replied, "Yes." So the stranger said, "Starting tomorrow morning with the sun rays you will get the golden touch."

The king thought he must be dreaming, this couldn't be true. But the next day when he woke up, he touched the bed, his clothes, and everything turned to gold. He looked out of the window and saw his daughter playing in the garden. He decided to give her a surprise and thought she would be happy. But before he went to the garden he decided to read a book. The moment he touched it, it turned into gold and he couldn't read it. Then he sat to have breakfast and the moment he touched the fruit and the glass of water, they turned to gold. He was getting hungry and he said to himself, "I can't eat and drink gold." Just about that time his daughter came running and he hugged her and she turned into a gold statue. There were no more smiles left.

The king bowed his head and started crying. The stranger who gave the wish came again and asked the king if he was happy with his golden touch. The king said he was the most miserable man. The stranger asked, "What would you rather have, your food and loving daughter or lumps of gold and her golden statue?" The king cried and asked for forgiveness. He said, "I will give up all my gold. Please give me my daughter back because without her I have lost everything worth having." The stranger said to the king, "You have become wiser than before" and he reversed the spell. He got his daughter back in his arms and the king learned a lesson that he never forget for the rest of his life.

What is the moral of the story?

DIstorted values lead to tragedy.

Sometimes getting what you want may be a bigger tragedy than not getting what you want.

Unlike the game of soccer where players can be substituted, the game of life allows no substitutions or replays. We may not get a second chance to reserve our tragedies, as the king did.

Is your life worth saving?

A boy was drowning in a river and he shouted for help. A man passing by jumped in the river and saved the boy's life. As the man was leaving the boy said, Thank-you.'' The man asked, "For what?" The boy replied, "For saving my life." The man looked into the boy's eyes and said, Upon, make sure when you grow up that your life was worth saving."

It is time to think. This is a wake-up call. Success without fulfillment is meaningless. Unless there is a sense of meaning and purpose, life is empty and unhappy regardless of how much prestige, money or degrees a person has.

Success begins with developing your personal success philosophy, about your health, money, family, society, and values. Without a clearly defined purpose and a philosophy to guide you, life is guided by fantasies. If people have not defined a philosophy of success, they have actually defined a philosophy of failure by default.

Sometimes we overlook the things that ought not to be overlooked and don't overlook the things that ought to be overlooked.

An integral part of a good value system is a commitment.

Commitment

To make commitments upon our dream we have to clear our decision an value.

Example; You can't make a commitment to your country by selling secrets to the enemy. You can't keep a friend by revealing to others what he told you in confidence. You can't keep a commitment to a job by trying to do as little as possible. Unkept commitments result in dishonest behavior. I wonder how any relationship, regardless of whether personal or professional, would work if people said something to the effect.

¨ I will try but I can't commit.

¨ I will do it but don't count on me.

¨ I will be there if I can, but don't get your hopes up.

¨ I will be there, so long as you do well.

¨ I will be there so long as you are in good health.

¨ I will stick with you till I find something better.

Our strongest relationships are tied together with the invisible something called commitment. Lack of commitment would destabilize relationships and lead to insecurity. No one would know where they stand with each other.

Commitment implies:

Dependability
Reliability
Predictability
Consistency
Caring
Empathy
A sense of duty
Sincerity
Character
Integrity
Loyalty

If one of those ingredients is missing, commitment loses strength. When a person makes a commitment to someone, he is really saying, "You can count on me no matter what," and "I will be there when you need me." Which increases the value of that person who gives commitment.

Regardless of the uncertainty, commitment says "You can count on me." A person who makes a commitment is willing to give up a lot. For what? The answer is pretty clear. The rewards can be priceless. Commitment says:

I am willing to sacrifice because I care.
I am a person of integrity and you can trust me.
I will not let you down.
Despite the pain, I will still be there.
I will not let you down in good times or in bad times.

Remember and keep in mind, needs are stronger than wants. Commitments act as a glue that bonds relationships. Commitment implies sacrificing fun and willingness to accept sorrow. Commitment is a sign of maturity. Commitment means not quitting at the first option or sign of problems. Individuals with strong commitments build strong communities.

Many people are not willing to make commitments because they feel they are not ready for it. However, in the meantime, for years they keep sharing and using anything and everything of one another. Relationships don't last because of passion and love but because of commitments and empathy. A commitment implies putting the other person's needs ahead of one's own.

Commitment to Values

Loyalty cannot be bought, they are earned. When a person makes a commitment of loyalty to either ab individual or an organization what really he saying? He is saying "I stand by you because I believe in what you believe in." What if the person I am committed to, be it a leader, spouse, employer, employee becomes a spy for an enemy country? Do I continue my support because I committed earlier? Absolutely not. I am not committed to support unethical and illegal behavior.

Unkept commitments lead to:

¨ Broken homes

¨ Abandoned children

¨ Poor relationships

¨ High-stress levels

¨ Guilt

¨ Unfulfilled life

¨ Loss of business

¨ Isolation

¨ Depression

Make a commitment and stay committed!

Ethics

Bad circumstances are not excuses for making bad choices and leading poor lives. Values and ethics are not just designed for good times, but also to prevent bad times. They are like the laws of the land which you need when people are good and you need even more to protect them from the bad. Ethical choices reflect objectivity between right and wrong. That is why our conscience hurts when making an unethical choice and does not hurt when making a wrong personal choice. Choices are personal because the person makes it, but the rightness or wrongness does not change from person to person. Just like in a math test.

Those who believe that ethics cannot be generalized but vary with every situation, come up with justification and keep changing their ethics from situation to situation, and person to person. This is called situational ethics. This is the ethics of conveniences rather than conviction.

Purpose of Life

There are many kinds of desire. Desire for success, desire to do one's duty even at the cost of pleasure. Desire for purpose. Something worth dying for which gives meaning to life. A purposeless life is a living death What is the purpose? Do you have one?

Purpose brings passion. Find or create a purpose and then pursue it with passion and perseverance. Every day we need to ask ourselves the question:

"Am I getting any closer to my purpose in life?

Am I making this a better place to live?"

If the answer is no, then I have just wasted a day of my life.

The earlier we find a purpose in life, the better it is. It appears that the greatest challenge comes in the unending search for the purpose of life. Not only as an individual but for our families, organizations, and country. Once our purpose and values are clear, conflicts between self-interest and social obligations find a moral balance between themselves. We become aware of when to take a stand. That is the time we start making the right decisions for long-term gain rather than making the wrong decisions for short-term gain. Wisdom and maturity lead to a greater understanding of major issues.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Living with a Purpose

All of us are put on this planet for a purpose. We are part of a big picture. But very few people discover their purpose in life. Most of us just exist and keep counting our days rather than making our days count.

Dr. Albert Einstein was once asked, "Why are we here?" He replied, "If the universe is an accident, we are accidents. But if there is meaning in the universe, there is meaning in us also." And he added, "The more I study physics, the more I am drawn towards metaphysics."

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.
--Wood row Wilson

We learn our values from our parents and teachers. If we do not learn values from our parents and teachers, who do we learn them from? And when they don't teach us values, we pick them up by default from television and other such undesirable sources. No wonder society gets messed up. The teacher such as in the example above is not only irresponsible with distorted values but does not deserve to be teaching our kids.

Winning versus Winners

What is the difference between winning and being a winner? Winning is an event. Being a winner is a spirit. Winners have kept winning in perspective based on their value system. Winners are gracious. They never brag about themselves, they respect and appreciate their team members and opponents. Many people know how to succeed. Very few know how to handle success. And there is always something about success that displeases some other people.

The reality is that life is a competition and we have to compete. In fact, competition makes competitive people grow. The objective is to win, no question hut to win fairly, squarely, decently, and by the rules.

Try not to be a man of success but rather try to be a man of value.

--Albert Einstein

What is Goodness?

If we took a survey, asking people one question, "Are you good?" most people would respond, "Yes!" Ask them, "What makes you good?" Responses will be:

¨ I don't cheat so I'm good.

¨ I don't lie so that makes me good.

¨ I don't steal, so I'm good.

If you analyze the above rationales, there is not much substance in them. Just think of the person who says, "I don't cheat." Well, that only means that he is not a cheat. And the persons who say they don't lie and steal, only mean that they are not liars and thieves. But that doesn't make them good. A person becomes good when he actually does good rather than not doing wrong. A person of values would be one who has qualities such as fairness, compassion, courage, integrity, empathy, humility, loyalty, and courtesy. What Page 174 of 175 makes a person with these qualities a good person? It is because these are the kind of people who are dependable, stand up for justice, help the needy, make life better for themselves and those around them. To recognize goodness in all its forms, we need benchmarks and standards. Benchmarks can be ethical, or legal, or both. Ethical ones deal with right and wrong and all the gray areas that are in between leading to what is good and better and what is bad and worse.

How high are Ethical Standards?

What would you do in the following situations?

You know the taxi fare from your home to the airport is $64. You have paid it before, you know it is the correct fare. This time the taxi driver asks for $3
What would you do? 2. You are dining in a restaurant and you ordered four dishes and the waiter brought all four but by mistake, billed you for only three. What would you do?
Your best friend is terminally ill and you are a life assurance salesman. They needed $100,000 worth of insurance. No one knows and no one can find out that your friend is dying. Would you write the policy?

You cannot legislate ethics. What advice would you give to your children under the same circumstances? Is your behavior conforming with the advice you would give your children in the same situation? We start learning ethics right after birth and all through our lives. Can we change ethical behavior? Yes, we need ethical training.

Ethics in Business

When we cheat the people around us, most of all we are cheating ourselves. We are preparing ourselves to be cheated. Prosperity brings responsibility. We cannot build industry and infrastructure while destroying the moral and social fiber.

The consequences of not following ethical behavior are the same as not following legal behavior. Some people will never be ethical. They think they are taking the easy way. In reality it is the tougher way. Could you face yourself if you didn't do the right thing for your client? Could you brag to your kids and be proud and feel good? If you can't, then that behavior is unethical.
A sense of humor and pride in oneself keeps a person on course.

Vision

Why don't people achieve excellence? The big reason is the lack of vision or limited vision. We need to dream beyond what is possible. Everything that we see today was a dream before it became a reality. Live with enthusiasm, direction, and with a sense of purpose. Do you have a dream? What is your dream? Every day that you live, are you getting closer to your purpose? Get your advice from successful people and not from living failures who will tell you how to succeed.

Where the vision is one year, cultivate flowers.

Where the vision is ten years, cultivate trees.

Where the vision is eternity, cultivate people.

Remember, winners don't do different things, they do things differently!

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You can Win -- {Chapter 7} Goal-Setting

2020-05-09T10:12:00.002+05:30

Chapter 7 Goal-Setting

Setting & Achieving goals

In the way of achieving your success, first of all, we have to choose an aim, we have to choose our goal, then only we can decide the way where we are going to. In ancient India, there is a story about how a disciple set a goal and how he achieves that. Read the complete story in the following paragraph;

An ancient Indian sage was teaching his disciples the art of archery. He put a wooden bird as the target and asked them to aim at the eye of the bird. The first disciple was asked to describe what he saw. He said, "I see the trees, the branches, the leaves, the sky, the bird, and its eye.."

The sage asked this disciple to wait. Then he asked the second disciple the same question and he replied, "I only see the eye of the bird." The sage said, "Very good, then shoot." The arrow went straight and hit the eye of the bird.

What is the moral of the story?

Unless we focus, we cannot achieve our goal. It is hard to focus and concentrate, but it is a skill that can be learned.

Why are Goals Important?

Goals are like oxygen to our dreams. Unlike without oxygen any living organism cant live as like that without goals our dream is valueless. Without goals or focus your abilities and talent are useless, no matter how talented you are there no value if you don't have a goal. Goals are what give you direction in life or direct towards your dream. By setting goals for yourself you are able to measure your progress because you always have a fixed endpoint or benchmark to compare with. When you set a goal for yourself you making yourself accountable to finish that task. The root of all the motivation or inspiration you have ever felt in your entire life are goals. Goal setting provides you the foundation for your drive. By making a goal you give yourself a concrete endpoint to aim to get excited about.

On July 4, 1952, Florence Chadwick was on her way to becoming the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel. She had already conquered the English Channel. The world was watching. Chadwick fought the dense fog, bone-chilling cold, and many times, the sharks. She was striving to reach the shore but every time she looked through her goggles, all she could see was the dense fog. Unable to see the shore, she gave up. Chadwick was disappointed when she found out that she was only half a mile from the coast. She quit, not because she was a quitter but because her goal was not in sight anywhere. The elements didn't stop her. She said, "I'm not making excuses. If only I had seen the land, I could have made it."

Two months later, she went back and swam the Catalina Channel. This time, in spite of the bad weather, she had her goal in mind and not only accomplished it but beat the men's record by two hours.

On the journey to life's highway, keep your eyes upon the goal. Focus on the donut, not upon the hole.

Dreams

To know about the dreams first we have to know the difference between Dreams and Wishes. Dreams and wishes are nothing more than desires. Desires are weak, it can be strong when it meets with the following 5 d's;

Direction
Dedication
Determination
Discipline
Deadlines

Goals are nothing but dreams with a deadline and an action plan. There are some steps which can turn our dream into reality;

Have a definite, clear written goal.
Have a plan to accomplish it.
Read the plans twice a day.

There are some reasons so some people don't set their goals; the reasons are:

A pessimistic attitude -- Always seeing their pitfalls/ fails rather than the possibilities.
Fear of Failure -- People subconsciously think that if they fail in achieving goals they became a failure in their life and in society too, so they don't even try.
A lack of ambition -- Our limited thinking prevents us from progress. So some of us cant ambitious. There was a fisherman who, every time caught a big fish, and would throw it back to the river, keeping only the smaller ones. a man watching this unusual behavior and asked the fisherman why he was doing this. The fisherman replied, "Because I have a small frying pan." Most people never make it in life because they are carrying a small frying pan. that is limited thinking.
A fear of rejection -- Some people fear rejection means if they can't do it what other people say about that. This is the most common thing everyone noticed, but the achievers are never caring about this, they only think about is they tried or not.
Procrastination -- "Someday, I will set my goals." This ties in with a lack of ambition. This causes excuses, and excuses are the big enemy of success.
Low self-esteem -- It is the reason for which people get demotivated and they slowly become internally no inspiration.
A lack of knowledge about goal-setting -- People usually don't have knowledge about the plan behind the goal-setting, so they can't satisfy their goals.

Choosing goals must be SMART;

S -- Specific. Make wish a specific, meaningful, wishful dream.

M -- Must be measurable. If we cannot measure it, we cannot accomplish it. Measurement is a way of monitoring our progress.

A -- Must be achievable. Achievable means that it should be out of reach enough to be challenging but it should not be out of sight, otherwise it becomes disheartening.

R -- Realistic. The goal must be realistic. A person who wants to lose 30 kg in~30 days is being unrealistic.

T -- Time-bound. Ther should be a starting date and a finishing date.

Goals must be Balanced

Our life is like a wheel with six spokes.

Family. Our loved ones, our supporters are the reason olive and make a living.
Financial. It represents our career and the things that money can buy.
Physical. Our health, without which nothing makes sense.
Mental. It represents knowledge and wisdom.
Social. Every individual and organization has social responsibilities without which society starts dying.
Spiritual. Our value system represents our character.

These are the spokes which supports our life to move further. As like that, we have to find the spokes or supporters through which we can move towards our success/dream. Some of the spokes we read goal-setting, character, attitude, inspiration, self-esteem, and must be realistic, if we set an unrealistic goal and if we are unable to achieve that then are motive and self-esteem will down, and we can't dare to take another step like that.

Quality Not Quantity

Supposing you went to the best restaurant in town where they gave you white-glove service with cutlery from England, crockery from France, chocolates from Switzerland, and on and on. You picked up the gold plated menu and ordered a dish of barbecued chicken. The waiter within minutes brought back a small cube of the most deliciously prepared chicken. You ate it and asked, "Is that all I am going to get?" The waiter replied, "It is not the quantity but the quality that matters." You said that you are still hungry and he gave you the same reply.

I hope the message is clear. Our families need both, quality and quantity.

Health -- We lose our health in the process of earning money and then we lose money in trying to regain our health.

Social Responsibility -- In the process of making money, we neglect our social responsibilities and let the system deteriorate until we become victims ourselves.

Scrutinize your goals -- Our goals should be high enough to motivate yet realistic enough to avoid discouragement. Anything we do, either takes us closer to our goal or further away. Each goal must be evaluated in light of the following.

Is it the truth?
Is it fair it all concerned?
Will it get me goodwill?
Will it get me health, wealth, and peace of mind?
Is it consistent with my goals?
Can I commit myself to it?

Goals should be consistent with our values

Goals are the event that shows our purpose in life. Choosing a goal is the first step towards success. Aim for the moon, even if you miss, you will become one of the stars.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

--Henry Ford

All of us in this world has a purpose in life. And that purpose may vary from person to person. An orchestra would be pretty dull if everyone played the same instrument.

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood. . .

Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

--Daniel H. Burn ham

It doesn't matter where we are. What really matters is in what direction we are heading. Effort and courage without purpose is wasted. Worry leads to negative goal-setting. It is thinking about things you don't want to happen.

Activity and Accomplishment

There is a big difference between activity and accomplishment.

This was demonstrated by a French scientist named Fable. He conducted an experiment with processionary caterpillars. Caterpillars follow the one in front of them blindly. Fable arranged them in a circle in a flowerpot so that the lead caterpillar actually was behind the last one forming a circle. He put pine needles (food for the caterpillars) in the center of the flowerpot. The caterpillars kept going in a circle in the pot. Eventually, after a week of circling around, they dropped dead of exhaustion and starvation with food only inches away from them.

We need to learn a lesson from the caterpillars. Just because you are doing something doesn't mean you are getting anywhere. One must evaluate one's activity in order to have accomplishment.

Meaningless goals

Before setting a goal we have to know about our values and add to compare with our set goal if it results positively we can try for that, but in any case if it comes negative then we have to either improve our value or we have to change our goal. Achievers are always tried to improve their values, they don't even think to change their goal. If you don't have that much determination, direction, discipline, and dedication then that should be a meaningless goal.

By the author of this book gave us an action plan by which we can easily set a goal and reach there.

Make a definite goal.
Write them down.
Read your goals twice a day, morning and night
Make goals slightly out of reach but not out of sight.
Check your progress periodically.

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You can Win -- { Chapter 6 } Subconscious Mind and Habit

2020-05-07T15:59:00.001+05:30

{Chapter 6}

Subconscious Mind & Habit

Building a pleasing personality

In today's generation, all are run to be a success in their life. the main step to be a success in life is, first we have learned to control ourselves. In today's world controlling ourselves is the most important step, every wants to know how to control themselves. Control ourselves means not externally but also internally like emotionally, mentally, physically. To be calm in every situation. Before control, we have to control the mind, first, we have to understand how the mind works, from where all the negative thoughts came, and what is that which makes an obstacle in the way of our success. To understand our mind we have to think like, our mind is a person and we are observing our mind. Then only we can understand and able to control our minds.

In this chapter, we discuss all those steps and tips to control and reprogram our minds.

The GIGO Principle

Like computers Garbage In Garbage Out works; Same as it works in our lives too.

Negativity in; Negativity Out.

Positivity in; Positivity Out.

Good in; Good out.

What we hear, see, think that is only we implement in our regular life or in our daily works; and slowly that turns became habits; and the habit became the character, and character decides our success rate. So our input equals to our output. Whatever we choose to put into our subconscious mind it will accept and our behavior will reflect that accordingly.

The movies we see, songs we listen to, images we like in social media, and the person we like all are directly affected to our subconscious mind. The television has a considerable impact on influencing our morals, thinking, and culture, for good or bad. When we go to the movies we laugh and we cry. Is to because they put something in the scene or because the emotional input has an immediate emotional output? Change the input and the output changes.

How Do We Form Habits?

Anything we do repeatedly becomes a habit. We learn by doing. By behaving courageously, we learn courage. We often hear statements like, this person is just lucky, he touches dirt and it turns to gold or, he is unlucky, no matter what he touches, it turns to dirt. This is not true. If you analyze, the successful person is doing something right in each transaction and the failure is repeating the same mistake in each transaction. Remember, practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. Practice makes permanent whatever you do repeatedly. Some people keep practicing their mistakes and they become perfect in them. So their mistakes become perfect and automatic. We have to remember one thing that Practice doesn't make perfect only perfect practice makes perfect.

How Do We Get Conditioned?

Most of our behavior comes as a result of conditioning-it is habitual. If we want to do anything well, it must become automatic. If we have to consciously think about doing the right thing we will never be able to do it well. That means we must make it a habit.

Think of the mighty elephant who can lift in excess of a ton of weight with just its trunk. How do they condition the elephant to stay in one place with a weak rope and a stake? The elephant, when it is a baby, is tied to a strong chain and a strong tree. The baby is weak but the chain and tree are strong. The baby is not used to being tied. So it keeps tugging and pulling the chain, all in vain. A day comes when it realizes that all the tugging and pulling will not help. It stops and stands still. Now it is conditioned.

And when the baby elephant becomes the mighty giant elephant, he is tied with a weak rope and a small stake. The elephant could, with one tug, walk away free, but it goes nowhere, because it has been conditioned.

Human beings are constantly being conditioned, consciously or unconsciously, by exposure to:

¨ the kind of books we read;

¨ the kind of movies and TV programs we watch;

¨ the kind of music we listen to;

¨ the kind of company we keep.

The Conscious and Subconscious Mind

By the psychological expert's human beings using only 10 percent of the total capacity of the human brain and essential whatever we currently aware if and focused upon. Our conscious mind is like the tip of the iceberg. What we use in our daily life that is the only tip and the remaining 90 percent are which is a huge size of mind is our subconscious mind.

Our conscious mind has the ability to think. It can accept or reject. But the subconscious only accepts, it makes no distinction regarding input. If we feed our mind with thoughts of fear, doubt, and hate, the auto-suggestions will activate and translate those things in reality. The subconscious mind dislikes a garden; it doesn't care what you plant. It is neutral; it has no preferences. But if you plant good seeds, you will have a good garden; otherwise you will have a wild growth of weeds.

In order to succeed, we need to get the program in a positive way.

How Do We Get Programmed

Think about how we learned to ride a bike. There are four stages: The first stage is called unconscious incompetence. This is a stage where we don't know that we don't know. The child doesn't know what it is to ride a bike (unconscious) nor can he ride a bike (incompetence). This is the stage of unconscious incompetence.

The second stage is called consciously incompetent. This is the stage where the child grows and becomes conscious of what it is to ride a bike but cannot ride one himself, so he is consciously incompetent.

But then he starts learning and now comes a third stage which is called consciously competent. Now he can ride a bike but has to think every time to do it. So with all the conscious thought and effort, the child is competent to ride a bike.

The fourth stage is called unconsciously competent. It comes when the child has practiced consciously riding the bike so much that he doesn't have to think. It becomes an automatic process. He can talk to people and wave to others while riding. That means he has reached the stage of unconscious competence. At this level, we don't need the concentration and thinking because the behavior pattern has become automatic.

This is the level that we want all our positive habits to reach. Unfortunately, we have some negative habits too which are at the unconscious competence stage and are detrimental to our progress.

Studies have shown that approximately 90% of all smokers became smokers by the age of 21. If a person has not become a smoker by the age of 21, then there is a very small chance that that person will ever become a smoker. This only proves that smoking is conditioned subconsciously and our conditioning starts at a young age.

Resistance to Change

When people recognize or become aware of their negative habits, why don't they change?

Nowadays the main reason is ego. They don't know that this ego is killing himself. They refuse to accept responsibility, or they may Lack the desire to change, Lack the discipline to change, Lack the belief that they can change. All these factors prevent us from getting rid of our negative habits. There are some excuses are the most common explanations for not changing negative habits;

We have always done it that way.
We have never done it that way.
That is no my job.
I don't think it will make any difference.
I am too busy.

The change is maybe too small or too big, we have stepped on that change then only we can turn our negative habit into a positive habit. When we try to change our subconscious mind resist us but we don't have to care about that, then only that changing slowly becomes a habit and habit becomes our attitude. And that attitude directs us towards our dream/success.

Forming Positive Habits

It is never too late to change. We hear all the time that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. We are humans not dogs. Neither are we performing tricks. We can unlearn self-destructive behavior and learn positive behavior. There is no big difference between a failure and a successful people. Example failures don't like discipline, hard work, or keeping commitments. Successful people also dislike discipline, hard work, and keeping commitments( an athlete doesn't like and want the discipline to get up and train every day but he does it regardless), but they do it anyway because they have formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

It is easier to prevent a bad habit than to overcome them. Good habits come from overcoming temptation. Excellence is the result of repeated conscious effort until it becomes a habit. It needs enough practice to become a habit.

21-Day Formula To Form Positive Habits

Auto-Suggestion

Autosuggestion is a statement made in the present tense, of the kind of person you want to be. Auto-suggestion is like writing a commercial to yourself about yourself, for yourself. Auto-suggestion is nothing but, it means suggest yourself. While we are making a decision or making a plan for our future we have to ask ourselves and take the opinion of ourselves.

Autosuggestion is a way to program your subconscious mind. They can be positive or negative.

Some examples of negative auto-suggestion are:

¨ I'm tired.

¨ I'm not an athlete.

¨ I have a poor memory.

¨ I'm not good at math.

When we repeat to ourselves a negative auto-suggestion, our subconscious mind believes it and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and starts reflecting in our behavior. Auto-suggestions are a process of repetition. A person who repeats a statement long enough lets it sink into the subconscious mind. Positive statements are made because we think in pictures and not in words. If I say "Don't think of the blue elephant," what is the first picture that comes to your mind? The blue elephant.

If I say "mother," what comes to your mind? A picture of your mother.

Did you start spelling m-o-t-h-e-r?

Of course not!

When a negative word comes in the auto-suggestion, it forms a negative picture which we want to avoid.

Prepare the Subconscious mind

Auto-suggestion is a repetitive process through which we feed our subconscious with positive statements that translate into reality. Repetition alone is not enough unless it is accompanied by emotions and feelings. Auto-suggestions without visualization will not produce results.

The self-discipline to finish what one starts, is imperative. Auto-suggestion is a powerful character building tool.
Translating Auto-Suggestion into Reality

Make a list of your auto-suggestions in the present tense.
Repeat auto-suggestions at least twice a day: first thing in the morning and at the end of the day. This is because in the morning, the mind is fresh and receptive and at night you deposit the positive picture into your subconscious overnight.
Repeat it consecutively for 21 days until it becomes a habit.
Auto-suggestions alone will not work. They need visualization.

Visualization

Visualization is the process of creating and seeing a mental picture of the kind of thing you want to have or do, or the kind of person you want to be. Visualization goes hand in hand with auto-suggestion. Auto-suggestion without visualization is mechanical repetition and will be ineffective. In order to see results, auto-suggestion must be accompanied by feelings and emotions (visualization).

CAUTION! Auto-suggestion may not be acceptable to the mind the first time you do it because it is an alien thought. For example, if for the past few decades I have believed that I have a poor memory and now all of a sudden, I tell myself, "I have a good memory!", my mind will throw it out, saying, "You liar! You have a bad memory!" Because that is what it has believed up to this point. It will take 21 days to dispel this notion. Why 21 days? Because it takes a minimum of 21 days of conscious, consecutive practice to formulate a habit.

The big question is: Is 21 days of conscious effort a heavy price to pay to change a life for the better? It all sounds simple but it is not easy. I am not surprised to see how few people go through this routine.

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You can Win -- {Chapter 5} Interpersonal skills

2020-05-06T00:19:00.001+05:30

Chapter 5

[Interpersonal Skills]

{Building a pleasing personality }

In this chapter we discuss what is interpersonal skills and how it helps us to achieve our success or achieve our dream.

Interpersonal skills are the qualities and behavior we exhibit while interacting with other people. they are considered to be the most sought and important property of a person. Strong interpersonal skills are a key indicator of success in a working environment, as benefits include the ability to cooperate with teammates to solve difficult problems, as well as simply enhancing your popularity around the office.

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than for any other ability under the sun.

--John Rockefeller

People knowledge is more important than product knowledge. We do not have business problems, we have people problems; when we solve our people problems our business problems are substantially resolved. A pleasing personality has the capacity to solve any type of problem that is either in business or in people. A pleasing personality is easy to recognize but hard to define. A pleasing personality is a combination of a persons attitude, behavior, and expression. Wearing a pleasant expression is more important than anything else you wear.

Life is an Echo

A little boy got angry with his mother and shouted at her, "I hate you, I hate you." Because of fear of reprimand, he ran out of the house. He went up to the valley and shouted, "I hate you, I hate you," and back came the echo, "I hate you, I hate you." This was the first time in his life he had heard an echo. He got scared, went to his mother for protection, and said there was a bad boy in the valley who shouted "I hate you, I hate you." The mother understood and she asked her son to go back and shout, "I love you, I love you." The little boy went and shouted, "I love you, I love you," and back came the echo. That taught the little boy a lesson that our life is like an echo: We get back what we give.

Benjamin Franklin said, "When you are good to others, you are best to yourself."

We see things not the way they are but the way we are:

Here is an example of this sentence;

There is a legend about a wise man who was sitting outside his village. A traveler came up and asked him, "What kind of people live in this village because I am looking to move from my present one?" The wise man asked, "What kind of people live where you want to move from?" The man said, "They are mean, cruel, rude." The wise man replied, "The same kind of people live in this village too." After some time another traveler came by and asked the same question and the wise man asked him, "What kind of people live where you want to move from?" And the traveler replied, "The people are very kind, courteous, polite and good." The wise man said, "You will find the same kind of people here too."

What is the moral of the story?

Generally we see the world not the way it is but the way we are. Most of the time, other people's behavior is a reaction to our own.

Trust

We all know about the trust, we trust those people who are too close to us, and to whom we believe too, but sometimes we realize that we trust a wring people and then we hurt. So before we trust someone we have to consider some factors that are followings;

Reliability- gives predictability and comes from commitment.
Consistency- builds confidence.
Respect- to self and others gives dignity and show a caring attitude.
Fairness- appeals to justify and integrity.
Competence- comes when a person has the ability and attitude to serve.
Integrity- the key ingredient to trust.
Character- a person may have all the competence but if he lacks character he can't be trusted.

Trust is a greater relationship than love. There are some people we love but we can't trust them. Relationships are like bank accounts: the more we deposit, the greater they become, therefore, the more we can draw from them.

The difference between Ego and Pride

The key difference between ego and pride is that ego is a sense of self-importance which can lead to arrogance whereas pride is a sense of satisfaction. The biggest hurdle in building a positive relationship is Ego. Ego is negative pride resulting in arrogance. Healthy pride is a feeling of the pleasure of heart.

Egotism is the anesthetic that deadens the pain of stupidity.

--Knute Rockne

The difference between Selfishness and Self-interest

It is important to understand the distinction between these two words. Selfishness is negative and destructive. It destroys relationships because it is based on negative values. It believes in the win/lose principle. Self-interest is positive. It welcomes prosperity, peace of mind, good health, and happiness. Self-interest believes in win/win. Self-interest is essential for your happiness and well being. Selfishness is different than self-interest. Selfish people tend to be exclusively concerned about only themselves.

Steps To Build A Positive Personality

Step 1: Accept Responsibility

"Responsibility gravitate to the person who can shoulder them."

--Elbert Hubbard

When people accept additional responsibility they are actually giving themselves a promotion. Responsible behavior is to accept accountability and that represents maturity. Our objective is to cultivate responsible behavior.

People who don't accept responsibility shift the blame to their parents, teachers, genes, god, fate, luck, or the stars.

The price of greatness is responsibility. --Winston Churchill

Step 2: Consideration

One day, a ten-year-old boy went to an ice cream shop, sat at a table and asked the waitress, "How much is an ice-cream cone?" She said, "seventy-five cents." The boy started counting the coins he had in his hand. Then he asked how much a small cup of ice-cream was. The waitress impatiently replied, "sixty-five cents." The boy said, "I will have the small ice-cream cup." He had his ice-cream, paid the bill and left. When the waitress came to pick up the empty plate, she was touched. Underneath were ten one-cent coins as a tip. The little boy had consideration for the waitress before he ordered his ice-cream. He showed sensitivity and caring. He thought of others before himself.

If we all thought like the little boy, we would have a great place to live. Show consideration, courtesy, and politeness. Thoughtfulness shows a caring attitude.

Step 3: Think Win/Win

A man died and St. Peter asked him if he would like to go to heaven or hell. The man asked if he could see both before deciding.

St. Peter took him to hell first and the man saw a big hall with a long table, lots of food on it and music playing. He also saw rows of people with pale, sad faces. They looked starved and there was no laughter. And he observed one more thing. Their hands were tied to four-foot forks and knives and they were trying to get the food from the center of the table to put into their mouths. But they couldn't.

Then, he went to see heaven. There he saw a big hall with a long table, with lots of food on the table and music playing. He noticed rows of people on both sides of the table with their hands tied to four-foot forks and knives also. But he observed there was something different here. People were laughing and were well-fed and healthy-looking. He noticed that they were feeding one another across the table. The result was happiness, prosperity, enjoyment, and gratification because they were not thinking of themselves alone; they were thinking win/win.

The same is true of our lives. When we serve our customers, our families, our employers, and employees, we automatically win.

Step 4: Choose Your Words Carefully

In Indian brief history there was a quote " Word hurts more than any Weapon."
Our words reflect our attitude. and attitude decides our career. Words can hurt feelings and destroy relationships. Choose what to say rather than say what you choose. That is the difference between wisdom and foolishness.
Excessive talking doesn't mean communication. Talk less: Say more; is thee powerful communication process.

Step 5: Don't Criticize and Complain

We don't have to criticize others because when we criticize the person, we hurt their self-esteem. the right to criticize comes with the desire to help. As long as the act criticizing does not give pleasure to the giver, it is okay. When criticism becomes a pleasure, it is time to stop.

Here are some suggestions for giving criticize that motivates others;

Be a coach- criticize with a helpful attitude. A coach criticizes to help improve the performance of the athlete.
Understanding and concern will act as a motivator.
Criticize in private not in public. Why? because it maintains goodwill whereas public criticize can be humiliating.
Show them how they would benefit from correcting their mistake.
Criticize the performance not the performer. Don't express personal resentment.
Ask suggestions for improvement.
The attitude should be corrective rather than punitive.
Close on a positive note with appreciation.

An inability to accept constructive criticism is a sign of poor self-esteem. Tips for accepting criticism:

Take it in the right spirit.

Accept it graciously rather than grudgingly.

Learn from it.

Accept it with an open mind, evaluate it and if it makes sense, implement it.

Be thankful for the person who gives constructive criticism because he means well and has helped you.

Complaint: Some peoples are chronic complainers. They complain even if everything goes right. It becomes a personality trait. Does that mean we never complain or invite complaints? Not at all. Just like criticism, if it is done in a positive way, complaints can be very useful.

Step 6: Put a Positive Interpretation of Other People's Behavior

People instinctively put a negative interpretation in the absence of sufficient facts on others actions or inactions. By starting on a positive note, we have a better chance of building a pleasing personality resulting in good relationships.

For example, how often have we put through a call and not get a reply from the other party for two days and the first thought that comes to our mind is, "They never cared to return my call" or "They ignored me." That is negative. Maybe:

¨ they tried, but couldn't get through

¨ they left the message we didn't get

¨ they had an emergency

¨ they never got the message

There could be many reasons. It is worth giving the benefit of doubt to the other person and starting on a positive note.

Step 7: Be A Good Listener

When we listen with full attention, you are communicating respect. By offering speakers respect, you likely to gain theirs in return. Attentive listening helps you learn more about others. Knowing more about people is helpful in your professional life as well as personal life. Careful listening helps you clearly understand what people are trying to say and therefore assists to avoid some of the confusion, misunderstanding, and potential conflicts that are common in conversations. People want to do business with people they like. Tou may also find that as you listen to people more, you find more in common, really understand their views and actually, you like them more.

Listen to feelings and not just words. be open-minded. Don't let preconceived ideas and prejudices prevent you from listening.

Step 8: Be Enthusiastic

Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm inspires confidence, raises morale, builds loyalty, and is priceless. Enthusiasm is contagious. Enthusiasm is a habit that one can acquire and practice.

Many decades ago, Charles Schwab, who was earning a salary of a million dollars a year was asked if he was being paid such a high salary because of his exceptional ability to produce steel. Charles Schwab replied, "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among the men the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Live while you are alive. Don't die before you are dead. Enthusiasm and desire are what change mediocrity to excellence. Water turns into steam with a difference of only one degree in temperature and steam can move some of the biggest engines in the world. That is what enthusiasm helps us to do in our lives.

Step 9: Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation

Expensive jeweled are not real gifts; they are apologies for shortcomings. Many times we buy gifts for people to compensate for not spending enough time with them. Real gifts are when you give a part of yourself. The psychologist Willian James said "One of the deepest desires of human beings is the desire to be appreciated."

Sincere appreciation is one of the greatest gifts one can give to another person. It makes a person feel important.

Appreciation, in order to be effective, must meet certain criteria;

It must be specific.
It must be immediate.
It must be sincere.
After giving appreciation it is not important to wait for a receipt or acknowledgment.
Don't qualify praise with a but.

After receiving appreciation, accept it and graciously with a "thank you".

Step 10: When we make a mistake, we should accept it immediately and willingly

When I am wrong, make me easy to change; and when I am right, make me easy to live with. This is a good philosophy to live by. Some people live and learn while others live and never learn. Mistakes are to be learned from. The greatest mistake a person can make is to repeat it. Don't assign blame and make excuses. Don't dwell on it. When you realize your mistake, it is a good idea to accept it and apologize. Don't defend it. Why? Acceptance disarms the other person.

Step 11: Discuss But Don't Argue

There is a big difference between discussing and argue that is;
Discussion the action or process of talking about something in order to reach a decision or to exchange ideas. Whereas argue a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong. Winners or achievers always talk with decency and they always try to make discussion not arguments. When we discuss we treat people as partners in a problem-solving session; wherein argument we treat other people as opponents to be defeated.
The more arguments you win, the fewer friends you have.

An argument throws heat; a discussion throws light.
One stems from ego and a closed mind whereas the other comes from an open mind.
An argument is an exchange of ignorance whereas a discussion is an exchange of knowledge.
An argument is an expression of temper whereas a discussion is an expression of logic.
An argument tries to prove who is right whereas a discussion tries to prove what is right.

Steps to opening a discussion

Be open-minded.
Don't be dragged into an argument.
Don't interrupt.
Listen to another persons point of view before giving your own.
Ask questions to clarify. That will also set the other person thinking.
Be flexible on petty things but not on principles.
Don't make it a prestige issue.
Give your opponent a graceful way to withdraw without hurting his pride. rejection can be hurtful.
Use soft words but hard arguments rather than hard words and soft arguments.

Step 12: Turn your Promises into Commitments

What is the difference between promises and commitments? A is a statement of intent. A commitment is a promise that is going to be kept no matter what. Uncommitted relationships are pretty shallow and hollow. They are a matter of convenience and are temporary. Nothing lasting has never been created without commitment.

Commitment leads to enduring relationships through thick and thin. It shows a persons personality an relationship.

When people ask others to do something for them by using the phrase "By the way, can you do this for me?" They undermine the importance of doing or not doing. I have found that if we have to do anything for anyone it is never "by the way, it is always out of the way."

Step 13:Pracice Honesty, Integrity, and Sincerity

Sometimes the brightness of truth does not enlighten but blinds the evil.
Honesty means being genuine and real versus fake and fictitious.
Be labeled or build a reputation of being trustworthy. If there is one thing that builds any kind of relationship at home, at work, or socially, it is integrity.
Not keeping commitments amounts to dishonest behavior.
Honesty inspires openness, reliability, and frankness. It shows respect for one's self and others. Honesty is in being, not in appearing to be. Lies may have speed but truth has endurance. Integrity is not found in company brochures or titles but in a person's character.
Is it worth compromising one's integrity and taking shortcuts to win? A person may win a trophy but knowing the truth, can never be a happy person. More important than winning a trophy is being a good human being.

There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to the baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound and he found that he was not. This angered him and he took the farmer to court. The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure. The farmer replied, amour Honor, I am primitive. I don't have a proper measure, but I do have a scale." The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter?" The farmer replied "Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker." What is the moral of the story? We get back in life what we give to others

We have to ask ourselves when we are going to take action: Am I giving fair value for the wages or money I hope to make?
Honesty and dishonesty become a habit.
In the above example moral is be honest to everyone either he is our relatively outer person.

Truth May Not Always Be What You Want To Hear

One can be truthful without being cruel but that may not always be the case. The most important responsibility of an honest friend is to be truthful. Some people, in order to avoid confronting painful truths, select friends who tell them what they want to hear. They kid themselves despite the fact that deep down they know they are not being truthful. Honest criticism can be painful. If you have many acquaintances and few friends, it is time to step back and explore the depth of your relationships. A lack of honesty is sometimes labeled as tact, public relations, or politics. But is it really so?

The problem with lying is that one has to remember one's lies.

Honesty requires firmness and commitment. How many times have we all been guilty of

¨ little white lies?

¨ flattery?

¨ omitting facts or giving half-truths?

¨ telling the greatest lies by remaining silent?

Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world.

--Thomas Carlyle

Step 14: Practice Humility

Confidence without humility is arrogance. Humility is the foundation of all virtues. It is a sign of greatness. Sincere humility attracts but false humility detracts.

Many years ago, a rider came across some soldiers who were trying to move a heavy log without success. The corporal was standing by as the men struggled. The rider asked the corporal why he wasn't helping. The corporal replied, "I am the corporal; I give orders." The rider dismounted, went up and stood by the soldiers, and as they were lifting the log, he helped them. With his help, the log got moved. The rider quietly mounted his horse and went to the corporal and said, "The next time your men need help, send for the Commander-in-Chief." After he left, the corporal and his men found out that the rider was George Washington.

The message is pretty clear. Success and humility go hand in hand.

Step 15: Be Understanding and Caring

Some time in a relationship the problem is not the person the main problem is that someone can't understand the feelings or they can't understand the real meaning of caring.

In relationships we all make mistakes and sometimes we are insensitive to the needs of others, especially those very close to us. All this leads to disappointment and resentment. The answer to handling disappointment is understanding. Relationships don't come about because people are perfect. They come about because of understanding. There is more gratification in being a caring person than just being a nice person. A caring attitude builds goodwill which is the best kind of insurance that a person can have and it doesn't cost a thing. Some people substitute money for caring and understanding. Being understanding is far more important than money and the best way to be understood is to be understanding. And the basis of real communication is also to be understanding.

Generosity is a sign of emotional maturity. Being generous is being thoughtful and considerate without being asked.

Tact is very important in any relationship. Tact is the ability to make a point without alienating the other person.

Step 16: Practice Courtesy on a Daily Basis

Courtesy is nothing but is showing politeness in one's attitude and behavior towards others. A courteous person who is not very sharp, will go further in life than a discourteous but sharp person. It is the little thing that makes a big difference. No one is too big or too busy to practice courtesy. Courtesy means giving your seat to the elderly or to the disabled. Courtesy can be a warm smile, a thank you. It is a small investment but the payoffs are big.

Courtesy and manners go hand in hand. It is equally important, if not more, to practice manners at home and not just on outsiders. Showing consideration and good manners brings out a feeling of warmth and acceptance in the home. Courtesy means practicing good manners.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

--Eric Hoffer

Step 17: Develop a Sense of Humor

Have a sense of humor and you will possess the ability to laugh at yourself. A sense of humor makes a person likable and attractive. Some people are humor-impaired. Learn to laugh at yourself because it is the safest humor. Laughing at yourself gives you the energy to bounce back. Laughter is a natural tranquilizer for people all over the world. Humor may not change the message, but it certainly can help to take the sting out of the bite.

Dr. Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of an illness, is a prime example of how a person can cure himself of a terminal illness. He had a 1-in-500 chance of recovery, but Cousin wanted to prove that if there was anything like mind over matter, hed make it a reality. He figured if negative emotions caused negative chemicals in our body, then the reverse must be true too. Positive emotions, like happiness and laughter, would bring positive chemicals into our system. He moved from the hospital to a hotel and rented humorous movies and literally cured himself by laughing. Of course, medical help is important, but the will to live for the patient is equally, if not more, important.
A funny bone could be a lifesaver. Besides, it makes life's adversities easier to handle.

Step 18: To have a Friend, Be a Friend

We keep looking for the right employee, spouse, parent, child, and so on. We forget that we have to be the right person too. Experience has shown that there is no perfect person, no perfect job, no perfect spouse. When we look for perfection, we are disappointed because all we find is that we traded one set of problems for another set of problems.

Friendship takes sacrifice. Building friendships and relationships takes sacrifice, loyalty, and maturity. Sacrifice takes going out of one's way and never happens by the way. Selfishness destroys friendships. We must learn to recognize counterfeit relationships. True friendship gives more than it gets and stands by adversity.

Step 19: Show Empathy

The wrong we do to others and what we suffer are weighed differently. Empathy alone is a very important characteristic of a positive personality. People with empathy ask themselves this question: "How would I feel if someone treated me that way?"

A boy went to the pet store to buy a puppy. Four of them were sitting together, priced at $50 each. Then there was one sitting alone in a corner. The boy asked if that was from the same litter, if it was for sale, and why it was sitting alone. The store owner replied that it was from the same litter, it was a deformed one, and not for sale. The boy asked what the deformity was. The store owner replied that the puppy was born without a hip socket and had a leg missing. The boy asked, "What will you do with this one?" The reply was it would be put to sleep. The boy asked if he could play with that puppy. The store owner said, "Sure." The boy picked the puppy up and the puppy licked him on the ear. Instantly the boy decided that was the puppy he wanted to buy. The store owner said "That is not for sale!" The boy insisted. The store owner agreed. The boy pulled out $2 from his pocket and ran to get $48 from his mother. As he reached the door the store owner shouted after him, "I don't understand why you would pay full money for this one when you could buy a good one for the same price." The boy didn't say a word. He just lifted his left trouser leg and he was wearing a brace. The pet store owner said, "I understand. Go ahead, take this one."

This is empathy.

Difference between Sympathy and Empathy:

Empathy:

Understanding what others are feeling because you have experienced it yourself or can put yourself in their places.
Example “ I know it's not easy to lose weight because I have face the same problem myself”.
It is a relationship like Personal understanding.
It has some scopes; Personal; it can be one too many in some circumstances.

Sympathy

Acknowledging another person’s emotional hardship and providing comfort and assurance.
Example "Trying to lose weight can often like an uphill battle.”
It is a relationship like Understanding the experience of others.
It has some scopes; From one to another person or one to many (or one to a group).

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