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Effective Money Management

2018-02-10T15:58:00.000+05:00

Critique on Consumption Approaches

People adopt or depict multiple attitudes towards money management. We may categorize them into four styles - Miser, Moderate, Lavish, and Generous. Moderate and generous life styles are positive or constructive while miser and lavish life styles are negative or destructive. Moderation and generosity promotes stability and growth, while misery or lavishness promotes volatility and decline. A moderate person spends according to available means and maintains cash reserves, generous person spends on others and maintains moral courage, miser spends only on inevitable needs, and lavish spends according to lust/brain impulse. A better Money Management gives stability to individuals during some money crises and growth during normal time.

An effective money manger defines her spending demands as needs or important, facility or less important, aesthetics or least important, luxury or unimportant. In addition, an effective money manager adopts some prudential financial techniques to attain maximum benefits such as, financial goal setting, financial planning, rational execution of financial plans, and finally evaluation & adjustments of consumption/saving attitude.

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Stock Market

2014-06-20T16:48:00.001+05:00

Effective Stock Trading

Stock Market is like the wavering sea with countless opportunities/threats. Some take out pearls, some come out with fish and some come out simply wet. Stock Market is utilized in multiple ways depending on how much risk a trader is willing to incur. Traders usually focus on daily, weekly, monthly and long term earning. To maximize the financial benefits, you need to decide what kind of stock trader you want to become. The right fit depends on personality, time availability, financial prudence and capital investment. Almost all types of stock trading are potentially profitable.

Precisely speaking, you should be flexible (not volatile) towards different types of strategies in your market system and your investment approach, so that you can adjust to the market, be it bearish, bullish or even range bound. Although, the future remains unknown, investors who come with good research, use independent thinking rather than naively follow the crowd, have the mental fortitude to stick to their targets and sell once target returns have been achieved, are likely to realize superior returns on their equity investment portfolios.

A day trader watches the daily behaviour of share prices and tries to get a margin on account of daily fluctuations. A day trader is a proactive and professional market participant who purchases shares of a company with a focus on her technical and fundamental variables. A prudent day trader watches price fluctuations, keenly, and tries to profit from short-term market volatilities.

Investor Awareness

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Stock Market - Investment Planning

2014-06-07T15:43:00.001+05:00

Technical Analysis Vs. Fundamental Analysis

Successful Share Trading depends on the conceptual ability of trader to predict accurately prices and practical ingenuity to manage efficiently risks. Two techniques are commonly used to forecast prices - Fundamental Analysis & Technical Analysis. Technical Analysis forecasts the direction of prices through the study of past market data of price and volume. On the other hand, Fundamental Analysis determines the intrinsic or true value of the shares. If the intrinsic value is higher than the market price it is recommended to buy the share, if it is equal to the market price hold the share and if it is less than the market price sell the shares. The fundamental analysis consists of four types of analyses, that is, Economic Analysis, Industry Analysis, Company Analysis, & CEO/Top Management Analysis.

Investors can use these different but to some extent complementary methods for stock trading. For example, a fundamental investor may use technical arguments for deciding entry and exit points, while, a technical investor can use fundamentals to limit their universe of possible stock to 'Well Performing' companies.

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STOCK MARKET - Investment Planning

2014-05-21T16:22:00.000+05:00

Stock Day Trader

Any task that a person undertakes is called work. A work for monetary benefits is called economic work. Economic work creates financial returns within stipulated durations of time such as a day, a weak and a month. The daily earning through knowledge-driven skills is delicate and thin area of economic life. However, with the advent of the internet, an entirely new home-based / self-employment opportunity has surfaced. It is Stock Trading. This business has the potential to generate reasonable income everyday. However, the opportunity has a risky downside; the possibility to lose money is as great as it is to make it especially for the novice / inexperienced.

The keys to earning as a stock day trader are two, first, to gain as much knowledge about the relevant industry as possible and, second, to maintain rational expectations during wavering situations. Specialization in some specific type of stocks is plus point for profitable day trading.

Remember, majority of day traders go for short gains, buy in early and sell out the same day. Holding overnight is too much risky, especially for capital-starved traders in unstable market conditions. The golden rule of stock trading is, 'never risk more than you can afford to lose.’'

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Stock Market - Investment Planning

2014-05-08T18:39:00.000+05:00

Initial Public Offering - IPO

Generally, the very first sale of company shares to the public is termed Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). IPOs are often issued by smaller/younger companies seeking the capital to expand, but the approach can also be used by large companies. In an IPO process, the issuer company obtains the assistance of an underwriting firm, which helps in determining what type of security to issue (common or preferred), the best offering price and the launching time.

IPOs can be a risky investment, especially, for the individual investor, it is tough to predict what the stock will do on its initial day of trading and in the near future because there is often little historical data with which to analyse the company. In addition, mostly, the IPOs proposing companies going through a transitory growth period, which are subject to additional uncertainty regarding their future values.

The issuing of shares through an IPO is one of the primary reason of stock markets' existence, so that the IPO process is the locomotive of stock market. Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and angel investors consider the IPOs a realistic benchmark of a new and growing firm.

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2014-05-05T19:23:00.000+05:00

STOCK MARKET

It is an organized and regulated financial market where securities (bonds, notes, shares) are bought and sold at prices governed by the forces of demand and supply.

The stock market can be split into two main sections: the primary market and the secondary market. The primary market is where new issues are first sold through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). The secondary market now starts her functioning where investors can sell their securities to other investors for cash. The whole subsequent trading activities is secondary market.

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CRISES MANAGEMENT

2014-03-06T15:42:00.001+05:00

CRISES MANAGEMENT

Crises Management is essential aspect of any entrepreneurial /leadership struggle. It is required to prevent crises or to manage crises amicably. Crises Management guides how threats are converted into opportunities, how weaknesses can be made irrelevant, and how strengths are used optimally.

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What Comes Easy Will Not Last, What Lasts Will Not Come Easy

2013-12-02T18:29:00.001+05:00

Get-Rich-Quick-Mentality - A Wrong Strategy

Life is effort-return phenomenon. In business, a range of inputs are used to realize output. The output is then converted into profit through effective marketing. It is business reality that a lasting return is outcome of consistent effort, so that, the very negation of Get-Rich-Quick-Mentality is vital for successful and growing business.

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Business Coaching

2013-11-15T18:23:00.001+05:00

Effective Business Planning
A basic management function to achieve maximum performance with minimum resources. The effective business planning consists of five steps:

Identification of SMART goals,
Formulation of effective strategies,
Arrangement or creation of required resources,
Organization of available resources, efficiently and cost-effectively, &
Implementation of all necessary steps in appropriate sequence.

Business Planning

2013-11-13T13:07:00.000+05:00

EVALUATION OF NEW BUSINESS IDEA

A business idea works effectively or fails badly or crawls slowly. A realistic approach is to start business planning from the perspective that the new business ideas won’t work. The technique will develop pragmatic mindset and proactive behavior towards business idea. The entrepreneur / executive will see threats, opportunities, strengths and weaknesses, in right perspective. If the idea survives and accumulates tangible support, then you have robust idea, now it is time to develop the business plan and move quickly towards execution.

GOALS SETTING/REALIZING STRATEGY

2013-10-24T13:38:00.000+05:00

SMART PEOPLE, SMART GOALS

(Five Step Process for Setting and Achieving Goals)

1. Define exactly what you want in each area of your life. (Specific Mindset)

2. Write them clearly, meticulously and concisely. (Measuring Mindset)

3. Make a list of every-action you may think necessary in achieving your goals. Take actions immediately, it is decisively important! (Attainable Mindset & Behavior)

4. Realize something every day that moves you toward the actualization of your goals. Maintain momentum and morale. (Realistic Behavior)

5. Set a definite deadline. If it is a long-run goal, break it down into sub-deadlines and organize the items in proper sequence and priority. (Time Efficient Behavior)

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TRUST AND MOTIVATION

2013-04-02T14:33:00.000+05:00

Life manifests its full potential during association. Associational life widens our horizons, deepens our visions, and strengthens our intentions. Trust-Giving or trust-getting is an activity towards effective associational life. A trust on someone’s ability enhances the motivational level of concerned person. A trust generates constructive energy that travel and affects the concerned person positively. On the other hand, mistrust generates destructive energy that disturbs the mindset/behavior of related persons.
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Effective Learning/Training

2013-01-02T19:52:00.002+05:00

Teaching vs. Learning

Teaching is to educate or train or motivate someone on something, while learning means to get education or training or motivation. Literally, teaching is to give lessons to students in a school, college, university, etc. Primarily, teacher provides required knowledge/skills to children and adults, but, eventually, teacher actualizes potential possibilities of learners into actual realities through knowledge dissemination / skill transmission, so that a knowledgeable / skillful person is inevitable for effective teaching. In addition, teachers shape thought-patterns and behavior-patterns of learners through multiple educational practices. Concisely, teaching is to provide knowledge, to build character, and to enhance wisdom level. Teaching is either formal or informal. The formal teaching is disciplined and coordinated, while the informal teaching is personal and atypical. Formal teaching is provided through educational institutions while informal teaching is common phenomenon of interactive life. At institutional level, teaching and learning are two distinct processes – teaching is more akin to leadership and management, on the other hand, learning is more akin to research and development.

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Business Skills

2012-10-23T17:10:00.001+05:00

Significance of Business Skills & Skill Enhancement Programs

(Entrepreneurial Approach)

SKILL is defined as the ability to do something well. The skill profile is a tool for the realization of organization's philosophy, values, and vision. It is utmost important for the implementation of any business strategy. It leads towards best utilization of resources, human as well as non-human. It develops ability of organization, structural as well as operational. In addition, an efficient and effective system of skills provides best guidelines for evaluation & adjustment of business processes. Skill profile is improved or maintained through a well-defined framework of reward structure of institutional system.

A deficiency in skills, conventional as well as innovative, tends to produce less than optimal returns on efforts, excessive efforts are made by economic agents but moderate returns are achieved. It is noteworthy; a skill deficiency phenomenon has two aspects - qualitative and quantitative. The quantitative deficiency can be managed trough hiring more skilled staff, a horizontal expansion of skill profile, while the qualitative deficiency is reduced through some skill enhancement program of existing staff members, a vertical expansion of skill profile

The inevitability and desirability of Skill Enhancement Program has two levels – individual as well as collective. At individual level the skill enhancement urge is outcome of livelihood urge for survival & interdependency phenomena of individuals. At collective level the skill enhancement demand is outcome of survival, growth, & development needs of an institution or society. According to the World Bank, a faster and sustainable economic growth requires three fundamental factors: Human Capital, Physical Capital, and Natural Capital. Interestingly, human capital has a major share (64 per cent).

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Excellent Student

2012-09-07T00:09:00.000+05:00

An excellent student achieves best academic results and manifests admirable character. She/he is personification of collective efforts of multiple individuals such as teachers, parents, educational managers and varied institutions such as educational institutions, social institutions, government bodies, and education board. The article is a rational-moral critique on Excellent Student / Excellent Learning Behavior.

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Significance of Teamwork

2012-08-08T12:45:00.000+05:00

Shaping An Excellent Team

At institutional level, an achievement is result of teamwork. An effective team is combination of synergetic strategies / tactics of institution. A synergic setting is innovatively woven environment of diverse individuals; it is competitive as well as cooperative. A competitive situation makes someone active or dynamic, while cooperative condition makes someone interactive and associative. It is dominantly responsibility of managers/entrepreneurs to design competitive-cooperative environ for team members. An enabling working environment is sustainable strength of well-performing institution. An institutional input thus plays an important role in making/shaping an excellent team.

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Effective Entrepreneurship - Essential Skills

2012-07-16T21:17:00.002+05:00

Skill Profile of An Effective Entrepreneur

Practically, an entrepreneur needs some professional skills, a few social skills, and handful personal skills. Firstly, an effective entrepreneur have clear understanding about needed professional skills, moreover, she/he has staunch desire for professional acumen. Secondly, life is interactive phenomenon. People interact during countless occasions of life. An interaction is either productive or non-productive. It is social intelligence or social skills of an entrepreneur that prepares for productive interactions. A productive interaction is win-win and stable. Thirdly, a sizeable portion of day is spent on personal activities such as sleeping, chatting, and exercising. The leisure time relaxes and prepares for next round of professional or interactive life. It is noteworthy that proper application of personal skills avoids boredom, fatigue, lethargy, and regrets from personal life. The prominent personal skills are: subjective thinking, lateral thinking, collective brainstorming, driving vehicles, setting social links, repairing things, gardening, increasing physical strength & stamina, writing creatively, expressing feelings through art work, capturing memorable moments through photography, etc.. A stable combination of personal, social, and economic skills is inevitable repertoire of an effective entrepreneur.

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2012-06-26T21:49:00.000+05:00

Entrepreneurial Economics deals with entrepreneurship.Maximum Achievement Program (MAP) is designed for entrepreneurs. The ultimate target of program is to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of managers/entrepreneurs..The program shared and will share ideas on varied issues of entrepreneurial life. Thanks.

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Optimal Time management Part II

2010-07-22T20:37:00.000+05:00

Now I am posting second and detailed part of my Optimal time management blog. I hope it will help.

Time-Task Duality (Divine Perspective)

Time has two dimensions inner or personal and outer or universal.
At personal level time is creative impulse of self-expression and linked with some memorable immaterial activities, while at universal level time is outcome of lunar/solar/celestial phenomena and linked with memorable material activities.
The creative urge of Omnipotent linked with memorable immaterial activities is Absolute Time, a solely divine attribute. The Absolute Time created its numerous counterparts, i.e., multiple relative times.
The matter-oriented time is relative or serial time, while the urge-oriented time is Absolute Time.
Man is vice-regent of Allah, the very basis of human life-pattern is existential- pattern of God. Allah accomplishes any task accommodating the time, both absolute and relative.
A divine-oriented approach towards time-task duality makes the mankind time-efficient and leads, ultimately, towards effective life-pattern.

Priority Setting

A priority setting should be based on two elements - importance and urgency – A task is composition of various mixtures of these elements. We can set priority list as follows:
Important & urgent (top priority)
Important & less urgent (second priority)
Less important & urgent (third priority)
Less important & less urgent (last priority)
The important activities are supportive for goal materialization, while urgent activities demand quick fixing. The urgent activities do not fulfill, normally, our goals, they fulfill, generally, the goals of others.
Wisdom is needed to define importance and urgency.

General Guidelines

The general guidelines for effective priority-setting are:
Pick the future possibilities against the past glories.
Focus on the opportunity rather than on problems.
Choose your own direction rather than climb on the bandwagon.
Aim high and better.

Prime Time

Parkinson’s Law states that work expands to fill the available time. That is, more time is spent on a specific job without considering the time duration of a job.
Time efficiency is spoiled by ignoring time-task duality.
In prime time evaluation, we assess and integrate the job and prime time – prime time is the time at which the person can produce best performance in his work..
It is important to note that coordination between work schedule and prime time enhances the productivity of an individual about 15 to 20 percent.
The assessment of prime time for staff and setting their activities to prime time will make them more efficient and productive. As a result, the whole system will produce

Prime Motive - Performance

An organization is created to materialize certain goals & objectives.
Any result-oriented effort towards multiple goals & objectives is effective, generally, for organizational development, so that, the prime motive behind countless efforts must be performance.
Moreover, for highest performance, it is important to utilize strengths not weaknesses.
The performance–oriented efforts are distorted due to countless reasons.
The Major time wasters in a system are Lack of Proper Delegation System, Overstaffed or Understaffed Environ, Non-incentive Reward Structure, Malfunctions in Information, Excessive Meetings or Large Size of Meeting Staff or Boundless Agenda of Meetings, & Miscommunication.

Developing Time Management Skills

Develop a logbook, formal or informal, to ascertain WHERE the time is going on?
Deciding the activity plan for important/urgent activities to assess WHAT tasks are worthy to tackle?
Evaluating Prime time to judge HOW much time is needed for different set of activities?
Finalizing the work-plan to know WHEN to execute an activity?
A work-plan is prepared on several bases, it is daily or weekly or monthly or yearly. It is noteworthy that the more time we spend on work planning; the less total time is required for the whole task.
Time-efficiency will improve with these practices, consequentially, the optimal time management expertise will be developed in someone’s life.

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Ilyas

Time Management

2010-07-14T20:40:00.000+05:00

Hi,

I am back with a new blog. This time its about time management. This is common man's problem. This blog is divided into two parts. I will discuss various aspect of time management in this part.

Optimal Time Management

Optimal Time Management is setting and following a schedule of life activities in order to optimize the usage of limited available time

Time-Task Duality

The time-task duality directs the individuals how tasks are linked, directly and indirectly, with multiple time durations.
The ultimate goal during some activity is to attain maximum return from each and every unit of time-spent.

Optimal Time Management-Key Issues

The key issues related to optimal time management, especially related to an effective manager, are:

1) Nomenclature of Life Activities;
2) Time-Task Duality (Divine Perspective);
3) Priority Setting;
4) Prime Time Selection;
5) Prime Motive - Performance;&
6) Developing Time Management Skills.

Life Activities-Interactive Specification

Life is temporally evolved and spatially settled phenomenon of cosmic economy.
Mankind is epitome of multiple life upshots.
An individual spends his/her time on various activities. We may group these activities into three categories – personal, social, and economical.

Life Activities-Temporal Specification

A classic time scheduling has three levels, weekly, monthly, and yearly.
A person complete some works on weekly basis, while some tasks are accomplished on monthly basis, and still some responsibilities are fulfilled on yearly basis.

Temporal intelligence guides someone towards wise specification of time-scheduling.

Stay tuned for second part. It's very important. I will discuss about priority setting and different management skills that can help to optimize time.

Managerial Courage Part II

2010-04-30T18:28:00.000+05:00

Developing Courage

Human life is purposive phenomenon.

Human purposes are countless.
A purposeful life breeds multiple goals and objectives. Goals are ultimate targets of purposeful life; while objectives are steps necessary for specific goals. Goals make someone effective, while objectives make efficient. Goals are a few while objective are many.

Courage is developed by conviction towards specific goals and objectives.
In addition, it is essential to live with competitive attitude in life otherwise courage will not be developed rather it may die.

Courage & Entrepreneurship – Self Resistance

The vital and essential characteristic of an entrepreneur is innovation.
Innovation is to create/introduce something new during some entrepreneurial struggle. However, a novel or pioneering act may be a mutational change or may lead towards some failure. That is why; there is great pressure on entrepreneur from inside and outside.
The inside/self pressure is managed by developing some personality traits such as positive mindset, determination, courage and confidence, while the outside/institutional pressure is managed through some effective institutional techniques.

Courage & Entrepreneurship – Abandonment

An important aspect of entrepreneurial / managerial courage is to retrieve back from wrong decisions. Let things are not going well and estimation has failed. There is need for abandonment to avoid wasted efforts. Abandonment is needed to save time, money, and efforts. It is not against managerial courage, rather it an act of moral courage.

Human Courage (Divine Perspective)

The very basis of human courage is Divine Courage.
Human courage is outcome of faith/trust on the Supremacy and Omnipotence of Allah.
Human beings are indispensably linked with each other and fortify or weaken one another. A humanistic or altruistic tendency is natural aspect of collective life that solidifies the human personality due to reciprocal phenomenon of interactive life. Consequently, human acts done for the betterment of humanity solidify the doers while inhuman acts weaken the doers.

Egoistic Standpoint Vs Courage

An act that does not qualify altruistic/divine basis is egoist not courageous. The Satan’s attitude towards Adam’s supremacy was egoist not courageous.
Allah is Creator and Sustainer of everything. He is Omnipotent with no competitor. His commandments and actions are based on best attributes, free from any injustice. He demands worship from His creation because He fully qualify for such demands while the Satan was demanding a position, not suitable for him.
The Satanic stand is not courage but an act of ego worship or egoistic standpoint.

Entrepreneurship - a high profile responsibility

Entrepreneurial struggle is, essentially, a value based struggle towards some ideals, both individual as well as institutional.
It is material driven, humanistic based, and divine oriented.
It provides sustenance to individuals, magnificence to society, and gives collective shape to Divine Ideals.
Entrepreneurial struggle follows, strictly, the natural-patterns set and designed by Divine Scheme of Creation for His creatures.
In nutshell, it is an act of vice–regency of God on some collective issues of life, a high profile responsibility.

This sums up My blog for Managerial Courage. I hope you liked it. Stay tuned for more blogs to come.

Managerial Courage

2010-04-22T18:33:00.000+05:00

Welcome again to my new blog. This time topic is about "Courage"

"To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. (Al-Hadith) "

What is Courage?

It is state of mind that motivates/activates us for insurmountable tasks/challenges.

Aspects of Courage

Courage has two aspects, moral & physical.

Moral courage is required when challenge or task is immaterial, e.g., to speak truth while lying can bring benefits or truth may bring problems.

On the other hand, physical courage is needed to control physical desires or to do some physical activity that may cause physical pains or may bring some physical threat, e.g., regular exercise, balance eating habit, struggle against some evil element of society, and joining of armed/police force for state enemies / criminals.

Cosmic Design & Courage

Life is effort-return phenomenon.

The Omnipotent Creator is designer of Effort-Return phenomena.
The aim of cosmic design is to trial human conduct, morally as well as physically.
Allah created the universe with full of bounties, both tangibles as well as intangibles. However, these treasures of Mercy or natural gifts are concealed behind some physical and moral hurdles. A person can get these natural gifts through some concerted and courageous efforts.
The physical courage is needed to unearth the tangible benefits and moral courage is required for intangible benefits.
It is noteworthy that physical and moral courage are co-existent and interlinked.

This sums up First part of this blog. I will discuss about Aspects of Courage in next blog. Stay tuned.

Positive Vs Negative Mindset

2010-03-17T19:48:00.000+05:00

Lo! Allah changeth not the condition of a folk until they (first) change that which is in their hearts. (13:11)

Effort – Return Phenomenon (A Survey)

A survey indicated that 75% of business are failed in their initial 3 to 5 years and the major reason of business failures, about 90%, are executives. They are not genuinely prepared for the task in hand.

Mindset – Behavior Duality

A person’s behavior is predominantly the outcome of his/her mindset. It affects the actions of a person and outcomes of efforts. Having a negative mindset or even a neutral will distort the actions and undermine the efforts.

How it works? Answer is simple, when a person has a negative mindset then he radiates negativity. It causes people to avoid / dislike / misinterpret him. Moreover, when a person is negative, he tends to see only obstacles. And when someone only sees obstacles or problems, he tends to feel stress. When a person is feeling lots of stress, he can’t be creative.

Effects of Mindset

A negative mindset undermines creativity, dynamism, and productivity. In contrast, a positive mindset allows someone to deal with threats/challenges with creativity, dynamism, and resourcefulness.

Mindset

A mindset refers to a framework of intentions, perceptions, and emotions held by a person so established that predetermines a person’s response to and interpretation of situations / persons.

Mindset is combination of intentions, perceptions and emotions. It has three powers for execution, i.e., will power, intellect power, and emotional power. These powers are essential ingredients of our mind. Equilibrium is necessary for the stability of mind pyramid; however, equilibrium may be wise or positive and unwise or negative
The positive or negative mindset is indicated when a person delivers a statement about or respond with some predictable exactness / exaggeration.

NEGATIVITY TRAPS

There are seven major negativity traps or vicious circles of mental framework that make up a negative mindset. We may call them doubtful, volatile, unjust, jealous, proud, fearful, and grief mindsets. The solution to avoid the vicious traps is to develop a mental framework with positive intentions, positive perceptions, and positive emotions.

Positive intentions are developed with strong faith on Unity of Allah and unity of mankind.
Positive perceptions are established with knowledge.
Positive emotions are ultimate outcome of best manners/adab.
Lastly, a positive mental framework is finalized under the guidance of individual and collective wisdom.

Doubtful Mindset

A person faces a new situation/person and takes it with doubts without any scientific basis; it is indication of negative mindset. The other examples of doubtful mindset are – doubt about personal strengths, expect failures, and doubt on ground realities.

Volatile Mindset

A person faces a novel situation/person and loose mental stability and responds with volatile attitude; it is indication of negative mindset. The other examples of volatile mindset are – lethargic response, impatient behavior, whimsical decision making.

Unjust Mindset

A person faces an unfavorable situation/person and loose self control and responds with anger/leniency; it is indication of negative mindset. The other examples of unjust mindset are – under or over estimations of abilities, excessive criticism on mistakes, and mild response on blunders.

Jealous Mindset

A person faces a surprised situation/person and feels envy but responds with jealousy, it is indication of negative mindset. The other examples of jealous mindset are – happy response on someone’s miseries, sad feelings on someone’s success, & defamation of opponent.

Proud Mindset

A person faces a disliked situation/person and responds proudly without any scientific basis, it is indication of negative mindset. The other examples of proud mindset are – perfectionist approach, slavery of habits, and dictatorial in decision making.

Fearful Mindset

A person faces an unexpected situation/person and considers it a threat without any scientific basis; it is indication of negative mindset. The other examples of fearful mindset are - fear of future, fear of criticism, and fear of failure.

Grief Mindset
A person faces a new situation/person and feels frustration and respond with grief sentiments; it is indication of negative mindset. The other examples of grief mindset are – overwhelmingly critical behavior, pessimism, and disbelief on real success
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Mind Anatomy

Nature equipped us with two types of mind, i.e., left and right. The left side is logical, analytical, and critical. On the other hand, the right side is intuitive, creative and synthetic. The left side is problem seeker while the right side is problem solver. Both sides have their own importance and significance.

In addition, we have two levels of mind - conscious and subconscious. The subconscious mind is filled with energy and power to do insurmountable tasks but is led by our conscious mind. Conscious mind makes selection from continuous stream of thoughts (negative & positive) and develop a working pattern or belief system for subconscious mind. It is a continuous process of selection and execution remain active in everyone’s life.

Self Suggestions

To avoid the negativity traps, self suggestion is the best tested technique. The words and phrases of self-suggestion should be real, constructive, energetic and dynamic. By continuous repetition we can make a positive image of self. A person can make his own list; however, we mention a few:

Allah acts justly and kindly,
Anything fruitful for humanity will must realize sooner or later,
Any right effort with right intent and methods will must produce good results,
There is no real / permanent threat only opportunities,
Any misery has blessing in disguise,
Success is not pursued, it is attracted,
Gratitude brings benefits,
Patience is best and fruitful strategy in difficulties, and.
Courtesy costs nothing but buys everything.

Positive Vs Negative Self Suggestions

Any positive suggestion is reacted by negative suggestion. A war is started in mind about these self suggestions with negative suggestions. The process remains active until a belief is not finalized. A belief may be negative or false and positive or true. A negative belief about something/someone, e.g., life is aimless, no real relationship is possible, the hells are always the others, success is impossible, miseries are permanent, benefits are short-lived, and difficulties are long lasting. A negative belief produces or breeds new negative beliefs and a negative belief system is developed. A negative belief system plays havoc with an individual or system or society.

Solution to Negative Self Suggestions

There are two tested weapons for negative suggestions – Knowledge and Wisdom. Knowledge is a weapon used at conceptual level to counter negative suggestions/beliefs, while, the wisdom is applied at practical level. A suggestion based on knowledge and wisdom would be free from negativity traps. It is noteworthy that a rational person can make errors but not systematic errors. We learn from past errors / other’s errors and adjust our beliefs and actions accordingly.

Concluding Remarks

Positive thinking/mindset must be accompanied by actions such as planning, preparation and practice.

Positive thinking/mindset must demand positive associations. Positive associations lead to creativity, cooperation, solutions, and bigger dreams. It’s often said that the books you read and the people you associate will determine where you’ll be in next three to five years.
The complete positive or negative mindset is a special phenomenon. In real life, we come across with partial positive or negative mindset. A person may be positive at some situations or negative at some other situations.

Solution to Multiple Life Hurdles

2010-03-02T20:46:00.000+05:00

Solution (Internal Hurdles)

Any threat from self can be managed through personality development. These threats/hurdles can be grouped into two categories - theoretical and practical.
The solution to these problems is to develop positive mindset and wise working approach; the ultimate outcome of positive mindset and wisdom is fruitful results, i.e., success over internal hurdles.
The two major internal hurdles of an entrepreneur are – fear and grief. Fear pressurizes for inactivity and grief leads us towards some wrong activity. Fear is outcome of some expected future loses; while the grief is established due to some past failures.

Solution (External Hurdles)

In interpersonal links, we have to adapt two distinctive approaches- cooperation and competition.
In competition, we are aggressive but just in our interactive behavior. On the other hand, during cooperation we are firm but follow win-win strategy in social interactions.
Cooperation is best if it brings synergic benefits, and competition is better if it makes someone dynamic.
Whatever may be the interactive strategy we should consider the other person as a human and not a devil or angel.

Solution (Institutional Hurdles)

For Institutional hurdles, we must follow some institutional channels.
A civilized society has some institutions to tackle institutional hurdles, e.g., industry associations, business chambers, and judiciary. These channels are very effective to manage these bottlenecks. Any short-cut or rent-seeking will be converted into some bigger problem in future course of time.

Super Natural Hurdles

There exist, still, another type of hurdles that hamper or slows down our efforts. These are intangibles hurdles. The initiator and architect of these hurdles is DEVIL/SATAN.
For supernatural hurdles, we have to utilize some unique strategic tools, neither available in managerial books nor taught in management centers. Islam has given the solution and imposed certain duties and obligations on his followers to counter these threats and challenges. Zikr (Remembrance of Allah), recitation of Darud Sharif, and charity to needy peoples of society are best and tested tools to counteract any hurdle or challenge posed by the immaterial evil forces.

This concludes this series. Stay tuned to my blog for new series.

Hurdles Vs Limitation and Detractor

2010-02-16T20:52:00.000+05:00

Hurdle Vs Limitation

Hurdle is an obstacle that can be overcome through struggle, sooner or later, while a limitation is some constraint imposed by nature and cannot be overcome through granted human powers. Aging, body structure, biological demand for food, water, sleep, heredity effects, natural laws are few examples of limitations.
Limitations are designed and imposed on us to fulfill Divine Scheme of creation and provide level playing field to all individuals or nation belongs to any region or lineage or color. On the other hand, hurdles are illusory, temporary, discouraging, and man-made.
Any misconception between limitation and hurdle may lead us towards deterministic mindset or wrong belief.

Hurdle Vs Detractor

Detractors are problems that crop up unexpectedly and snatch our concentration. These may be mechanical, e.g., a problem in some equipment, power breakdowns, and trouble in vehicle, or these detractors may be social, e.g., unwanted visitors/males/phones.
The root cause of these detractors is improper maintenance of equipments, un-cleanliness, and time mismanagement.
They appear as urgent and disturb important tasks and planned movement.

(Dont worry and stay tuned to my blog. I will discuss Solutions in my final blog of this series. Thanks)