I recently gave an interview to a dear friend of mine, Asma Mustafa Khan of  ARY’s “Bakhabar Savera”.

I call her my ‘Ustani’ (teacher). She has been instrumental in getting me to speak at various universities. In fact, my first ever guest speaker session was in one of her classes at Szabist – a university in Karachi, Pakistan.

Here is a video clip of the interview, please feel free to share if you like it:

My Interview with Asma Mustafa Khan of ARY’s ‘Bakhabar Savera’

Stay blessed.

Dare to dream!

Nuruddin

Have you ever forgotten something that you had thought about a minute ago?

Like an errand that you had to run, a flash of a brilliant idea, or an answer to an important question that you had been pondering over?

Yes?

We all have this awesome body part called ‘brain’ between our ears. And It usually plays tricks on us.

When we really want to recall something, it goes blank. And when we are relaxed & thinking on an entirely different tangent, it pops up.

So, if you are an average human being like me, and when you have this sudden flash from your brain should you just leave it at that or do something about it?
Leaving it alone could also help, but the only concern is what if doesn’t come back?

What if you can’t recall it again?

What if you can’t think about it again?
Chances are its gone – almost forever.

I have been using a simple yet very effective ‘technique’ to solve this problem.

I am sure you can imagine what I am about to say now!

Yes!

I use a piece of paper & pen to write everything that I consider important to note. I carry cards/paper with me, everywhere I go. That means EVERYWHERE!

You could use anything from fancy flashcards to a plain A4 sheet. Just fold the sheet to a size suitable to your taste/need & begin writing whenever you think of something.

These points come handy when you actually need them.

And BECAUSE you have already written these points, you remember them as well.

I know this is very simple, yet a lot of people don’t do this.

I can promise you that you will become better at whatever you do just by writing things down.

What makes successful people succeed are habits – both simple & difficult – that they have adopted & internalized.

What are your thoughts about this?

Do you carry this important tool with you?

Keep dreaming, keep shining.

Stay blessed.

Nuruddin

I have been writing about gratitude for sometime now.

I first wrote about it in Thank Him Every Day: Key to A Happy Life then I shared a video in another one, Thank God I am So Lucky: A Touching Video then in my 10 Things to Create Your Dream Life & a detailed version of the 10 things, 10 Things to Create Your Dream Life: Part I (Thank God Every Day).

You must be wondering why I am sharing with you all my previous posts about gratitude.

The reason is simple, most of us still don’t do this simple thing in our lives: Thank God.

Simple, yet so powerful that it changes the whole perspective about life.

I meet a lot of people every day, especially when I am speaking, and the first thing I notice is the lack of gratitude in people’s lives.

In spite of being lucky enough to be born in the top 5% of the population, people – especially youngsters – feel that they don’t have anything.

Most of their dissatisfaction in life comes from possessions, or the lack of them. They feel that since the other guy/girl has a better purse/watch/cell phone/car/clothes they should also have it. If they don’t then they sulk and curse the whole world. I know that you don’t. But I have met people who do.

So, why gratitude?

Why is it so important?

Because, the moment you are grateful for the things you HAVE, suddenly you realize that even these things – which to you have become your ‘birthright’ –  are not available to 90-95% of the population.

Reading this post in a clean room where there is electricity (or generator/UPS…!), a clean bed to sleep in, a refrigerator to nibble stuff from when you feel like it, being able to eat almost anything that you could wish for, or being able to read this post and for that matter – in English…. What else could one want?

Ever thought that there are people who don’t even have the above luxuries? Which to us have become our bare necessities?

Only when we look at people below us we realize how fortunate we actually are…

But we don’t look at the have-nots and be happy.

Why we always look at people above us and then sulk, cry and ruin our days/weeks/months in fact – life?

I know this has gone a bit serious but this is a question that we should ask ourselves today and every morning when we wake up.

We can even do this for a selfish reason: To Be Happy!

Because the key to being happy is not bigger or better possessions, but contentment.

Being happy with what we have, and not what we don’t have.

Here is a beautiful quote for us to remember:

“He who is not content with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” Socrates 

Be grateful, every morning and evening and Be Happy. Simple, yet powerful.

Also, another selfish thought: Research has proved that happy people are more successful.

(For more info on this, read Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage)

It won’t even take a minute of your day, but could fill your day with happiness:

Before going to bed & the moment you wake up:

Be grateful for what you have.

Count your blessings. 

Create A Gratitude List.

Stay blessed.

Nuruddin

Picture: http://www.secrets-2-success.com/the-immeasurable-power-of-gratitude/

Apologies for not being able to write lately… But I have been ‘busy’ and couldn’t find the ‘time’ to write!

Did I just say that?

I try and not say anything like this. Because, who am I to challenge time?

We all have 24 hours in this world, like everyone else.

In fact this is one of the few things that we are ‘equal’ with the rest of the mankind.

In fact, the most important commodity is not gold, diamond or platinum which could be bought by paying a price, the ONLY priceless thing is a smile that you put on someone’s face AND    .  .  .

TIME.

I remember a thoughtful quote which says it all:

“No one is busy in this world, it’s all about priorities.”

Makes sense?

So, if all of us have 24 hours then why some people make these very 24 hours feel like 48 and some of us don’t even have time to do our ‘homework’?

Why successful people achieve so much in a day & why most of us lament about not having enough time to even take 30 minutes off & take care of the machine which keeps working non-stop for us, i.e., our body.

Successful people take time out for their family, self development, creating new relationships & business ventures, yet someone of us watch our favorite (read: boring) TV show all evening, or ‘chat’ with friends, ‘invest’ time on Facebook or News Channels and still cry about ‘not having time’.

People say ‘time management’. But is it?

Isn’t it ‘self-management’ that we actually need?

The time is the same for everyone, we just need to adjust ourselves in these 24 hours in a way that all our prioritized stuff gets done.

Whatever gets scheduled, gets done. (Robin Sharma!)

Do we ever schedule our day?

Yeah yeah, I know about the TO-DO List.

Have we made the TO DO list of the stuff that we usually leave out of the list?

Personal stuff?

Taking your spouse out?

Taking time out for the kids, parents, siblings, friends?

Of going for your daily walk/gym/sports?

Reading that important book/article/post that could make your life a little better?

Taking that course which could change your future?

Yes, you do.

Then, what happens?

I know.

Happens with me as well. (Sometimes, Thank God!)

Enter: The Big Boss who rules our world: Our Mood!

(You might want to read my earlier post, “Abhi Mood Nahi Hai: Lazy or Stupid? (Procrastination)”

Thinking about a conversation I had this afternoon with a friend prompted me to write this post.

Let me share it, briefly:

Me: TV seems to be the biggest culprit of all. It takes a lot of our time away.

Friend: Yes, I know and THAT is why I don’t have a TV in my house!

Me: That’s great. So, what do you do when you get home. Don’t you do your work/study/exercise/read?

Friend: Yes, sometimes, when I feel like it. Otherwise, even if I don’t do anything, the night sets in. And the day is suddenly gone.

Got the idea?

Successful people have as many distractions as everyone else has, and I am sure they have many more that money can buy that you & I can only imagine!

Yet, they are extremely focused on their priorities, goals and what they need to do to reach where they want to.

They do all the things that you & I don’t because we have the excuse of ‘I didn’t feel like doing it today‘ and they somehow have taught themselves not to listen to this BS (yes, that is correct!) – anymore.

Its not the TV, laptop, cell phone or Blackberry. It is YOU who is creating excuses, procrastinating & so much so that we don’t even feeling guilty for not doing what we are supposed to be doing.

Make a DON’T DO List. (Courtesy Tom Peters)

You don’t need to answer your cell phone every time it rings. You could always call them back when you are done with importan stuff.

You don’t even need to check emails every five minutes. Even if you check them after every two hours, the sky won’t fall!

Say no to distractions. Friends who call/come in at the wrong time.

Focus relentlessly on the stuff that matters, because that is what is going to help you playing your best game.

Everything else is a ‘waste of time’!

I end this post with this brilliant quote by Charles Darwin:

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Hope this helps.

Keep dreaming.

Follow your passion. But work on it, too!

Nuruddin Abjani

Photo: http://blogs.mulesoft.org/the-developer-testing-paradox/

The second amongst the 10 Things To Create Your Dream Life is:

2. AFFIRM TO YOURSELF

(If you have not yet read the first of this series, here is the link which you could go through later. Both posts are independent of each other, so you can always read that after you have gone through this one.)

First, let me share a short explanation of the word ’affirmation’ from Wikipedia to set the stage: 

‘Affirmations in New Age and New Thought terminology refers primarily to the practice of positive thinking—fostering a belief that “a positive mental attitude supported by affirmations will achieve success in anything.”^[1] 

More specifically an affirmation is a carefully formatted statement that should be repeated to one’s self and written down frequently.’ 

Since now we all know what an affirmation is, let me give you a few of my affirmations: 

‘I am the happiest person on Earth.’

‘I have enough time in my hands to do what I want to do.’ 

‘Every day in every way I am getting better and better.’

‘I am living the life of my dreams.’ (I actually am! God has been kind.)

Etc…

Don’t ask me all of them… I have too many!

For anyone to affirm something, the first thing is to know clearly what one wants from life. If you haven’t decided what you want to achieve in life, then affirmations may not be able to do much.

Hence, it’s important to think deeply as to what you want in your life.

If you coud spare 5 minutes to yourself, you can find out what actually you want to achieve.

could get you going:

But, if you have ever struggled to come up with what you want to do in life, or where you want to go, try asking these simple questions to yourself:

1. If time or resources were not a problem, what would I rather do, be or have?

2. What am I passionate about? What is it that I do where ‘time flies’, when I am in the ‘flow’, what I love doing all day long without getting tired, whenever I think of doing it I am all smiles.

(Watching TV, chatting with friends, web surfing, ‘Facebooking’, sleeping etc. don’t count!)

3. What (Who) is stopping me?

You could also go through a post I wrote some time back, “Mind Blowing Questions to Ask Yourself”.

I won’t elaborate much on the questions, but the bottom line is that one has to have clear goals and preferably BHAG: BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOALS. 

You could have goals on any or all aspects of your life. In fact you must have them. Only then you know where you want to go and where you are going.

Once you have your goals defined, write each one of them down in a journal/diary/notebook etc.

By the way, do you have a notebook that you write everything on? Yes? Good…

No? Please get one. Make sure it is NOT the cheapest one. You don’t want to write your future on a ‘cheap’ notebook! Kidding… But, see that it’s a decent one, which lasts you a long time. Write your thoughts on it. It will surely help. All successful people do. You can’t trust your memory all the time.

Try to remember what did you have for lunch the day before yesterday?

See what I mean?

Now back to affirmations. We now need to convert these goals into affirmations.

For example, you have a financial goal of saving 100,000 by the end of a particular year, say 2012. Lets convert it to an affirmation. But before we do, first we have to know what are the basics of affirmations:

1. Affirmations have to be positive.
2. Affirmations have to be in the present tense.
3. Affirmations have to be repeated at least twice a day.

‘I will save Rs. 100,000.’ Which is not correct.

‘I will try to save Rs. 100,000.’ Again not correct.

Correct one is: ‘I have saved Rs. 100,000.’

Or… “I now have Rs. 100,000.”

Have you watched a documentary called The Secret? Or read its book version by the same name? It became a New York Times Bestseller. Not to be missed.

Ever heard about The Law of Attraction?

Or read another book Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill? If not then you can download a copy here. It’s a gem.

Please watch The Secret and your download a copy of Think & Grow Rich asap. This weekend, preferably!

I would also recommend another book by Rhonda Byrne, The Power.

Affirmations are an integral part of the Law of Attraction. I dont want to get into the mechanics of how affirmations work through our subconscious mind. But, the thing to remember is that your subconscious mind is your ‘stupid servant’, (yaani bewaqoof naukar). It will believe anything that you choose to tell it.

We keep telling ourselves that our lives are not good, we are not lucky/happy, we dont have good friends, my parents dont love me, I wont be able to do good in the exams, my boss doesn’t like me, I am about to be fired, he doesn’t love me anymore… et al.

Any negative thought you have is being relayed to the servant. And it processes it in the same way as it would “I am the happiest person on Earth”.

So, write down your affirmations and say them aloud every day. Early morning and before going to bed. But only after you have been grateful for everything you have at the moment.

So, now you know two of the 10 things which could change your life forever. Try to do these every day.

I will soon be back with the rest of the 10 things in the coming weeks/months.

Dare to dream.

Follow your passion.

Stay blessed.

Nuruddin Abjani

Photo: http://www.tracey-keefer.com

In an interview on Dawn News some time back & during various talks I have shared 10 Things To Create Your Dream Life which is usually liked by a lot of people.

Now I have decided to elaborate on these 10 things that could change your life, for real. I know, you think its all #$%%^&*#. But, if you try this every day for the next 45 days, you will see the changes, promise!

Getting something extraordinary in life was never easy. Think of these 45 days as the equivalent of years of practice a world-class champion puts into his game to win the Gold Medal. Similarly, if you were to excel in every sphere of your life, these 45 days you will have to put a little more effort in your life than you would otherwise. You might have to give up a little of Facebook, TV, chatting with friends and a few games (?) that you love ‘investing’ your time in every day. And do something that gives more RoI (Return on Investment).

Since putting it all in one post would have been very lengthy, I have decided to divide them in several posts. Hope you get some goodness out of it.

Dont forget, you will have to practice most of these things every day to get the full benefit. With Passion & Love. Looking at your Dream Life, as you always wanted it.

Good Luck.

1. THANK GOD

Why thank God?

I am sure we all have a list of stuff that we dont have and would definitely want for ourselves. That our friends and their friends have.

And even if we can read this on a PC, laptop or a WiFi/GPRS-enabled cellphone/iPhone/Pad/iPod/Blackberry etc in the comfort of our room/house/apartment/university/office/coffee shop/restaurant/car etc. And it is assumed that the place we are at the moment is clean, decently temperature controlled, with comfortable furniture, lighting and having something to eat or drink when feel like it.

Ever wondered how fortunate are we to be able to even read? Wear clean clothes? To be able to wash ourselves every day? Live under a roof?

Or being able to wish for something to eat and being able to eat it the same day or at least the same week! Not worrying about food on the table, usually?

Most of us are blessed with all the limbs and the rest of the parts in a human body, which some people are not blessed with – unfortunately.

Remember this one:

“I complained that I had no shoes, until I met someone who had no feet.”

You will be surprised at how happy you have suddenly become by beginning your day with a big ‘Thank You God’, coming from the bottom of your heart.

I dont think we can even begin to count the blessings that we all have been bestowed upon, yet we curse our qismat (luck) most of the times, even at the slightest pretext. And we are, at times,ungrateful. Which, to me, is no less than a sin.

The problem begins when we focus our thoughts & energy on the things that we don’t have, rather than being grateful for things that we already have & have taken for granted. I am sure we have all heard our elders teaching us always to look at people who are below us, who do not have much to eat, wear, drink or who cant even think of ‘hanging-out with friends’, using their BBM on their BBs for hours, playing games on their computers, watching TV, going to a better school/university etc. than looking at people who are economically above us.

The secret to fulfillment & happiness is to be grateful, every hour of the day.

Hence, before going to bed at night & first thing in the morning, say a Big ‘Thank You” to God. Doesn’t matter which religion you belong to. Just…. Be Grateful for everything you are and have.

And experience all the happiness that will surround you during the day.

Do this for the next 45 days and share your experience with all of us in the comments section below.

Did it improve your over all day?

Did you feel happier than you were earlier?

Did you see others in a different light?

Please share… You never know, you could change someone’s life by sharing your experience.

Stay blessed. Be grateful.

Dare to dream.

Nuruddin

PS: Next part will be posted soon. Stay tuned and dont forget to practice being grateful.

While browsing through the Fast Company magazine, I came across this beautiful manifesto by Holstee | Lifestyle Goods, Designed with a Conscience.

I couldn’t help but share it with you:

Dare to dream.

Follow your passion.

Nuruddin Abjani

The Great Steve Jobs died today making a difference in this world, as to how we live our lives. People can never forget the iPhones, iPods, iPads and the Macs he gifted to us.

I posted this one almost a year back. Here is a repost – for Steve Jobs:

While researching for a topic that is always on our minds, yet a very few of us really do something about it, “Work-Life Balance”, I came across the transcript of Steve Jobs commencement speech at Harvard in 2005. What he said made me realize what goes in his mind and how he feels things.

I must have watched this video a couple of years back, however, the transcript got me cornered!
This is how icons and people who have been able to change the world think. With their thinking and the will to do something about it, they have been able to achieve everything that you and I could only dream about. And even THAT we don’t do… Because…Loag kya kahengay! What will people think. To know more about dreaming big, please read my earlier post, ‘Do people laugh at your dreams?’.

Steve dropped out of college and yet made it big. He says, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I have come to a college graduation.

I’d like you to click on the link here & read the transcript, or click here to watch it on Youtube.

He tells 3 stories about his life.

1. Connecting the dots
He says do whatever you love doing. In the end the dots will connect. He learnt calligraphy in college and dropping out of everything that he was supposed to do. In his words:
“It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”

2. Love and Loss
Most of us know that Steve Jobs was kicked out of Apple when he was 30. Imagine being fired from a company that you created in your parents garage which made it big to a US $2 billion company.

He says: “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. 
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. 
It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. 
Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-animated feature film, “Toy Story,” and is now the most successful animation studio in the world…
Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance, and…
Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.”


Makes sense? YOU think you are a failure? At what age? Lost everything? RETHINK!

3. Thinking of Death Makes You Follow Your Heart! 
Steve got diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas. “I didn’t even know what pancreas was!” Yet, luckily it was a rare kind which could be cured through surgery. In his words:
“When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like 
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” 
It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important thing I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

And his famous words:

In the end, he says he read this at the back of an old magazine 40 years back which said:
‘Stay Hungry… Stay Foolish.’

This is a must read for everyone. Means everyone!

So, please take time out and read the whole transcript or watch the video. You won’t regret it, I promise.

Nahi to paisey wapis!

God bless you.

Dare to dream…

Follow your passion…

Kal ho na ho…

Nuruddin Abjani
www.powerofthought.org

“Of course, I am!” Thats what you would say, wouldn’t you?

But… ARE YOU?

Really?

Let me tell you a story:

A friend of mine, Masood (not his real name) works for a decent sized company which exports garments to various countries.

Masood’s boss got an offer from abroad & resigned from the company. Since Masood always dreamt of taking that ‘chair’, you can imagine Masood’s happiness when this was announced. 

However, when the management decided to promote Saquib – one of his juniors – to the position, Masood was shattered and couldn’t hide his disappointment.  He confronted the management.

And the reply he received was, “You were not ready for this promotion.”

He was confused & couldn’t understand why.

On pondering about this for over a week & discussing with someone who he considered a mentor,  he gradually understood why the other guy was promoted and not him.

Masood realized that:

1. Although he was a good worker, he never took extra responsibility.

2. He had also refused some voluntary projects on the pretext of being ‘busy’, ‘committed’ or ‘family issue’.

3. He rarely came up with ideas during meetings & discussions. Meetings always ‘bored’ him. Usually others talked in these meetings & Masood would just listen. Whereas, his junior Saquib was usually well prepared for most of the meetings. To the extent of presenting his ideas in a power point, prepared in advance. (A couple of Saquib’s ideas had also been executed & the company benefitted tremendously from it.)

4. He was ‘smart’, but not for the organization. (His friends considered him very ‘intelligent’, but that was outside office. In the office he was a ’9 to 5′ person, doing what he was told. “Tension-nahi-leneka”-type, meaning ‘NO PAINS’.)

5. He finished his job in time – at least most of the times, and did what he was told.

6. He could be considered ‘average’ at best, based on his every-day output. And was happy with it (up till now!).

7. He always did what he was told, but rarely took initiative.

8. The company routinely offered training courses & also paid for higher studies for anyone interested, but Masood considered them a ‘waste of time’. He always thought it was ‘useless’ to develop oneself, especially when you are past ‘university age’ & have entered ‘practical life’. (Masood is 32 now)

9. He loved to ‘relax’ in front of the television every evening and was more than ‘well-informed’ about the ‘political scenario’ of the country. 

10. Since he was sitting at home watching ‘serious’ talk shows & ‘news’ most evenings, he was not up to date on whatever was happening in his industry. (Whereas Saquib would share news reports & international trends with his boss & the management & during meetings – having researched it thoroughly at home.)

11. He was always complaining that he didn’t have time to do everything. And never thought of the television as the culprit. (I dont want to get into his personal problems with his wife who always complained of ‘TV’ becoming her ‘sautan’ [second wife]).

12. He always ate his lunch alone or with two of his old colleagues, never mingling with new people. Hence, people knew him but not well enough. (Since Masood had kept low and had not cultivated friendship/relationship with colleagues outside his department, not too many people knew him well enough to have an opinion about him.)

In short, he realized that although he would have loved to take that seat, he never truly worked towards it.

Has this happened to you, yet?

And if your boss resigns, do you think you woud be considered for the job? Or one of your colleagues would take it?

Hope Masood’s story helps you to grow yourself for the next level.

Dare to dream.

Keep improving yourself.

God bless you, always.

Nuruddin

Picture: solicitr.com

The easiest way (easier said than done!) to improve your will power is to:

1. Try and do something that you DON’T want to do.

2. Try NOT TO DO something that you WANT TO DO.

Thats it. Simple & easy.

I know. Its far from being easy.

FIrst let me explain what this means.

Suppose you do pushups everyday and you have reached a number which you know you have not been able to beat, say 70. Try and push yourself to do just 72 or 73. The idea is to push yourself beyond your perceived limits.

Or you are doing school, college or simply office work. And you feel you have already done enough and your body/mind/mood cant take it anymore. See if you could make yourself do it for another 5 minutes only.

Now the other part of NOT DOING something.

We all love chocolates, ice cream, sweet things, fried stuff (add your favorites here…).

And some of us love hot stuff..(Hot – as in chillies and not what you are thinking!)

I have met people who hate sweets and love tasty – and sometimes not so tasty – hot food. Someone I know loves to nibble at ‘chaat masala’…(for those who don’t know what that is, can imagine a concoction of crushed chillies of all kinds/salt etc. Correct?).

Now how could you stop yourself from doing that.

The idea is to begin with baby steps. I know it has become a cliche’ now. But it helps to gradually improve one’s habits. Especially the ones that you think you can’t quit or overcome.

I didn’t want to give the example of cigarettes & sheesha. But, if you insist…

For cigarettes or anything that has become an addiction, both ways have seemed to work. But I am no expert!

If you already have the will, then by all means JUST QUIT TODAY – NOW. May God be with you.

For others, try to reduce the number of cigarettes, chocolates, bites, injections, sniffs etc. gradually till you know that its NOT something that you cannot do.

Think of your ‘will power’ like a muscle that you need to work on, like in the gym. Muscles that you work at, improve in size , definition & tone.

You can’t tell the coach, ‘No this muscle has always been like this. Never improves. I have always tried and given up. No matter what I do (besides working out!) it wouldn’t.’

Funny?

This also means that when we are sitting like a couch potato watching TV, flipping channels that we don’t like and know we should begin/finish that book, or call a friend, read that article, write down what we want from life, our goals, dreams or finish a project that won’t take more than 15 minutes…

ACT of WILL POWER required?

Just get up and leave the room.

I think the difference between success and failure are these small things. These are the moments that one needs to focus on and worry about. This is where the future lies.

Our will power to do a little more than the people around, will give us the edge.

If everyone else around us is doing the same thing that we are, then we are going to be like them, no matter how worried we are about our future/career/life.

And in todays fast-paced world, the competition is not from people that we meet every day or from the same university/city/school/country.

No.

We now have to compete with the best of the world. Who not only studied at world-class schools, but also seem to be intellectually superior & have better habits and are more in control of their day-to-day life than you and I.

Hence, to improve our will power is the ONLY way to go about it.

It is not an option.

In the end, life is all about choices we make.

Both good and not so good (read: bad).

I wrote an earlier post in a similar vein “Abhi Mood Nahi Hai…Lazy or Stupid?”. Check it out.

Dare to dream.

Improve daily.

God bless us all.

Nuruddin Abjani