Nuggets from “As a man thinketh” by James Allen

3. Effect of thought on health and the body—PART 1

(Explanation to the 3^rd chapter of “As a man thinketh”)

Strong connection between the mind and the body:

If one realizes the truth that the thoughts have a great impact on the body, both good and bad depending on the kind of thoughts, he/she is more likely to take more care of their thoughts and emotions.

The body is the servant of the mind and obeys each and every order and it releases on the outside.

What we have seen so far is how thoughts affect your circumstances and what we are going too see now is that the thoughts affect another place, another very important, the only place where you can dwell in this life—your body!

Body is our means with which we achieve all the high ideals and reach all the high stations in our lives. It is the instrument or the vehicle.

So, it’s rather so crucial for us to keep this intact until our soul leaves the body.

Knowing the basic facts and truths about this will kick start one to a wholesome life. Two important facts, in the own words of James Allen, are as follows:

1. “Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.”

2. “Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body.”

Sickly thoughts foster fears such as fear of disease (Hypochondria), anxiety, and other impurities which result in the whole body and the system in it getting shattered and completely collapsed.

What you expect or anticipate in your life, you’ll get it. So when a man or a woman always is dwelling upon a diseased body, seeing himself/herself under the knife, or having dozens of pills stacked up on the table by the bed, would eventually get it, as it is a law of nature that what you think all day long that you would get it eventually.

But the news that provides solace and a new scope to ones life is that one can also think healthy, pure, happy, nurturing thoughts– Thoughts that he or she is doing well, visualizing himself/herself in an athletic or a beautiful body, etc.

James Allen says,

“Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.”

Your circumstances will be pure and your body will be pure.

Even if one adopts a healthy diet avoiding those hamburgers, pizzas, ice creams, carbonated drinks, etc but whose thoughts are impure and unhealthy, then he or she cannot have a healthy body.

PART-2

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

Nuggets from “As a man thinketh” by James Allen

3. Effect of thought on health and the body—PART 2

(Explanation to the 3^rd chapter of “As a man thinketh”)

Approach the mind first before planning to fix your body:

Before one plans to eat the proper food, do the necessary exercise and other important things to become healthy, for the first time or to be healthy again after a bingeing for years, one needs to do the following:

1. Make it a point that you would “Guard” your mind from external attacks and wouldn’t allow this “wonderful spiritual mechanism” to get damaged.

2. Just resolve that you wouldn’t be like the majority of the people who are under constant negative influences of Jealousy, Malice, Resentment, Envy, Disappointment, Despondency, etc. Now, as a part of human nature you’d experience some emotions, but the problem arises when people make this experience a life-time past time.

Even today there are many people in their 70’s and 80’s with bright sunny, chubby, beautiful faces and on the other side of the spectrum, young people in their 20’s, and 30’s having a dull, sour, wrinkled face.

Why?

The simple secret for your knowledge—THOUGHTS!

“There is always stress, always challenges”- this is those young people’s view.

“Life is how we take it and why waste even a second in negative thoughts if they aren’t going to solve any problem but in fact going to create new ones!”—this is those old people’s view, or rather, THOUGHTS.

It’s not admitting the good thoughts for an hour or two but admitting good, healthy thoughts 24/7. That’s after all how we ought to be naturally!

If there was an important message that could be put all over the world in every news paper, every magazine, every banner, every Ad, every TV commercial, in every movie, etc, it would be this, which could literally change your life at the drop of a hat:

“Never make your thoughts to be dependent on the external circumstance.”

Most of the people start reacting to the external conditions by changing their thoughts and emotions according to the external conditions but you’ll become a master when you could keep your inner fountain of thoughts pure and good regardless of the external situation—be it a bad one or a good one. This will ultimately see that you are having a good health and a great wonderful body.

Cheerful thoughts are natural physician that we have in ourselves naturally.

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

“Go thunk yourself” philosophy— “Have an x-ray vision”, –Day 8

“Go thunk yourself” philosophy— “Have an x-ray vision”, –Day 8

(The ideas that have been learned from the book “Go thunk yourself” by Dr. Robert C. Worstell, are being shared. This is the eighth principle)

When was the last time you heard that a dog or a monkey or a crocodile or a parrot that is trained that does a thing or a stunt in an excellent way– a humdinger, and then improving on it year after year not by it’s trainer by on it’s own by fixing a goal or having a vision or better yet, doing something using it’s imagination that just kept the public enthralled?

Not in a million years or even in a billion years! They can be trained by us to do some extraordinary feats in a rote way, but they cannot have a “vision”, ever, to work on, to improve themselves or their lives drastically and dramatically.

Only you are endowed with such a marvelous and astounding gift to “Envision” your ideal future that you want!

Visions are hopes and dreams and they create your reality. Without vision nothing worthwhile can be achieved.

The only animal on the planet to have shown great strides of improvement in every area since the inception of the world is Human beings.

The Bible declares aptly,

“Where there is no vision, the people perish”

Proverbs 29:18

The thin line between perishing and prospering is vision, as it is the vision that shows one the “Path”, “The would-be reality” after his/her mind has been decluttered and detoxified from old behaviors and positive behaviors and thoughts has been installed.

Imagination can be both a help and an impediment:

Now there are two friends, Sam and Julian. They both grew up in the same locality, had been together getting the same sort of education and both are equally qualified in their profession. In about five years after they both got job offers in the same company, Julian had climbed the ladder so quickly whereas Sam was rather pulling himself down in his job.

Let’s look what happened from their perspective:

–Sam looked for problems and imagined them; Julian looked for opportunities amidst problems and seized them. Their pictures or “Vision” were different.

– Sam would shrink like a snail on the slight touch of “Criticism” from others in their working place; Julian “Pictured” his good future and so thought that these “Criticisms” whether creative or destructive, are a part and parcel of the daily life.

– Sam always pictured or envisaged “Impossibilities”; Julian always pictured or imagined himself overcoming all the “Difficulties and obstacles” successfully and took effective actions.

They both used their God-given gifts. One to his upgradation and creatively and the other to his degradation and destructively, thus proving the fact that “vision” can be used either for us or against us!

What is a vision and using it effectively:

Vision, simply put, is a mental creation. Vision is the complete and comprehensive view (in your inward eye) of the ideal result or condition you want to experience in your life.

It’s the reality that you would like to experience, the reality that is a “Burning desire” inside you! (Or sometimes when you start foreseeing something, that’d soon be shifted from a mere “Desire” to a “Burning Desire”).

Let’s say that you’d like to or have planned to buy a high-end computer. Imagine the RAM, the size and type of RAM you’d like to have in your system, the monitor size—19” or 21”, LCD monitor or a HD LCD monitor, the hard disk drive capacity—500GB or 1TB, the type of case, the color of case, the keyboard make, kind of speakers you’d like to have—home theater with high RMS or just a sleeky, small “Bose” speakers, the processor make and speed, motherboard make, the range and facilities in it, external hard disk make, the operating system- Windows or Linux, etc..

Get into minute details. Imagine it from every conceivable angle possible. Imagine it, touch it, smell it as if you ALREADY OWNED THE COMPUTER SYSTEM.

The more your vision is in details and clarity, the more the environment or the natural forces come in to your aid or comply with you in making the vision an actuality.(INTENSITY AND CLARITY of the vision is important).

The next step is keep the image that you have created for a purpose, and keep on refining it by thinking about the “Hows”, and who will benefit from it, what are advantages that you may get, etc.

The only limits that you have on your “Vision” are the self-imposed ones. Anything is possible and it wouldn’t do any harm to imagine at a large scale or high level.

And there’s this important phrase of wisdom,

“You’ll have to give before you get”

So start acting on the Vision. Think what you NEED TO DO AND WHAT YOU NEED TO BECOME to realize that vision, and just do it!

And by the way, Sam soon learned the secret from his buddy and on his way to a blessed life!

All you need is an x-ray vision to see beyond the normal vision to achieve wonderful things, and the good news is you already have it!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

Keep journal like Jim Rohn for your success PART-1

Keep journal like Jim Rohn for your success PART-1

Jim Rohn (September 17, 1930 – December 5, 2009), one of the legendary thinkers and experts on how to live our life to the fullest and making it a successful one, and, who has joined hands with other greats in Heaven on December 5^th, 2009, said,

“If you’re serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal.”

He recorded all the important insights, lessons in life, important notes he had taken from Church sermons and other meetings, etc., in his life for about more than half a century, till his death last week. He has left a great treasure for his family members and maybe others, through his vast treasure vault of his journals along with his valuable books that he had collected over many years.

He used to say that if one wanted to become a highly successful man or woman then he or she should be a serious student of life and one indication that says that you are a serious student of life is maintaining a journal.

The points that he stressed in keeping a journal are encapsulated so that it could be very well impressed upon our minds. They are as follows:

1.“Don’t trust your memory”, observed Mr.Rohn. Any ideas that are worth examining are worth capturing in the first place and our memory cannot hold ideas infinitely.

2.“I found out that the best way to organize those ideas is to keep a journal.”

After trying to record ideas randomly, he at last found that ideas could be organized in a journal which acts as a central place to hold all those ideas, information and insights that one may come across suddenly.

3.“The discipline makes up a valuable part of my learning, and the journals are a valuable part of my library.”

What a wonderful lesson this is! He said that journals played an important part in his learning process. Learning ultimately leads to success for you become a more valuable person when you keep on learning new things on a consistent basis in every area of your life!!

4.“In fact, future generations will find these three treasures far more valuable than your furniture.”

When you die you’ll leave a library of journals to your future generations who would immensely get help from the thoughts you had recorded in your journals.

You may leave them a lot of money and properties but they cannot really compensate the years of experience that you had recorded in your journals which would guide your successors. You’ll have a fulfillment on your death bed for sure!

5.“The third treasure is your journals”, instructed Jim Rohn.

What he means is that along with the first two treasures which are your photos and personal library, your journals that you leave behind would be the third treasure to leave behind when you die!

You’ll live even after your death in those journals.

So what are journals, what to do with them and why are they so IMPORTANT in your success?

That’s next!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

Keep journal like Jim Rohn for your success PART-2

Keep journal like Jim Rohn for your success PART-2

Albert Einstein observed, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

How true those words are, and journal helps you in learning from your past by recording the events meticulously, applying what you learned today and plan for tomorrow in your journal by the way of goals and planning!

If one doesn’t maintain a journal, then the chances are he/she isn’t going to know where that person is making mistakes nor realize and remember any new insights that flashes in his/her mind because that person would soon forget everything– every good ideas, every good lesson, every good insights or thoughts, etc!

So how does a journal help us? In many ways beloved ones!

Here are some important points for you to peruse and meditate:

1.  Infinite intelligence is showering ideas for you:

There are lot ideas that are showered up on us continually to our sub-conscious mind. These ideas, I believe, are the ones that are gifted to us by the infinite intelligence or a super power to which our sub-conscious mind is connected. Sadly, many people are wasting these ideas that come to them. They are elated when the ideas pop up in to their brain only to forget them just because they didn’t take the time to record them in a journal.

Ideas are your future. So it is a pivotal move to capture those ideas in a journal.

2. Little drops make big ocean:

When people start on a journal they may wonder what benefit it could provide them. But with time what happens is many ideas, information, interesting facts, lessons, etc., are organized in a central place and accrue there. The person who collects the information grows in knowledge, starts enjoying life more; learn many things which had eluded him or her, could know about himself/herself more, he or she starts to plan well than before, become a “geek” all of a sudden, starts rectifying his or her mistakes and become a better person, etc.

Jim Rohn said, “All my journals are private, but if you ever got a hold of one of them, you wouldn’t have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars.”

He used to buy costly journals and when asked by kids and others why he spent so much money for just a journal he answered (above) them by revealing his own experience on the “Accruing” power of journals!!

3. Journals are soothsayers and soothe you:

As you start to keep a journal, it literally allows you to have some control over your future. You start to plan well ahead and start using your time very efficiently. Also, they soothe you and motivate you during your trying times and adverse conditions. Just 10 minutes spent on your journal can have a tremendous effect on your moods. You’ll feel refreshed and a new man/woman!

4. Don’t spend too much time or too little time on a journal:

The next major question is: “How much time or how often should I use my journal”?

Jim Rohn advises us not to use it so very often that we forget to neither enjoy our lives nor use it so sparingly, so rare, so that we miss the important lessons in life that we could learn on a daily basis from all our experiences.

More importantly, it’s rather very important to review the journal on week ends. On the first week-end you’d come to know the power of a journal which would keep on improving week after week!

5. Journal is not diary writing:

Diary is just recording of events whereas journals not only record the events but they record your feelings, your experiences, ideas, observations, reflections and notes. They are not just simply recorded but the information is later analyzed and evaluated, maybe to improve your life, for an important decision, for learning a new success principle, etc.

You can maintain a journal just for ideas, or for any new life lessons that you may have learned on a day, or it may record your emotions, or to take notes for any classes that you attend or to record the sermons on Sundays or all of the above, etc. Anything that you think is important for your life should go into your journal!

Jim Rohn well said: “Take the time to keep notes and to keep a journal. You’ll be so glad you did.”

These are the words that came from the man who himself benefited greatly by journals and took his life from the bottom to the top.

To conclude, Jim Rohn started the discipline of maintaining a journal from the age 25 and he did it to the end. In his own words:

“I’ve been keeping these journals since the age of twenty-five.”

Now this is a great discipline to impart in our lives and all disciplines would benefit you immensely when you are persistent enough to have them in your life, all your life!! And journal is one of the best among them!!! Thank you Mr.Jim Rohn!!!!

Take some money with you, go out and buy your beautiful journal today!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

The biggest capital in the world to your success!

There was one thing on which this world has been built. That one thing has been the back bone for the development of many civilizations. That single thing has been the reason that one country with all its latest technology in warfare could colonize another primitive country.

That single thing was responsible for all the riches of successful men and women who walked on this planet since the recorded and unrecorded history!

This one thing even helped the cavemen and women.

What? Even the cavemen and women! Yes cavemen and women. If it weren’t for that “One thing” we would still be like them, this whole world.

And that one thing is, simply put: “IDEA”. Yes “ideas” are the most important “Magic Aladdin carpets” that takes you to enormous heights and make your life ride an enjoyable one by the way of large compensations in all forms for you in addition to a sense of contribution in you.

Ideas are the biggest capital for any success aspiring man or woman.

Everything around us are once ideas in the minds of some people who took the pain and “action steps” to translate those ideas into realities.

Microsoft Windows was once just an idea that was sitting expectantly in a corner in Bill gates mind.

“Airplane” was an idea before it pounced and attacked the paper to be recorded and thought about by the Wright Brothers!

“Youtube.com” was an idea that was a small blip of an idea in the minds of its founders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.

Before these men accomplished the big things they generated ideas that could take the country by storm and after generating the ideas they acted upon them to develop them, to perfect them and importantly execute them successfully.

“Generate potential ideas first and then wait for your ideas to generate you many life rewards”

You have the same kind of imagination to generate any number of ideas. You are no inferior to anyone and could do marvelous things when you start to think of your business or job in terms of producing great life-changing or life-enhancing ideas.

When you become a man or woman who always generate ideas, your life would unfold in such a way you had least expected. You can create new ideas in your business or job, in your personal relationship, in the way you live, in the way you raise your kids, etc. Every improvement comes from a better idea.

Innovation and inventions have benefited by millions and millions of ideas from millions of people all over the globe. And the “Idea generation” has become more crucial than ever before today.

What we have seen so far in this world would be surpassed by new ideas that are going to be generated in the days to come. So let us start contributing our part by generating new innovative ideas in every area of our life.

Japanese are renowned for their innovative strategies. They were the country which nobody thought could give a comeback after they had been hit by the “Little boy” the atomic bomb. However… how could they give a miraculous comeback like a phoenix bird reviving itself from ashes!

They had faith in themselves first… then they worked as a unit… and finally they generated ideas after ideas to make their country a world leader once again.

Did they make it? You bet!

If you want your country to be a great nation in the world let your country’s each citizen realize the importance of new ideas and let it start from you, now!

Not only you’ll become a successful man or woman in your life but your country would become a much developed nation as a whole and that’s 2-in-1 victory! For you and your country!!

For the last 2 centuries  the thinking intensity and generating ideas among the people all over the globe have been on a gradual decline. This means the number of people who think independently has been always successful and small in number when compared to the huge population who have chosen to “think superficially”.

But you can join the high ranks now and start making full use of your brain power to generate ideas after ideas for earning and for good life!

That’s what Socrates did, Andrew Carnegie did, Charles Schwab did, J.K.Rowling did and every successful people did on our planet.

One great way to capture ideas is to keep a journal handy so that we could enslave an idea when it shows up. Also there are lots of books that teach how to generate ideas which could teach one how to generate limitless ideas in every area of their life.

All you need is a good idea to transform your life and it may come in any form from any source. Who knows today may be the day that you generate that great idea!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

Do it the video game way!

Making use of your warp zone:

In video games like Super Mario Brothers, Dangerous Dave, Donkey Kong, etc., there are these areas called “Warp zones” where the player can use them as a “short cut” to travel quickly from one area to another or to another level.

They make the “Gaming” easier and save the player at times when there is not enough “Energy or power” to carry on the game effectively or to complete a stage “quicker”.

Men and women of high caliber always keep them drenched with all the motivating facts, motivating thoughts, motivating things, motivating people, etc—all those things that keep them “Energetic and their power full.”

These motivating entities to them are like what yellow sun is to superman! They literally draw a vast amount of power from them! They get energized from them and come back strongly to take the crown.

At the same time these motivating factors propel them to the next stage in their life and above all put them on the positive path.

These “Good” things are the warp zones.

– When you start treating others more courteously and politely, you are using a “Warp zone” that pushes you to the next level or stage in your life. Most of the people with high success rates always treat other cordially no matter how they feel inside or how others are toward them. People like them and want them to succeed.

They don’t degrade them to a lower level by being rude and mean to others. It may be difficult but not impossible. This gives you a “Unique” peace of mind that you’d know only when you experience it first hand!

– Even when the opposing forces are exerting their pressure on these people they keep themselves cool, positive and in high hopes by reading good inspirational books and other things, by keeping themselves focused on their goals especially at times when their chips are down, by periodically taking a check-up on their beliefs to see whether there is any limiting beliefs that are holding them back, etc.

These are those “warp zones” that keep them “Energetic and powerful”

Important life lessons that could be learned from the video games:

– If the successful people are rejected or turned down, they wouldn’t lose their hope but in fact head in the exactly the opposite direction. This is like when you had lost a life in a video game you’d give it another try again and simply wouldn’t “quit” the game!

– Time flies like that when you start playing a video game because you enjoy doing the stuff and completely involved in it. When you have chosen the right purpose for your life and doing what you like, every minute would be a like spending your time in heaven singing with an heavenly harp in your hands!!

– You dare, you are so adventurous, and you probe all the opportunities at every stage of the game to know more, to do more.

You look for any special powers or some bonus points to play your game effectively. In the same manner, like all successful people, you can dig more to discover your “special powers”, your opportunities, your strengths, etc. Just keep moving!

– There are different levels such as  “Easy level”, “Medium level” and “difficult level” in some video games.

Invariably all the men or women of real guts and real aims play the real game—they play the “difficult level” in contrast with the majority who play “the easy level”.

But with the passage of time, the ones who play at the “difficult” level would soon be accustomed to it and start getting the “Voluminous dividends” for their dauntless and real tournament.

– In a game one wouldn’t hesitate in the least to decimate the opponents whoever they are and whatever they have. There are more villain characters in real life than there are in the video games. But it is a sad truth that many beloved people fail to kill them off with all their might.

Jealousy, Anger, Resentment, Lies and fibs, are some of those “Darkseids” and “Doomsdays” that are torturing us!

– When you complete a stage in a game, you are rewarded. In life too, you’ll be rewarded for your hard-work and smart work when you are sincere.

Life reward is for sure but again you can reward yourself after each and every success, big or small, by the way of some presents for yourself or your family, by going out on a tour, etc., anything that satiates you. This would do the ground work for your next moves!

When you go the video game way you are more flexible, more powerful, more confident and will have everything in abundance.

Load your ammo and start your game of life!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

The unparalleled formula to master anything

What one thing that separates the successful ones from the unsuccessful ones?

What one thing that gives the great men and women the power that projects them wherever they go and whatever they do?

Why the successful men and women of all times are often called as “Wizards” or “sorcerers” in the line that they had chosen and what made them to master their skills in their line of profession?

Let it be revealed here in the words of the great motivational guru Anthony Robbins,

“Repetition is the mother of skill.”

Knowing your goals is like knowing the target you want to hit. But knowing a target is one thing and knowing how to hit the target effectively is another facet of your marvelous, successful journey! And it could very well be an entertaining and enjoyable experience.

Every man and woman can become a true master in whatever he or she has decided to pursue as a profession when he/she has the discipline and patience to keep on repeating the skills and knowledge needed to be a “Sorcerer” in the field.

Tiger woods was practicing and honing his skills again and again when the world was sleeping! He was repeating that even while he was sleeping unconsciously. His swing was getting better and better with each attempt be it physically or in his mind and his hands were crying loudly “I deserve the US open, PGA championship and so on!” —he was actually surpassing every other giant in his field when he was REPEATING the same routine over and over and over!!

Even the genetics would lose the match against the industrious man or woman and of course, even the genetics cannot help one if he/she doesn’t repeat and keep on sharpening their skills.

Though many people know the power of doing or repeating the thing in which they want to shine and be a master, they don’t do it just because they find it boring and REALLY DON’T realize the results that could show up as a result of such a continuous training. But not you. Just have the discipline to do what others wouldn’t do and you’ll have what others don’t have!

You had every potential given to you even before your eyelids opened and saw this world for the first time. You have what it takes to become a champion like a Tiger Woods or a Laila Ali. Just realize the massive power sleeping in you and develop it to a great level by repetition that one day it would be acknowledged all over the world and you’d be in the same list of the greats!

Do you want to improve your math profiency? Then keep practicing solving the problems again and again and consolidating the concepts!

Do you want to be a one-of-a-kind computer programmer? Then keep typing the codes and learning the concepts again and again!

Do you want to be a marvelous communicator and want to improve your inter personal skill? Then learn the techniques and keep on applying them over and over!!

Do you want to be known as a “legend” in your business or in your job? Then keep practicing the fine principles of business and the good skills needed to lift you up everyday again and again!

Do you want to be a tremendous dancer? Then keep practicing the moves and in the process make your body to “Obey” you whatever it is that you want it to do!

Or you may want to be a scientist, or a “Miss Universe” or a world renowned doctor or a top notch engineer or an awe-inspiring actor!

The one practice that intersects all the professional achievements is “Repetition”. After you have done your part of repetition the universe will do its part of repetition by handing you the success again and again throughout your life!!

If others have scoffed at you, don’t let that experience to topple you but rather keep on doing the thing in which you have failed and that same people someday would be astonished by your vast transformation and success!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

“Go thunk yourself” philosophy—”The Golden Rule”, your compass—Day 7

“Go thunk yourself” philosophy—”The Golden Rule”, your compass—Day 7

(The ideas that have been learned from the book “Go thunk yourself” by Dr. Robert C. Worstell, are being shared. This is the seventh principle)

What one puts in that he/she shall gets back:

Treating other people like the way we wanted to be treated is the application of the Golden rule principle,

“You’ll only get out what you put in”

Every book, every wise person who has lived a remarkable life, every religion confirms this basic yet so powerful truth in solidarity.

A quick way to check this principle is to go around and start treating people with fairness, honesty and trust (if you are already practicing these good virtues then you would have known the positive impact it has on you and others and your lives!).

Chances are that you would be unbelievably surprised by the drastic changes that you see by treating people with dignity and other great virtues. Obviously, the opposite is also quite true and some of the vices that would accompany are: Cheating, lying, deceiving, resentment, anger, jealousy, etc.

If you could become your higher self by start treating somebody who has hurt you, with dignity, respect and could keep smiling at them, soon you could expect to see amazing reactions from him/her and the twist your life would take!

Ethical base to work on/ to make decisions/as guidance:

What is success broadly?

Finding what you are here for (Finding your talents)

Then planning what has to be done

Then doing it!

Now at each of these stages be it your planning or your action part, you will need a GUIDANCE or a base on which to base your decision and proceed!

All the time-tested classic self-help books highlight this same point in one way or another. And Dr.Covey’s books more recently, stress the same point.

What is that?

There are the character ethic/ethical/moral codes in dealing with life, which act as the guidance or the base up on which your actions and thinking be based.

Dr.Covey puts forth the meaning of “character ethic” in his book:

“The character ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their character”

Then there is this personality ethics as opposed to character ethics that have evolved over the last 50 years, which stress on skills and techniques that one acquires and the attitude that one assumes.

One gets a lot of benefit by the personality ethics but the character ethics is a MUST for your ever-growing success because they are the very fundamental and the main source of all the power that a human being is bestowed up on.

But character ethics, on the other hand, is working on the character which addresses the core of you and says that change starts with in you.

Okay where does this “ethical basis” fit in?

You want to improve your life…

So, you have to completely reprogram your mind

Then you think of the positive ways toward your goal by using your imagination

Then, to maintain a positive approach toward life you need a ETHICAL RATIONAL BASIS UP ON WHICH YOUR DECISIONS WOULD BE BASED.

What if you don’t have this basis?

You’ll slide back into your old habits which created all the problems for you in the past.

So, after a CHANGE you have made, you need a “constant guide” to direct you toward the right end at every point where you got to take decisions.

Character training has become a rare thing and the few who understands this truth will reach great stations in their life and already those who understood this have achieved marvelous things in the globe.

Dr. Robert C. Worstell perfectly explains the lack of an “Ethical basis”. In his own words:

“Without an ethical base, one is like a boat in a storm with no anchors, rudder or oars. If that boat is to make it through the storm without swamping, it would require a miracle. So it is in trying to make it through life with no basis for making decisions.”

When one has a basis like this he/she has something to compare or refer to with the real-life choices he/she has.

Install your ethical base today and enjoy a greater life… later today!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand

Prize for praise

Prize for praise

When was the last time you were so happy when someone found fault with you?

“No chance, how could I be happy when someone was finding fault with me!” you may ask.

But if that question was rephrased as,

“When was the last time you felt like you were on the cloud nine when someone praised you or complimented you?”

An array of “Nice” experiences could be scooped out easily from your memory like scooping out a big chunk of ice-cream from a container to be tasted with delight, when such a question is posed!

That is the power of—this is the significant fact to remember – that is the power of compliments which can transform your life and change your approach toward life and people, as well as change the life of others around you.

Children always tend to praise each other even if it is only for a small thing. That creates a great bond between them and that’s why they seem to enjoy life more.

Success comes easily to the person who manages himself very well as well as who could be a support and encouragement to others. He or she is a welcome guest wherever that person goes!

When one is generous in complimenting others, this universe seems to be generous with that person. The great ones don’t hesitate to sincerely compliment others where it is due!

Abraham Lincoln once said,

“Everybody likes a compliment”

It is a tonic to people and they need it basically as human beings. And when one compliments others wherever a person goes, that person is nurturing the people around him/her creating an aura of encouragement for others amidst chaos.

Some benefits that you can enjoy when you become a “Compliment- carrier”:

Learning while complimenting:

When one is with their friends or boss or spouse or children and so on and deliberately finds some attributes or good qualities or something that person have done well to sincerely compliment them, he or she is not only complimenting that person but would also find himself or herself learning a new good quality or something good from that another person.

Say if one compliments 3 people on a day, and that means he or she can use those good qualities in his or her life so as to improve his/her life.

People would like you and trust you:

People whenever they are introduced to each other, mostly size up each other, sometimes consciously sometimes without their knowledge, as it is only natural for human beings. They tend to keep a distance from each other and this takes some time to set right and to break the ice.

But when you are a “compliment carrier” and a sincere one at that you would always be thought by everyone as “Native” to them as opposed to “Alien”. Even when they are a new acquaintance you can always find something to compliment them sincerely. Then they trust you and you trust them and your relationship, be it in your business or profession or personal life would be a harmonious one.

Complimenting(Sincerely) is not a phony one but actually this habit will make one to see the “Good” in others, as it is because when one always sees the bad in others he/she is inclined to “Label” that person (Permanently most of the times) as “Baddie”, “ Cheater”, etc.

People remember your compliments for a long time when it is effective:

With a single piece of SINCERE compliment you can turn around the life of a person if it’s heading toward disaster. You might not know but your compliment might mean a lot to that person, and sometimes change the course of their life for their betterment tremendously just because you saved them at a crucial point by complimenting them and providing solace to their hurt soul. And the spiritual satisfaction one gets from earnest compliment is unparalleled.

To compliment one needs courage- courage to break free from his/her old ego pattern, courage to sincerely praise others and avoid flattery at any cost, and courage to not to expect anything in return.

Flattery cannot be in the same place where SINCERE compliment is. Flattery is a “Phony” thing and a truly great person who wants to succeed in life would not be a “phony” one but an “Honest man/woman”. He/she really mean it when they praise others!! He or she seek the benefit of others and their welfare along with his or hers.

Sincere compliments don’t need “Honey-coated words” but even just casually tossing of sincere words – directly from the heart not just from the mouth! People can always see through ones good heart.

Your email-ID, your mouth, your hand, your pen, your keyboard and the people you know now and you are going to meet in the future would thank you for that!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Peter Anand