The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited. " - Earl Nightingale
All human beings are blessed with certain unique qualities which are called as talents. These qualities are acquired from parents. Talents are inborn and are unique. Each individual is unique. One cannot expect even twins alike in talents. On the contrary, skills are the abilities that can be acquired by way of reading, observation, practice, and training. Both talents and skills have to be blended in order to achieve the desired outcome i.e. success. It is necessary to know what the inherent talents are. Knowing yourself better helps you in realizing your hidden potential. SWOT analysis, which is the acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, is the tool to discover your hidden talents, skills and abilities.
SWOT as a tool is widely used by many, in all spheres like civil organizations, political parties, defence organizations and one’s personal life. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will help you minimize your threats and maximize opportunities. It is very easy to execute this tool at the personal level. You may ask few of your family members to evaluate your strengths and weakness honestly and jot down the same. You may ask your friends who are impartial to judge you in the same lines and take their comments separately. You may also ask your teachers, well-wishers, other than your friends and family members to offer their comments about your personality and take their notes. After having acquired information from multiple sources, take the qualities that are commonly connecting strengths and weaknesses and these could be taken as the accurate qualities. Once you know strengths and weaknesses you can create your road map to success by overcoming weaknesses and capitalizing on strengths. It ultimately leads to success.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Self-Awareness Is Key to Your Success
“The more you know, the less you need to show.” - Anonymous
There are several ingredients essential for achieving success. Of which, self-awareness is one, which is key to success. People are more comfortable in knowing about others than about themselves. A few people have the habit of complaining, condemning and criticizing others’ behavior and nature. They cannot digest when others think and behave with them as they think that they are better than others. In fact, nobody is perfect in this world. We all have our strengths and weaknesses and being aware of the same will help us to become successful persons.
What is Self-Awareness?
“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.” - Lao Tzu
Self-awareness is all about knowing oneself thoroughly such as attitudes, aptitude, needs, desires, goals, habits, emotions, strengths and weaknesses etc., In brief, it means knowing your personality. Self-awareness is nothing but being conscious about yourself and how you act and react in certain situations.
We all have low level of awareness but think that we know about ourselves better. It is, in fact, wrong. When you know yourself properly, you judge yourself properly and you take your judgments seriously. It requires lot of self-knowledge to be aware of yourself.
Merits of Self-Awareness:
“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” - William Faulkner
• People with self-awareness stands at better chances of winning the game because they know about themselves. If any mistake is made, they immediately take remedial action as they know about themselves.
• Self-Awareness improves your judgment and decision making skills. It helps in professional and personality development as you overcome your weaknesses.
• It bridges the gap between skills you have and you don’t have and exploits your existing skills up to the hilt.
• It helps in choosing the right career and ensures fast career growth.
• When you know more about yourself, most of the problems in your life are resolved automatically.
• You can become a successful mentor, facilitator, teacher, leader and role model with better self-awareness.
How to Know About Yourself:
“It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.” - Sydney J. Harris
• Take time to think things through. Spend some time to analyze yourself. Self-introspection is essential to be aware about yourself.
• Go for MBTI (Meyers and Briggs Type Instrument) test as it helps you find out what type of personality you are.
• There are several psychometric instruments to know your personality. When such instruments are executed by professional trainers then it becomes easier to know more about yourself.
• Take feedback from your colleagues, friends and relatives. Take their feedback separately so that the common qualities running across the thread can be taken as the correct characteristics.
• Go for meditation as it reveals about your mind. Or go to a serene place and think about yourself to take stock of your qualities.
• Take a notebook and write down your thoughts, ideas and insights. Record the same for analysis and evaluation.
• Take intrapersonal feedback regularly. For this, it is essential to engage in regular inner dialogue.
• Constantly monitor your actions and its fall out.
• Take the help of professional counselors, clinical psychologists and executive coaches who can provide you correct feedback. Find out the inventory of your interests and personality that help in developing your self-awareness.
Ron’s honest feedback about Susan:
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Carl Gustav Jung
People have tendency to judge others. But they don’t accept when others judge them. Rather they would be shocked with others’ feedback about themselves. Let us look at an example where two colleagues by names, Susan and Ron who worked in an office. They had good relations and gelled with each other well. One day, Susan asked Ron to give feedback as she wanted to know about herself from the perspective of Ron. Ron was straightforward by nature and he analyzed Susan from several dimensions both personally and professionally and prepared a report containing her strengths and weaknesses. It took around a week for Ron to generate the personality report of Susan. He went to the extent of guessing the MBTI personality type of Susan based on her behavior, nature and intellectual temperament.
When Susan saw the report she could not digest and she did not agree with Ron on several areas. Ron clearly said that he was not perfect in assessment but offered feedback the way he provided to several students when he worked as a faculty member in a Business School. Since then, Susan distanced from Ron as she never expected her nature to be like that. It led to severance of their amicable relations finally costing their friendship. The lesson to be learnt out of it is people don’t accept about themselves when others offer their feedback because they think about themselves in a different manner. In fact, there is always gap between an individual’s imagination about himself/herself with that of others.
Conclusion:
“The final mystery is oneself.” - Oscar Wilde
Self-awareness is all about being aware of your intentions, actions, emotions, feelings, attitude and aptitude so that you can channel them successfully for achieving all round success – be it personally, professionally and socially.
When you know yourself you grow as an individual. You develop self-acceptance which in turn helps others to accept you as an individual. You become self motivated and it leads to achieving success. Self-awareness enables you to grow in your chosen area of interest. To sum up, success comes to those who have better self-awareness about themselves as it helps in improving themselves by overcoming their weaknesses and reinforcing their strengths.
The End
There are several ingredients essential for achieving success. Of which, self-awareness is one, which is key to success. People are more comfortable in knowing about others than about themselves. A few people have the habit of complaining, condemning and criticizing others’ behavior and nature. They cannot digest when others think and behave with them as they think that they are better than others. In fact, nobody is perfect in this world. We all have our strengths and weaknesses and being aware of the same will help us to become successful persons.
What is Self-Awareness?
“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.” - Lao Tzu
Self-awareness is all about knowing oneself thoroughly such as attitudes, aptitude, needs, desires, goals, habits, emotions, strengths and weaknesses etc., In brief, it means knowing your personality. Self-awareness is nothing but being conscious about yourself and how you act and react in certain situations.
We all have low level of awareness but think that we know about ourselves better. It is, in fact, wrong. When you know yourself properly, you judge yourself properly and you take your judgments seriously. It requires lot of self-knowledge to be aware of yourself.
Merits of Self-Awareness:
“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” - William Faulkner
• People with self-awareness stands at better chances of winning the game because they know about themselves. If any mistake is made, they immediately take remedial action as they know about themselves.
• Self-Awareness improves your judgment and decision making skills. It helps in professional and personality development as you overcome your weaknesses.
• It bridges the gap between skills you have and you don’t have and exploits your existing skills up to the hilt.
• It helps in choosing the right career and ensures fast career growth.
• When you know more about yourself, most of the problems in your life are resolved automatically.
• You can become a successful mentor, facilitator, teacher, leader and role model with better self-awareness.
How to Know About Yourself:
“It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.” - Sydney J. Harris
• Take time to think things through. Spend some time to analyze yourself. Self-introspection is essential to be aware about yourself.
• Go for MBTI (Meyers and Briggs Type Instrument) test as it helps you find out what type of personality you are.
• There are several psychometric instruments to know your personality. When such instruments are executed by professional trainers then it becomes easier to know more about yourself.
• Take feedback from your colleagues, friends and relatives. Take their feedback separately so that the common qualities running across the thread can be taken as the correct characteristics.
• Go for meditation as it reveals about your mind. Or go to a serene place and think about yourself to take stock of your qualities.
• Take a notebook and write down your thoughts, ideas and insights. Record the same for analysis and evaluation.
• Take intrapersonal feedback regularly. For this, it is essential to engage in regular inner dialogue.
• Constantly monitor your actions and its fall out.
• Take the help of professional counselors, clinical psychologists and executive coaches who can provide you correct feedback. Find out the inventory of your interests and personality that help in developing your self-awareness.
Ron’s honest feedback about Susan:
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Carl Gustav Jung
People have tendency to judge others. But they don’t accept when others judge them. Rather they would be shocked with others’ feedback about themselves. Let us look at an example where two colleagues by names, Susan and Ron who worked in an office. They had good relations and gelled with each other well. One day, Susan asked Ron to give feedback as she wanted to know about herself from the perspective of Ron. Ron was straightforward by nature and he analyzed Susan from several dimensions both personally and professionally and prepared a report containing her strengths and weaknesses. It took around a week for Ron to generate the personality report of Susan. He went to the extent of guessing the MBTI personality type of Susan based on her behavior, nature and intellectual temperament.
When Susan saw the report she could not digest and she did not agree with Ron on several areas. Ron clearly said that he was not perfect in assessment but offered feedback the way he provided to several students when he worked as a faculty member in a Business School. Since then, Susan distanced from Ron as she never expected her nature to be like that. It led to severance of their amicable relations finally costing their friendship. The lesson to be learnt out of it is people don’t accept about themselves when others offer their feedback because they think about themselves in a different manner. In fact, there is always gap between an individual’s imagination about himself/herself with that of others.
Conclusion:
“The final mystery is oneself.” - Oscar Wilde
Self-awareness is all about being aware of your intentions, actions, emotions, feelings, attitude and aptitude so that you can channel them successfully for achieving all round success – be it personally, professionally and socially.
When you know yourself you grow as an individual. You develop self-acceptance which in turn helps others to accept you as an individual. You become self motivated and it leads to achieving success. Self-awareness enables you to grow in your chosen area of interest. To sum up, success comes to those who have better self-awareness about themselves as it helps in improving themselves by overcoming their weaknesses and reinforcing their strengths.
The End
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Self-Motivation- A Bridge Between Your Dreams And Realities
“Don’t’ let the low times keep you down. Learn from them and reach for the high times." – David Wiemers.
What is Self-Motivation?
Self motivation is the ability to motivate yourself without the influence of others. It is the ability to move forward with your convictions and beliefs despite facing several stumbling blocks on your way. It is also the ability to move forward with energy and enthusiasm without any letup. It radiates firm faith in yourself. It is the courage to follow your convictions. It is all about not letting other’s opinions drown out your inner beliefs. It is one of the important aspects for achieving success.
People are motivated through different ways and means such as reading books, money, love, comfort, career, success etc.; Therefore, it is essential to find out how you are motivated so that the process of self-motivation becomes easier.
Merits of self-motivation:
• It keeps your energy levels always higher. It develops optimism and confidence which are keys to your success.
• Self-motivation makes you think ‘what next’ whenever faced with failures. It reminds you that failure is only a comma not a full stop.
• It reduces absenteeism and labor turnover in organizations thus increasing performance and productivity.
• It creates conducive work environment.
• It saves time, money and energy.
• It brings all round progress and prosperity for individuals and institutions.
Secrets of Self-Motivation:
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale
Dream big: You need to think big always which is possible only when you dream big. Dreams will drive you to go to any extent. Your efforts and energies towards your goals totally depend on your level of dreams. Sigmund Freud rightly quoted, “Man dreams only that which he has the ability to achieve.”
Set a roadmap: Mere having dreams will not pay off unless you have blueprint towards achieving the same. The blueprint should be so planned that it should be realistic and practical to achieve. Find out what are your inborn talents and combine the same with the skills and abilities that you acquired through training, practice and experience.
Be a firm optimist: When you develop positive attitude round the clock you tend to have positive results. This positive thought process leads to positive actions by blocking negative aspects. It drives you towards achieving your goals by looking at the brighter side of life.
You are unique: Begin everyday with new expectations and aspirations. Stay away from negative thoughts and negative people. Accept the fact that you are unique and cannot be compared with others. Have a firm faith that you were born to achieve big in this world.
Involve in internal dialogue: This is a powerful tool where in your talk to yourself and reinforce yourself. Internal dialogue helps in strengthening your subconscious mind by feeding with right inputs.
Pursue your passions: Passion is a burning desire coming from the core of your heart. It is like your heart prevailing over your mind. It is all about doing what you love to do. Find out what interests you and work on it. It propels you in moving forward despite several odds stacked against you.
Set your goals: Sheila Murray Bethel quotes, "One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go." When you set your goals based on your desires, you develop positive attitude towards life and your mind is engaged in a right way. You will have a clearer vision about what you want to do for planning your mission. Break the goals into short term and long term and link both in such a way that they should be correlated and interconnected without any contradiction. As you achieve your goals you get self-motivated. Even if there is failure in accomplishing your short term goals due to external disturbances, the long term goals will hold you firmly with faith thus motivating you forever.
Break your goals: When you feel that your goal is too big, make it into small and keep achieving it one by one. Once you achieve a small goal you get motivated over your achievement and will be driven to work further and forward. When you complete all sub-goals confidently then you will be excited to know that you have achieved your big goal successfully.
Consistency is the key: Chuck Norris says, "If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen." Put your efforts and energies in a systematic and focused manner without looking for results frequently. Your objective is to put in efforts regularly. Consistency with a firm commitment is the key to self-motivation and success.
Manage your time: Learn to manage your time effectively and efficiently by allocating specific time for each activity. Invest your time on daily basis for each activity without encroaching into other activities. Avoid procrastination. Delaying the activities will result into lethargy and piling up the activities resulting into stress.
High energy levels: Always maintain high energy levels. Take good and nutritious food. Avoid junk food. Take food at regular intervals everyday. Hit gym or go for fast walking to lift your energy levels. High energy levels will keep you highly motivated.
Focus on solutions, not problems: Never focus too much on problems. Generally, people brood over the problems and waste their precious time. Look for solutions towards the problems. It is rightly said that below average people talk about individuals, average people talk about events, issues and problems and above average people always talk about ideas and solutions.
Spend time with loved ones: When you spend your time weekends with your family and friends you rejuvenate your energies. You create and strengthen your emotional bonding. When you spend your time one day in a week with your spouse, you develop better understanding by sharing you feelings and emotions. Similarly, when you spend a day in a week with your children you share your love with them thereby building bridges. Besides, you can educate as well as develop them as individuals with strong character with values. You can also play with kids as they are innocent and lovely. It removes your stress and fills you with self-motivation.
Never give up: Walter Sparrow, Now and Then, says, “Things will happen in your life that you can’t stop, but that’s no reason to shut out the world. There’s a purpose for the good and for the bad." Hold on to your cherished goals and objectives. There will be several challenges while executing your tasks throwing you out of the gear. Be firm and strong and ensure that the things are put on the right and fast track. It is rightly said, winners don’t quit and quitters never win.
Conclusion:
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."- Henry David Thoreau
Self-motivation helps you in achieving anything you desire. Channel your burning desire to achieve whatever you want. When you are enthusiastic and excited about what you are doing and when you are motivated, committed and dedicated you are sure to achieve success. Make a resolution to motivate one individual everyday. Make a difference in the lives of people. To conclude, self-motivation gears you to accomplish your desires for achieving all-round success. It is a bridge between your dreams and realities.
The End
What is Self-Motivation?
Self motivation is the ability to motivate yourself without the influence of others. It is the ability to move forward with your convictions and beliefs despite facing several stumbling blocks on your way. It is also the ability to move forward with energy and enthusiasm without any letup. It radiates firm faith in yourself. It is the courage to follow your convictions. It is all about not letting other’s opinions drown out your inner beliefs. It is one of the important aspects for achieving success.
People are motivated through different ways and means such as reading books, money, love, comfort, career, success etc.; Therefore, it is essential to find out how you are motivated so that the process of self-motivation becomes easier.
Merits of self-motivation:
• It keeps your energy levels always higher. It develops optimism and confidence which are keys to your success.
• Self-motivation makes you think ‘what next’ whenever faced with failures. It reminds you that failure is only a comma not a full stop.
• It reduces absenteeism and labor turnover in organizations thus increasing performance and productivity.
• It creates conducive work environment.
• It saves time, money and energy.
• It brings all round progress and prosperity for individuals and institutions.
Secrets of Self-Motivation:
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale
Dream big: You need to think big always which is possible only when you dream big. Dreams will drive you to go to any extent. Your efforts and energies towards your goals totally depend on your level of dreams. Sigmund Freud rightly quoted, “Man dreams only that which he has the ability to achieve.”
Set a roadmap: Mere having dreams will not pay off unless you have blueprint towards achieving the same. The blueprint should be so planned that it should be realistic and practical to achieve. Find out what are your inborn talents and combine the same with the skills and abilities that you acquired through training, practice and experience.
Be a firm optimist: When you develop positive attitude round the clock you tend to have positive results. This positive thought process leads to positive actions by blocking negative aspects. It drives you towards achieving your goals by looking at the brighter side of life.
You are unique: Begin everyday with new expectations and aspirations. Stay away from negative thoughts and negative people. Accept the fact that you are unique and cannot be compared with others. Have a firm faith that you were born to achieve big in this world.
Involve in internal dialogue: This is a powerful tool where in your talk to yourself and reinforce yourself. Internal dialogue helps in strengthening your subconscious mind by feeding with right inputs.
Pursue your passions: Passion is a burning desire coming from the core of your heart. It is like your heart prevailing over your mind. It is all about doing what you love to do. Find out what interests you and work on it. It propels you in moving forward despite several odds stacked against you.
Set your goals: Sheila Murray Bethel quotes, "One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go." When you set your goals based on your desires, you develop positive attitude towards life and your mind is engaged in a right way. You will have a clearer vision about what you want to do for planning your mission. Break the goals into short term and long term and link both in such a way that they should be correlated and interconnected without any contradiction. As you achieve your goals you get self-motivated. Even if there is failure in accomplishing your short term goals due to external disturbances, the long term goals will hold you firmly with faith thus motivating you forever.
Break your goals: When you feel that your goal is too big, make it into small and keep achieving it one by one. Once you achieve a small goal you get motivated over your achievement and will be driven to work further and forward. When you complete all sub-goals confidently then you will be excited to know that you have achieved your big goal successfully.
Consistency is the key: Chuck Norris says, "If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen." Put your efforts and energies in a systematic and focused manner without looking for results frequently. Your objective is to put in efforts regularly. Consistency with a firm commitment is the key to self-motivation and success.
Manage your time: Learn to manage your time effectively and efficiently by allocating specific time for each activity. Invest your time on daily basis for each activity without encroaching into other activities. Avoid procrastination. Delaying the activities will result into lethargy and piling up the activities resulting into stress.
High energy levels: Always maintain high energy levels. Take good and nutritious food. Avoid junk food. Take food at regular intervals everyday. Hit gym or go for fast walking to lift your energy levels. High energy levels will keep you highly motivated.
Focus on solutions, not problems: Never focus too much on problems. Generally, people brood over the problems and waste their precious time. Look for solutions towards the problems. It is rightly said that below average people talk about individuals, average people talk about events, issues and problems and above average people always talk about ideas and solutions.
Spend time with loved ones: When you spend your time weekends with your family and friends you rejuvenate your energies. You create and strengthen your emotional bonding. When you spend your time one day in a week with your spouse, you develop better understanding by sharing you feelings and emotions. Similarly, when you spend a day in a week with your children you share your love with them thereby building bridges. Besides, you can educate as well as develop them as individuals with strong character with values. You can also play with kids as they are innocent and lovely. It removes your stress and fills you with self-motivation.
Never give up: Walter Sparrow, Now and Then, says, “Things will happen in your life that you can’t stop, but that’s no reason to shut out the world. There’s a purpose for the good and for the bad." Hold on to your cherished goals and objectives. There will be several challenges while executing your tasks throwing you out of the gear. Be firm and strong and ensure that the things are put on the right and fast track. It is rightly said, winners don’t quit and quitters never win.
Conclusion:
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."- Henry David Thoreau
Self-motivation helps you in achieving anything you desire. Channel your burning desire to achieve whatever you want. When you are enthusiastic and excited about what you are doing and when you are motivated, committed and dedicated you are sure to achieve success. Make a resolution to motivate one individual everyday. Make a difference in the lives of people. To conclude, self-motivation gears you to accomplish your desires for achieving all-round success. It is a bridge between your dreams and realities.
The End
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