Saturday, November 4, 2017

365 Excitement Ways to Live: Excitement # 105. Focus on: Attitude, Lack of Time, Effort, Speed!

Focus on: Attitude, Lack of Time, Effort, Speed

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self respect leads to self discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Clint Eastwood

If you want to be fast, you have to be brisk in mind. Your behaviour is only external. What causes your behaviour is your attitude. Without changing your attitude, you cannot change your pace of work. In order to change your attitude, from slow to fast, you have to move with people who share that attitude. You should have people who are brisk and fast as your role model.
Lack of training is another reason for a slow pace of work. Do you remember when you first learnt how to type `a s d f g h l k j h j'?  Were you not struggling to locate where those letters are on the keyboard? But, did you not pick up the speed due to continuous training and practice? Now you can type a whole page without looking at the keyboard. The secret to speed is: practice, practice, practice!
Without effort you cannot improve your speed of work. It is not merely a good intention to improve your productivity. Your good intention should be combined with adequate effort level.
If you are in competition with someone, who is more effective than you, should you not be faster? You should keep your ears and eyes open to know how others are performing in your field. If you don't know, that is what I mean by ignorance, which is the fifth reason why you are not fast enough.

I heard a story of a rabbit and a cheetah to explain these five factors standing in our way to speedy work. Do you want to know?  Read on!
(From my book '365 Excitement Ways to Live')
NC Sridharan
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Thursday, November 2, 2017

365 Exciting Ways to Live: Excitement # 104. Life is a gift of God! Enjoy it!

 Life is a gift of God! Enjoy it!

"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."
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Mahatma Gandhi

We have to understand the above quotation in the right perspective. Life is not to be lived with a stop clock in hand. We have to enjoy life in all its dimensions. But, at the same time, we need to deliver the results expected from us in time.
In the highly competitive world, people are hard pressed for their valuable time. These days we have more things to do than our grand fathers had. They did not have to travel this much; they did not have so many entertainment channels to watch etc.  In short, they lived a simple life style. But, most of us like a fast life and we need to speed up.
If we have to enjoy life, we have to complete many activities in time and in the shortest period of time.  We have to be much faster and quicker. Our output per unit of time has to be much more than in the past. This is called the personal productivity factor.

When you manage the demands on your time tactfully, you will have more quality time to enjoy!
(From my book '365 Excitement Ways to Live')
NC Sridharan
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