#selfgrowth #followyourself #changefor yourself
We spend too much time worrying about things on which we have control, stuff that we can nothing about. instead, focus on things we can change. And do it proactively, before we are forced to do something about it. expand the circle of influence.
2. BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
If we dont know where we want to go, how we ever get there? Envision your future using both logic and imagination. Let it be based on principles. Write down your own mission statements. Imagine what your friends, family, colleagues, community will tell about you in your funeral. What would you want them to say? Write it all down.
3. PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST
List down everything you want to do. Yo will see that they fall into four categories.
> Important and nol urgent Not >important and urgent Not >important and not urgent
Once you put them in the matrix, you know what to do.
Sooner or later, we realise that we not only owe a lot to the society we live in, we also understand that our success depends on others success. Life is not a zero sum game. When we make it a habit to see how others also can benefit from our actions, from our decisons, we are better off for that. The world is too connected for us to think win:lose.
5.SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD
Even when you are arguing with your opponents, it is a good form to first understand their arguments and try to express them even better than they can. It is even more important when we are interacting with our friends, colleagues and other collabosators. Listen, understand, and only then, open your mouth.
Synergy changes the conventional math. 2 and 2 is not 4, but 5 or 6 or 7. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Teamwork If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, team up.
7. SHARPEN THE SAW Abraham Lincoln said: Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Your axe is your body, mind and soul. Run. Exercise. Study. MeditateSEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD
Even when you are arguing with your opponents, it is a good form to first understand their arguments and try to express them even better than they can. It is even more important when we are interacting with our friends, colleagues and other collabosators. Listen, understand, and only then, open your mouth.