Thursday, February 21, 2013

Awaken The Leader in You


Key – 1 : Know Your Purpose
  • An Idea without Purpose is meaningless
  • An Action without Purpose is meaningless
  • A Life without Purpose is meaningless
  • No Purpose, You go nowhere
  • Find a Mentor (Somebody who has already achieved success in your field)
  • ASK (Always Seek Knowledge)
  • Seeking Knowledge is obligatory
  • Go back to the basic (i.e. read the book)
  • Sharpen Your Axe
  • Study autobiographies of Great Leaders (but do not copy them)
  • Without Purpose you perish
  • For anything you do, there must be a Purpose
  • Don’t be a Wanderer
  • Don’t get lost in the crowd
  • Have a clear Vision
  • You are responsible for where you are today
  • Past is past, your present is the decision you made in the past, your future depends on the decision you make now
  • Your decision today takes you to what you want to be, have and do
  • You are accountable for your time, wealth, health, your family, team, what you speak, how you treat others and your surroundings

Key – 2 : Identify Your Strength
  • Don’t be like an elephant
  • Don’t be shy, ask for feedback
  • Find a coach
  • Turn your weakness into strength
  • Ask yourself: Am I fair? Do I take responsibilities? Do I listen carefully? Do I care about other people? Am I honest? Am I willing to debate? Do people trust me? Do I take things personally?
  • What do I need to improve?
  • Doubt, anxiety, fear and worries are non-existing
  • Stop excuses
  • Have faith
  • No faith, you go nowhere
  • Without faith we perish

Key – 3 : Have a Vision
  • If Purpose is “WHY?” Vision is “Where?”
  • What is your vision statement
  • Focus on you Vision
  • Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want
  • Focus helps to manage your time
  • Focus helps to prioritize your task (first thing first)
  • If you want everything you get nothing
  • Set your goals
  • Make it SMART – Specific, Measurable, Attainable (Achievable), Relevant and Time bound
  • Always take baby steps
  • Motivate your team
  • Lead your team from front
  • Push your team from back
  • Visualize your vision (see it, smell it, feel it in your gut)
  • Help your team see what you see!

Key – 4 : Dream Big
  • Remove the lid of your mind
  • Think big like a lion
  • Be bold and unrealistic
  • Feed positive thoughts
  • What you think is what you become
  • Whatever mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve (Napoleon Hill)
  • It is hard to beat a guy when he believes that he is going to win (Muhammad Ali)
  • Believe in your strength and past success
  • Every reality begins with a dream, thought or idea
  • Every reality leads to a new dream, thought and idea
  • Dream is not what you see in sleep, dream is the thing which does not let you sleep (A.P.J Abdul Kalam)

Key – 5 : Challenge Your Limits
  • Before you challenge the world, challenge yourself
  • Do not run away from responsibilities
  • Face challenges
  • Be a doer, not a dreamer
  • Challenges, problems, difficulties, blocks, hindrance, complications, hurdle, barrier, obstacles all are made to make you stronger
  • For every negative there is a positive
  • For every night there is a day
  • For every down there is up
  • For every failure there is a success
  • For every loser there is a winner
  • Your decision in life makes you a winner or a loser
  • Winners play to win, losers play not to lose
  • Winners take calculated risk, losers take no risk
  • Winners do things differently
  • Just-do-it
  • Move from your comfort zone
  • Move from your secure zone
  • Keep pushing yourself forward
  • Be daring, bold and fearless
  • See opportunity ahead of you
  • Feel uncomfortable
  • If you feel comfortable, you miss the opportunity
  • Wherever there is a problem, there is an opportunity
  • Turn the wall of fear & failure to wall of opportunity
  • Seize the opportunity

Key – 6 : Be a Champion of Change
  • Be flexible
  • Appreciate newness
  • Be curious
  • Know what’s happening around you
  • Renew, learn and change
  • If you want to change your future, you must change
  • If you don’t change, you become outdated
  • If you change everything will change
  • Change your belief system
  • Change “No, Don’t and Can’t” to “Yes, I can and I will”
  • Kill your negative talk
  • Get rid of old thoughts, believes, habits that no longer serve you
  • If you think you will fail, you will fail
  • If you think you will never get what you want, you will never get what you want
  • If you think you are financially broke, you are broke
  • If you think you are fat, you are fat
  • You get what you focus on

Key – 7 : Perseverance
  • Have patience
  • Good thing comes to those who wait
  • Things will happen when you are ready
  • Build stamina to withstand blows
  • Condition yourself to take the hit
  • Discipline yourself
  • Stretch beyond your limits
  • To be good, you need to practice
  • Longest journey starts with a single step
  • Have determination
  • Get up and fight
  • Never give up
  • Never quit
  • Keep trying
  • Break all barriers
  • Winners don’t quit, quitters don’t win
  • Do be like a carrot that become soft and not like an egg that becomes hard, be like a coffee bean that changes completely when boiled in water
  • I hated every minute of training, but I said “Don’t Quit” – suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion (Muhammad Ali)

Key – 8 : Follow your Passion
  • Don’t forget to focus internally
  • Focus on your inner stimulus
  • Don’t fall in the trap of fast-track
  • Information is good, but too much information is meaningless
  • Be busy but find time to live
  • Take time to do what you love doing
  • Doing what you love, makes you happy
  • You also make others happy
  • Find out what is that you love doing, something easy for you hard for others
  • The more impact you create in the market place the more success you become.

Key – 9 : Be Humble & Truthful
  • Ask am I humble or arrogant?
  • Nobody want to follow someone arrogant
  • Humble yourself as a child – be of service
  • Be humble – give away credit
  • No ego, no envious, no jealous
  • Forgive and forget
  • Be curious like a child
  • Be hungry and thirsty like a child (for knowledge)
  • Always improve yourself
  • Humbleness will make you truly interested in people
  • You learn from them
  • You listen to them, you become effective listener (No.1 communication tool)
  • Be like a magnet – attract (influence) followers
  • They become interested in you and listen to you
  • Live in truth
  • Honor your words
  • Every time you break your words you lose power
  • Your word is like Gold – Honor it
  • Do what you say and say what you do (Walk the Talk)

Key – 10 : Be a Giver
  • Leaders are givers
  • Rich are those who give not those who keep
  • The more you give the more you get
  • The more you teach the more you learn
  • If you want more love, respect, support and compassion - give more love, respect, support and compassion
  • Be a mentor for others
  • We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give
  • Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for entire life.

I just have to share this. Thank you, Daddy :) xx

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