Day-to-day self-developmental activities

• Managing time well will always help avoid troubles in many things
• We should try to better our interpersonal skills
• We should talk as less as possible
• We should try to develop certain physical and tangible skills on a continuous basis
• To sell those skills in the market, we should possess a strong mind and a hardy body
• A healthy mind will help make a healthy body
• Negative reactions in the mind will create negative chemical recations in the physique , resulting into illnesses
• An ill body can not enjoy the abundant beauties of Nature and the grand creations of God
• We need a cool , relaxed and beautiful mind to enjoy life in variety of dimensions
• We must have a spirit of sacrifice and hard work to enjoy life
• We should be able to create POWERFUL THINKING to empower ourselves to do better in life
• Our thinking only creates barrier to our growth and development
• We are victims of our limited thinking
• We should try to be creative to be happier
• Through self-control and discipline, we truly build our happiness
• Our sincerity defines our state of happiness

How to motivate the self for hard work and higher achievements of life

• Central idea is to self-motivate yourself for harder work
• We have to work harder with our visions and goals, selflessly
• There are infinite sources of motivation around us, including movies, pictures, writings, magazines, newspapers that can act as the biggest motivators for all of us
• By eliminating lethargy and laziness, we can work harder & get results
• For eliminating laziness and lethargy, we need to take regular exercises in the form of yoga, breathing exercises such as Pranayam, and meditation
• There are miracles that happen, when we put our best efforts continuously
• Continuity of our hard work will result into miracles in our lives
• Motivate yourself from today to work harder
• Final fruits of hard labour will give us a lot of pleasure and satisfaction
• We live for pleasure and inner satisfaction
• If we expect better deals in our lives, we should prepare ourselves for higher achievements
• The real fault lies with our own selves
• We do not exert ourselves much and hence we do not achieve much

How to cope up with financial troubles and lead a happier life

• We should never overspend
• We should know our capacity and then make a decision to spend money
• We should not buy things on credit or loan except in cases which are essential to our lives
• We create troubles for ourselves by overspending on non-essential things
• We must be cool and calm to decide about what is absolutely essential for us
• To be happy, we should try our best to keep away from financial debts beyond our capacity
• To be successful we should realise that IT TAKES ALL TO MAKE A WORLD
• We should not suffer from 'ego' problems to be successful
• We should be able to win the hearts of the people around us by our behaviours with honesty, integrity and discipline
• We should be strict with people who display deliberate misconduct and indiscipline
• If we work harder, the final results will be pleasant and satisfying
• We should do ONE JOB AT A TIME  to get better results
• We should take care of our customers
• We should have enough patience to ignore the non-essentials
• The greatest quality in problem-solving is holding patience so that intensity of the problem reduces
• We should be master of our subjects so that we excel in our jobs

Making best use of my daily time

• Making efforts to change lifestyle, as per advice of my physician
• Trying to be a better teacher with qualities of professionalism
• Trying to manage time well
• Drinking 4 litres of water per day
• Avoiding non-vegetarian foods
• Trying to detoxify my body and mind on a daily basis
• Trying to improve my courage and confidence
• Trying to talk as less as possible
• Trying to give high quality services to my students
• Avoiding all types fast foods
• Devoting time for fitness improvement
• Trying to use my common sense
• Trying to excel on many matters
• Trying to apply the principle of DO IT NOW
• Trying to learn from my mistakes and also from that of others

Achieving personal excellence

• We need to be most regular in taking physical exercises
• Our feeling of happiness is dependent on our level of fitness
• We should work harder to perfect our ways of doing things
• We should continuously try to form better and effective habits in our daily lives
• Due to lack of will power and courage, I had lost many great opportunities in the past
• We should do some manual jobs everyday 
• We should pursue our hobbies for mental satisfaction
• We should build up tenacity and determination to execute our daily plans
• We should produce results
• We should shake off all kinds of laziness and lethargy to excel in our jobs
• We should take special care of our health parameters
• We should try to apply the principle of DO IT NOW
• We should set higher standards of performance for ourselves to do better
• Everyday we should try to evolve as a better and stronger person internally
• We should stick to our plans
• We should take care of COST CONTROL
• We should slowly come out of unregulated lifestyles, if any
• We should follow the principle of BE YOUR OWN BOSS

To be spiritual !

• We should read scriptures and follow the art of living stated therein
• Only science and technology can never address the problems of life and living
• We should control our senses and desires by acquisition of true spiritual knowledge
• We should slowly be  free from ego, sex, power and money (ESPM) factors to realize the higher truths of life and existence
• We should surrender the fruits of our hard labour to God to be truly happy
• We should be selfless...
• We should be detached...
• We should have unconditional devotion to God and His Divine Creations...
• Spirituality only creates a kind of permanent peace and happiness that goes beyond mundane pleasures and pleasure-seeking attitudes...

Spiritual living for peace and happiness

Burning issues are :

• Disinterestedness
• Detachment
• Devotion
• True knowledge of the contents of Holy Book such as The Bhagavad Gita of the Hindu religion will pacify our minds
• Devotion to God is the source of highest pleasure and happiness in life
• Spiritual living is the real medicine for all of us
• God is the real doer and we are just playthings at the hand of God
• Faith is the cure for all troubles
• Relativistic perceptions are the barriers to the path of universality
• Mindless pursuit of material possessions and pleasure will ruin any society
• Happy society can be built by controlling the evil forces in our inner minds through training the minds on morality,honesty, spirituality, peace, kindness, compassion, service to humanity, brotherhood, welfare of the common man, ethics, protecting environment, plantation of trees, value-based politics, art, culture and the spirit of non-violence

Self-management and happiness

• We should exercise self-control and self-restraint in all matters to remain happy
• Hard work with set goals will reduce mental burden, worries, tension of various types
• We should learn to filter out various non-essential sights and sounds
• Body, mind and soul should work together for a meaningful purpose
• We should try to be as flawless as possible to be happy
• Interpersonal relations occupy a central place for being happy and peaceful
• We should filter out the major garbage of  interpersonal interactions
• We should train our minds to be at peace with our inner selves
• Through spiritual and God-dependent living philosophy, we can eliminate our mental garbage to feel the Omnipresence of God in all affairs of life and living
• Through prayers and meditation, we can realise deeper truths of life and hence modify our lifestyle to lead a spiritual life
• Through regular breathing exercises, we can be relieved of minor and major ailments
• Mind control is of great help to lead a better and disease-free life
• We can control our minds by regular practice of yoga, breathing exercise and meditation
• Through practice of meditation, we learn the art of controlling our fake, temporary, transitory and illusory desires & pleasure-seeking attitudes
• We learn how to feel happy with our inner selves through realisation of truths by regular practice of meditation
• Yoga, breathing exercise and meditation can relieve of all types of lifestyle disorders and diseases & save us huge medical bills
• Modern doctors and hospitals are exploiting common people in millions of dollars, as people are not trained on yoga, breathing exercises and meditation
• Lack of true knowledge is the main trouble here

Areas of self-improvement

• Being patient and tolerant is the greatest human quality. We should inculcate the habit of being patient and tolerant about anything. 
• All kinds of troubles and conflict arises out of the deep-rooted greed and strongest desires for EGO-SEX-POWER-MONEY(ESPM) factors of living a life
• To ensure a better living, we must seek appropriate knowledge and its applications in real life
• We should seek knowledge, skills, competence and efficiency in our daily life
• Knowledge is power.
• If we have true knowledge and skills, we shall be winners today or tomorrow with the help of right kind of hard work and sincerity
• We should update and up grade ourselves on a continuous basis
• We should keep track of the latest happenings
• We should learn the art of living and apply the same in our daily lives
• Timeliness of the factors such as food, water, rest and sleep, working hours really matter to evolve as a stronger and successful personality
• Laziness and lethargy are our gretaest enemies of our lives
• What we achieve is the result of our hard work, patience and sincerity
• Self-help is the best help. We should be as independent  as possible in all our activities
• We should be result-oriented
• We should waste time in criticising others.
• We should focus our energies in meaningful creative activities to keep ourselves  happy
• We should not seek or run after  happiness, but we should devote our time and energy in productive activities so that the consequences of our work become pleasing
• We should manage time well
• We should try to improve ourselves on a continuous basis
• We should never stop learning
• We should try to develop our strengths and reduce our weaknesses on a continuous basis

Think clearly, your actions will be well-defined and productive

• We should learn how to think clearly. We should train our minds to think systematically and logically so that consequent actions are productive & fruitful.
• Between actions , we should take a break or pause & set our strategy for the next job
• We should follow the principle of ONE JOB AT A TIME
• We should have a clear vision about our tangible goals for the day
• Having a vision is a prerequisite for having a mission in life
• We should try to be good workers who can produce desired results
• The world around us is highly competitive and hence to survive and excel we need to build a special mindset for WINNING UNDER STIFF COMPETITION
• To win, we need to possess right kind of tenacity and determination
• To progress steadily, we need to work harder, otherwise we are bound to lose our present customers

Drastic changes in lifestyle needed for me

• I need to rise early in the morning for devoting more time for physical exercise
• I need to drink more water to detoxify my body
• I shall be taking primarily vegetarian foods only
• I require special care of liver, pancreas, lungs and digestive functions from now onwards
• I need to work harder on academics
• I need to systematise all my daily activities by applying will-force
• I have to work harder to achieve personal excellence in the favourite domains
• I need companions of more creative people

Everyday is a new day: we should see newer persons in ourselves for managing everyday as a new day

• Life brings us new challenges, struggles everyday. We should remain mentally prepared to face those challenges.
• Moods are varying and perceptions are different.
• We should be able to enjoy moment of our lives by taking meaningful actions
• Everyday, we should try to change for the better
• Change in our own selves is most important, as we can hardly change the world around us.
• Change must start with the self
• We should try to form better and effective habits so that all of activities are totally systematised
• We should try to enhance our creativity everyday by doing some deeper thinking and extracting the golden thoughts from our inner minds
• We should live one day at a time
• We should set our goals for a day and stick to them
• We should take time to laugh and smile
• We should try to super-specialise in our field of activities
• We should try to devote enough for saying our daily prayers
• We should set our priorities for a day and carry out required activities
• We should try to follow the principle of DO IT NOW 
• We should not hurt feelings of others
• We should be friendly
• Friendlier we are, more peaceful life will be
• A well-behaved person is the real winner in life

Think Big & then act big too

• Everything is there in our mental state
• We are what we think we are
• Thinking makes the man
• Change of mind changes the total perspectives of things around us
• All kinds of actions originate from mental functioning and mind & its actions are of paramount importance in the lives of a human being
• Remove negativity from the mind by a mental filter
• Be positive and feel the difference
• In this world , hard work is the route to success and prosperity

Building health and happiness through personal efforts

• Let us hold on to basic honesty and integrity to be relaxed and happy 
• Give enough time to fitness activities with regularity and consistency
• Put your best efforts in what you are doing
• Talk in a measured manner
• Don't waste energy
• Maintain a balanced rest-work cycle
• Modify lifestyle, if you feel so
• Be mentally strong and physically stout to be free from illnesses
• Say your daily Prayers to the Almighty
• Help people , whenever possible
• Control your anger and other negative emotions
• Be balanced
• Be the change agent for bringing positive changes in the lives of others
• Set examples before others
• Be cool, calm and confident
• Take time to build up skills, knowledge and good attitudes
• Be slow but steady
• Have a pleasant and smiling face
• Go slow on matters of critical affairs of life and living
• Plan, Decide and Act with courage and confidence

Survival of the fittest is true for real life professionals

• We should be fit in body, mind and spirituality
• We should work hard to keep the body fit
• In a fit lies a fit and alert mind
• Body and mind should go together
• A healthy mind helps keep a healthy body, as our mental processes have great effects on bodily chemical changes
• All kinds of happiness can be enjoyed and felt only in a fit body

Learning from the mistakes of others will save us a lot of time

• We should definitely learn from own mistakes. I had serious problems about revising my written documents and I used to send them without checking for flawlessness. I have now improved on this front.
• We should not repeat our mistakes. We should be very strict on our own selves.
• Lessons from our own mistakes should be our real life guides
• Observe others closely and hence learn from their actions. You will save reading a lot many books
• Life is an open book
• Let us learn from our surroundings and apply the same in our practical lives
• Without proper applications, your knowledge has little value
• Be your own boss
• Listen to your inner voice
• Be independent in thinking, developing ideas and applying ideas into daily practice
• Follow the good qualities of others
• Appreciate quality in others
• Be yourself
• Develop your own unique style of thinking and taking actions
• Imitating others is foolish
• Try to develop strong common sense
• Be the doer and you will discover your newer self
• If one is a good worker, you don't need to oil other people for anything
• Our actions are our real identities
• Keep the sense of humour alive to live a happier life
• Don't forget to smile and laugh
• Keep some aside for relaxation and entertainment
• Your true identity shall finally be what actually do or perform
• To be happy, try to understand spiritual philosophies deeply  for your own peace

I am trying to change myself on many fronts

• Being punctual
• Leading from the front
• Doing creative thinking and changing my working style
• Being productive
• Home work for doing excellent jobs
• Being inspired to work harder
• Being more energetic by doing physical exercise & meditation
• Trying to be a good and responsible teacher for personal satisfaction
• Innovative and interactive teaching methodologies
• Trying to build a mindset for working harder in my domain
• I must improve my health parameters
• I must exercise self-control and self-restraint on the lifestyle issues
• I should devote more time on the subjects of my study
• I should read books for self-inspiration and self-motivation
• I must admit that Breathing Exercises are helping me lot about feeling more comfortable with myself
• I must devote more on self-correctional activities
• I must be more systematic and organised
• I should be doer
• I need better preparations for the lectures to be delivered
• I need to improve my lecturing style

Through devoted hard work, we purify our hearts

• The more work we do, the more purified we become
• More purified our hearts are, we become more straight-forward and honest & happier too
• Our words will flow out of hearts. These words are really powerful.
•  We evolve as more powerful personalities, if make a habit of using our hearts
• We should become better workers everyday & passing our times will be smooth and less painful
• Our spiritual realisations will follow slowly through our devoted works
• Evil thoughts will vanish through constant hard work
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Through devoted hard work, we purify our hearts

• The more work we do, the more purified we become
• More purified our hearts are, we become more straight-forward and honest & happier too
• Our words will flow out of hearts. These words are really powerful.
•  We evolve as more powerful personalities, if make a habit of using our hearts
• We should become better workers everyday & passing our times will be smooth and less painful
• Our spiritual realisations will follow slowly through our devoted works
• Evil thoughts will vanish through constant hard work
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I should prepare myself for harder work

• Mental preparation is most urgent
• We require a special mindset to work harder
• Our attitudes are the main barriers to building a clear strategy for working harder
• We can enjoy a great day by working harder. When immersed in action, we forget about the outer world and be free from many garbage
• We must clean out the mental garbage first
• Most of our thoughts are quite unnecessary non-essentials and we can safely filter out those rubbish and engage in more meaningful activities
• Let us be more productive by doing creative thinking in between the sessions of working hard
• Let us manage time well
• Creative thinking sessions will help us modify our approaches towards whatever we execute
• Fault lies within us when we fail to be excellent in anything
• We forget that practice makes man perfect
• The more practice we can do, the better we shall be
• Being excellent in a field gives us a lot of satisfaction and pleasure
• We should build a high pressure on ourselves to be excellent
• We should be responsible for our personal excellence activities and personal effectiveness & leadership qualities
• Without setting real life examples, we can not expect to be good leaders
• Good leaders are basically good workers having large number of followers
• Our followers will judge us from many angles and hence should pass all such subjective examinations
• We are continuously be observed and examined by a lot of people around us & we should pass those examinations with high marks
• There are many eyes who closely observe our behaviours and actions
• We should build a good and strong personality which can win hearts of people and inspire them to take up meaningful actions
• Many of my old friends are highly established in the society. They are real professionals in their approaches towards spending their times. They value time. They are punctual.These people are very stringent about keeping professional commitments. They are used to hard work and punctuality. Many of them have to attend duties on Sundays too. They are not academically so brilliant people, but they possess extraordinary tenacity to work harder for their organisations.
• We should keep our words, otherwise we should avoid giving any commitment to anybody.
• We should also be rough and tough at times to get things done
• Let us remind ourselves that a day's harder work will surely make us happy at the end of the day
• If we can put our best efforts, the results shall definitely be encouraging in the long run
• Life is a marathon, not a 100 metres race
• We should be slow, but steady in our defined mission and consequent actions
• Let us enjoy each day through our thoughts, actions and words, holding on to basic honesty and integrity

Mental concentration will lead to personal excellence

• For doing a job excellently, we must be completely focused on the same
• Focusing is possible, if we try to increase our mental concentration
• Our minds are constantly moving from one object to other. It is natural, but such vacillation of the mind leads to no good things in life.
• The best way to improve our power of concentration is daily session of meditation
• We should choose morning time for meditation and we should totally alone in a quiet place/room
• Meditation can be learned from the experts
• Meditation should help us improve both concentration and memory
• Yogic exercises drastically improves our mental peace
• If we can learn the art of focusing our minds, we shall be much ahead of others in terms of level of performance
• Yoga and meditation can help us change our attitudes towards life in general
• Yoga and meditation will definitely help us reduce our mental burden, worries, tension etc. & we shall be able to lead a happier life
• Yoga and meditation will surely bring us peace, harmony and happiness 

Experience is the greatest teacher in my life

• I have seen and interacted with some very good managers in course of my professional working experience
• Managers are very good self-managers
• A good manager will surely possess a charismatic personality
• Good managers are excellent communicators too
• The biggest characteristic of a good manager is a balanced interpersonal relationships
• All the important activities are well documented
• They are good managers of time
• They are excellent decision-makers
• Fast and accurate decisons are taken
• They are all well-read persons
• They continuously upadte and up grade themselves on the latest happenings in their fields of activities
• They possess high powers of intuitive understanding of things around him or her
• Managers possesses the following basic qualities:

Intuitive wisdom

Domain knowledge and expertise

Technical expertise

Excellent communication

Ability to inspire others to actions

Excellent personal discipline

Charisma

Self-driven style of working

Proactiveness

Ability of taking initiatives

Ability of analysing things

Diagnostic abilities

Courage of taking important decisions

Being responsible 

Ability of creative and innovative thinking

Practical common sense

A balanced and hardy personality

Challenges of self-management

• It requires a lot of hard work and tenacity to prepare ourselves for the battle of life and living
• Before establishing oneself as leader and manager, we must be just excellent in self-management activities
• We should do do physical and breathing exercises everyday to keep fit
• We should constantly ask ourselves : Am I fit ?
• Let us prepare a list of what needs to be done in the domain of self-management
• If we seek personal excellence, we should be mentally prepared to suffer hardships and pain
• Self Management is the ultimate thing at the personal level
• Self-management starts with physical and mental fitness and then management of the day's time
• Time management occupies the central place 
• The greatest assets in life are fresh air, quality drinking water, fresh vegetables, trees and plants, balanced diet and physical exercises
• I try to manage my time to watch vidoes on physical training for motivating the self to do exercises
• I try to listen to good songs and music to feel inner peace
• I spend some part of the day alone to listen to my inner voice
• Good management of the self should begin with proactiveness about actions to be taken
• We should prioritise our jobs
• We must decide what is urgent and what is important for us & then we should take appropriate actions based on priority or urgency
• We should learn from the mistakes of ours as well as that of others
• We should enrich our minds with newer thoughts
• We should expand our minds to the vast storehouse of knowledge  to enhance our creativity and power of innovation
• We should read good books and then to apply what the great minds instruct us
• Instead of ifnding faults with others, we must try to improve ourselves on a continuous basis
• We must listen to people who matter in our lives
• We should enhance our personality factors on a continuous basis
• We should try to form good habits to increase our productivity and effectiveness
• Personal effcetiveness is the ultimate aim one should have
• Personal effectiveness and excellence are the foundations of any professional
• We should try hard to build an integrated personality
• Integrated personality means having a broad philosophy of life with deep consideration of wellness, happiness, sacrifice, ethics, morality, social values, universal brotherhood,respect for others, and a continuous process self-enrichment and development

Hard work has no alternative

• Like 'action and reaction', our work will produce some results in some form or the other
• In every quality product, we find hard work in embedded form
• We should have the right kind of determination and tenacity to stick to our decisions
• We should be disciplined to be able to produce tangible outputs
• We should work and take the feedback from the results to fine-tune various aspects of our methodologies and processes
• We should continuously improve ourselves 
• We should be flexible about changing ourselves for the better
• We should learn continuously to improve ourselves
• We should have good command over our subjects of specialisation
• We should earn money through hard work and dedication, not by bluffs
• We should not stop till our goals are reached
• We should try to build health and fitness so that we can face the hardships and struggles of living a life
• We must have enough entertainment in our personal lives for a balanced living
• We should try to finish our jobs in time
• We should not have any inferiority complexes, as it can retard our actual performance
• We should be confident about our abilities
• We should maintain basic human dignity in all affairs of life and living
• We should believe that we are really good and excellent in certain jobs
• We should identify our key talents and apply them in practical uses
• We should be practical in our approach
• We must respect opinions of others
• One of my friends got suspended from his job for his stark outspokenness with a top-management person. To be outspoken, we should think twice, as people at the top are allergic to truths and reality. Their brains are locked to something else like falsehood and cheating
• The best thing in life is to LIVE ONE DAY AT A TIME
• 'Everyday is a new day' should be our core idea in doing things
• LIVING IN THE PRESENT will cure many of our ills
• DO IT NOW will cure many diseases
• Most of our problems in our minds
• A healthy and strong mind will cure us of many physical illnesses

Human Characteristics for being successful

• being cool
• being calm in all situations
• being self-confident
• having enough courage
• having knowledge, skills and attitudes of the right kind
• being updated on relevant information
• pursuing personal excellence
• not to stop learning
• having patience and self-control
• being professional in execution of jobs
• managing time well
• putting one's best efforts to get things done
• leading by examples
• walking the talk
• bench-marking with the best in the world
• to follow the principle of "practice makes man perfect"
• behaving well with one and all
• ability of taking vital decisions
• being responsible and accountable for all relevant actions
• well-defined roles and responsibilities
• being open to newer ideas, concepts and theories
• competing with the best
• ability to withstand criticism/crisis/emergencies
• deep understanding of the field of Human Psychology

Peace in the society

• An individual should attain peace and happiness for the society to be peaceful
• True knowledge should come from education
• Education must enforce discipline, peace, morality, ethics and good governance
• A truly good educational system should inculcate virtues of discipline, law, ethics, management , history, geography, politics, sociology, art and culture  along with the basic knowledge of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry , Biology in the young minds
• A teacher needs to live by examples
• Teachers should be highest preference in the society
• We should always try to be better manager,administrator and governors of the social systems
• Exploitation must end to have greater peace and harmony in the society
• Laws should be enforced with impartiality
• We should pursue and promote excellence in various affairs of life, society and living
• We should respect excellence in people
• We should build a society on the principle of social justice, equality and inclusive growth
• We should be able to control people with abnormal psychology through enforce of laws and application of advanced medical science
• We should uphold Truth and Reality of life and existence
• Science can not address all problems of humanity, as human beings are not machines
• We should go beyond sciences to address human problems
• The greatest needs of a common man, such as food, water,housing, roads, transportation, electricity should be addressed by the administrators
• Politics, muscle power and corruption should be the breeding grounds of the criminals
• Exploitation should end
• We should enough power to control the evil designs of the few

Spirituality is the highest human virtue

• In management affairs, we can apply spirituality
• Spirituality defines the core philosophies of living and existence of a human being on the earth
• If a person is spiritually developed, he will have a more balanced philosophy of life and living
• A spiritually oriented individual will always adopt certain great qualities such as non-violence, tolerance, brotherhood, compassion, kindness, affection and detachment towards the material entanglements
• A spiritual person will always a good fellow who surrenders majority of the things to God's will, and he will always be a person of discipline and love
• Spirituality drives us to ethical actions and meaningful actions that lead to the greater welfare of the society
• There are three most visible factors in the lives of a spiritual personality: detachment, disinterestedness and devotion
• We should note that all ills of a society originate from attachment to material enjoyments and greed for money, wealth and sex
• Self control is the biggest quality of a spiritual being
• Unconditional love is the greatest asset of a spiritually oriented person
• God is everything, and on His Will we take birth and die, we should understand
• God is omnipresent and Omniscient
• God is compassionate and hence we all should try to be compassionate towards all His creations
• A spiritual man is respected for the great virtues such as sacrifice, wisdom, compassion and friendliness
• Spirituality means God-dependent living styles 
• God only can give us peace, happiness and prosperity through His kind blessings
• We should always seek the blessings of God through our silent prayers
• We should sacrifice the fruits of our labour to God and we should not be much  attached to the material aspects of living to be happy
• More greedy & lustful  we are, more will life be painful
• We should try to cleanse our mental garbage to be spiritual
• God-dependent living is the vital aspect of spiritual living
• In the world of God, everything runs on automation

Setting examples for motivating others to action

• Leading by examples is the key to effective leadership
• Leadership styles decide effectiveness
• Personal effectiveness depends upon hard work inputs
• Set examples
• Be the doer
• Talk sense
• Be brief
• Expand your vision
• Have a mission in your present life
• Have a vision
• Have big dreams
• Think big to do big

Self-inspiration for being more productive

• Do not depend upon external sources of inspiration
• Inspire yourself to meaningful actions
• Train yourself up for achieving newer skills
• Be professional in approach, while carrying out your assigned duties
• Have faith in your abilities
• Be confident about what you do
• Build up health and fitness
• Do not over-burden your stomach
• Drink 4 litres of water in a day
• Be serious about your professional responsibilities
• Maintain timeliness in all your actions
• Build up mental concentration by doing breathing exercises and meditation
• Mental concentration is the ultimate thing in the life of human being
• Mental concentration can take us to excellence
• Try to be creative for anything you have to do
• Things worth doing should be done well
• Have a session of deepest thinking before undertaking any important activities
• Be self-reliant in most of the affairs of your activities
• Be a doer, not a talker only
• Be precise , brief, concise in your communication
• Build up trust, faith, honesty, integrity in your system of management
• Think deeply & take actions
• Try to be more productive

Art of living

• Divide your day's time into forenoon, afternoon and evening & carry out out various activities in order of priority
• "Do it now" should be our guiding principle
• Analyse and plan the jobs for improving productivity
• Verify facts and figures minutely
• Apply your brain to work out the finer details of the jobs to be performed
• Improve your efficiency by developing your core skills
• Take your decisions, freeze them and stick to them so that actual execution gets total clarity
• Distribute jobs to people as per their acquired skills
• Right people should do the right things at the right time
• Filter out the the rubbish and garbage from the brain
• Identify key persons in your team
• 'Fast and Accurate decision-making' is most urgent for any any manage
• Take your time to take stock of the situation and decide the path of action
• 'Who, Where, How, Why,What' are the fundamental questions we need to ask ourselves for getting things done
• Go slow and take care of the FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS' of the activities to be carried out
• Manage time properly
• Do not keep things hanging for a long time
• Every minute and every hour are important for any professional person
• Take opinions from others, but decision must be yours
• Plan, decide and act
• Try to have deeper understanding of  human psychology to be able to engage them in meaningful activities

We should have certain hard core managerial skills

• Skills are given as follows: 
• Strong communication skills
• We should master our subjects in our work domain
• We should be good organisers
• We should create an environment of trust, respect, faith, knowledge-sharing, high performance, excellence, discipline, responsibility, command and control
• We should be open to ideas
• We should nurture talents
• We should identify core resources to be optimally utilised
• We should take care of our finances and expenses
• We should decentralise activities by identifying talents
• We should be good planners of our assigned jobs and responsibilities
• We should maintain ethics and moral values in all circumstances
• We should uphold humanity and human dignity in all situations
• In opinions and attitudes, we should try hard to take the middle path
• We should try to avoid extreme views on any matter
• We should try to use our common sense and intelligence on our daily life
• We should be professional, in our dealing with the external world
• We should be driven by our faiths and convictions, and should be driven by others'
• We should cross-examine facts and figures minutely
• We should verify the spoken words before taking any action
• We should be doubly sure about facts and figures
• We should not be driven by hearsay and rumour
• We should be serious about our professional works and responsibilities
• We should avoid blaming others for our ineffective leadership 

Brief, precise, concise and clear communication is very important

• Communication is an art
• We should train ourselves on Effective Communication Skills to manage various affairs of public and private life
• Poor communication skills results into poor relationships, mismanagement, and misunderstanding
• A poor communicator is always a poor manager\
• We should communicate with clarity, brevity and appropriate wordings
• Good communication requires enthusiasm, energy, eye-contacts, convincing postures and mutual respect & trust
• We must communicate with emphasis on key words
• We should be brief and to the point
• A good communicator can be good leader, if he possesses right kind of knowledge, skills and attitudes
• We must have a set of positive attitudes
• We should be flexible and dynamic
• We should keep our words by doing real work in real time
• We should be able to build an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect in the work place
• We need execution of our plans in time
• We need self-confidence to communicate effectively
• We should change our communicative style, as per varying audiences and circumstances
• We should remember: STYLE IS THE MAN & HENCE WE SHOULD DEVELOP OUR OWN UNIQUE STYLE OF COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY
• We should not keep our jobs  pending for a long time
• We should communicate with 'zero shyness and hesitation', if we have clarity of concepts to be communicated
• 'Self help is the best help' should be our guiding principle in any matter

What makes a great life

• self-control
• self-discipline
• punctuality
• Systematic and organised way of carrying out our duties
• keeping words with people
• honesty and integrity
• ability of telling the bitter truths , as the situation demands
• ability of managing hard times
• cost control
• wastage reduction
• helping others as far as possible
• being cheerful and pleasant at work place
• ability of handling stress and pressure
• a good health
• a broad mind
• being dedicated to assigned duties

Self-developmental activities

• Build up new skills
• Acquire new attitudes and mindset to change positive changes
• Self-control is a great virtue
• Ignore the rubbish and be a doer
• We should never stop learning
• "giving our best efforts" is the key to achieving excellence in any domain
• "do it now" is a great self-management technique
• Sincerity has no alternative in the professional work place
• We should stick to honesty and integrity
• We should plan our day properly to make it productive
• There is no room for frustration in a profession
• We must acquire tenacity and determination to success and prosper
• We should not forget to use our brains
• We should be confident
• We should communicate effectively and with confidence

Fundamentals of productive behaviours at work-place

• Being self-motivated is the key to producing tangible outputs
• Being the symbol of positive changes
• Setting the examples
• Working harder for a cause
• Designing the job-contents in a planned manner
• Managing the time 
• Having a time-table
• Being punctual
• Doing the actual job
• Giving no excuses
• Walking the talk
• Being the change agent
• Inspire others to learn newer things
• Developing the skills
• Communicating well
• Giving the best efforts
• Being soft and sweet
• Using sense of humour
• Creating an environment of creativity and innovation

Survival of the fittest

• The fittest survives the ups and downs of life and living
• Without being fit and strong, we can not get due recognition of our actions
• It requires a lot of hard work and tenacity to build fitness
• I am presently struggling for my fitness
• Fitness needs pains to be taken
• We should be mentally prepared to accept hardships and struggle for fitness and strength
• Mental and physical strengths go together
• A healthier mind ensures a healthier body
• We should throw out negativity from our minds
• We can convert negativity into positives , if we can change our attitudes towards life
• Attitudinal change is the most important factor in bringing about drastic and long-lasting changes in our lives
• Try again and again is the only principle here
• We should change on a daily basis
• We should not up hopes
• We are bounded by our thinking abilities
• We should change our thinking to change our practical actions
• We should balance the theories and the practicals
• We should not be over-serious about happenings in life. We can also inject some sense of humour into life's serious aspects
• We should not be stressed, as far as possible 

Driving yourself to excellence

• hard work is essential
• timeliness is most urgent
• keep your commitments
• give your best efforts
• be ambitious
• set higher standards for yourself

Human behaviours in Managing

• Human complexity is the central theme of the act of managing
• We should understand Human Psychology very well
• In Management, we must accept that variety is the spice of life and living
• We should learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the people we work with
• We should be very confident about our core competencies and hard core skills
• We should know our weaknesses and limitations too
• We should be focused on our productive behaviours
• We should build a cheerful, pleasant , energetic and enthusiastic personality to be a leader-manager
• We should be able to build an environment of trust, faith and transparency
• We should create real motivation in the hearts of our co-workers
• We must admit that Motivation is the key to achieving excellence in any field
• Personal excellence matters in being able to inspire others to action
• At the end of the day, we should be satisfied with the fact that we had been really productive

Human behaviours in Managing

• Human complexity is the central theme of the act of managing
• We should understand Human Psychology very well
• In Management, we must accept that variety is the spice of life and living
• We should learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the people we work with
• We should be very confident about our core competencies and hard core skills
• We should know our weaknesses and limitations too
• We should be focused on our productive behaviours
• We should build a cheerful, pleasant , energetic and enthusiastic personality to be a leader-manager
• We should be able to build an environment of trust, faith and transparency
• We should create real motivation in the hearts of our co-workers
• We must admit that Motivation is the key to achieving excellence in any field
• Personal excellence matters in being able to inspire others to action
• At the end of the day, we should be satisfied with the fact that we had been really productive

Practice of Management in our daily lives

• We should divide our available time and resources judiciously
• Basic functions of managing:
• Planning
• Organising
• Staffing
• Directing
• Leading
• Motivating
• Coordinating
• Communicating
• Controlling
• We are supposed to deliver the goods through our planned actions
• We should focus on our primary objectives, goals and missions
• We should communicate effectively to get things done
• We should be optimistic about the abilities of people we are working with
• We should set examples through our meaningful actions to motivate and inspire others
• A good manager is always a person of energy, enthusiasm, sound health and an alert mind
• We should both do and get things done

Being at our natural best form

• We should obey natural laws and live with nature as far as possible
• Nature is beauty and we should try our best to live in natural environment
• Only Nature can give us peace and essentials of living
• Gardening is a great hobby, and we should try it in our lives
• Nature's greatest beauty lies in a garden only
• We should devote some of our spare time in gardening to derive mental peace and satisfaction
• Artificiality in living a hectic life results into mental vacuum and slowly we turn into money-earning machines
• We should not act like machines
• We should think deeply before we adopt a particular lifestyle
• One job at a time is the best answer for any professional
• We should allocate our time for various activities as well as association with the family members
• We should love our family first
• We should devote times for rest & relaxation, professional work,family, sense of humour, hobbies, physical exercise such as yoga, breathing exercise and meditation
• To keep going smoothly, we need inspiration and motivation
• Inspiration and motivation are our greatest assets in living a life. In absence of external sources of motivation and inspiration,we should be self-started and self-propelled
• If we are in a job, we should try to carry out our duties with sincerity and dedication
• We should try to develop alternative sources of income, beyond our present responsibilities
• We should also say our daily prayers to God, for our spiritual enlightenment and inner peace
• We should save potential energies in the body and mind to be able to use it in hard times
• We should manage our finances well
• We should never seek happiness in the externals of the world
• For achieving inner peace, we should practice meditation

Building reputation for business development

• It needs a lot of hard work and consistency
• Customer satisfaction is the ultimate thing in the world of business
• Customer is our GODs
• Service to our customers is our worship
• We must deliver services with quality and punctuality
• We must have patience, tolerance and tenacity to solve variety of problems
• We must use our brains well
• Be logical
• Apply scientific methods in all kinds of transactions
• Think beyond...
• Keep alternatives open
• Have a stand-by solution\
• Consult key people and take decisions
• Stick to your decisions and justify the same
• Give your best efforts
• Respect meritocracy
• Generate ideas and implement by taking one at a time
• One job at a time
• Manage time well
• Be professional
• Value time
• Allocate resources optimally
• Be productive through putting hard labour
• Be a little bit more ambitious
• Be confident and courageous in execution of your jobs
• Self-confidence is the ultimate thing in one's personality
• Be happy at the end of the day

We should introduce more professionalism in our daily activities

• Professionalism ensures competence in our assigned jobs
• Only the competent ones need to be in the work place
• One should be punctual
• Timeliness really matter in the delivery of goods and services
• One should maintain contractual obligations and relevant legal formalities
• One must obey ethical rules
• One should pursue excellence by setting higher standards of performance
• We should value time
• We must manage time well for the day's activities
• We should muster courage for telling the truths
• We should finally be doers at the end of the day
• We should assess our performance on a daily basis
• We should be dynamic and flexible in a work place full of diversity
• If we work hard, nothing can stop us from winning
• Even if we lose, we should learn from our failures
• Failures can teach us things not written in the books
• Bookish knowledge has great limitations in real life applications
• We should imbibe practical sense in our theoretical knowledge
• We should inculcate discipline in all our actions, thoughts and words
• Discipline, dedication and determination are the key words of success and prosperity

Find happiness through your service to others and the society

• Go ahead with your thoughtful actions that will do some good to you, your society and the humanity at large, Plan, decide and act

• Stick to your decisions
• Withstand criticisms
• Ignore the rubbish
• Be the change agent in the lives of others
• Help people overcome frustration and despair
• Enlighten the lives of others
• First enlighten yourself with the light of Truth Knowledge of science, technology, humanities
• Do good things
• Be happy without making others unhappy
• Try to be moderate, considerate and balanced in your views and opinions
• Develop an integrated personality with feelings of love, humanity, compassion, respect, affection and kindness & see that your world has changed completely
• Live and let live

Be the change

• Change yourself everyday for the better
• Who has so much time to inspire and motivate you ?
• Motivate yourself
• Inspire yourself
• Talk to yourself in silence and solitude & decide to act
• If the training is so costly, train up yourself through your own efforts and motivation
• Change your outlook towards life, change your attitudes and feel comfortable with your decisions
• Stick to your decisions

Major challenges of my life

• Being outspoken
• Being able to say NO
• Being cool and calm
• Being confident and courageous
• Working for fitness
• Forming better habits
• Saving enough money for the old age
• Self-marketing, self-advertisement and being strict about my professional transactions
• Being my own critic
• Fear of criticism from the third persons
• Networking with strong, positive and virtuous persons
• Eliminating consumerist attitudes from the minds of my near and dear ones
• My concern about water and energy conservation, and plantation of trees
• Being a doer, and not a talker only
• My inability to realize financial dues from the third persons
• Managing the day's time
• My laziness, lethargy and procrastination
• My inability to find proper mentoring for me
• My need for a motivational training
• Applications of my knowledge in various fields
• Being less ambitious
• Keeping up the high level of enthusiasm of my earlier times
• Improving my will force through meditation, breathing exercise, and yogic exercises
• Doing more manual work
• Lifestyle modification for feeling happier and working harder

Major focus of a successful living

• Putting our best efforts with devotion and dedication
• Hard work
• Building a positive self-image
• Changing our attitudes for the better
• Developing energy and enthusiasm for our goals and mission
• Learning from our own mistakes
• Learning from the mistakes of others
• Never to stop learning
• Developing and sharpening our skills by hard work
• Being excellent in something and earning our living through honest means
• Feeling happy with ourselves
• Helping others
• Building a team
• Developing a business
• Creating a brand name
• Knowing how to relax and meditate
• Focusing on our goals
• Being positive in our thoughts, emotions and feeling
• Keeping up enthusiasm for achieving our goals
• Being passionate about what we do
• Being dutiful
• Expressing our gratitude for help received
• Enjoying mental peace
• Enjoying a good sleep at night
• Being decisive ans strong , when the situations demand it
• Being bold and courageous & facing the truth
• Knowing our strengths and weaknesses