Thought of the day

To try to be happy personally ,first:

·       The greatest healer in life is the proper maintenance of Mouna-yoga, that is , maintaining complete physical and mental silence for a long duration of a day

·       To before taking any action, we should take break and do some deep thinking and take a firm decision about ‘to do or not to do’

·       To devote more and more time in self-developmental activities, as one progresses in age

Thought of the day

To be happy all the time, the following elements of attitudes should be embedded in our brain on a daily basis:

·       Disinterestedness

·       Detachment

·       Devotion

·       The daily thinking process religious ideals at the very personal level, in complete isolation from the outer world

Interpersonal skills occupy a prominent place in leadership development process at the professional work-place. It is also the pivotal point for a happy family life. Personal happiness lies only in the internal frame of mind and the spirit of happiness is radiated to the surroundings and creates an ambiance of happiness and peace. Hence the core idea is to learn to be happy at the first place and then the environment will automatically tune to our inner happiness.

To make others happy, one must learn to be happy. The you make happy through applications of your interpersonal skills and relations of mutual trust will finally be your hard-core followers. Through guidance and counseling, we finally win the hearts of the other people and silently follows your principles, ideals, ideas and style.

The basic foundation of building interpersonal skills is:

• ·        Having a lot of patience and listening skills
• ·        Natural pleasantness in our unique style of behavior
• ·        Helping people in need without any consideration of self-interest & expectations
• ·        Keeping confidentiality & commitment intact
• ·        Keeping honesty & trust in practice
• ·        Dedication to our assigned responsibilities
• ·        Acting with highest level of integrity and transparency in all matters
• ·        Never to find faults with others, but to perfect our own actions
• ·        Continuous striving for building an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust

Effective Communication Skills

TECHNOLOGY OF PUBLIC SPEAKING & EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION SKILLS( ONE NEEDS ONLY SUFFICIENT SELF-CONFIDENCE, HONESTY & PRACTICE TO EXCEL IN AN AREA OR FIELD OF ACTIVITY)

1.     Objectives of the presentation should be made very clear at the very introductory phase(why to speak and on what , about what, real  contents, purpose, significance, applications) ; presentation might have some of the following purposes:

·       Informational

·       Promotional

·       Inspirational

·       Motivational

·       Generating awareness

·       Conflict resolution

·       Counseling for improvement

·       Delivering expert knowledge

·       Special , situational

·       Marketing some products/ideas/concepts

·       Popularizing some ideas/concepts/products/services

·       Training sessions for skill-development on special domain

·       Thanks-giving

·       Inaugural speech ETC.

TECHNOLOGY FOR AN EFFECTIVE AND POWERFUL PRESENTATION

2.     Know your subject well, deliver with energy and enthusiasm, unique but natural style

3.     Build rapport with the audience, know your audience well

4.     Body language, etiquettes, manners, eye-contacts, loudness, sincerity of purpose, clarity, modulation, articulation, soft and sweet style, focus on the central ideas, managing time, summarization, and salutation, thanks-giving, pleasant and cheerful mood with energy and enthusiasm

5.     Diagrams, illustrations, videos related to the topic  should be presented nicely to generate interest  on the subject

Slides should consists of the following(about20- 30 slides for an hour,DEPENDING ON THE NATURE OF PRESENTATION) :

·       Opening slide/introduction of the topic/title/speaker

·       Contents

·       Introduction to the topics

·       Objectives

·       Main body(slide1 to slide n)(Let it be highly technical in content for audience with Technology background)

·       summarization

·       conclusions

·       question & answer sessions

·       references/bibliography

·       thanks-giving

Thought of the day...managing time for self-development

A philosophy of life is developed through years of struggle and bitter experience. After more than 25 years of professional experience and leading a family life ,
I have come to learn some basics of the art of living:

• to speak as less as possible
• to ignore as far as possible
• to take physical exercise as regularly as possible
• to discharge my professional duties as sincerely as possible
• to manage time well for a day
• to sacrifice as maximum as possible for others
• to be very choosy about mixing with people
• to manage anger for creating & innovating in my favourite domains
• to enjoy life without doing harm to others
• to manage finances to avoid troubles in social life
• to be indifferent to most of the affairs of the outside world
• not to find faults with others
• not to be harsh as far as possible
• to be honest and straight-forwards
• to be outspoken at times
• to be able to say NO, when I wish to say so
• to keep my needs minimum
• to keep life simple and humble
• to enjoy reading books and listening to music , movies and songs
• to help people in need, without expectations,but by being selective
• to avoid materialistic view of life
• to remain immersed in spiritual thoughts and actions
• to have learnt to hate consumerism and comparative analysis about human success and prosperity

Thought of the day...managing stress

Unconditional surrender to the Holy Names of God will relieve us many of the pains and agonies of life....

We should first identify the stress-ors in our lives
Let me identify my stress-producing factors:

• worries about family matters
• worries about financial security of life
• worry about health and fitness
• anxiety on the matters of interpersonal relationships & networking with people socially 

To be relieved of such worries, I am trying to take the following steps:

• taking regular physical exercise
• controlling expenses
• saving money through recurring deposits

Thought of the day...managing the self

Managing the self is the biggest challenge of own's life. We should therefore this matter very seriously to get rid of many troubles/conflicts on a day.
Mission and vision of one's life should be made as clear as possible.

• Then,
• we should take up one job at a time
• we should have only planned actions for a day, as far as possible
• we should listen more and talk less
• we should manage our time well by segmenting the day's time
• we should take time for self-study,taking food,drinking water, relaxing and sleeping,self-entertainment, working for professional responsibilities & commitment, pursuing hobbies, listening to music or songs,taking care of the family members, managing finances, saving money, building health and happiness