Trying to improve personal effectiveness...

• Trying to improve personal finance through computerized planning & sticking to it
• I must try hard for improving alternative incomes by employing my teaching skills...
• Trying to manage time better
• Health is perhaps improving slowly
• I stopped taking raw salts in my daily means, to minimize its detrimental effects on health
• I am now consuming least of sweet foods
• Trying to include more anti-oxidants in my daily food...
• Yoga is improving my brain functioning by GOD's Grace...
• Enjoyed Kolkata Book Fair with both books and good books on 29th Jan, 2017, with family members
• I wish to remain 'ACTION-FOCUSED', rather than being 'thinking focused' , this new year 2017
• I shall have to BE more planned , EFFECTIVE and organized on my LECTURES AT THE CLASS ROOM
• I shall introduce OUTCOME-BASED TEACHING LEARNING methods from this semester, seriously for developing my students
• I shall teach as per my lesson plans and Course Objectives 
• From this time, all my LECTURES will be thoroughly Planned and Organized so that I could create higher level of INTEREST AND ENTHUSIASM in my subjects of teaching

Challenges of life

• Pursuing my hobbies
• Building good habits and eliminating bad ones with the power of WILL FORCE
• Being more focused on 'happiness' factors of life
• Improving mental concentration 10 times to be happy with what I do
• Improving health parameters
• Improving listening skills to learn something from others
• Improving self-confidence and courage to handle practical affairs of life
• To become more practical-minded and logical in making choices
• To acquire newer skills of being effective in telephonic conversation
• Not dancing at the tune of others
• Being able to say 'NO' TO things, when I definitely intend to do so
• Taking care of my family members...
• Introducing more simplicity in my lifestyle
• Being simple and humble so that I am not the victim of jealousy of others
• Achieving professional excellence
• Improving personal productivity
• Thinking more effectively and logically  and in a much more planned & organized manner
• Positive doing should be my key to prosperity and happiness
• Managing time well
• Giving my best efforts in teaching and training
• Behaving well with one and all
• Overcoming shyness of all kinds
• Being more extrovert in social and professional  life
• Learning newer things 

What I got from IIT

• I had seen some of the most brilliant academic minds in my IIT days(1985-89)
• My teachers had been great scholars matching world's best
• Most of our text books were of foreign origins and had been excellent ones
• Discipline among all is the biggest quality in academic areas....
• Most of my friends had been  inclined towards materialistic ideas and professional career
• We had been totally immersed in enjoyment of life in the beautiful campus of IIT-Kharagpur
• IIT days had been my golden times of my life
• Administrative excellence can be seen in IIT
• Impartiality and transparency are IIT's great qualities...
• Hostel life had been full of fun, good food  and sports

I am overwhelmed by 'HAPPY SCIENCE' books by R.Okawa

• Some of the finest self-improvement books, I have ever found.
• Books are really inspiring and self-motivating...
• Self-motivation is the biggest thing in life for accomplishing great things in life
• Lack of motivation results into mediocrity
• Motivation comes out from our innermost thinking process...
• Hence, we should change our present thinking for a better and prosperous tomorrow...
• We should learn to think more systematically
• We should organize our thinking process so that our real-time actions are greatly influenced for enhanced performance and increased productivity & creativity
• We are solely responsible for our present state of living
• Positive thinking coupled with positive doing will surely improve our productivity in a particular area...
• Self-confidence is the key to all kinds of successes
• Hence, we must build greater self-confidence and self-image to do better things in life
• If we strive to maintain quality of our actions, our business will surely grow and develop 
• For any business, we should know well the psychology of our customers & deal with them in the most befitting manners
• Customer satisfaction is the key to sustaining a running business..
• We fail to excel, as we have less faith and belief in our skills, abilities, knowledge and attitudes (SAAK
• Knowledge-skills-attitudes-abilities (SAAK)is the key all types of successful ventures in life
• Along with SAAK, we must have excellent MARKETING SKILLS and MARKETING PERFORMANCE in our specialized field of activities to bring success & prosperity in our own lives
• Above all, we must accumulate enough COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE, along with being able to SEE A BIG PICTURE ABOUT OUR DREAMS & REAL-TIME ACTIONS FOR SUCCESS AND PROSPERITY

Sara Orem & Larry Demarest's book 'LIVING SIMPLY'

HIGHLIGHTS of lessons from THE BOOK mentioned :

• Choices: to remain happy , we must make right choices for ourselves from the ocean of activities that life offers us . We should be very choosy about what think, what we do and what we speak about
• Balance: maintaining a balanced living is the best ever philosophy of living a happier life
• Simplicity: "Keep it simple, stupid!"(KISS) is the greatest principle of living a happier and more prosperous life. We should break down a big problems into a number of simpler ones and solve them one by one by step-by-step method....
• Vocation: we should be able to work with full devotion and mental pleasure for our assigned duties
• Harmony: we should seek harmony and balance in all spheres of life and activities
• Wisdom: we must attain intuitive wisdom through practical experiences in the form  of living through various activities such as reading, pursuing our hobbies, maintaining good health, caring for the family members, and doing hard work in our professional services...

Thought of the day for a better and happier life

• self-control, patience and self-restraint are the key words for living life better
• patience and control should be made our personal religions. Truths will be revealed to us slowly but steadily through maintenance of such virtues
• earn money through honest means. Life will be more peaceful and happier...
• breathing exercises will slow down our thinking, eliminating mental dirt and garbage...
• be slow
• slow down the pace of life
• love nature and its infinite beauty to be happy with yourself and others
• create beauty in life by changing your thinking process
• attitude is what makes us happier
• running after anything will not make you happy
• innovate and be happy
• smile and win in almost all situations
• change bad habits and be an effective leader in your own field
• apply discipline in your field of activities
• self-discipline will take you to greater heights
• meditate to realize GOD within yourself
• Externals can not make you happy. It is the innermost state of mind by which you look at things in life
• Everything that achieve is so transitory and temporary
• Live one day at a time...
• Live in the present
• Worrying about future and brooding over the past is the stupid waste of time and energy. We should only remember the lessons of the past...

Art of living in the form of organized silence

• In modern life, most of us are constantly moving around for one thing or the other. This is very bad for both body and mind
• To be happy, we need silence in in our live
• We should introduce a certain of period of TOTAL SILENCE to know ourselves truly
• We must have session of deepest thinking process about we are actually doing and should actually do...
• We should reflect on what we are doing in this world
• We should constantly meditate on the question : WHO AM I ?, so that we receive internal answers and act according to our innermost conscience
• We should try to meditate on our lives, closing our eyes and controlling other sense organs
• We should set our daily routine properly
• We should plan well for today and tomorrow only. The day after can be planned tomorrow. It is like LIVE ONE DAY AT A TIME
• LIVING IN THE PRESENT is one of the greatest achievements of forming an ART OF LIVING
• I read one book 'LIVING SIMPLY' by Sara Orem & Larry Demarest recently. This is ONE OF THE FINEST SELF-IMPROVEMENT books I could ever find...
• Let us make a habit of reading good books that would surely bring about positive changes in our lives...
• We should also take time to smile and laugh to relax
• We should have fun...
• We should pursue our hobbies
• We should try to maintain good health and fitness
• We should serve our family well...
• We should love people selflessly
• We should expect least from others to be happy
• We should try to be self-reliant in our daily life
• We should cultivate both POSITIVE THINKING & POSITIVE DOING in daily lives
• We should not bother about what others say. We should listen carefully to our innermost selves only
• We should do our breathing exercises regularly to keep ourselves fit and happy
• Breathing exercises will relieve us of worries and tensions
• We should never dance at the tune of others
• We should be free and independent in our decision making to be happy
• We can never satisfy everybody and hence we should never try that thing...
• We should try hard to develop our own ART OF LIVING, instead of blinding following other great masters in the field
• Lastly, we should be happy in our own unique ways....
• BEING MY OWN BOSS is the ultimate aim in life
• NOT TAKING LIFE SO SERIOUSLY will eliminate many of the troubles of life and living