You are what you believe

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world – Gautam Buddha

You are what you believe

Beliefs are compasses and maps that guide us towards our goals and give us surety to know that we will get there.

Belief delivers a direct command to your nervous system.

With powerful guiding beliefs, you have the power to take action and create the world you want to live.

You are what you believe

When you believe something is true, you literally go into the ‘ state of being true’

Belief is a voluntary choice. You can choose a belief that limits you or you can choose a belief that supports you

You are what you believe

List down your belief

My Empowering Belief :

I can achieve it I can do it It’s a cakewalk for

me My disempowering belief:

It’s not my cup of tea It is very difficult I’m not competent

Goal

Defining your goal is simply creating a map of your life

What is your destination, and how you would like to get there?

Setting a goal is simply taking the blindfold off. Once the batsman sees that ball coming, he can very well hit a sixer.

Goal

Decide on what you want to do Stick with it Be a go getter Observe what works and what doesn’t for

you Take a ‘SMART’ approach

Focus

Focus

Engineers have determined that the pressure generated from average woman’s high heel shoe is actually greater than pressure generated from elephant’s foot.

Remember the little experiment you did in your early school days? Focusing the sun’s rays through a magnifying glass and starting a fire.

Get Organized

Prioritize your activity The 80/20 Rule ABC analysis Critical or Urgent Task

Get Organized

The four-quadrant TO DO List

Important

Not Important

Due Soon Not Due Soon

Get Organized

The four-quadrant TO DO List

1 2

3 4

Important

Not Important

Due Soon Not Due Soon

You can control yourself

Make a list of items and activities that you confront on a daily or nearly daily basis

Assign each a numerical value from 1 to 5, with 1 representing an item over which you have no control & 5 an item over which you have complete control

Begin by attempting to take more control of item you currently value 4 as you master these, begin with the 3’s

You can control yourself

Time I get out of bed 5 What I eat 4 What I wear (to comply with company dress code) 3 Traffic on way home 1 What I do this evening 5 Meeting with a subordinate 4 Length of commute to my work 2

Circle Of Control

Are you Reactive or Proactive

Reactive : Easily offended Blame others Get angry & say

things they later regret

Whine & complain Change only when

they have to

Proactive: Not easily offended Take responsibility Think before they act

Bounce back when something bad happens

Focus on things that can do about and not worry about things they can’t control

Bricks that build success

Think positive/ Visualize Affirmation

Day dreaming is very important in lifeNothing happens unless first a dream – Carl Sandburg

Educate Yourself Associate with others

A man can learn only in two ways, one by reading and the other by association with smarter people

Take Action Life Long Learning

Handling Relationship

Rate yourself in the scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent)

How is you relationship with:Your friendsYour siblingsYour parents/ guardiansYour teachersYour boss

Handling Relationship

Positive qualities Promises that are kept Make promises sparingly but do

everything you can to keep them Small acts of kindness One kind word can warm three winter

months – Japanese saying Loyalty

Handling Relationship

Positive qualities Listening, then talking

7% - Words 53% - Body language 40% - Tone and feeling

Saying sorry Setting realistic expectations

Handling Relationship

Negative qualities Breaking a promise Not sharing Back-biting Not listening at all! Being full of yourself Setting unrealistic expectations

Thinking Right

The Win-Lose situation The Lose-Win situation The Lose-Lose situation The Win-Win situation

Acquiring that Win-Win attitude

A Win-Win attitude begins with getting along with others & achieving a common goal.

Enjoying the differences Each one is unique, celebrate this difference and share each others strength

Valuing Differences If someone does not drive as fast as you appreciate the fact that the person is cautious driver If someone is better speaker than you appreciate his command over the language and ability to communicateIn other words learn from others. One’s education never ends.

Three big culprits of Win-Win attitude Ignorance

You have no idea about other or you don’t care

Ganging up You always hang up with your group & your group rejects all other groups. You will never become a part of BIG picture

Prejudice Prejudiced people create wall and block out people

Learning & retaining

No one has a bad memory, many of us have an untrained memory

Try to list the below mentioned objects in sequence right here:

Table, newspaper, lion, tree, television,

crow, car, water, airplanes, monkey, mountain, book , worm, ashtray, whale

Learning & retaining

The basis of trained mind is ASSOCIATION

Associations are easy to remember if they are ridiculous

When you create an association you must see the picture in your mind

Association tool - PEG words