Polish your GOLD. Will you?

10 litas gold coin, issued as an item of the international programme “The Smallest Gold Coins of the World. History of Gold” Gold Au 925 Quality proof Diameter 13.92 mm Weight 1.244 g Edge reeded The designer of the coin is Giedrius Paulauskis Issued 1999 Minted 5,500 pcs Distributed 5,500 pcs The coin was minted at the state enterprise Lithuanian Mint. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On how many occasions in the recent past, did you brood on what skills you did not have, and why you could not make it big? ‘Big’ – not by your own standards, but by the standards of what you perceive as ‘the world’!

This piece is to emphasize the fact that there can be nothing more suicidal to your personality and life; there is no bigger waste of time than just thinking of all the weaknesses in you, and wonder what has gone right or wrong in life’s journey!

Most of us are trained and taught to work on our weaknesses, day in and day out, and overcome them come what may!

Today, I would want to leave a contrarian thought in you – and I can assure you that it will work well for you.

Ignore and belittle your inherent weaknesses, and spend all the time and resources in honing your inherent strengths… you will do a lot of good to you, your life, and work…

Many contemporary life & leadership lessons speak of the need to do what you are good at… Decisively identify your strengths and do something which is pretty close to your core competence. What else can be core competence other than you natural strengths? The strengths which sort of flow with you in life, and with which you don’t have to undergo the so called drudgery of ‘work’.

Visualize this – spend a few minutes and do this – You have a handful of a mix of shining gold coins, and some rusted old copper coins… Would it be good to just ignore the rusty dusty copper coins and just put all your time and energy into how well you can exploit and make good of the shining gold coins on hand…. Or would it be good to waste your time and energy on cleaning/making the rusty copper coins into Gold coins?

You will be wasting that much time because whatever you do, the Copper can never ever turn to Gold….  On the other hand, you can make the best use of the Gold coins…hone and polish them, and take them to the market place and show your worth and mettle to the world.

This, is the cardinal rule in managing time – put time to its best use here and now…. So, your time is not going to be best used by cleaning the rust and dust of the copper in you…… Just do not give any importance to the copper in you (weaknesses) and hone your gold (strengths) now and always…

We all have heard enough of why and how we should somehow work on converting our weaknesses into strengths. Believe me, if you have ever worked on any of your weaknesses for some considerable time, you will testify to the fact that it takes a lot of time…. with disproportionately small or miniscule result. Just look back in life and see how many weaknesses you have managed to convert into strengths and you will get what I mean here!

It is wishful thinking that we can completely overcome our weaknesses and even convert that into strengths. With that, we expend so much energy… almost make you feel that you are losing it and making you frustrated with yourself, and the the so called weakness in you. The only end result is that you have lost precious time and energy….

Precious resources that should have been used in focusing on the positives with us and getting to the point of perfection….

Your goal and intent must be – only focus more and more on the positives.. Make the best out of the inherent strengths you possess and shine your ware in the market-place of the world.

Many business leaders have opined that working on weaknesses is not a great personal growth strategy….More can be achieved by getting more time and focus into what you are good at….

Mediocre to Good is a journey of high improbability. Gold to Diamond, if you can see is a more successful endeavor.

So,  pick up three to five things you are good at and work hard and toil to make them great personal offerings!  See the difference it makes in your life…. And you will enjoy the journey of life more…..

If the situation is not of your making put GOD in that!

A Groovy Situation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is my simple mantra for today, and may be it will suit every moment you think is not of your making.

Life is a series of happenings, and its eventful only if there are ups and downs, turns and detours, and some dead ends, where you just seem to get horribly stuck.

How do you carry on with the journey when you are seemingly facing such odds?

The simplest and easiest thing is to put GOD in that situation, and allow things are help them-self. It can be GOD, or it can be any thing you trust, be it a gut feeling or a spirit, or what you may even call willpower etc. Just put in that invisible force in that situation and allow it time to show the path ahead.

Nature is powerful, and time is the best healer – so a whole lot of such situations are meant for a purpose, the reason which we come to know much later in life, and in some cases, we may never know.

But its good that way. The reason does not matter.

What matters is that the ‘situation’ has passed, and did so because you chose to put in some invisible force that took care. Supplemented well by YOU.

Do this for every situation, big or small, every day or just whenever you see things in a nought!

Life will be easy when you do this!

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Personal energies – where are you using them?

A red-hot iron object, transferring heat to the surrounding environment primarily through thermal radiation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It is commonly said that the human potential is unlimited, and we set our limits only as much we can imagine. And its so true – what we think is possible happens, come what may, and what we decide as impossible, in the mind, just does not happen. Not that this is a reflection of reality, but its our all powerful mind that has said so.

May be some of us have also mistook this fact about the power of the mind, and its ability to charter the unconquered.

Instead of imaging, dwelling and imagining what is important to us in the larger canvas and journey of life, we allow the mind to harp on a hundred unimportant, non-core-to-life, and even trivial things – so much that the energies and the power of the unique and mighty mind do not get channelized in a positive fashion, BUT worse, this powerful resource in us, gets drained and wasted, also draining us of our body energies.

This, knowingly or unknowingly we end up doing most of the time – to the extent that if we do a time inventory check, it will end up that we are ‘draining our mind’ most of the waken hours.

The best way to conserve energies of our mind is to make sure that we do not use it the completely wrong way – on negative thoughts, on trivia, on things that would not even matter few hours, few days and few months down the line.

This, each of us can do by conscious choice and practice and by self questioning our response to any stimuli, be it internal or external. And by making this daily practice, we can make ourself better persons, more focused on things that really matter.

Some of the questions which could be of help in making sure our most potent resource – mind energy – does not end up sapping us are –

1. Would this matter 20 minutes, 20 hours, 20 days and 20 months from now?
2. If i make a choice to respond more gracefully and positively to this situation, how would I be doing it?
3. Is my mind responding to the actual reality of the situation now, or to some imaginary, may not even happen later event?
4. Is the way I am reacting helping to get to a solution to any problem, or am I just aggravating things for the worse, for me, as well as for others?
5. Am I even focused on the right priority, or am I not spending my time in a better way, that I am being forced by boredom to attend to the trivia and unnecessary?
6. Is the way I respond the best thing to do, or would just ignoring it with a smile a more apt solution? I can always talk it over when the heat cools off!

These are just some indicative questions to yourself, and you can tweak it in a way that can be appropriate to what you chose to respond to, in your daily routine.

Ask such questions to yourself, as often as you can.

Conserving the most resourceful weapon you have – your mind – is easy this way.

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What are you speaking to YOU?

Cover of Positive Imaging

What are the dialogues you have to yourself? Are you aware of the conscious and subconscious internal dialogue that goes on in your mind all day and all night long, throughout this journey of life?

Make small incremental efforts by being aware of the dialogue, and then slowly controlling the kind and nature of dialogue within you! Once we become aware that there are constant dialogues within us “our precious mind”, then we also can easily ensure that these dialogues are harnessed to better our self in every way – on the personal, professional and social spheres!

Let these dialogues be powerful, making us better our personality, sending out better vibes in the place we are in, and solution finders rather than problem-brooders! Being happy, being positive, accomplishing things which we want to and just about any small or big endeavor in your life begins with the dialogue within you!

What is called ‘powerful positive imaging’ is nothing but holding a vivid image of what is desired within… and this image of the desired gets better and clearer – depending on how intense the dialogue within is!

Focusing on the dialogues within, in our minds, is one of the easiest steps to success and happiness in life.

What are the dialogues you have in YOU, right now? Let them be only about happiness, success and winning life, in your own terms!

Is the ‘porcupine’ calling you for a hug?

Line art drawing of porcupine. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

How does this analogy sound? Sick, for sure.

Just think of this, and you get that eerie feeling in you. And with just that feeling or visualization, seldom would you want to do this deed.

But wait. Are’nt you doing this just about everyday!

Uh, what you may be propelled to ask.

Step back, and look at your day – how many times does someone’s errand behavior set you also into an errand behavior? Once a day, twice, or in some cases even once an hour!

We all just wait for someone to set the porcupine into motion, and at the sight of that, go hug that animal in no time.

And what happens in this game is your day is gone, and your sanity for the hour or day is gone as well.

An hour or day that ought to have been spent in some good act or positive thought is wasted in hugging a porcupine and getting all the shit on you – all this in your own volition.

Think and think… who was your porcupine? and why did that porcupine set the agenda for you?

So, let someone be intent on being a porcupine and inviting you for that muddy hug.

You ignore that, and be yourself, and do things as per your plan and agenda.

So, are there any porcupines around now? Watch out! 🙂

What if you are a mind tattoo artist?

Norman Vincent Peale, Christian preacher and author of The Power of Positive Thinking (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

All of us keep seeing body tattoos on the youth icons of the day, and also many youngsters seeking to convey a message or even trivia….  Body tattoos are in vogue and indeed a fashion statement all over the globe… But what we tattoo on any part of the body for others to see is not as important as what we tattoo in our minds….  And positive, successful, energetic mind tattoos are a must to attain success…

The story goes, as I read somewhere,  that Dr Norman Vincent Peale was walking by a tattoo shop when a confused looking young man came out of the shop with a tattoo in his right arm that read “Born to Lose”. Dr Peale asked the tattoo artist about it and the tattoo artist replied…. “ I did ask the young man if he was sure that he wanted to state “Born to lose” in his arm and the young man was pretty stubborn in that. A surprised Dr Peale asked the tattoo artist – “Is’nt that surprising?” For which the artiste replied “Not really! Much before he tattooed it on his arm, he has firmly tattooed it in his brain, and his body tattoo act is just a reflection of his mind tattoo”.

That brings us to our topic, the power of mind tattoos’. Every single act of us, big or small, positive or negative, winning or losing, good acts and deeds or otherwise are a sheer reflection of the cluster of small and big thought tattoos we keep etching in our mind, be it consciously or unconsciously,  And this mind tattooing process is the most powerful in determining what the outcome is in reality.

So, it should be our conscious and subconscious endeavor to keep tattooing our mind with thoughts that are ONLY about winning, what we want be, want to reach, want to achieve, that perfect day as desired,  and about that ideal job/career and all that wealth that we would want to accrue in our lives….. ALL THAT IS SOUGHT BY US FOR A GREAT LIFE.

Call this positive mind tattooing…. And our effort here MUST BE to continuously and consciously strive to tattoo our mind, ONLY all that is desired in reality…. And what else do all of us desire than the very best in all walks of life…  Let us tattoo these desires in mind in as much positive detail as we can….   With the smell of victory, with love and affection for the near and dear ones, for winning at the work place, and for recreating the hearts’ desires to the mind… and creating an ideal life in our own terms…..

While doing this positive mind tattooing, it is quite but natural that in the mood swings we have, there will be situations when negatives get tattooed in the mind too…  The easiest way to persist on our terms of life is to quickly erase this negative mind tattoo with a more and say bigger positive mind tattoo. And when we perceive the negative tattoo is close to affecting our success/life agenda, we have to be ruthless and aggressive is working on creating positive mind tattoos, only resting when we are thoroughly convinced that the positive tattoo has erased and prevailed over the negative.

All of us are born to ONLY win, and none of us are here to lose in Life.  If anyone of us is losing it is because we are etching our mind with unnatural negative tattoos, rather than etching it with positive tattoos, which are natural, easy and a part of the flow of life…..

Now on, be a consistent positive mind tattoo artist… not only for you but do that bit of positive mind tattooing on all those around us…  Inside each one of all us, there is a spectacular positive mind tattoo artist…..

Pilot, can you crash on that mountain?

English: Managing emotions – Identifying feelings (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

How stupid does it sound when you hear something like this…. Imagine you are piloting an aircraft at 20000 feet, and someone in the crew comes and tells you something as stupid and outrageous as this…. would you ever, even in your wildest dreams be willing to do something like that…  be wantonly willing to crash YOUR aircraft by deliberately hitting it on an obstruction, be it big or small!

Now, hold, and shift to your personal front…  Is’nt that what you precisely do, when you get angry, agitated for whatever is happening to you as an event, externally? Call it anger or any similar emotion, NEGATIVE and sapping your personal energies – when you knowingly or unknowingly nurture such emotions, what you do is precisely this – YOU are crashing YOUR personal life aircraft on that hill or mountain, willfully.

Look at the journey of life, as a flight to a destination. Piloting the flight is such a joyous and indeed easy to do thing, if you make sure that the course is smooth, and the aircraft stays away from any hindrances. The analogy to hindrances in life are negative and energy sapping emotions. When there are perceived obstructions are disturbances in the flight path, the best thing and easiest thing to do is to shift course, avoid the hindrance, and then come back to the normal path.

No good pilot knowingly keeps going on into chaos and obstructions when such situations are encountered. More so, the moment the pilot sees something like that, he immediately shifts course to make sure that come what may, the journey is smooth for the flight.

Use the same analogy on your personal front – every time, you are in a situation that you think makes you turn into a negative state of mind, immediately visualize your life as a wonderful flight, which you are carefully piloting.  The more you persist with the negative emotions, the more you are jeopardizing your LIFE, knowing well the consequences – the chance that the flight (LIFE) stays on a air pocket, or goes straight to crash on that mountain??!! (even crashing life, with all the health related consequences too!)

As a good life pilot, make sure your path is smooth, and when there is a disturbance in the path, you steer to smooth road at once. Visualize this situation whenever you see that things are getting out of your hand – the reasons can be whatever – internal, external, or trivial!

Whatever be the case, as a LIFE pilot, would you want your aircraft to hit that mountain?

No one would want to! Life is to celebrate, in a joyous flight path!