Long time!

I have been started preparing for MBA entrances(while PEER lies in abeyance), although I know it has been a bit past high time.

I have been applying my motivation techniques to my preparations. One technique that I used (and which worked) is SOL.

Shout out Loud
It has been two days since I last touched by quantative problems' book (which means 2% days washed off from the preparation chart). It is obvious to realize my mistake now that it has has done the damage to my well-planned time-table. So, I AM ANGRY WITH MYSELF (to put it in my style, with the way my subconcious acted). Now, to get back on track , I shout under my skin "What have you done!!! You are going to study from the point of time called "RIGHT NOW"!!! This is my order and you have to accept it!". And then, as the mother explains the child with all her care after a session of scolding, I explain my subconcious, "See, whatever may happen, 2 hrs a day for CAT is good for you, taste it and you'll like it". Period.

It has been a month since this incidence. I have came to college (8hrs from home), did everything from making project reports to dusting my rented apartment, etc. and all the more etc. without skipping a single day of atleast two hours of CAT preparation. And I didnt have to MAKE MY WAY for the preparation, it just happened.

Just try it on yourself, and do give the feedback. Dont worry if it doesnt work the first time, two or three SOLs shall definitely be enough for you to get on track (when you really want to, but cannot due to any reason).

Will try to write again as soon as time and my quant book permits,
Till then, hapiness... :)

The "Picture-Frame" Technique

This is a simple form of visualization in which you have to carry out the following steps:-

1. Close your eyes. Relax, breathe, and smile.

2. Visualize a picture of yours hanging on a wall inside a frame. The picture should show some success of yours.

3. Now slowly and steadily come closer to the picture.

4. With a click of your fingers, get into the picture, frozen in that moment.

5. Now transform that moment into the moent that you will get once your new goal has been achieved.

6. Feel and make clear all of your five senses one by one.

7. Stay in the moent for minutes before coming out finally.

8. Relax, breathe, smile.

This technique is really good and should work wonders. Do give me the feedback.

Till then, Happines...

Overcoming Stress

From what i know, stress cannot be 'managed' or 'handled'. It can be overcome by the simplest methods.

The Three Simple Steps are...

1. Deep Breath

2. Smile

3. Visualization

Two doses of these steps a day can bring unlimited relief from stress...

Will explain Visualization techniques in the upcoming posts.

Till Then... Happiness!!!

Types of Motivation

Types of Motivation

There are two types of motivation. One is positive and the other is negative. Positive motivation comes from appriciating the work of a person so that he is inspired to reach better heights. Negative Motivation is about motivating a person by speaking negative about the person or some situation so that they can take it up as a challenge... Will eloborate it in upcoming posts... till then... happiness!!!

I am currently training people in personal development skills, which has English at its core part. I feel its so easy to speak to English, we Indians are just too fearful about it.

I felt these 8 points might help to commmunicate in better English...

Basics of Communication in English

How to speak English more effectively

1. Decrease your speed to the speed of your thought.
2. Remember that most mistakes are made in the easiest of things.
3. Don’t stop at a mistake. Continue with the speaking.
4. Be Confident while listening to the other person.
5. Speak small sentences instead of large ones.
6. Take pauses.
7. Use varying pitch.
8. Moderate your volume.

It worked with the people I taught, specially the first point.

Motivational Quotes (Courtesy www.motivational-quotes.info)

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. St. Clement of Alexandra We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Johann Gottfried Von Herder We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Voltaire Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. Benjamin Disraeli You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Author Unknown The best way out is always through. Robert Frost Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William B. Sprague Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson Fortune favors the brave. Publius Terence He who hesitates is lost. Proverb Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Confucius Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. Winston Churchill Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson For hope is but the dream of those that wake. Matthew Prior Constant dripping hollows out a stone. Lucretius Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelley