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Should you worry about how others judge you? The answer is an emphatic "NO." The point is the moment you stop worrying about criticisms or how others, including your close relatives and friends, judge you, you are fast-tracking your success. Further, you will be coming out with optimum output because you have unloaded the burden of getting the approval nods of others.  Let us assume you have made a big decision. Of course, you might have thought about it a thousand times before making it. But others may feel that your decision is goofy. So what? There is no need to worry about what they think because if you focus on what others feel, you suffer from temporary amnesia. Thanks to such obliviousness, you forget your goal or vision of your life. So, you cannot achieve it. The moral is that instead of worrying about what others feel or how others judge, you must keep taking all the steps required to achieve your goal. Reasons why you should stop worrying about judgmental...

According to almost everyone, a comfortable life is one in which they have lots of money. The thought of leading such a comfortable life will make your neurons dance delightfully with a euphoric feeling. Let us for argument's sake assume that this is true. Who does not wish to lead such a comfortable life? But in the present circumstances, fulfilling this wish is not easy for everyone. This is not because there is a dearth of methods to earn good money but because some issue or another may rob people of peace of mind. So, the hot-button question now is: How can one fulfill his or her wish of leading a comfortable life? So, here are a few thoughts about this. There are two powerful methods to get hold of lots of money . But ironically, they consist of contrasting ingredients. Let us delve a little deeper. 1. This tip may sound philosophical to some people. But it is only partially so though there is always a raging debate about it. This tip mainly focuses on sustainabilit...

Can you be obstinate and stick to your old ideas? To this question, experts emphatically avow that you cannot afford to be. Things and more particularly, technological developments are happening at a meteoric pace and so are trends. If you stick to your old ideas, you will be branded a clumsy conservative. Further, you will not be able to get the results you desire to have. Competition is fierce in every field and reluctance to change will spell doom to your personal and career growth . Only IQ-challenged people, perhaps out of their naivety or due to their stupidity, will refuse to heed the advice of experts. Please read on to know a little more about this topic. The step of adapting to changing trends can be described with a single word spelled " Reinvention ." You have to reinvent yourself. You have to think of and embrace ideas that suit the new trends. Only then, can you move ahead and get the results you desire to have. Here is a classic example. Before the advent o...

Of all the mistakes people commit, the worst can be the mismanagement of their days . The result of this mistake can be so profound that it can ruin their lives. This post intends to help everyone check if they are managing their days judiciously and if not, how to eliminate ruthlessly those wrong things they do. They need not take radical steps. Instead, they have to embrace the "Kaizen" mindset to stop taking incorrect steps that lead to the mismanagement of their days. How to find out if you are mismanaging your days? If you cannot complete the tasks on your to-do list at the end of the day or you feel that your output is below your expectations, it shows that you have not managed your day wisely. Though there can be several reasons for this, the most important can be you have not planned your activities properly. Even if you have made a plan for the day , you have not executed the plan effectively. What can be the most appropriate way to start a day? The most effectiv...

Does everyone think your performance is below par, be it in your workplace, sport, vocation, or other sphere? To put it differently, have you not achieved the high-performer tag yet? What can be the reasons for this? Have you thought of any plans to correct the situation and improve your performance? If you have no clue as to how to go about it, here are a few ideas to become a high performer. In the book "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," Stephen Covey puts "being proactive" on top of the list of habits of high-performing successful people and rightly so. Several experts have corroborated this. This means if you want to be a high and effective performer, you have to be proactive. For example, if you have a team meeting the next day, you should be ready with all your presentations the previous day itself. So is the case for a sports meet, an event, and so on. In short, being proactive and preparing well for your activities is the key to being an effective ...

"Do you want to become a millionaire ?" You may say "Who doesn't want?" My next question is: "If you want to become a millionaire, are you taking the right steps towards achieving this? Have you ever done an introspection to find out if your current habits are helping you in your journey? If not, what is/are the habits should you get rid of?" Experts firmly opine that if you want to amass wealth, you should quit a particular habit. Do you want to know what this habit is? Please read on. You may say "I am working hard for 40+ hours a week but my financial status is not improving at all." This statement reveals that a particular habit is sabotaging your journey. The fact is that you are not alone. Hundreds of thousands of folks toil and toil but they do not achieve huge success . What is the reason? The reason is that these folks, like you, are not planning and preparing for their journey. They haphazardly lead their lives. There is no doubt ev...

You may be a well-read person or may have very high skills. But do your knowledge and skill guarantee success? History even from the time of troglodytes reveals that high talent or wisdom does not guarantee success .  On the other side of the spectrum, some people may achieve stupendous success even though their knowledge and skill levels pale compared to those you possess. Why this success paradox? Let us try to find out. You should first know the ingredients of success. According to conventional-minded experts, hard work with a sense of purpose will get you success. On the contrary, modern gurus opine that you need not work hard but should do smart work to succeed. Regardless of what experts opine, you need to know the reason for the huge success of a few less-skilled people and the average lives of those highly skilled and knowledgeable folks. Why such a difference in the lives of these two groups? Researchers, like you, have always been wondering about this parad...

Almost everyone including those who have embraced renunciation and those of the mundane type has goals. Since every individual is unique, the goals of people vary also. Unfortunately, not all people achieve their goals. You may wonder why the number of people who fail is much higher than those who are successful. This post may throw light upon this phenomenon and show how to achieve success .  Is having goals good or not? Having goals in life is certainly good. But will it alone get you the success you aspire for? The answer is a resounding "No." You may now ask: "Then, why the heck experts including the troglodytes and the contemporary gurus are asking us to have goals in life?" According to them, if your mind consistently focuses on your goals, you will hit upon ideas to achieve them. But the reality is completely at variance with what they opine.   Why are you not getting results despite your focus on your goals? You have great ideas. You do not fail to seize wha...

Even highly successful people cannot boast that they always have good days . This means they have bad days as well, perhaps more infrequently than those who achieve average success. You may wonder what "good days" and "bad days" mean. Good days are those on which you successfully complete all the tasks you have planned. Bad days are those on which nothing works out and whichever task you undertake remains incomplete or does not move an inch from the point of its start. Have you ever given a thought why, on certain days, you are not able to carry out the tasks you have planned despite all your sincere efforts while, on some other days, you are able to complete your tasks? To put the question differently, why do you feel completely satisfied with your performance on certain days while it is quite the opposite on some other days? Let us try to find out the answer to this question. The question obviously leads to another question. That is: "Are you good at organizi...

You may say that it is natural for others to feel jealous over your success or your earnings. Though you are true, their resentment towards you may make you uneasy. The problem with people is that they will have a low opinion about you if your life is just average and not spectacular enough. On the contrary, if you lead an affluent life or if you have achieved success in your endeavors, they will feel jealous. The question now is: Are there ways to handle these jealous folks ? The following points may help.  Experts advise that it is better to avoid telling people what you earn. But what about your lifestyle? It may make people know that you are wealthy. Let us first look at the first point, i.e. answering people who ask you how much your salary is. If you are an entrepreneur, people may be very much curious to know if you make enough money for your sustenance or if you earn substantially. If the earnings are just average, these jealous people are hap...

You have set your goal and have started putting forth the efforts required to achieve it. You review your efforts periodically to ensure that everything is in order. According to you, everything is moving as you have planned. You are now half-way through in your journey. Suddenly, you have a nagging feeling that there is a loss of steam or things are not moving at the pace as before. You are obviously upset. What may be the reasons? What is holding you back from achieving the success you have been longing for and cherishing in your bosom? Let us find out.  The reasons may be: 1. After reaching a certain point, you have started indulging in what is known as "self-sabotage." True, you have put in place proper systems. But there is some lacuna due to which your plans fall through. You commit avoidable mistakes and these may decelerate the pace of your journey. 2. Not listening to the advice of experts in your field may be another reason for the retardation of your...

You may have a clear vision about your life's goal . You may be putting forth your sincerest efforts to achieve the goal as well. But in the cockles of your heart, you may have a feeling that the speed of the results of your efforts is not satisfactory. Is your feeling right? If so, what should you do to accelerate your success? Let us find out. Is your feeling right? To the question if your feeling that the speed of results of your efforts is far from satisfactory is right, the answer is: Since this feeling has surreptitiously entered your mind and you are not comfortable with it, your feeling is right. Of course, overnight success is a Utopian dream and can happen only in fantasy stories. Further, several instances of overnight successes leading to disasters abound in human history. This means there should be gradual improvements. By "gradual," you need not construe that the improvement should be slow. Your journey should be reasonably paced. If the pace of the improvem...

You will not find a person who does not want to be successful on this planet. Even an ascetic who does penance on the Himalayas may have goals and want to succeed in achieving them. But the question now is: Is the route to success tough or easy? Let us dive deep and find out. What is success? Success is nothing but achieving the goals that we have set. Of course, goals may differ from one person to another because every individual is unique. Some may want to amass wealth, a few others may be looking for leading a peaceful and hassle-free life, and yet a few others may wish to have a fabulous and enviable career.  Is achieving success tough or easy? The fact is achieving success in life is easy provided you follow certain ways. There may be hundreds or thousands of steps that may make your journey towards success smooth but almost all of them come under a few major ones. What are these major steps? 1. Introspect and be clear about what you want to accomplish. Spend some time, in f...

Why do people fail? This question may haunt everyone including you. What is it that can most effectively turn failures into successes ? If you ask this question to successful people, you may get different answers from each one of them. This is because every one of them is unique and their situations are different. But there is a common attribute or trait every successful person may have and this trait plays a major role in their enviable journey. Let us find out what this attribute is. According to successful people, this one attribute or attitude enormously amplifies the results of the efforts they put in. This post will dive deep to know more about this attitude. Now what is the attitude these successful people are talking about? It is what is popularly known as an " optimistic outlook " or "positive attitude." You, like myriad others out there, may argue whether bad things have not happened or will not happen in the lives of positive-minded folks. This argument i...

There is so much more to life than money . But there is a widespread misconception among people that being or becoming affluent is the ultimate goal of life. If you have amassed enormous wealth but if you are not able to enjoy your life due to the  health issues that confront you, what is the use of all your wealth?  Poor health is a bully and a villain and it can ruin everything in life. If any of you have doubts about this in your mind, there is a classic example in recent history that proves beyond doubt that health is more important than anything else. The example is the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. A peek into John D. Rockefeller's life would reveal that he earned his first million when he was just thirty five. He continued his business with such a crazy persistence and passion that his gross business grew to $500,000 a year. But he never believed anyone. He always worried about losing his wealth. This wrecked his health so badly that his daily food intake was e...

"Why am I not getting results for the stubborn efforts I am putting forth to lose fat ?" Since every individual is unique, the answer to the above question is unique as well. Since a fat body is akin to a time bomb that has started ticking, it is high time you wake up and face up to the following reality. The reality is that the efforts you put forth do not match your body. Or, there are flaws in the steps you are taking. Unless you get rid of these flaws, you will continue to remain fat.  This post deals with a modicum of the distilled wisdom of some of the experts in this field. Let us dive down and find out how you can lose the excess fat on your body and get a shapely body. 1. Shun bad fats.  Not all fats are bad. In fact, your body needs good fats such as polyunsaturated fats that can help you feel "full" after eating your meal. In fact, these good fats can help in digestion as well. On the other hand, bad fats such as trans fats can cause is...

Are you a frustrated person owing to your fat body or you being overweight ? No more worries because your problem is not insolvable. There is certainly a magic wand-like product that can help you. Please read on.  There is a lot of conceptual confusion in the minds of people regarding supplements, more specifically those that help in tackling the issue of weight gain. This is truly making people second-guess: Would these supplements deliver and help us in tackling the issue of weight gain or not? Fortunately for us, a number of experts have conducted extensive research - Of course, they are still conducting such research - on whether supplements help in reducing the excessive body weight and enhancing our health quotient or they are a waste. Research findings have repeatedly confirmed that our body does not, repeat, NOT produce all the nutrients, though it produces several of them. Without the nutrients the body does not produce on its own, it is not possible to...

People, not the affluent ones, but those who are in the middle income bracket, are terrified over losing their money. Unfortunately and perhaps due to Pavlovian conditioning, the often unacclaimed and regularly ignored middle income group people have been made to believe that they have no control over inflation . This may be because day in and day out, they feel the heat of the rising prices. Governments all over the world project a completely  different picture that is nothing but distortion of the real facts and figures and that too, their own versions meticulously bastardized by adding unrelated or semi-related inputs. Government authorities seem to believe in the concept of reverse psychology. That is the reason they push their narrative by repeatedly proclaiming from roof-tops that prices of commodities and services are under control. Regardless of whether governments speak the truth or try to hide their failures by repeated assertions, the fact is that soaring prices are...

In the minds of many people, the stock market is synonymous with volatility and rightly so. But it is this volatility that has made millions for several people. At the same time, it is an undeniable fact that there are innumerable victims who have suffered due to the wrong choices they have made in the market. Perhaps, the examples of these victims solidify the fear people have over stock market investments. In fact, the collapses this market has witnessed have been nothing less than devastating. Of course, without this volatility,  the investment in this market may become a boring proposition. One can make a lot of money in the stock market. But do you have to be a genius for this? Not at all. Simple common sense is enough. In addition, you need to have one of the most important qualities and that is you should have a lot of patience. Let us dive deep into this. Can there be pinpoint accuracy in predicting stock movements? Even geniuses cannot predict accurately how the stoc...

At the beginning of every year, many of us make resolutions. Whether we stick to those resolutions or abandon them is another question that we may deal with later. Jonathan Swift, who authored the famous "Gulliver's Travels," said in 1699 that he had made a few resolutions in the beginning of that year and the most important and sensible among them was "Not to set(t) up for observing all these Rules; for fear I should observe none." So, let us not worry about making resolutions, not to talk of sticking to them. But there is one very important thing about which we need not make any resolution because knowingly or unknowingly, it is a desire we always have in our minds. The desire is nothing but to live as long as possible. This post talks about what you should do to try to live longer so that you can enjoy the success you always want to taste and the success that may be round the corner. What is success? We should now know what success means because its definiti...