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Growth DimensionsNovember 24, 2016
Fisheries College and Research InstituteTuticorin
Education
EducationIntellectual understanding
Analytical skills
Creativity
Current affairs & General Knowledge
Read a book a month
“Reading is still the main way I learn new things and test my understanding."
- Bill Gates
Pick formulas that you can use in your daily life
"Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics."
- Simeon Poisson
Draw / doodle / dance / sing... as you try to
express an idea
"In my experience, design thinking is a great approach to help us find problems, to help us see what is not there...”
- Vishal Sikka
Create a scrapbook for
news articles of your interest
“There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.”
- Edgar Dale
Management
ManagementVision
Organizational ability
Project management
Operations excellence
Know how to read an annual report. And read as many
as you can.
“There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world,”
- Phil Libin
Come up with your own list of top 10 stocks and invest in them - at least
one share a month
“Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it,”- Robert
Kiyosaki
Be ahead of time - at least by 15 mins
“I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time,”
Horatio Nelson
Keep a log on things you want to
improve
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice,"
- R. D. Laing
Health
HealthFood
Exercise
Cleanliness
Hobby
Learn to cook a good briyani
“True healthcare reform starts in your kitchen, not in Washington,”
Wolfgang Puck
10,000 steps a day
“My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary,”
- Jackie Chan
Don’t outsource washing clothes or
cleaning vessels
"Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely,"
P. J. O'Rourke
Raise a garden
“When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK,”
Steve Martin
Relations
RelationsSocialize
Empathise
Admire
Non violence
Be active in at least 10 different
social and professional clubs
"In our normal lives we see ourselves as members of a variety of groups,”
- Amartya Sen
Have lunch with the difficult people
“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher,”
Pema Chodron
Start a fan club or two.
“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be,”
Warren Buffett
Fight but with a different weapon
“With violence, they had weapon and we did not have. With non-violence, we had the weapon and they didn’t”,
Gandhi
Life Skills
Life SkillsResponsibility
Prayer / Gratitude
Mindfulness
Contemplation / Self Enquiry
Donate one percent of your time / energy /
resource
“Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you,”
- Albert Schweitzer
Have a to-thank list
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow,”
Melody Beattie
While having food, have food
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves,”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Listen to a discourse on
Bhagavat Gita or Bible or Quran,
everyday.
“The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible,”
- Gabriel Marcel
Parting words
Forget to be perfect. You don’t have to follow all.
It’s not about numbers. It’s about intention.
Don’t be hard on yourself, EVER.
