SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
It all starts from here!
• Do you WANT to be SUCCESSFUL?
• Do you THINK you will be SUCCESSFUL?
• Do you BELIEVE you will be SUCCESSFUL?
• Do you KNOW you will be SUCCESSFUL?
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
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What are you DOING to ensure you are SUCCESSFUL?
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Simple, first Understand what
“SUCCESS” MEANS to you!
Write down what SUCCESS means to you! When will you say you are “SUCCESSFUL”
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
Gear Up: What differentiates people?
Where do you belong?prArabhyate na khalu vighnabhayena neechaih
prArabhya vighnavihatA viramanti madhyAhvighnaih punah punarapi prati-hanyamAnAhprArabdham-uttama janAh na parityajanti
There are three categories of people who contemplate an undertaking.
• lowest never start off for fear of encountering obstacles• the middle start off but withdraw at the first sign of an
obstacle• the top, despite repeated obstacles, persist until they take
the undertaking to a successful conclusion (Nitishatakam, Bharthruhari
1.26)
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
Step Up : RULE your Success
• RULE – Reaping Unforgettable Learning Experience
Reaping Unparalleled Leadership Experience
• Or is it, Repenting Unforgivable Learning Experience!
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
RULEs for You• RULE 1: Take Ownership to change, learn &
grow– Keep yourself awake, alert, alive and enthusiastic
• RULE 2: Participate without inhibitions– Be 100%. Give 100%. Do 100%. Have fun 100%
• RULE 3: Be Open to ideas, to change– Open mind opens doors to learning and success
• RULE 4: Seek Answers, ask right questions– Most people are a bag of questions – Be genuinely interested in answers
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
A P P L I ED
Excel: APPLIED way to SUCCESS
Reaping
Unforgettabl
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Learning
Experiences
- Attitude of Enthusiasm
- Power of Positive Thought
- Purpose and Goal Clarity
- Leading from Within
- Inspiring Excellence
- Exceeding Expectations
- Daring to Dream Big
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
anirvedaH shriyO moolam anirvEda param sukham
anirvEdO hi satatam sarvArthEshu pravartakam (Ramayana 5-12-10)
Enthusiasm is the root of all prosperity and happiness. It is also the fuel in every purposeful
effort.
Enthusiasm is the CHILDLIKE (Not Childish)
Curiosity to learn, to have fun, to grow
A – ATTITUDE OF ENTHUSIASM
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
Enthusiasm == Energetic= Excited= Engaged= Eager
First step to success is in the attitude! The attitude to PERSIST!
A – ATTITUDE OF ENTHUSIASM
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
A – ATTITUDE OF ENTHUSIASM
• Enthousiasmos “Divine inspiration”; intense interest or excitement; living every moment with energy / zeal.
•Enthusiasm is an attitude, a mindset; contagious - spreads like common cold; people love to be around those who are enthusiastic
•Being Awake, Alert,
Alive, Enthusiastic …. helps you generate new ideas, understand, retain, and perform better; you will get noticed, will be able to appreciate and will be appreciated
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
utsaaho balavaan-aarya nAsti-utsAhAt param balam
sotsAhasya hi lOkeshu na kinchidapi durlabam
(Valmiki Ramayana, 4th Kaand, 1st Parva, 121st Shloka)
Enthusiasm yields great strength. There is no strength greater than enthusiasm. Nothing in this
world is beyond the reach of those who are enthusiastic
A – ATTITUDE OF ENTHUSIASM
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
P – POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHTS
Enthusiasm determines what you do & who your friends are!
•Who is YOUR BEST FRIEND?
•Who is YOUR WORST ENEMY?
Atma-eva Atmano-BandhudhAtma-eva ripuh atmanah
You (Your Thoughts) are your Best Friend, and worst enemy!
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
P – POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHTS
• Listen to YOURSELF; Watch your thoughts– What are you telling your mind? What is your mind telling you?
NOW? – Do you worry about your weakness or feel good about your
strengths?– Negative is often more powerful than the Positive– Negativity is a tendency; positivity needs courage and
“saadhana”
• Self-doubt, self-pity, self-limitation are self-destructive
• Hone self-confidence and self-belief• Tell YOURSELF that you deserve the best; “I am GOOD, I CAN
do it”
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
P – POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHTS
Masaru Emoto’s experiment with water
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
• Self Fulfilling Prophesies – a prediction that causes itself to become true – a false definition evoking a new behavior which makes the
original false conception come 'true'– just the thought makes things turn out in our favor
• Placebo Effect– an inert substance not meant to treat the condition, treats the
condition; Expectancy and Conditioning!– “the treatment would certainly make him better” rather than “I
am not sure if the treatment will have an effect”
– it is not the medicine but the trust that cures
P – POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHTS
THINK = BECOME (yad bhAvam tad bhavati)
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
AkAraih-ingitaih-gatyA cheShTayA bhAshaNena cha
nEtra-vaktra-vikAraiShcha lakshyatE-antargatam manaH (Panchatantra. Mitra Bedha. 45)
The inner mind of the man is revealed in the subtle changes that happen in the looks,
preferences, walk, talk, work, eyes, and face.
P – POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHTS
THINK = BECOME (yad bhAvam tad bhavati)
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
• Mind and Body are ONE– body responds to what mind says, mind responds to what the
body says
• You can CHANGE NOW.
Change the way you think, CHANGE your life
NOW.
P – POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHTS
Body and Mind Connection
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
• “NEVER Give up” an attitude of all the top performers and leaders
• The “Farmer’s Donkey”
P – POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHTS
Thoughts Yield Attitudes
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
How we want to feel and
Who we want to be is a choice we make!
P – POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHTS
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
P - PURPOSE / GOAL FOR LIFEYou will FIND / SEE what you SEEK
• Mind will show that you seek– We are surprisingly blinded to things that are around us – Mind will believe what you repeatedly tell it or make it to
believe
• How you perceive determines what you can achieve– How you perceive yourself, colleagues, classmates, friends,
others, learning, MBA, job, business, market, life, success, money, future, past, present, and everything else
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P - PURPOSE / GOAL FOR LIFE
Create a Purpose for your Life• Do you have a GOAL or Purpose in and to your life?
• Where are you with it?
• Set goals high enough that it pushes you! A push helps you grow!
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L – LEADING FROM WITHIN
• What does a football do? • “Most people are like footballs, someone needs to
pump air into them all the time” – Anthony Robins
•Real leaders are motivated from within
• Internal motivation matters, it is long-lasting; External motivation is short-lived• If you are motivated to learn, if you have the hunger,
you will learn irrespective of how bad a lecture is
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
L – LEADING FROM WITHINSelf-Motivated
• Be inspired. Remain Inspired.
• Take charge of YOUR life
• Anukulasya Sankalpah Pratikulasya Varjanam– conviction to accept the beneficial and reject the non-beneficial
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
L – LEADING FROM WITHINOLD - NEW
Observe, Learn, Do
•OBSERVE something NEW Every Day
•LEARN Something NEW Every Day
•DO Something NEW Every Day
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
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Every minute and in every micro detail (every drop, every grain) one should acquire / secure /
seek knowledge and money (meaning, purpose).
Where is the learning (knowledge) in letting go of a moment, where is the wealth in letting go of a
grain?
L – LEADING FROM WITHINLearn and Grow EVERY MINUTE, EVERY MOMENT
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
I – INSPIRING THROUGH EXCELLENCE
Sustaining Excellence • EXCELLENCE is a HABIT, so is
SUCCESS
• Inspire not by words but through action• Give your 100%
• Two key skills to inspire excellence:– Networking and Listening
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E - EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS
• Stretch expectations & exceed them every time• People are capable of reaching any target set to them
• Have the courage to be different
• Grab / Create Opportunities
• “If you are not ready to be wrong, you will not create anything new; nor do anything new “
– Sir Ken Robinson
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D – DARE TO DREAM BIG• Surprisingly enough we land where we deserve
to be
• Believe in yourself, in your Dreams.
Invest in your growth. Be original. Dare to commit mistakes.
• L.B.WMake it Big. Do it Right. Give it Class - Steve
Spangler
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APPLIED - SummarizedA - Attitude of
EnthusiasmP - Power of Positive ThoughtP - Purpose and Goal ClarityL - Leading from withinI - Inspiring through
ExcellenceE - Exceeding ExpectationsD - Daring to Dream Big
Are these in your control or beyond
you?
Yes! Each of these is
within our control!
You can only if you think you can!
PERSONAL EFFECTIVEN
ESS
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Industriousness, Force, Firmness, discrimination (intelligence, intellect, perception), Ability
(competence, power, capacity, strength) and Endeavor (attempt, adventurous
accomplishment, advancing, to march forward), wherever these six exist the gods (luck, fame,
money etc) will [somehow] come for help.
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
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Reactions to calamities should be considered well in advance. It is no good to start digging a well
when the house is on fire!
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
The Session and Beyond
• What life offers to you depends on YOU
• Only person responsible for YOUR success is YOU• I invite YOU to make the best out of your time
SIMS, Bangalore, 24th SEPT 2012APPLIED RULES for SUCCESS
Identify / Grab / Create Opportunities
• A Leader emerges every time a
challenge is converted into an
opportunity– Seek and create opportunities to develop in classrooms,
seminars, conferences, workshops, neighborhood, workplace and everywhere