Time

1. You become what you think about most of the time. Outer world is a reflex of your inner world. 2.

Think about what you want and how to get it most of the time. Confine powers to one particular channel

3. The ability to concentrate single mindedly on your most important task, to do it well, quickly and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.
4. SEE THE LARGER PERSPECTIVE
5. Just find out what other successful people do and do the same things until you get the same results 6. Think continually about potential consequences of your choices, decisions and behaviors is one of the very best ways to determine your true priorities in your work and personal life 7. Make time for getting big tasks done every day; Do the worst first, ugliest first. Procrastinate on, outsource, delegate, and eliminate that do not make enough contribution to your life 8. Find time consuming activities that you can abandon tv, chit chats, coffee trips. Set posteriorities. 9. Say no to anything that is not a high value use of your time & life. Say it early and say it often I have no spare time. 10. Junk the old ones - To do something new, you must complete or stop doing something old; 11. Sacrifice - Put something on hold deliberately until one of the most important goals has been achieved 12. Law of success - Make a list on paper Consider the consequences a. Think continually about potential consequences of your choices, decisions and behaviors is one of the very best ways to determine your true priorities in your work and personal life b. Mark of a superior thinker is his ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something i. How important is the task really to you or your company? ii. What are the potential consequences of doing or not doing this task c. Long time perspective is the most accurate single predictor of upward social and economic mobility i. Rule - Long term, thinking involves short term decision making ii. Have a clear future orientation think 5/10/20 years into the future

iii. Analyze choices and behaviours today to make sure what they are doing today is consistent with long term future that they desire iv. Rule - Future intent influences and often determines present actions v. Hence make better decisions about time d. Think about the long term i. Successful people delay gratification and make sacrifices ii. Winners - Come to work earlier, read regularly in your field, take courses to improve skills and focuses on high value tasks iii. Activity or task having large positive potential is always top priority and get started on it immediately iv. If something has a large negative potential and not done quickly and well, also becomes a top priority e. Obey the law of forced efficiency i. Rule There will never be enough time to do everything you have to do, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing f. Deadlines are an excuse Pressure of deadlines are stressful, make more mistakes and have to redo tasks. Plan time carefully, add buffer, add 20 % more g. Maximum productivity i. What are my highest value activities? What are the biggest frogs that

you have to eat to make the greatest contribution to your

What can I and only I do that if done well will make a real difference? What is the most valuable use of my time right now? Or What is my
biggest frog at the moment?

Do the first things first and second things not at all.

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Secrets of success 1. Passion I am driven by my passion, do it for love and not money 2. Work nothing comes easily, it is all hard work, but I have lot of fun 3. Good put your nose down & get damn good at it. Practice. Practice. Practice. 4. Focus focus yourself to one thing 5. Push physically & mentally push yourself. Push. Push. Push. Through shyness, self doubt, 6. Serve serve others of some value so that they give money to you 7. Ideas listen. Observe. Be curious. Ask questions. Problem solve. Make connections. 8. Persist no 1 reason. Persist through failure, criticism, assholes, rejection, pressure

5 Unexpected Things I Learned About Life Through TED

Oct 27, 2010 -

TED Talks! are your pre-curated go-to videos for some intellectual food for thought when you need to indulge. No matter which you pick, the odds are high that you'll learn something completely unexpected. If not? You pick another. And with their new iPad app, it's gotten even easier to feed your brain (they've even made it surprisingly easy to pick a few variables and have an instant playlist set up for you). Here are five unexpected things learned about life through TED talks:

1. We don't know what we want. We spend so much time thinking about what we want and working to get it that this just doesn't seem like it could be true. But no matter how important the decision, there are dozens of irrelevant and inconsequential things that influence us even though we think we're the one in the driver's seat. Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist, shows us a few funny (but also scary) examples of how people aren't actually as rational as they think. For example, if you offer a focus group the choice between a free trip to Rome or a free trip to Paris, the results would be pretty evenly split. What if you add the option of a free trip to Rome with coffee included? That seemingly meaningless addition to the list of choices makes that all-inclusive trip to Rome look more attractive by comparison, and a majority of people choose Rome over Paris. Did Rome suddenly get a lot better? Do people care that much about a free cup of coffee? No. But subconsciously people compared the two most similar options and chose the best of the two, completely forgetting about Paris. Favorite quotes: "If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself." and "Useless options help people figure out what they want."

2. If you tell someone your goal, you're less likely to accomplish it. There's a certain amount of secrecy that comes with being an entrepreneur, since our ideas are what set us apart. However, the conventional wisdom is to share your goals (even if it's just with a spouse or trusted associate) so that they're real and someone can help hold you accountable. Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, says to keep your goals to yourself. In a fascinating bit of psychology, it turns out that just saying our goal to another person gives us a positive feeling that is the same as if we actually accomplished something. Therefore, we're not as motivated to keep working. Favorite quote: "...understand that your mind mistakes the talking for the doing."

3. Small details are more important than big ones. A corporation can spend a million dollars in advertising and development only to find that a simple, modest effort has a bigger influence. Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy Group, points out that small actions have more capacity to change things than big ones. I'm all about finding the amazing, overlooked little details in life, so I found it fascinating to see that applied to everything from airport signs and elevators to conquering hunger in developing nations. Want people to remember your hotel over others? The million-dollar renovation will go unnoticed by most people, while something as small as giving them control over the music that plays in the elevator will make them spread the story to all their friends. Favorite quotes: "Very, very small changes can have disproportionately huge effects. And equally, enormous mergers can actually accomplish bugger-all." and "Every corporation should have a Chief Detail Officer, and every government should have a Ministry of Detail."

4. How we think about time determines how well we do. There are so many tests for figuring out what type of personality you have. Are you an INTJ, ENFP, a thinker, a doer? The list goes on. Philip Zimbardo, the researcher behind the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, shares how the way we think about time influences our actions more than we think. The most successful people tend to be future-oriented, meaning everything is about future rewards. This is great for building a business or earning money, but can take its toll on family and personal life. Zimbardo talks about how to change the way we think about time. Unlike changing your personality, it's not a hard thing to do. Favorite quote: "Future gives you WINGS... to soar to new destinations and challenges. Present hedonism gives you ENERGY... to explore people, places, self, & sensuality.""

5. One pig can be used in 185 different products. Christien Meindertsma tracked one pig to find out what besides meat this animal contributed to the world. The answers are quite weird. Everything from bread and soap to bullets and artificial heart valves has a little bit of pig in it. OK, so this one might sound more like the answer to a trivia question, but it actually got me thinking about the lifespan of what I do and how I'm sharing a part of myself every day I post my thoughts, finds and adventures. Favorite quote: "185 products are made from pigs .. it's odd that we don't treat these pigs as absolute kings and queens."