Secrets of Success

Around two weeks back, I set out on an unplanned trip and happened to visit a science museum. It had some great stuff, though, for the most part, it was easily explainable… image processing, sound/speech synthesis, character recognition etc. But there was one thing that not only caught my attention, but also initiated deep and prolonged thoughts and opinions as summarized in this two-part article.
 
 
The thought-triggering experience…

“Just another fun game”, I thought to myself as I approached that corner! It looked simple. All it said was that…

Don’t worry; I’m doing just fine, thanks to your well wishes always!

This post does not go as far as Near Death Experience, but if you’ve experienced NDE you’d most certainly have much more to say than what this post can barely skim.

Today I have two sets of questions for you.

Question Set 1:
Have you ever lived through a disaster, or some illness, one that almost took your life?　How did it feel to be back, and how did the experience change your life thereafter?

Question Set 2:
Have you ever been in a situation where you almost lost a loved one? How did it feel to have him/her survive and be back fit and fine? Did the experience change your attitude towards the person, and did it change you life beyond that in any manner?

If you haven’t had any such experiences, then great! But in that case, it would be worth spending some time pondering on how it would be/feel to be in each of these situations. I would encourage you to do a small exercise with me. All you’ll need is a…

So, what is an ideal work life balance?

Come on now, take a piece of paper and a pen and actually write down the answer to this question. Do you have a very clear picture of what it would be like to have an excellent work life balance?

Did this one question make you think? Probably it made you wonder, and even left you lost in your thoughts, trying to figure out what an idealistic work life balance really is? Could you actually write down an answer that sounded satisfactory to you? Did it give you a clear image of what work life balance means?

There is no one answer to the question of what an ideal work life balance is. That’s because work life balance means different things to different people. For some, it would be as simple as being able to leave on time from office and then spend the rest of the day with family and friends. For some others it may mean not having to work at all for someone else, and further, just having to spend only a few hours a week to keep a check on things to ensure that all the passive and recurring income that is flowing in continues and grows even beyond.

More often than not,…

Ever have times when the thought of doing a task makes you freeze? What do you do then? Do you decide that it may not be the right time to do the task, and put it off for another day? But time and again, whenever you think about the task you freeze again the same way, until the day arrives when your bottoms are on fire and you have no other choice but to start the task because it has become too urgent, or until the day arrives that you decide to give it up because it is no longer achievable?

What I just described is a typical pattern of procrastination, a huge hurdle towards achieving one’s goals. There are multiple reasons that could cause this to happen. In this post, I will address one of those reasons - The granularity of the tasks. Improper granularity of tasks was one of the main reasons that I used to keep procrastinating tasks many a times, and I will explain just how I was able to deal with it effectively.

In the previous post, we have seen how to set goals the Logical Way. Now there’s much more detail that I want to touch up on with regard to setting goals, but let me set that aside for the upcoming weeks and in this post shift the focus a bit and look into how to go about actually achieving a goal using a plan of action.

Granularity of goals

In reading about Logical Goals, you would have noticed that the word “goal” itself could have a wide scope. In fact, the vision component of a goal is a goal in itself. In this article we are going to see how we can make a plan of action to help achieve a goal better. The plan of action will consist of tasks, and we will talk about that in just a moment. As you would see, …