1.
Know Your Own Self
Know yourself;
your strengths and weaknesses. By improving on your weaknesses and play
on your strengths, you are in effect enhancing your personal effectiveness.
So, get to know what you are really good at - your talents. Exploit them.
Make the best out of them. Make full use of these very important assets
of yours.
2. Develop
Better Self-Concept, Right knowledge and Skills
Developing
better self-concept is a prerequisite to self-effectiveness and self-excellence.
Your self concept influences your mind-set and attitudes. Your attitude
influences your behaviours. Your behaviours in turn develop your habits.
Positive habits lead to effectiveness and success. And, negative habits
lead to destructions and failures.
Your self-concept
includes your social character or abilities, your physical appearance -
your body image and your thinking. Better self-concept also means that
you accept the fact that you must have the right knowledge and skills to
be effective and successful in whatever you do.
3. Take
Charge of Yourself
Be rational
rather than being emotionally driven. Be in control of yourself. Be proactive.
Do not allow circumstances control you. Make
things happen rather than letting things just happening to you. Be
forgiving. Control your emotion. Turn negatives into positives. Use your
emotion to your and everybody's best!
4. Set Crystal
Clear Goals
You become
what you think. By setting clear goals (for this world and the hereafter)
you will be more determined and focused. You will feel more confident and
successful. So, set positive and crystal
clear goals professionally and personally. Write your goals down. Develop
action plans to achieve your goals. Focus your time and efforts on achieving
your goals.
5. Get Better
Organized
Clutters are
time wasters and source of stress. So, get organized.
Organize your thinking. Organize your life. Organize
your home. Organize your workplace. Always do the most important first.
Delegate whenever and where necessary.
6. Enhance
Your Financial Literacy
Spend less
than what you earn. Have a smart saving and smart
investment programme. At least 30% of your monthly income shall be
put into saving. The money that you save, grows. So, earn more and save
more!
7. Improve
your Interpersonal Skills
Miscommunication
can lead to conflicts. You need people co-operation
and support to be more successful in your career and life. So, improve
your people skills.
8. Develop
a Team Leadership Skills
None of us
is better than all of us. Together
everybody
achieves
more.
So, improve your team leadership skills. Get better and better at those.
Remember, the most successful people in the entire history of human beings
are excellent team builders.
9. Take
Care of Your Health
Get always
healthy and alert. Take nutritious foods. Exercise regularly. Achieve
maximum
fitness and strength. Detox
- illiminate intermal waste or toxic. Don't smoke. It can cause lung
cancer. You must consider Stop
Smoking seriously sooner - better still now. Drink a minimum of 2.5
litre of water everyday. You must also have adequate and restful
sleep. To be stress free (or less), you should have at least 7-9 hours
of sleep everyday. Yes, everyday. Less than that, the mind, heart and body
will experience difficulties in managing day-to-day challenges.
10. Keep
Learning & Improving Yourself
One of the
main reasons why people fail is that they stop learning. Hence, it is highly
important for you even if you are not taking any examination anymore to
keep learning. Stephen Covey suggests that we should in fact read
at least 8 books monthly! Yes! 8 books! |
