Challenge yourself to test the principle of proactivity by doing the following: 1. Start replacing reactive language with proactive language. Reactive = "He makes me so mad."Proactive = "I control my own feelings." 2. Convert reactive tasks into proactive ones.

1.Be Proactive

Challenge yourself to test the principle of beginning with the end in mind by doing the following: 1. Visualize in rich detail your own funeral. Who is there? What are they saying about you? About how you lived your life? About the relationships you had? What do you want them to say? Think about how your priorities would change if you only had 30 more days to live. Start living by these priorities. 2. Break down different roles in your life -- whether professional, personal, or community -- and list three to five goals you want to achieve for each.

2. Begin with the End in Mind-1

3. Define what scares you. Public speaking? Critical feedback after writing a book? Write down the worst-case scenario for your biggest fear, then visualize how you'll handle this situation. Write down exactly how you'll handle it.

3.Begin With The End In Mind 2.0

Here are some ways you can practice putting first things first: 1. Identify a Quadrant II activity you've been neglecting. Write it down and commit to implementing it. 2. Create your own time management matrix to start prioritizing. 3. Estimate how much time you spend in each quadrant. Then log your time over 3 days. How accurate was your estimate? How much time did you spend in Quadrant II (the most important quadrant)?

4.Put First Things First

Get yourself to start thinking Win-Win with these challenges: 1. Think about an upcoming interaction where you'll be attempting to reach an agreement or solution. Write down a list of what the other person is looking for. Next, write a list next to that of how you can make an offer to meet those needs. 2. Identify three important relationships in your life. Think about what you feel the balance is in each of those relationships. Do you give more than you take? Take more than you give? Write down 10 ways to always give more than you take with each one.

5.Think Win-Win

3. Deeply consider your own interaction tendencies. Are they Win-Lose? How does that affect your interactions with others? Can you identify the source of that approach? Determine whether or not this approach serves you well in your relationships. Write all of this down.

.Think Win-Win 2.0

Here are a few ways to get yourself in the habit of seeking first to understand: 1. Next time you're watching two people communicating, cover your ears and watch. What emotions are being communicated that might not come across through words alone? Was one person or the other more interested in the conversation? Write down what you noticed. 2. Next time you give a presentation, root it in empathy. Begin by describing the audience's point of view in great detail. What problems are they facing? How is what you're about to say offering a solution to their problems?

7.Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

1. Make a list of people who irritate you. Now choose just one person. How are their views different? Put yourself in their shoes for one minute. Think and pretend how it feels to be them. Does this help you understand them better? Now next time you're in a disagreement with that person, try to understand their concerns and why they disagree with you. The better you can understand them, the easier it will be to change their mind -- or change yours.

8.Synergize

2. Make a list of people with whom you get along well. Now choose just one person. How are their views different? Now write down a situation where you had excellent teamwork and synergy. Why? What conditions were met to reach such fluidity in your interactions? How can you recreate those conditions again?

9.Synergize 2.0

1. Make a list of activities that would help you renew yourself along each of the 4 dimensions. Select one activity for each dimension and list it as a goal for the coming week. At the end of the week, evaluate your performance. What led you to succeed or fail to accomplish each goal? 2. Commit to writing down a specific "sharpen the saw" activity in all four dimensions every week, to do them, and to evaluate your performance and results.

10.Sharpen the Saw

A leading management consultant outlines seven organizational rules for improving effectiveness and increasing productivity at work and at home.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Worried you will not wake up on time? Suggest to your subconscious mind prior to sleep the exact time you wish to arise, and it will awaken you. It needs no clock.”

The Body Clock

“Forgive yourself and everyone else before you go to sleep, this will help you heal more rapidly.”

Forgiveness Is Good For Your Mind

“ Sleep for at least 8 hours. It is essential for peace of mind and health of the body.”

Sleeping Is Also Important For Your Body & Mind

“In marital problems, always seek expert advice. You would not go to a carpenter to pull a tooth; neither should you discuss your marriage problems with relatives or friends. You should go to a trained person for counsel.”

Discuss Your Problems With Expert People

“Never try to make your wife or husband over. These attempts are always foolish and tend to destroy the pride and self esteem of the other.”

Relationship Is Also Important

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind has been a bestseller since its first publication in 1963, selling many millions of copies since its original publication. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can help you heal yourself, banish your fears, sleep better, enjoy better relationships and just feel happier. The techniques are simple and results come quickly. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being. Dr Joseph Murphy explains that life events are actually the result of the workings of your conscious and subconscious minds. He suggests practical techniques through which one can change one's destiny, principally by focusing and redirecting this miraculous energy. Years of research studying the world's major religions convinced him that some Great Power lay behind all spiritual life and that this power is within each of us. 'The Power of Your Subconscious Mind' will open a world of success, happiness, prosperity, and peace for you. CONTENTS: 1. The Treasure House Within You 2. How Your Mind Works 3. The Miracle Working Power of Your Subconscious 4. Mental Healings in Ancient Times 5. Mental Healings in Modern Times 6. Practical Techniques in Mental Healings 7. The Tendency of the Subconscious is Life-ward 8. How to Get the Results You Want 9. How to Use the Power of Your Subconscious for Wealth 10. Your Right to Be Rich 11. Your Subconscious Mind as a Partner in Success 12. How Scientists Use the Subconscious Mind 13. Your Subconscious and the Wonders of Sleep 14. Your Subconscious Mind and Marital Problems 15. Your Subconscious Mind and Your Happiness 16. Your Subconscious Mind and Harmonious Human Relations 17. How to Use Your Subconscious Mind for Forgiveness 18. How Your Subconscious Removes Mental Blocks 19. How to Use Your Subconscious Mind to Remove Fear 20. How to Stay Young in Spirit Forever

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

“Now that you know how valuable deep work is for productivity, you will have realized that knowledge is not the hard part. Rather it is doing. Because humans are naturally attracted to distractions, we suck at multitasking. The following rules will teach you how to incorporate deep work in your life:• Work deeply• Embrace boredom• Quit social media• Drain the shallows"

The Rules Of Deep Work

“Work deeply. Due to the amount of effort working deep requires, many do not want to engage in it. If you consider the culture of our environment, it becomes even more difficult to deploy” “We have finite willpower. As it gets depleted, we tend to favor shallow work.”

Work Deeply

“Embrace boredom. Acute concentration is a skill you should cultivate. Like the way athletes take optimal care of their body outside the training sessions, you need to hone your concentration skill outside of your deep work sessions. If you give in to distractions every day of your life at the slightest sign of boredom, it will become challenging to cultivate the intense concentration needed for deep work. To prevent this, embrace boredom! Stop yourself from checking your phone notifications every time there is a beep. Train your ability to resist distractions.”

Embrace Boredom

“Quit social media. Social media are prime examples of shallow living. As the author points out, they offer nothing beneficial in return for all the time we give them. It will be a barrier to working deep if you feel the urge to check on your social media account every few minutes. Due to addictive tendencies, deep living and social media do not go well together.” “To implement deep work into your life, you need to create rituals and routines — this way, deep work becomes easier and second nature to you.”

Quit Social Media

“Drain the shallows. “The Shallows” is the book's name, which depicts the adverse effects of the Internet on our mental life. Examples of shallow work from the previous chapters include: attending meetings, making phone calls, answering emails, and many other low–value activities.” “If you want to work deep, you need to drain the shallows. Create time for deep work, and spend little time doing shallow work.”

Drain The Shallows

For many modern professionals, remaining electronically connected at nearly all times is the norm. And dealing with these constant distractions-from email, social media, apps, and so on-can wreak havoc on our ability to focus. In Cal Newport's 2016 book, Deep Work, he shares strategies for regaining your ability to focus on a task without distraction. This audiobook summary distills some of the most poignant lessons from Deep Work into quick, easily digestible tips. Tune in to learn how to enhance your productivity-and get more out of your spare time-though focused, deep work. Note: This audiobook summary was produced by Blinkist. We are pleased to host this content in our library.

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Blinkist Summary)

Don't be afraid to think big, because when you begin limiting the amount of success you desire, you start to cut down on the amount of action needed, and this will make success far from you. "Success is the progressive actualization of a worthy goal."﻿

Think Big

“Many people set lofty goals but underestimate the amount of action or mindset shift required to achieve that success. This is the reason we often fall short of our goals. You'll understand this if you've happily set goals on New Year's day, and push your way through to December 31st, without actualizing more than 50% of them."

Set a goal

You won't expect to be called physically fit, if you set a target to lose 10 pounds and succeed at it, only to regain 12 pounds after a few weeks. True success is maintained. It is also progressive. Success never ends; after fulfilling one target, you move onto the next with an even greater mindset and action. "Any target attacked with the right actions in the right amounts with persistence is attainable."

Mindset & Action

Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams! While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. This 4th degree, also know as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals realize their goals and dreams. The 10 X Rule unveils the principle of "Massive Action," allowing you to blast through business clichŽs and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve Massive Action results. Learn the "Estimation of Effort" calculation to ensure you exceed your targets Make the Fourth Degree a way of life and defy mediocrity Discover the time management myth Get the exact reasons why people fail and others succeed Know the exact formula to solve problems Extreme success is by definition outside the realm of normal action. Instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results, take Massive Action with The 10 X Rule, remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success.

The 10X Rule

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Paulo Coelho said "when you want something the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it".So don't give up.Do your best and hope best for the result.﻿</li></ul>

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

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