Once you’ve completed this exercise, translate your answers into your life plan as S.M.A.R.T. goals and action steps to begin making positive changes in your life and share them with your Gita Coach or Adviser.
1. What do I worry about?
2. Do I really need to worry about it?
3. How would I feel if I would not worry about it?
4. How would my life be different if I would not worry about it?
5. What needs to happen so I will stop worrying about it?
6. Instead of worrying, what could I think and feel in order to peaceful and without worries?
An interesting question is whether this intellectual divorce might change in the light of the global economic mess of the last few years, in which much of the anger has been righteous. At least one leading economist, John Kay, thinks we should go back to talking about political economy, instead of economics, to show that moral values are still inescapably in there.
The Gita is as fresh in insight and as relevant today as it was 5,000 years ago. If only every manager, administrator, politician, employee, worker and others pick a copy of the Gita and spend a few minutes daily reflecting on its message, one can experience the positive transformation. Who doesn’t wish to be disciplined, to achieve home-work balance and bring peace and harmony in a secular environment?
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The calm mind in the face of failure will lead to deeper introspection and see clearly where the process went wrong so that corrective steps could be taken to avoid shortcomings in future. The principle of reducing our attachment to personal gains from the work done is the Gita’sprescription for attaining equanimity.
The first lesson of management science is to choose wisely and utilise scarce resources optimally. During the curtain raiser before the Mahabharata War, Duryodhana chose Sri Krishna’s large army for his help while Arjuna selected Sri Krishna’s wisdom for his support. This episode gives us a clue as to the nature of the effective manager – the former chose numbers, the latter, wisdom.
Chanting yoga is based on the principle of vibrational medicine and involves the primordial sound vibration of mantras. Much of the popular yoga practiced in the West is about posture, which is only one of the eight limbs of yoga. In chanting yoga, we use mantra meditation as a sublime process for deep relaxation, achieving greater concentration and transformation of conciousness to a higher level.
The world is vastly different today and ever-changing. If we can develop leaders who can withstand and embrace the changing times by deeply rooting themselves in these principles of great leadership, then we can develop great people, great teams and great results.
Success begins when you start using your freedom of choice. At your present stage of personal growth and evolution there are specific lessons that you have to learn about yourself, about life and about other people. How can this understanding help you see your life and what you face in life differently? You are an active participant in your own evolution.
16 Tips on Avoiding Conflicts Due to E-mails. Don’t try to solve a complex problem or conflict by e-mail. It generally only makes matters worse. Only a small percentage of full communications come through by e-mail (in comparison to face-to-face meetings or phone
calls).
Everything is available to you if you connect properly.
Always examine each situation carefully in order to gain the maximum benefit from each interaction.
If people do not move to a deeper level, they will remain imprisoned in suffering
Do the one thing that you aren’t doing now, but if you did do it well and regularly, would have the greatest impact in your life.
The 80/20 rule. 80% of the most important things to do in life are on the top 20% of your prioritized list. Therefore, put “First things First.”
Different aspects of human beings
* Not meant for classifying persons in a drawer
* Not meant to judge others
* To learn about human beings
* To better understand behaviours
* To better understand the own position
* To easier perform in the personal development
Four types of behaviour / persons
* Analyst
* Driver
* Charmer, charming one
* Expressionist – expressive one
Marketing genius Seth Godin talks about the new generation of marketing and why the traditional method of aiming for the center of your projected demographic curve, the common denominator of your market base—just won’t work anymore. He explains why you need to be remarkable… not necessarily the best, just the most remarkable.
If you are convinced you need others’ help to achieve more, then please treat your people with respect. Invest in making them highly successful by helping them develop their character and competence.
In my understanding, leadership is not only about the leader achieving things by engaging people, but also about helping people grow and develop as humans and devotees through these tasks.
Dear Sir, You probably already know what this letter is about. You’ve seen it coming; I know you […]