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The document summarizes Andrew Horton's article about how your current habits will shape your future. It discusses how both good and bad habits govern people's daily lives and responses. It encourages building habits that serve your goals, like developing one new success habit every quarter over 90 days to achieve effortless success long-term. Dropping bad habits that limit progress is also important. Visualizing your ideal future can help identify which habits to change or build. Consistency and discipline are needed to develop new habits over at least 42 days until they become entrenched.
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- 1. InsideStory…InsideStory… Editorial team: Renuka Lingaraju, Nitin Dhamankar, Neena Naik, Hitendra Patil, Vishakha Naik A monthly newsletter of L&T Infotech Library February, 2014 Issue No. 61
- 2. A monthly newsletter of L&T Infotech Library For Internal Circulation Only 2 Your Habits Are Creating Your Future A. Horton About the author: Andrew Horton is an inspirational Speaker, Master Teacher, Radio and TV Host, Global Traveler and Author. His area of focus is in the field of human behavior, expanded awareness and enlightenment. He travels the planet constantly researching, learning and seeking ways to unlock the mysteries of the human mind. To know more about him Visit his website at http://www.andrewhorton.co.za. The way your life will turn out, one year or even five years from now, is the result of an accumulation of all your current habits. Everything in our lives is governed by our habits. Starting with how you get out of bed in the morning, to how you dress, to how you speak, think and most importantly how you act or fail to act, are all governed by your habits. Your routines or habits determine how you respond to virtually every set of circumstances which crosses our path. They determine, whether you will take the daily action you need to take in order to achieve your goals, what you will think about all day, how you will respond to any challenges, which will cross your path and they drive you every day, to be disciplined or lazy. Build Habits, Which Serve you We all have habits, both good and bad, which you can choose to, leave the way they are. When you design a success habit set, which is aligned with what you need to help you achieve your goals and dreams, you get to carry out all the crucial goal specific activities every day, in an effortless fashion. Drop Bad Habits This is where the challenge lies, when you introduce this new success habit building process into your life. You need to know where you want your life to go, identify the bad habits, which are not serving you and work to replace them with the success habits that will. Action Idea: Get a crystal clear picture in your mind of exactly what you want to achieve in the future. Now by starting with the end in mind, identify the success habits, which will support you to achieve exactly that level of success. Secondly explore your current habits and identify the ones, which are limiting your progress. Habits like procrastination, always running late, never completing tasks, always feeling distracted, etc. are all habits, which will severely limit your success. It is worth asking the people closest to you for their input. Ask them to make a list of all the behaviors they think are limiting you. Discovering your new Success Habits As you know habits are not something you introduce into your life in a day. They take time to develop and require conscious effort applied daily over a period of around 66 - 90 days to become entrenched. As you are working daily to introduce any new habit into your experience, try to visualise what your life will be like when you perform that new behaviour, without even having to think about it. How would your world expand, if you stopped procrastinating, overcame those irrational fears, or you began to network with the right people and built real connection with them? Write Down most Productive Habits Start by writing down the most productive habits you need to introduce into your life. Now choose only one new behaviour or habit, which you will invest the next 90 days into developing. It will obviously take daily discipline, consistent effort and dedication to perform the new behaviour. After about 42 days, the new habit will start to become entrenched. If you keep applying yourself and you ensure that you do not miss a day, without carrying out the new behaviour. After 90 days you will have a new success habit, which will serve you going forward. Yes, you will only develop one new success habit every quarter, but that equates into four new success habits a year. Developing new success habits will not happen in a day, but over time you will be equipping yourself to achieve effortless success.
- 3. A monthly newsletter of L&T Infotech Library For Internal Circulation Only 3 Making this work for you The way to make this work for you, so that you can successfully introduce one new success habit into your life, every quarter, starts with you developing a unique method, which suites you and your unique set of circumstances. These few questions as listed below, will help you with this process: What will you use to remind yourself to perform the new behaviour each day? What will inspire you to carry out the new behaviour each day? Some of the ideas, which I have used with great success include. Writing the new behaviour down on a card, which I carry with me all day I read the card a number of times throughout the day Wake up in the morning and visualise how your life will improve once you have entrenched this new success habit in your life. Ask someone to be your accountability partner. You can support each other to develop your new success habits. The only way to ensure that this works is to have a clear plan of action and a method to remind you to carry out the new behaviour every day. It is also crucial that you are very clear about why you are developing the new success habit. Spell out the reason why you want to develop the new success habit, so that you will be equipped to recognise situations, which call for you to respond or perform the new behaviour. The New Behaviour is Non Negotiable When you are developing your new success habit, do not tempt yourself to act in any other way by making the new habit optional. For example: if your new habit is to go to bed at a specific time. Even if you are not tired, go to bed. Relax and try to switch off. Never ever compromise your new habit in any way. It will never become entrenched, unless you are consistent and disciplined. Four New Habits a Year The four new habits, which you are going to develop each year, may seem like nothing at first, but over time, you will begin to see remarkable improvements, in your results, as you develop more and more success habits. Developing new success habits is a long term commitment, but one that is worth every ounce of effort required to develop them. Source: http://EzineArticles.com/7281743 Contributed by: Renuka Lingaraju
- 4. “Brilliant Mindfulness” - By Dr. Cheryl Rezek Mindfulness is a Buddhist practice. Dr. Cheryl Rezek is a clinical psychologist who applied Mindfulness in medical practice and evidenced its benefits. This book describes how psychological health affects physical health. This book mainly focused on keeping our mind in present state. Our mind will be keep on wandering between past and future, sometimes even in day-dreaming. This book emphasizes importance of keeping our mind in present time. Author also describes few simple exercises to improve mindfulness, given dedicated chapters for that. She also describes stress, anxiety, etc., and its problems and how being mindful help us to come out of it. This book is very general not having much of biological or psychological terms, although few, but understandable. It is a self-help book, intended for any person, not specific to particular professionals. It helps to improve concentration, keep our mind to pay attention and live our current life. We may miss certain things just because our mind is off. Few examples could be, • In client meeting, we might have missed last few minutes what client said. • We might miss our bus stop, we realize after crossing it, we rush to get down. It could be even in lift, we miss our floor or get-down in some other floor and realize later. • We might not remember how we crossed last few traffic signal while driving our car/bike. • Sometimes when reading book, we might lost focus for last few paragraphs/pages and read again. • Sometimes in class rooms, we might have missed some part of lessons, our mind went somewhere Mindlessness is not good for us and sometimes even dangerous. Since, it helps to keep us mindful, I recommend this book to be read even if you are not a sort of person regularly read books. This book is small enough to be read in less than 8 hours (nearly 150 pages), even by slow readers. “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” - By Sheryl Sandberg Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook of COO has very clearly illustrated about why there are very few women at leadership level in any organization. This book would definitely help all working women who love their career but facing issues to grow. I liked her analysis on why women decide quit the job and stay at home. Obviously one major factor is male dominating culture and the society mindset. I would like to highlight few suggestions from the book such as women have to overcome the superwoman syndrome. Be open to discuss about the personal problems to your superior. Look for different options to solve temporary problems. While planning for marriage or child, do not set the mind to leave before you actually leave. Love your job so that you would desire to come back post maternity leave as well. Treat your life partner as true partner at all the fronts, getting spousal support is very important factor for career growth. Defeat the fear and sit at the table. Don’t hesitate to explore new opportunities/ challenges. After all its jungle gym and not a straight forward ladder if you wish to grow. (By Infoknights) For Internal Circulation Only 4 A monthly newsletter of L&T Infotech Library *Interested to contribute book review in this section? Send your reviews @ Library@lntinfotech.com Rajesh Ramamoorthy Chennai Vrushali Ranjalkar Airoli
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