Tuesday, 29 January 2013

[www.keralites.net] 8 Things Remarkably Successful People Do

 

I'm fortunate to know a number of remarkably successful people. I've described how these people share a set of specific perspectives and beliefs.

They also share a number of habits:

1. They don't create back-up plans.

Back-up plans can help you sleep easier at night. Back-up plans can also create an easy out when times get tough.

You'll work a lot harder and a lot longer if your primary plan simply has to work because there is no other option. Total commitment--without a safety net--will spur you to work harder than you ever imagined possible.

If somehow the worst does happen (and the "worst" is never as bad as you think) trust that you will find a way to rebound. As long as you keep working hard and keep learning from your mistakes, you always will.

2. They do the work...

You can be good with a little effort. You can be really good with a little more effort.

But you can't be great--at anything--unless you put in an incredible amount of focused effort.

Scratch the surface of any person with rare skills and you'll find a person who has put thousands of hours of effort into developing those skills.

There are no shortcuts. There are no overnight successes. Everyone has heard about the 10,000 hours principle but no one follows it... except remarkably successful people.

So start doing the work now. Time is wasting.

3. ...and they work a lot more.

Forget the Sheryl Sandberg "I leave every day at 5:30" stories. I'm sure she does. But she's not you.

Every extremely successful entrepreneur I know (personally) works more hours than the average person--a lot more. They have long lists of things they want to get done. So they have to put in lots of time.

Better yet, they want to put in lots of time.

If you don't embrace a workload others would consider crazy then your goal doesn't mean that much to you--or it's not particularly difficult to achieve. Either way you won't be remarkably successful.

4. They avoid the crowds.

Conventional wisdom yields conventional results. Joining the crowd--no matter how trendy the crowd or "hot" the opportunity--is a recipe for mediocrity.

Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won't do. They go where others won't go because there's a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success.

5. They start at the end...

Average success is often based on setting average goals.

Decide what you really want: to be the best, the fastest, the cheapest, the biggest, whatever. Aim for the ultimate. Decide where you want to end up. That is your goal.

Then you can work backwards and lay out every step along the way.

Never start small where goals are concerned. You'll make better decisions--and find it much easier to work a lot harder--when your ultimate goal is ultimate success.

6. ... and they don't stop there.

Achieving a goal--no matter how huge--isn't the finish line for highly successful people. Achieving one huge goal just creates a launching pad for achieving another huge goal.

Maybe you want to create a $100 million business; once you do you can leverage your contacts and influence to create a charitable foundation for a cause you believe in. Then your business and humanitarian success can create a platform for speaking, writing, and thought leadership. Then...

The process of becoming remarkably successful in one field will give you the skills and network to be remarkably successful in many other fields.

Remarkably successful people don't try to win just one race. They expect and plan to win a number of subsequent races.

7. They sell.

I once asked a number of business owners and CEOs to name the one skill they felt contributed the most to their success. Each said the ability to sell.

Keep in mind selling isn't manipulating, pressuring, or cajoling. Selling is explaining the logic and benefits of a decision or position. Selling is convincing other people to work with you. Selling is overcoming objections and roadblocks.

Selling is the foundation of business and personal success: knowing how to negotiate, to deal with "no," to maintain confidence and self-esteem in the face of rejection, to communicate effectively with a wide range of people, to build long-term relationships...

When you truly believe in your idea, or your company, or yourself then you don't need to have a huge ego or a huge personality. You don't need to "sell."

You just need to communicate.

8. They are never too proud.

To admit they made a mistake. To say they are sorry. To have big dreams. To admit they owe their success to others. To poke fun at themselves. To ask for help.

To fail.

And to try again.

 

Jeff Haden learned much of what he knows about business and technology as he worked his way up in the manufacturing industry. Everything else he picks up from ghostwriting books for some of the smartest leaders he knows in business.@jeff_haden





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[www.keralites.net] തമിഴ്‌നാട് വിടേണ്ടിവരുമെന്ന് കമല്‍ഹാസന്‍

 

വിശ്വരൂപം പ്രദര്‍ശിപ്പിച്ചില്ലെങ്കില്‍ തമിഴ്‌നാട് വിടേണ്ടിവരുമെന്ന് കമല്‍ഹാസന്‍

 

ചെന്നൈ: മെഗാബജറ്റ് ചിത്രമായ വിശ്വരൂപം പ്രദര്‍ശിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ അനുവദിക്കാത്തതില്‍ അധികാരികള്‍ക്കെതിരെ തുറന്നടിച്ച് കമല്‍ഹാസന്‍ രംഗത്തെത്തി. തമിഴ്‌നാട് സര്‍ക്കാരും പോലീസും തന്നെ രാഷ്ട്രീയ കളിയുടെ ഇരയാക്കുകയാണ്. അമേരിക്കയിലും അഫ്ഗാനിസ്ഥാനിലും നടന്ന സംഭവങ്ങളെ ആസ്പദമാക്കിയാണ് വിശ്വരൂപം ചിത്രീകരിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഇന്ത്യയിലെ മുസ്‌ലീം സമുദായത്തെ ഒരുതരത്തിലും ബാധിക്കുന്നതല്ല ചിത്രം. തമിഴ്‌നാട്ടിലെ ചില മുസ്ലീം സമുദായങ്ങള്‍ ചിത്രത്തിനെതിരെ ബോധപൂര്‍വ്വമായ നീക്കം നടത്തുകയാണ്. അരനൂറ്റാണ്ടായി സിനിമയില്‍ നിന്നു സമ്പാദിച്ചതെല്ലാം മുടക്കിയാണ് ഈ ചിത്രം നിര്‍മ്മിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്. ചിത്രം പ്രദര്‍ശിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ അനുവദിച്ചില്ലെങ്കില്‍ തനിക്ക് തമിഴ്‌നാട് വിട്ട് കേരളത്തിലേക്കോ മറ്റെവിടേക്കെങ്കിലുമോ താമസം മാറ്റേണ്ടിവരും. തനിക്ക് ജാതിയോ മതമോ കുലമോ ഇല്ലെന്നും കമല്‍ഹാസന്‍ ചെന്നൈയില്‍ നടത്തിയ വാര്‍ത്താസമ്മേളനത്തില്‍ വ്യക്തമാക്കി.


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[www.keralites.net] The Truth About Multitasking: How Your Brain Processes Information

 

t's the gospel of productivity in a maxed-out world: Multitasking helps you get more done faster.

"When you perform multiple tasks that each require some of the same channels of processing, conflicts will arise between the tasks, and you're going to have to pick and choose which task you're going to focus on and devote a channel of processing to it," he explains.

Meyer has been at the forefront of research for several decades on how the brain processes information and copes with multitasking. He has investigated the brain's speed, accuracy and memory in information processing while working with psychologist David Kieras for the Office of Naval Research. A study Meyer co-wrote on the limitations of multitasking ("Executive Control of Cognitive Processes in Task Switching") went viral in 2001, setting off the first awareness of the counterproductivity of simultaneous activities.

Meyer's work has helped demonstrate that humans have distinct bandwidth challenges, which can make multitasking problematic. It turns out the brain's ability to process information is limited in a variety of ways -- from processing channels to limits on data volume, velocity and working memory -- that confound true, simultaneous task actions.

Counter to common belief, you can't do two cognitively complicated tasks at once, Meyer says. When you're on the phone and writing an e-mail at the same time, you're actually switching back and forth between them, since there's only one mental and neural channel through which language flows. "If you have a complicated task, it requires all your attention, and if you're trying to spread your attention over multiple tasks, it's not going to work," he says.

That's heresy in a time-urgent world with the attention span of a macaque on crack. Meyer admits that multitasking is not only getting more prevalent, but it's also "very often highly inefficient and can be dangerous to your health." Even the most adept multitasker will "crash and burn" trying to resolve simultaneous conflicting demands, Meyer says. That means you could wind up sending the wrong e-mail; blow an account; have a "brownout," in which too much access to the cerebral grid shuts down critical thinking; or worse, find yourself in a truly hazardous situation, such as driving while using a cell phone.

"When you're driving, you have to use the language channel to talk, read signs, plan your next move. If you're trying to have a cell phone conversation while you're doing that, either the phone conversation will suffer or the driving," Meyer says.

He points to the growing number of auto accidents caused by businesspeople sending work texts from behind the wheel. The conflicts triggeredby incessant multitasking can set off chronic stress and slow you down, shredding productivity. In fact, trying to complete two or more tasks at once can take 50 percent more time or longer, depending on the complexity of the tasks, Meyer says.

The good news is that there is hope for the attention-span-challenged, in the form of self-regulation through better time management and scheduling. "If you're disciplined enough, you can map out the usage of your time in a way that minimizes your exposure to interruptions," Meyer explains.

Entrepreneurs are some of the most compulsive multitaskers--"macho master multitaskers," as Meyer puts it -- but he says you'd be wise to cool the scatterbrain jets and focus.

"If you want to be a creative entrepreneur, you ought to be setting aside large chunks of time where you just think," he says. "Einstein was not multitasking when he was dreaming up the special and general theories of relativity."

Read more stories about: Productivity, Multitasking, Thought Leaders

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