MASTERING YOURSELF


MASTERING YOURSELF

Lao Tzu said and I quote: “Mastering others is strength but mastering yourself is true power.”

If you plan to get more powerful in this New Year, then please stop and read this piece.

Rule 1: Meditate Every Morning and Night.

Plan to meditate for 30 minutes to one hour every morning and evening. While you are at it, keep a notepad and write down any thoughts that come to your mind.
Someday in the future, I know you will thank me for this.

Rule 2: Tell yourself that you are the Captain of Your Life.

After meditating and before leaving home, remind yourself that you are in charge of your life and that no one can make you feel lesser than yourself. 

The reason is this: life is tough, only those that are mentally tough will survive. Imagine that you are a cell tower and you are receiving signals, my advice is: choose to receive positive signals, so that you can soar higher every day.

Rule 3: Write down what you really, really want to achieve.

You want to be very powerful, then know what you really, really want from life.

In fact subject what you want to achieve the 5 whys as proposed by Sakichi Toyoda. 

Ask yourself why you are doing this and get 5 responses from yourself before you proceed.

The message is this: Better to be a meaningful specific, than a wandering generality. 

The only reason why men fail is broken focus or the will to do so many things, yet achieve nothing.

Rule 4: Set goals

I like to share a quote from Brian Tracy that said: “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!”

Imagine that for every goal you set and deliberately work on, you gain time, you move with so much energy and you accomplish more.

Rule 5: Know Yourself
Knowing yourself prepares you for a life of fulfillment, because I believe the most important thing in gift in life is for you to be happy.

In order to know yourself, I suggest that you understand your personality, know your values, dreams and goals in life.

One way to understand your personality is to undertake the human metrics personality test developed by Carl Jung and Myers Briggs.

Kindly try a free assessment using this link: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

Rule 6: Put Rule 1 to 5 together and go out there with a winners Mindset

After taking the personality test and knowing your true self, you will be inspired to really sit down and set the right goals and plans, which would have passed through a pre-meditated quiet time and in a very positive environment.

Now that you are now a master of yourself, Go out there and WIN BIG.


P.S: I believe that in approximately 365 days from today, you would look back and be glad you took some time off your busy schedule to master yourself.

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