Hi friends..trying to share my experiences with you all as this worked extremely well for me:) Hope we all can benefit a bit from it.
Lesson No. 1. BE OPEN TO CHANGE
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough, so said Mae West
Have you ever thought that “Every Minute” of our Life (howsoever small) is a part of our Total Life span, hence I presume it should be Important to us and has a life of its own in other words that part of our life, dies at the end of that minute…sounds scary, but true.
Consider an average person, Each day we have 24 hours, of which we spend on an average 6-8 hours on our Bed (sleeping) & 1-2 hours in the most private place (Bathroom), further if our work place is not “home sweet home”, we spend on an average 1-2 hours travelling to & fro, so effectively we have 14-16 Hours per day, for doing something Extraordinary & by the way we also use that time to earn a living.
Those of us who have a corporate job have committed 8-10 hours out of the available time/day which is approximately 2/3rd of our potentially productive time. Imagine doing the same things again & again every day. Well nothing wrong with that, especially when you are getting paid for being consistent, except that the world is changing around us every Minute and now we learnt that a part of our Life history is getting buried in time with every passing minute.
You can say,” Okay ! I get it, but what am I supposed to do, I cannot change every minute that will be expecting too much.” well as long as we are open to change, that is good enough. Most of our life is about interactions with other people, whether at home or in the work place, and by default we all have different skill sets & different experiences.
So let’s start with improving our personnel interactions, to begin with... include the following steps in your day to day life, and they will work wonders for you:-
- Respect other’s opinions, Value the differences in your partners at work or home
- Be a good listener, in fact progress to becoming an Active listener; ask questions, lots of questions, remember as they say there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
- Be an avid observer, more than 50% of communication happens via body language
- Do not hold back yourself, if you like something, Be Genuine about your admiration & give a compliment, it works wonders in opening up people towards you.
- Be receptive to new ideas, Do not reject any idea, park it in your mind…sleep over it, chances are you might be able to see it from another angle.
IF we are open to change, applying these steps in Common day situations, we can improve not only our working environment but also improve our Home life, imagine if you get a comment from your partner, I notice something different about you…;), IMHO that is the best compliment!
Let's start Becoming better each day.. Thank you.