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Y#43 October 1, 2015

Window for action loving PROFESSIONALS

Dear Readers

Greetings!We believe that Adam and Eve werethe first homo sapiens to arrive onplanet earth. What if they had stayedthe way they came? No creativethinking! No self development! Noprogress! Imagine status quo.Our ability to keep changingourselves for the better has madeour world finer and livable – idiots,lunatics and extremists, notwithstanding!Instead of expecting the world tochange, if we could try to bring thechange in developing ourselves, thecollective self-propelled efforts couldbe magical.The wand is in our hands.Time for animated drawing roomdialogues…Cheers,Rajiv [email protected]

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15 modern day SELF DEVELOPMENT

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Take Chargeor keep complaining…

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Self Development Quotes

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SELFDEVELOPMENT



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15 modern day

SELF DEVELOPMENT skills

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Self evaluation

You service your vehicles periodically. How often do you service your mind? High time to evaluate the way you are progressing! Be candid. Be blunt. Take responsibility.

Acronym SELF DEVELOPMENT is the intellectual property of Rajiv Khurana

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Embrace change

No one likes a change but change keeps happening. The mirror on your wall never lies. Look around, nothing has remained static. Avoid resisting. Go with the flow. Be proactive. Change faster than before.

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Look for opportunities

The world will remain busy with itself. No one will make you a hero. People may not even have the time to make you a zero. Each one on his own. Take charge. Look around. When you move, the tunnel ends.

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Focus on goals and priorities

Passing each day aimlessly won’t help you reach anywhere. Set your shorter destinations as part of your ultimate goals. Know clearly what will take you there. Set the priorities, keep achieving and enjoying.

Rajiv Khurana, CMC, FIMC



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Develop your personal brand

How people view you is important? Be conscious and act to build your image. Take charge of your time, attitude, behaviour, conduct and work habits. What you do and fail to do matters.


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Expressing for impact

What you say and How you say is vital. Create an impactful potpourri of your VERBAL, VOCAL and VISUAL skills. Read a lot and learn to write better. Write and speak at the level of peoples’ understanding.

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Vibrant creativity

Ignite your curiosity. Ask questions. Be a seeker and lap up all the learning that comes your way. Think often to make improvements around you. Small innovations around you would keep your vibrancy factor high.

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Expand self

Life cannot be what you have started with. Avoid being confined to the limited range of your education, experience, situation and circumstances. Take risk. Look beyond. Learn more. Explore and Expand exponentially.



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Lead and influence

There is enough happening around that extends you the ways to lead people and influence their lives. This will come back to you too in enhancing your calibre, capability and credibility.


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Orchestrating with people

You are not a Robinson Crusoe. You need people in your team, as your customers, families etc. Ally with them. Listen to them carefully. Respect them. Appreciate them. Propagate their accomplishments.

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Personal care and appearance

Do you like badly served food? Serve people the total you. Great in content. Great in packaging. Dress well. Look after your body. Exercise well. Eat well. Rest well. You will feel good. People will feel better.

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Motivate self

What may come from outside is just a bonus! Your intrinsic motivation counts. Keep your challenges high. Show them the ways you can turn out to be a winner. Consistently. You may fall. Strive better and higher.



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Enjoy a balanced life

When you work below your calibre, you rust out. When you work overboard, you burn out. Keep the optimum. Blend work accomplishments with time for family and friends. Work hard. Party harder.


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Neutralize negativity

All days can’t be the same. You may fail momentarily. Even people around you may doubt your pursuits, preparedness and results. Keep your focus. Retain your sanity. Keep walking…

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Tolerate ambiguity

This world has never been an ideal place. It would never be. Accept imperfections. Accept shortcomings in people around you. Think! You may even not be a perfect being in their eyes. Be perseverant. Tolerate.



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Kennedy had once said, “Ask not what the countrydoes for you, Ask what you do for the country.” Forcorporate citizens of the 21st century, this may soundstrange. Forget it. How about changing it to “Ask notwhat the company does for you, Ask what you do forthe company.” Forget it again. This sounds like anothersermon from the sage on the stage. Lets refine itfurther, “Ask what you do to yourself.” Now, this mayturn out to be a bit difficult to handle for a majority ofjunta who still feels that to train them is theresponsibility of the company, which it should do in aluxury hotel on a working day with specialarrangements like company conveyance or treatingthem on a tour status to earn the DA/TA.

Imagine, if the HIRE-TIRE-FIRE were really easy in India,how would the employers react? Simple logic. Theemployer would keep scouting for cheaper butproficient sources of service suppliers and there wouldbe no place for dead woods. The only rule that wouldapply in the industry would be to move up or moveout. Sounds similar to supply chain managementinitiatives where it is the responsibility of the supplierto keep doing its R&D for improving the quality andreducing the price. Thus, it will become theresponsibility of the individual to upgrade hisknowledge, skills, attitude and work habits in order toremain a marketable service provider. Therefore, totake charge of one’s development would be the onlystrategy left with individuals in order to survive andcontinuously keep climbing the success ladder.

Take Chargeor keep complaining…- Rajiv Khurana



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Such days are not far of. Some signs have started showing.We can still adopt the pigeon’s approach and keep our eyesclosed. But for how long? The reality would soon hit themajority that they and only they have the responsibility fortheir own self up-gradation. Rest of the talks would be all un-necessary. Mere excuses for in-actions or non-performance.

There is a common sense difference between growth anddevelopment. Growth is a natural process whileDevelopment requires a man made initiative. A child born inthe interior jungles of Madhya Pradesh and a child born in anaffluent Delhi family, would go through the natural cycles ofgrowth. The resources and efforts deployed by the Delhifamily would bring up a different personality geared upbetter for the modern day rigmaroles. People who join theorganizations grow with time. But people who succeed arethe people who make efforts to define their targets and worktowards accomplishing them. They deploy their limitedresources of time, money etc. to take responsibility of theirdevelopment. They know that their tomorrow depends onwhat they do in their present instead of hoping to reap theroyalty of their past performance. They take charge. Otherswatch them grow and at times, complain.

If you too are conscious of taking charge of yourself, keepthese points in mind:

1.Development is an ongoing process. No one learnsovernight. There are no short term keys available to sailthrough the exams. It is like cycling up-hill. If you stoppedaling, you will slide back. Coming down hill is easy. Just sitthere and do nothing.



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2.Responsibility for development starts from what youare doing and not what you would do when you get tothe next job. Today is the first day of the rest of yourprofessional life. If you have no satisfactory answer towhat you have added to your resume’ during the last sixmonths in your current job, stop fooling yourself. Youmay keep waiting for a better tomorrow that may nevercome.

3.Development is always self-driven. Unless of courseyour parents are owning the organisation. You takecharge of your relationships, holidays, entertainment,recouperation, etc. You won’t like anyone prescribingwhat you should do in any of these. Then why shouldyou leave the domain of development in the hands ofothers. It’s yours. The better you handle it, the betteryou can enjoy other things in your life.

4.Development must meet your needs along with thatof your team’s and your organization. You haveaspirations. Your team and your organisation haveexpectations. Align them properly so that everyone getsthe benefit. You will also derive the benefits when otheraround you take charge of their development.

5.Development is critical for everyone. Don’t do itbecause your HR department talks about it. Don’t view itas an action point for weak performers. Whether you arethe strongest or the weakest performer in theorganisation, you have a range of skills and talents thatrun from your best to your weakest. Development is theway to actively try to maximize your talents.



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6.Development is more effective when planned thanwhen left to chance. Your organsation would be arudder-less ship without a proper plan. So would you.You will need to blend direction and focus in your pursuitfor excellence.

7.Make development a part of your daily life.Development does not occur in a vacuum or as a tangentto work. You learn best when you see an immediateapplication for the skills you are trying to learn. The ageold maxim is still true – PRACTICE makes a man perfect.Another old maxim is still true – Only 5% of people makethings happen, 15% of the people watch what’shappening while the balance 80% of the people have noidea what’s happening. If you have read so far, youalready know that you do not belong to the rest 80%category. Retain your charge and keep it up…



“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”― Mahatma Gandhi

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“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”― Socrates

“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.”― Stephen R. Covey

“If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.”― T. Harv Eker

“Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.” ― Rodolfo Costa

“For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.”― Benjamin Franklin

“If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.”― Tommy Newberry,

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