Great Tips for Success and Happiness
Culled from various sources after research and study
By Shah Nawaz Khan, Editor, Weekly Fraternity Briefs
Ladies First
(1) Do not cry. No matter what.
(2) Use your appearance to create an image of strength.
(3) Develop staying power.
(4) Specialize.
(5) Don't wear your sex like a badge on your sleeve.
(6) Put in more time than anyone else.
(7) Be loyal. (8) Be a team player.
(9) Never use your family as an excuse.
(10) Learn how to be a manager.
(11) Network.
_Dianne Feinstein (b. 1933), U.S. politician.
General Tips
1. Goal setting always works. Your goals and objectives must be challenging requiring extra ordinary effort on your part. They may appear to be out of reach but should not out of sight.
2. Your goals must be supported and followed by plans of action. You must plan your actions and act on your plans.
3. Write down your goals for business, hobbies, family, social activities and your entire life. Break them into target for the day, week, month and the year and evaluate your progress every day. Keep on modifying your goals and target and adding new ones or deleting old ones.
4. Resolve and affirm and keep on reaffirming that after 6 to 8 hours sound sleep, you will utilize every moment available to you productively.
5. Keep on practicing positive thinking and approaches and framing such subtle and gentle questions the response for which would be, "yes"". Ponder over it and keep practicing how you can get other person to answer yes.
6. Be a good listener. Let the other person do most of the talking.
7. Throw challenges indirectly and appeal to noble motives.
8. Punctuality helps you in winning but you lose a lot being late.
9. Avoiding snap decisions will save you from losses and embarrassment. But indecision or not making a decision in time would cause more damage.
10. You must get all the relevant facts to arrive at a decision but remember that in most cases an imperfect decision may be better than 'No decision'.
11. "Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious". _B. C. FORBES.
12. Executive ability has been defined to be "making quick decisions and getting somebody else to do the jobs." And art of delegation is said to be art of management.
13. Never tell a person that his opinion is wrong. Show respect for the opinions and convictions of others.
14. Don't entangle yourself in an argument. You may sometime win an argument but lose a friend or customer. By avoiding argument you have little to lose.
15. If your mistake or error of judgement comes to light admit it quickly and graciously.
16. Greet people with a broad smile and warm handshake. But be careful, many ladies do not like to shake hands with men. However, practically every woman feels pleased with a compliment.
17 Be generous with praise and avoid criticism. But point out mistakes or errors subtly and gently (in privacy as far as possible) if that is going to create embarrassing situation later.
18 Find some reason to praise something. It may be a dress or some new possession.
19. Be sincere and honest, as that will be reflected by your facial expressions while you talk.
20. Watch carefully body language or gesticulation of successful people, leaders, etc. Do not imitate them but try to develop your own style. Body language helps others in understanding what you try to convey.
21 In written communication a neat style, simple and straightforward approach and simple language free from grammatical mistakes will pave the way for convincing others.
22. Be sympathetic with other person's ideas and desires. That will help in developing feelings of mutual trust and understanding.
23. Keep on learning new things and watch the developments in your field of expertise or business. Even great scholars and scientists do that.
24. One of the best ways to get happiness is to make the people around you happy.
25. Count the blessings of God that you have and think of misfortunes and miseries of the people around you and thank the Almighty that you are better than many.
26. Always remember that feelings of disappointment, remorse and discontentment are
temporary and time is a great healer but you must pray and meditate. That will help in working out a plan to get happiness.
27. Learn to control anger and anxiety. Take a shower or wash your face with a wet towel when these emotions overtake you.
28. Take part in social and cultural activities and make acquaintances with strangers preferably asking your friends to introduce you to the people you want to meet. Don't be shy in approaching the strangers if you have to. After all you are as important a guest or visitor as the others. Exchange visiting cards after exchanging pleasantries but before parting or shaking hands to say bye.
29. Ring up the new acquaintance after a day or two just to renew contact and invite for tea or something, or just send a small note.
30. Make conscious effort to get rid of bad habits like smoking, drinking, gambling etc. Pray to
God to give you power of faith. With that power you can move mountains.
31. Do what you love, love what you do and deliver more
than you promise.' --Harvey Mackay
32. Always bear in mind that the world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
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I think contentment and happiness travel together. Some from long ago, who was far wiser than me (Epicurus) gave a prescription for contentment in three simple parts :
(1) Examine your life, know what you believe, understand your purpose and
(2) have sufficient resources to survive and
(3) Be involved in significant relationships i.e. friends, family, those who love you
Perhaps if we can be satisfied in these broader goals the rest of life will sort itself out?
Peter (from Australia)
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Ellie Adam
Earl Nightingale gave what I think is the best definition of happiness
I have ever heard – “Happiness is the progress achievement of a worthy
ideal or goal.” When you are working little by little, step by step
towards an objective that is important to you, you produce within
yourself an unremitting feeling of success and achievement.
_Tracy Brinkmann
Your Altitude in life depends on your Attitude.
Experience and studies indicate that attitude is one of the traits that separates average sales people and businessman from their highly successful colleagues. Many people believe that it's true in life in general, not just insurance sales or marketing.
Think about the happiest, most successful people you know. How do you usually find them? Are they
depressed, negative, or even apathetic? No. Not in most cases. They're usually enthusiastic, smiling, and positive about life.
People with the "right" attitude have a consistently positive outlook about life, about their
jobs, about what they're doing. They are constantly looking for results and taking responsibility. People who have the RIGHT attitude take responsibility for their
lives. They don't pin their failures on others. And they treat each failure as a precursor of
the great successes to come in its wake.
Building relationships holds a high place for most of us, especially those concerned
with marketing and sales. We want relationships based on trust and integrity with clear
communication, empathy and understanding. Policyholders expect that their interests
would not be sacrificed for the benefit of the agent or the company. And the sales
people who gain confidence of their clients not only obtain references but also get repeat
sales.
Successful sales people maintain great relationship not only with their clients and prospects but also their colleagues in the office.
Treat Health as a state of complete physical, mental as well as spiritual and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
The psychologists can help us to
improve our abilities such as being able to motivate oneself and others, to persist in the face of frustrations; to control impulse and delay gratification; to regulate one's moods and keep distress from swamping the ability
to think; to empathize, to hope and build confidence. But we don't need the help of psyshologists if our faith in Almighty God is strong. Prayers and meditation do help
most of us in achieving lasting happiness and peace of mind.
Nothing recedes like success. Bryan Forbes, British author and actor was right in saying that. Success spoils people if they become vain, arrogant, short tempered, egotistic, and self-complacent. They retain success, who for the most part remain devpted, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
As ERICA GOODE wrote:"Scientists have spent decades arguing over whether intelligence is best conceived as a generalized ability or as the capacity to excel in particular areas of mental,
social or emotional functioning.
The debate encompasses a variety of incendiary issues, including whether I.Q. tests have any value, and it is likely to continue."
What I have not been able to understand that how many fools are money-wise and become rich@
There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.
_Marie Dressler (1873–1934), U.S. actor. My Own Story,
Man can sucess only through the spritually manners, Material Happiness exhaust within a short period and man try to gain more material benifits but in spiritual manners man gets real success which never exhausts. The spiritual manners are to believe in Allah, be steadfast, and think about the creation of life.
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