Urgent!...Urgent...!!! or is it?

For creating a positive brand socially, one has to feel positive internally. No separate meditation, yoga routine or attendance to a motivational lecture needs a share of your time/wallet. The simple trick is to prioritize your daily work as per important ones first and not urgent ones. You will see that you will be more productive than ever before leading to a satisfied soul which will will reflect as a good brand in social mirror.

The graph above is edited version of chart given by Sir Stephen Convey Sr., renowned management guru and author of 'Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'. He proposed devoting less time to the dinky tasks, even those that are urgent but not important & more time to those things that are really important to you. An exercise he suggested is:

1. On 20-30 separate note cards mention all the tasks/goals, no matter how large or small.
2. Divide the pile in two columns; one to be done now and one to be done later.
3. Now, carefully scrutinize both the piles as important and unimportant.

Start working on the first quadrant tasks, and dump the non important & non urgent tasks. The confusion to prioritize the tasks is between the remaining two quadrants. So, Start scheduling the activities that are important to you instead of urgent, unlike the common struggles.

Planning to live this way is one thing and changing the habits of thought and action is another. The problem lies where the tasks that seem unimportant to you might be of a great importance to someone else. Assume that a mother of a 3 month old, is in a birthday party of a cousin. The baby starts to cry exactly when it is time to cut the cake. Rather than witnessing the blowing of candles, it is important for the mother to find out what's wrong with her baby. Cutting of cake, obviously, being a one time event of the evening, was urgent to attend, but it was not as important to the mother as to the birthday girl. If you tend to include other people's priorities in your decision making, you shall never find yourself untangled from the urgent but unimportant work. Do the things that are important to you and only you. 

When I suggest this to clients, they look at me as if I have promised them a unicorn! But soon they start experiencing the worth of neglecting/delegating the unimportant things, and quote their life to be less stressful and more blessed.

Try this yourself and let me know your experience and suggestions in the comment section. Awaiting a world prioritizing as per importance of events.

The Missing Tile Syndrome

Imagination separates human being from other animals. It is this imagination that has lead to so many advancements and scientific discoveries. Mankind could achieve extra-ordinary things through a gradual learning process. He focused on what is required to survive and added comforts to his life through finding gaps between what he had and what he wanted.

This quality is so intrinsic that now most of the humans have a tendency to concentrate on what is missing in life more than being happy for what they have..!! 

Mr. Dennis Prager (Radio talk show host & Author) recognizes it as "The Missing Tile Syndrome". He explained this theory by putting up a very simple example. If a tile is missing, in a room of otherwise perfect ceiling, a person tends to concentrate on the missing block. Unlike the ceiling, life can not be made perfect; as the list of missing tiles in life, is endless. 

There will always be some tiles missing in our life, how much ever we try! Traits in spouse, our work, our looks, our car and on and on...

I feel this human trait is good if used in a constructive way, otherwise becomes obstacle on our way to happiness. Acceptance of missing tiles would be the first but sure step towards a happy life.

So try to start your day on the right note, things will automatically start falling into place.

Jot down 3 things that you are grateful for, in the morning or 3 amazing things that happened in the day, at night; for a week, 
and feel free to share your experiences in the comment boxes below.