Rule of 21

Dear friends,

Six pws were attended the Chennai chapter meeting held on 20th Dec’2009. One pws attended along with his wife and one is a new pws. I started the discussion with importance of setting goals and time frame to achieve anything in life.

Last week only I completed reading the book of “THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERRERI” by ROBIN SHARMA. Really a wonderful book and I was very much impressed with a easy way of achieving anything in life. I recommend everyone to read this book.

I requested pws to tell about their goal one by one. The 1st pws informed that he want to earn more money and wanted to spend half the amount for social welfares. He wanted to buy a car and a house in near future. He also wanted to become a director. Really a great ambitions. I suggested to him that to set the goals more specific with a reasonable time frame to achieve it. I suggested to him for example, earning Rs.2 lahks per month in 5 years time, buying a house in Ramnagar in 3 years and buy a Santro car in one year.

If we set our goal more specifically, then the nature will help us accordingly. After that, all pws told about their specific goals with reasonable time frame to achieve it. Then I taught about the speech therapy which I learned from Mr.Balasubramaniam and requested them to practice one hour in the morning for atleast 6 months to feel improvements.

Then Mr.Hasanad told about the importance of cultivating reading habit atleast half an hour a day especially self improvement books which will have positive impact on our mind set throughout the day. In fact I am in the reading habit of more than 40 years and might have read over 500 books.

Finally the wife of that pws has spoken about TISA activities. She was very much impressed and very happy about attended the meet. She informed that she never bothered about her husband’s stammering and also happy that he now making efforts to overcome it.

Here I would like to inform about some simple techniques which I learnt from Robin Sharma book for the benefit of others.

1. Setting of goals.

Setting of clearly defined goals will serve to motivate, inspire and guide you as you reach for what you want out of life. Goals serve as your personal lighthouse. Without them, you are gambling with your future.

2. Success Mechanism

Every person has a success Mechanism built into their mind. This device works with your creative imagination and is goal striving. In other words, the success mechanism is triggered by positive goals that you give to it.

The mechanism is guided by the mental images of your past experience. For example, if you were asked to give a big speech at the last convention you attended and fumbled badly, a mental picture of that event has been indelibly etched in your mind. You may have played and replayed the mental movie of the negative speech over and over until it become embedded it. Now when you have to give another speech, the mechanism scans for relevant information and comes up with this negative picture which often has the result of leading to another unsuccessful performance.

HOWEVER THE SUCCESS MECHANISM CAN BE FOOLED. It cannot tell the difference between a mental picture that has actually happened (ie your bad speech) and one that put into the mind by dreaming and visualizing.

Therefore by visualizing yourself over and over , giving the perfect speech to thunderous applause and cheers, the mechanism picks up this “past experience” and powerfully ensure that it becomes a reality. Using this little-known knowledge, you can re-program your mind, which is really nothing more than the world’s most powerful computer by picturing in your mind’s eye the achievement of each and every one of your goals.

3. Rule of 21

If you do anything for 21 days in a row, you will have an excellent chance of making it into a habit. There is power in PERSISTANCE. Whether you are trying to erase the worry habit, develop the discipline of a daily walk in a natural setting or trying to quit smoking preserve for 21 days. It will become a habit afterwards without putting any efforts.

For better understanding of everyone, the above principles are given in a nutshell as below.

1. Set your personal and professional goals specifically.

2. Set reasonable time frame to achieve it.

3. Write it down in a paper daily for 21 days.

4. Read the above article for 21 days.

Do not miss for even a single day without doing the above. You can see yourself the amazing results after 21 days.

START NOW. TODAY IS THE DAY FOR YOU. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Best wishes to everyone.Regards,
V. Manimaran
Mobile: 098842 89989