The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds:your mind transcends limitations your conciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new great wonderful world"

"Quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts"

"There are no mistakes- only lessons. See setbacks as opportunities for personnel expansion"

The Techniques:

(i) Opposition Thinking (think positive when you are in negative mood).

(ii) The secret of lake (Imagine total day in advance)

Good Quote: "Secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it"

Follow your purpose

Set clearly defined personnel, professional and spiritual goals, and then have the courage to act on them.

Good Quote: "YOu will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see"

Techniques:

(i) Write goals on a piece of paper.

(ii) 5 step method for attaining goals.

- Imagine mental image of outcome of goal.

- Get some positive pressure (Pressure can inspired you to achieve great ends).

- Attach a timeline to a goal.

- Follow majic rule of 21(if we repeat same action daily for 21 days it will become our habit).

- Take every experience as a lesson.

Self Leadership

1. Do things you fear.

2. 10 Rituals of self leadership (or) 10 Rules to Self Leadership

i) Gym exercises 5hrs a week.

ii) Yoga 30mins (breating exercises or pranayama)

iii) Vegetables , Fruits & grains should be part of the meal.

iv) Read 1hr daily to upgrade the knowledge in interested areas.

v) During the day end write all actions done by self and do self assessment for improvement.

vi) practice to wakeup early (i.e. sleep daily not more than 6-7 hours).

vii) Start day very positively with music " Spend every day like last day in life"

viii) Spoken word (Self affirmations work like mantras to reach our targets)

for exmaple: " I am inspired, disciplined & energized".

ix) "You sow a thought, you reap an action

Reap and action, you sow a habit.

Sow a habit, you reap a character.

Sow a character, you reap your destiny."

Do little things every day to build character.

x) Last but not least important principle is "Live a Simple Life".

-Focus only on priorities & activities truly meaningfull.

-Reduce your needs, unless you reduce your need you will never be fulfilled.

Time Management

i) The Ancient Rule of 20( 80% of the our results depends on only 20% of tasks what we do daily).

ii) Have the courage to say 'No' (learn to say to the things which are not important and not urgent)

iii) The death bed mentality (Live like today is last day in life and do what ever you can finish before end of the day)

For Richer Relationships

i) Practice daily acts of kindness

ii) Give to thos who ask.

iii) Cultivate Richer relationships by remembering the most important days(like birthdays, marriage anniversaries). Also small tokens of affections to members of family & friends is must to show our affection.

iv) Practice gratitude and grow your destiny.

v) Finally Live in present not in past or future.