“LHP”-A method for Being productive in each hour of life

Being productive means, to ensure each and every hour of a day, of our life, contributes to enhancement of our life. What does enhancement mean, it means to uplift our mental, physical, spiritual, social or financial well-being. As per our priority or perspective towards any of the above areas of our life, we try to attain a higher level of knowledge or take actions, to uplift our self to an another level. Simple way is to, ask our self after each hour, if the last hour that I have spent, is any way contributes to the growth our life in any of the aspect in terms of our mental, physical, spiritual, social or financial well-being. If the answer is “NO”, we are wasting our time and will soon feel exhausted and meaningless.

I call this method as “LHP”, (last hour productivity).  To better implement this method we need to have a set of goals that we have written down, based on our mental, physical, spiritual, social or financial needs. Once we have our set of goals (at least 10 goals in each area of life). Once we start our day, after each hour, we can write down what we have done in last hour, against each set of goals. For example, below are few sample goals and last hour contribution to it-

Goal: Health- Weight loss by 10 KG by next 60 days: Last Hour contribution- Walked for 20 Min. 40 Min Yoga Etc.

Goal: Knowledge: Read one book per week: Last our contribution: Read a chapter of a book. View 20 min video in your subject of interest, etc.

Goal: Financial: To learn investment: Read about value investing and mutual fund etc.

Impact of this LHP is compounding and extraordinary. We can understand this with a very simple example.  If you read 60 minutes each day, you will be able to complete one book a week on an average. A book per week on average would be a 50 books a year, to get a PHD at a leading university in any subject, you have to read about 30 to 50 books and combined them to a dissertation. If you read 30 to 50 book in your field in a course of a year, you get the equivalent of a doctoral degree, whether in selling, business or entrepreneurship or any other field. 

If we, self-analysis our last our activity on a regular basis for 21 days it will become a habit and it will become a part of our subconscious mind. Once it become a part of subconscious mind, our mind will automatically remind us, if we engage our self in any activity which is not linked with our sets of goals.  As a result of this we will only engage our self, in those, activity that will uplift our life. This is life changing, it will change our life fundamentally.

The fundamental difference with normal “end day review” methods or “check list” methods is that, in “LHP”, it can be convert to a habit and link with your subconscious mind.

Are your skills are based on right principle?

There are thousands of books that talks about attitude, self-discipline, time management skills and techniques to grow in life. These books are designed to help you in that part of life, where you think you need better techniques or skill to get success. For example, if you are a student and you think that you need to improve your communication skills and you can pick a book written on communication and learn some skills to improve. If you are in sells and want to develop your selling skills, you can pick a book on selling skills.  But the missing thing, in this ocean of self-help book is that there are thousands of books and thousands of techniques, but nowhere you will get a fundamental rule or principle to follow, which will guarantee success.

The skill sets are learnable and it may work for a person but may not work for other. For example, selling is a learnable skill, but all those who learn the skills, does not test success. But as per this books if you learn a skill, you should be successful in that area. The reason is simple; you have only learned the skill but not gone through the universal principle you need follow in this profession. The core principle of selling profession is honesty. If your service or product is not based out on honesty and wellbeing, it will bound to fail, even if you learn and apply, best of the best, selling skills and tool to success.

To kept it simple, skills are only useful it correctly blends with the principle that is lying behind it. 

What is principle-

Principle are universal and it does not change person to person. Skills are, set of techniques that develop as per the potential of the person who practice that.

There are set of principle with every field of our life-

For example, best social and ethical principle that we learn from childhood are, honesty, interiority, morality, sympathy, empathy, kindness etc. These principles are universal and base of any society in the world.  As a part of society we need to follow this principle.

As we said principle are universal, it means, these are the core of our sole existence. If your learned skill sets are not aligning with these principles, you are bound to fail.

Principle vs skills:

There are thousands of books that talks about attitude, self-discipline, time management skills and techniques to grow in life. These books are designed to help you in that part of life, where you think you need better techniques or skill to get success. For example, if you are a student and you think that you need to improve your communication skills and you can pick a book written on communication and learn some skills to improve. If you are in sells and want to develop your selling skills, you can pick a book on selling skills.  But the missing thing, in this ocean of self-help book is that there are thousands of books and thousands of techniques, but nowhere you will get a fundamental rule or principle to follow, which will guarantee success.

The skill sets are learnable and it may work for a person but may not work for other. For example, selling is a learnable skill, but all those who learn the skills, does not test success. But as per this books if you learn a skill, you should be successful in that area. The reason is simple; you have only learned the skill but not gone through the universal principle you need follow in this profession. The core principle of selling profession is honesty. If your service or product is not based out on honesty and wellbeing, it will bound to fail, even if you learn and apply, best of the best, selling skills and tool to success.

To kept it simple, skills are only useful it correctly blends with the principle that is lying behind it. 

What is principle-

Principle are universal and it does not change person to person. Skills are, set of techniques that develop as per the potential of the person who practice that.

There are set of principle with every field of our life-

For example, best social and ethical principle that we learn from childhood are, honesty, interiority, morality, sympathy, empathy, kindness etc. These principles are universal and base of any society in the world.  As a part of society we need to follow this principle.

As we said principle are universal, it means, these are the core of our sole existence. If your learned skill sets are not aligning with these principles, you are bound to fail.

Know yourself to know the world!

 “It’s does not matter, where you are coming for, all that matter is where you are going”- Brian Tracy

I am here today to let you guys give a prospective about how your own thinking decide what you will achieve in your life. It's not your education nor your background but only and only your thoughts.

To grow and develop yourself, you should know your own potential. You should know your purpose. You should know that one thing, that one thing, if you are asked to do or will love to do endless time, without feeling bored or drained out.

The problem lies here, many of us never tried to know our self or may be do not even know any methods to know our own self. In today's era of Facebook, Instagram and snapchat, we are so occupied with other's notion and hypnotize by the showbiz of the media and content creator that we are constantly try to imitate others and focus on getting instant gratification through likes and view. In doing so, many of us feel demotivated or developed low self-esteem in course of time. Main reason for this is, because you give yourself to hand of other people to decide your worth. If other like your post, you feel good and try do that again, but if you don't get that, you feel demotivated and mental asylum.

If you are reading this, you are one among those, who has realized that, it’s time to get out of the red zone and start with something that is valuable and satisfying in nature. To start with, first thing is to know yourself with few simple steps. I can promise, if follow the steps as you read this, you will feel the difference and develop a deep sense of self-worth and will feel motivated to start something that you have kept for long to begin with.

Here we go, in this step, you go back to your childhood and start writing your experience or achievement in below format-

1.       The experience that you have learned being a part of a big or small family. The experience and learning from your relatives.

2.       You experience of school life, school friends, sports, teachers anything that you can remember.

3.       Your college days’ experience, being in campus or that of hostel.

4.       Your initial job life struggles or learning. So on….

You can do this exercise writing your experience just in some simple bullet format.

For example,

# I have experience of completing my schooling from a government school.

# I have experience of being member of a big family.

# I have experience of being part of school cricket team.

# I have experience of college hostels so on and so forth…….

If you write down your all your experience in a sequential way from your childhood to current date, you will see that you have some unique experience, which you don’t see in any of your close group of people. That were the experience, which differentiate you from others, that way, you all together have different story to tell, in short you are unique and you deserve to be proud of yourself.