I found this book by Robin S. Sharma very interesting.titled Who will cry when you die? I present some good points out of his book in my blog.https://dsbhaduri.blogspot.com Summary of which is highlighted below:
Discover your calling: One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.
Practice Tough Love: By being stricter with yourself, you will begin to live life more deliberately, on your own terms rather than simply reacting to life the way a leaf floating in a stream drifts according to the flow of the current on a particular day. The tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you.
Honor Your Past.
Start Your Day Well.
Learn to Say No Gracefully.
Think About Your Ideal Neighborhood: Take a moment to jot down some of the people Joining the “Five o’clock Club” will allow you to start controlling your day rather then letting your day control you.
Laugh More.
The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending our days searching for security and to start spending our time pursuing opportunity. Sure, you will meet with your share of failures if you start living more deliberately and passionately. But failure is nothing more that learning how to win.
Life is all about choices. Deeply fulfilled and highly actualized people simply make wiser choices than others.
Listen twice as much as you speak. A better listener builds a high-trust relationship and another advantage: since you are not doing all the talking, you are doing all the learning, gaining access to information you would have missed had you been engaged in the usual monologue.
If you are speaking and the person you are having a conversation with has not said something within the past sixty seconds, there is a good chance you have lost her and it’s time to stop talking so much.
Resist the temptation to interrupt. Catch yourself just before you do so and pay more attention to the content of what the other person is saying to you.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two, nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.
If you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.
While getting the things we want often does bring a measure of joy into our lives – it somehow misses the mark. The real value of setting and achieving goals lies no in the rewards you receive but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals. Enjoy the path of life while, at the same time, stay focused on meeting the personal and professional objectives.
Keep Your Cool: Anyone can become angry- that’s easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not easy.
Recruit a Board of Directors: Who would you invite to sit on your imaginary board of directors?
To get the best form life, you must be completely present and mindful in every minute of every hour of every day. Real generosity towards the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Get Good at Asking: He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn’t is a fool for a lifetime.
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Setting clearly defined goals provides you with a framework for smarter choices. If you know precisely where you are going, it becomes far easier to select those activities that will get you there.
Writing down your goals clarifies your intentions(a clear plan relieves you of the torment of choice), second, it keeps you alert to opportunities and the third reason goal-setting works is that clearly defined goals commit you to a course of action. They give you the inspiration to act on your priorities and make things happen in your life rather than waiting for opportunities to land in your lap(which rarely happens).
Just as a rocket uses more fuel during the first few minutes after lift-off than it does over the days that follow when it will cover more than half a million miles, once you get past those first 21 days you will find that staying on course with a new habit will be far easier tan you imagined.
We first make our habits and then our habits make us.
Stop Complaining and Start Living.
Stop complaining and start living.
Be Unorthodox.
Be More Than Your Moods.
Just as – you are not your thoughts, you are not your moods. You are the creator of the moods you experience, moods you experience, and moods that you can change in a single instant. If you choose to do so, you can feel peace in moment of stress, joy in a time of sadness and energy during a time of fatigue.
Stop condemning, criticizing, the most minute details and faults with smallest of issues, if focused on, grows in our minds until we perceive it to be a big problem in that person.
Take your life into your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Imagine a Richer Reality.
Become the CEO of Your Life.
Don’t Finish Every Book You Start:.
Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself: .
Discipline .
To maintain a healthy level of optimism and passion for life.
Become an Imposter.
Stop Thinking Tiny Thoughts.
Don’t Worry About Things You Can’t Change:.
Decompress Before You Go Home.