Have you decided to grow? Congratulations. It’s a major decision. Rest is all about how you do it. Let’s read on. To realise that you can make a powerful impact on your life without your main concerns should be the following.

1. Do you want to improve the pattern of your life?
2. Do you find your decisions are not leading to any fruitful outcome?

A good happy and stable life is an outcome of choice you make when they are made by yourself at your will. Your thought process effects your life decisions. Each time you make a wrong decision, each time you delay, whenever you procrastinate or whenever you prefer partying over learning, remember, you are prohibiting a powerful impact that you can possibly make. The planned tasks are done on time. One cannot afford procrastination if completion is a must.

We see a lot of people organised. They get their tasks done. The plans for upcoming weeks are ready. Not just ready in mind but jotted down in diaries and followed through religiously.
You find you’re not content while others achieving more, it can be even the smallest of the job but you are unable to do it.

Have you thought what stops you?
The answer is yourself; it’s you who stop yourself from making your life better. But the good news is it’s only you who can revive it. So you can rejoice about it by following through certain steps.
Create a vision for yourself.
It’s a must. Where and how do you see yourself in coming years has to be given a deep thought. It is necessary to determine to understand whether the tasks that you are doing now will enable you to become that or no. In absence of this vision, one will not value your tasks at hand currently.
So here’s how you can go about creating a vision.

1. Think of long term. Begin with coming 5 years of your life and how you want these 5 years to look like. Long range thinking requires 3 things.

• Patience: Patience is a virtue. With calm mind listen to yourself. Never take any decision hastily. Be it a decision of applying for job, be it crafting your job or be it leaving a job. None of these can be taken without patience. Patient thoughts also enable you to realise exactly whose opinions you should seek when you want to reach out for help. As not everyone around suggests you something that’s in sync with your thoughts and capabilities.
• Focus: perform for what you want. Without this ingredient how can one even be on their track? Let nothing deviate your action mode, attention and priority that you have set.
• Visualisation: a fire in you must seek clarity on what and how you want things in your life. It’s a cornerstone for your achievement that you going to earn tomorrow. PRACTICE VISUALISATION! Of course, with the focus and patience.

Precision planning
Being precise means being accurate, and not relying on estimates and possibilities. Vague thoughts need to be converted into precise plans. During this process, some unnecessary thoughts which are simply clouding your mind get discarded if not intended to be acted upon. So, firstly set realistic and specific goals, make list as per priorities. To make it easy, break these priorities into small tasks. Mention deadlines for each of these tasks. This way you have a precise plan and direction to move in. In precision planning ensure that all your completions are quantifiable. If you are able to measure your progress then only you know where to put more efforts in case of any gaps.

Do not ignore the early warning signs.
Don’t let anything hinder yourself from making a powerful impact. For that, take care of the following things:

1. Don’t let anyone force a goal on you.
2. Don’t ruminate over goals that failed in past. Every day is a new opportunity, make best use of it.
3. Don’t underestimate any task that you are doing. It means that your involvement should only be in useful tasks that do not deserve your underestimation.
4. Don’t be rigid. Have flexible plans. The world today is VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, ambiguous)

Ending with a note for every reader and that is: be open to suggestions and healthy discussions with people who genuinely wish success for you. Not everyone wants you to be growing. It’s rare to find supporters. Yet you must not give up.
A mentor’s guidance is priceless. Hence we are always there to help you out.

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Contributed by :
Aishwarya Kamalapurkar
Email: info@mentorsbaket.com