I would like to share with you highlights about a book by leadership guru Robin S. Sharma, the author whose The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari series, which has transformed the lives of thousands. The book “Who Will Cry When You Die’, which published last year, offering 101 simple solutions to life’s most complex problems, ranging from a little-known method for beating stress and worry to a powerful way to enjoy the journey while you create a legacy that lasts.
This could be a one among numerous how to do’s, and sure it can be a guiding light that leads you to a brilliant new way of living.
Here are some extracts from the 101 tips mentioned in the book :
The book opens with the advice that that if you don’t act on life, life will act on you. George Bernard Shaw was asked on his deathbed, “What would you do if you could live your life over again?” He replied with a deep sigh: “I’d like to be the person I could have been but never was.”
The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality of your choices and decisions, the ones that range from the career, to books you read, the time that you wakeup every morning and the thoughts you think during the hours of your days.
Honour your past : Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions. And thinking about all those things that you wish never happened to you is actually blocking all the things you want to happen from entering into your life.
Use life lessons to fuel your future growth. Happy people have often experienced as much adversity as those who are unhappy. What sets them apart is that they have the good sense to manage their memories in a way that enriches their lives. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcomed while trying to succeed.
Learn to Say No Gracefully: If your priorities don’t get scheduled into your planner, other people’s priorities will get put into your planner.
Start spending time with people who are passionate about what they are doing in their lives and dedicated in making the best out of life. With a healthy dose of inspiration, you will quickly raise your life to a whole new plane of living. Experiencing solitude, for even a few minutes a day, will keep you centered on you highest life priorities and help you avoid the neglect that pervades the lives of so many of us.
The first step to realizing a life vision is defining it. And the first step to becoming the person you want to be is identifying the traits of the person you want to be.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
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.
Live a Life: Rather than spending days judging the events and experiences of life as either good or bad, adopt a neutral stance and simply decide to accept them for what they are: a natural part of the path you are on. Rather than fighting adversity, accept it as the way of life. Why not detach yourself from the outcomes and simply experience every circumstance that enters your life to the fullest?. Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results.
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.
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.
Rule of 21: It takes about 21 days to develop a new habit. Yet most people give up on creating a positive life change after only the first few days when they experience the stress and pain that is always associated with replacing old behaviors with new ones. As human beings, we are genetically programmed to resist change and maintain a state of equilibrium.
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.
Stop Complaining and Start Living: If you are not as fulfilled or as happy or as prosperous or as peaceful as you know you could be, stop blaming your parents or the economy or your boss and take full responsibility for your circumstances. This will be the first step to a completely new way of looking at your life and the starting point of a better way to live.
Be More Than Your Moods: You are not your thoughts neither 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.
Seeing yourself as the CEO of your life can create a fundamental shift in the way you perceive your world. Instead of sailing through life as a passenger, you become the captain of the ship, leading things in the direction you choose to move in rather than reacting to the whim of the changing tides.
Stop Thinking Tiny Thoughts: If your are not pursuing your dreams, you are fueling your limitations. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Decompress Before You Go Home: After a day of stress and pressure at the office, most of us arrive home cranky, tired and dispirited. Taking ten minutes to decompress before you walk through the front door of your home will help you to avoid making this scenario a part of your daily routine. Remind yourself how much your partner and children need you and how many fun things you can do if you simply put your mind to it.
This book is very much confidence booster and it helps you if you are passing from bad patch in you life. You will definitely visualise your life in each chapter.
Other books like, Monk who sold his ferrari, is the one which really show you what exactly the meaning of life is all about.
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