Thursday, February 25, 2010

How to use the Book

HOW TO USE THE BOOK

The book, specially made for busy people, shall help in successful performance, each day, during the whole year. To ensure success use this book as it is meant. You cannotexpect better results unless you follow the procedure explained.

Prepare each morning, or better still the previous night, a schedule of important things to be done during the course of the day. While preparing the schedule write first things first, as per priority you could think of. Divide your time correctly between different activities to ensure one work at a time. Do not overcrowd your schedule. Have some blank-time for unexpected calls and emergencies.

As soon as the day's work begins tackle these things first, leaving the remaining work to be taken in hand after the more urgent items listed in the schedule have been attended to. Look to your diary frequently during the day, ticking off each item as disposed of. Carry forward the undisposed jobs to the next day.

What to note in the Diary

Note the important among following items in your Diary each day :-

1. Appointments and interviews.
2. Meetings and Conferences.
3. Reports to be submitted.
4. Promises made.
5. Persons to write to.
6. Persons to telephone to.
7. Urgent jobs to attend to.
8. Follow up of jobs/ideas.
9. Ideas and suggestions, from visitors/employees/telephones, that call for action.
10. Flashes of inspiration or brain waves.

Faithfully maintaining Diary will ensure regularity of work and maximum utilisation of available time. In the present day multifarious duties and multitude of engagements one is likely to slip some important items unless he "writes everything down" and follows the progress minutely. Therefore, make full use of Diary by maintaining it as explained above. This will have the added advantage of being retained as a personal record. On many occasions it will act as a crutch for an over-taxed memory about the past transactions, names' and time sequences.

Success

SUCCESS THROUGH THIS BOOK


Success is probably one of the most common of the goals of mer. We succeed by association with those of greater experience and by making available to ourselves the oral and written expression of the wise. We grow by reading and studying purposefully, and finally we grow by quiet period of thought and meditation in which we assimilate our daily experiences and our newly acquired knowledge.

Keeping in view and to enable you to develop your potentialities that are essential for the success of a man, we have included chapters on the following topics :-

1. EFFECTIVE USE OF TIME. 8. CREATING NEW IDEAS:
2. THE USE OF SPARE MOMENTS. 9. DECISION MAKING.
3. THE ART OF READING. 10. SUCCESS.IN HANDLING PEOPLE.
4. THE ART OF SPEAKING, 11. SECRETS OF SUCCESS,
5, THE ART OF WRITING. 12. PERSONAL EFFICIENCY.
6. THE SUCCESSFUL LISTENING. 13. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS OF EFFICIENCY.
7. THE SHARPENING OF THE MEMORY.14. HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY.

Several persons never have the opportunity or time to read books on self-improvement. As this will be their constant companion they would be tempted into reading these chapters while on tour' or in their spare moments.

You may read each of these chapters a number of times, since a single reading is not considered adequate. Then, while you go to work try to experiment with the ideas explained therein. There are many pages in the book to note your experiences. It will help you in evaluating your day's or month's performance and in devising improvements. You will find while going through the back pages of this book that you had good as well as bad days, success as well as failures.

At the end of the year have an assessment about the success achieved during the year. In this connection remember that success should not be measured with job progress or accumulation of riches. It is an individual matter and must always be determined by the degree in which a specific person has reached his own potentialities.