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No one can live with pride under the sky and over the surface without the strong character to protect his life and to achieve final objective of the life.

You can have 100 definitions of character. If you asked 100 people what is character? You may get at least 50 components of character.

I try to focus on the following components to shape out character over the surface.

A) VALUES

B) CREDITABILITY

C) INNER-OUTER BALANCE

D) WALK ON TALK

E) STANDING TALL

We live with our core values everyday and throughout the life. Values indicate your beliefs and feelings. We must list out right now five values of our lives. I am greatly influenced by three persons: M.K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Swami Vivekananda because of their values.

These people have developed their personal creed and they follow every day. Can I have personal creed? Can I carry the copy of personal creed everyday in my pocket?

Henri Fredric Amiel says, “The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”

We all need inner balance. Inner balance is everything. That creates identity and creditability. We all must have habit to listen our inner voice. We all should follow inner voice, which creates external life in the world.

Conflict and contradiction in inner and external life make sure more miserable and make the life petty. Slowly, life is controlled by situations and conditions. So, we are unable to control the life, space control the life, which is the most saddest part of the onetime given life.

I think self-discipline can be a tool of personal compass, which leads us to the great living, and help us in achieving objective of the life.

Walk on talk is the sum total of all our everyday actions. It’s an interesting paradox of the life. Why people change their words? If we can talk on our own words, what is the fun in living with those words? And, every day I have to change my words? Why? Someday, sometime, we can understand, but every day, I have to change my words? So pathetic. For every changing words situation, I have logic and reason for defending my integrity. One of the saddest part of the life.

We should not be differing in promises and our deeds. Why we should create such differences in our life?

Can we live with walking on talking formula to live with pride? Can we refer diary and calendar?

How I will live in my absence?

I think character will not buried with you. It will live after you. This is true, weather you accept it or not it will not make any difference to the character on the surface.

Can we all stand tall in our own eyes and in the front of other one? We all have that talent; only few have not tapped it. Standing tall shall be an attitude. We should stand tall at every turn of the life, even in all adversity, even in all failures. We cannot discount our character in any condition of life on any day of the life.

“To move the world we must first move ourselves.” Asserted Socrates.

Whatever we are – or – neglect to do - will catch up with us in the end. Those who never often end up as an average person. Most of the people died with unused talent and potentiality within.

Leaders move themselves in the direction with speed. Now a day, speed is the way of living; if you are without speed, you are dead.

Leaders are always initiative. They took the responsibility for making things happen.

Who has not face setback? Who has not face problems and tough time? A day without challenges and obstacles never passed in the day of responsible leader. I think responsible leaders lead initiative quality. When you take initiative and face failure for number of times and seniors in the business houses fire you. What will be your next step? People quit some time or some people share with him, why you have taken initiative, who had told you to do it? Now do not do it, next time. Go in same space, without proactive quality.

Enjoy the living. See us we are here from last 40-50 years. You only do whatever is directed. Finish it and report. That is all.

We have to upgrade our standards to face challenges. We have to bigger our size than the size of the problem and confront it every day. Every day, we have to fight with challenges. Yes! Every day.

You will be never fired but you will certainly finish as an average person and will die with talent within. We should examine the people who died as an average person. Trust me, one of the reason will be, he was not taking initiative.

It is very difficult to become successful without initiative. Procrastination is the fertilizer that makes difficulties grows. How someone can achieve success with procrastination quality. Initiative is a tool of compass of the successful people.

President Theodore Roosevelt said, “Do what you can with what you have, where you are.”

We can start from any place. We cannot blame anyone for our life. Whatever we see, we feel, we achieve, we lose, we experience, we gain, we enjoy and we pain, we are completely responsible. Do not blame others for it. Blaming someone is an easiest job.

Let us start from the place, where we are and what we have. “If I have so …” is not a language of leader who has fixed up his priority along with his passion.

Weather you make mistakes or fail or face challenges or meeting problems, keep on going ahead with what you avail. Going ahead with unstoppable attitude is a true leadership.

Leader always asked question to himself, “What is the best use of my time right now?”

What can I do in present, which will shape my future? Remember, we all have to die, but when we die, we want to die with pride, satisfaction and pleasure. Leaders never do things which create ill and sick feelings at the end of their life.

Simple rule always followed is “What you start, finish.”

People quit because of problems, challenges and de-motivational events. Quitting is the easiest job. To blame from outside the court is a childish play. Anyone can play that game. It won’t give me any wonder.

Leaders do things with what they have and where they are. Remember, golden rule of life: “What you have physically had lesser value than what potentiality you have inside.”

Leaders are always doer. World can doubt your words but world will never doubt your actions. Leaders like formula of start + action.

Greek philosopher Plato said, “The first and the best victory is to conquer your own self.”

Travelling within and winning over yourself is the greatest victory. Discipline always shorts the distance between you and your accomplishment. What we are that discipline helps us to tap it and to put across the globe our potentiality. We cannot reach up to the fullest potential level without discipline.

“Jones  was 14 when he mastered the game of golf but he was 21 when he mastered himself. He was good enough to win over the tournament of golf but he was not able to control his temperament.” Said English Henry Parry Lidden.

The greatest victories are internal ones. “If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” Said Napoleon Hill.

Discipline will lead up to plan our future life. In true sense, discipline helps us In designing our destiny.
However great you are and how ever potential you are but you cannot tap your potentials up to maximum level without discipline. Potentiality is never enough to become legend or icon. We have to discipline dour self and we have to frame our selves to achieve decided goals and maximization of potentials. Discipline word came from German word “Disciple”. He who controlled him self will control the world.
The biggest tragedy in my eyes is we die with unused potentials and its burn with us. We can advance our selves and we can make the bridge between potentiality and accomplishment through discipline. World comes to know about our talent through discipline. It enables us to optimize potentiality which leads us to accomplishment.

“Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.” asserted Roy L. Smith Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. Discipline certainly helps us in showing to the world that what I am and what I can accomplish.

“Discipline enables us to follow up and accomplish the things which are pre determined. Greatness is inside us and we can show to the world by fixing an appointment with discipline,” said Harry S Truman quotes (American 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972).

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. Discipline certainly helps us in showing to the world that what I am and what I can accomplish.
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” Shouted Buddha.

Could it be that knowledge is overrated?

Don’t get me wrong — Knowledge is a good thing. But, there is a point at which it may be bad. Even the sturdiest shelf crumbles under the weight of too many books.

We can only comprehend so much. Our minds have limits in our ability to digest information, just as shelves are only meant to hold so many books. Too much knowledge undermines the greatest insights, the deepest conjectures.

Take an example of a graduate school. To earn my Masters degree, I had to write a lengthy thesis (hundreds of pages) to demonstrate a command of knowledge in a broad field. When it came time for my Doctorate, however, I was asked to take my thesis and condense it into a synthesis of that knowledge. Most people think that the process should be reversed — that writing 20 pages is easier than writing 200. But, the lesson is less about writing than it is about learning that information and knowledge are something to dissect and discard. And, that is the difference between knowing and understanding; between knowledge and wisdom.

Wisdom can be shattered by too much information. Great scholars, for instance, tend to be great in very narrow disciplines. These scholars give ground on colloquial information so that they can digest more within their field. In many ways, we are all idiot savants: our expertise in certain areas necessitates weakness elsewhere.

Yet, we still spend our days analysing information and falling into traps. Decisions are destroyed by over-analysis. The brain is not intelligent because of the sheer volume of data it can ingest, but for the way it can quickly discern patterns — and then guess the rest. The more information you pile on, the less likely you are to make educated guesses. But, educated guesses spring from wisdom: all of your past experiences, knowledge and know-how, coupled with the most recent information and analysis. In other words, wisdom comes from your gut.

Pile on too much information and you fall victim to one of two phenomena: On the one hand, you might make a decision focused only on what has been analysed because the abundance of information suppresses even the most relevant past experiences. This “knowledge trap” disregards our decision-making skills (often intentionally), opting instead for the logical decision-making of a computer or calculator. You see this often on Wall Street where quant jocks confidently grind data into machines, only to face an unlikely (but not unexpected) event — or what Nassim Taleb calls a “Black Swan” event. For those on Wall Street, this is often an unfortunate demonstration of the power of wisdom over knowledge. Just look what happened in the hedge fund industry in general or credit default swaps in specific as painful examples.

Or worse, faced with an abundance of information you fall victim to analysis paralysis — unable to make any decisions in the face of so much data. To be frozen by information is perhaps the single biggest risk of knowledge. Ancient Greek philosophers used to warn their children about this ailment and Peter Drucker did a good job of combating it in the business world. But is anyone really listening?

People often become victims of the “knowledge trap” or “analysis paralysis,” thinking they need to weigh every bit of information against all possible outcomes. Those people rarely make it very far. Those who avoid these traps — who realize they’ll never have all the answers no matter how much knowledge they gather — are often the ones who succeed.

Jeffrey M. Stibel is an entrepreneur, a brain scientist, and the author of Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet. He studied business and brain science at MIT Sloan and Brown University, where he was a brain and behavior fellow. Stibel has authored numerous academic and business articles on a variety of subjects and is the named inventor on the US patent for search engine interfaces. He was formerly President of Web.com and currently serves on academic Boards for Tufts and Brown University, as well as the Board of Directors for a number of public and private companies.

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