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And almost certainly could be, even though I’m 58 years old. Until recently, I never believed that was possible. For most of my adult life, I’ve accepted the incredibly durable myth that some people are born with special talents and gifts, and that the potential to truly excel in any given pursuit is largely determined by our genetic inheritance.

During the past year, I’ve read no fewer than five books — and a raft of scientific research — which powerfully challenge that assumption (see below for a list). I’ve also written one, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, which lays out a guide, grounded in the science of high performance, to systematically building your capacity physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

We’ve found, in our work with executives at dozens of organizations, that it’s possible to build any given skill or capacity in the same systematic way we do a muscle: push past your comfort zone, and then rest. Aristotle Will Durant*, commenting on Aristotle, pointed out that the philosopher had it exactly right 2000 years ago: “We are what we repeatedly do.” By relying on highly specific practices, we’ve seen our clients dramatically improve skills ranging from empathy, to focus, to creativity, to summoning positive emotions, to deeply relaxing.

Like everyone who studies performance, I’m indebted to the extraordinary Anders Ericsson, arguably the world’s leading researcher into high performance. For more than two decades, Ericsson has been making the case that it’s not inherited talent which determines how good we become at something, but rather how hard we’re willing to work — something he calls “deliberate practice.” Numerous researchers now agree that 10,000 hours of such practice as the minimum necessary to achieve expertise in any complex domain.

There is something wonderfully empowering about this. It suggests we have remarkable capacity to influence our own outcomes. But that’s also daunting. One of Ericsson’s central findings is that practice is not only the most important ingredient in achieving excellence, but also the most difficult and the least intrinsically enjoyable.

If you want to be really good at something, it’s going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone, along with frustration, struggle, setbacks and failures. That’s true as long as you want to continue to improve, or even maintain a high level of excellence. The reward is that being really good at something you’ve earned through your own hard work can be immensely satisfying.

Here, then, are the six keys to achieving excellence we’ve found are most effective for our clients:

1. Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus, resilience, and perseverance.
2. Do the hardest work first. We all move instinctively toward pleasure and away from pain. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay gratification and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That’s when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.
3. Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity. The evidence is equally strong that great performers practice no more than 4 ½ hours a day.
4. Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses. The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much feedback, too continuously, however, can create cognitive overload, increase anxiety, and interfere with learning.
5. Take regular renewal breaks. Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolize and embed learning. It’s also during rest that the right hemisphere becomes more dominant, which can lead to creative breakthroughs.
6. Ritualize practice. Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeister has found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you’ll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them — build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.

I have practiced tennis deliberately over the years, but never for the several hours a day required to achieve a truly high level of excellence. What’s changed is that I don’t berate myself any longer for falling short. I know exactly what it would take to get to that level.

I’ve got too many other higher priorities to give tennis that attention right now. But I find it incredibly exciting to know that I’m still capable of getting far better at tennis — or at anything else — and so are you.

Listen your people immediately (no hearing).We usually says to people, ‘talk to me later’. Even, we hardly look up to them (eye contact) and communicate as we are occupying in technology. I found people are busier in electronic gadgets and missing charm of meeting live people. Most of the time we give importance to technology, instead of live people. Isn’t it? Listen people completely. Do not cut their thoughts before they actually finished. (People do cut the thoughts of the people as if they know it). To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection .Listen intently till the people are exhausted.
Life is “now “or never.  Do it now have impact in the life. Leaders always respect the power of ‘now’ and listen them. This moment is the truth of the life. This truth is very well understood by leader, that’s why leader listen his executives, managers and team members.
Once we listen our people we have the following advantages.
1/ People down the line believe that they have a person to share their emotions.
2/ as a leader we come to know the actual status of the situation.
3/ indirectly, leader give the confidence to the people and power to communicate.
4/ People down the line feel that they have a shoulder to cry or spine support to stand tall.
5/ Leader offer solutions or decisions to the matter.

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. “
Peter F. Drucker

LEADERS PURSUE PASSION WITH WILLINGNESS TO DIE FOR IT.
Loving what you do is the key source of accomplishment.
Find something you like to do so much that you had gladly done it of nothing, and if you learn to do it well, someday people will be happy to pay you for it.”
These are a true case in the life of most of the performers and achievers. A man without passion is merely impossible. Every individual have passion but most of them are unable to discover it.
How to discover passion? It took me only moment to autograph it on the paper.
1/ Act only those actions create pleasure, joy and fun in the life.
2/ Love to do it even though you are not paid money for it.
3/ Never give away from the life.
4/ Never feel tired while doing it for years and years. I feel most alive.
5/ While doing it you thing using potentiality at fullest.
Excellence is followed by passion. Things done in the life without passionate involvement hardly produces great results. Leaders never reached to the accomplishment level.
Martin Luther King said, “If a man did not discover something that he will die for, he is not fit to live.” We need to meet our purpose of aliveness. Why am I on the planet? What difference I can make to the world?
Focus on what you have instead of what is not available. Never stray away from your passion. Always learn to protect your passion. Remember, the golden rule,” People around you will always stop you when you are enlighten, with fire and going more innovative things.” You can apply it and feel it by one simple experience.
Today, when you seat with your family members on dining table, declare that, from tomorrow morning, you are going to start learning healing techniques to clean the soul. See what happened?
Leaders have passion for work and life. Let us starts living beyond limitations and trigger out the passion .Leaders need internal energizers and passion is the ultimate secret of aliveness.
“DEATH IS NOT THE GREATEST LOSS IN THE LIFE. THE GREATEST LOSS IS WHAT DIES INSIDE  OF US WHILE WE ALIVE.”
Norman Cousins.

Elon Musk said, “One was the Internet, one was clean energy and one was space.” “If you have millions of dollars it changes your lifestyle, and anyone who says differently is talking bullshit,” says Musk. “I don’t need to work, from a standard of living point of view, but I do, you know. I work every day and on weekends and I haven’t taken a vacation for years.”

Musk founded a company called Zip2. It was a software company that helped news organizations publish their information online. Later on, Musk In 2001, X.com legally changed its name to PayPal and bought the rights to the domain name. Here, Musk focused solely on improving the ability to securely email money. It was slowly becoming a popular online feature of many websites.  It was bought out by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock.
Musk asserted great 5 lessons of leadership.
1/ Keep you operation lean and clean.
2/ Commit to failing in a new way.
3/ Make your mission holy grail.
4/ Use innovations to break through your limitations.
5/ Tap in to today’s top talent.
Although I am new in the business but I was thinking that this is the chance to fulfill a dream. I am here to make great thing and it is possible.
Leaders need clear and measurable objective in the life. Remember, we are on this planet to make difference in the people. After spending nearly 60 to 70 years on the planet, if we cannot make any visible and measurable difference in the society or life of the people, what is the fun in living on this planet?
Leadership is making thing happen not watching happening.

Could either watch it happen, or be part of it?

I am reading book “How the mighty fall” written by Jim Collins on the Singapore airport at 4-00 p.m. with my favorite coffee. I am waiting for my Osaka flight .I would love to share the lines of the last page of the book. “Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do yourself than on what the world does to you.”
If we have spelled the word “book”, how we will spell? BE DOUBLE OKAY. A book which can make our mind in okay status, I called it “book”.
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. “Said by Harold Bloom, O Magazine, and April 2003. (US author, critic, educator, & scholar (1930 - )
Some of the books are very elegantly written .The books get attention on outlets are most of the time balance with elegant printing, designing, packing and highlighted content. An average person should read at least 24 books every year. (2 in months).I think I am Fair in selecting this numbers. When we read lovely book we fall in to love automatically.
Last year the number of new books was 288,355, not counting the hundreds of thousands of self-published books that came off presses such as XLibris and iUniverse. And, as long as we’re being numerical, it’s worth noting the mountain of books already in existence, to which publishers are constantly adding— currently, 129,864,880, says a software engineer who just posted a fascinating entry on the Inside Google Book blog, about what Google counts as a book.

Leader can certainly shape great life by reading books.

Happy reading!