Professor M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders

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Tuesday, 17 October 2017

How to Buy Your Dream Home/Flat?

“There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.” — Kenny Guinn

Everyone wants to own their dream flat or independent house. They must be clear in their mind how to proceed to accomplish their dream. Here is a series of steps to consider while buying your dream flat or home.

· Find out your budget, consider your age, employment and risk appetite.

· Identify the location that is promising and likely to appreciate outsmarting inflation.

· Search for flats in that area within your budget.

· Ensure that the flat is Vaastu compliant, if you believe in Vaastu.

· Find out the prevailing prices in that area. Identify the hidden costs involved.

· Ensure that the title of the property is clear.

· Be clear about the terms and conditions including who pays commission to the broker or agent.

· Find out the resale value.

· Negotiate with the seller. Be flexible in your negotiations. If you like the flat, don’t hesitate to pay a little more. Check whether you can get loan for it.

· Verify legal aspects.

· Register your property and get it furnished to suit your requirements and taste.

· Come out of your comfort zone to move to your dream flat.

Make Your Decision Wisely

“You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.” — Marissa Mayer

Find out advertisements on properties and prepare a list of prospective sellers in your preferred location. Visit and verify them physically. Don’t get influenced by agents and brokers. Check everything from all quarters before making your decision. Be careful with fly by night operators in real estate business.

Don’t lose your heart if you encounter frequent failures to own your dream flat. At times, things come very close to the deal but fail. It seems something better is awaiting you. Remember, everything happens for a reason. Dalai Lama rightly remarked, “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

Make your decision based on your head, not heart because buying your flat involves logic and reasoning, not emotions. However, you must consider your emotions when you leave a house in which you stayed for many years.

Conclusion

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” — Maya Angelou

Buying a dream home/flat can be tiring especially if you are a first-time buyer. Don’t lose your hope and don’t get influenced by brokers and agents. Buy it where you find positive vibrations. If you find any negative signals, avoid purchasing it. To summarize, buying your dream flat or home is easier said than done. You must make decisions based on the prevailing scenario. Don’t regret if there are any gaps between your expectations and realities because what was right yesterday is not right today and what is right today may not be right tomorrow.

Good luck!

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

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Sunday, 8 October 2017

Free Chapter ― Professor M.S.Rao’s Book “Soft Skills: Toward a Sanctimonious Discipline”

Dear friends,

I am excited to share with you that I authored a book on soft skills that can be used for both academic and reference purposes. It is titled, “Soft Skills: Toward a Sanctimonious Discipline.” Here are the details about the book with a free chapter. I would appreciate if you could share your thoughts about this book on social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

About The Book

“Novice teachers often share what they know. More seasoned teachers focus on what the participants need to learn and take away to improve their work. More mature teachers know their audience and why those participants are at the session.” —Dave Ulrich

This book strives to achieve sanctimonious status to the soft skills discipline. It explores soft skills in global organizations and educational institutions. It emphasizes the significance of soft skills and explains the methods to acquire soft skills. It differentiates between soft and hard skills. It enlightens that a judicious blend of hard and soft skills is essential to achieve professional and leadership success. It crafts a course curriculum for soft skills. It unveils the list of soft skills essential for leaders. It explores tools and techniques to measure soft skills. It coins an innovative evaluation tool―Meka’s Five-Level Model to measure soft skills training. It implores to build hard skills but mind soft skills. It calls for appreciating others to make a difference. It is a universal book to improve your attitude, personality, and behavior to achieve all-round success.

This book can be used for academic and reference purposes. It is a short course on soft skills to achieve your career and leadership success. You can easily toss the book into a briefcase or purse and read here and there as time allows. It is a quick reference guide for educators, executives, leaners, and leaders to achieve personal and professional success.

Build Your Confidence

"With the realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." —Dalai Lama

Most people talk about building confidence but they are not aware of the right tools and techniques to build confidence. Confidence is the first step to achieve peace, happiness, and success. Confidence is essential in every aspect of life throughout the day and every moment. Hence, we will discuss confidence; differentiate between confidence and overconfidence; and explore tools and techniques to build confidence.

Confidence versus Overconfidence

Confidence should not be confused with overconfidence. Confidence means when you think that you can execute the tasks effectively whereas overconfidence means when you think that you can alone execute the tasks effectively. Confident people are aware of their limitations while overconfident people ignore them. In my personal life, I made many decisions hastily resulting in lots of failures. I was overconfident and felt that things would fall into place automatically and would achieve the desired outcomes. But I failed miserably in many instances. The only solace is that I learned lessons from each failure and evolved as an educator and executive coach. My failures served as inspiring stories during my leadership training programs and coaching sessions. Things will fall into place automatically reflects overconfidence. On the other hand, if people take risk factors into account and act with firmness and calmness, it reflects confidence. Currently, I started making decisions slowly and cautiously because of my previous failures and the success rate is relatively higher now. Therefore, people must analyze, understand themselves and learn from their failures to excel as a confident person.

Tips to Build Your Confidence

It is easy to excel as a confident person if you understand the tools and techniques. Here are some tools and techniques to build your confidence.

Believe in yourself. Unless you believe in yourself the world doesn’t believe in you.
Journal your feelings, emotions, egos, and observations regularly. Analyze them.
Overcome your apprehensions and superstitions.
Silence your inner critic.
Maintain a positive attitude.
Surround with positive people.
Praise others graciously and liberally.
Dress well in comfortable clothes and shoes.
Exercise regularly to energize your body.
Maintain positive body language.
Remain calm under uncertainty and stress.
Love yourself. Unless you love yourself, you cannot love others.
Set your goals in such a way that you feel uncomfortable to share with your friends and relatives.
Don’t compare with others. You are a unique gift to the world. Nobody can be like you.
Don’t focus too much on your weaknesses. Instead, focus on your strengths but guard against your weaknesses.
Stretch yourself by coming out of your comfort zone.
Execute tasks with thorough preparation without any fear.
Anticipate distractions and failures.
Don’t worry excessively about your mistakes. Mistakes are the learning lessons. Remember, everyone makes mistakes and nobody can grow without making mistakes.
Develop an attitude to understand the circumstances which are beyond your control.
Take feedback to identify your successes and especially failures.
Emphasize excellence, not perfection because perfection wastes a lot of your precious time, money, and energy.

Visualize that you are successful. Entertain positive thoughts and downplay your negative thoughts. Remember that nobody is perfect in this world. Identify your inborn talents to leverage them. Build skills around them. Shift from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. Learn from failures. Consult experts and seek their guidance. Don’t hesitate to learn from others irrespective of rank and position. Everyone is good at something. Identify, develop, and leverage them. Acquire and share your knowledge with others. Be creative to stand out from others. Be altruistic to make a difference in the lives of others.

Conclusion

We are born with certain gifts to change this world. Hence, nurture your nature. Identify what kind of seed in you, explore and exploit it completely.

Life is full of challenges. It throws both opportunities and threats. Don’t be overjoyed by opportunities and get upset by threats. Take challenges in your stride to build your confidence.

There is a thin line separating confidence and overconfidence. Understand the difference and raise your bar constantly by emphasizing excellence. Remember that overconfidence kills your opportunities. Hence, believe in yourself and be confident to achieve amazing success in all aspects of your life.

Note: Here is the link to purchase my bestselling book ‘Soft Skills: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Overcome Workplace Challenges to Excel as a Leader URL: https://www.amazon.com/Soft-Skills-Overcome-Workplace-Challenges/dp/1628653035

Life is great!

Professor M.S. Rao

Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India

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Sunday, 13 August 2017

Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.—The Father of “Soft Leadership” & International Leadership Guru, Keynote Speaker, C-Suite Advisor & Author of 53 Leadership Books

Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.—The Father of “Soft Leadership” & International Leadership Guru

Founder, MSR Leadership Consultants India

Soldier, entrepreneur, editor, educator, author, explorer, enlightener, researcher, mentor, and philosopher

Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. is an international leadership guru and an internationally acclaimed executive coach, educator, author, speaker, and consultant. He is a C-Suite advisor and a sought-after keynote speaker globally. He earned a Ph.D. in Soft Skills. He has forty-three years of experience and is the author of fifty-three books including the award-winning ‘See the Light in You’ URL: https://www.amazon.com/See-Light-You-Spiritual-Mindfulness/dp/1949003132. He has published over 300 papers and articles in prestigious international publications including Leader to Leader, Thunderbird International Business Review, Strategic HR Review, Development and Learning in Organizations, Industrial and Commercial Training, On the Horizon, and Entrepreneur magazine. He is a soldier, entrepreneur, editor, educator, author, explorer, enlightener, researcher, mentor, and philosopher. He conducts training programs for various corporations and educational institutions. He brings a strategic eye and long-range vision given his multifaceted professional experience including military, teaching, training, research, consultancy, and philosophy. His areas of interest include leadership, executive coaching, and executive education. He is passionate about serving and making a difference in the lives of others. He trains a new generation of leaders through leadership education and publications. His vision is to build one million students as global leaders by 2030 URL: http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com/2014/12/professor-m-s-raos-vision-2030-one_31.html that is the winner of Leadership 500 Excellence Awards 2015. He has the vision to share knowledge freely with one billion people globally. He advocates gender equality globally (#HeForShe).

He is the father of ‘Soft Leadership’ and founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India. He has made the biggest impact on the world with his Soft Leadership which can be applied to companies and countries to achieve excellence. His award-winning book, ‘21 Success Sutras for Leaders’ was ranked as one of ten finalists for the Department of Leadership Studies Outstanding Leadership Book Award―2013 at the University of San Diego. He serves on the editorial boards of various prestigious international journals including Development and Learning in Organizations of Emerald, U.K. His books are available at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/M.-S.-Rao/e/B00MB63BKM. Most of his work is available free of charge on his four blogs including https://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com. He is a prolific author and a dynamic, energetic, and inspirational leadership speaker. You can e-mail him at msrlctrg@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter at @professormsrao.