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 The aviation industry was going through a tough time before 1980 as the aircraft accident was very high. Then industry came up with a powerful solution to address these accidents by introducing "Preflight Checklist" and post introduction of this checklist after1980 the aircraft accident came down drastically. So what is this Preflight checklist?  To  Simply put, this is the checklist pilot/or the crew  MUST   perform before each takeoff. This is a simple but powerful technique to make sure we do not overlook any important things which may forget to do. This also used by many successful people to do their daily activity. It is called a Daily Checklist. Some use a similar kind of list for habit tracking. As an individual how many times you forgot to do an important activity like miss to send an important report, miss to call the customer.etc and if you get reminders to do your activity then Checklist is the solution for this. Below is the personal checklist struc...

     It was a common belief that humans cannot run 1 mile in 4 minutes. The belief was so strong that they thought if anyone tries to attempt the body will simply collapse and not able to make take it!       Thursday, 6 May 1954, Roger Bannister demonstrated the impossible to possible by completing the 1 mile within 4 minutes. To be precise  3 minutes and 59.4 seconds! What is more significant is within 46 days John Landy from Australia broke his record. As of today thousands of athletes broke this 1 mile in 4 minutes record, including high school kids!      So what has changed before 1954 and after 1954? it is the belief system. When someone demonstrates and broke the old belief system, others also start to believe that it is possible to move the impossible to possible.       Norman Vincent Peale starts the first sentence in his book The Power of Positive thinking - Believe in yourself. Are you g...

 What makes tasty food? is the meat or the spices or the cooking heat? the is answer all. The secret is not on the individual things; but all put together at the right proposition, right quantity and right heat makes great food. Likewise, this is also true for a team to win, in a football team, you need the 11 players with different skills- good defender, good sticker, good goalkeeper. All put together brings victory to the team. Your Sucess Formula  Same is true for individuals success - you need put the below things in place to be successful in life. Know your purpose. Your blueprint in life. Your goals. Your plan ( daily, weekly, monthly and yearly). Your strategy to handle your plan. Your system and process to do daily activity. The 3R to Measure and Manage  Reflect Review Replan   If these things are not in place as the old proverb says  The best time to plant a tree was 20 years before! And the second-best time to plant a tree is today!  

 Each day is filled with activity. Each activity required effort and each effort consume energy and time. So to be productive in life is to be aware of the major and minor task you do each day. This simple but powerful awareness bring wonders in life.  Here is the list of Major and Minor task       All the task are important in life. How we manage that make the difference. It is ok to miss the minor task. But it is not ok to miss the major task. Repeatedly if you miss the major task, over a period of time it will bring disaster to life.       Example if we miss to workout everyday but spend time to read the newspaper/social media, then over a period of time we will end up in health issues-which have more consequence life than knowing what happening around the world.        How could it be to get that extra 10 years in life due to your good health habit, then spending the time in the hospital bed? So do not miss your m...

       One of the keys to success is to plan. "Failing to plan is planning to fail". The advantages of planning are it will give you the focus for that week/day and you know what are the important task you need to complete. This also helps you to do what you could and should have done for that day. When you check the completed task, you move one ladder up in your self-confidence. Also, the other side is also true, if you miss doing what you could and should be dingo will pull you down and over a period of time, it brings disaster to your life. So let us jump and see how to do your weekly planning Plan the week Before  Always plan the week before doing the 3R- Reflect - Review - Replan  Reflect, how the week went by,  what gone well, what not went well and what you could have performed well. Review your goals on how  you are doing on your higher priority on your task  Replan, based on reflection and review make adjustment and plan for the ne...

 You are rich or poor, young or old, wise or unwise - no matter every one gets only 24 hours in a day! How we use these hours each day decide our success and failure.  Each day you need to plan the day. This will give you the added advantage to use the time more effectively.  Now always you have a lot to do in a day and we all know time is not sufficient to carry out all the task. Here are some of the methods to fit in you small but important task  Utilizing the time in between period  This is the key concept- always you get the in-between period. The time what you get before starting something. Below is the example  In this way, you effectively utilize each day. Small is always big. It brings significant changes to your life over a period of time Your 24 Hour Life Jar  Be more creative in fitting in the task within the day- You will able to do more!