Tips for a fuller life covering health, wealth (management), education, relations and life skills (spirituality)

1. Growth
Dimensions
November 24, 2016
Fisheries College and
Research Institute
Tuticorin

3. Education

4. Education
Intellectual understanding
Analytical skills
Creativity
Current affairs & General Knowledge

5. Read a book a
month

6. “Reading is still
the main way I
learn new things
and test my
understanding."
- Bill Gates

7. Pick formulas that
you can use in
your daily life

8. "Life is good
for only two
things,
discovering
mathematics
and teaching
mathematics."
- Simeon
Poisson

9. Draw / doodle /
dance / sing...
as you try to
express an idea

10. "In my
experience,
design
thinking is a
great
approach to
help us find
problems,
to help us
see what is
not there...”
- Vishal
Sikka

11. Create a
scrapbook for
news articles of
your interest

12. “There was never a
time in our history
when ignorance of
current affairs could
be so dangerous.”
- Edgar Dale

13. Management

14. Management
Vision
Organizational ability
Project management
Operations excellence

15. Know how to read
an annual report.
And read as many
as you can.

16. “There’s lots of
bad reasons to
start a company.
But there’s only
one good,
legitimate reason,
and I think you
know what it is:
it’s to change the
world,”
- Phil Libin

17. Come up with your
own list of top 10
stocks and invest
in them - at least
one share a month

18. “Financial
freedom is
available to
those who
learn about it
and work for
it,”
- Robert
Kiyosaki

19. Be ahead of time -
at least by 15 mins

20. “I owe all my
success in life
to having been
always a
quarter of an
hour before my
time,”
Horatio Nelson

21. Keep a log on
things you want to
improve

22. “The range of
what we think
and do is
limited by what
we fail to
notice,"
- R. D. Laing

23. Health

24. Health
Food
Exercise
Cleanliness
Hobby

25. Learn to cook a
good briyani

26. “True
healthcare
reform starts in
your kitchen,
not in
Washington,”
Wolfgang Puck

27. 10,000 steps a day

28. “My schedule
goes: wake up,
running,
exercise,
downstairs,
running shoes
off, then to the
shower. That's
the Jackie
Chan diary,”
- Jackie Chan

29. Don’t outsource
washing clothes or
cleaning vessels

30. "Cleanliness
becomes more
important when
godliness is
unlikely,"
P. J. O'Rourke

31. Raise a garden

32. “When your
hobbies get in
the way of your
work - that's
OK,”
Steve Martin

33. Relations

34. Relations
Socialize
Empathise
Admire
Non violence

35. Be active in at
least 10 different
social and
professional clubs

36. "In our normal
lives we see
ourselves as
members of a
variety of
groups,”
- Amartya Sen

37. Have lunch with
the difficult people

38. “If we learn to
open our
hearts, anyone,
including the
people who
drive us crazy,
can be our
teacher,”
Pema Chodron

39. Start a fan club or
two.

40. “Tell me who
your heroes
are and I’ll
tell you how
you’ll turn
out to be,”
Warren
Buffett

41. Fight but with a
different weapon

42. “With
violence,
they had
weapon and
we did not
have. With
non-violence,
we had the
weapon and
they didn’t”,
Gandhi

43. Life Skills

44. Life Skills
Responsibility
Prayer / Gratitude
Mindfulness
Contemplation / Self Enquiry

45. Donate one
percent of your
time / energy /
resource

46. “Wherever you
turn, you can find
someone who
needs you,”
- Albert Schweitzer

47. Have a to-thank list

48. “Gratitude makes sense of
our past, brings peace for
today, and creates a vision
for tomorrow,”
Melody Beattie

49. While having food,
have food

50. “Drink your tea slowly
and reverently, as if it is
the axis on which the
world earth revolves,”
Thich Nhat Hanh

51. Listen to a
discourse on
Bhagavat Gita or
Bible or Quran,
everyday.

52. “The wise man knows
how to run his life so
that contemplation is
possible,”
- Gabriel Marcel

54. Parting words
Forget to be perfect. You don’t have to follow all.
It’s not about numbers. It’s about intention.
Don’t be hard on yourself, EVER.

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