5 Abilities for Success in Life

5 Skills (Abilities) to succeed in Life
(sharing learnings from Jim Rohn)

1. Ability to ABSORB, soak in like a sponge. Gift to take in,  reflect understand and express whatever Life has to teach you each Day.

2. Ability to RESPOND and affect what you see. Connect emotionally. Let sadness make you sad, happiness make you happy. Be affected, be responsive to your own needs and those of others.

3.Ability REFLECT on your knowledge and experience. Make the past more valuable, by learning valuable lessons it has to teach you. Turn your Mistakes into your Opportunities. Every success is preceded by an array of important failures.

4. Ability to take DISCIPLINED ACTIONS that take you from where you are to where you want to be. Where you are today does not automatically determine that you will get to be where you want to go.

It’s only your consistent, intentional and disciplined actions that will get you there.

A Goal not backed by Action, will remain a Dream. Action converts your Dreams into your Reality.

5. Ability to SHARE – an unique human quality. The paradox is that sharing does not diminish anything for the giver. To the contrary, it creates more capacity to receive.

The ability to communicate a good message well, to the right audience only reaffirms the knowledge and conviction of the giver.

But he also goes on to say that this muscle, like any other, grows in proportion to the extent we use it. The same holds true for Emotional Intelligence, Empathy and Compassion. The more we give it away, the more we have of it.

Sharing knowledge, a book, an idea, a perspective, a quote, a song, a poem, that made a difference to you and to others energises and motivated us more than the ‘other’.

Sharing develops your muscle of a ‘bonding social capital’ with which we are all born, according to Robert Putman, the American psychologist.

Just as Volunteering benefits the volunteer primarily and the receiver only secondarily. Donating too has the same effect.

It serves the giver more the person Receiving

To sum up the 5 critical Life Skills:

Absorb & Reflect

Respond and Affect what you See

Take Disciplined Actions to get to your highest Potential.

Share because you Care. Because it’s Human to Share.

Share because when Somebody shares, Everyone Wins!!