How Successful People Think ?

Everyone has a different definition of success. Successful people prepare themselves mentally everyday so they are prepared to face the challenges in their lives that may arise..

    1. Move On: Fearless people, successful people, are not afraid to move on in life. They do not waste time feeling sorry for themselves, because they know it is not productive to their end goal. “They have learned to take responsibility for their actions and outcomes, Stop dwelling on the past and bounce back from mistakes faster. This allows them to be more successful in life because they do not waste time being upset about things they cannot change. Instead, they use that time to productively work on conquering new goals.
 

    2. Accept Change: “Mentally strong people embrace change and they welcome challenges.” In order to change yourself, you have to challenge and embrace change. If you are not challenging yourself, you are going to stay in the same spot for the rest of your life or ultimately begin to slip backwards.

 

    3. Remain Resilient: “Every failure is an opportunity to improve.” Successful people fail, too. The difference is that they get back up and keep fighting. No successful person is where they are today because they just slipped through life as casually as an afternoon breeze in the autumn.

    4. Take Calculated Risks: “A mentally strong person is willing to take calculated risks.” Successful people think that risks sometimes bring out the best results in life. They aren’t careless, but rather “weigh the risks and benefits thoroughly, and will fully assess the potential downsides and even the worst-case scenarios before they take action.”

    5. Applaud Others’ Successes: Jealousy and resentment are both emotions that can be incredibly prohibiting to one’s success. “It takes strength of character to feel genuine joy and excitement for other people’s success. Mentally strong people have this ability.” You only get what you work for in life.
 

    6. Own your success or failure: Successful people think in terms of earning potential. They do not “feel the world owes them anything. In order to be successful, it is vital that you think with a strong mind and work for your successes. Successful people think, and think correctly, that if they work hard enough they will eventually earn the wins they want in life. The world does not owe you anything, but the world is much more likely to give things if you work hard for them.

    7. Keep Their Power: “Mentally strong people avoid giving others the power to make them feel good or bad.” Rather than allowing the thoughts of the many different people they come across affect their way of thinking, successful people realize that everybody has the right to have different opinions and that not everybody’s opinions matter or should be taken personally.

ref: https://www.palmpartners.com/7-fearless-ways-successful-people-think/

Things You wish you knew when You were in 20s ..

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: Learn, Unlearn & Relearn

 

1. Enjoy the Life's journey - Success is a journey, not a destination. It's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. We all have goals and aspirations. You’re probably working toward something right now. Learn to love the journey and appreciate all the little failures and wins.

2. Learn to love change and mistakes - The only constant thing in life is CHANGE. Change is inevitable whether we like or not. It won’t always be easy, but change happens for a reason. Learn to be friends with it. Always remember to learn from your mistakes and keep growing. Do not take yourself too serious. and don’t doubt yourself so much!!

3. Say yes often - Sometimes stepping outside of your comfort zone and trying something new can be terrifying. But learn to say yes more. It’ll help you to open up, try new things and bring you new world of opportunities.

4. Focus - Don’t try to be a jack-of-all-trades. Focus on being really good at just a few things. Hard work is wasted when it’s channelized in too many directions.

 

5. Read a book a month - Reading opens your mind to new ideas and perspectives, help you express goals. Reading books benefits both your physical and mental health, and those benefits can last a lifetime. They begin in early childhood and continue through the senior years.

6. Stop worrying about what others think - Letting the opinions of your peers influence your decisions is one of the worst things you can do. You’ll realize later just how foolish it was. The only thing that is important is what you think and feel about yourself.

7. You don’t have much to lose as you think - Often times, fear of loss is what prevents us from pursuing our dreams. When you’re right out of college, you don’t have much to lose. Why not start doing things that you always wanted?

8. Meet as many new people as you can - It may not always be clear to you, but the people you meet can help you. Treat everyone like you’d like to be treated and be willing to make new friends. The world is smaller than you think. You’ll be amazed at who is connected to whom.

9. Leverage what you’ve got - Don't ever complain in life. Stevie Wonder can’t see, but he has an exceptional ear for music. He exploited that talent and his passion for music. Today he has 25 Grammy awards to show for it. Learn to work with what you’ve got instead of complaining about your situation.

10. Take big risks - Go after what you want. Jump out of an airplane. Start a business. You won’t always succeed, but you won’t always fail, either !!

 

ref:

    http://www.success.com/blog/21-things-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-was-21
    http://success.com/article/52-ways-to-get-out-of-your-comfort-zone
    http://www.success.com/article/7-parts-of-your-life-that-suffer-when-you-fail-to-change

Best Investment Books by Indian Authors

1. Finance Sense: Finance For Non-finance Executives - Dr. Prasanna Chandra

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Finance-Sense-4th-Non-finance-Executives/dp/0070704546

2. Value Investing and Behavioral Finance: Insights into Indian Stock Market Realities - Parag Parikh

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Value-Investing-Behavioral-Finance-Realities/dp/0070077630

3. Stocks to Riches: Insights on Investor Behaviour - Parag Parikh

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Parag-Parikh-Stocks-Riches-%E3%80%902018%E3%80%91/dp/B07JM7RZF8

4. The Dhandho Investor - Mohnish Pabrai

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Dhandho-Investor-Low-Risk-Method-Returns/dp/8126564636

5. Fundamental Analysis for Investors - Raghu Palat

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Analysis-Investors-Consistent-Long-term/dp/8170947952

6. Retire Rich at 40 Rs a Day - P V Subramanyam

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Retire-Rich-Day-New/dp/9387860310

7. 31 Stock Market Trading Tips - Ravi Patel

    @ https://www.amazon.com/31-Stock-Market-Trading-Tips/dp/B00GZMSDEC

Best Behavioral Finance(Economics) Books

1. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman 

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555 (USA)

     @ https://www.amazon.in/Thinking-Fast-Penguin-Press-Non-Fiction/dp/0141033576 (INDIA)

2. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics - Richard Thaler

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Misbehaving-Behavioral-Economics-Richard-Thaler/dp/039335279X (USA)

     @ https://www.amazon.in/Misbehaving-Behavioral-Economics-Richard-Thaler/dp/039335279X (INDIA)

3. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein 

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Final-Richard-H-Thaler/dp/014313700X (USA)

     @ https://www.amazon.in/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/B079VTJ3ZH (INDIA)

4. Irrational Exuberance - Robert Shiller

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Irrational-Exuberance-Revised-Expanded-Third/dp/0691173125 (USA)

      @ https://www.amazon.in/Irrational-Exuberance-Revised-Expanded-3e/dp/0691173125 (INDIA)

5. Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-1-Exp-Rev/dp/B0076YEIFQ (USA)

     @ https://www.amazon.in/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-Decisions/dp/0007368542 (INDIA)

6. The Little Book of Behavioral Investing: How Not to be Your Own Worst Enemy  - James Montier

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Behavioral-Investing/dp/8126557982 (USA)

     @ https://www.amazon.in/Little-Book-Behavioral-Investing-Profits/dp/0470686022 (INDIA)

7.  The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness - Morgan Housel

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Money-Timeless-lessons-happiness/dp/0857197681 (USA)

     @ https://www.amazon.in/Psychology-Money-Timeless-Lessons-Happiness/dp/B08D9VV926 (INDIA)

Top 10 Investment Books

1. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Publication-Foundation/dp/193787950X

2. Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyasaki

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1612680178

3. The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham 

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Classic-Value-Investing/dp/0060752610

4. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger - Peter D. Kaufman

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-Almanack-Charles-Expanded/dp/1578645018

5. Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns - John C. Bogle

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Common-Sense-Investing/dp/1119404509

6. Beating the Street - Peter Lynch

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Beating-Street-Peter-Lynch/dp/0671891634 

7. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits - Phil Fisher

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Common-Stocks-Uncommon-Profits-Writings/dp/0471445509

8. A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/0393358380 

9. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - Edwin Lefevre

    @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L3XC9FV

10. The Warren Buffet Portfolio - Robert Hagstorm

    @ https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffett-Portfolio-Mastering-Investment/dp/0471392642

Success is not about money ..

ref:

• http://www.businessinsider.com/success-is-about-time-not-money-2015-2
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimblasingame/2014/05/19/success-is-not-measured-only-by-money-and-stuff/
• http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-graham-and-doddsville-lecture-2015-8

Think of happiness as a business best practice and a success fundamental

Career: Ask yourself

• Am I passionate about the work?
• Am I one of the world's best at doing this work?
• Will the market compensate me well enough for it?

Small Business: Much of the potential for success depends upon two things

• Your ability to effectively function physically, mentally, and emotionally.
• How well you balance where the business stops and your personal life starts

Money:Truth

• Wealth only provides options, not a guarantee of happiness.
• If you can’t be happy without money and stuff, you aren’t likely to be happy with it.

Entrepreneur's important lessons in 20s ..

ref: 

• http://www.businessinsider.com/best-lessons-entrepreneurs-learned-in-their-20s-2015-1
• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228134
• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237077

1. The difference between success and failure is self-confidence and persistence
2. Any limitations on personal growth are self-imposed
3. Networking is the key to success
4. Be passionate and decisive
5. Importance of surrounding yourself with people who will push you to be better
6. Need to hire people who are better than you
7. Learn to be patient
8. Learn the importance of asking yourself the hard questions
9. No matter what you're doing, you should always try your best
10. Don't let business get personal. It's just business. Shrug it off
11. Learn not to sell yourself short
12. There's no replacement for hard work
13. A fancy degree and natural talent don't entitle you to success
14. Being a leader can be lonely at times

Global Entrepreneurs Recommend Books ..

ref: 

• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247511
• http://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/247292
• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/246961

1. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill -- recommended by Sandile B. Magwaza

2. Start by Jon Acuff -- recommended by Kimberly Edwards LaComba

3. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries -- recommended by Matt Barber

4. Zero to One by Peter Thiel -- recommended by Franklin McCullough

5. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki -- recommended by Mannan Gupta

6. The 100 Dollar Start Up by Chris Guillebeau -- recommended by Nawaz Dangra

7. Produced by Faith by Devon Franklin -- recommended by Say Smith

8. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave LeBon -- recommended by Ingo Behle

9. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey -- recommended by Puna Snamandla Gumede

10. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner -- recommended by Vrush SG

Career advice at work ..

1. Do what matters early on

Focus on identifying specific tasks or objectives you can achieve early on to establish your reputation as someone who gets things done. Be sure to choose a goal that matters to the company and its business objectives.

- Ryan Stoner, ryanstoner.com

2. Focus on the problem in its simplest form

One of the most important things you can learn as an entrepreneur is to focus on the problem in its simplest form, one that you can describe in one sentence. Then come up with the simplest answer to that problem. If you know a problem exists, then you can determine the demand for an actual solution.

- Andy Karuza, SpotSurvey

3. Listen more than you talk

Listening carefully with 100% focus and commitment is such an important thing. My colleague is great at it, and every time I am reminded that by just listening well, you pick up a lot of what it eventually takes to succeed, or, for example, to complete a final sale. Customers will literally tell you what they need when asked.

- Ridaa Murad, Christina Ventures

4. Over-prepare, and then go with the flow

Whether it’s sales calls, meetings, presentations or anything else associated with job-related duties, over-prepared individuals can relax once they are in the hot seat. It gives you the ability to maintain a grace under fire and creates room for necessary improvisation and flexibility. Nothing will ever turn out as planned, and when you are over-prepared, you can compensate for this dynamic.

- Jon Cline, Rokit SEO

5. Slow down

I walk quickly, especially when I’m at an event location and getting things done. At one of my first large events, a colleague told me to slow down—more specifically, to saunter. When I slowed down my walking, my brain slowed down. And during the walk from Point A to Point B at an event location, I could better assess how to handle four tasks at once. Saunter is my new middle name.

- Sydney Owen Williams, Planet Green Socks

ref:

13 Pieces of Career Advice to Help You Flourish at Work - http://success.com/article/13-pieces-of-career-advice-to-help-you-flourish-at-work

24 Proven Steps to Make You a Master Networker - http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/243159

50 Quotes on Leadership Every Entrepreneur Should Follow - http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/243861

Entrepreneurial Quotes ...

1. If you are not a brand, you are just a commodity | Robert Kiyosaki

2. Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you | Tony Hsieh

3. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential | Winston Churchill

4. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm | Winston Churchill

5. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Never, never, never give up. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won | Winston Churchill

6. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do | Steve Jobs

7. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody | Bill Cosby

8. If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack | Winston Churchill

9. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty | Winston Churchill

10. Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations | Tim O’Reilly

11. Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop | Jeffrey Zeldman

12. Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity: You'll avoid the tough decisions, you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted | General Colin Powell

13. It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary | Winston Churchill

14. Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right | Henry Ford 

15. The best way to predict the future is to create it | Peter Drucker

ref:

    Leadership Quotations from Chairman Powell @ http://govleaders.org/powell.htm

    50 entrepreneurial quotes @ http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/240047

    101 entrepreneurial quotes @  http://www.businessinsider.com/101-best-inspirational-quotes-for-entrepreneurs-2013-9

At the end of the day it’s your career and nobody else’s, Please own it !

Secrets of Success:

Biggest Career Mistakes:

ref

Read a book today ...

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” - Ernest Hemingway
 
“I cannot live without books.” - Thomas Jefferson
 
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” - Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.” - William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
 
.. Now let's make a new life long friend by reading a book ...

Life

Inspiration - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17bktNVWJHbHk3Zjg&usp=sharing_eid

Psychology - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17LWRzRW43NnZTdGc&usp=sharing_eid

People Management - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17dlhVV3VJQXlSaVk&usp=sharing_eid

Financial Management - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17VHRlSzN2bS1VSms&usp=sharing_eid

Jiddu Krishnamurthy - http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/krishnamurti-ebooks-free-download

Technology

Software Architecture - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17YVFtQXRKN1Y1SnM&usp=sharing_eid

Java - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17REdOa053SFF0Rm8&usp=sharing_eid

Android - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5BO97vHUkN2ZmV0cE5wMXFabFU&usp=sharing_eid

C++ - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17UEtoRXdMVk9teEk&usp=sharing_eid

Richard Stevens(Unix) - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17QzgtdkFVU0pXT2s&usp=sharing_eid

Linux Programming - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17T29hNmpYNTNQSmM&usp=sharing_eid

Hadoop - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17VFZfdVE0Z2NCUzQ&usp=sharing_eid

Arduino - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5BO97vHUkN2VzEzTXFtRS1tSXc&usp=sharing_eid

Technology miscellaneous - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17aUhtODlfa25Idlk&usp=sharing_eid

Miscellaneous

Kids - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17WU1uckJGa1NVYXc&usp=sharing_eid 

Miscellaneous - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17bEthMS1VY0dLLUE&usp=sharing_eid

Journals

YOJANA(govt of india public administration journal) in Telugu - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17TDdhWndMVThyckk&usp=sharing_eid 

KURUKSHETRA(govt of india rural administration journal) - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5BO97vHUkN2ZnAxWWhwLUswekk&usp=sharing_eid

Telugu

BhagavadGita - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5BO97vHUkN2fm5sOTh6THhKZEdjNzlmSG9FcGhfNXJsQ0RfVUwtWlNsOG16eXhjbG14R0E&usp=sharing_eid

Andhra Culture - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17aGxna1hrWUtXbWM&usp=sharing_eid

Yandamuri Veerendranath - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17MDVJYW0wY09ibDg&usp=sharing_eid

Oka Yogi Aathma Katha - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_hC-3L4eq17R0tPQkphRVRiYlU&usp=sharing_eid 

Telugu Miscellaneous - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5BO97vHUkN2ZC1sTEd1RmJEMUU&usp=sharing_eid

Telugu Miscellaneous(from other blogs) - 

• http://kktimepass.blogspot.com/2010/06/t.html
• http://kktimepass.blogspot.com/2010/03/great-online-telugu-books.html
• http://kktimepass.blogspot.com/2010/03/online-books-in-teluguby-author.html

Characteristics every Entrepreneur should have ..

ref: 

• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/240559
• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232991

1. Adaptability

What you start out to do will not be exactly what you’re doing when you are ultimately successful. As you roll out your enterprise, you’ll discover that things you expected to work well don’t work at all. You’ll stumble into things that you didn’t expect to work that will. You’ll have to be able to adapt.

You got to be a entrepreneurial chameleon. What makes chameleons so unique is obviously their ability to blend into any background. If they need resemble tree bark, they can. If they need to resemble a brightly colored green leaf, they can do that too! As a successful entrepreneur, you will need to be as flexible as chameleon. This means that you need to be able to quickly adapt to various situations and work comfortably with numerous types of clients with different personalities. Never go for Win-Lose always go for Win-Win. You and your client must always win within the deal.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

2. Persistence & Passion

To succeed, you will have to be willing to persist through difficult times. You must be passionate about what they are trying to accomplish. Likewise, they must be willing to commit whatever is needed of them. 

3. Resourcefulness

A vital ability for an entrepreneur is knowing how to make the most of what you have. Your assets as an entrepreneur will be limited, so use them to the fullest. Tapping into a network is the key.

In the long history of humankind those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Killer lessons from World-Class Entrepreneurs

ref:

• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239950
• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/240510
• http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/236687

1. Success comes from handling difficult situations well - All you have to do is ask for new challenges. Do one thing better. Pick one thing you're already better at than most people. Just. One. Thing. Become maniacally focused at doing that one thing. Work. Train. Learn. Practice. Evaluate. Refine. Be ruthlessly self-critical, not in a masochistic way but to ensure you continue to work to improve every aspect of that one thing. Financially successful people do at least one thing better than just about everyone around them.

2. Absolute clarity and an eye for unexpected opportunities - Take responsibility of your life. Don't blame the economy, your company, location and lack of resources. You should realize that it's you and your jaded focus that has to change for good. The moment you get clear on that, your life will shift from complexity to simplicity.

3. Shifting your circle of influence - There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did and who always will. Once you get clear on who you are and what you want, you must re-evaluate your "Circle of Influence". Who you associate with is who you become. The term "role model'' is not used enough in our society. It’s extremely important to have role models. A role model will raise your standards. A role model will not let you get complacent. Finding a role model or mentor will spark your mind because they are playing the game at a higher level than you are. If you hang around five confident people, you will be the sixth.