Rich Devises | Common Traits of Rich People

Have you ever thought what the world’s most deadliest disease is? (The one which plunges you from your own success and well-being.) It’s a single word that dominates in your entire life; Procrastination. As a bookaholic, I have read many books especially in the genre of self-improvement. Every great mind of our human era have spoken about procrastination, about not doing our important tasks at its first place. I came through a book named ‘Eat that frog’ by Brian Stacy recently which is a complete masterpiece about how to avoid procrastination. Brian Stacy conveys various strategies and methodologies regarding the alignment of important tasks of your life and how to eat those slices within a short estimated period of time. So how to overcome procrastination? The following are some of the best ways to overcome procrastination. 1. Think in paper. Have you ever thought of aligning your tasks in your life? Maybe in your office or in your personal life. The first and for...

A man in his black suit stood in front of a huge crowd of people and cleared his throat to start his speech for the day. “I was 21 when I achieved the first success of my life. Now I am 43. I have achieved success in various industries. Every time I succeed, I was interviewed by the media and I would be invited to conferences to provide my proficient speech. To be in numbers, I have been successful in my business for about a decade. Every person I meet, every person I speak with and the people I am surrounded with know how successful I am now. But the fact is I am a failure. Even now I have not succeeded in my life. What other people in (the market) consider success is not my definition of success. To be frank, still now I am a failure.” The entire hall of professionals and young students started chattering about what was happening. He cleared his throat in order to gain attention of his audiences and looked at the huge banner which was dangl...

I still remember the golden days of my childhood. I used to sit on my grandmother’s lap hearing to my grandfather’s stories while she used to caress my curly hair with her gentle fingers. Among the pile of stories, I carried a simple story (which I considered to be the worst one from him in my childhood) throughout my life, the story about purpose of life. At the age of 10, I didn’t realise the impact of the story in our life. But in my later days, when I was exposed to the outside world, I came to understand the insights of the story, about the purpose of life. Two rats; Nick and Mike, best pals, use to run from their hole to a cupboard where they use to find the grains and nuts. Both of them use to run for their food on regular basis. Nick always had fun and enjoyed his life. He used to wear his shoes whenever he felt hungry. But on the other hand, Mike was conscious about what will happen if the grains and nuts had gone empty. He ate only twice for the day thinkin...