Your Building Blocks for Self-Improvement, Great Ways for would-be Greats

By Ram Bansal

This volume consists of 51 articles in 5 sections spread as below -

Section A : Physical Parameters
A1 Physical Dimensions of Self-Improvement
A2 What does Good Health Mean
A3 Minimization of Decay in Bio-organism
A4 Strategy for Super-Ageing
A5 How much Closeness to Nature is Optimum for Life-Intellect
A6 Take and Bear Pains
A7 Purpose and Effect of Dressing

Section B : Personality and Individuality
B1 Essentials of Smartness
B2 Being Smarter
B3 Psychological Traits of Human Personality
B4 Personality Traits for Individual Power
B5 Three Distinctive Personality Aspects from Scriptures
B6 Treasure your Introversion as a Precious Possession
B7 Ways to Own a Gem Personality
B8 Cultivation and Projection of Individuality
B9 Individuality Augmentation and Blending
B10 Balancing between Individuality and Relationships

Section C : Wisdom Parameters
C1 Art of Living
C2 Optimum Schedules of Human Life
C3 Work Passionately, Express Emotionally, Relax Calmly
C4 Secret of Multi-tasking
C5 Balancing between Thinking and Performing
C6 How to EnJoy Work
C7 Apply your Resources Judiciously
C8 Avoid the Jargon of Positive and Negative Thinking to Succeed
C9 Carve out Your Genius Zone
C10 Meaning of Being a Perfectionist
C11 Evoke Performance Loop of Motivation-Action-Reward
C12 Discipline Yourself

Section D : Intellectual Parameters
D1 Being an intellectual
D2 Respect Yourself, Respect your Ideas
D3 Improve your Learning through in-between Naps
D4 Why and How to Adopt a Life-Creative
D5 Think Critically and Radically Too
D6 Thinking Laterally for an Innovation
D7 Building the Self through Power of Thought
D8 Thinking Big is not Enough, Think Extraordinary

Section E : Expression and Impression
E1 Impression and Expression of a Personality
E2 The Grand Meaning of Human Life
E3 Avoid Inner Conflict from Cultural and Genetic Inheritance
E4 Develop Positive Beliefs and Resilience to pursue them
E5 Make Use of Spontaneity
E6 Adopt Modern Form of Narcissism
E7 Conscious Realization of Joy under Routine Situations
E8 Ways to avoid Sadness, Anger and Anxiety
E9 Why Nobody Truly Knows Anybody Else
E10 Art and Science of Persuading
E11 When to Speak, What to Say, How to Express
E12 Develop Personal Magnetism
E13 Put Yourself in Leadership Role
E14 If You want to be SOMEONE Great

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ram Bansal
• Release date: Jul 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301977710

Ram Bansal

An Engineering Graduate from University of Roorkee, India (now an IIT) of 1971 batch, has served Engineering Profession for 35 years, now devoted to Social Engineering, Research into Vaidic Scriptures, and Authorship for changing the humanity - the way it thinks.

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Your Building Blocks for Self-Improvement

Great Ways for would-be Greats

by

Ram Bansal

Copyright Ram Bansal 2013

Published at Smashwords

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Understanding Human Mind and Brain Psychologically

Digging Deep in Love

The Self : Discovery, Development & Deployment

Simple Ways to Health : The Joy of Life

Contents

Preface - Determinants of Quality of the Self

Section A : Physical Parameters

A1 Physical Dimensions of Self-Improvement

A2 What does Good Health Mean

A3 Minimization of Decay in Bio-organism

A4 Strategy for Super-Ageing

A5 How much Closeness to Nature is Optimum for Life-Intellect

A6 Take and Bear Pains

A7 Purpose and Effect of Dressing

Section B : Personality and Individuality

B1 Essentials of Smartness

B2 Being Smarter

B3 Psychological Traits of Human Personality

B4 Personality Traits for Individual Power

B5 Three Distinctive Personality Aspects from Scriptures

B6 Treasure your Introversion as a Precious Possession

B7 Ways to Own a Gem Personality

B8 Cultivation and Projection of Individuality

B9 Individuality Augmentation and Blending

B10 Balancing between Individuality and Relationships

Section C : Wisdom Parameters

C1 Art of Living

C2 Optimum Schedules of Human Life

C3 Work Passionately, Express Emotionally, Relax Calmly

C4 Secret of Multi-tasking

C5 Balancing between Thinking and Performing

C6 How to EnJoy Work

C7 Apply your Resources Judiciously

C8 Avoid the Jargon of Positive and Negative Thinking to Succeed

C9 Carve out Your Genius Zone

C10 Meaning of Being a Perfectionist

C11 Evoke Performance Loop of Motivation-Action-Reward

C12 Discipline Yourself

Section D : Intellectual Parameters

D1 Being an intellectual

D2 Respect Yourself, Respect your Ideas

D3 Improve your Learning through in-between Naps

D4 Why and How to Adopt a Life-Creative

D5 Think Critically and Radically Too

D6 Thinking Laterally for an Innovation

D7 Building the Self through Power of Thought

D8 Thinking Big is not Enough, Think Extraordinary

Section E : Expression and Impression

E1 Impression and Expression of a Personality

E2 The Grand Meaning of Human Life

E3 Avoid Inner Conflict from Cultural and Genetic Inheritance

E4 Develop Positive Beliefs and Resilience to pursue them

E5 Make Use of Spontaneity

E6 Adopt Modern Form of Narcissism

E7 Conscious Realization of Joy under Routine Situations

E8 Ways to avoid Sadness, Anger and Anxiety

E9 Why Nobody Truly Knows Anybody Else

E10 Art and Science of Persuading

E11 When to Speak, What to Say, How to Express

E12 Develop Personal Magnetism

E13 Put Yourself in Leadership Role

E14 If You want to be SOMEONE Great

Preface

Determinants of Quality of the Self

Quality aspects of a person and his/her work are often interrelated but not essentially. There are certain persons of high humane qualities but weak in their performances, and also there are very good performers with poor personality aspects. Such gaps are caused by differences in cultural and genetic influences a person is required to work under. Minimizing exercises for these differing influences are put under account head of wisdom of the person.

On one side of wisdom, there lies intellect of the person that works to provide humane qualities to the person, while on the other side, there is professionalism of the person that makes him/her to succeed. This wisdom is, thus, a balance between intellect and professionalism.

Apart from the wisdom, there are 10 more determinants of quality of a person and his/her work output.

Truthfulness

Truthfulness is not a matter of mere idealization but that of reality. Truth has never been victorious easily but its victory is more enduring than that of falsehoods. Mere success is not the test of quality of a person or his/her work. The truth has no competitor to win over but works universally even through the background.

Truthful lords of humanity who put it on the path of progress were defeated in their conflicts with exploiters of humanity for vested interests. After some initial gains, they never got the ruling command in their hands and miscreants have been ruling the world humanity in different names. In-spite of this, reputation and fame of the real lords remain unmatched by those of the ruling miscreants.

Focus

Defining a target, a person works for, and keeping his/her focus on the target provides sharpness to quality of the presentation whether it is his/her persona or its outcome. Remember, none can please everybody but a selected few only with his/her conduct and work.

Responsiveness to Feedback

Cosmic Nature and human society are dynamic entities undergoing gradual transformations and sometimes rapid turmoil within themselves. These changes demand change in perspectives of an individual and his/her work through feedback in many ways. To keep up the quality, one is needed to consider these feedback for getting inspired with an open mind, but without committing oneself to every such feedback. There are multitudes of miscreants still active in human form but are no better than wild beasts.

I have been tracing some critical features of human history and presenting the outcomes to the world. There are idiots who look at historical facts in relation with their sentiments and whatever fact doesn't fit well is dishonored in their abusive ways. But still, I keep on treading on my own path for those who respect the reality.   

Novelty

Every person is made unique and so must be his/her work output. This uniqueness pours novelty to the person and his/her work. Suppressing own uniqueness to look like all others gets translated into deficiency of novelty in the personality and the work of the person. Remember, you don't exist or work for others but for your-self to provide meanings to your personality and work. So, in-spite of spirit of social cooperation, each individual moves lonely on his/her journey of life.  

Blend of Tastes

Monotony brings in boredom to the person and to his/her contacts through work. So, covering the whole spectrum of life through conduct and work keeps others' interest alive in the person and his/her work. It is like a person being a son/daughter to parents, sibling to siblings, parent to children, spouse to partner, etc, but still remaining the single person by him/herself. 

Respect for Others

Except the wild beasts confronting at some times, every other person coming in contact with a person must be treated with dignity, as is expected by the person for him/herself. Their time spent with you or your work must be valued as you value your own time as your most precious possession.

Sharpness of Point of View

Whatever is presented to others through one's personality and work must be without ambiguities and with sharpness of expressions. This sharpness only determines whether the person has his/her own considered and determined point of view or not. Don't feel shy of expressing yourself and don't get afraidf being criticized for your expressions. Just be truthful to yourself in all your presentations to the world.  

Pride of Sharing with People

Whether it is your personality or your work, if you don't feel pride in sharing these with others, you are not pouring your real self in your expressions. Whatever you and your work are put them on fire of sharing to test their veracity in eyes of yours as well as of others. Your pride in sharing is certainly honored by right-thinking people all over the globe.

Originality

Don't imitate others in any way but stand by yourself without fear of being isolated from the popular rut. Those sticking with their respective originality are the ultimate winners even if they fail to succeed on short term basis.

You are not a commodity to be sold in the market to feed popular needs of people for profits, but a presentation of your uniqueness, and so is your work. Never mind, if there are no takers for these presentations of yours for the time-being.

Angelic Spirit

Don't be a replica of what people in general are to be in the crowd, and don't work to present what people already have, to save your-self from being quickly eyed and thrown out to wastage like a daily newspaper. Provide a long-term value to yourself and your work by making them true angels of yourself to the world of humanity. 

Section A : Physical Parameters

A1 Physical Dimensions of Self-Improvement

A2 What does Good Health Mean

A3 Minimization of Decay in Bio-organism

A4 Strategy for Super-Ageing

A5 How much Closeness to Nature is Optimum for Life-Intellect

A6 Take and Bear Pains

A7 Purpose and Effect of Dressing

A1 Physical Dimensions of Self-Improvement

We hear a lot about self-esteem online and offline from our social contacts and social luminaries. All these persons attach only emotional string to self-esteem keeping it far from the physical self of the person. For this reason, we generally suffer from our poor body images leading to its further deterioration in terms of poor health, fitness and well-being. Love for the self must begin with love for the body and then extending it to the emotion of self-esteem. None can have a true self-esteem without love for his/her body.

All of us all the time exist at two levels - physical and emotional, and both of these are equally important for our respective well-being and performance at work. The body being a container of the emotional self can't be ignored without risk of annihilation of the overall self. Various physical dimensions for taking care of the self are discussed below.

Health as Prime Factor

Overall disposition, appearance and performance of a person is highly influenced by his/her health which must not only be good but must appear to be so to others. Being healthy primarily means being disease-free in body and mind to the satisfaction of the self. Its appearance to others is determined by general alertness, swiftness in actions, clear expressions, smile-inducing face, and overall cleanliness.

This translates into the universal fact that physical health is of prime importance to each of us. Taking precautions about health like taking only healthy foods, having physical activities, etc play important role in living in wholesomeness and performing at full potential. It makes little difference in health if the person is generally slim, medium-built or with some obesity but excessive skinniness and obesity make bad impressions of health.  

Face, the Instant Representative

A person is primarily seen through his/her face framed in his hairstyle or headgear. Like unique face of each of us, having a unique hairstyle matching the face helps in making a good representation of personality. Let others instantly recognize your personality traits by your face framed in hairstyle or headgear even though they may not be familiar with you.

Facial expressions project the personality before anything else comes to notice of others. Though overall disposition of face is determined by internal and external circumstances of the person, its truthfulness in representing intentions of the person can't be hidden from others. Therefore, any fake smiles or annoyance on the face make a bad impression on others. Universally favored axiom is just being natural and truthful to one's emotions at all times whether these mean smiles or tears in eyes.

Elegance in Physical Appearance

Physical appearance as representative of personality needs not only routine care but conscious design for elegance too. Elegance has three dimensions of simplicity, aesthetics and effectiveness of sitting/standing posture, dressing and speaking accent. Softness and smoothness in shades, voice, and expressions makes a good impression through easy rhyming with others.

Performance

Skillful speaking and working make great impacts by a person on the outside world. Here, the most effective way is restrain on the self from over-driving to regions where you are ignorant and accept it clearly. This not only makes a good impression on others but opens doors for learning what more is desired for a good performance. Know you canvass well and limit your paints to this until you are able to extend it through knowledge and skills. When knowledge combines with skill, it becomes professionalism.

A2 What does Good Health Mean

Medical professionals would like to answer this question as 'being disease-free'. But it is neither the complete answer nor objective. To me, good health means that a person has four attributes -

Physical Health, or physically stout and active body,

Intellectual Health, or Intellectually analytic, thoughtful and creative brain,

Resilience of body and brain,

Agility of body and brain

Out of these, the first two attributes work beneficially for current existence of the person while the latter two are his/her safeguards for future health. It may be argued that