Prepping For Success: 10 Keys for Making it in Life

By Anmol Singh

A SIMPLE GUIDE TO A BETTER YOU!

Prepping for success is a guided journey that equips you with the principles you need in order to take advantage of your innate inner talents to achieve true success.

The 10 keys allow you to not just understand yourself, but they also teach you how to express your best self to others. This enables you to be the best version of yourself.

This book is an inspirational, light-hearted guide to help you put your plans into action. It offers an understandable and relatable step by step approach to discovering yourself and achieving your own personal true success.

In a world where there are so many choices and distractions, this book is dedicated to helping you find a balance through it all.

Are you ready to begin your Journey towards true success?

"With this book, I hope to bring to the readers the main key concept that's have helped me in my life and have made me a better and a more productive person; as I too Prep for Success. I am writing a book that I wish someone gave me 10 years ago, Would have made life so much easier" - Anmol Singh

This is not a business book and this sure isn't a trading book. This book is about achieving Success in Each and EVERY area of your Life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
• Release date: Jan 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781642371109

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Success Key #1:

Invest In Yourself

There’s a billboard-size sign hanging in the workout room at my local gym. It says: Never Stop Moving. We should all have a similar sign hanging somewhere, even if it’s just in our minds: Never Stop Learning.

Lifelong learning is not about collecting facts or knowing enough trivia to get on Jeopardy. Instead, we need to focus on learning and growth in every area of our lives—our health, our relationships, our business. When we develop the skills and habits that demonstrate lifelong learning, we are going far beyond simply recalling facts. Instead, we are understanding and using the implications of what we learn. We must continue to ask ourselves: what does this information mean and how does it apply to my life?

In addition, we must be capable of retaining what we learn. And we must be able to translate and use that learning in new contexts, challenges, and changing situations. As you consider your own lifelong learning status, ask yourself these questions:

Am I curious and anxious to explore new territory?

How do I find out what I need to know?

How do I organize information?

Do I understand the recurring patterns and themes in my life?

Am I a creative problem-solver?

These questions are designed to help you assess where you are, and to think about where you want to go from here. Start with Question #1. Do you learn something new every day? It could be as simple as learning the meaning of a new word and using that word in your conversations until it becomes a part of your vocabulary. Or it could be as challenging as studying for professional exams or licenses you need to add to your work portfolio. It could be as simple as watching a how-to video on YouTube. It could be reading a book on a topic that interests you. Perhaps it’s attending that networking event or seminar/workshop you have been thinking about, or enrolling in an online course you’ve planned on taking.

Real learning demands a certain curiosity. If you want to enhance your level of curiosity, spend a lunch hour or two visiting a neighborhood playground. There’s nothing more curious than a child. How come the slide is crooked? Can I make the swing go higher? Why is the tree losing its leaves? Somewhere along the line, that unfettered curiosity was bred out of us. Maybe there is a point where we think it’s not grown up or cool to ask questions. That point of view is totally out of sync with lifelong learning. Do whatever it takes to get your curiosity back.

What’s Your Style?

Old Plato said it best: Know thyself. And Sir Francis Bacon added, Knowledge is power. As you analyze what you know now and what you need to learn, you must first look at how you learn best. You’ll avoid wasting a lot of time chasing the latest training fad or motivational guru, only to find that it doesn’t resonate with you at all. There are many learning style theories out there, and many useful tests you can take to drill down to the details of your particular learning profile. But for now, let’s cut to the chase with three real life examples.

Here’s how three different people might approach a work assignment:

Janice makes a list of tasks she needs to complete. She then follows the steps in sequence, and checks each one off as it is completed. Janice prefers to get her information visually.

Phil loves brainstorming meetings. He often grabs a few colleagues in the coffee room to discuss opinions and ideas. Phil is an auditory learner.

Kate likes to watch a video or get verbal input but then she needs to learn by doing. Kate is a kinesthetic learner.

Here’s the take-away: define your learning style and use it to your advantage. Don’t try to change or adapt to a different style, just because someone else does it differently or because your boss says you should. One of my work colleagues is primarily visual, with some kinesthetic and almost no auditory. Podcasts and lectures make his eyes glaze over. But give him a video, or a webinar with a PowerPoint deck and he gets it.

A slightly different take on learning styles describes four ways of learning, rather than three. Here’s how each of these four styles learns best:

Thinking: likes detailed outlines, handouts, packaged presentations

Feeling: likes group activities, discussion guides, opportunities for sharing

Sensing: likes case studies, role plays, and problem-solving activities

Intuiting: likes creative activities, artistic approaches, loose structure

There are a couple of important points to remember as you begin to identify yourself in these descriptions. First, no one is a single, pure style. We all have elements of each approach to learning. However, you will undoubtedly see yourself in one primary style rather quickly. Second, there is no right or wrong, good or bad. You are what you are. Take this knowledge and use it to your advantage.

There’s another important benefit to understanding your style. Recognizing styles in yourself and others supports better relationships and improves your interpersonal communication. For example, you can shift your style when you’re coaching a colleague in new job requirements, or teaching your children to do household chores. It’s important to be aware of styles in others so you can adjust your approach in order to help them learn.

Playing the Knowledge Acquisition Game

Right here, right now I’m going to share with you the qualities and attitudes you need to have in order to acquire the knowledge and skills you need to win. These qualities are simple, easy to understand, and you probably already have many of them, although they may be lying dormant at the moment. Let’s wake them up and see what happens.

Ask questions. We spoke earlier about the curiosity of children. You had it once. It’s time to get it back. People like it when you question them. Most people love to share what they know. They feel flattered that you would bother to ask. So ask away. And listen to the answers.

Crave knowledge. My friend’s daughter claims she wants to be a prima ballerina. But she skips her lessons, whines about practicing, doesn’t want to appear in a recital, or do any other ballet-related activities. Clearly, she does not crave ballet knowledge. In order to acquire knowledge, you have to want it more than you want other things. Your learning must take priority over Sunday night football, or a weekend of golf (unless golf is what you want to learn, of course!)

Practice. When world famous cellist Pablo Casals was over 90 years old, he still practiced the cello several hours every day. When someone asked why he kept practicing at his age, he said I think I’m making daily progress. Keep practicing. You will make daily progress. And you don’t need to wait until you are 95. Begin today. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin America, still works to perfect his listening skills. Listen more than you talk, he advises. Bill Gates practiced his perseverance skills when others said he couldn’t do it and he founded Microsoft when he was barely 20 years old. Steve Jobs practiced daily creativity and took Apple public when he was 25 years old.

Look at all sides. A closed mind stays stuck in one spot, but an open mind is free, inquiring, unbiased. It wants to hear both sides of the story. Don’t be afraid you’ll embarrass yourself if you have to change a preconceived opinion. Have a free, broad, inquiring mind! Be fair to any new idea as well as to yourself. When a new concept appears for your examination, walk all the way around it. The short trip will bring long knowledge.

Try something different. There’s an old saying (probably originated by Henry Ford), If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got. Ben Franklin flew a kite. The Wright Brothers flew an airplane. The results achieved by people who were not afraid to experiment have changed the

Reviews for Prepping For Success

[Diego Cortes Lopez · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Thank you Anmol for this book and your knowledge! You are the reason why I found success in my trading! Best wishes!