Is Success in Life a
Mirage?
Success or success in life are much loosely used words. Generally, anyone
who becomes a bit popular is seen or considered as a successful person. Is that
really true? Are so called successful people really successful in all aspects of
their life? Does being highly successful in some narrowly defined field(s),
particularly at the cost of being failures in some other equally important
aspects of life, equal being successful in entire life? Is it really possible to
be successful in all the different aspects of life or is it a mirage? And if
yes, how? This article discusses these issues.
Success: Wide Spectrum Paradigm
Success paradigms have a very wide spectrum. Seen as rich,
turning into celebrity, becoming popular, getting known, seen as influential or
recognition of your high status are pretty common success criteria for a very
large number of people. In a way, this means that you tend to feel successful
when other people acknowledge that you are successful. It may be out of your
approval addiction. Even if you are not approval addict, you, on your own
(irrespective of what others think), may also feel successful if you achieve
certain degrees of any one or more of these things. However, even in here, if
large majority of others think that achieving the degrees of success you have
achieved in the parameters listed above are not good enough for you to be
recognized as successful, your own assessment of yourself as being successful
may get diminished in your own mind. Again, approval addiction, may be of lower
order.
Also, if you have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) as per your assessment and others also recognize that you
have achieved all of these but your own child thinks that you have neglected
him/her all through his/her life and he/she hates you for that; are you really
successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) as per your and others’ assessment but you have treated
your spouse in a such a derogatory manner (intellectually, emotionally and
physically) that she/he is on the brink of asking for divorce or running away
with another person; are you really successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) but when your father or mother needs you most in his/her
sickness or any other trying situation and you are away on your business all the
time and grossly neglect him/her; are you really successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status), but fight tooth and nail with your brother(s) and/or
sister(s) to meet some selfish ends and severe all the relationships, are you
really successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status), but you did not look after your children's education,
development and growth and because of this negligence, they ended up without any
decent education, grew with skewed values, got into drugs and other bad habits,
have become irresponsible and undisciplined, are you really successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status), but you wife has not grown much after her marriage with
you since you have not supported her enough as a husband, are you really
successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status), but you have not developed the capabilities of loving
other people (your family members and some others) or have not genuinely loved
them, are you really successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status), but you have not acquired and assimilated the proper
education to develop yourself into a cultured and refined human being and
constantly brag about yourself, belittle others and are in a habit of
ill-treating and insulting the people, are you really successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status), but you have fallen into becoming a drunkard, a junkie, a
womanizer, smuggler, bootlegger etc (even though the charges might not have been
legally or socially acknowledged or confirmed), are you really
successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status), but you have got into habit of saving your face by
impressing upon people that you are successful or better than them or many
others and in the process you have to act, pretend, fake or camouflage (meaning
that you are not a genuine person), are you really successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) but a large section of people also throw rotten eggs or
shoes at you or in extreme case, plan to kill you or even kill you because you
have antagonized them harshly, unreasonably and unethically; are you really
successful?
You have all these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) but you have been corrupt and greedy and have amassed money
illegitimately (though may or may not have been caught doing so by law or by
people); are you really successful?
You have all these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) but have misguided the people dependent on you, manipulated
and exploited them to achieve your personal interests, took wrong decisions
affecting the people (and have not been caught by law or by people), are you
really successful?
You have all these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) but you have been responsible for hurting people physically
or mentally or financially because of which those people suffered grossly in
their life (and you have not been caught by law or people and you still live a
high brow life shamelessly), are you really successful?
You have all these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) but your thinking, advices, decisions and actions have led
to careless accidents, skirmishes, battles and wars killing civilian and
military people, are you really successful?
You have all these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) but your thinking, advices, decisions and actions have led
to provide, illegally or legally, such goods and services whose production,
distribution, disposal and consumption pollute the environment and adversely
affect the people health wise and economically, are you really
successful?
You have all these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) but your thinking, advices, decisions and actions have led
the prices of basic human requirements like essential food stuff, water,
education and health care soar sky high to the extent that the citizens of the
country/world cannot afford them, are you really successful?
You have all these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) but you have, in fact, bought all of these by
manipulating/lobbying unscrupulously the power, the people and the media and it
has not come to you by adopting natural, ethical and legal course, are
you really successful?
You have all of these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status), but you have deprived yourself of understanding and
enjoying the nuances and beauty of languages, science, biology, mathematics,
technology, arts, sociology, civics, culture, nature etc normally learnt through
formal and systematic primary, secondary, higher secondary and university
education or even through informal self education outside of school and college,
are you really successful?
You have all these (rich, celebrity, popular, known,
influential, status) but you are not able to look after your health due to
variety of reasons though within your control and therefore, you are perennially
physically, intellectually, mentally, emotionally or spiritually sick causing
troubles to yourself and people around you, are you really successful?
Most People's Success Paradigm Is
Narrow
In the earlier paragraphs, I listed down a large number of areas
where if you are not successful, you may not deserve to be called fully
successful in life despite the fact that you may be rich, celebrity,
popular, known, influential and you have status. A person is fully
successful in life only if he achieves success in all the spheres of
life: personal life, professional life, home life, family life, married life,
human life, social life etc.
However, most people's paradigm of success is quite narrowly
defined. For some, only becoming rich is success, for some getting a particular
award is ultimate success, for some bringing up the family decently is success
and for some, TV and news papers flashing their pictures frequently is
equivalent of success. The fact of life is that many people do believe in these
narrowly defined paradigms of success. If they see others getting these kinds of
successes in these narrow fields, they feel impressed by such persons and many
times they feel bad about themselves since they could not achieve that kind of
success.
Even achieving the success in these narrow fields is debatable.
Whether amassing a wealth of one hundred billion dollar is success in the
"richness" paradigm of success or making forty billion dollars is good enough to
be called success or say, earning few millions is also success or even earning a
decent salary or income to satisfy the major needs of the family is also
success? How much money one should collect for being labeled as successful in
this narrow field of earning money?
Same question arises when people label someone successful
because he is highly learned. For one to be labeled highly learned, does one
need to acquire four PhDs or five post graduate degrees or any decent college
education is good enough?
That's why, based on the extent of quantity and quality achieved
in these narrow fields, one starts getting known as more successful or
less successful or just about successful.
You may achieve success (more success, less
success or just about success) in some such narrow fields but then is it
possible to achieve success in all the aspects of life; the aspects I
defined in the earlier paragraphs to get qualified as fully successful
(even here it may be more fully successful, less fully
successful or just about fully successful)? Is that, then, a
utopian thought?
Another relevant question about success is: what is more
important in life; being fully successful by even moderate (just about
OK) measures in all the aspects of life or being more or most
(if one can define "most" in the context of success) successful
person in couple of narrowly defined fields (like becoming rich, becoming
popular, holding a very senior position like CEO or president of a state,
bagging a very prestigious award etc) but being a hopelessly dismal failure in
some equally important areas (dismal failure as a father or as a husband or
being a white collared mass murderer by producing or serving goods and services
that are very dangerous for human consumption like environmentally detrimental
chemicals, harmful untested medicines, cigarettes, drugs, prostitution, child
labor etc)?
Questions Answered
Is it really possible to achieve success in every aspect of
human life in superlative degrees (i.e. more success)?
The answer is “yes” and “no”- both. It will entirely depend on
each person as to what and how much and how well he does in each aspect of his
life.
That is the reason why for achieving success in all aspects of
life one will have to set out his goals in each of these aspects on a timeline
in terms of quality and quantity to be achieved, plan out allocation of his
resources (most importantly his time) accordingly and most importantly, actually
deploy them accordingly.
Also, review from time to time as to what is his
progress against the targets and is he deploying the resources as planned. He
may have to carry out mid course corrections on all of these, if
required.
In addition, it is equally important for one to carve out the
correct value structure. Getting tremendous success in any field by flouting
these values in fact is no success; rather that is a failure. An extreme case
could be that a chief of a state declares an undeserved or unwarranted war,
under some external compulsions, on the other state though his value structure
does not permit him doing so. Now achieving the status of the chief of a state
by fair means is definitely a success of very high order but as a president
declaring a war that he personally does not believe in, is an utter failure.
Under such circumstances, a successful chief of the state may prefer to resign
rather than wrongly declare a war that kills millions of military and civilian
people and come out as a more fully successful person.
If getting success like this in all the aspects of life is
possible, then, why a large section of people do not achieve this? The answer
is: imbalance.
Some people tilt too much on trying to achieve quality and
quantity of only few aspect of life forgetting or giving less importance to
other equally vital aspects of life. The resources (including one’s personal
time) by and large remain the same- they are limited. Now if you use too much of
these limited resources only on very few aspects of life at the cost of other
important aspects of life, you cannot achieve success in all of them in equal
measures (quality and quantity wise). Thus, because of such imbalance, your
overall success remains lopsided.
Is it then really good to have such lopsided success? Answer is
common sense: it has to be a “no”. If you give too much importance to your
professional work and therefore, do not spend from your limited time,
appropriate quantity and quality of time with you wife day after day, month
after month and year after year and then, if she disappears from your life by
falling in love with someone else who cares for her or by taking divorce, will
you call yourself successful?
Will it not be more appropriate in such situations to achieve
even moderate successes in all the important aspects of your life rather than
achieving tremendous success in just about few areas at the cost of being a
hopeless failure in most of the other equally important aspects of
life?
However, one need not aim at only moderate successes in
all the aspects of one's life under an excuse of the balancing act. It is true
that balancing your resources and particularly your time over various important
aspects of your life will mean spreading them thin and so the achievements may
not reach their maximum possible or potential limits. Yet, if you are willing to
think of ways and means of increasing your effectiveness and efficiency
and implementing them in your day-to-day life, more and more quality and
quantity successes can be achieved in large majority of all your important
aspects of your life without neglecting any one of them.
Success: Effectiveness and
Efficiency
In earlier paragraphs I mentioned that it is possible to achieve
a great degree of success in each of the many important aspects of life and
thereby feel fully successful in life. But to achieve it within the limited
resources that one normally has, one has to deploy them in a “balanced” manner
and learn to become more effective as well as efficient.
I am giving a complete road map to do so. The first step is to
understand difference between effectiveness and efficiency.
Effectiveness and Efficiency
First try to a get a clarity on what is effectiveness and what is
efficiency.
Effectiveness is all about the answer to “what”. What is it that
I wish to achieve? What are my goals? What are my destinations? Therefore, what
is it that I wish to do?
Efficiency is all about the answer to “how”. How well, how fast
and how economically or productively am I doing the tasks or activities that
will help me reach my goals or destinations?
Obviously effectiveness comes first. If you do not know your
destination how can you decide the direction in which you should proceed and the
path you should tread on. But in over zealousness of achieving the goals which
are still hazy to you, in the fastest possible way, you may still start running
instead of walking.
However, you are most likely to start off and keep running
in a wrong direction because your destination is still not well defined; it is
still quite hazy. You will keep moving forward to a destination which is really
not yours, much faster. And that is a mistake.
What is the big use? You are making a mistake. You are
efficient, no doubt but you are efficient in making the mistakes. The lesson to
learn is: without effectiveness, efficiency has no much use. Efficiency without
effectiveness makes you to commit the mistakes only faster.
So, do not start off without answering the first question
“what”. And even if you start off without answering the question “what” and
somehow realize half way through that you are not reaching your goals or
destinations despite being very efficient, stop and remind: have you answered
the question “what” before taking off? Pause, take your time and answer “what”,
get clarity on your goals and destinations and the related tasks that need to be
accomplished. Then. carry out the mid course correction of the direction in
which you had earlier started off and now start treading the new correct path
with great efficiency.
Success: Sharpen Your Human Software
(HSoftware)
In earlier paragraphs I have discussed the broader dimensions of
success and then I have started jotting down the ways to achieve such a success
starting with “Success: Effectiveness and Efficiency".
This is the next rung in the ladder of “how to achieve the
success in life?” Here I have emphasized that the person desirous of success
must continuously improve his “Human Software (HSoftware)” (a term
created by me).
So, as per “The Shyam Bhatawdekar Model of Effectiveness:
HSoftware”, human effectiveness depends on following four
factors:
- Values
- Knowledge base (rational intelligence IQ, emotional
intelligence EQ and spiritual intelligence SQ- nothing to do with established
religions or gods)
- Paradigms (mindsets or thinking patterns)
- Will power to do
These entire four factors are so very highly integrated or
intertwined or interdependent with each other that one has to look at all of
them together simultaneously. And at times, even improving one factor does not
necessarily and always provide the right impact of improving the other though
one depends on the other.
For example, some god men perform certain miracles and their
followers who may be in millions feel impressed by them and believe in their
godly powers. These god men themselves proclaim to possess such powers. Exactly
the same miracles are performed by the well known magicians. Their objective is
to just entertain the people many of whom might be the followers of these god
men also. But the magician always insists that he just performs some intelligent
tricks and not the miracles and the spectators look at the magic nothing but the
tricks. But tell the same people to start seeing the godly acts or miracles
performed by their god men as mere tricks or magic, a large majority of them not
only do not accept it, they feel terribly offended. Though these people have
improved their knowledge base about these magical tricks, their paradigm
(mindset) towards accepting god men as performing real godly miracles remains
intact. They continue to remain the followers of these god men on the basis of
the miracles performed by them. Perhaps their will power to change their
paradigms about the god men’s capability of performing miracles falls short
somewhere. Now the will power to carry out the required change further depends
on some more additional pieces of knowledge and unless they acquire that
additional knowledge, the will to do or act in the right direction will not get
activated fully.
So, if one has to become effective and efficient, one will have
to keep on working incessantly to improve the four factors (HSoftware)
mentioned above and keep changing for better.
You may also like to refer: (The Shyam
Bhatawdekar Effectiveness Model: HSoftware) http://humansoftware.blogspot.com/ or (Human
Software- HSoftware) http://human-software-hsoftware.blogspot.com/
Success: Paradigm and Paradigm
Shift
(On this topic, you may also like to read (Paradigm and
Paradigm Shift) at http://paradigm-mindset.blogspot.com/)
Another important next logical step one must take to achieve
success in life (in personal, family, professional and social life) is
“Paradigms and Paradigm Shift”.
In the earlier paragraph, “Sharpen Your HSoftware
(Human Software) I mentioned about the need to sharpen one’s
HSoftware (Human Software) which consists of values, knowledge,
paradigms and will power (to do) and so, in fact, I had already covered
“paradigms” there. So, why am I repeating it? It is because despite possessing
great value structures and great knowledge, many people just cannot change their
paradigms. I also gave one example of this to show how people get stuck with
these rigid paradigms and if these paradigms happen to be retrograde, then there
is a huge problem ahead of them.
And it is due to “paradigms” that a person’s day to day actions
and behavior are decided. So, questioning your paradigms whether they are
effective or ineffective, right or wrong is an important aspect of your life if
you wish to be successful. More correct paradigms will lead you to the path of
success, the less correct ones or wrong ones will lead you another path which
may not lead you to success.
For example, some people have a rigid paradigm of loving their
own mother tongue and they start believing that it is not necessary to learn
other languages to the extent they may even hate other languages. Loving one’s
own mother tongue is a good paradigm but not learning other languages or hating
them is a backward paradigm. So the people who get stuck with this paradigm will
never attempt to learn a new language (say, English which is pretty much used
language in the most places of the world these days). This will put them to
disadvantage in many aspects of their personal, professional and social
life.
So, the person having such a paradigm problem must question his
paradigm, get more knowledge about the advantages of learning the popular
languages of the world and use the will power to start learning them.
This is how one shifts from a rigid paradigm and becomes
flexible and shifts to a more effective or advanced paradigm.
So, by
questioning one’s existing paradigms which are hundreds of them in every one’s
mind, one can know which paradigms to shift from so as to adopt a better new
paradigm that can lead one to success.
Success: Goal Setting
(On this topic, you may also like to read (Goal/Target
Setting) http://goal-target-setting.blogspot.com/)
We started with defining “success” or “success in life” and then
went on to discuss the steps one should take in order to achieve success. In
previous paragraphs we discussed the first three steps namely:
1. Effectiveness and efficiency 2. Sharpen your
HSoftware (human software) 3. Paradigms and paradigm shift.
Next logical step to achieve success is “goal setting” or
“target setting”.
In each aspect of success i.e. success in professional field,
success as a parent, success as a husband, success as a son, success as human
being etc, you will have to define your goals or targets to achieve on a
specified time line.
Goal setting exercise is very important. Purposes of goals are:
to focus your attention, to give you a time frame to work and in which to plan,
to help motivate yourself and others and to ensure everybody is clear about what
is happening.
Goal or target setting is done on short term, medium term and
long term basis. In the context of personal goals, one can even think of setting
up life time goals.
When setting goals you should follow this sequence:
-
See it
-
Say it
-
Write it down
-
Do it
Goals should be SMART:
-
Goals should be specific (S)
-
Goals should measurable (M)
-
Goals should be agreed (by you and with others) (A)
-
Goals should be realistic (R) and
-
Goals should be timed (should be achieved in a specified time)
(T)
If your goals do not meet the criteria listed above, they cannot
be called goals. You will have to revisit them and redefine them in order to
make sure that they stand true to the above-mentioned five
criteria.
Success: Daily Management
On this topic, you may also like to read at: (Daily
Management) http://daily-management.blogspot.com/
We started with defining “success” or “success in life” and then went on
to discuss the steps one should take in order to achieve success. In previous
paragraphs we discussed the first three steps namely:
1. Effectiveness and efficiency 2. Sharpen your HSoftware
(human software) 3. Paradigms and paradigm shift 4. Goal setting (target
setting)
Next logical step to achieve success is “daily management”.
- Important aspect in daily management is that the management
should be done on a day-to-day basis. This ensures that daily jobs and daily
objectives are accomplished strictly on daily basis. There is a perfect control
system built into daily management which does not ordinarily allow any slip up
on daily plans, activities and results.
- Business and life in general whether personal, family or
professional, we know, are now so complex and difficult, the survival of firms
and individuals so hazardous in an environment increasingly unpredictable,
competitive and fraught with danger, that their continued existence depends on
the day-to-day mobilization of every ounce of intelligence.
- Daily plan is the set of tasks and activities to be executed
during the day as per a decided sequence on a time line.
- Daily plan should be derived from the goal setting exercise. In
order to achieve the goals, one has to perform several activities. So one has to
decide which activities need to be done today so that one can finally
achieve one's goals well in time.
- Day’s plan thus arrived at is then the basis for
executing the daily tasks and activities.
- These daily tasks/activities are slotted during the day’s
available time- when to do which activity? Each activity thus decided must
therefore be executed in accordance with the daily time sheet.
- In doing so, continuous improvements will have to be effected
to ensure that higher performance is achieved within the existing resources and
with high productivity.
- From time to during the day, you must keep a track of your
actual accomplishment of activities/tasks against your plan. This is the
control aspect of daily management. If you do so, the slip-ups in the day will
be minimum and you will easily glide towards achieving your goals or
objectives.
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(Effectiveness
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(Human
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(Human
Software-
HSoftware)
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(I
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(Impression Management)
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(Internal
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(Interpersonal
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(Interview
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(Interview
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(Johari
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(Just
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(Kaizen)
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(Knowledge
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(Learning
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(Life
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HSoftware)
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(Life
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(Marginal
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(Marketing
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(Marketing
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(Marketing
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(Market
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(Negotiation
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(Objection
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(Organization
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(Organizational
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(Outsourcing)
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(Out
of Box Ideas)
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(Ownership
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(Paradigm
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(Problem
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(Recession)
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(Recession
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(Recession
and Opportunities)
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(Research
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(Self-confidence)
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(Self
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(Six
Sigma)
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(Six
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(Soft
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(Spiritual
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(Statistics-
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(Strategic
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(Stress
Management)
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Management)
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(Success
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http://success-achievement.blogspot.com/
(Success
in Life or Success)
http://knol.google.com/k/shyam-bhatawdekar/success-in-life/6txz9nck6g3/14#view
(Supply
Chain Management)
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(Supply
and Demand)
http://supply-demand-laws.blogspot.com/
(Talent
Management)
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(Team
Building)
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(Telephone
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(Time
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(Total
Quality Management- TQM)
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(Training
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(Training
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(Trainers’
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(Train
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(Value
Engineering/Analysis)
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(Winners
and Losers)
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(Work
Study: Method Study and Work Measurement)
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(Work
Study: Method Study and Work Measurement)
http://workstudy-measurement.blogspot.com/
(Work
Methods or Practices: Efficient)
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(World
Class Manufacturing)
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(Writings
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(Written
Communication)
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(Zero
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Counseling:
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Behavior Problems)
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(Cholesterol
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(Cross
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(Do
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(Emotions)
http://emotion-feeling.blogspot.com/
(Executive
Etiquette and Manners)
http://executive-manners.blogspot.com/
(Exercises)
http://exercises-plan.blogspot.com/
(Family
Counseling)
http://family-harmony.blogspot.com/
(Health:
Homeopathy)
http://homeopathy-medicines.blogspot.com/
(Johari
Window)
http://johari-window-model.blogspot.com/
(Life
Management: Competencies)
http://knol.google.com/k/shyam-bhatawdekar/competency-matrix/6txz9nck6g3/4#
(Life
Management: Effectiveness Management:
HSoftware)
http://knol.google.com/k/shyam-bhatawdekar/management-in-life-profession-family/6txz9nck6g3/3#
(Life
Management: I am Liberated)
http://i-am-liberated.blogspot.in/
(Life management: I Am Liberated)
http://knol.google.com/k/shyam-bhatawdekar/i-am-liberated/6txz9nck6g3/6#view
(Marriage
Counseling)
http://marriage-counsel.blogspot.com/
(Ownership
on Job)
http://job-ownership.blogspot.com/
(Parental
Responsibilities)
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(Personality)
http://human-personality.blogspot.com/
(Qualities
of Spouse)
http://spouse-qualities.blogspot.com/
(Quit
Smoking)
http://quit-smoking-plan.blogspot.com/
(Self
Development)
http://managing-self.blogspot.com/
(Self-confidence)
http://self-confidence-improvement.blogspot.com/
(Spiritual
Quotient/Intelligence)
http://spiritual-quotient.blogspot.com/
(Stress
Management)
http://managing-stress-strain.blogspot.com/
(Stress
Management)
http://management-of-stress.blogspot.com/
(Success
in Life or Success)
http://success-achievement.blogspot.com/
(Success
in Life or Success)
http://knol.google.com/k/shyam-bhatawdekar/success-in-life/6txz9nck6g3/14#view
(Swine
Flu and Its Prevention)
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(Telephone
Etiquette)
http://telephone-etiquette.blogspot.com/
(Walking)
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(Winners
and Losers)
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About
All the Products
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(Chocolates)
http://chocolates-products.blogspot.com/
(Flowers)
http://flowers-products.blogspot.com/
(Greeting
Cards)
http://greeting-cards-products.blogspot.com/
(Mobile
Phones)
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Home
Management Tips (Home Tips)
(Home Page for All Home Tips)
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(Do
This Today)
http://do-this-today.blogspot.com/
(Entertainment:
Movies)
http://popular-movies.blogspot.com/
(Oscar
Award Movies)
http://oscar-award-movies.blogspot.com/
(Entertainment:
Recommended Hindi Movies)
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(Entertainment-
Hindi Movies of Your Choice)
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(Plagiarized,
Copied or Inspired Hindi Movies)
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(Health:
Homeopathy)
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(Housekeeping
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(How
to Save Money)
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http://knol.google.com/k/shyam-bhatawdekar/how-to-save-money/6txz9nck6g3/11#
(Jewelry
Design)
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(Recipes:
Easy to Cook)
http://easytocook-recipes.blogspot.com/
(Recipes:
Exotic)
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(Stories
for Children)
http://stories-children.blogspot.com/
(Travel
and Sightseeing- India)
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(Travel
and Sightseeing- World)
http://sightseeing-guide.blogspot.com/
(World
Heritage Sites)
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General
Knowledge and Out of Box Ideas
(General Knowledge- GK)
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(General
Knowledge- Top 5 of Everything)
http://top-five-everything.blogspot.com/
(General
Knowledge- Top 10 of Everything)
http://top-ten-anything.blogspot.com/
(Out
of Box Ideas)
http://wow-idea.blogspot.com/
(Shyam
Bhatawdekar’s Knols)
http://knol.google.com/k/shyam-bhatawdekar/shyam-bhatawdekar/6txz9nck6g3/1#
(Running
Commentary on the Run)
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