Savanur - Daily Habits: How To Win Your Day: Your Days Define Your Destiny Vol 1

Copyright 2015 by Prashanth Savanur

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The only way we can show gratitude to our teachers is by passing on the
knowledge that we have learnt from them. This book is dedicated to my
guru Balakrishnan, to my inspiration Sachin Tendulkar, and to my family and friends.

"Success is nothing but few disciplines
practiced every day.

- Jim Rohn.

When you read the title How to win your day the first question that would have come to your mind is, What do you mean by your day? or Which day is he referring to as your day?

Is it your birthday?

Or

Is it our anniversary day?

Or

Is it the first day of the year?

The word your day simply refers to the day when you get up with full energy. Its the day when you can-get up with all your strength renewed to overcome the obstacles and challenges that come your way. Its the day to continuously improve, and to not only fulfill our dreams, but also help others to achieve their dreams.

Its the day where your spouse feels that he/she has the best wife/husband, your parents feel they have the best son/daughter, and your children start feeling that they have the best parents in the world.

Is it possible? Yes!

Will all of this happen in a day? No.

All of these will not happen in a single day, but we all have the capacity to bring them to each day of our life. We all have the chemistry, the making to enjoy every single day of our life and to make it count. The only way we can achieve that is by winning each day of our life.

If we flash back to our past, the exact occasions when someone in our place of work, at home, or in our neighborhood, came and hurt us with spiteful words such as: You are useless person, Nothing can change you, You are stupid, I dont think you can make it. Whenever people challenge our ability to do something, weve all made these statements in response: One day I will show him/her who I am, and what I am capable of, or, One day I will do this.

One day does not necessarily mean a single day, but it can be anything we have always focused on to do or achieve in the future, or the very things weve achieved in the past. Many of us have the enthusiasm, the zeal for one week, and before we know it weve lost it and we are back to square one.

There is no one day until we realize that today is that one day where we possess all the energy we need to achieve our dreams. It is neither the past nor future, but the present that matters.

Yesterday is HISTORY, tomorrow is a MYSTERY, but today is a GIFT. That is why it is called PRESENT.

If you carefully observe your life, you will discover that it is completely based on energy levels. You would have experienced this situation before, especially at your place of work. When you resume work in the morning, you do everything given to you with full concentration, and you even enjoy it. But when the same work is set before you in the evening or at the end of the day when you are tired, you felt it very boring or tedious. What made the difference between the two cases? Your energy level.

This book focuses on how you can increase your energy level, and the best ways to maintain a consistent level throughout the day.

But why are we focusing on one day? Success is not all of a sudden, it occurs moment by moment in a progressive manner. If we have to be successful in life, it will never happen in just one day.

As a software engineer by profession, Im always faced with challenges while designing software which I have to solve before moving forward. The way to solve these challenges is by dividing the problem into smaller pieces. Similarly, becoming successful in life is like a challenge thats been set in front of us, and the way to solve it is by dividing our life into days, taking each day one at a time.

Our days are our life in Miniature.

-Robin Sharma

If you want to be successful in your life, then you have to know How to win your day.

Will Smith said in one of his interviews that when he was a kid his father tore down a brick wall, then asked him to rebuild it. At first he and his brother thought it was impossible to do so, but they worked to replace one brick at a time, placing them as perfectly as possible. As they continued placing one brick at a time, they found that they had a strong wall in front of them within few months.

Will Smith said, Never try to build a wall at the first attempt. Instead, go with an attitude that will lay bricks, and build the wall as perfect as possible.

Similarly, if we look into our past we might see that we have made many mistakes. We have all tried to solve our problems and challenges in one shot. Weve tried to build our Rome in a day, and many times we have failed in doing so and came to a conclusion that, I cant do this, Its out of my reach.

But now lets not try to be successful in our life. Instead, lets try to be successful every day. Lets focus on things that we have to do every day so that we can ultimately win our life.

Our Future is created by what we do TODAY and not TOMORROW.

Whats in a day?

A day has the potential for a new start. A day has the ability to draw lines to what ever happened yesterday. Every day carries potential for a new beginning, and it can take it to greater heights.

Our lives are made up of six pillars:

Personal

Family

Intellectual

Financial

Social

Spiritual

Most of us are making a big and common mistake: we are only focusing and trying hard to build and strengthen one pillar. Some people only focus on their personal pillar, some others only focus on their family, while most people focus only on the financial pillar, neglecting other pillars.

Whenever a monument is built, its expected that all the pillars are equally strong so that it can survive and last for centuries, standing strong during, and against earthquakes. If out of these six pillars only one of them is strong, then there is a higher tendency of the monument collapsing when a minute problem surfaces in that pillar.

When something happens and their money is lost to those who have given high importance and strength to their financial pillar, they will go mad. Some of them may even go to the extent of committing suicide. When the ones that have given much more importance to their family loses the control over their family to the point where their families dont listen to them anymore, they can go into a serious depression.

All these things happen because we give too much importance to one particular area in our life, making it an aspect a priority. For us to really strike it in life there must be checks and balances. We need to develop every area of our life to meet standards for success. As we have learnt, our life is made up of days, and every day we have to work towards strengthening every area of our life. In this book, what we are going to learn will directly or indirectly help us to strengthen the six pillars of our life.

Many of us hesitate to think big because we have heard one negative statement or another that has settled into our subconscious mind. A hypnotherapist will call this limiting belief.