Priya Kumar
is an eminent
motivational speaker,
best-selling author
and CEO of Priya
Kumar’s Training
Systems [PKTS].
team and they’ll tell you that the maximum
deals are closed in the last two days of the
month. Do you recall the difference the last
minute study made to your grades? It’s the
last minute pressure that sets off the “magic
bu on” to performance.
This is the time to believe in the philosophy of “Ask and you shall receive”. Don’t
hold back, go all out and ask: ask for business, ask for help, ask for ideas. Share your
purpose and also share your urgency. People
like to help, but don’t impose and disturb.
Ask with grace, and with gratitude, whether
that help is granted or not. Some people will
join hands with you and support you, while
others’ hands would be tied for reasons beyond their control. Be graceful and be grateful
to both. What have you got to lose, when you
have not won the race yet?
Make some time for yourself
The one thing most people postulate at the
beginning of the year is to make time for
themselves. In the busy world, the growing
numbers and the towering expectations from
others, whether at work or at home, we tend
to forget ourselves and become a work machine. Make time for yourself, starting now.
Considering the pressures are high at the last
lap of your race, if you can make some time
now, you will be able to sustain it out of habit
in the year to come. If you can’t do it now,
you certainly will fail at it the next year too.
Things are not going to get easier. You have to
adjust things according to your desires. Invest
some of your time in yourself; read a book,
take up yoga, join the gym, take daily walks,
or just be.
Use the festive time to create and
forge connections
It would be a great way to end the year with
warmth and support. If there was one thing
you can build on now, which will give you
guaranteed rewards in the future, it would be
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ships. Work is an opportunity to make a new
friend, to build a mutually beneficial relationship. Even if the opportunity for business
eludes you at the moment, build that relationship for a future possibility. If relationship
building is the foundation of business success
in today’s changing economy, build that now.
You both stand to gain.
2016 will be about synergies, gear up for it.
Create your think tank, your professional and
personal pool of intelligence. Use the festive
season to make connections and collaborations. When the cheer is in the air, it’s easier
to get people’s support. Invite and involve
people in your purpose and your goals. When
you share your dreams and aspirations with
people, you inspire them to take charge of
their own too. When people are inspired, and
if they find you at the source of that inspiration, they will maintain the connect and
continue the support.
2015 will end and 2016 will arrive, that’s
a certainty. Whether you will have accomplished what you had set out to achieve is the
doubt you want to dissuade from becoming
your destiny.
Hope for a be er future is always there.
It is there now, as it will present itself on the
1st of January yet again. What you can do
tomorrow, you can certainly do today. Instead
of pu ing all your stakes in hope, invest some
time in action now and make it come true.
The goals you made in the beginning
of the year were your goals. No one asked
you to make them; your heart urged you in
that direction. Success and achievement is
therefore not an option, it’s a must—for your
sake! They call it the last lap to victory for a
reason, be