Movers and Shakers

The terminology of movers and shakers is largely used in stock markets. Movers referring to those shares realising price gains and the vice-versa being true for Shakers. In life there are always movers and shakers. Being a mover is never an accident but it is rather something deliberately worked. If you want to be a mover do a daily self evaluation checking what you have done to improve yourself. Some of the habits below can immensely contribute to making you a Mover:

- Assume risk

All successful people assumed risk at some stage. The risks could have differed in magnitude but the bottom line is that each one of them took an action which had an element of risk. This is not a call to to uncalculated moves but rather an invitation to assume a reasonable and wise risk appetite.

The comfort of doing nothing is that you lose nothing but the risk associated is that you gain nothing too. This then leads to stagnation.

- More action and less talking

Wishful thinking is no redeemer but action can get you out of an unpleasant situation. This is a "knowledge age" where people know everything about anything and yet do nothing about everything. Action oriented people are bound to change the world and the slothful to ruin it. You choose your position. 

- Look ahead

Some opportunities do not make sense today till you look ahead into the future. Preparing for the future is about getting today what you will need tomorrow.

-Bridge the information gap

Information is required for personal growth. However information is not an end in itself, but it rather prepares you for informed action. The reason I encourage you to gather information is so that you can act better. Broaden your knowledge base not for the sake of it but to charter your course.

- Cherish work

Your attitude to work can make all the difference. Biblical wisdom teaches in the book of Proverbs that in all labor there is profit. You want to make profit work.

- Be grateful

Being grateful is a principle of success. Those who live and behave as if the world owes them something are bound to have limited success. Such people find faults everywhere except in themselves. Do away with the blaming attitude and begin to be grateful for even the little things done for you. Grateful people easily build connections and sustain them because they have an attitude to give in the relationship and not to take. Would you say thanks to someone?