#Book_Review: #YOU_CAN_ACHIEVE_MORE

Not sure how many avid readers have the habit of highlighting good lines when you read a book so that you can come back later on when you are bored and re-live the good moments you had with that book. I definitely do that all the time!

One book that I recently read was “You can achieve more” written by Shiv Khera. The first book that I read written by this author was “You can Win”, fell in love with that book so I had to read his following books namely “living with honour”, “Freedom is not free”, “You can Sell” and this book called “You can achieve more” is the last book by this seasoned author which was published 2018.

This book “You can achieve more” is a self-help book which effectively teaches not only the principles of success but also how to avoid expensive mistakes. The principles are universal among all cultures but practicing them matters and will give you a rewarding result.

In this post I would like to share with you my favorite lines which I came across while reading this book and HIGHLIGHTED for future reference.

1.      A person with a positive attitude cant be stopped and a person with a negative attitude cant be helped.

2.      Acquiring facts is a knowledge, interpreting facts is understanding ad proper application of fats is wisdom.

3.      In order to be happy, we need three things – health, Wealth and Good relationships.

1. Learning to make a living and learning to live are two different things
2. If we want to stand out, then we need to do something outstanding.
3. An action plan defines three things: What you want to achieve, how you want to achieve and target date to achieve it.
4. Success doesn’t depend on our position, but on our disposition, which is our attitude.
5. Thinking, believing and knowing what is good is not enough. DOING GOOD IS.
6. Whenever we speak well about a man, do we refer to his looks, clothes, face or academic qualifications? No. we refer to his attitude.
7. Attitude is our standpoint, our approach to things or our reaction to situations in life.
8. A positive thinker is an optimist. We can’t always change the circumstances, nor can we change the reasons or the seasons, but we can change ourselves.
9. The only way we have a choice in is the way we deal with the world which is our ATTITUDE.
10. The pedigree of a horse is judged by his breeding and training and not by a fancy stable.
11. The lines on our palm don’t decide our future. There are those without hands who not only write their own future but also those of others.
12. The best idea will not work unless we work the idea.
13. A good life is not measured by bank balances and material possessions alone. It is measured by our attitude towards life.
14. We should life by design not y default.
15. If we are not willing to pay the price for success then whether we like it or not, we will have to pay the price for failure. A price has to be paid, no matter what.
16. Every victory is the result of the following components – Sacrifice, self-discipline, hard work, commitment, integrity and responsibility, besides our willing to invest time, effort and money.
17. By the time a person gains maturity and good sense, youth is gone.
18. Life without fulfilment is empty. It is like good looks without goodness.
19. No matter how hard you try, ignorance cant be concealed and wisdom gets revealed.
20. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
21. Confidence without humility amounts to arrogance.
22. Problems are a sign of life, so long as we are alive we shall have problems and the day we have no problem, we will be dead.
23. We can’t choose the cards that are dealt to us; we can only choose how to play the game.
24. If we keep doing what we have been doing all our lives, we will keep getting the same results that we have been getting. If we want different results in life, we need to either do different things or do things differently.
25. All progress is change but not all change is progress.
26. The objective of education is to bring transformation not just awareness.
27. Knowledge without action is like ploughing without sowing.
28. A lighthouse doesn’t call for attention, it just radiates and the world takes notice. Likewise, spirituality is self-evident in one’s behavior.
29. Most of the people want to make money and very few want to earn it.
30. We can condition our thought factory to become either like a thermometer or thermostat.
31. Just like the soil doesn’t choose the seeds that are planted, our subconscious mind doesn’t decide what thoughts to choose. Just like the farmer decides on the seeds, the conscious mind chooses the thoughts to implant in the subconscious mind.
32. A farmer, even after he plants good seeds to constantly de-weed his garden, otherwise the weeds destroy his good harvest. Similarly, the cleansing process of our mind should be constant and consistent.
33. Every thought is a seed – if you plant an inferior seed, you cant expect a superior fruit.
34. Garbage in and garbage out is not always true. Often, garbage in, garbage stays, and garbage grows, and it breeds within us.
35. We all know how to read, but very few actually do read and of those who read, very few know what to read.
36. A major differentiation between winners and those who are not is the ability to concentrate and focus.
37. More important than the harvest we reap are the seeds that we sow every day.
38. Self-esteem is the way we feel about ourselves.
39. We should get our validation from inside not outside.
40. More than my appearance, my mind and my attitude give me my identity.
41. What is easy to do is also easy to neglect.
42. For everyone wrong done or a mistake made, we need twelve corrective actions to counter or neutralize it. sometimes, even twelve corrective actions are not able to counter it.
43. It is not what we get but what we become.
44. Majority opinion doesn’t make the right wrong or the wrong right.
45. If you ever want to lend anything to anyone in life, lend your money but never your name. why? Because, money is easy to recover but name is very hard to recover.
46. Values are more important than valuables.
47. When we allow our students to cheat, they come out corrupt.
48. Character is not a gift, it is an accomplishment.
49. Preparation takes place during peace time.
50. The three pillars of character are – Integrity, Respect and Responsibility.
51. A donkey remains a donkey no matter what it carries.
52. People with integrity are not different things to different people. Their actions and words match.
53. Integrity doesn’t change with the amount involved.
54. Sell your professional time but not your conscience.
55. A pillow of clear conscience affords the soundest sleep and comes from a life lived with integrity.
56. Enforced integrity is no integrity.
57. Taking things that don’t belong to us without permission, even with the intention of replacing them is stealing.
58. A crooked lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred robbers with guns.
59. Reputation is “what other people Think of us” and character is “who we know we are”.
60. Irrepressible desire to steal is called kleptomania.
61. A balanced mind is more important than all the degrees, qualifications, knowledge and experience put together.
62. Stability of mind is the most powerful quality of any person in the world regardless of position and education.
63. We see things not the way they are but the way we are.
64. Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.
65. If we don’t remove the roadblocks, then we are the roadblocks.
66. Life is like goalkeeper; it is not important how many goals we saved. Winning or losing depends on how many we missed.
67. We are only as strong as our weakest link.
68. The greatest ignorance is when one is not aware of one’s ignorance.
69. A statistics said “Eight out of ten accidents takeplace not because of unsafe conditions but because of unsafe actions of the persons involved”.
70. According to dailymail.co.uk Taking your eyes off the road for just two seconds when driving increases accidents by 24times.
71. Confidence leads to good output; overconfidence leads to bad outcome.
72. Don’t save what is left after spending but spend what is left after saving.
73. An asset is defined as an investment that generates a passive income.
74. People make things not things make people.
75. The greatest test of courage is accepting loss without losing heart.
76. An honorable person doesn’t put a price tag on humanity. To them dignity is more important than financial gains.
77. Practice doesn’t make us perfect but makes permanent whatever we practice.
78. Every sunrise brings new opportunities and every sunset demands results and accountability.
79. It is better to PREPARE and PREVENT than to REPAIR and REPENT.
80. Accountability is defined as willingness to accept responsibility.
81. Average is defined as “Lowest of the best and highest of the worst”
82. The best way to coach your people is to become a role model for them. What they see, they learn.
83. It is better to have one person working with us than a hundred people working for us – those who take ownership work with us, not for us.
84. People will do a lot for money. They will do more for a good leader. They will do most for belief.
85. Whenever we waste time, we are wasting our live. Most people don’t waste time, they only waste their lives. Time management is only a name given to life management.
86. Four things never come back – a lost opportunity, a spoken work, a fired bullet and a wasted moment.
87. Life is a one-way street; we can only go forward.
88. Time cannt be manufactured. It can’t be used quickly or slowly, it can’t be borrowed or lent. It appears to pass quickly when we are enjoying ourselves and it drags when we feel trapped.
89. Time teaches us the value of life; life teaches us the value of time.
90. Unjustified postponement is called procrastination.
91. The energy required to procrastinate is much greater that the energy required to do the job.
92. The greatest achievement of a person in his lifetime is not measured by what he got but by what he become.
93. Learn to respond not react; be proactive not reactive.
94. More important than the decision is the decision-making process. Why? because if the process is right the chances are that a majority of your decisions will go right.
95. Working hard is one thing, whereas decision making is another.
96. If we want to leave a legacy, then either do something worth writing or write something worth doing.

100. Actors make an impression; great people make an impact.

101. In a corrupt system, decorating and giving awards to the unworthy becomes a common practice.

102. When a corrupt politician dies, his name shouldn’t appear in the obituary column. Rather, it should appear in the public improvement column in newspapers.

103. Vision is the ability to see the invisible. If we can see the invisible we can achieve the impossible.

104. We often fight over little things only to realise later that they didn’t really matter.

105. There is no substitute for hard work.

106. Unlike the game o football, where you can replace players, in the game of life you have to play your own game.

107. Don’t ask how many people know you or how many you know. Ask are you worth knowing.

108. Every seed has the potential of starting a forest.

109. Feeling good is a natural outcome of doing good and doing good is a natural outcome of being good.

110. Losers count their days, winners make their days count.

I loved reading this book, hopefully so will you.

Thank you for reading and kindly share your favorite lines from the book in the comments.

Have a nice day!