Start Listening to your Self.

Is new semester going to start soon? Have to select the Major? Confuse about it?

Let’s get this together! You want to know which field is better for you or in which field you will be better both are the same questions from different angles. Some people have very common yet strange mentality of choosing a specialization. They have some sort of thinking that this major will be better for them as well coz:

1. Major is also picked by one of the inspiring seniors
2. You get better marks in it
3. Your family or friends pushed you in it
4. Most of the students are doing
5. Get a lot of advice to select it
6. Your elder sibling is also doing same and gets a good career
7. It’s easy!

And how can we forget the reason for selecting a particular major that my best friend is doing it too? Will selecting a major on these reasons will get you a very good career or technical skills? Major picked on these bases will get you a job from which after 10 years you can’t get bored or tired?

The answer of a wise person is simply NO. Then how to select a major? The question still stands! The answer is very simple to listen to yourself.

• It’s your life.
• You are going to pay the fee.
• You are going to face the consequences either you succeed or fail.
• You are responsible for it.
• You have to make your life with it. Etc.

When everything is related to you LOL, why don’t you listen to yourself while selecting the major? Following are the steps to sort this out:

1. Find your hidden capability by seeing in yourself which subject you love to study. Either it's marketing or finance or human resource or medical or engineering whatever it is. And go for it.
2. Then find some specialties in that major you select focus on it. E.g. being a Finance student you can be either Chartered Accountant, Management Accountant, Data analyst etc. keep this in the start of your major selection. Coz you have to opt one of the specialties in more advanced studies. If you want to study finance and not want to select any of these specialties then believe me you have to change your major.
3. Then search some careers available to you with your end specialty. Is there the charm still available or not. If not then change your major.

These simple three steps will help to select you your major subject.

But if you can’t focus enough in selecting above three then you have other ways to select your major as well:

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Are you a student? Do you know Importance of TIME?

Being a student nowadays is very difficult. They don’t have proper time for anything they have in their life either it is their studies or some fun activity they love or family. This is all because they don’t know how to manage time. Time is the only factor if controlled leads towards a beautiful life.

“Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realize how important it is to use the time I have.”

Viggo Mortensen

You have to take care of your Grades, your family and friends and in some cases your special male/female friends too! LOL. Do you think all these will matter in a near future while you are ending your studies and searching for a job or handling business? Do you want to regret; when you see an opportunity in front of you a decade later but you can’t opt it coz you had time a decade earlier to get eligible for it?

If no then you have to take some actions at this age.  You have to do some things to get yourself at the pace this world is moving:

1. Set Priorities
2. Reading Books other than Course
3. Grow your Hunger for Information
4. Follow Successful People on Social Media
5. Improve your Communication Skills

Set Priorities:

You will always be led by the priorities you have set in life. Some prioritize families over friends, some find the job as their priority than business. If we take the example of companies than Apple prioritize the higher value of product then customer needs, Samsung finds a customer need to be important to make a new product. Being a student you must schedule your priorities.

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities”

Stephen Covey

Let’s take a look at our some schedules these days,

• Miss Math class coz you don’t understand it, will study from your friend.
• Attend Arabic lecture and do texts in it, coz teacher is not going to fail.
• Sitting in the cafe with friends, while information in a newspaper in the library will go to the garbage bin, not in your mind.
• Waste time in silly talks with friends, who don’t even help in time of need?

Are you on it? If yes then you must have to change your priorities.

• Why not attend class by yourself maybe you understand what your friend didn’t?
• Why not listen to teacher carefully? Maybe help in future, not in the paper.
• Why not read the newspaper every day? Not all as a starter just the headlines?
• Why not discuss current issues with friends rather than talking silly with friends?

These are the solutions of some daily habits which are breaking you not making you for future. You can prioritize your schedule upon following check list:

• Family (Empowers you)
• Studies (Leads to a beautiful career)
• Co-Curricular Activities (Makes you confident)
• Trainings/Workshops (Helps you in improving you)
• Reading Books (Tells you your lacking without telling anyone else)
• Reading Newspaper (Keeps you up to date)
• Friends (Make a group of Do-ers)

And the entire world tasks later on. Investing your time in all these intelligently will lead you to a well-balanced life

Reading:

Just reading course books will get you nowhere. They are just the foundation to build a building of knowledge on it. And you know from where that building came from? Do you know what is missing in you Foundation structure?

Do you think not reading books will make you a better person than the guy who continuously put a brick every day in its information building through reading books?

Here are the answer people like the ice cream but after toppings on it, they like it even more. Same is the case with the knowledge which you will get reading books.

Here is a list of books mentioned which is a must read:

• Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
• The Art of War by SunTzu
•  All of 7 Habits Series by Stephen Covey

Information:

“The best utility I ever know of is information.”

Movie Wall Street

Always get yourself loaded with information either it is of your field related or not. Knowing every aspect of life will never let you down in any situation. The best way to equip you with information is Newspaper read only headlines but read it! More over if you are a business student at least read a business journal so that you will have the information of what is going in the Corporate World nowadays.

A good and available journal at Universities is Herald Business Review.

Social Media:

Liking and following the funny pages and scrolling the social sites down will only get you a second or a minute smile. It’s now the habit of people to scroll the social sites and waste their time. Especially the young people are getting addictive to this. These funny pages will not lead you anywhere except your mind will be diverted every time you started your work. Does this scrolling of funny Memes will improve your professionally?  

Let’s think this way; liking a page of Richard Branson (a person who founded more than 400 Companies) on which he is telling about his daily habits, do you think reading it will get you nowhere? Reading its habits will not improve you professionally?  

Now it is accepted by the world that equal quantity of success can be achieved if you put the equal quantity of efforts. So searching and liking personalities on social media will have a great impact on your time spent and Personality.

Communication:

Do you think without saying something you can get something? Communication skills are the best way to get success in short time. I had met an Engineer last days having tremendous technical skills but don’t have the ability to communicate properly; he is nowadays hired by an engineer who has very excellent skills of communicating; rather than technical.

Have you ever heard of Steve Wozniak? He is the person who is not the CEO of Apple; you know why? Lack of Communication skills! Yes, its reality. So, it’s the best time to get your Communication skills improved.

Attend some workshops/training. Meet new people. Attend some random meetings of people. These things will increase your communication skills.

All the above-mentioned habits are some of those I had been noticing for last few months missed in today's students. Honestly, if you managed your time you will be able to manage all these. Time is the factor left with us that is loyal and being disloyal to it will lead us to a very unhappy future.

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