do my homework When I was in school I hated two things one was studying and the other was doing the homework. Every evening I had to sit and do my homework, I would feel miserable, I could hear the voices of my friends playing outside and wonder how come they get to play and I have to do this stupid homework, I used to think maybe in college I don't have to do homework, boy, I was wrong, Then I thought when I start working I don't have to do any more homework, I was sadly mistaken again. I found that you have to do your homework every day and if you don't, it will affect and show in your results.
I remember my first job...
I had newly joined this leather company, the boss Mr Dhingra asked me how much cow leather do we have in stock, my answer, I will check and let you know, what model number is under production, I had no answers to the questions he asked. He then rang a bell and his senior manager, Mr.Varadarajan came, he posed him the same question, he rattled off the full details and this guy never visited the factory that I was in charge of, a computer too wouldn't have given better answers. I felt embarrassed, it was humiliating. I had obviously not done my homework.
What is homework?
If we talk about homework in the workplace doing your homework could mean:
Preparation, Planning, Weighing the pros and cons, Prioritizing, Scheduling, Checking resources, Having information, clarifying needs, Organizing, Coming up with ideas, problem solving, making your to-do list, not-to-do list. Homework is something that you do behind the scene, something no one ever gets to see, everyone applauds the achievements but they never get to see the homework that goes behind it.
People who excel in their fields take their homework very seriously putting in hours and hours of work for example:
Musician - riyaz (practice)
Sportsmen - practice
Actors - dialogue delivery practice
In his book the outliers, Malcolm Gladwell tells us that to become a master at anything you need to practice your craft for 10,000 hours. That's homework.
You need to do your homework if the next day you have to:
Give a presentation
Take part in a negotiation
Give a report to the board of directors
Launch a new product
Organize an event
Take an interview / Face an interview
Go on a journey
When you have to invest money
Teach
Go to a meeting
Why do we find it difficult to do the homework?
Distractions - TV/SMS / Facebook / Twitter /Mobile / Internet / friends / lot of pleasurable activities some other reasons could be, the tendency to take things easy / maybe other seemingly urgent things come up / or may be just plain laziness
We may have developed negative associations to homework from our school days Even today schools and parents are divided on whether children should be given homework or not. Homework could be something we don't like to do, which I have already admitted, but then, life is filled with things we don't like to do, but I strongly feel the habit of doing homework teaches self-discipline, development of work habits, time management, research skills, reinforcement of known techniques, and other non-academic life skills.
What pain do you experience when you fail to do your homework?
You fumble / become anxious / cut a sorry figure / loss of credibility / fail / lose business /embarrassed / humiliated / stressed out
What pleasure do you experience when you do your homework?
Feel confident / poised / have a positive influence / build reliability, trust and credibility / get more business / more healthy /
So Associate lot of pleasure to doing your homework, and lot of pain to not doing your homework, this motivates you to take action.
A person who does his homework regularly attracts more luck as luck is the point where opportunity meets preparation. When an opportunity presents itself are you ready?
E.g. once, When I went to an Institute to meet the director and sell my training services, he gave me an opportunity and said the class is ready now, would you like to take it, I said that I was ready too, but had I not done my homework I would have said, not now, some other time and then lose opportunity.
Here is some action you can take. Every field has its own set of homework's, find them and then devote your time to do it. Good observation, a want to do things excellently, consistently learning are requirements to do your homework well.
Minimize negative thinking, negative associations, laziness, procrastination.
Maximize - resources, self-discipline, adapt- new situations, people, and technology. Homework is a high payoff task because it helps you do your most important goals, helps you realize your dreams.
Let me end with a question I asked you in the beginning of this article. Have you done your homework? If your answer is yes then give yourself a pat on the back and say well done. And if your answer is No, then go do it.
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