What is your daily routine?  Is it the same every day?  For most of us our days don’t go as we have planned. Or at times we may get sulky after a day or two carrying out routines. However, schedules and routines help in keeping us organised and focused without the burden of hustle.            Here how I spend a day in my life and the secrets to self-care despite the busy life.  Typically, everybody’s day has four divisions just like the chambers of our heart.  Personal life: The first one is personal life. Put your personal life first at the start of each day and you have already taken care of the 50%.  Our body is the vessel that helps us in this life. It endures so much throughout our lives. Hence it is our duty to put it first under all circumstances.  Our bodies have self-healing properties thus it does not ask much from us other than a little care.  Wake up early and breathe in the fresh air by going for a walk. Meditate for a few minutes.  Now meditation doesn’t require you to sit and sit and realise the meaning of existence. Rather it is a simple way to empty out everything that sets you back.  Conscious breathing is one of the ways. All you have to do is simply observe your breathing and thank your body, it has gone through so much for you. Secondly personal hygiene like showering everyday and dressing appropriately. Finally, your diet. Eat healthy and balanced by avoiding ready made food items. Eat to the required quantity and not more or less than that.  In summary: Getup early Go for a walk Observer closely Brush, bath and watch your dress Eat less. Social Life:             We live in a closely knit environment with millions of people around us every day. There is someone or another in need of your help out there. We don’t have to take the complete responsibility of taking care of everyone. The least we can do is help just one person each day around our locality or community we live in. It not only changes their lives but ours too. We don’t have to be famous or great to be a leader. A small random act of kindness each day will make you a leader. Great leaders like Barack Obama and politicians like Kejriwal were initially community leaders who then rose to become leaders of a nation. The second thing is knowing what is happening around us. Read more and gather information every day. You can only set out to people if you have the knowledge of what is happening around. Stay humble and kind and one day you shall become a great leader too. In summary: Read more Write few Share enough Help a person a day. Professional Life.           All of us are the children of the world so accept it or not we have to have a living to survive. That doesn’t mean you have to go chasing glitzy stuffs and work all your life without a purpose. Find your passion, develop your skills in the field and stand out from the crowd. The first rule to becoming skilful is practise. Practise a new skill every week. Learn new things in your industry every day. Practise pays off like miracle. To understand the value of practise, keep a record of your works from the beginning and compare it to the ones you have created after long time practise. You will see the journey from amateur to professional obviously. Such is the power of practise.   In summary: Practice! Practice!! Practice!!! Family Life:       Last but not least family. Family is the only support system that stays by you side always.  There is no better therapy than going back to a family that is anticipating your arrival to help you, support you and share your concerns and happiness. Spend time with your family as much as you can. Eat together and play with your kids as much as possible. No matter what you think of at the start of the day family is the only force that thinks of you at the end of the day.  I would like to conclude this article by stressing key 5 habits everyone must follow to become highly effective are Get up early Go for a walk Eat less Read more Help a person a day.

Before defining what natural intelligence is, let us look at intelligence and its definition first. Psychologists still debate on various definition for intelligence and there is no common ground achieved so far. Many convincing definitions exist in the psychology, still new definitions continue to evolve and older getting tuned further. Based on my common sense, reading and research, I define intelligence as a simple cognitive process which is the foundation for all learning, analysing, creating and feeling. In other words, how you perceive, interpret, analyse and take decision from the past store data at your subconscious and unconscious mind along with input from our present external environment through our five sensory sensors like ear, eye, nose, tongue and skin.  There is nothing called general intelligence and can be categorised into practical intelligence, creative intelligence, analytical intelligence and emotional intelligence. Every animal and plants have intelligence, the difference is in the scale of intelligence level. Humans are the species  with higher intelligence because of their ability to store, retrieve and process relevant information from the past. The combination of all four categories of intelligence brought extraordinary abilities to the extend of ruling every animal on this planet. To be precise, existence of other animals and species are at the mercy of humans. Because of human’s intelligence which came naturally over the period of time through the cognitive process, natural intelligence, they became the rulers of the world. As we discussed earlier, the human’s natural intelligence can be broadly classified into Practical, Creative, Analytical and Emotional. By combining these abilities, humans mastered the nature and were able to invent things from wheel to steam engine to telegraph to telephone to radio to TV to computer to internet.   Let us look at the definitions for inteligence bit closer. Analytical intelligence is the ability to analyse and evaluate ideas, solve problems and make decisions.Creative intelligence involves going beyond what is given to generate novel and interesting ideas.Practical intelligence is the ability that individuals use to find the best fit between themselves and the demands of the environment.Emotional Intelligence is the ability to manage your emotions and people around you. If all the above fundamental intelligence are perfected with the practice over the period of time, we, humans, would become more effective and achieve whatever we desire and wish. For more details, click on first three categories and emotional intelligence.

Mr. Sivakumar, Managing Director, The Indian Public School (TIPS), Erode