‘Observing Management’
· Before starting, finish it, and before having your first step, reach your destination. Therefore before deciding something, try to be foresight, look at the probabilities to the possible extent and analyse them.
· To manage, learn your management skills from the greatest managers and those who were perfectionist by reading their failures.
· Solve the big problems inside the small ones. And it is from the small issues that a pattern can be shaped in solving the big ones.
· Never start from zero. Always start from where the greatest have finished. Your starting point should be the finishing point of the others.
· The majority of humans solve their issues by relying on dead methods because those majorities are dead. Attempts and errors, blindly imitations, putting into practice the first idea that comes to mind, reactions based on conditioning and dealing with problems in a linear pattern or by using fragile methods are some instances. Most of the people are not aware that these dead methods will end up to dead results.
· Humans brain function and it s learning capacity can reform from the simplest abacus and calculators to super and gigantic computers. Based on such example, the brains functionality and ability of most humans has stalled at the level of abacus. This condition has made the brain to stay in that level like a rusted metal. Start improving your brain ability based on what I have taught you about “Thinking”, then the rustiness of your brain will begin to reduce and your brain functionality will increase so it can reach higher levels. You can plough your land, plant wheat and wait for months, then you take care of it and harvest your land and then using mill to produce flour and by that you make bread. With so much effort you can end up in making bread but with so much easier paths without spending energy, you can get the bread or any other food. Unfortunately most of humans are like those who spend their life time to make bread in worst ways possible, the longest and hardest. Don’t be one of them, and if you are try to leave them. Use the best and easiest methods for solving your issues.
· To ignite whatever you do and solve your simple (linear) problems use two different easy methods, revolutionary and impacting methods so as the systematic and consolidating ones. Same as the example of a building, first base the foundation and the skeleton of your building and then finish and modify your design.
· Circulate your ideas and thoughts in the brain. Don’t release your thought as soon as you receive them and do not share it with other people straight away. Put all your thoughts in comparison and choose the most suitable and reliable ones. Bring out your best and richest thoughts rather than those raw one which only cover the surface of the ideas (depends on the situation).
· Don’t do whatever you are able of, however try to do whatever you are capable of, the best you can; your boundaries are flexible try to move to upper levels.
· Figure out the priorities so you wouldn’t fall into the trap of untimely priorities.
· Write and bulletin your thoughts on paper so it would be like bulletins in your brain too.
· Try to solve the issues from their root. Leaves and branches are not as necessary and important.
· To withstand in front of danger, close the chances of growth of the risks, first stop the flow of the danger and then analyse the risks that have occurred and the ones that have not taken place yet.
· Do not limit yourself between black and white, there are thousands of colours in between of them, same process for the yes and no answers, or able and not able.
· Look at the problems such as they are issues, and see those issues as they are opportunities and you have to step into them.
· Do not forget that others won’t see the problems the way you look at or vice versa.
· Never use needle for shovelling. Needle is for sewing and shovel is for harvesting. Therefore, when you leave a job to your hands, look at their capabilities and scales and so keep in mind that shovel can be used for many different things, but its main usage is to feed the air into the land.
· Start from where the others have finished, those whom where successful and their results were acceptable. Useless repeating of a task is not suggested.
· Successful role models in any path have travelled a distance in which you might go through it. Therefore use the best paths that are similar to those ones who were successful in it.
· To pass through different situations, different types of questioning may be useful. So many doors have been opened by asking a correct and useful question and so many issues can be solved only using this method.
· Think about whatever you want to say in the first place. Do not talk only with your lips. Use your eyes, ears and body language to talk as well. If you see what you are talking about, audience can also visualize and feel it.
· Before you want to teach someone, try to find his character and know him, without knowing someone how it is possible to flow with his thoughts and put yourself in his position.
· If you see what you say, then whatever heard from you, can be seen and visualised by your audience.
Based on Master Elias’ teaching on ‘Thinking Methods’
Extracted from ’Elia; the great master of thinking’ book (Amen, Vol.3)