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Out to motivate

Anuj Khare on his latest book "Mercedes & The Missing Clock" and more

CREATING TIME! Anuj Khare

Motivational guru is the latest job on the horizon. And leading the young pack is Anuj Khare. An IIT, Delhi graduate, Anuj went on to do masters in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, U.S. After working in a number of top-notch companies, Anuj, 28, realised this is not what he wanted from life. He came under the influence of renowned motivational coach Anthony Robbins and later decided to be one himself.

"I don't want to be called a guru. Like there are sports coaches, guitar coaches and language instructors, I practise success psychology coaching," reasons Anuj, who has just come out with his third book "Mercedes & The Missing Clock". The book talks about a novel concept of time mastery.

"Here I have tried to enumerate my personal experience. Generally we practise time management, which teaches us how to do more in less time. Time mastery educates on how to create time in life to do what really matters. It is not easy for first one has to know what really matters."

Anuj admits, he doesn't tell anything that has not been said before in his workshops. "In fact, I start with I am not going to tell you anything that you don't know, but something that you don't practise. He says the expertise of a motivational coach lies in making the listeners practise what has been said in scriptures of different religions, by presenting the thought in a structured form." He conducts spoon-bending exercise to develop self-belief.

Personal growth

Anuj maintains the present generation in a mad rush of education and job, is neglecting personal growth. "They look at me in awe when I tell them basic rules of time mastery. They should make learning their friend." Enumerating these rules, Anuj says first one has to realise the difference between urgent and important and outstanding and perfection. "Then one must learn to make the best use of time now and don't say yes when you want to say no. I know it has some societal implications in terms of our cultural ethos, but in office at least one must learn to say no if something doesn't go with one's value system." Then he adds do the right thing rather than doing things right. "The most important is to focus on the 20 per cent tasks that account for 80 per cent of the results."

To him success is 80 per cent psychology and 20 per cent mechanics. "That's why one approach can work for people with different needs. You must know swimming, if you want to be the best swimmer but beyond that the methodology is the same as for someone who wants to lose weight."

ANUJ KUMAR

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