Practical steps you can take now to start your journey

1. Date
11 simpleTODOs for
a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

2. 1. Start a
notebook
Physical notebook
Write daily; especially at nights to plan and in the
morning to receive instructions from your
subconscious mind.
If you are right-brained, use multiple color pens.
If you aren’t, don’t.
Highlight key sentences.
This is your blueprint for your future.
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

3. 2. Find & State
Your “Why”
✤ Write down exactly what you
want:
✤ I want to lose 45 lbs in the next
24 months; I want to look slim
and have a flat tummy. I want
to be fit and run 5 miles easily,
4 times a week.
✤ Read it daily. Word-smith it as
you deem fit. After all, its
YOUR future!
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

4. 3. Journal every
night
✤ Journal every night. Capture 2
or 3 bullet points of good things
that happened that day. Builds
the attitude of gratitude. Also
programs your mind to look at
the positive side of each day.
✤ Each morning, before you get
out of bed, write. That’s how
you receive instructions from
your subconscious mind on
how to manifest your “why”.
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

5. 4. Speak what
you want
✤ Speak what you want that you
do not have: I own a red
Ferrari.
✤ Don’t speak what you have
that you do not want: I had my
boss.
✤ Your words program your
mind. Your mind creates your
reality.
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

6. 5. Leverage Power
of Association
✤ You become like the people you hang around
with.
✤ Hang around accountants, you become an
accountant
✤ Hang around drunks and you will start drinking
✤ Hang around people who cuss and you will start
cussing
✤ Hang around happy people and you will be
happy
✤ Hang around fat people and you will become fat
✤ You get the point.
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

7. 6. RedesignYour
Environment
✤ Have potato chips near you and you will
finish the bag
✤ You have ice-cream in the refrigerator all
the time and you will have a tough time
losing weight
✤ You have Netflix and you will waste
hours each night
✤ You have a running buddy? You will run
regularly
✤ You have a daily alarm to read self-
improvement at 10 pm and you will read
regularly and grow.
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

8. 7. Follow
Brightspots
Its a few hundred years ago. You
are going from San Francisco to
New York. No matter how many
times you fail, your failure
(contrary to popular opinion) will
not add to your knowledge of
how to get to NYC. You better
ask someone who made it there.
That’s the brightspot. That’s
success. And you can - usually -
learn more from success.
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

9. 8. Leverage
Power of Belief
Belief comes from words
repeated with emotion and
authority
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

10. 9.Walk on Faith
Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1, King James
Version (KJV) of The Bible
When you have the What and the
Why, step out. Let the Universe
figure out the How. That’s faith.
Without faith, there is no success.
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

11. 10. Develop
Good Habits
✤ Rather than quit your bad habits, replace or
substitute them with good habits.
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✤ Awareness
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✤ Transform association
✤ Anchor on another habit
✤ Repeat and affirm
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D

12. 11. Give
✤ Give money. If you do, you don’t
have it any more. They have it. Help
those that cannot help themselves.
✤ Give time. If you do, you don’t
have it. Nor do they. So be sure you
neither waste yours or theirs. Add
value to them.
✤ Give knowledge. You still have it
and so do they. This is the best
investment. You have multiplied the
knowledge in the world, and hence,
value.
11 Simple TODOs for a prosperous life
Dr. Kanth Miriyala, Ph.D