AK Mishra's Art of Success

Success is an art which can be learnt by understanding some fundamental rules and can be developed into habit with sincere and regular practice of those rules. In fact, golden rules of success are the same for any walk of life. Only they need to be customized according to specific needs of a goal. Further, success is not one time achievement but a continuous process for higher and higher goals. It is a never ending journey, which gives meaning and purpose to life. There are two fold principles of AK Mishra's Art of Success:

1.    True knowledge and understanding of the traits of success.

2.    Internalization of these traits so as to make them an integral part of your nature and personality.

Whereas, it is easy to know and discuss about the traits of success, it is a real challenge to integrate them in your personality.

Success traits include qualities like positive thinking, belief in self, courage, dedication towards goal, skilled time management, energy management etc. These are well known to every conscious human being. Everyone desires to maintain these qualities. But when it comes to reality, it becomes difficult to practice them. This is because there is vast difference between desire and will.

The list of factors of success can be quite long if they are placed in different heads and sub heads. However,  in order to simplify them I prefer to place them under four spokes of the wheel of success. These are Mind, Time, Energy and Human Relationship. Sharpening the skill of managing these four priceless gifts of God to human beings can take you to any height of life.

Success begins with recognition of your true self. Everyone is a unique creation of God with immense potentiality to grow and achieve success, peace and happiness in life. An understanding and realization of your true potentiality and uniqueness is a wonderful experience. Max Lucado says, “You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted and lovingly positioned on the earth by the master Craftsman.”

Everyone of us has a purpose of coming in this world and everyone has some uniqueness in him to achieve his goal.

I shall deal with the Art of Success through series of articles. In this particular article I am taking up some of the important points related to mind management.

Human brain is limitless in terms of its capacity for memory and thinking. No computer of the world can match a healthy brain. Even the great scientist Einstein would not claim utilization of more than 15% of the capacity of his brain. It comprises about 100 billion cells called as neurons and has capacity to store about 300 trillion words. Thus there is nothing for any healthy human being to complain regarding lack of memory power. Problem is not in the capacity of brain but in not knowing how to utilize our unlimited brain power. There is nothing beyond our mind in this world. In fact, this world has a meaning for us all because of our mind only.

Whatever we get or lose is all because of our mind. Right from our childhood, we are trained how to eat, dress up, live, talk, work, enjoy but not how to use our brain and run our mind which runs everything for us. Let us imagine, what will be the meaning of anything in our possession or around us in this world without our brain. Of course, nothing exists for us beyond our mind. Thus, all our achievements are directly related to the skill of running our mind.

The Art of Success is, in fact, an art of running our mind efficiently. Here, it is important to understand that there is vast difference between literacy and education. A person can be thoroughly educated without being literate. Akbar, the Great, is one of the best examples of this. Many of the saints and religious Gurus were illiterate but were highly knowledgeable. On the other hand, in our country or anywhere in the world, there is a very large number of literates and highly qualified people but those who can claim to be really educated to live life purposefully and give meaning to this world are always in very small percentage. A true education has a direct relation with realization within self. Academic education can make us literate and enrich us with information and knowledge but their utilization and meaningfulness depend on our power of true education which, in other words, is self realization on anything. God has already powered up our brain, we just have to discover how to use it for maximum gain. A true teacher is one who does not spoil the originality of his student’s brain but helps him in realizing within himself.

I strongly believe in the Philosophy of Buddha in this regard. He says, “Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

Therefore, my Art of Success is aimed at reminding you of the qualities which are already lying deep inside your mind. You have just to realize them and set them in motion for your greater achievements.

Here, it is pertinent to understand that we cannot recognize, understand and interpret a thing in right perspective if it or related to it, information is in our memory. In other words, there is a need of right kind of human software for getting a desired result from our mind. As a computer cannot give a result for the thing for which it has no software, so happens with our brain. In order to succeed in any walk of life, you need to have the right kind of software. In the case of succeeding any fields, you need to have human software and traits require to achieve success in that particular field. You may be having most of them, but you need to fine tune them according to the requirement of your role expected in the particular field. 

Till now, your human software is academic and all that has come to your personality unregulated and uncontrolled as programming right from your childhood from your parents, family, school, college and other educational institutions, friends, relatives, teachers, media, kind of readings done etc.

Therefore, you need to look inside yourself and reprogramme your brain with the traits of personality which are needed to achieve your desired goal. We do not get what we want, but what we are. Therefore, be first in your inner world what you want to be in the outer world as our outer world is just the reflection of our inner world.