This world has been created by the people who dared to dream and
believe in possibilities. All inventions, discoveries and achievements in human
civilizations are results of believers and strivers. The Creator created the
hardware but delegated the responsibilities of developing software to human
beings. Hence every human being is born to succeed and grow to no limit. This
is because success of every human being is the success of the Creator himself.
Success is the basic inherent principle of Nature. Whatever good or bad you
believe in and you try for, you will succeed in.
Every human being is unique and an ultimate creation of God. No
one is a random creation. There is a purpose behind everyone to be born on
earth. In this regard I would like to quote the famous statement given by Max
Lucado who says: “‘you were not an accident, you were not mass produced, you
were not an assembly line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically
gifted and lovingly positioned on earth by the master craftsman.” In other
words, it is not that mass production is going on in an industry like Tata
Steel Plant and a human is created as one of the mass, it’s also not that, there
is a single dye used to replicate production of human beings as in the case of
production of mobile sets by a company. There is no accidental production of
anyone. In fact each one is a deliberate creation of God with some certain
purposes and therefore everyone is gifted with some specific qualities and is
born to certain parents and to certain environment and place .Thus wherever you
are born, is not an advantage or disadvantage till the time you realize it’s
importance and take it as a scheme of God. Take example of the great men of the
human civilization, more than 80% of them were born in unprivileged conditions
and to unknown and unprivileged parents. To pick up a few examples, Mahatma Gandhi,
Abraham Lincon, our former President Abdul Kalam, Einstein, Thomas Edison, Bill
Gates and Dheerubhai Ambani all were from very humble socio-economic
background. In fact, such humble backgrounds were the nurturing grounds for
their excellence in later part of their lives.
Thus the story of success for anyone begins with trust on
himself/ herself that he/ she is the ultimate creation of God and is born to
succeed and remain happy for fulfilling the basic objectives of his/her birth. No
one is born as great or small. To every parent their new born child is looked as
the ultimate child on the earth, and perhaps the most intelligent and most good
looking one also. But very soon things become different. The child starts
getting compared with others and social conditioning of the child begins. Then
he/ she do not remain in what unlimited potential he/she was born with. In fact
he /she starts getting personality as conditioned by the social environment
he/she gets. Growing with age his / her original potential or individuality
becomes dormant and social conditioning termed as personality becomes the
reality. Consequently what he /she can do or cannot do is not the result of his/her
original potential but of his / her belief system as conditioned by the
environment.
As a grown up person the first and the foremost duty for you is
to spend some peaceful time to develop your consciousness towards yourself. If
you have desire to accomplish something in your life but fear and doubt comes
on the way, you must understand that some wrong conditioning has happened in
your mind towards your goal. Therefore, before moving ahead with your efforts,
you must try to come out of that wrong conditioning and reprogramme your mind
with realization of your actual potential and strong belief system. The real
thrill is not in doing something that you find easy but in doing something that
seems difficult. It does not take more time to follow a bigger dream than a
smaller one .Therefore you should never hesitate on creating a dream as big as
you can.
Goal setting is very crucial in human life. Without a clear goal
life is worthless. We are different from other animals because we can dream and
we can follow our dreams. But these dreams are meaningless till the time these
becomes objectives of our life. As former President of India Shri Abdul Kalam says,”
dream is not one that you see while sleeping but that you see when you are
awake and that does not allow you to sleep.” Only this kind of dream can become
goal. However, in relation to your goal, you must ask to yourself following
questions seriously and contemplate on them:
What do you want? When do you want it? Why do you want it? And
how will get it? It is a very crucial to be very specific about what do you
want. For example, when you make a choice for a career you need be very
specific about what you want to be. If you want to be a civil servant, must be specific
about what service like IAS, IFS or IPS you want to be in. Your mind will work
better and your energy will be more channelized when you are specific about
your goal. This clarity of choice must be supported by time line .Thus when you
want to be an IAS needs a specification of time, for example in year 2015 or
2016/2017/2018. You cannot get result from you till the time you become
specific about a deadline. These above two questions ‘What’ and ‘When’ must be
supported by a clear answer for ‘Why’. The answer for ‘Why’ will give you
strong motivation and enthusiasm for your efforts. This makes you clear about
the choice of goal and keeps you connected with the tastes and glories of your
goal. For example if someone motivates you to climb mountain for 5 km without
giving answer for ‘Why’, you will not be able to go even for a few meters. On
the other hand if you have a reasons, tastes and attractions connected to your
mountain climbing you will forget all difficulties on the way and reach the top
of the mountain with all enthusiasm and spirit.
Then finally comes the question ‘How’. This is the technique of
achieving your goal that you may call ‘Art of Success’. This is where you have
to assess your existing potential and upgrade it to the desired level. You have
to sharpen your skills in order to match with the expectations of your goal.
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