We all want our lives filled with happiness,
prosperity, achievement, health and yet the vast majority of people end up
leading relatively average and monotonous lives. Why? How even educated people are
happy and contended working paycheck to paycheck ?
Let’s discover
the answer.
The answer
lies in the fact that we have never been taught how to create and live a great
life! We have never studied this in school. Although we admire people who have done
great things, we read histories, biographies of successful people, but no one
trains us or shows us the right way to live a prosperous life. No one shows us
the ways to achieve great heights and which is why we stumble. Lack of proper
coaching and direction is the root cause of all our agonies and asperities. Most
of us are ambitious, hardworking, well educated along with our individual
capabilities and potential, but are not aware about the basic formula of
success, hence often get average results. Before understanding the formula of
success, it’s important to ponder over the factors which fail us and create
chaos in our lives.
In fact,
formula of chaos can also be deduced which goes like this
Impulse +
opportunity = Chaos.
Everyday, we
all come across oodles of impulses like to work, to study, to play or to plan. Impulses
are just ideas that pop into our brains for a second and then vanishes. It
flashes in our brain for a moment and catches our attention but the problematic
part is that they are random, numerous and based on casual appetites and
fleeting temptations. Though impulses are neither good or bad but we can’t
count on them as well .
We encounter
problems when our impulses meet the opportunity for instant satisfaction. If
you have a credit card in your wallet and you are defeated by the impulse to
spend, probably the result will be unplanned debt which is a problem. Likewise
if you want to watch television, that too on a big new flat-screen television
the result often will be a wasted time.
Impulses
happen when we encircle ourself with opportunities for instant satisfaction.
Now, consider
another formula, the one for achievement.
Here it is:
Desire
+ Discipline =
Achievement
Our deepest
desires are indeed our true longings, mission or purpose in life. When we are
actually aware of our real desires and supplement them with orderly and
disciplined life, results can be bewildering. In a world of careless
opportunities, random impulses most often lead to debt, disaster and chaos but
if you recognize your deepest desires and try to fulfill it by observing even
minimal discipline, you will notch up colossal success.
If you know
your heartfelt desires and work assiduously with utmost dedication to morph
them into reality- you indeed know the recipe for success. So it’s not wise
not to dive into the world of endless impulses and make your life miserable.
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