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.
