Understanding of right Paradigm for effective activity of mind

The art of running our mind begins with understanding of Paradigm. This term can be defined as our perception, understanding and interpretation of anything. It is a kind of reference map in our mind through which we perceive, understand and interpret anything in our world. This is developed from our education, socialization and culturisation. We need to review, examine and revise our paradigm with all open mind to grow in our life. Quite often our paradigm is governed by old facts and truths. They need to be updated. For example, there was a time when it was believed that sun moves around earth. That time human paradigm and all explanations related to cosmic phenomena were guided by this concept of sun and other cosmic bodies moving around earth. Later discoveries drastically changed the paradigm. Most of the geographical and scientific discoveries are examples of paradigm shifts. In relation to your efforts towards your goal in life, you always need to review your paradigm. When you do so, with an open mind, you get astonishing results. You will discover that something is impossible till now because of wrong paradigm. Here you need to shift your paradigm based on latest relevant facts and thought.

For Example. While going into the truth as to how and why is Civil Services Exam tough, you may discover that your existing paradigm is based on facts from your listening and reading which otherwise are different in reality when examined and analysed properly. The factors like ‘vacancies are around 700 and applicants are around 3,00,000’, ‘attempts are limited’, ‘age limit is just between 21 and 30’, and that ‘syllabus is tough’ are disturbing for you till the time you go out of the prevailing notion and examine the facts yourself. While moving in right paradigm you find that while applicants are about 3 lac every year, those who turn up to the examination hall are not more than 50%. Further, not all those who appear in the examination are serious about this examination. Those who take it seriously and prepare also seriously under right guidance and with proper reading material, are around 10,000 every year. If you are a serious candidate your actual competition is among 10,000 in the Preliminary examination. The same happened with everyone. The wrong paradigm of mind brings anxiety, fear whereas, right paradigm of brain helps to make your thought process extraordinary and keeps you focused towards your goal keeping being the fear of hurdles. 

Right inspiration is required for ultimate achievement of Goal

We cannot do a work for long for which we are not inspired. Once we set a goal properly we have to recognize the higher purpose for which we aim for the goal and should run in our mind regularly the glories and satisfaction attached with that. This practice will help us remain inspired towards our chosen goal.

Inspiration is a simple recognition of spirit within ourselves. It is return to that invisible fume-less field from which all things emanate, a field of energy. Patanjali says, “When we are inspired..... dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than your ever dreamt yourself to be.” In fact, when we are inspired for a task we get connected to ultimate source of energy for the fulfillment of that. Our belief and confidence take charge of our every movement towards our goal. On the other hand when we are not inspired the task becomes boring and a burden on us. Our energy level goes down and we are drawn towards failure.

Inspiration is a calling to proceed even though we’re unsure of goals or achievement, it may even insist that we go in the direction of uncharted territory. In fact, being in spirit is a direction we take, rather than a destination to be reached.

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When we are inspired all our thoughts break their bonds; our mind transcends limitations; our consciousness expands in every direction; we find ourselves in a new, great and wonderful world, dormant forces and talents become alive and we discover ourselves to be a greater person by far than we ever dreamt ourselves to be. We experience a driving force within us and we move upwardly. 

AK Mishra’s Art of Success wishes you all a pleasurable St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick`s Day is just around the corner. Every Year the day is celebrated on March 17^th in the memory of great famous patron of Irish named St. Patrick. St. Patrick was an Irish saint who put forward his Christian beliefs and ideas towards people, around a period of the fiftieth century. For 30 years of his life, St. Patrick brought hope and optimism in the lives of Ireland, by establishing churches and monasteries across the country.

Something that once started as a religious festival as a tribute for St. Patrick, soon turned into an international full-fledged feast involving enormous food variety, extensive parades, gala sessions, crazy dancing and everything green.

On this auspicious Day, AK Mishra’s Art of Success wishes everyone a joyous Patrick’s Day. Since Green colour has a great significance on St. Patrick's Day, so let’s make a commitment to save the environment for our better tomorrow.

Green symbolizes hope and growth, which the great St. Patrick encouraged to bring in the lives of people. While giving a tribute to St. Patrick on March 17th, AK Mishra’s Art of Success hopes that you bring higher growth and prosperity in your life with your optimist vibrations and may the luck of the Irish keep you drifting through your life with happiness and wisdom.

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Right Goal

You need to be very clear and specific about your goal. This is not just planning superficially about a career and jumping into the race for it. Most of the civil services aspirants come in the grade of being superficial about their goal. If you want a positive outcome from your goal setting you need to be specific as to with what do you want and when. You should write this goal in bold letters at the start of your note book or anywhere convenient for your frequent reading. You should read this goal note at least twice – once in morning before you start your studies and next time at night before you sleep. Every time you read your goal statement you must do it religiously with a peace of mind and run it through your mind and internalize it in your subconscious mind through repetitive thinking about the social recognition and opportunities of realization of your potential attached with it. After you have decided your goal follow it as the travelers can follow North Pole star to be sure about their direction.

You should stop settling for anything less than what you want because it does not take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one. The real thrill comes with the task, which is considered difficult. If you want to be happy set  a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Michelangelo says, “The greater danger of most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but it is too low and we reach it.”

You should guard yourself against your dream stealers. They may come as your friends and well wishers also and discourage you against your goal by projecting it as impossible and they may also divert you towards something they consider good for your safe future. Let us remember that everyone speaks his experience and his mind.

You should share your definite goal with the people with whom you are emotionally attached. Their good thoughts and prayers will give you spiritual strength for your goal. You should not hesitate in sharing this with a few of your rivals and those who hold poor opinion about you because their challenges will also keep fueling the flame of your dream goal.

Brain is a goal seeking organism. Once we have made our goal definite it will work day and night to achieve it. In such situation the word impossible disappears and we start enjoying our every move towards our goal.

Napolean Hill says, “Whatever your mind can conceive, it can achieve.”

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.

Another step of AK Mishra’s Art of Success to take his audience beyond conventional boundaries with his Art of Success Seminar

AK Mishra’s Art of Success is going to organize another series of its Success session in collaboration with Amity University, F-2 Auditorium, on 7th of April 2015. AK Mishra’s Art of Success session seeks to inculcate in audience the life skills of vision, passion, innovation, and strongly encourage its audience to take charge of their life. The primary topic of the session will be one the foremost subject matters of AK Mishra’s Art of Success’ Foundation Course, “Take charge of Life”. The session will begin from 10 AM and continue until 1 PM.

As the topic suggests, the objective of the session is to make the students realize their inherent potential and unconditional power. Furthermore, to help them discover their deep-rooted desires as well as on how one can use that unconditional power to reach those higher goals of life, once the skills of personal empowerment are learnt.

AK Mishra construed, personal empowerment is about looking at who you are and becoming more aware about oneself as a unique individual. Personal empowerment involves developing confidence and strength to set realistic goals and fulfill your potential.  Everyone has strengths, weaknesses, and a range of skills that are used in everyday situations, but all often people remain unaware of them or undervalue their true abilities. Therefore, AK Mishra will emphasize on making every individual aware about the unique abilities everyone has and unconditional human power to make wonders in their lives.

AK Mishra will also underline his trademark model “Human Software Development Program’, wherein he will explain how to re-program one’s mind with the extraordinary traits to move beyond the conventional boundaries and experience an unexplored world of possibilities. 

The session’s approach will be very interactive aided by inspirational videos, movie clippings, motivational songs, interactions, and a variety of other preaching techniques to keep participants wholly involved throughout the session. Students will be encouraged to share their thoughts, views, on-going issues, inherent desires, inbuilt fears and AK Mishra will interact to provide them a clear picture while answering their concerns. He will convert their negative perceptions towards the problems through problem solving approaches.