"Those who do not stand for something, fall for anything". "Plan your life or live life by default". "Control yourself or let others control you". These three lovely quotes do really make beautiful and almost similar sense. Still, there are some mistakes that we make in our lives and could not show the expected competency in the required area and we are pulled behind in our life.
Some worse mistakes that we may make in our lives are:
1. Not making the best use of our potential within.
2. Not recognising Right time, Opportunity and People to help us.
3. Not jotting down the beautiful and encouraging thoughts that crop in our mind.
4. Not taking responsibility for our actions, thoughts and words.
5. Underestimating ourselves or others.
6. Allowing negative thoughts and people to influence/rule our minds.
7. Not accepting, caring, loving and enjoying ourselves.
Let us think about a story of a man who never succeeded in his academic career or his profession. Out of depression, he planned to commit suicide. While he was going to do that, on his way, he thought that my life is useless anyway. Let me take an opportunity to find out what made the successful people succeed in their lives? He started interviewing the successful people and kept making notes of all the principles and views that the successful people owned. After one year, when he wrote the book which was the summary of all the principles of these successful men, that ordinary man (Writer of the book) became an overnight millionaire. His book sold like the hot cake. That writer was Dale Carnegie.
There is a saying, “Failure is never final and Success is never ending”. It is true. It is said that Thomas Edison had succeeded in inventing light bulb after his 10,000 efforts. He had said that I know that if I would make 10 attempts, I would succeed in only one. It is therefore, to succeed, I would make 10 times more efforts. The failure always says that we need to learn something that we have missed to do so far. One can really make the great difference by making the difference in the way they think. By accepting their weaknesses and strengths, working on their weaknesses and upgrading their strengths, utilising it on something that they like on the consistent basis.
There are some very successful people who are extremely busy. Their lives are tightly scheduled. They get high pay for every hour they contribute doing something. The laymen feel highly honoured when such celebrities are able to spend even a moment with such people. Some people like to take the autographs of celebrities and remember throughout their lives about their beautiful short meeting. Just assume, what if all these rewards (of the time they spend) are not made available to the same people who are celebrities? What if they do not get the same attention from people or if they do not get the same reward for their hourly work? Would they still continue bestowing the same quality of work? Or would they stop providing such quality in their work? Would all of their work worthless without such attention and reward? I do not at all think so. These people are motivated to give their best not because of any external reward but because of their internal reward. They think for themselves, what suits them, and what do they deserve. They choose their habits and thinking which help them succeed. Such habits or thinking do attract the attention or financial reward towards them. They would continue doing something meaningful even if they would not receive anything. They continue doing so, because it is their habit. The choice of their habit adds satisfaction in their lives. Choosing right things should be satisfactory and not stressful.
If I have some gold and diamonds with me and if I do not value those pieces of gold and diamonds, would their value subside because I did not value? If I throw that precious asset in the garbage bin, do you think, that it was the right place those valuable things deserved? I don’t think so. They always carry value with them. Whether one keeps with them, throw them or sells them. The value does not ever diminish. Similarly, I believe, if a man does not value the worth of his time, his potential, or if he could not attract the attention of the people, it does not mean that everything that he gets in plenty do not carry the value. If you do not know the value of gold and diamond, go and exchange it for something. If you do not know the value of your time and potential, go and exchange it for something that is worthy. Maybe, you might not get the value of the gold or diamond more than the market price, but you would surely get more value for your time and efforts, once you recognise your worth. “A journey of thousand miles start from first step”, have you stepped further?
To exist is to change, to change is to mature and to mature is to create oneself endlessly. –Henry Bergson
Create yourself endlessly and Keep Prospering
Anuradha
Some worse mistakes that we may make in our lives are:
1. Not making the best use of our potential within.
2. Not recognising Right time, Opportunity and People to help us.
3. Not jotting down the beautiful and encouraging thoughts that crop in our mind.
4. Not taking responsibility for our actions, thoughts and words.
5. Underestimating ourselves or others.
6. Allowing negative thoughts and people to influence/rule our minds.
7. Not accepting, caring, loving and enjoying ourselves.
Let us think about a story of a man who never succeeded in his academic career or his profession. Out of depression, he planned to commit suicide. While he was going to do that, on his way, he thought that my life is useless anyway. Let me take an opportunity to find out what made the successful people succeed in their lives? He started interviewing the successful people and kept making notes of all the principles and views that the successful people owned. After one year, when he wrote the book which was the summary of all the principles of these successful men, that ordinary man (Writer of the book) became an overnight millionaire. His book sold like the hot cake. That writer was Dale Carnegie.
There is a saying, “Failure is never final and Success is never ending”. It is true. It is said that Thomas Edison had succeeded in inventing light bulb after his 10,000 efforts. He had said that I know that if I would make 10 attempts, I would succeed in only one. It is therefore, to succeed, I would make 10 times more efforts. The failure always says that we need to learn something that we have missed to do so far. One can really make the great difference by making the difference in the way they think. By accepting their weaknesses and strengths, working on their weaknesses and upgrading their strengths, utilising it on something that they like on the consistent basis.
There are some very successful people who are extremely busy. Their lives are tightly scheduled. They get high pay for every hour they contribute doing something. The laymen feel highly honoured when such celebrities are able to spend even a moment with such people. Some people like to take the autographs of celebrities and remember throughout their lives about their beautiful short meeting. Just assume, what if all these rewards (of the time they spend) are not made available to the same people who are celebrities? What if they do not get the same attention from people or if they do not get the same reward for their hourly work? Would they still continue bestowing the same quality of work? Or would they stop providing such quality in their work? Would all of their work worthless without such attention and reward? I do not at all think so. These people are motivated to give their best not because of any external reward but because of their internal reward. They think for themselves, what suits them, and what do they deserve. They choose their habits and thinking which help them succeed. Such habits or thinking do attract the attention or financial reward towards them. They would continue doing something meaningful even if they would not receive anything. They continue doing so, because it is their habit. The choice of their habit adds satisfaction in their lives. Choosing right things should be satisfactory and not stressful.
If I have some gold and diamonds with me and if I do not value those pieces of gold and diamonds, would their value subside because I did not value? If I throw that precious asset in the garbage bin, do you think, that it was the right place those valuable things deserved? I don’t think so. They always carry value with them. Whether one keeps with them, throw them or sells them. The value does not ever diminish. Similarly, I believe, if a man does not value the worth of his time, his potential, or if he could not attract the attention of the people, it does not mean that everything that he gets in plenty do not carry the value. If you do not know the value of gold and diamond, go and exchange it for something. If you do not know the value of your time and potential, go and exchange it for something that is worthy. Maybe, you might not get the value of the gold or diamond more than the market price, but you would surely get more value for your time and efforts, once you recognise your worth. “A journey of thousand miles start from first step”, have you stepped further?
To exist is to change, to change is to mature and to mature is to create oneself endlessly. –Henry Bergson
Create yourself endlessly and Keep Prospering
Anuradha
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