Success is Not By Chance

Chapter 1

Fuel Your Passion

An eight-year-old boy approached an old man, looked into his eyes and asked, I understand you’re a very wise man. I’d like to know the secret of life. The old man looked down at the youngster and replied, I’ve thought a lot in my lifetime and the secret can be summed up in four words. Here are these:

Think: This means think about the values you wish to live your life by.

Believe: This means believe in yourself based on the thinking you’ve framed about the values you’re going to have in your life.

Dream: This means dream about the things that can be, based on your values and beliefs.

Dare: This means dare to make your dreams become reality; you would be required to combine think; believe, and ‘dream’ to dare.

And with that, Walt E. Disney said to little boy, Think, Believe, Dream and Dare.

The visualization of anything is the result of the thinking we have in our mind. This thinking is the result of our beliefs. If we believe that we can, we start thinking in that direction only. Your thinking can get a concrete shape once you have a firm belief that something can happen. If we feel that consulting a doctor is not going to give us any relief, be sure, irrespective of the best treatment by the doctor, we will not be able to give any relief. It is mere belief which makes most of the things happen in this world. Sometimes, we feel that we have achieved what we desired due to our hard labour and destiny whereas the fact is that we achieved something in our life since we had started believing in our thinking dreamed something based on our belief and dared to act in the direction of that dream fulfillment. This is what a balanced and exemplary life is!

It has been scientifically proved that one gets a reaction for one’s actions in our daily life. We visualize something. We swung to action to achieve our visualization, with a firm belief that we have the stamina to achieve the same and we really achieve what we intend to achieve.

Life is like a flute. It has many holes and is hollow but if we use air blow through our lips, it produces magical music.

We are born free and so is our thinking. We may or may not halve control over our thinking. The factor which plays crucial role in changing our thinking into actions is our will power. It navigates us towards our goal with firm belief and action. Our action is the by-product of our thinking as it follows the famous law of nature propounded by Newton. He had said, To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Your actions are shaped according to the ideas simmering inside you.

Most of us feel that we are in a position to do and comment in the way we like. We are living in an independent country which gives us the right to criticize even the top brass of the country. Not only that, we are free to take out our shoe and throw it at the head of the strongest person on this earth in front of the whole world, as if we were the only person who have got the guts to revolt against the system.

We fail to understand here that everyone and everything will not go according to our. wishes in this world. We must know our limitations and appreciate and respect the independence of others. We are dependent upon the thinking of the people around us as we can never operate in isolation.

Remember the famous experiment of Archimedes in which he had put a coin and a feather in vacuum glass. He turned the glass upside down both the coin and feather touched the surface at the same time. But you will not be able to execute this experiment in a normal atmosphere where the coin will touch the earth surface much faster than the feather due to its weight. This experiment is true for individuals like us too. The astronauts going to the moon can jump like monkeys on the lunar surface as there is no atmosphere; the same is not possible on the earth where there is gravitational force on every individual.

We are born independent but just after taking birth, we become part of the bigger ecosystem which controls this earth and any slight variation in the system will bring the system in crisis. We have to fuel our passion but by taking care of the system, lest we should become extinct in due course of time. It is important for our survival and we understand it clearly that our passion is an individualistic approach whereas continuation of the system is our compulsion. We can be here if the system persists and without it, our own identity has no meaning.

Know your worth

Ghajini, a movie churned out by Bollywood, was a blockbuster release of 2008. Mr. Perfectionist, Amir Khan, received appreciation from all due to it. This movie did soaring business which none of other films did, so say cinema critics. I am not a lover of films but I appreciate the role of Hindi films in uniting our diverse India. My kids forced me to watch the movie and I agreed on a condition that I will see it on my lap top as I could control the movement of the film that way.

It was the last week of 2008 and I was forced to leave from the office a bit early to watch this movie. After I finished, it I was surprised, why Indian movies had become the case history for management students. The film was so exciting that one couldn’t get bored at any point of time. I can’t forget the best two lines of the film which made the difference between pride and commitment. I can write a motivational book for the young generation is my commitment, but I can only write a motivational book for young generation will reflect my pride..

The hero of the movie overpowers his fears by making a constant endeavour for the same. He did it as he wanted to do that and not because he was forced to do something. He utilises his positive energy to overpower his fears and is successful but sometimes, some persons may try to overpower their fears by utilizing some negative forces and thus, make the situation further worst.

Some people must have witnessed the famous writer Vikram Seth opening a wine bottle on the stage in a literary concert for school students; the concert was organised at Jaipur. I am not against the consumption of wine by anyone as I don’t take but I am against any such flatulence which, not add any thing positive to one’s image. Everyone born on this earth has some strengths and weakness. However, why should one reflect such weakness publicly without a positive gain? It is nothing else than the fear of failure at a point of time.

We all are sometimes wrapped with some foolish pride and try to cover ourselves with such prejudices as spoil our positive traits. It happens because we are not sure of our capabilities and have a strong fear of failure. In order to avoid the same, most of the times, we keep ourselves wrapped in a shell. Only a thought of making ourself ready to face the situation makes all the difference and we must learn this tact to lead a happy and fearless life. No one will be able to fine tune oneself all of a sudden. However, with regular practice and change of mind set, it is possible. We have to remember that no one in this world will be able to achieve anything irrespective of his worth and competence without having a control on his fears. They are the main enemy of success which you have to combat first before starting your journey towards success.

Most failures in life are the true victims of fear.

Develop inbuilt qualities

Even an individual having superb qualities gets defeated in the race for achieving something whereas another having less capabilities and doing far less labour gets what he desires. It is not luck at all but it is only his perseverance which makes him winner in the race of success. This lack of perservance makes the other person a loser. Most of us, who are unsuccessful in our endeavours, are so due to the lack of perseverance and no other factor is directly responsible for this phenomenon. Perseverance is the will of chasing something without taking any rest. The hare was sure to defeat the tortoise in the race but it was lack perseverance on his part led him defeat in the race. That had he tortoise had nothing to loose and, above all, he was more consistent then the here.

Perseverance is the will of chasing something without taking any chance.

In this race, the only thing which was certain was the defeat of tortoise. It was preordained but he overturned his destiny and won the race only due to his sheer perseverance. On the other hand, the hare lost due to his overconfidence and pride.

The tortoise, being sure of his defeat, won as he chased the goal without taking rest. It happens with most of us that after achieving something, we become sure of our competence; and our downfall starts from there. We must have the perseverance of the tortoise when we want to change our destiny and force it to favour us.

One can’t do justice to oneself without having this killer instinct within him. Perseverance is a learnable quality. Being a learnable quality, it can be acquired by feeling the need for the same. The feeling of being a gainer or a looser starts first within ourself in the same way in which the head of the fish starts deteriorating first after its death. No one can avoid this thinking but there are a few who overpower this thinking with another thinking that let me see what can happen?

Success is like a quality trait found in a hunter. A hunter goes on chasing his prey till he gets a chance to overpower it. In this race, he gets defeated many a times but still he never stops trying. At last, he gets his prey. He learns the chasing quality from his parents and knows that running behind the prey is his destiny. This very learnable quality of chasing the goal is the elementary principle of success.

A person who is trying to excel in the area of his choice must go on till he gets what he desired at the outset without compromising with the goal. Most of us learn the quality of compromising than that of chasing. We do so as it is easy to compromise and feel relaxed than go on for the chasing quality. Psychologically, it is easier to get satisfied with whatever we get than strive up to the last moment for what exactly we want.

Success is not the domain of intelligent persons. Research has proved that anyone, who has the quality of chasing his goal, achieves, it irrespective of the intelligence quotient he possesses. Intelligence is only one of the basic prerequisites for achieving success. A person having high IQ and striving for success