Everyone wants to be successful in his life. But the stigma
of failure sticks to many persons. Mostly people associate success with money.
Yes, Money is an important aspect of success as the whole economy runs on
money. Today, no one really cares about you if you have no money.
Yet what is more important for success is satisfaction. You
may argue that it sounds contradictory. If one is satisfied then how would one
grow in his life? But that’s not so. Satisfaction doesn’t mean to remain with
what you have. Satisfaction means to remain with what you must have. If you
just madly go behind something that has got no end, you will be wandering like
a nomad on the vast Earth. So think what is necessary for you. What you must
have with you? What should be the purpose of your life? With what “keyword” do
people remember you after your death? When you do this money will automatically
come.
Remember fame is more precious than money.
I have coined an equation for you all to explain what
success requires.
Success
= Courage + Correct knowledge
These are at the heart of success. You must have the courage
to risk to achieve success. Without courage you will fear and fear won’t allow
you to imagine a creative idea and without it you are nowhere in successful
world.
And correct knowledge is very important. You may have the
courage to face a lion but if you don’t have knowledge to ascertain your safety
then your being courageous is futile.
Now we have understood what we require for success but how
to ensure it?
USE
PLANNING AND CONTROL!
A person who cannot plan can’t predict future and if you
can’t predict your future you can’t make it better. So planning is necessary.
Some think planning is to be seen in big corporate decisions. But planning is such a common task that you
do it every day. Driving, Talking, and Studying and so on… All these tasks are
planned. A task planned properly is more probable of being successful than an
unplanned task.
While planning, accept all problems as given and try to find
a solution for them. You are no one who can change the external circumstances,
so change yourself. Modify your plan and keep it flexible so that you can accommodate
new things in it. Think every possibility and the best way to cope up with
uncertainty is to keep cushion. Cushion can be of anything- extra time, extra
backups and so on… Greater the cushion, less are the chances that you fail.
Next thing is control. Once you have planned, you put it in
action and you get some results. Some results may make you happy while some
depress you. But remember these are mere the start and don’t decide your
future. Just think why you achieved such a result. Ponder upon both favourable
and unfavourable results. Some people don’t analyse their success and thus end
up their potential. If you know how you got success then you can do more of that
and improve it and gain more success. Also, failure needs a deeper assessment.
Think what could have made your plan to fail. Constitute it as a problem and
develop plan to solve it.
Thus, planning and control and help you achieve many things
easily and swiftly in your life.
Lastly what matters most in success is CHOICE!
You have many alternatives and all sound better than other.
This will confuse you as to decide what option to market upon. I have an idea
for coping up with this problem.
It’s
Compare and Analyse!
Make an exhaustive list of all options and their pros and
cons. Then compare them with each other- some by mathematical formulas, some by
abstract knowledge and some by intuition. After you have done this list out at
least three options in priority order. Make a plan such that you can shift
among these options anytime you want. This will help you have wider flexibility
and low risk at the same time.
The
last advice I want to give you is,
“Never
depend on a single solution for a problem. Give yourself at least three options
and never give up trying them all.”
THANK YOU.
