How do you succeed?
How Do You Succeed?
THINK! - About the beliefs you have picked up all along these years, right from the time you understood a language to now.
Parents, teachers, friends, colleagues and others you spend your time with - their wisdom, their thoughts and their beliefs are and has been the foundation of your values, your attitudes, your believes, your personality, and your achievement.
In a nutshell, parents and siblings, friends and
colleagues, shape your self-esteem.
To a great extent you learn about success, about the
concept of how much to achieve, what is enough or what will never be enough,
mostly from parents and siblings.
For a long time I found lots of things that could
have been better in terms of belief systems I was passed on.
Like it or not, their lessons (even the ones you
hated), whether you rejected them or embraced them have been burnt into our
brains and psyche. It guides our life. Unknowingly we all emulate.
For a long time I focused on ‘what could have been’…
but then I learnt an amazing thing – I learned to filter the great from the
good and the good from the not so good.
Once I understood the impact of this on our
achievements, I realized how much we could self-destruct by focusing on what’s
not there. The search into my lessons learnt from my parents and siblings led
me to understand a few principles that shape success (at least mine)… I’ll lead
you on, perhaps you’ll know what I mean or what I am desiring for you to do…
My mother told me over and over as a kid whenever
there would be tears, "Get rough. Get tough!" And I have always
followed that philosophy of, "Get back up, find another way and get on
with it." My father was one of extreme logic, "The secret to deal
with increased expenses: earn more money."
Many of my role models, my learning mates are alive,
but I haven't met them. They're not necessarily role models for who they are.
In most cases I don’t even know who they are or how they led their lives. Yet
they are for what they do or rather from whatever I read what I interpreted it
to be – the learning deciphered.
Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Jobs are at the top of the
list. My close friends are up there too.
The articles (including the inspiration to write this
one), books I write are almost always born out of these ideas and what I
learned or sparked off from one of them.
I'm passing the condensed version of that wisdom on
to you and hoping that you would endeavor to discover your own too..
There are many teachings that have inspired. Inspired
in business, in writing and in living. Here are a few timeless ones’
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A way to life – Christpher Logue
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Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came, and we pushed, And they flew. · Napolean Hill (attitude
and goals) Action is the real
measure of intelligence. ·
Groucho Marx
(humor). I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the
set, I go into the other room and read a book. ·
A book I read in when I was 15. Don’t remember the book but made a
note after reading it. If
you want to be free, then Live. If you simply want a life, then abide. ·
Rig Veda (truth) Desire links non being to
being. ·
My recent studies into the subject of self
esteem Self-esteem (the only determinant of
achievement) is directly proportionate to integrity. Whenever you stand by
your word, the self-esteem goes up. Whenever you falter on your word,
self-esteem goes down. Truth. Period. ·
Ayn Rand
(writing style and philosophy). Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as
government persecution. The only way a government can be of service to
national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. ·
Dale Carnegie
(making friends and public speaking). You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in
other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in
you. ·
Margaret
Fuller (substance) Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ·
Benjamin
Franklin Energy and Persistence conquer all things. ·
Earl Pertnoy
(life’s lessons) Antennas up! ·
Budha (wisdom) However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? These people have passed on but their teachings are immense. It’s a whole
belief system by itself. Beliefs are wonderful. Though actions produce
results. Figure out where your beliefs lie. Are they laying low in the ‘disempowering
truths’ we all heard from our parents and teachers? There is an easy way to
find out – Are you acting on what you really, truly would love to achieve or
be, whatever that may be – in terms of health or wealth or ….. if the answer
is a murmured ‘no’, then you know what beliefs rule over you. Listen, pay attention, observe, study…. Do all of of what you do but
figure out the beliefs that you go by and ACT… ‘Mindlessly work on what life has thrown at you’ was never my motto
and never will be. One life to live and it ain’t coming back is my truth, my motivation… What’s yours? Who teaches you? Who inspires you? Who helps you achieve? Chetan Walia Breakthrougher Weekly is
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