Success !

What is "Success"?

What factors decide our success in life?

If we want to succeed in life, what plays a major role – fate, God, effort, or luck?

Maybe all of them, but in what proportion? When you say fate, obviously it is something you cannot do anything about. When you say luck, again it is something you cannot do anything about. God is also not something you can do anything about. The only thing that is in your hands is effort. Put one hundred percent into your effort and what happens, happens. Don’t leave proportions of your energy and your capability to luck¸ God, fate, and all these things – that is not your business. If there is such a thing, it will act. Your business is to put the only effort, and the effort has to be incisive; it should be focused and calibrated. Simply creating effort is foolish. Hard labor alone is not going to get you somewhere. The right kind of action, timing, and place are all important. For that, you need perception and intelligence. That is all you must do in your life – constantly look for ways to enhance your perception and intelligence. The rest will anyway happen. And this is the one thing that most of us are unfortunately not doing.

There is no recipe for success. Real success happens when you use yourself to your full potential. It does not matter whether you become a doctor, politician, a software developer, or whatever; success means you are living your life to your full potential. If that has to happen, you need the perception and active intelligence. “How do I grow my intelligence?” Don’t worry about that. The important thing is to enhance your perception. If you can see life just the way it is, you have the necessary intelligence to conduct it well.

This is a precious life for you. If it is not you throw it somewhere, it doesn't matter. But if it is a precious life to you, doesn't it matter where you are investing it? If you see life in terms of earning living only, there is a great chance that you'll end up doing something silly and you'll regret it for your whole life because you are not doing what you want to do. You are not creating something worthwhile for yourself, that you want to do, you are just in the rat race of earning a living. Earning a living is not a big deal for the human being. Every creature on this planet - a worm, a bird, an animal all are earning their living. With such a huge brain and millions of years of evolution do you think earning a living is such a huge problem?

I know each one of you will say "I want to do this or that". See "I want to do this" is just a desire and a desire is just an intention. The intention itself won't make things happen, it will just set the direction, you still have to make the journey.

You have become so goal-oriented that you forgot there is even a journey. See if you want to treat life as a race and you want to win it you have to get to the finish line soon and you know what is there at the end of the finish line !! Someone will be negotiating where to bury you.

The present experience is important and the vivid imagination for tomorrow is very important.

If you are postponing something that means you don't want to do it. You may say "if I do this, I will get this and that". That's not the point. It doesn't matter what is your level of intelligence, capabilities, Introvert, extrovert, etc. It is just this do you have the courage and commitment to make the possibility into a reality, that all matters. What you call as life is just a certain amount of time and energy, it is your choice where you want to invest it. If you invest it in a process that truly means something to you, your life will be over without you even noticing it but if you do something that you don't want to, life feels too long.

Today Success means "Yes I got it".

"What you've got ?"

"I got 50 LPA job and a 2000sqft house"

This is a very constipated way to look at life.

People today are trying to broaden their minds, which may make one socially successful, but not truly successful. If you want to be truly successful, you must be able to see everything just the way it is, without distortions. If you can see everything just the way it is, life becomes a play, a game. You can play it joyfully and you can play it well for sure. If you can play it well, people will say you are successful.

You should not be aspiring for success. It is a miserable way to structure your life. You will simply cause pain and suffering to yourself and everyone because your idea of success right now is that everyone should be below you, while you are on top.

This is not a success; this is sickness. Never think, “I want to be successful.” Just see how to make yourself into a full-fledged being, how to be 100% involved in everything joyfully. it will naturally find expression. If it finds good expression, people around you will say, “He/she is a great success!” That’s fine. People should recognize that you are a success.

If you have to find fulfillment, if you have to know the joy of doing something, you will only know it when your action is – one hundred percent. In everything that you are doing, if you are one hundred percent, you will notice your action will have a certain sense of exuberance and this is a success!

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