Lecture 19
Relax and Succeed.
Success of any person can be explained in multiple ways but the first thing to remember about success is that it is a very important issue for all enlightened and enterprising human beings. The next point is equally vital because success is an achievable idea for everyone.
Let me make a few introductory remarks to really motivate you to move faster towards success. Then I will tell you how to succeed.
For an enterprising person success is a journey and not a destination. A successful person keeps moving towards greater deeds and actions and would not just stop and relax at the first successful venture. We never reach a success point in our life or at work and stop there but we keep proceeding and moving with added vigour and enthusiasm throughout our life and meeting various challenges and experiencing success after success. This is what we term as perseverance.
All hardworking individuals see success as a ladder and not an escalator. Through our consistent and persistent efforts we are determined and able to climb up the ladder step by step without waiting for someone else to switch on the escalator for us. There is no easy and quick way to reach the top. There are no escalators around in this area of human pursuit for us to climb in and switch the button on to take us upwards easily. We have to plan our success.
There are many techniques of bringing success into your life. If we are fully motivated to develop our required and inherent determination we would be able to set excellent goals in our life and at work. These would only happen if we learnt to fully concentrate on all our aims and objectives in life. So if we are determined goal setters with effective concentration techniques then we have the necessary motivation to look for and seek the new directions to exploit and work for our advantage.
Anything short of these would work against us and these tough times would turn out to be a lot more tougher for us until one day we would find that it is very difficult to overcome our problems. Our ease would bring a lot of disease for us in life.
If material welfare were your yardstick for success then our material welfare would be equal to our ability to develop appropriate technological tools to exploit the natural resources with best of human energy. This should enable the responsible people to keep a balance between the concern for people and concern for productivity. We would not inflict any harm on others in achieving our aim of increased productivity and quality