Success comes to us only after our acceptance that being just good isn't good enough, we must put best of our efforts to become the best.
Keep Trying” is forever, because the arrival time for success is uncertain. So, giving a time-frame to success is an invitation to the feeling of uncertainty, success arrives early to people who are scared of failures, they keep trying to be better at the job and in the process end-up avoiding failures.
Being successful is nothing but an act of removing the illusion that something is impossible.
In our journey between Thinking to Improve and Trying to Improve exists the first stop called Willpower, and most of the travelers’ never go past this place, thinking that only thing matters is the resolution to reach the destination, but success needs completion of journey and that requires crossing the next two stops: determination & hard-work.
Instead of surrendering, fight your fear head-on, even the fear fears the fearsome attitude of a fighter unaware of the giving-up option.
Goofy was on his way to the valley to propose his girlfriend when he realized he didn’t bring the roses. Middle of the road he can’t see anything except a house with a rose garden on top of the hill. He thought he can get few from there. He pressed the bell on the main gate, while waiting, he started thinking: What if no one is at the house? Should I steal the rose? What if they demand money for the roses? Ok, better for me, AED 10 is fine, but 20 is also ok, but wait! What if they try manipulating my situation by asking me a lot extra. What if they refuse? Should I inform them how difficult it was to convince her to marry me? What if they say they don’t care about my story? How can they not care about my story? Finally the door opened & the host asked: How can I help you? Goofy walked off but not before saying: you know what? I don’t require roses from someone who doesn’t care about my love story.
When should we perform? When the ground is empty or full of spectators? The answer is: Every time we step on the field. We can’t hide the result. It is unalterable, it always remains, It doesn’t change whether people know it or not, and so is our show of commitment, commitment is noticed even when people aren't looking.
Denial is denying the existence of a problem. It’s a standard tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning. Denial is a liar, which compounds the problem by blocking our creative vision towards the possible solution. Denial is a deceiver too. It makes us do things that pleases us & not the things which can resolve the problem. Accept the truth, accept failure/defeat, accept pain. It’s the acceptance that brings the positive change.
The trouble with sticking to the non-working conventional approach isn't only that they don’t produce the desired results, but we expect them to do so.
Just because we have nowhere to run, it isn't a dead end. Every dead situation requires us to improvise & improve, remember we learn to climb the wall only when left with no place to run.
When we get satisfaction in halfhearted efforts, thinking that it’s unimportant, we don't realize that others might also be doing the same, that leaves the team’s at a half-way mark, not a good position to be if the destination is success.
Do not block your ears with the noise of ignorance; just because you never heard the knocking on the door doesn't mean that opportunity never knocked. You missed it because you were expecting its arrival in a different manner”.
When day by day the days gets passed as the good or bad days, it’s a mistake to expect better days without being better ourselves. Remember, the reach of the day is as long as our dedication & commitment makes it.
Free time allows building of reputations — either as someone who is excellent at killing time by doing nothing or someone who can utilize the time by creating things out of nothing. People becoming habitual to doing nothing, get nothing at the end.
The right thing at the right time only happens when we stop searching for the right time, everything becomes right when we decide to make it right, time never decides the choice & determination factor, it just moves on.
The things not taken seriously are the things which causes seriousness in our lives. We wait for a right time to decide the time for taking things seriously, but the time never waits, it has a tendency to slip from our grips.
Sometimes doing work at own time & pace, kills the timely impact it may have on the result. Needs are time-bound and our decision to time them as per our convenience results in a loss of time & connection with the customers.
Start early to reach on time, because deciding to start just on time will be late, starting just on time will only guarantee some desperate efforts, but not the expected results, make sure your timing leaves you with some time in-hand to try again.
Time moves fast for people who move with time. Time is nothing but moments, yesterday, today & tomorrow - all are filled with moments, some spent as we liked and some as the time demanded, We all live in moments so spend it well, remember each day a day goes by — better make it a day to remember.
When we don’t know what we are doing, we end up doing lots of things which shouldn’t be done. Open your mind to logic, don’t wait for the teacher, learn from the situations.
