Are you ready to handle the success?

We see in our day to day life many ordinary people achieve milestones in their respective fields and they look very promising in long run. Let it be any arena sports, showbiz, corporate or glamour, we see potential star sportsman’s, heroes, business tycoons and super models from time to time in all of them but very few people turns out to be living up to the expectations.

Even in your office you would have see a youngsters getting a job and turned out be very efficient in learning their new office work, you even find them very disciplined and they keep on getting appreciation for their work from their boss. You can feel the potential in those youngsters; still you would have noticed there are very few who make it big.

Sure, there would be plenty of factors like hard work, luck, circumstances or it can be their ability to handle the success. It is not an easy job to handle the success, you have been a boy next door ever since you were born and then one fine day you get recognition. All of a sudden you find people appreciating you all the time. You find your parents are proud of you and you get a chance to get back at the people who used to criticize your work or who used to consider you good for nothing.

Most of the people get distracted because of this fame and recognition. They sure do value what has brought them this recognition but still they fail to sustain it in their life and those who manage to sustain do accomplish the goal which they were supposed to.

To tell you the truth, it is painful not to achieve that success you always dreamt of, the passion you always had and the goal which didn’t let you to sleep for years when expectations of the people (including your loved ones) are riding high on you but it becomes even more painful if they have seen a glimpse of you getting there and now you are just not getting there.

So what should one do? The answers lie within you only. If you happen to be one of those people who think they have a setback (there are no failures but setbacks) because they were not able to handle the success then you must be congratulated because you have already realized it and next time when you would find yourself in similar situation then you would be mentally more tough to deal with it.

People who are yet not there, I want to say few humble words to them, “Never let success go to you head and a failure to your heart”.

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Power of Focus

During school days it was a compulsion to sit through the boring seminars of various guest speakers who used to come down at our school on the special request of our directors. I must say that was a pain, however, during one of those lectures I learnt one of the most important things of my life. I learnt the importance of focus! Focus on what you want in life, let it be your career, your dream car, fame or the boy/girl next door.

He was just another guest lecturer (I wish I could mention his name, but I don’t remember). He started off his speech with a very good example which I remember till date. He said “Sun has tremendous and tremendous amount of energy, if we could fully use even its millionth part then we can do number of good things for mankind. But unfortunately we are not able to use it because sun’s energy is scattered. On the other hand if you take a laser beam and focus it on a wall of metal, you would see within few seconds it would make a hole in that wall and go past it. This is the power of focus for you. Similarly we all have potential and energy, however we fail to put it all in getting what we want in life”. Many people along with me had their eyes wide open after listening to this and we were wondering how true it was.

It’s been many years but I still remember this and try to implement it in my life. Sure there would be obstacles, distractions and difficulties in one’s life but if one doesn’t want to see himself/herself as just another person from the crowd then there is no other choice but to overcome them.

You should concentrate and concentrate hard, remove all distractions from your life, or if you can’t remove them then at least reduce them to minimum and very soon you would see your dreams coming true.

Having said above lines, I would also like to make a point that you should also realize at what cost you are getting what you want in life. It happens with many individuals who put everything they have at stake and when they finally get what they want then they realize they have paid heavily for it. You may find these statements contradictory to what I have said earlier and it is also true up to a certain extent because it is you who has to decide or rather realize what is more important for you.

Whatever you decide, you would be chasing something in life for sure, remember impossible is nothing, you just need to stick around it. As it is rightly said by Albert Einstein “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer”.

All the best and always remember the power of focus.

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