Author: Nishit Lal
RESEARCH reveals that in the US a majority of heart attacks occur on a Monday morning between 8 and 9 am, and it starts with a sinking feeling which engulfs a person on a Sunday afternoon. The biggest reason for this could be that people have to go to jobs they hate. People are not doing what they were made to do, they are not playing the roles they are made to play, and they are not incubating the ideas that have been given to them.
Unfulfilled Dreams
Don’t carry the burden of unfulfilled dreams, it’s the heaviest. Life is not a sprint but a marathon and you can’t afford to carry the regret of crushed dreams all throughout. Every person is made to do great things but they discover this revelation only when they are at the fag end of their lives. If you are in a mess, you don’t need to stay there.
Money vs Family
The last words of one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world and founder of Walmart, Sam Walton, were “I blew it.” Can you imagine how can a person with billions dollars’ worth wealth can blew it? Did he regretted not expanding Walmart across the world? No, his regret was he blow it with his family, he admitted that he wasn’t connected with his younger son nor his grandchildren. Money can give you clothes to cover your body but not a healthy soul.
Social Death
People kill their desires with the sword of social approval. Social approval is the most commonly used drug now. People have become intoxicated by it. Everywhere people looking for approval – “Is this a good dress?”, “Shall I get into a relationship with this person?”, “Shall I get a new car now”? What people say about your dreams is not your business, it is their business. Don’t let their opinions become your life.
Don’t Settle for Less
A Chinese bamboo tree is unique — you water it, nurture it for four years and nothing will happen. There would be no sign of growth but all of a sudden in the fifth year the bamboo tree shoots to close to ninety feet. When you work on your dream, things will happen. Sometimes you may not see any sign of growth for long. At that moment don’t believe your eyes, believe your heart. The bamboo tree is growing beneath. Have faith. People will make fun of you telling you, “Is that all you got after four years!” Remember at that moment that you have to believe in your heart and not your eyes. Napoleon Hill, the author of Think and Grow Rich, said, “Whatever the mind can believe and conceive it can achieve.”
What can I do Now?
Don’t just say “I am bored with life”, instead ask, “What can I do that is of interest.” Don’t put your life on snooze, get up and take action. Don’t let life happen to you, instead you make your life happen your way and here’s the way:
♦Pump up your Drive: Imagine how you will feel when you are doing what you love to do in life. Let this picture pull you towards your dream. And if that doesn’t pump you then think “What pain will you feel when you reach the fag end of life without living the purpose you were designed to play?”,”What will happen when you will engage your complete life doing the thing that you don’t like to do?”. Get these answers in a dairy and go through them whenever you lack the drive to move forward.
♦Decide what you want to do: Write a list of skills and talents that you possess, the things which come easy to you, the tasks that you enjoy doing, the problems you love solving all day long. Discover yourself for the first time. At first, you may not get it right but keep trying till the shell breaks and you can see your treasure. You will reach the place where you are meant to be.
♦Master your Craft: Become the Michelangelo of your passion, the Mozart of your domain, because mastery lies inside you — you’re meant to be great. Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers found out that the difference between experts and others is the amount of time they have put into practicing their craft. He suggests that it takes at least 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become master of your domain. This comes down to a little less than three hours a day of 10 years of practice to become a world class master of your subject.
♦Leave a Mark: The work you do is an autograph that you leave so let your signature shine in the dullness of the world – even if it’s a small piece of work. Sir Martin Luther King Jr. said, “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
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