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"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work." - Colin PowellHard work means putting 100% effort for your passion and when that passion converts into success it can either means that your stars have been with you or extraordinary effort has been shown by the person. Success is the mutual intersection
between hard work and luck. Hard work puts cause and effect into motion. Once you have experienced the effects and rewards of hard work, luck willingly climbs aboard.
Give 110% effort for your work and luck will follow your hard
work and don’t wait for the opportunities to knock in life, think and re-think and
convert those opportunities into success stories.
Measuring success with amount of money is a delusion. Success is something which makes you more responsible towards society and work
for the well-being of people. To serve more and more human beings is the real
success. Success is mental peace. A
person with great peace of mind, willpower and self –discipline is the real
fighter and a leader.
In today’s world success is not defined by a person’s wealth
but by the amount of good he has done to the people and how happy he/she is. Happiness brings you more wealth and creates positive
energy around you.
The
thing to remember is that between hard work and luck, you can control only one.
But if you want to change your destiny start working hard.
Mantras to become successful:
1. Hard Work
Malcolm Gladwell argues in his book, "Outliers", and argues that if someone spends 10,000 hours towards any activity, he can become a world-class expert in it. In other words, 10,000 hours of hard work is required to be extremely successful. No success is achieved without hard work or without losing a sweat.
2. Luck
This is everyone's favorite!
Whenever we look at successful people, we call them 'lucky!’ But what is luck?
Is it just a chance, a good fortune? If yes, then how do people get repeated
successes? If I were to say that luck is important too, then I would define
luck as a confluence of perseverance, prospects and preference. However, a close look reveals that
only those people who persevere to look for prospective opportunities to
exploit become lucky.
Success = Hard Work x Luck
Success = Hard Work x Luck
3. Focus and Dedication
Hard work without focus
leads to only a sinusoidal performance curve with lots of peaks and valleys. It
doesn't yield a consistently improving performance. So focus and dedication
should be the key to success.
4. Secret Ingredient to Success
All the above mentioned things are required for success but they are not
sufficient. There is one secret ingredient to the gravy that brings flavor to
the complete dish and makes it yummy, which is Inner Drive! Every individual has at least one strong
Inner Drive. And then they have many external drives.
The individuals for whom the external drive syncs well with the true
inner drive, achieving success becomes a reality. The unfortunate part is that
most ordinary folks spend their whole life without realizing their true inner
drive.
What is this Inner Drive?
We often use words like Passion, Obsession and Mania to talk about Inner Drive. I chose
to call this yearning as Inner Drive to clearly differentiate it from the
external drivers. For some people this inner drive is to connect with other
people and for others it is money. For some it is knowledge and for others it is
relationships. For some it is leadership and for others it is creation.
Those who understand their inner drive and live their life with a
yearning to fulfill it, become super successful. You can look at any successful
person and you will see a very strong inner drive which led to his success. Be
it Mother Teresa to help the needy or Mahatma Gandhi to strive for
truth and fairness. There are even examples of successful people who didn't
achieve stardom till they stumble upon their inner drive.
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