Definition of Success

Definition of Success is very personal and varies from person to person. But the key attributes for success in anything remains the same.

Success demands hard work

Success demands patience

Success demands willingness

Success demands Self motivation

Success demands focus

Success demands defining priorities

Success demands belief in what you are doing and being optimistic.

Success demands change if needed

Success demands correction and improvement

Success even demands innovation (doing things out of box)

I think people who have achieved success in anything can relate to these aspects in one way or the other.

As it is rightly said "Success is a journey and not a destination"

I like the definition of success so clearly defined by Vic Conant's (chairman of Nightingale-Conant)

Success is not a matter of luck, circumstance or fate, but a direct consequence of having specific, measurable goals with a plan of action to achieve them.

So, these attributes we not only need in ourselves ,at any one point in time but at all times. And I think the  key ingredient is 'Belief' ,if you believe in something everything else will follow.

If you believe, you will be motivated enough to do the hard work and able to focus and define the priorities, and change things for better after evaluating. Also it will help you in being patient in what you do,  try to think out of box to be different and hence achieve success.

Continuously believing in something is not an easy task because it causes a lot of pain when things go wrong and we want to quit becasue thats an easier option rather than continuosly taking the pain . We tend to see short term benefit rather than seeing what we can achieve if we pursue our dreams that we believe in. When we believe in something, we have the faith that it would give us the best of what we deserve if we keep on giving our 100 % to it. Success is usually a step away when you choose to give up, and it is ok to be tired. All big achievements came after ridiculous number of failure.

As it is said and proved time and again "Most of the people quit at 99 % "

But yes it is human to quit if things do not go right even after trying everything. Qutting is not essentially forgetting our dreams and not following them anymore. Rather, it should be about finding alternative ways , different strategies or may be doing a different thing altogether. Something that would give us the same satisfaction and success which the first one would have given , had things gone well and we would have achieved what we aimed for.

My Defintion of Success :

"If you have not succeeded that means you have not tried hard enough"

Its quite related to the quote .

Losers try and Winners do it.

or

Winners do what losers refuse to try!"

Everybody tries and not all win. Winners are those who try that extra bit ,that final bit stretching ourselves to do what will get success."Tough Times Never Last but Tough people do" and these are the people who act differently, see differently and do things differently and achieve success following and believing their Dream Path.

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Live in Today

Think about Past ----------Live in Today --------------Plan for Future

Past

Learn Lessons and Get on with your life.

Life is grey and hazzy there.

Future

Think less and give more time to act.

Life is foggy and freezing there.

Present/Today

Live every moment of your life as if there is no tomorow .

Life is green and Beautiful.

There is only so much one can do in a whole life, a whole year or a whole day for that matter. You can always do more by being efficient in what you do but still you will always have the same amount of time.

What I am trying to stress upon is that the human mind is built up of a very complex mechanism in which millions of thoughts are getting processed at the same time , some in conscious and some in the sub conscious mind. We tend to think either about the past of what happened or plan for future of what we can do. It's always good to take the learning from your past mistakes and planning the right strategy so we can get better next time.But what about today? Are we living our lives in past or in present? Are we dedicating enough time to our present...to what it is today... Now... As the song goes in hindi ( my native language)

"Aane wala pal jaane wala hain.. ho sake to isme zindagi bita lo ... pal jo yeah jane wala hain.. "

The basic theme of the song is that "Live in this very moment of life because this moment will fly away. Live your life to the fullest each moment each day"

I know what I am writing may not be true to some people , rather it is hard even for me, to preach this.

But really speaking in this race for achieving more, we even fail to remember our most important bit we have to have the time for enjoying this very moment... may be seeing it as a reward for the hard work you did in the past .....Its not necessary that one should win and only then be rewarded . You can always reward yourself by getting time out of that busy life and relax your mind. Your effieciency will improve when you come back from that break. After all we are humans, and we also need break (rest ) so that our mind can work effectively and efficiently.
So sometimes its good, not to think and Live the life which God has given you to the fullest.... the moment s which you can live in now . Like it is Said..
Life Should not be long , it should be big :-) (from the Movie Anand : Zindagi Lambi nahin Badi honi Chaiye)

Lets Face it and Make it Better

Facing the reality /truth can be hard sometimes, especially when it gives you pain and affects your financial stability. The fact that you cannot deny is that there is no undo command wherein you can make changes and rewrite the things...you wish to...

What people tend to do in life is just keep thinking about the problems and what went wrong....

You cant do much about what has happened, but you can definitely put your efforts in finding a solution to do things better next time. You don't get a second chance to do the same thing at the same time but you definitely get a chance to improve on your mistakes and get it right next time ... So my point here is, no matter what he/she does in his/her life for living, they should always try to find out the solution for a problem rather than thinking about the problem/mistakes and wasting time in remorse and blaming others.

By doing that, you are not only demotivating yourself but also giving a chance to somebody else to surpass you, who might have been miles behind when you started the race.

Thinking about the problems /mistakes is human ,but sticking on to the same and thinking them over and over again is foolish ..



The power is probably equal in all the human beings to get things done. It's just the matter of how much you unleash that power within yourself and go against all odds and make great things happen for you and your family. If you want to fly in the sky you dont need wings or a Jet over your back. What you need is the right attitude , right strategy and enough courage to take that intiative to face all the barriers and get it right with no fear, as if you have nothing to lose.

Things can only get Better in Life!!

Career Plan - Its the Right time

There are mainly 3 kinds of people
One who just watch the world ,be in their own comfort zone and just take the things as it comes to them .
Secondly, there are people are who commit themselves to their work and give their best and be happy . These are the people who do contribute a bit in making things happen.

Thirdly, there are only few people are always restless and find more ways to keep themselves busy , wants to overachive their targets and results and really make things happen.

The third kind of person are the apsiring entrepreneur or already an entrepreneur because they can never find enough work and be motivated enough to work for others .

The process of entrepreneurship is not a days game , it defintely involves firstly hard work , secondly self commitment and finally the career planning.

The first 2 things I presume comes within but you have to work for the third one and make that happen by your first 2 qualities.

We have to do a lot in setting our career goals and breaking them into series of small steps and may be give yourself a reward for achieving those goals .The hardest thing is to be self motivated but if you can be, the fruits of happiness and success will definately come your way sooner or later.

Id you can be motivated enough , you can do a lot of hard work, may be your are at the top of everybody whom you are working with or within your surrounding ( family friends etc) .

But it all depends upon what your final goals are, if you need to reach stars but your efforts and the directions in which you are going would lead you to the clouds only the you really need to revaluate and plan your journey backward, so that you can reach the goals in the time you give to yourself. So dont let people in surrounding you affect your goals and get your efforts deviated , rather focus and work hard in the right direction. No body can stop you to achieve your goals , you might find few pitholes and mountains on your way but as rightly said " Tough times never lasts but tough people do "

Dont just write your goals in words , do put it in numbers as it helps in effectively evaluating your efforts and correct devatiaitons if any.Putting the things in numbers really helps us to evaluate ourselves how far we are from our goal rather just trying to convince ourselves with the words that we have done well this time and will do better .

Never try to convince yourself because that would put you in the comfort zone and you would deviate from your targets and beleive me a series of divations would leave you a pile of underachived results .Hence it will increase the distance to your goal and will stretch instead of shrinking and going closer.

Planning, evaluaution , Re- Evalution

along with

Hard work, Motivation and determination

will lead to

Success, Happiness and Prosperity

Rewarding Employees

Every company has a rewarding programe for thier employees but mostly its for sales people and even its for other departments they are at the year end as a bonus. Its not enough to reach the goal for which company do all this rewarding intiatives i.e. to motivate the employees and create a learning and competitive organisation.

But these year end remuneatation are too far away to visualise . As we said we should always break our goals in small targets which are more realisitic and once which we can forsee.

Its true even when it comes to rewarding employees and thats why it is imporatant to create such a system in all departments too( apart from the sales dept.), as sales is full process in which other departments are also involved and if they are not motivated to do their job better then it would affect the whole sales process and hence will affect the revenue of the company.

If I were the CEO of a company, I would just go and check the knowldege of the people personally by asking the questions relevant to their profile and if they answer I would increase their wages straight away. This might look stupid but it can only motivate people to be on their toes and strive to learn more to get rewarded too. The last thing I want to see in any company in todays competitive world is promoting people up the ladder because of the experience(or seniority) and not the calibre or potential that a person have. The experience a person have does help as he already have gone through these things but what most people lack even if they have the relevant experience is to implement things properly. Just to relate a example a man with experience is like chunk of information stored in hard disk. And if the processor ( brain ) if the person doesnt know how to use the information effeiciently and in different situation differently then the whole computer ( the person) is good for nothing. So its better to buy a Intel Core Duo( the Talented and Person with calibre and right attitude to do do things effeicinetly) rather then sticking on the old PII and keep it because he has been faithful and been with the company for long.......

Most of the Large Corpoartes have implemented the Performance Management Systems to do the same but still hasnt directly linked it to the rewarding system nor they keep track how effeciently they have implemented the system itself.