G for Goals

This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything. : Scott Reed

The previous blog “F for Failures” in the Alphabets of Success must have evoked many questions of subjectivity of success. The concept of seeking failures as a step towards success isn’t palatable for many people. But then, it’s also true that every step in a journey need not have acceptance of the traveler.

My search for the most apt next step towards success from the criss-cross map of paths followed by successful people took me to the game of soccer which has a following of more than 3.5 billion fans. It has been throwing not just most popular sports persons but also the richest. And, it gave me clue to the next Alphabet of Success: “G for Goals”

Soccer or football is a sport that probably mimics our life the most. Its thrill, its uncertainties, its arduousness, its intrinsic interdependence, its constraints and its possibilities are all mirror images of an individual’s life in totality. It’s a game that very emphatically shows the path to success – and that’s score goals. Goal posts are there but there are many hurdles on the way. You have to run, you have to tackle the defense, you have to pass the ball at times, you have to mark the constraints, you have to make use of opportunities and you have to score goals. Any amount of hard work of running, capabilities of hitting the ball hard, power of defending against an attack, or the skill of dribbling past a defense is not going to give you success until and unless you are able to reach the goal.

Rules of football are very simple. The team that scores more goals becomes a winner.

Isn’t the same true with our life? The person who has set goals and achieves them is successful.

Goals are the sign-posts that keep us focused, motivated and help us keep a track of our progress towards our ambition. And we know that realizing our ambition is the real success.

However, the most daunting task in the process of scoring goals is sighting them in soccer and setting them in life. Most of the times, we are chasing targets given to us by others. As a practice, we are tuned to considering our daily activities, our tasks, and some long distance abstract ambitions as our goals. It is something like a football player with the ball dribbling past the opponents and thinking of winning the match. He has to understand that matches can be won only by scoring goals.

Tony Robins, the famous life-coach has said – Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

1. Goals give you Focus
2. Goals allow you to Measure Progress
3. Goals keep you locked in and Undistracted
4. Goals help you overcome Procrastination
5. Goals give you Motivation

According to Locke and Latham, there is an important relationship between goals and performance. According to their research, goals not only affect behavior as well as job performance, but they also help mobilize energy which leads to a higher effort overall.

Zig Ziglar, the wizard of marketing lessons said “A goal properly set is halfway reached”.

I’ll give you one of the simplest and smartest tools of setting goals. It’s interestingly known as SMART goals. Your goals have to be:

Simple + Measurable + Achievable + Relevant + Time-bound

Research supports that the most effective performance often results when goals are both specific and challenging in nature.

The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. : Michelangelo

Whatever your age doesn’t really matter in the end, as long as you continually revisit your life goals and work to update them.

So, let’s take simple steps of setting successive goals to be achieved one at a time so as to reach our ambition in life and become successful.

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F for Failures

It must be a surprise for you to find “F for Failures” close on heels of “E for Excellence” in sequence of Alphabets of Success.

The reason lies in what Dr Church, Prof of Genetic Engineering at Harvard, says “If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you could be. And being petrified of failure means you’re going to be probably a very extreme underachiever.”

I’ll give you a small exercise. Try to recall and list your failures in life.

I must admit that when I took this exercise myself, it was difficult to find anything that was MY failure in life. It is not that I had not faced failures. I had many, but I found that they were due to some people around me or due to the prevailing conditions or sometimes due to my bad luck. They were all situational – they were NOT MY failures.

Today, in the hindsight, I realize how off the mark I was.

My decision to drop out of IIM, Calcutta, my skipping the IT Bandwagon of Y2K, my agreeing to take-up any task that came my way in the organisation, not chasing my dreams of freelance writing and many more are certainly failures in my life. However, I have assigned them various reasons like finances, family issues, organisational decisions etc.

It is actually a deliberate effort to avoid the difficult challenge of accepting my lack of passion for success.

Who doesn’t know the thousands of failures of Thomas Edison, the greatest of inventors, before his each success; rejection of the Harry Potter story ofJ.K. Rowling by a dozen publishers; failures of Big B both as a newcomer as well as a superstar later, the list is unending.

Actually, if success is the treasure trove that we are hunting for, then failures are the snakes sitting on the entrance guarding it. You can’t reach the treasure till you handle them. You can’t escape, avoid or evade them. You have to look for them, confront them, and then either kill them or tame them.

Shahrukh Khan, the super star of Bollywood, in his speech at Yale University has said, “Success is a wonderful thing, but we don’t acquire wisdom from it. …………………It’s not pleasant to fail, it’s tough. All of us experience it. You will too if you haven’t already. So use it to succeed.”

Sir Winston Churchill said that success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

If you have and ambition and you believe that you deserve it, you must proceed with confidence in your attitude and discipline in your actions with excellence as your theme. But, be forewarned, with best of the efforts at your end, you are bound to face failures. Embrace them with open hands till they take you to your dreams.

Let’s look at some simple steps to make our failures stepping stones to success:

1. Recognize the event or action that you think is a failure
2. Identify three external factors for this failure
3. For each of the three factors, identify one constraint that is beyond your control
4. Now list efforts made by you in dealing with these constraints
5. Find out the most successful of your efforts from above
6. Ride over these successful efforts  and embark on the next attempt.

So, while you are on your journey to success, always remember the words ofMike Ditka, the famous football celebrity,“Success isn’t permanent and Failure isn’t fatal”.

E for Excellence

Success is synonymous with excellence. I tried to find an average performing person who can be called successful. Unfortunately, I have failed miserably. Whosoever has achieved something that is worth being called success has been extraordinary in his efforts, notwithstanding his or her being an ordinary person.

All of us want to be recognized as better than others around us. It is part of our natural instinct for survival, because nature believes in survival of the fittest. We chose our dress to make people notice us, we put on make-up to look our best, we earn money to live a life better than others and do everything to prove ourselves cut above others.

Unfortunately, this natural instinct gets subdued due to two misconceptions;

1. We interpret Perfection as Excellence, and
2. We feel that we are Good.

It is quite intriguing as to where and when we develop these debilitating opinions about excellence.

Let’s realize that excellence is neither the best way nor a search for perfection. Excellence is actually the attitude of doing things in the best possible way. It is to be achieved within the boundaries and constraints of a real world whereas perfection is an idealistic concept.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

In the emphatic words of Sir Laurence Olivier, “Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. It’s yourexcuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best”.

The second distraction from excellence is being good. Jim Collins in his book“Good to Great”  has said “Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great….. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”

Life and legend of BBC’s 2000 Star of Millennium, Amitabh Bachchan tells us the importance of pursuit of excellence in our path of success. Coming over successive rejections on account of looks, voice and physique, made it a point to make best use of every opportunity he got, be it in a supporting role,  in a negative role, in a cameo, in a lead role on the silver screen  or on a lower rated platform of television (KBC).

A look around will tell you that society is a great equaliser. At one end it poses obstacles to anyone who tries to be different from the average and at the other it rewards the mediocre so much that search for excellence becomes unattractive. The biggest challenge is to break this vicious cycle of being average, being good, being rewarded, continuing to beat the average.

In order to achieve success, we have to strive for excellence in whatever we do.

Long back Aristotle prophesied “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”.

The big question that remains to be answered is “How to achieve excellence and make it a habit?”

The best answer lies in the statement “You can’t achieve what you don’t value”. 

So let’s take the seven simple steps towards excellence:

1. Respect yourself as the best asset God could give you.
2. Love what you are doing if you can’t do what you would love to do.
3. Accept your present position as the stepping stone to excellence.
4. Start with today’s position as the minimum performance level.
5. Set a target a little above the present level for yourself to achieve in your task in terms of quantity, quality, speed and timing.
6. Achieve this small growth and then set a new target.
7. Appreciate excellence in others’ performance.

Let the realisation develop within you that quest for excellence fuels our fire for success and keeps us from drifting downwards and without pursuing excellence, life will remain bland, vegetative, tasteless and less enjoyable.

So, pursue excellence and if you don’t get an opportunity to excel appreciate excellence around you.

 

D for Discipline

There couldn’t be a better occasion than to restart my suspended blog “Alphabets of Success”, because the letter waiting for more than six months is “D” and at present need of the hour is DISCIPLINE.

In wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole world is being advised today to adopt social distancing. It is expected that the advice is followed voluntarily in the interest of the individual himself. However, authorities have to use force to implement such a critical advice through lock-down and even curfew because people aren’t ready to self-quarantine.

They say “Discipline is doing what needs to be done even when you do not want to do it!”

All of us understand the need for “doing what needs to be done”, but the more important second part of the quote “……..even when you do not want to do it”, is rarely taken note of.

One of the most successful movies of Bollywood – “Dangal”, on an exemplary success story, has depicted quite well that we intrinsically resist discipline (song –Re bapu tu to sehat ke liye ). At the same time quite interestingly, it brings out acceptance of self-discipline as the route to success (Geeta Phogat prunes her hair on her own before the tournament).

I am reminded of meeting Saina Nehwal, the first Indian shuttler to win an Olympic medal, in person at a felicitation ceremony after the 2012 London Olympics. She is a product of Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad, which has also produced the first Indian woman to win a silver medal at Olympics, P.V.Sindhu. While Saina has been ranked world no. 1, Sindhu reached a world no. 2 rank and there are at least 10 more players with ranks from 3 to 50 in world at the academy. The academy is called “Champ-making Factory” and coach Gopichand has an Honourable mention in IOC Coaches Lifetime Achievement Awards.

The gurumantra of this academy is Discipline. A journalist peeking into the academy noted that Gopichand does not just expect strict discipline from his students but has also set a punishing schedule for himself. He is always the first to arrive at 4 am. During the tournaments he wakes up at 2 am everyday to go over videos of his disciples’ previous games and analyse them for errors they are making. It is not surprising that Sindhu’s parents attribute her success to “Discipline” and coach Gopinath who enforced the discipline.

‘Discipline’ – justifies its position as the fourth alphabet D in the language of success, even though the new generation feels that discipline aborts freedom and creativity. Strangely, dictionary defines ‘Discipline’ as ‘the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.’ Who wants to accept a concept that uses ‘punishment’ as a means for correction!

On the path of success when we have an ambition, we believe in our capabilities and we also have confidence to reach our goals, the need for action emerges.

When we look around, we find innumerable capable people, who make excellent plans, talk so enthusiastically about them, even start taking actions, but do not stick to their plans. Somewhere on the way, something else takes away their attention, they get interested in something new, their resources get diverted and their plans get aborted.

There is a continuum of discipline from self-discipline to the nature’s discipline. We start from the inner most circle of self-discipline. Once we break the inner circle for a long time the next outer circle takes care of it. If you become further undisciplined to break that circle too, you are forced to follow the next discipline.

The seven simple steps to bring discipline our lives to achieve success are:

1. Make a routine of daily chores like sleeping, waking-up, taking meals etc and try to follow them.
2. Everyday make a plan to do just five tasks and complete them without fail.
3. Do not succumb to your likes and dislikes in planning your actions.
4. Make a diary of your actions.
5. Have a weekly review of your plans and achievements.
6. Take charge of your wishes and wills – align them with your ambition.
7. Follow general societal norms like traffic rules, punctuality, etiquette etc.

B for Believe

A bumble bee flies because it doesn’t know that scientifically its body is not designed for flying.

            

Your presence here on this blog is a proof that you have decided to write your own success story. Hope you have also set an Ambition for yourself as the first step.

Now you might have become busy thinking of ways to fulfill your ambition.

In the process, I am sure, you must have got yourself into evaluating your potential, checking your resources, identifying the constraints etc with respect to your ambition.

Please STOP! Don’t do that!  You will only land-up moderating your Ambition!

Just take the next step – Believe in yourself !

Have you seen a Bumble Bee? Scientists say that “The laws of aerodynamics prove that the bumblebee can’t fly, as it does not have the required capacity (in terms of wing area, flapping speed and wing to body weight ratio).”

But the Bumble Bee FLIES.

It flies because it doesn’t do the calculations, it doesn’t question its potential, and it doesn’t doubt its capabilities! It simply believes that it can fly and it flies!

Recently, I made my first visit to the World Heritage site “Bodh Gaya”. On our way back to Patna, driver suddenly slowed down near a hillock and asked us “Sir, have you heard about Dashrath Manji?”

“You mean the one in the movie ‘Dashrath Manhi – the Mountain Man’?”

“Yes Sir! We just crossed the welcome gate to the road created by him!” the driver continued to steer the car clear of a herd of cows on the road.

I immediately took a quick snap from the rear seat of the SUV.  It is sad that we couldn’t get down and walk on the inspirational path because we were running heavily against time.

Dashrath Manjhi, now known as Mountain Man, was a poor labourer from Gehlaur village of Gaya district in Bihar, India. He had worked as a coal-miner before returning to his village and marrying Falguni, a local girl. He decided to stay in the village and took some odd jobs to keep the kitchen fire on. A hillock separated the village from outside world and the only connecting road was 55 Km long circumventing the hills. Once he was working in some construction site across the hill. Falguni, his wife, used to bring him lunch by crossing the hillock. One day, she slipped and seriously injured herself while crossing the hills.

This injury eventually led to her death as she could not get medical care due to inaccessibility to the hospital.

Manjhi was in shambles. That very night, he decided to carve a path through the Gehlour Hills. His ambition was to give his village easier access, so that nobody had to die for want of timely medical care.

Using only a hammer and a chisel, Dashrath Manjhi worked single handedly for next 22 yrs and carved out a path 360-feet-long, 25-feet-deep in places and 30-feet-wide through the solid rock.

This shortened travel between Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya district from 55 km to 15 km.

Dashrath says, “When I started hammering the hill, people called me a lunatic but that steeled my resolve.”

“Though most villagers taunted me at first, there were quite a few who lent me support later, by giving me food and helping me buy my tools,” he adds.

So, it was nothing other than his Belief in himself that led Dashrath Manjhi create a monument of a sort in memory of his beloved wife, Falguni.

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right,” said Henry Ford, emphasizing how much attitude affects success.

There is a problem in our society. Just like the word “Ambition”, you may find that “Belief” also has been given a little negative connotation. ‘Believer’ is considered to be synonymous with being religious, a devotee or an irrational ‘bhakt’.

In the over zealousness of becoming rational and logical, the very concept of belief has been put to question.

This attitude of lack of belief kills ambitions in the womb itself. A child who wants to become a player is admonished, “Games are great but not a realistic future goal”. “It’s a nice hobby, but you can’t really make a living out of it”. “Do something for a living else you’ll be just another starving sportsman.”

As children, we internalize these negative messages. Later, we ourselves reinforce our doubts with reasoning. If adults say so, it must be true, right? By the time we attain adulthood, every time we see a small hope, we’re the first to raise a doubt. “Sports is good but not necessary”, “I’ll never be as good as the real professional players anyway”, “I don’t even have a good kit or an academy to give me coaching.”

But haven’t you noticed the same people exclaim when you achieve something commendable, “I didn’t imagine you could do it! Unbelievable!”

For sure, nobody ever reached anywhere without ‘someone’ ‘somewhere’ believing in the possibility of his reaching there.

Thus, by not believing in ourselves, we are the ones who cap our ambitions and settle for smaller targets, goals and achievements.

Don’t you believe in your doctor? Don’t you believe pilot of your plane? Don’t you believe in the cook of your restaurant, your mechanic, your banker and so on? Don’t you believe that they will not poison your food, will not crash the plane, will not give you a wrong pill or will not put a spanner in your car’s engine? You certainly do! You don’t question their basic capabilities!

Then why question your own self?

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”  – Honore de Balzac

Thus if we want to be successful, we need to develop a temperament of believing – believing in ourselves, believing in our ambition, believing in our right to be successful.

I would suggest a continuum of believing:

Believe in YOURSELF !

Believe in your companions – FAMILY, FRIENDS, TEACHERS, COLLEAGUES !

Believe in the Limitless Omnipotent Power of Nature – HIM !

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Once you start believing you will find that you, He and I have embarked together on the journey to success!

A for Ambition

Living your life without ambition is like taking a journey without a destination.

A man left his home in search of a good fortune. Once out of the village, he took the road on which he had seen all going. There were many co-travelers and enjoyed competing with them while walking together. He raced with anyone moving faster than him but once in a while he let people take him over. He enjoyed every moment walking till he reached a cross – road.

People were walking in and out from all directions. Not knowing which way to go, he looked around for a clue. He tried asking passers-by, but of no avail. Everyone was lost in his own world. No one had a single moment for him.

He took a deep look at all the roads going in different directions. There was a road that looked well traveled. He thought of taking that road. But, suddenly it occurred to him the success doesn’t come through smooth roads. He thought of taking the less traveled one. But a sense of insecurity filled him as he found rarely anyone going there. He kept assessing various paths but some issue or other arose in his head.

Lost in his thoughts, he stood fixed at the cross-road till night fell. Slowly the square became deserted and he felt lonely. Suddenly, he heard a voice, “What are you looking for?”

Startled at the voice, he looked around. There was nobody anywhere. He felt some piercing eyes looking at him. He saw a cat looking at him from parapet of a fountain in the square.

His eyes met the fluorescent eyes of the cat and he felt a shiver pass through his spine. He saw the cat speaking to him, “What are you looking for?”

He asked the cat, “Do you speak the language of human beings?”

“Forget about me. What are you looking for?” quipped the cat.

“But how can a cat speak like a man?” he showed his inquisitiveness.

“Let it be as it is. Ask me something else, if you want!” retorted the cat with a little impatience.

“Please tell me which way to go?” he asked without much expectation of a reply.

“Where do you want to go?”

“Not sure, but I want to get away from my misery, do something new and achieve something great! Tell me which way should I go?” there was urgency in his voice.

“That’s excellent! But where do you think you would like to go?” insisted the cat.

“I don’t know. I am in search of the path to prosperity, success and happiness. You just tell me which path should I take!” the man sounded irritated.

“If you don’t know where to go then it doesn’t matter which path you take!” tweaked the cat and vanished in thin air.

The man was left at the cross-road gaping in dark, a little dejected and still searching for his path.

Let us realize that nature is governed by very simple laws. One of them is cause and effect relationship between events or activities. Ambition and action of a person have the same relationship. Ambition provides the basic reason for any action of a person.

Unfortunately, of late a negative connotation has got assigned to the term ‘Ambitious’! It is not uncommon to hear ‘ He / She is highly ambitious ‘. It’s no more a compliment but a scathing comment!

Strange is the world and stranger are its ways!

If a person does not have an ambition, what is he or she living for?

We were born without our choice! We got our parents without our choice! We got our colour, height, looks, our hair and all of our physical traits without our choice! And for sure we will meet our end, the inevitable death without having a choice! We are destined to all of these.

Are we just a set of puppets in hands of destiny or do we have a choice?

To get a reply to this, let’s have a look at lives of people around us.

We see that everyone has reached somewhere in his or her life? Did they want to go there?

Imagine yourself boarding a train at Delhi. Your train stops and you get down on the platform. You look around to find name of the station. It’s Mumbai. But you wanted to go to Kolkata. Is it not frustrating? You reached ‘Çity of Dreams’ in place of ‘City of Joy’.

You try to figure out the goof-up. You went to the booking office, asked for ticket for the first train, you boarded the train and embarked on the journey, you enjoyed the journey with all its hassles and hilarious moments. You never cared for the destination.

And now you reached a destination but not where you wanted to go. Now you have a great alibi to console yourself – the destiny!

Had you decided your destination, declared it at the booking, checked on the train or at least talked to the co-passengers, you could have got to where you wanted to go.

Ambition is that destination you set for yourself. Ambition sets the direction, pace and purpose of one’s life. The first step towards success is having an ambition.

So, take a break from the drudgery of daily routine, look beyond the horizon, give a form to your dreams and set your own AMBITION.

Declare it first to yourself and then to the world. Don’t worry about what people say about your limitations and what people say about your ambition.

Napolean Hill advised us to Think and Grow Rich, our beloved Scientist President Kalam declared a small dream a cardinal sin and Paulo Coelho prophesed “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

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Welcome on a journey that you always wished to take – The journey to your personal SUCCESS !

“Success”, the most desired thing of the world, is certainly the most elusive one also. Each one of us has his/her own understanding of “Success”. It means different things to different people.

For some it’s having a lot of money, for others it’s power, for someone it’s health and for someone else it is scaling a mountain-peak. For one person it may mean getting an award amidst claps of a large congregation while for another person it may mean leading an ascetic life far from the maddening crowd.

This is the most interesting aspect of success.

• A feat that is a great achievement for one person is not a matter of any consequence for another.
• A life full of successes for one person might be simply a life wasted in the eyes of someone else!
• Success is highly contextual and relative. It is not absolute and can not be measured in tangible terms.
• Success is seen in the backdrop of surroundings, environment, society, culture, geography, time-line, age, sex, and all the factors that can be perceived by people.

Let’s take a look at a success story.

A person achieved his personal best in the 2003 Toronto marathon in Canada, where he clocked 5 hours 40 minutes in the 42.195 km race against the average time of around four and half hours. Yet, it became a breaking news across the world – because it was a stunning record for a 92-year-old runner. The sports giant Adidas featured Fauja Singh in its “Impossible is Nothing” ad campaign. The advertisement’s tagline said, “6:54 at age 89. 5:40 at age 92. The Kenyans better watch out for him when he hits 100.”

And the world watched in sheer

awe on 16th of October, 2011, when Fauja Singh became the first centenarian to complete a full marathon, the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, clocking 8 hours 11 minutes 6 seconds while the average time for the race was 4 Hrs 15 minutes.

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Thus, unless the situation and the consequences of a particular achievement are assimilated, there is always a chance of misunderstanding the meaning of success!

Last year, I went on a long awaited family trip to Vaishno Devi, a highly revered shrine in the Himalayas at 4500 feet above sea level. We traveled from Delhi to Jammu by rail, took a car to Katra and then chose to take ponies for the 12 km long uphill climb to the sanctum. I must appreciate the very safe and dependable system of hiring ponies at the foothills of Vaishno Devi shrine. Rates are generally fixed and ponies are assigned by a queue.

Each pony is accompanied by an attendant who keeps walking or running by the side. While taking you to the shrine, he helps you ride the pony, tells you some interesting stories on the way, engages with you, takes care of you, and also works as a communication-link between you and other members of your family as you are on different ponies. On an average, these fellows make at least one trip daily to the hill-top where the shrine is located.

While riding down the hill from the Shrine, I was exhausted but full of inner satisfaction of having achieved a great SUCCESS in terms of paying my oblations to the omnipotent deity. In order to thank the attendant with my pony for his help in fulfilling our life-time wish, I tried to befriend him. I exalted him on his hard labour, his sincerity and his fitness.

I told him that he was very lucky that he visited the shrine every day. He was very courteous and humble in receiving my thanks and appreciation.

But, what he told me later was surprisingly miles away from what I expected.

He said that it was not at all a matter of rejoice that he visits the shrine at the hill-top daily. He wished he could take a break from this drudgery of climbing up every morning and running down the hill in the evening, talking to the pony in its language, bargaining unsuccessfully for a paltry tip and occasionally tolerating ill-mannered travelers, who treated him just like the animal they were riding.

His children wanted to go to a sea beach and he had promised that he will take them there next summer. He was saving for the trip and it will be the happiest moment when he buys tickets for the trip!

Oh Gosh………..What an eye opener it was for me

! For two of us, the meaning of SUCCESS stood poles apart. I and my family from plains saw SUCCESS in going to the mountains while he and his family would be successful if they could go from mountains to the plains! The contrast in the two targets made me delve deep into the meaning of success as conceived by different people!

My thoughts made me look into the real meaning of SUCCESS, psyche of people, perception of society about success and the process of achieving success!

What is SUCCESS : Achieving a particular feat? Reaching a set of targets? Some material worldly milestones? Or some abstract concept?

Who are the ones called successful? Why are they called successful? When was it that they were called successful? Where did this success come from? What made them successful? How did they become successful?

The revelations of the pathways juxtaposed with my own strings of failures, revivals and successes gave me a map that I have tried to decipher and document. The only way to solve this riddle of success is to look for a common thread, follow it doggedly and keep treading through the jumble step-by-step till a set of rules of the game emerge to help us develop a route-map of the path of our own success.

The idea of creating this blog is to empower you to write your own script of success using the insights, tools and techniques that successful people have been using through generations.

While trying to learn anything the best way is to follow the time tested methods of getting it through its basics, the ALPHABETS. This blog will present you with the basics of this new language – Alphabets of Success!

Wishing you success in whatever you want to achieve in your life today or tomorrow!

Happy reading, reading for learning, learning for achieving and achieving for success!

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton