Writing your own Success Script

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7FxCw4k8Bw

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!