Everyone today is in a hurry
and impatient. People
often equate speed with quality. By moving fast, people gain a competitive edge.
My teacher used to say: “Resolve to move quickly when opportunity presents itself. Develop and maintain a fast tempo in work. Keep stepping on the accelerator of your own potential and become a moving target”.
The faster we move, more energy we get. Faster we move, more experience we get. More experience we get, faster we learn. Faster we learn, quality of life improves. You will be paid and promoted which will depend on the speed of your efforts.
Faster we move, greater will be our self-esteem, self-respect and personal pride. The quality of life will improve in every way.
Successful people think of the future. They idealise, visualise and imagine what their future will look like. Then they work to convert their visions into realities. They become goal-oriented; they set a deadline, make a plan and work on it every day. If we look around, the highest paid people are excellence-oriented. They constantly get better and better. Successful people are intensely focused on getting desired results. They increase their personal value by doing more and more important things.
Optimistic people think of solutions rather than problems. They keep their minds positive, creative and forward-thinking by searching for ways to solve problems.
Bigger the problem they solve, still bigger problems are given to them. They overcome delay and get started forthwith on key tasks. By taking complete control of the mind and keeping the mind focused on things they know how to get them, and can definitely move ahead of others.
I used to tell myself: “Nothing can add more power to my life than concentrating all my energies on a limited set of targets”. One should know what is urgent and what can wait. Usually people do the easy things first although they can wait for sometime. In the bargain, the tough get postponed.
I have a friend who went on postponing the marriage of his three daughters and in the end they all remained spinsters. The father and the daughters lost interest in matrimony. Ultimately, the dynasty came to an abrupt end.
Swami Vivekananda says: “Education is not the amount of information that is put into the brain which remains undigested all the lifetime. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. If we have assimilated ideas, made them part of our lives, we have more education than any other who has got by heart a whole library.
Many believe career to be the main goal of life. To achieve that, they take university degrees, specialise in some subject and gainfully employ themselves to make the riches. Career is only a means to an end. Contentment is the target of all human endeavours. Be it service or personal gain, one must choose his career based on his inner temperament and inclination. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna instructs us to decide our field of activity based on our Swadharma (own nature).
The whole world is one big family. The difference lies in size, and interdependence creates it. The way we live in the family should be applied also to the world.
The motto of Bharatiya
Vidya Bhavan ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ expounds all values of life. It only says that the whole of humanity is made of one life energy. People of the world must work in their respective fields towards the welfare of the world.
We maximise our personal power when we exude authentic energy. When we speak from the heart and our words and actions are compatible with our thoughts, others sense our genuine attractive energy and accept what we say. Living authentically means from closing the gap between who we are, what we do and what we want others to do. The answer to living authentically starts with being at peace with what we really are.
We typically operate from a belief that problems should not exist, are unwanted by everyone and are to be avoided at nearly all costs. Because of this perspective, our relationship to any person or situation, that may prove problematic allows us little room to be powerful. We always go out of our way to minimise discomfort, steering clear of anything that might lead to generating a problem.
Much of the struggle we encounter comes from not being honest with others and ourselves. We become numb to challenges, lies and suffering that life throws at us, causing us to lose sight of a better way. Being honest with others starts with self-honesty. Ultimately, in the end self-honesty pays dividends. For example, a colleague of mine said to himself: “I am not fit to be an administrator but I am fit to be an educator converting people from a negative to a positive way of living”.
and impatient. People
often equate speed with quality. By moving fast, people gain a competitive edge.
My teacher used to say: “Resolve to move quickly when opportunity presents itself. Develop and maintain a fast tempo in work. Keep stepping on the accelerator of your own potential and become a moving target”.
The faster we move, more energy we get. Faster we move, more experience we get. More experience we get, faster we learn. Faster we learn, quality of life improves. You will be paid and promoted which will depend on the speed of your efforts.
Faster we move, greater will be our self-esteem, self-respect and personal pride. The quality of life will improve in every way.
Successful people think of the future. They idealise, visualise and imagine what their future will look like. Then they work to convert their visions into realities. They become goal-oriented; they set a deadline, make a plan and work on it every day. If we look around, the highest paid people are excellence-oriented. They constantly get better and better. Successful people are intensely focused on getting desired results. They increase their personal value by doing more and more important things.
Optimistic people think of solutions rather than problems. They keep their minds positive, creative and forward-thinking by searching for ways to solve problems.
Bigger the problem they solve, still bigger problems are given to them. They overcome delay and get started forthwith on key tasks. By taking complete control of the mind and keeping the mind focused on things they know how to get them, and can definitely move ahead of others.
I used to tell myself: “Nothing can add more power to my life than concentrating all my energies on a limited set of targets”. One should know what is urgent and what can wait. Usually people do the easy things first although they can wait for sometime. In the bargain, the tough get postponed.
I have a friend who went on postponing the marriage of his three daughters and in the end they all remained spinsters. The father and the daughters lost interest in matrimony. Ultimately, the dynasty came to an abrupt end.
Swami Vivekananda says: “Education is not the amount of information that is put into the brain which remains undigested all the lifetime. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. If we have assimilated ideas, made them part of our lives, we have more education than any other who has got by heart a whole library.
Many believe career to be the main goal of life. To achieve that, they take university degrees, specialise in some subject and gainfully employ themselves to make the riches. Career is only a means to an end. Contentment is the target of all human endeavours. Be it service or personal gain, one must choose his career based on his inner temperament and inclination. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna instructs us to decide our field of activity based on our Swadharma (own nature).
The whole world is one big family. The difference lies in size, and interdependence creates it. The way we live in the family should be applied also to the world.
The motto of Bharatiya
Vidya Bhavan ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ expounds all values of life. It only says that the whole of humanity is made of one life energy. People of the world must work in their respective fields towards the welfare of the world.
We maximise our personal power when we exude authentic energy. When we speak from the heart and our words and actions are compatible with our thoughts, others sense our genuine attractive energy and accept what we say. Living authentically means from closing the gap between who we are, what we do and what we want others to do. The answer to living authentically starts with being at peace with what we really are.
We typically operate from a belief that problems should not exist, are unwanted by everyone and are to be avoided at nearly all costs. Because of this perspective, our relationship to any person or situation, that may prove problematic allows us little room to be powerful. We always go out of our way to minimise discomfort, steering clear of anything that might lead to generating a problem.
Much of the struggle we encounter comes from not being honest with others and ourselves. We become numb to challenges, lies and suffering that life throws at us, causing us to lose sight of a better way. Being honest with others starts with self-honesty. Ultimately, in the end self-honesty pays dividends. For example, a colleague of mine said to himself: “I am not fit to be an administrator but I am fit to be an educator converting people from a negative to a positive way of living”.
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