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What Can Be the Biggest Obstacle to Your Growth?

You have been making sincere efforts to achieve big growth , but you falter along your way. The reasons can be varied, but the fact remains that you are not able to achieve the goals or sub-goals you have set. You get stuck. The roughness of your failure has bruised your mind. So, you are no longer in the mood to move forward. You now feel that your failure is an ominous indication showing that you are facing an insurmountable obstacle to your growth. Is this situation real, or can you move ahead despite the failure that hit you hard? The answer is: Yes. This situation may be real, but it is not insurmountable. This means you can return gallantly to the path that will take you towards your goal. The main point to understand is that if you do not learn to bounce back after a setback, you will never achieve the growth you are aiming for. Not being able to bounce back is the biggest obstacle, and it is much bigger than all other hurdles you have faced or may face during your growth jo...

Piggybacking on the Ways of Successful People

If you feel that it is all blurry when you start taking steps to achieve big things in your life , it is not your fault alone. Most people feel the same way as you do. The beginning of the post may appear inappropriate or facetious. But please read on.    In your life, you may have come across people who have achieved extraordinary success in their fields. What are the lessons you have learned from their achievements? Can your success expeditions be similar, or can you achieve similar success? If such questions crop up in your mind, the answer to them is that you can succeed like them or even surpass the magnitude of their success. But how to accomplish this? If you are ready to piggyback on their ways, you can easily achieve your aim. How do you think you should go about this? We should find out. 1. While comparing your ways with those of people who have achieved stupendous success in their fields, you may find that their ways are completely different from yours. Y...

Plans and A Four-Point Formula to Achieve Success.

Why should you be ready to change your plans ? You set goals and make a few actionable plans to achieve them. But when you undertake the journey, you may face unexpected hurdles, however superior your plans may be. Remember that there can never be bullet-proof plans. That is why you have to make the required changes when you face hurdles. Of course, it may not be necessary to make complete changes to your plans. But you may have to make certain tweaks so that you get rid of the hurdles you are facing. Of course, it may be necessary to change your plans when there is a misalignment between your goals and your plans. Never keep dwelling on your old plans once you have revised them. An expert was asked, "How to find a solution to a problem?" He replied, "A problem will continue to remain so unless you realize that the problem itself will be the solution." What does he mean by that? The precise meaning is that a problem provides you with an opportunity to fine-tune or t...

More about Success

What is success? The meaning of the word "success" is not the same for everyone. Why? The reason is that every person is unique and so is his or her perspective. But in general, the very thought of earning substantial money gives people tingles of excitement because, according to them, possessing or earning abundant money is the sign of success, and if they have a good amount of money, it will ameliorate their life.  It is also true that those who are not well-off nurture a tinge of jealousy towards affluent people. Communists call inequality in distribution of wealth unjustifiable. On the contrary, capitalists feel that communists' definition of equality is nothing but rannygazoo. Regardless of the opinions of communists and the capitalists, that success is nothing but earning substantial money is a myth. Points to ponder. 1. Experts sagely nod their heads and say that success is all about our goals and the strategies or ways we adopt to achieve them. In fact, setting t...

Why You Should Not Care About How Others Judge You

Should you worry about how others judge you? The answer is an emphatic "NO." The point is the moment you stop worrying about criticisms or how others, including your close relatives and friends, judge you, you are fast-tracking your success. Further, you will be coming out with optimum output because you have unloaded the burden of getting the approval nods of others.  Let us assume you have made a big decision. Of course, you might have thought about it a thousand times before making it. But others may feel that your decision is goofy. So what? There is no need to worry about what they think because if you focus on what others feel, you suffer from temporary amnesia. Thanks to such obliviousness, you forget your goal or vision of your life. So, you cannot achieve it. The moral is that instead of worrying about what others feel or how others judge, you must keep taking all the steps required to achieve your goal. Reasons why you should stop worrying about judgmental...

Comfortable Life, A Mirage or Can It Be Reality?

According to almost everyone, a comfortable life is one in which they have lots of money. The thought of leading such a comfortable life will make your neurons dance delightfully with a euphoric feeling. Let us for argument's sake assume that this is true. Who does not wish to lead such a comfortable life? But in the present circumstances, fulfilling this wish is not easy for everyone. This is not because there is a dearth of methods to earn good money but because some issue or another may rob people of peace of mind. So, the hot-button question now is: How can one fulfill his or her wish of leading a comfortable life? So, here are a few thoughts about this. There are two powerful methods to get hold of lots of money . But ironically, they consist of contrasting ingredients. Let us delve a little deeper. 1. This tip may sound philosophical to some people. But it is only partially so though there is always a raging debate about it. This tip mainly focuses on sustainabilit...

Reinvention Can Be the Key to Success

Can you be obstinate and stick to your old ideas? To this question, experts emphatically avow that you cannot afford to be. Things and more particularly, technological developments are happening at a meteoric pace and so are trends. If you stick to your old ideas, you will be branded a clumsy conservative. Further, you will not be able to get the results you desire to have. Competition is fierce in every field and reluctance to change will spell doom to your personal and career growth . Only IQ-challenged people, perhaps out of their naivety or due to their stupidity, will refuse to heed the advice of experts. Please read on to know a little more about this topic. The step of adapting to changing trends can be described with a single word spelled " Reinvention ." You have to reinvent yourself. You have to think of and embrace ideas that suit the new trends. Only then, can you move ahead and get the results you desire to have. Here is a classic example. Before the advent o...