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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...

You may have a clear vision about your life's goal . You may be putting forth your sincerest efforts to achieve the goal as well. But in the cockles of your heart, you may have a feeling that the speed of the results of your efforts is not satisfactory. Is your feeling right? If so, what should you do to accelerate your success? Let us find out. Is your feeling right? To the question if your feeling that the speed of results of your efforts is far from satisfactory is right, the answer is: Since this feeling has surreptitiously entered your mind and you are not comfortable with it, your feeling is right. Of course, overnight success is a Utopian dream and can happen only in fantasy stories. Further, several instances of overnight successes leading to disasters abound in human history. This means there should be gradual improvements. By "gradual," you need not construe that the improvement should be slow. Your journey should be reasonably paced. If the pace of the improvem...