Cordially Yours

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...

"Do you want to become a millionaire ?" You may say "Who doesn't want?" My next question is: "If you want to become a millionaire, are you taking the right steps towards achieving this? Have you ever done an introspection to find out if your current habits are helping you in your journey? If not, what is/are the habits should you get rid of?" Experts firmly opine that if you want to amass wealth, you should quit a particular habit. Do you want to know what this habit is? Please read on. You may say "I am working hard for 40+ hours a week but my financial status is not improving at all." This statement reveals that a particular habit is sabotaging your journey. The fact is that you are not alone. Hundreds of thousands of folks toil and toil but they do not achieve huge success . What is the reason? The reason is that these folks, like you, are not planning and preparing for their journey. They haphazardly lead their lives. There is no doubt ev...

You have set your goal and have started putting forth the efforts required to achieve it. You review your efforts periodically to ensure that everything is in order. According to you, everything is moving as you have planned. You are now half-way through in your journey. Suddenly, you have a nagging feeling that there is a loss of steam or things are not moving at the pace as before. You are obviously upset. What may be the reasons? What is holding you back from achieving the success you have been longing for and cherishing in your bosom? Let us find out.  The reasons may be: 1. After reaching a certain point, you have started indulging in what is known as "self-sabotage." True, you have put in place proper systems. But there is some lacuna due to which your plans fall through. You commit avoidable mistakes and these may decelerate the pace of your journey. 2. Not listening to the advice of experts in your field may be another reason for the retardation of your...

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...

The other day I was reading an article on Harry Browne , a presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party in the 1996 and 2000 elections. The article provided a host of information about him and it contained his Self-Eulogy as well. I am reproducing it here.  ------------ Harry Browne wrote this and he wanted it to be read when his funeral services were held. "Setting Your Sights As I look back over my life, I can see so many ways in which I could have done things better than I did, and I certainly wish I'd learned a lot of things sooner than I did. And yet I have enjoyed a wonderful life. I'm married to the ideal woman. I have had the good fortune to be associated in business with highly competent, honest, compatible people. I've had a book that was #1 on the best-seller list, and others that sold well above average. I've had first-class friends in many different areas of my life. I've been able to live in three countries and enjoy the best the world has to o...

If you browse the Internet, you will find endless materials that emphasize on the importance of having goals and striving to achieve them. But on a number of occasions, you may have certainly wondered if you are doing a great disservice to yourself by focusing too much on achieving your goal. Precisely put, you are wasting your life by imagining about the alluring promise of an undefinable land called "future." Unfortunately, such promised lands may not exist at all, not to talk of reaching them.  In his essay entitled "The Station," Robert J. Hastings metaphorically describes that everyone of us is traveling by a mystical train called life. We will be continuing our journey with the anticipation and belief that we will be arriving at a station when the train takes the next bend. We keep imagining that the station will be beautiful and will provide a panacea that may solve all the problems of our life. We may also imagine that when we arrive at the station,...