Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun rays do not burn until brought to focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
Dig Into Your Own Mine
When a person gets success, initially he gets an opportunity to enjoy. Most people get carried away with this new found success and neglect work. If in a business somebody looks only for enjoyment or fun, then the business cannot flourish.
We should focus on our goals, and aims. You should be clear about your goals in life. Once the goal is set, your focus should not shift from it. If a person deviates from his goals, he cannot reach his desired destination. All cricketing nations know that Shoaib Akhtar has a lot of talent. But he is never known for cricketing, he is known only for wrong reasons. However, Sachin Tendulkar is so focused on his sport that he is never known for anyother reason. We have to be consistent and never change our commitment levels. We should pursue our goals with full dedication, no matter what may come.
Let me tell you a story. Once there was a man who wanted to go to heaven. He went to a sage. The sage told him that he has to pass four tests. If he does so, he will go to heaven. The man cleared the first three tests. He was left with last test to clear. The sage asked him to go to the mountains and there he was advised to ask just one question, “What is the way to heaven?” The sage told him that if he asked anything other than the way to heaven, his journey to heaven would be cancelled permanently. When the man went to the mountains, he saw a beautiful stream and a cold breeze was blowing. Suddenly, he saw a beautiful girl with long hair bathing in the stream. He was fascinated by her beauty.
He had never seen such beauty ever before. Now he forgot about heaven. At the same time that beautiful girl looked into his eyes. And so this man forgot every command and asked her, “Are you married?” Like the above situation, we generally ask questions which have no meaning in our lives, which can take us nowhere.
Once I read Ratan Tata’s interview. He was asked about his success and failures. He said, “Oh yes, there were many moments when I felt frustrated, stressed up, and disappointed, especially when Telco suffered a loss of 600 crores. Everybody had written me off. I tried to convince people that inspite of the fall, their market share is still the same. “ The automobile industry as a whole was going down. During that phase, there was a terrible labour dispute. It was a difficult time for him. But even in that situation, he was focused on the company and the growth of the Tata Corporation. At that time, he was in the auto market with Indica and faced a failure in the initial run. Everybody suggested Ratan Tata to withdraw from the Indica project. But Ratan was absolutely adamant. Everybody regarded the failure of Indica as the personal failure of Ratan Tata. But Ratan Tata was involved in modernization, in expansion, and in diversification of the corporation. In fact, Indica was the cause of the problem but fortunately it was only Indica which turned around the company. Ratan Tata today is truly a brand ambassador of India in the corporate world. Recently, he acquired JLR which was with Ford before. To be successful in our lives, we must follow the following five success formulae:
BY PS RATHORE
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