Success

These thoughts came into my mind when I was watching the Race competition between athletes. I tried to contemplate what exactly an athlete would have the status of mind in the whole process of racing. I sincerely feel that the same attitude and thoughts can be applied for every work we take in our hand to complete:

1.      Clarity of Goal: We are very clear about our destiny point where we have to reach. That destiny point is our Goal. So put this goal into sub-conscious mind.

2.      Clarity in the Process of Achieving the Goal: Our lap and small strip where we have to run is predefined and we are very much clear that what we have to do to reach to our destiny point. We just have to start running. So put the process of running into conscious mind and utilize whole energy and concentration in running only.

3.      Deviating Factors: While running, we can’t waste our energy and concentration to see how many of our opponents are progressing or regressing how much with us. If we do that, we will certainly lose our concentration and balance on running, we may fell down because we may lose our strip where we are running by overlapping with the strips of others, we will waste a lot of our valuable energy and concentration by doing this which we can utilize in running and at last we will lose the game. So we can’t waste such valuable energy and concentration by having our eyes on others status. If we do a little bit of contemplation on this, we will find that it’s of no use to be aware about our status compared with our opponents. We did this either because of our fear factor of losing the game or because of curiosity to know where we are in the race or we have the attitude of competing with others. But all of these factors don’t help us on winning. We have to suppress our fear and curiosity while running and need to change our attitude of competing with others. When at some point of time if we choose to compete with others, it will certainly have two drawbacks:

a.       When we will see that we are progressing with our opponents, we may feel too much secured, confident, encouraged and may be some amount of arrogance that we may stop utilizing our whole capability in process of running, which is necessary to win the race. This may lead us to lose the game.

b.      When we will see that we are regressing with our opponents, we may feel discouraging and depressing and may stop using our whole capability. This is the biggest defeat of ours and our attitude of perseverance which leads us nowhere but to only misery and sufferings.  This discouragement just leads us with a life without energy and fighting attitude. Such life is a life without life.

So in both condition when we compete with others we lose the battle. So we have to compete with ourselves only by utilizing our whole energy, concentration and will power in the process of running till we reach the destiny point.

4.      When we run in the race with having such attitude described above, whether we win or lose the game, but at last we feel the peace because we are very much aware that we did our best. And this peace is the factor which really matters in our life, because as Swami Vivekananda says:

Peace is the highest form of Strength. Strength is life and weakness is death

             Swami Vivekananda’s quote on the perspective of achieving goal:

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached…