You begin alone. Along the way you make some friends. Life is cool. You work hard and you get promotions. People start following you. You like it. You work even harder. You get more followers. You love it. You compare yourself with other celebrities in relative fields. You feel let down. You apply tricks and do more marketing. The numbers increase. You feel happy. You start growing old. And you still have to do things you hate to keep the list growing. And then you grow even older. You stop. The followers come down. You like it. You still have a few friends. And you love it.
If you get an order, execute it so well that you don’t have to worry about repeat sales. You should be sure that it will happen. Many people do mediocre job and spend a lot of time in marketing and pursuing business. Rather, do your job so well that people look for you. If you have to keep marketing yourself, one day you will burn out. Provide a little more than you are paid for and your price will double in no time. It is so simple and yet people try everything else. You have a choice; either improve the quality or increase the effort to get more job.
Your time is about to come. It’s just around the corner. Stay afloat. Keep doing your routine. Have faith that good work will be rewarded. A lot of people gave up just when they were about to hit jackpot. They couldn’t see that it required just one more step and so they conceeded. Learn from this. Hang in there a little more. Rewards from exceed your hard work. Do it for people who follow you. If you turn back, they will also lose motivation. You are being tested. You can’t fail if you don’t give up.
Life is addictive. The more we have, the more we want. Age goes up but the mind gets younger. We tend to defy the fact that we won’t stay for ever. This is both disturbing as well as motivating. Disturbing because we don’t want to go. Motivating because we need to make full use of it while we have time. Yet, in the chaos of everyday life we forget the bigger purpose. The alignment with vision is lost. We focus on clutter. We avoid the big ask. Get back to your core cause. Life is an opportunity. Make the most of it.
Reading is the single most powerful way of learning and attaining wisdom. No doubt, practical learning is also essential and it helps; nothing can replace reading from it’s numero uno position. When you engage in reading, there are no boundaries and no timelines. You can read about anyone and everything across the seven continents and even go back in history as deep as you wish. It broadens your horizon and opens your mind to limitless possibilities. More than anything, it helps knowing who you are and why you exist. The habit of reading is a blessing everyone should ask for.
What next? After you have achieved the basic necessities of life and a little more, it’s time to think what you want to make out of your life. Insecurity will always disturb you if you don’t take your eyes off it. Everyday chaos will distract you. If you compete with others, you will always be behind in the race as someone or the other will be ahead of you. Rather, focus on what your soul wants. Hear silently. Carve out a path for your journey ahead. Walk on it. Even if you find yourself alone, you will enjoy the journey.
A lot of people think a lot about their image. They constantly try to create a good impression in public. In this endeavor they are always under stress. They become unnatural. They manipulate things. They become obsessed with what other people think about them. It is not worth it. There is a simple and better way to do it. Forget about your image. Just do things the way you like. Live life the way it makes you happy. Deal with people in your natural way. Eventually, people will form an opinion about you. Whether good or bad, it will create the right image of yours.
Some people are fools. They do not understand the mathematics of society. They are bad in evaluating the merit and demerits of relationships. They simply play their part well irrespective of how the other person responds. They do not find mistakes in people. They can’t play tricks, nor can they identify one. Even when they lose, they do not worry too much and think as if it was the right result. They are naive and they do not bother. They can’t differentiate between winning and losing. For them, living with a smile itself is winning. Some people are really fools.
It is our tendency to extrapolate things. When we get a positive result, we exaggerate it so much as if we were wholly and solely responsible for it, though it could just have been a random affair. In the same manner, if things are not going smooth we tend to worry so much as if the world is going to end tomorrow. We will add self made stories to prove our conclusions, though the challenging circumstances could be just a short term blip. Everyone thinks he is different and yet, it happens with everyone.
I thought I didn’t have ego. I was so wrong. I have it. In loads. I just call it self respect. It is difficult to accept but that’s a fact. I don’t mind taking the first step forward but not always. If I feel the other person is not keen to reconcile, I also take a step back. It is nothing else but my ego. I have tried to cut it down. But it is not so easy. I haven’t been able to figure out at what level I have to stop taking the cover of my self respect. The only consolation is that I understand this. Maybe, with time I shall be able to handle things better.
