Most
of us go through lives without knowing what we want. The first question is to
ask what is my purpose of life ? The purpose of life is to have a life of
purpose. A life without purpose is wasted after meaningless pursuits, whether
it is success, money or fame. Instead of that if you just define your purpose
and pursue it, success, money and fame follow. Nobody else can define the
Life’s purpose for you. You have to check your core beliefs, your inner
feelings as to what gives you maximum satisfaction and joy. Once you decide
what you want in life or what is your life’s purpose, half the battle is won.
The
next question is why you want it? What
is your motivation? Your motive for action. Why you do whatever you do ? More
important than the What is the Why. An Olympic athlete gets up every day in the
morning and goes for his practice. Whether it is sunshine or rain, he follows
the tough regime for four years in continuation. His motivation is that he
wants to get laurels for his country. He wants to see the tricolour flying and
the national anthem playing when he is on the victory stand. Similarly what is
the thing that drives you ? What will make you get-up everyday and get going
for your goal, all excited, filled with enthusiasm. What will make you rebound
when you suffer a set-back ? So be sure of the Why of your goal and your What
will become that much easier.
When
do you plan to achieve your goal? Everything comes with a time limit. The
electricity bill has to be paid in time. The mobile has to be re-charged in
time. The gas has to be re-filled in time. Likewise, the goal has to be
achieved in time. Suppose a student is in his XIIth, now. If his goal is to be
a Doctor, he has to set a time limit that by 2020 he will be a doctor.
Similarly, with all your medium, short and immediate goals you have to have a
time limit. Every day you should know how far or how close you are from your
goals. Like a pilot always knows how far he is, from his destination, both in
terms of distance and time.
Most
of us know the answers of all the above three questions but don’t have a clear
idea of How to achieve it. It seems tough but it is not rocket-science. Firstly
we have to program the inner software. I have given the way to do it in my
earlier article IVR : Programming the Mind
for Success.
Once
you start practicing IVR your mind will be focused at your goal. The next thing
you have to do is to take action and the action has to be taken in the present.
Each action has to be a powerful action and it will be so when you are not
thinking about the past or the future. Suppose you are making a resume for
applying for a job. You may have thoughts of your past failures or anxiety of
the future. Just get rid of these thoughts and focus on creating the best
possible resume. Everything has got energy and if you put positive energy into
anything it is bound to give you positive results. So, if you make all your
actions, powerful actions your day is going to be a successful day. And if you
have a series of such successful days, there is no doubt that you will have a
successful life.
Life
is very simple and contrary to the popular belief success is easy when we take
the right steps in the right direction. So, answer the above questions. Write
them down. Meditate on them and then take powerful actions and success will
come knocking at your doors sooner than you think.
The
writer is a veteran Air Force pilot, a motivational speaker and the Author of
the inspirational fiction “Be Your Own Pilot.”
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