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Learn from your Failure

2019-06-04T21:44:00.000+05:30

I still remember that moment in my life. It was in the mid of summer, I sat frustrated in one end of the room with my head warped down. The failure I faced in the football match for which we practiced furiously for the past two months made me completely ruined. I completely lost my hope. Not only me, but our entire team also lost our hope. We, as a team has been a failure on the entire seasonal league. We tried in every possible aspect in order to overcome our failure. But we couldn’t find where we have been blundering ourselves.

‘Why do we fall Bruce? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.’

The television on the other end of the room muttered playing the ‘Batman Begins’ movie. That exact point was the spark we have been missing in the entire period of time. We trained ourselves hard, we were united, and also we strategized our plans well. But still what we missed was to learn from failure. Our fear of failure to lose was blocking us from exhibiting our potentiality according to our game plan.

The ability to learn from failure is more important since we have less time on this Earth. We can’t set ourselves in a loop, failing in the same stuff we have failed before. At least we have to fail better than before.

As Samuel Beckett says,

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. But fail better.”

But how to learn from failure? How to overcome fear of failure?

We started to utilize our negative impacts which we faced during the entire season. We started to train ourselves with a positive vibe (a positive vibe that we don’t have to face any more criticisms since we secured the first place from the last in the points table.) We were infamous for our failures. But what if we win a game? What if we raise ourselves up in the points table?

But on the other hand, we had no time for it. It was already too late for us to gain our position in the playoffs. If we beat the top two teams in the upcoming matches, it would be possible for us to overcome those criticisms we faced on daily basis, to reveal our true game that we insisted to play every time we failed in expressing it.

As usual, the first two teams on the points table were of experienced teams with great players. We didn’t have any idea about how to overcome their game plans. But we were also not ready to lose our hope. And that’s where our coach played a major part in our game. He repeated the words of Warren Buffet,

“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.”

We started to track both the teams game plans through which they failed to beat their opponents. And also we tracked their key factors through which they were able to beat their opponents. The rest of the days we kept practicing with all our determination with only one motto in our mind, to divert our criticisms against us.

And of course, we achieved what we were determined for. The first two teams in the point tables – who were named as the giants of our game – were easily triumphed by our team which was in the last place. Of course, it’s our determination and perseverance towards what we wished to accomplish was the steps to our success. But the underlying reason which we focused was to learn from failure.

Failure is the stepping stones for success. Learn how to overcome fear of failure and develop the ability to learn from failure.

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Shripathy Swaminathan is a passionate writer and an aspiring author from the Manchester city of India. Graduating in the field of engineering, he started his quest to find the writer in himself in order to inspire people by his thoughts.

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Importance of Being Proactive

2019-05-04T20:30:00.000+05:30

Every one of us in this world, respond to our problem or situation based on the stimuli that gets produced. For example, if someone shouts at us for no reason, we will respond to them either by shouting or by neglecting their attitude towards us. If our boss is obstinate who gets tempered for no reason, we will normally respond by avoiding him to the max.

But the question is; are we choosing our response based on the stimulus with respect to our own freedom? Or based on the influence of our environment and people surrounding us?

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.” Viktor Frankl

I have heard the effect of proactive thinking in a real life incident from one of my colleague. He was welcomed to a new project and was assigned with a new technical task. He reported directly to his manager and was guided by one of his senior officials. As per his senior official’s words, he used to proceed with the technical flow.

On a fine day, his senior official provided him with a wrong technical concept. As he was new to the project, he wasn’t sure whether the logic was suitable or not. He merely followed his words based on his knowledge. But when the results provided were not as expected, he was censured for his irresponsibility by his respective project manager.

He knew that it was not his fault. And also his coordinator ain’t confessed that it was his mistake. Even though the project manager shouted for his ignorance, he remained to maintain his silence. He managed to control his emotional reactions which wouldn’t be of any use to him.

The same day, after a few hours, his manager called for him and apologised for his haughtiness. And at that exact moment, he divulged that it was not his mistake conveying that he was new to this technical work flow. And also he made his apology for his inconvenience.

Maybe this ain’t made a huge difference in his work life. But this incident nourished his correlation with his manager and also enriched his trust which isn’t easy to build in a corporate company. What I am about to convey is that a simple silence controlling his reactions to his stimulus on that spur of the moment made a pivotal moment in his life.

For every stimulus produced, we have multiple alternatives as a choice of our response. After stimulus and before response, we have the freedom to choose our reaction. To be proactive is to respond wisely, to respond to the stimulus without any influence of the environment and people around you.

Have you ever thought about the meaning of responsibility?

Responsibility: response + ability

The ability to choose your response based on your own influence without any influence of the environment which ultimately supports your goal or the purpose of your life is what we call as ‘being proactive’.

Proactive vs. Reactive

The major difference between proactive and reactive is that the proactive persons focus on eliminating the source of the problem, whereas the reactive persons focus on solutions for the problem without trying to solve its cause.

And also the underlying difference between proactive and reactive people is, the proactive persons respond to their stimuli to change their situation or person according to their need, as a support for their success. But on the other hand, the reactive persons respond to the situations based on their present emotional state without any mere thought about their future.

Proactive people don’t blame others; rather they work out themselves to overcome the situation with respect to their success. But reactive people blame external parameters such as circumstances and conditions. And further, they build their lives around others emotions.

At times, proactive people are also influenced by external stimulus such as their environment and people surrounded. But still their responses are value based choices.

How to be more proactive?

"You have to play with your problems before the problem plays with you."

In order to be more proactive, you have to play with your problems before they play with you. To describe the above sentence, you have to first understand the concept of ‘Circle of Concern and Influence’.

To be simple, circle of concern relates to things which we concern in our daily life whereas circle of influence relates to things which are influenced by us in our life. The circle of influence always lies within the circle of concern.

For example, finance comes under circle of concern. Whereas you can control your finance by planning out your budgets at regular intervals.

“You should know something about everything and everything about something.”

Circle of concern relates to our mentality in which we concern about our environment and people around us and complicate with ourselves in order to respond to the stimuli. Further, it pushes us down through which we start to feel that things are out of our control even if they are not.

But the circle of influence is all about taking control of our response-ability. Reactive people have their circle of concern stronger and bigger when compared with their circle of influence. On the other hand, the proactive people have their circle of influence stronger and bigger when compared with their circle of concern.

So, how to be proactive at work? Or how to be proactive in life?

Best way to be proactive is to keep increasing your circle of influence on every possible aspect. Figure out what and all characteristics that come under your circle of concern and influence. Try controlling your characteristics that concern you in your circle of concern. Don’t blame others or your environment for your incapability, rather be optimistic.

For example of being proactive, check out these phrases that differ between proactive and reactive persons.

How reactive persons respond:

• There’s nothing I can do.
• That’s just the way I am.
• He makes me so mad.
• They won’t allow that.
• I have to do that.
• I can’t.
• I must.
• If only.

Have a look at these phrases how proactive people optimize it.

• Let’s look at our alternatives.

• I can choose a different approach.
• I control how I respond to this.
• I choose.
• I prefer.

• I will.

Try to be more optimistic in order to be proactive.

Decide wisely and take actions based on your response-ability.

Play with your problems before the problems play with you.

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6 steps to overcome procrastination

2019-04-13T22:10:00.000+05:30

Have you ever thought what the world’s most deadliest disease is? (The one which plunges you from your own success and well-being.) It’s a single word that dominates in your entire life; Procrastination. As a bookaholic, I have read many books especially in the genre of self-improvement. Every great mind of our human era have spoken about procrastination, about not doing our important tasks at its first place.

I came through a book named ‘Eat that frog’ by Brian Stacy recently which is a complete masterpiece about how to avoid procrastination. Brian Stacy conveys various strategies and methodologies regarding the alignment of important tasks of your life and how to eat those slices within a short estimated period of time. So how to overcome procrastination? The following are some of the best ways to overcome procrastination.

1. Think in paper.

Have you ever thought of aligning your tasks in your life? Maybe in your office or in your personal life. The first and foremost step to avoid procrastination is to write in a paper all your works that you are doing currently. Once you have written all your tasks in a paper, you have to categorize the tasks based on the 80/20 rule, which is the second step on how to beat procrastination.

2. 80/20 rule.

20% of your contribution in the listed work produces about 80% of the result you are being aching for. The rest listed workloads are time consuming but of little valued stuffs, from which comes the third point.

3. A,B,C,D formula

The practise of putting away low value workloads by prioritizing your work list, the A,B,C,D formula. The workload under the list A is the mandatory highly efficient works that are to be done immediately. B categorizes the less mandatory works that are to be completed but not immediately. And so on, the grade goes down. The tasks under E are of no value which does not impact your life even if it is not done.

4. Upgrade your key skill.

Learning is a never ending process. Updating yourself and upgrading your key skills to the latest technology in market and of your need is the necessary step to sustain with the flow of your work. Failing in up-gradation of your key skills directly impacts on your work life.

5. Take one step at a time.

Don’t rush yourself. Plan your work hours and execute according to the plan. Take one step at a time. Multi-tasking isn’t important but completing the most important task on your list in the particular estimated time with proper efficiency and without any error in it is the most important key stone for your success in overcoming procrastination.

6. Last but not the least, Sleep.

Sleep and rest are two main key features to boost and recharge your brain.

Even a machine needs some rest to avoid mal-functioning and other technical issues. What about our fellow humans? Even if you drag you to hell in order to complete your work in a particular time without resting, you will take a hell lot of time than your normal productive hours to complete that particular task. But the sad part is that you can’t recognize that you have been non-productive for the entire period. So enough amount of sleep and rest are vital for your body to remain in action when you are about to procrastinate.

I would like to make a note here. Every human in this world, starting from the great scientists to our normal fellow beings are procrastinators. There is no one in the sector of non-procrastinators. But what matters is how much time you spend on your idle state.

Months, hours, days, hours, minutes or seconds, it’s up to you.

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Difference Between Motivation and Inspiration

2019-04-05T17:00:00.000+05:30

Who is the first person that strikes your conscious when you are asked about the ‘Apple’ innovation?

Well, as an Apple fanboy, the first person that strikes our conscious is none other than Steve Jobs. Have you ever questioned why do you remember Steve Jobs when you speak about Apple?

Is it because he is the co-founder of Apple? Then what about Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne? Or is it because he was twice the CEO of Apple? Well, he is not the CEO anymore. (And sadly, he is not alive.) Why didn’t you recognize Tim Cook’s face at first?

The reason behind this great recognition is the difference between inspiration and motivation. It’s all about the importance of inspiration and the underlying difference between motivation and inspiration.

Of course, both leaders, Steve Jobs and Tim Cook had/have their own ideologies of innovations and market strategies of implementation. Even the employees of Apple are found to be calm and composed under the leadership of Cook.

But during the period of Jobs, it was rebellious as his madness towards product innovation and development was high. His products and innovation were completely revolutionary. He broke the status quo of the normal people’s mind and their innovation followed in his field of technology. He came out of his comfort zone, razing his fear to develop his growth based on the people who trusted him.

On the other hand, Cook’s period was all about up-gradation of the existing product line. All the revolutionary innovations such as iPod, iPad, and iPhone (and of course the revolutionary iTunes stores) are the masterpieces by Steve Jobs.

The main reason for his recognition is that Jobs broke the status quo which was inspirational to every ambitious person on this modernized generation. And that is why we remember Steve Jobs whenever we speak or think about Apple Inc.

The importance of inspiration in our life plays a major role in our lifestyle. We all are being inspired by someone in our life.

‘To be inspired’ is something different from ‘to be motivated’.

Everyone in this world can motivate you directly through words and actions whereas not everyone can inspire you. To inspire others is something beyond motivation.

We don’t follow them rather we follow their actions which inspire us the most. They don’t speak to us directly but their actions towards their passion make us strive for our purpose.

Why motivation is necessary for success?

Of course, the importance of motivation in life is also essential. Let us compare them by using a pill as an example of motivation and inspiration. Motivation is the instant pill that helps you gather your courage when you get destructed once and while you fail in your journey.

But as said, motivation is just a drug which has its impacts for a few hours, a drug that helps you in pushing beyond your limits. Motivation alone will not help us in achieving our dream without the benefits of inspiration.

But at times, motivation acts as the key parameter to strive for success which may be small but makes a huge impact in one’s life.

Then why do we need inspiration?

As said earlier, motivation is the instant pill that helps you rise up when you fall. But inspiration is the improvement pill that enriches you with the energy for running through the hurdles in the journey of your life.

Inspiration is the next level of motivation. Inspiration is an everlasting fragrance that keeps you alive in your long journey towards your passion that accompanies you in every part of your life. This is the ultimate difference between motivation and inspiration.

Just remember this when you recognize an exceptional person in your mind. It is because on some basis that his actions towards his passion or to this society has inspired you. And also this is the reason why we recognize Steve Jobs when we see or feel the smartness of the Apple Inc’s innovation.

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Importance of failure in life

2019-03-25T18:01:00.000+05:30

A man in his black suit stood in front of a huge crowd of people and cleared his throat to start his speech for the day.

“I was 21 when I achieved the first success of my life. Now I am 43. I have achieved success in various industries. Every time I succeed, I was interviewed by the media and I would be invited to conferences to provide my proficient speech.

To be in numbers, I have been successful in my business for about a decade. Every person I meet, every person I speak with and the people I am surrounded with know how successful I am now. But the fact is I am a failure.

Even now I have not succeeded in my life. What other people in (the market) consider success is not my definition of success. To be frank, still now I am a failure.”

The entire hall of professionals and young students started chattering about what was happening.

He cleared his throat in order to gain attention of his audiences and looked at the huge banner which was dangled behind him.

“Importance of Success in life.” He read out the title aloud and made a timid smile scratching his nose.

“Well, I haven’t learned anything from success. As I confessed earlier, I haven’t yet achieved my success in life. But I am sure that I have the privilege to speak about the importance of failure in life, the greatest teacher in every one’s life.

Every time in my life, when I cheered myself that I have attained success of my life, there stood a huge failure in front of me, smiling at my misconception. When considering success with the underlying failure, it didn’t provide me with complete happiness.

But I will share with you the five important lessons that failure has taught in my life. It will not speak about how to overcome failure; rather it speaks about how to face failure in life and how to accept failure in life.”

#1 The real meaning of failure

The first lesson is to understand the real meaning of failure. If you have the opportunity of meeting wise men in your life, don’t hesitate to as this question.

‘How do you define failure?’

Every great man has their own meaning for failure. They define success and failure on their own perspective.

As of my perspective, failure is nothing but forceful water that splashes on our face whenever we feel languorous in our monotonous life, which conveys that our life is not yet completed, to stretch ourselves far from our comfortable zone in order to achieve the infinity.

#2 Importance of failure in life

In the top, there lies a golden trophy awaiting for you. But in order to claim it, you have to make yourself hard climbing the staircase.

The golden trophy resembles your success of your life whereas failure is the staircase that you have to climb in order to achieve it.

Pain is the stagnant reward that you gain when you push your limits wider. Accept failure as part of the process because failure is your staircase to success.

#3 Failure as a teacher in our life

Every phase in our life teaches us a valuable lesson. Similarly the phase of failure teaches us who we really are. It allows us to explore what state we really are in. It reveals our inner spirit and courage which ignites the fire in us to strive for our success.

‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ – Samuel Beckett

#4 Learn how to handle failure

Remember, the most painful but valuable teacher is our life. It teaches us in every possible but practical aspect. Failure by itself is a lesson which teaches us to surmount the obstacles in the pathway to success in our life.

Every great leaders and successful people around us convey us to make mistakes and to learn from it, because failure is a great teacher in one’s life. Master yourself to learn from your mistakes and if possible try to learn from others mistake also.

#5 Respect failure – the final step to success

If you are here for finding a solution for the question how to overcome failure in life, I am sorry guys. There is no concept called overcoming failure. There is only one option, accept failure. But remember, accepting failure doesn’t mean to give up.

‘Success is stumbling from failure to failure, with no loss of enthusiasm.’ – Winston Churchill

Accept failure as part of the process and learn from it. Better you failure grows, better you learn from it and better your success would be. Success by itself means nothing. Only the pathway to success is interesting and makes you feel alive. And the interesting pathway is full of failures.”

As he completed his speech and walked his way back to his seat, the entire auditorium exploded with their round of applause. He genuinely took back his seat in the row of alumni with a gentle smile.

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Shripathy Swaminathan is a passionate writer and an aspiring author from the Manchester city of India. Graduating in the field of engineering, he started his quest to find the writer in himself in order to inspire people by his thoughts.

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Passion towards work - Balance your work life

2019-03-19T17:27:00.000+05:30

I walked through the streets from my office back to home. I wasn’t seeing anything around my ambiance rather I focused just on the far sight of the road. My mind was completely occupied with so many thoughts.

I knew I was living a successful life. I had a well-settled family. I was a good husband and a good father for my children. I worked in a corporate which paid me a huge amount of money for labouring myself. But I wasn’t happy. I couldn’t feel my life.

I could always sense my happiness just a few meters away from my presence. But I couldn’t move forward in order to obtain it. Something is being a mystery in my life. I couldn’t find what is it?

Tens and hundreds of people stood along with me and at the other end waiting for the signal to go red so that we can cross the road. But none of them had a smile on their face. They all were dressed formally with their case on one hand and their mobile on the other, maybe heading towards their work.

Among the crew of maniacs, I found a middle-aged wise man leaning forward with the help of his stick. I always found him whenever I crossed the street. In fact, I knew him as he was the owner of a book shop where my children use to purchase their books. He always held a huge smile in his face that made others feel lively from their heart. But I always wondered how he could always have that smile in his face.

As soon as the signal was red, I rushed among the crowd and pulled myself closer to him. I stood in front of him. He greeted me with a smile. We often have eye contacts whenever I glanced at him. I never had the time before to speak with him. I always rushed myself towards perfection and for a profitable business.

But whenever I saw this man, I thought how a bookshop keeper could be so happy when we people who make money still are craving for that smile.

But this time, I was standing there right in front of him to discover the reason for his happiness and the heartily smile that he always carried in his face. I straightforwardly conveyed the reason for my presence in front of him and also accepted what I craved for in my life. I asked for the reason behind it.

He patiently heard to my entire anxiety that I poured on him and just gave a simple reply in the end. “I love what I do.”

All of a sudden, I laughed on myself tremendously that the nearby passers glanced at my awkwardness. I have been looking for a solution without understanding the question that blocked my happiness.

I had everything in my life. But the basic thing in which I spend most of my lifetime was not of my interest. I felt the bliss of my ignorance. Once I had understood the question, I realized that the solution was lying within it, passion.

But what mattered most is that the solution I found had led me to another question. How to find my passion in life?

I started to work on it. I created a forum for myself in front of my mirror, How to find my passion in life. It was a series of questions that succeeded only if each and every question was answered.

How to find your passion in life

The first and foremost question is what are your interests in life? Drawing, painting, writing, speaking, music or whatever it may be. Just write all your interests in a piece of paper.

But wait. How to find your interests in life? Well, consider yourself in your childhood days. What and all did you do that made you excited, that made you feel alive? But be sure about one thing. Don’t even think about money. Monetizing your passion is just a skill set that we can acquire in the upcoming days. But what if we are not concentrated in the right interest trying to monetize it? We will end back in the same loop of work that we are not interested in.

Follow up with these activities for a period of month. (It takes a minimum of one month to get the habit processed in your lifestyle. And don’t forget to reward yourself with some valuable stuff that keeps you engaged in the habit building process.) Eliminate the interests that do not interest you anymore.

After a period of month, take the exact piece of paper in which you wrote all your interests. Strike out the interests that you have eliminated in the estimated period of time.

Now pick anyone from the list that interests you more and start working on it. Acquire more skills that can boost your performance in it.

The final step is to monetize your skills. Try to make money from passion. But how to monetize your passion? As Robert Kiyosaki says,

"Rich never work for money. But money work for them."

You have already gained an answer to it. You can monetize your passion using your acquired skills in it. Direct your skills in the field of your passion and market your valuable ideas and innovations in your field of work.

Being passionate is the ultimate tool for the successful life of the rich. Rich people work to learn. But what we common people make our blunder is that we work to earn. There is a huge difference between earning and learning.

The main purpose of finding your passion is not to earn money, rather seek your happiness in the work or things that interest you. Further, your passion leads you to the purpose of your life. In other words,

"Passion is the key to find the purpose of life."

Passion without purpose is a tree that cannot bear fruits. You will be successful but you will be of no use to society. Finding the purpose of life is the final step in mastering your passion.

Consider yourself in your 90’s when you tremble to stand in your own legs. When you rewind back your entire life, what would you wish your life to be? Have a thought of it and push your limits closer to your purpose of life.

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Shripathy Swaminathan is a passionate writer and an aspiring author from the Manchester city of India. Graduating in the field on engineering, he started his quest to find the writer in himself in order to inspire people by his thoughts.

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Purpose of Life - The ultimate cause to live for.

2019-03-15T22:12:00.000+05:30

I still remember the golden days of my childhood. I used to sit on my grandmother’s lap hearing to my grandfather’s stories while she used to caress my curly hair with her gentle fingers.

Among the pile of stories, I carried a simple story (which I considered to be the worst one from him in my childhood) throughout my life, the story about purpose of life. At the age of 10, I didn’t realise the impact of the story in our life. But in my later days, when I was exposed to the outside world, I came to understand the insights of the story, about the purpose of life.

Two rats; Nick and Mike, best pals, use to run from their hole to a cupboard where they use to find the grains and nuts. Both of them use to run for their food on regular basis. Nick always had fun and enjoyed his life. He used to wear his shoes whenever he felt hungry. But on the other hand, Mike was conscious about what will happen if the grains and nuts had gone empty. He ate only twice for the day thinking about the future. Days passed, Mike started to feel jealous about Nick since he ate all the grains and nuts whenever he felt so. But Nick convinced him to have the grains and nuts whenever he felt hungry. But the fear for future haunted him continuously which restricted Mike’s happiness.

Whenever my grandfather told me a story, he used to complete it with a moral at the end. But this time it was different. He completed the story without saying the moral in it. I insisted him to convey the moral of the story. He just said the following words.

Among Nick and Mike, whose life do you want to lead?

“Nick, Nick!” I shouted to which he laughed at me.

“You can find happiness wherever you need. You can also create your own happiness. But make sure of one thing. If your happiness doesn’t hurt someone, it is worth celebrating.”

At that time, I was completely disappointed and frustrated hearing the story. But when I grew up and started to face the reality of my life, I came to understand the importance of the story, importance of the purpose of life.

When we are young, we use to live a happy life. We do things that interest us. Moreover we experiment ourselves in various fields that interests us even if we are not experienced in it.

But what is wrong with us when we grow up? Is it the society we are afraid of or is it about our future?

We change our character that we had in our childhood according to the society. We develop ourselves in every possible way. Education, skills, knowledge, physic. But we forget to search our purpose or passion that interests us. We forget our basic character what we followed as a child.

We all are Nick when we were young. But we live the life of Mike as soon as we grow up. I remind myself with the story of Nick and Mike whenever I feel that I have lost my path in my journey of life. I ask myself ‘What is my purpose in life?’

I decided that the ultimate purpose of life is to be happy. So I started my journey of life in search of happiness. But I couldn’t feel the happiness on a long time basis. It never lasted long. Whenever I tried to live the life of Nick, I ended up by living the life of Mike. I ended up asking the same question, ‘What is the purpose of life?’

I started exploring this with people I have crossed in my life. At first, I started asking, “What is your purpose in life?” Most commonly they all had a common purpose, to lead a successful life, to become rich.

Further I started asking the same question to knowledgeable persons I have crossed path in my life. They all had their own answers, their own meaning for purposeful life. But none of them interested me.

I started digging myself. Another step closer to insanity, I started asking myself “How to find my purpose in life?” But I couldn’t find the answer for it.

After a while, again I reminded myself with the story of Nick and Mike, and what my grandfather said in the end.

You can find happiness wherever you need. You can also create your own happiness. But make sure of one thing. If your happiness doesn’t hurt someone, it is worth celebrating.

I again started to seek happiness but this time I started to search happiness in what I did in my life. I started working and experimenting in the field I am interested. Soon I recognized it as my passion.

Later I started to monetize my work which I was interested in. Even though the level of happiness was low, it was constant in my life. But I was sure about one thing, my happiness shouldn’t hurt anyone as I started living the life of Nick.

Most commonly, we all are living the life of Mike. We stop doing what we are interested in rather we run behind money fearing for the future need. We have sowed a wrong seed for the meaning of rich and money. Behind every rich, there lies a purpose in their life. Money is just a by-product which they acquire in their journey of succeeding their life purpose.

As Robert Byrne said,

“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.”

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Know your Why because Rich know their Why.

2019-03-10T20:49:00.001+05:30

Have you ever thought why do we do what we do? What is the reason that lays behind every action we do in our life?

The question 'WHY' plays a major role in your life because knowing your why means knowing your purpose.

The common trait among rich people is that they know their ‘WHY’. They know the exact reason why they do what they do. They calculate their work, investment, and time based on their ‘WHY’. The ‘WHY’ in everyone’s life would lead the path to discover the purpose of their life. The ted-talk provided by Simon Sinek was an eye-opener for many of the people who have listened to his speeches and read his book ‘Start With Why’.

How to find your 'why' in life or how to know your 'why'? As said earlier, we have the choices of reading or often hearing the importance of 'why' in our life. But none of them teach how to find your 'why' in life. (Again we thank Simon Sinek for his another eye opener ‘Find your Why’) The following is the ‘know your why activity’ which helps you in finding your 'why'.

Know your 'why' activity:

1. The first step before whatever you decide to do in your life ask yourself the following question;

“Why should I do this?”

“What will happen if I do it?”

“What will happen if I do not do it?”

2. The second step is to think about its after effect. Two kinds of impacts can happen - positive and negative. If you feel so that your 'why' can bring positivity to your life, don’t give a second thought to it.

Just do it.

On the other side, if the 'why' brings negativity in your life and also if it seems important to be a part in your life, manage yourself to do it but with some precautionary actions so that you can manage to overcome the negative part in it.

3. Write your 'why' and its reason. Try to understand and make sure about the underlying cause in it. Whenever you feel that you are deviated from the cause, have a look at your words. Trust me, it will make a huge impact at that scenario.

Explore the reason why you what you do, because the rich know their 'WHY'.

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Definition of Success

2019-03-06T17:51:00.000+05:30

The definition of success differs from person to person. It may be measured by money, fame. Love, family or whatever we humans crave for. But the question is how do you define success?

We are the one who define our own success. But the main blunder that we common people follow in our life is the definition of success which is predefined by our society. To educate ourselves, to earn money and to become rich is the ultimate cycle that is incorporated in our mind. But no one from this society teach us how to become rich.

Success by itself means nothing. Only the path to success is interesting.

The basic concept of success in the language of rich people is that success is relatable. The common trait among rich is that they measure success by themselves. External parameters or its criticisms never bother their consciousness towards their success. They don’t give a piece of fuck about the society or its ethics that we common people follow in our monotonous life. They define their own success based on their purpose in this earth and based on their skills. But the underlying principle lays the same. They tend for a change (the change what we call as an invention) in our routine working life as their success.

Successful people define their own success.

As said earlier, put a question forward, the mandatory question to be asked in one’s life. How do you define success?

Key to success in life

Define the success or the need of what you crave for in your life. Imagine what will happen in your life if you attain it. If the end desire is inspiring, strive for it. It is the ultimate key to success in life. So make a point to yourself and define success in your own words in order to achieve it.

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Shripathy Swaminathan is a passionate writer and an aspiring author from the Manchester city of India. Graduating in the field of engineering, he started his quest to find the writer in himself in order to inspire people by his thoughts.

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Rich never run behind money

2019-03-03T20:50:00.003+05:30

The first and foremost trait that rich people have in common is that they never run behind money. They work on their own idea for their own success.

Everyone on this earth has a purpose to live with. It is this ultimate purpose or the cause that we aim to achieve in our life. Keep this in your mind, ‘Getting rich is not directly the meaning for achieving money in one’s life. It’s all about success’. And note this phrase, it may be repeated in the upcoming posts also because the rich never run behind money.

The difference between being rich and wealthy has a huge difference in itself. Consider yourself as the richest man in the earth (Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, it’s up to you). You have all the wealth to live a luxurious life. You don’t have to wake up early and leave to a tedious job that you hate to do. Despite being the richest man in the world, every day you wake up from your bed and you fail at least once for the day in your business or whatever it may be. How will you feel? Be true from your heart. The starting few days in your new life would be amazing but soon enough you will be circled in the state of depression. You will hate for what you are. You will hate to be a failure. But still, you have got enough money to have a luxurious life. ‘A meaningful life is not being rich’ which means earning money is not the only part of your life.

It’s not money that drives you towards happiness or towards the rich’s life. It is the success that keeps you enthusiastic in your life and money is nothing but the by-product of success. In fact, making money is important. There is a famous saying ‘Money isn’t everything but earn money before you say it.’ But running behind money alone doesn’t yield you success, rather keeps you engaged running in your entire life. Success is the sense that you can feel and money is the reward that you obtain in materialistic. So stop chasing money in your life which rich’s never do.

The first and the foremost trait for being rich is not to run behind money.

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