Friday 28 August 2015

How to Stave off Chaos and Notch up Success in Life

We all want our lives filled with happiness, prosperity, achievement, health and yet the vast majority of people end up leading relatively average and monotonous lives. Why? How even educated people are happy and contended working paycheck to paycheck ?  
Let’s discover the answer.
The answer lies in the fact that we have never been taught how to create and live a great life! We have never studied this in school. Although we admire people who have done great things, we read histories, biographies of successful people, but no one trains us or shows us the right way to live a prosperous life. No one shows us the ways to achieve great heights and which is why we stumble. Lack of proper coaching and direction is the root cause of all our agonies and asperities. Most of us are ambitious, hardworking, well educated along with our individual capabilities and potential, but are not aware about the basic formula of success, hence often get average results. Before understanding the formula of success, it’s important to ponder over the factors which fail us and create chaos in our lives.
In fact, formula of chaos can also be deduced which goes like this
  
Impulse + opportunity = Chaos.


Everyday, we all come across oodles of impulses like to work, to study, to play or to plan. Impulses are just ideas that pop into our brains for a second and then vanishes. It flashes in our brain for a moment and catches our attention but the problematic part is that they are random, numerous and based on casual appetites and fleeting temptations. Though impulses are neither good or bad but we can’t count on them as well .
We encounter problems when our impulses meet the opportunity for instant satisfaction. If you have a credit card in your wallet and you are defeated by the impulse to spend, probably the result will be unplanned debt which is a problem. Likewise if you want to watch television, that too on a big new flat-screen television the result often will be a wasted time.
Impulses happen when we encircle ourself with opportunities for instant satisfaction.
Now, consider another formula, the one for achievement.
Here it is:
      
Desire  +  Discipline  =  Achievement

Our deepest desires are indeed our true longings, mission or purpose in life. When we are actually aware of our real desires and supplement them with orderly and disciplined life, results can be bewildering. In a world of careless opportunities, random impulses most often lead to debt, disaster and chaos but if you recognize your deepest desires and try to fulfill it by observing even minimal discipline, you will notch up colossal success.
If you know your heartfelt desires and work assiduously with utmost dedication to morph them into reality- you indeed know the recipe for success. So it’s not wise not to dive into the world of endless impulses and make your life miserable. 

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