Attitude is Essential to Success

Dear loving people,

Has it occurred to you that anyone, regardless of education, can learn how to be successful in life? That is what Living Lectures is all about, to teach you the success principles in life mindful of the fact that the experience can only be yours. I have reasons to think that irrespective of your intellectual capacity, you can become successful if you stick to the rules and take a firm decision to make it in life. Making a firm decision however begins with adopting a new way of looking at the world. In other words, you need to start thinking success and think like a successful person.

Living Lectures is designed to teach you how to "think success." It doesn’t matter what you are now, even if you have been such a failure in the past, thinking success hence is a matter of reshaping the way you think and the way you do the things you have to do.

The very first thing you have to come to grips with is the fact that you have to be convinced your present situation needs to change for the better. Once you sincerely know that what is happening all around you is not all what you deserve, that you are worth a fair share of the gifts of nature and that you can become better than what you are presently, it fires the desire you need to move ahead.

On the other hand, if you surrender to mediocrity, and accept your present status as all you can get out of life, no amount of talking or wishing will get you out of such a pit. You need to be sick and tired of what is happening around you and the marginal life you are presently living, only then can you be prepared to face genuine change.

Accepting to change gives room for effective goal setting. It has been said many times, and it is worth saying again: You can't get to where you are going unless you know where it is. Goals are the stepping stones to success. When set up properly, they are the ultimate success tools - they allow us to design and achieve optimal levels of satisfaction and happiness in all areas of our lives. Unfortunately, too many people misunderstand the process, and as a result, never achieve the results they are hoping for.

One of the biggest traps that beginners on the path of success fall into is depending on and or especially playing with their emotions. They get confused between empathy and sympathy when challenges and obstacles hit them in the face. The trick is to face the future objectively once you decide to make a change with or without obstacles and not depending on your personal feelings.

A crystal example is a young business man who is suffering the pangs of over taxing by the local tax system in place. Naturally, almost everyone feels sympathetic for the over taxed young business man who at extremes supports a huge dependent family. They tend to think that such a young business man with all his troubles and social responsibilities inherent should not be taxed that much because they promote the economy. 

However, real life situations as such demonstrate that some of the times, you should work at getting your economy better even when that of the state is apparently not working out and that you don’t have to give up simply because things are not working according to plan but that you should rather set to work than giving in to empathy. 

The fact here is that while you may not be able to get the national economy any better, you can always get your economy better such that supporting your social responsibilities no longer becomes an issue.

In all you do, be aware that succeeding in life is facing reality head-on; there is no time when things will be at their optimum but you can get your things and your life to the optimum if you set your sights high and commit to it. This, you need to demonstrate through action that it works by taking the right action.