Monday, January 25, 2016

JOURNEY TO SUCCESS



There is no denying that everybody in this world cannot achieve success, but it is almost definite that success can be achieved if one is determined to do everything that is assigned to him/her with sense of responsibility for the common good, not for himself/herself. It has been said by many Nobel person that “Responsibility is the price of success”.

Now we should elaborate it. What is the responsibility that leads towards the success? It is generally thought that responsibility comes with education, but, in fact “responsibility educates”, say Wender Phillips. Responsibility teaches us to look at the measures to adopt in order to emerge victorious in our attempt to carry out tasks in the best possible manner; it teaches us to identify the causes of our failure in case we do not successes.

If you know what those behaviours were which did not let you succeed, you will look within and look for the remedial actions. For example, if you think about situations when your anger was the response to a particular circumstance, there is all possibility that you will rewind the whole thing and find the trigger that caused you to lose your control and claim. You will come to know that this had been an interruption of some sort, or a situation where your courtesy has not been recognized. In fact, you will realize that by the time you could make out what was happening, you lost control and it was too late. But remember one thing you ought not to berate yourself for an inappropriate response of the past. Instead, you should be aware of the fact that your anger will never help you deal with any situation. The energy behind anger is always negative.

The best way to maintain your cool is looking within. You should always ask yourself whether you are taking full responsibility for your part in whatever you are attempting to blame others. If you are busy pointing the finger of blame you can’t focus on your role in failing to analyse the situation with the clarity needed for the issue. At the same time, you will not be able to acknowledge the contribution of others in bringing that statement to a positive conclusion. You should think for a whil and use your awareness to lead you to an understanding of whether you have communicated your expectations clearly. You can easily do it if you are prepared to take full responsibility.

Why does all the confusion or lack of clarity crop up. In fact, you feel at sea when your plan does not work out and you start fearing the fallout of your underperformed action. In the words of frank Crane, “responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber”. Indeed, you cannot think of success or achievement, unless you discharge the duty it implies. Nothing comes for free to anybody. Bear in mind that you also need to coordinate well with everybody associated with your task, without coordination even your single-minded determination will not yield the desired fruit.
“The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single minded, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates”.

Nobody or nothing is more responsible for your failure or success than yourself. If you are late for a meeting and excuse yourself by blaming heavy traffic, you will be missing the point. Instead, start earlier from your home and reach the venue before the meeting takes place.


                                                                                         Source: A well known professional  book.

No comments:

Post a Comment