Everyone aspires for success,
but have you ever felt that it comes easier to some than to others? Perhaps
it's time for a new perspective! Start your day with these 10 mantras for
success and watch how success comes to you effortlessly and with no stress.
#1 Forget Luck, Live
by Intent
Sadhguru: A few things may happen by chance. But if you wait for the
chance, good things will happen to you only when you are in your grave because
things may take their time. Even quantum theory says that if you try, you can
walk through a wall once in a "zillion" times because there is a
pulsation of particles happening and you may walk through. It is just that
before you reach that one zillionth time, you'll have a cracked skull. When you
live by chance, you also live in fear and anxiety. When you live by intent and
capability, it does not matter what is happening or not happening, at least you
are in control of what is happening to you. It is a more stable life.
#2 Stop Fixating on
Failure
For a committed man, there is no such
thing as failure. If you fall 100 times in the day, it is 100
lessons learned. If you commit yourself like this to creating what you care
for, your mind gets organized. Once your mind gets organized, your emotions
will get organized because the way you think is the way you feel. Once your
thoughts and emotions are organized, your energies and your very body will get
organized. Once all these four are organized in one direction, your ability to
create and manifest what you want is phenomenal. You are the creator in many
ways.
#3 Work with Clarity
What a human being needs is clarity, not
confidence. If you want to walk through a crowd of people, if your vision is
clear and you can see where everybody is, you can just walk through the whole
crowd without touching anyone. If your vision is not clear but you have
confidence, you will walk over everybody. Because there is no clarity, people
think that confidence is a good substitute. It just cannot be. Let’s say you
make all the major decisions in your life like this: get yourself a coin, and
flip it. If it’s heads, it’s one way, tails the other. It works 50% of the
time. If you are right only 50% of the time, there are only two professions
that you can keep – either a weatherman or an astrologer. You cannot keep any
other job on this planet.
#4 Embrace the People
and Things You Dislike
To handle different kinds of situations
in our lives, we need different kinds of identities. If you are fluid about it,
if you can change from one to another gracefully, then you can play your role
to the hilt and still have no problem with it. But for most people, their
personality is like a rock. It sits on them all the time and makes them suffer
anything that does not fit into its ambit.
If you have to break that, you have to
do something in reverse. This is a simple thing you can do: team up with
somebody that you do not like. Spend time with that person, very lovingly,
joyfully. Learn to do things that you do not like, be with people that you do
not like, and still live your life sensibly, lovingly, and joyfully.
#5 Drop Your
Calculations
There is no need to aspire to greatness.
If you make the focus and ambit of your life well beyond the concerns of who
you are, you will anyway be a great human being. If you look at certain people,
greatness happened to them not because they were seeking to be great, but
because their way of looking at life was way beyond “What about me?”
If you just drop this one calculation,
“What about me?” from your head, and function to the best of your ability, in
some way you will be great because you will naturally be looking at, “What can
I do about all the life around me?” So, you will naturally enhance your
capabilities because there is so much to do!
#6 Yoga For Success
Both the neurological and energy systems
branch out in a big way between the shoulder blades and above. So, keeping the
neck region in good condition is very important. Within 3-4 minutes of doing
these neck practices, you will distinctly see that you are much more alert.
There is a higher level of neuronal regeneration, and memory and intellectual
sharpness also improve.
#7 Be Equanimous and
Exuberant
To be successful in the world, what you
fundamentally need is the prowess of the mind and the body. If you want to
harness the mind, one of the most important qualities is equanimity. Equanimity
gives you access to different dimensions of the mind. If there is no
equanimity, your ability to use the mind is greatly reduced. Another important
quality is the level of your energy – you need exuberance, both physiologically
and internally. Only when your energies are exuberant do you have the ability
to tide over obstacles in day-to-day life and move towards success? If
equanimity and exuberance are brought into your mind and body, success will
come to you much more easily.
#8 Tune Up Your
Insight
Insight means you pay attention to life
around you in such a way that you can see things that most people cannot see.
If there is no insight, there is nothing to follow and toil for. Mediocrity can
be transformed into extraordinary activity, only when there is a deep insight
into something.
#9 Find Your
Inspiration
Another important dimension is to
constantly be inspired. Look at the reason why you are doing what you are doing
and see the larger dimension of it, the contribution you make through every
little thing you do in your life. Every action that human beings perform is a
contribution to some dimension of this world. Whatever you may be doing,
someone could benefit from it. Being conscious of your contribution will keep
you inspired.
#10 Set the Gold
Standard in Integrity
Integrity is important because when you
want to function in the world, how much trust you generate with the people you
interact with determines how easy or hard your daily efforts will be. If there
is an atmosphere of trust, your ability to work will be greatly enhanced –
simply because everyone will pave the way for you rather than setting up
impediments.
