Only You Can Make It
Happen
Dear BA'ians,
Challenges are what make
life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes them Meaningful.
We are sure a lot of you
experience anger, frustration at your inability to hit your goals, to
make life work as you want it to go. But dear friends, life is a journey
that comes packed with lessons that it wants you to learn, just so that
you get better as a person. Life is much much deeper that we give credit to it
for. Do not take life's challenges as a threat, or bad luck, rather go
embrace it because only then will you be able to understand the reason
that challenge has come your way.
Having understood that we alone have to face life and build
it, we must take full advantage of it. We must become accountable for
this precious life given to us
and own responsibility for making it a success or a failure. We
cannot complain about life's situations and blame others for
what we make of it.
Also we cannot live in false hopes that success will come our way
without efforts. the only thing that happens without effort is growing old.
Life’s Challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they are
supposed to help you discover who you really are.
A
young an was asked, 'What have you done to become a twenty five year old person?'
He replied, " I did not die despite my driving!'
'That
was God's doing, not yours!' That we live and grow is nature's efforts. 'How '
we live and progress is our effort. We must put forth efforts to grow
gracefully and successfully.
There are 4 types of people- 'Those who 'make it
happen', 'Those who talk
of making it happen', ' those who talk of what happened', and those who wonder' what
happened!'
We have to take charge of our life and 'make it
happen'
Now how do go about making it happen. We are sure most of you have
tried several times, but somehow have lost the plot as to how to go about doing
it!!
Well to start with, it is very important to have goals in your
life. Goals are like a GPRS in a car, that give direction and speed to our
movement.
Goals should be divided into 3 categories i.e.
- Short Term(
ranging from a week to a month)
- Mid Term( Ranging
from a month to 3 months)
- Long Term(
Ranging from 3 months to a year or more depending on how clear your vision
is)
Set Daily, Monthly, and
Long Term goals and Dreams. Don’t ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is
Impossible. If you believe in yourself, sure you can achieve it.
Now how best to go about achieving your goals?
Some steps that will help you in this exercise:
1) Get a spiral notebook this very day and write down ten to
fifteen goals that you would like to achieve in
the foreseeable future.
2) Each night before you go to sleep, visualize and imagine your
life as it will be when you have achieved your goals. Well make
visualisation a regular part of your life. Invest the time regularly to create
exciting mental pictures of yourself and your life exactly as you ant them to
be. Then, have complete faith that your pictures will materialize exactly when
you are ready.
3) Think of 3 things that you could do to achieve each of your
goals. Always think in terms of specific actions you could take.
“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.”
4) Discipline yourself to rewrite your goals every day,
without reviewing your previous list, until you become absolutely
convinces that achieving your goals is inevitable.
5) Be completely honest and realistic about your life and your
goals. Be willing to accept, in every area of your life where you experience
stress and resistance, that you could be wrong or that you have made a mistake.
Resolve today to cut your losses and leakages that prevent you from achieving
your goals whenever possible.
Also look into each problem or obstacle you face and seek the
valuable lesson or benefit it contains. Each life's problem comes with
a lesson that it wants us to learn, so never get lost in the life's
problem itself, rather let you logical mind come to play, and find a
reason and solution out of the problem. Remember friends, we ourselves are
the solution to most of our problem. There is no problem in life
that cannot be resolved, provided we
allow ourselves to take charge.