Five gyaan points from Linkedin

I found this on linkedin. Lately i have almost gone through 4 out of the 5 notions described above. Quite clearly to me, No.3 is the one that i have to really go through and become what i "should be". Here is brief of my thoughts about these -

In my thrity odd years of life on this earth the last twenty of which i quite distinctly remember, i have noticed that quite often it is only a thin ray of hope that you receive from some corner of the cosmos that propels you to finally succeed. I am quite sure that even the greatest achievers had more than their share of people who did not believe in them directly, openly or indirectly and discreetly. They say that "Log Kya kahenge" has killed more dreams than anything ever did...and as a satire to that Neha once told...
"Log kya kahenge, agar yeh bhi ham soche, to phir log kya sochenge". 
So point No.1 - 100% true. Point of caution, please make a distinction between opinion and experience. If you can learn from other persons experience, do learn from it, but do not fear it. 

No.2 is the most common think the achiever experiences. Success breed success. However, it also reduces the endurance against failures. Quite often we start hating ourselves due to the one incidence that happens and trust that life has nothing but misfortune and failure for us. A quote that could perhaps take  you through this when you are really low...
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday". 

An opportunity quite seldom knocks your door if you really haven't worked to build one. I would say luck favors those who really work for it. Lucky charm, Numerology etc if really would have worked would have produce enough billionaires to fill whole of china. These are just mental calming mechanisms. They instill the same time of confidence that believing in god or getting blessing from elders does. This is a topic of psychology and should be perhaps dealt in detail in a later blog post.

The last one really is the icing on the cake. Beginning a day with a grateful heart just is the best stress buster you could ever think of. Our movies have of late portrayed that this is essentially a nerdy un-cool way of starting a day. A day should be fully of energy...blah blah blah...Well A day should be all that and along with that a humble and grateful heart makes the whole thing perfect. Why? When you are humble and grateful for the day, you know that you are only in so much control of the day as it allows you control over it. My dad's quote on this...
" Like the sun becomes smaller as he goes higher, so should the ego of a person as he grows in life". 

That's my 2 cents worth of gyaan on this wonderful placard.