Trusting yourself to choose the right Choices

“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called ‘workaholics’. I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. Words from the twenty-sixth Psalm come to my mind while

 I work - Examine me, O Lord, and prove me.” ~ Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Former President of India.

Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them. Considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of the learning process. Prefer a dash of daring and persistence to perfection. The true flavour, the real fun and the continuous excitement of work lies in the process of doing it rather than in having it over and done with.

A person with firm belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it’s all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackles problems head on and then affirms that as a child of God, he is greater than anything that can happen to him. Be aware that one of the most constant and powerful urges you experience should be, your desire to be more than what you want to be at that very moment. Inculcate the desire to feel more, learn more, express more and allow that desire to grow, improve, purify and expand. 

Always have the inner urge to seek more within yourself. This should be your key to your motivation and look at how far you have still to go rather than how far you have come. After all, what is life but a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories, and amorphous defeats? Let this thought always flow freely. But then what is this flow? And what are these joys? You could call these, ‘Moments of magic’. This flow is a sensation you will experience when you act with total involvement. During flow, action follows action according to an internal logic that seems to need no conscious intervention on your part. There is no hurry and there will be no distracting demands on one’s attention. The past and the future disappear. So does the distinction between self and the activity.

The trouble is that we often merely analyse life instead of dealing with it. People dissect their failures for causes and effects, but seldom deal with them and gain experience to master them and thereby avoid their recurrence. Are you aware of your inner signals? Do you trust them? Do you have the focus to have control over your life that is literally in your own hands? Remember that the more decisions you have to avoid external pressures, which constantly try to manipulate and immobilise you, the better your life will be. 

Life is a difficult game you play in all spheres. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be your loving self. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done. 

In this endeavour to succeed it is of prime importance for you to realize that before God trusts you with success, you have to prove yourself humble enough to handle the big prize. Believe that through difficulties and problems God gives you the opportunity to grow.

So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins, for great dreams of great dreamers are always transcend to greater heights than that of ordinary individuals through trials and tribulations.