Everybody in this world wants to achieve success, but have
you ever thought of taking the road to success? When I heard this first time I
was also surprised like you guys with the fact that is it possible to have a
road to success. But then I realised that it is not a myth. In fact there is a
road to success.
But before taking this road we need to understand our final
destination which is “Success”. The word Success is quite a generic word but it
comes along with many other things like happiness, wealth, peace etc. It has
different meaning for each of us sitting in this room. For some it’s
professional and for some it is personal. But in the end what is Success?
Success is something that you or somebody else set for you and you achieve it.
As a small boy while studying you and your parents measure your success by the
number of marks you got in exams. But the strange thing is that if the success
criterion was to come first then even if you get 99% marks but if you are
second then you have not attained success. Vice versa if the criteria was to
come first and you came first with 70% marks, u still succeeds. So the point
here is that the marks has no impact on your success because you set the
position as your success criteria. But if you have criteria of getting above
95% then you are successful in scenario 1 and failed in scenario 2.
So success is
relative to what you want from life not what life gives you. I think now
meaning of success is quite clear. For some it is having power, for some good
personal relations and for some just happiness.
Coming back to our Road to Success, having understood the
meaning of success now I can say that the destination name is success but it
will look different for different people. So don’t get carried away by looking
at somebody else destination. Once you reach the destination just enjoy it and
create a new destination for yourself.
To start on this road first decide what you need. What are
your goals in your life? What things make you happy? Because succeeding without
happiness is meaningless. Some people say your goals and dreams should be big.
There is a saying that if you aim for stars even you miss you will land on
moon. But if you are doing so you should be able to accept the fact that moon
is beautiful. You should be able to take the failure in a good way and should
keep trying. But if all your dreams is to reach the star and you are keep
falling on the moon then later or sooner you’ll become unhappy. So the goals
must also be realistic. So that you go step by step and enjoy the success also
between your failures.
Like all roads, Road to success is bumpy at some places and
smooth at some other. Sometime you’ll feel that you are getting out of fuel and
sometimes you’ll enjoy the scenery along the roadside.