SRIJAN 2002-2003(1st Edition)

♦ CONTOURS OF THE MIND/Icy Peaks
STEPPING STONES TOWARDS SUCCESS
By:
Karan Madan,
Second Year,
Civil Engineering.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Success in life is what each one of us wants to achieve in any field or for that matter every field. But success is not something we
can achieve overnight, we have to sow the seeds, water them everyday to get the fruits we want.
Success is not innate, we have to inculcate it in our discipline, determination and hard-work. Success as a result of hard-work gives
great a greater sense of achievement and satisfaction. It has been rightly said by Henry Ward Beecher, "Victories that are cheap are
cheap. Those only are worth having which come as a result of hard fighting."
In spite of the enormous hard- work we put in, we still may not succeed. Some time or the other we may fail. But we shoulc
remember that every failure is a 'comma', not a full stop. We should plan around our failures, not against them. The first and foremost
thing is to believe in ourselves that we have the potential and the ability to succeed in even a very difficult task.
"The idea of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us.
Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power
Has been more potent than another in the lives of great
Men and women, it is that of faith in themselves."
-Swami Vivekanand
Secondly we must always do the task at hand then and there rather than saying, "I'll do it someday." When we say this we are jus
delaying the work because someday is not a day of the week.
Everybody dreams of being successful but only those succeed, who wake up to realise their dream. In other words just thinkin!
about a problem may not solve it but working towards its solution will.
A great misconception we have is that successful people are genius and we are not. We harbour extra-ordinary notions about then
and this in fact is the greatest obstacle in our road to success. Winners don't have something extra-ordinary in them that makes then
successful. They have a sense of timing. In a similar way we should also try to do the right thing at the right time. Whenever a problen
comes up we should say, "I must do something" rather than "Something must be done."
We feel that everything is easy for winners but what we don't know is that it must have been difficult before it got easy. Whz
winners have, are qualities which lead to success. Really! So do we. These qualities are inherent in each one of us. We just have t
realize them. It is like having a treasure underneath our house and not knowing it. As soon as we know it our way of looking at thing
changes. We start believing in ourselves and our ability to succeed.
The desire to succeed can be portrayed by the following lines:
"Somebody said that it couldn't be done, but he with a chuckle replied that "maybe it couldn't", but he would be one who wouldn
say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin on his face. If he worried he did it. He started to sing as he tackle
the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Tube Thought: In the following article I have expressed my views on how to succeed in life. Some of these might hold key to out goa
in life
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.