Famous American humorist
Erma Louise Bombeck, who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column
that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s wrote - There are people who put their dreams in
a little box and say, “Yes I’ve got dreams of course. I’ve got dreams.” Then
they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep,
they’re still there.
These are great
dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of
guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, “How good or how
bad am I?” That’s where courage comes in.
Drivers without
dream reach nowhere but then dreams without drivers also don’t arrive at their
destination. All of us dream, all of us aspire, but very few of us have the
desired courage and enough action oriented to work towards realizing those
dreams. It requires not only the action but concerted focussed and persistent
action till the goal is achieved. Your inspiration engine should be able to
provide power constantly and keep action in motion. The keyword here is consistency
not the strength. Thrust of intermittent power won’t work, howsoever powerful that
thrust t might be,
Speechwriter’s
Newsletter mentioned an anecdote about June L. Rokoff, former senior vice
President at the Lotus Development Corporation, which she narrated while giving
a speech at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. –
“ Ä couple of
years ago,” she told the students, “when
I was named to the position I have now, my husband David took his collection of
my old business cards and had them framed ”She held up the framed cards for all
to see and continued, “Here it is – I keep it hanging in my office. When I look
at it, I think of two people.
“One is my 10th
grade math teacher, who told me I should probably give up on math, or any
career relating to math, because I was no good in geometry.
“The other is a
boss I had in my second job, when I was 23 year old. He told me I’d gone about
as far as I could go in the computer industry. He said I should just accept the
fact that my career had “plateaued “and quit trying to get ahead.
“So if any of
you see my old math teacher or my old boss, would you let them know that today,
I have 1200 people working for me? And, that most of them are very good in
math?”
Success is not
due to some genius or some magic. It is generally due to holding on, failing to
let go. You decide to learn a language, to become a singer, to reach a goal in
business, to become a better human being. It requires lot of courage, unparalleled
belief and conviction in oneself, and tremendous strength to collect you and
get up once again after every rejection or failure.
Rejection at All
India Radio auditions did not deter Amitabh Bachachan, and he grew on to become
the most successful star that Hindi Film Industry has seen. This strength and belief helped him to
resurrect from the ashes he was left in after he turned bankrupt due to some
wrong business decisions. His belief, courage to face the challenge and ability
to adopt has given him a super successful second inning in films.
Will you succeed
or fail? It depends on how much pluck and perseverance you put behind your
decision. The decision that nothing can conquer, the grip that nothing can
detach bring success. The Chinese have a saying for it : With time and
patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.
“Those who lose
riches lose much, but those who lose courage lose all”
KK
Woww
ReplyDeleteGreat Absolutely wonderful Sir.
I have mustered up courage by reading it.
It's true that perseverance and dedication with rigorous effort and conviction we can achieve our goals.