“The price of greatness is
responsibility” - Winston Churchill
In my previous posts I shared
some laws of success desired to execute a professional tasks - such as
decision, commitment, planning, execution etc. But every law every attribute is
underlined with the paramount attribute of responsibility.
Every time we make a choice, we
are either obeying or disobeying a law of success. As we obey the laws of
success, we move to a more successful state of happiness, peace, power, freedom
and prosperity. As we disobey the laws of success, we move to a state of
sadness, weakness, bondage, and misery. Each moment we are progressing toward
one of these two states. This gift of choice is like fire: if properly used, it
can create warmth and life; if improperly used, it can burn or even kill.
With each choice comes a
consequence. No amount of rationalizing or complaining will alter the
consequence. Choice and consequences are two ends of the same stick. If you
pick up one end of a stick (choice), you also pick up the other end of the
stick (consequences of that choice). Famous poet and sant
Kabeer said
करता था सो क्यों किया, अब कर क्यों पछिताय । बोया पेड़ बबूल का, आम कहाँ से खाय (you have sown seeds of Babool tree, don't expect
mangoes from that, why were you doing what you were doing, now what the use of
repenting)
Our choices are the seeds and
the consequences are the harvest. At times, we may attempt to choose the
consequences of our choices or misunderstand what the consequences of a choice
will be. We might want to smoke cigarettes, but not get lung cancer, we might
wish to eat 10,000 calories a day, but not gain weight. We may seek deliverance
from a disease of choice by taking a pill to treat the symptoms instead of changing
the behavior that causes the symptoms. But we should seek to change our actions
because we cannot choose the consequence. We have access to only the choice end
of the stick, the consequence gets picked up automatically by our picking up
the choices, we can’t do vice versa.
We must accept responsibility, which is the willingness and ability to
recognize and accept the consequences of our actions.
Picking up the right choices will render more choices available to you,
while picking up the wrong choices would reduce the number of options. So if
having choices and freedom to choose is freedom, then picking up the right
choices is an insurance towards your freedom and picking up wrong choices are guarantee
to bondage. Those who know and live the
laws of success enjoy freedom, joy and prosperity. Thus obedience to the laws
of success brings freedom.
The correct use of our power to choose will result in more choices. The
misuse will result in fewer choices. Each time we make a choice; we either gain
more freedom as a result of our increased choices or digress toward bondage as
a result of our diminished choices.
If we touch a hot stove we sure will get burned, touching a stove is in our
control, is our choice, but getting burned after touching the hot stove is not
a choice, it’s a consequence, it’s the other end of the stick.
Laws of success are as universal as laws of gravity, if someone jumps from
the roof he is bound to fall on the ground, this law won’t differentiate
between a rich person or a poor person, an educated guy or an illiterate
person. It would work universally for everyone.
If I wish to maintain my health and fitness, I need to do regular
exercise, and watch my diet; anyone can be fit, if he follows the regimen of
health.
We are born equal, yet years later we live diversely, all because we chose
to live laws differently. It is really very simple. Following laws of success is
a choice which results in positive outcomes.
At the conclusion of World War II, the survivors in the concentration camps
were freed. Many prisoners were weak and filled with anger. In one of the
camps, the American soldiers observed a man who appeared to be strong, happy,
and peaceful. His posture was erect, his eyes bright, his energy unwavering.
The soldiers assumed he had recently been imprisoned or had not suffered as the
other prisoners had. As this prisoner was questioned, it was learned that “for
six years he had lived on the same starvation diet, slept in the same airless
and disease ridden barracks as everyone else, but without the least physical or
mental deterioration.” Explaining what made the difference, he related the
following – “We lived in the Jewish section of Warsaw, my wife, two daughters,
and our three little boys. When the Germans reached our street they lined
everyone against a wall and opened up with machine guns. I begged to be allowed
to die with my family, but because I spoke German they put me in a work group.
I had to decide right then whether to let myself hate the soldiers who had done
this. It was an easy decision, really. I was a lawyer. In my practice I had
seen too often what hate could do to people’s minds and bodies. Hate had just
killed the six people who mattered most to me in the world. I decided then that
I would spend the rest of my life – whether it was a few days or many years –
loving every person I came in contact with. (From True Stories of World War II)
We have within us the power to choose how we respond to a hurtful
situation. We cannot control the actions of others, but we can control how we
will respond. As we understand our power to choose, we see that we are in
control. Our life is not a result of our environment or upbringing, but a
result of our choices. We have the ability to determine the kind of life we
want to live and the type of person we wish to be.
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