“Your path to success starts with
a single step towards self-improvement. “A profound quote by Dale Carnegie!
Simple and hard hitting, the key word being “self-improvement”. To open our
inner eye that sees us as we are and to close our external eyes that only see
where others should improve. The latter doesn’t help in our journey, does it?
The other struggle is how to
define success. If you build an awareness of where you need to change for the
better AND work on it, that is success. If you can turn the negative within to
positive, that too is success. If you learn to cleanse yourself of the need for
conflict and so on.
Peace descends where we learn to
live within our own space and learn to plant a garden within the space, instead
of encroaching on other spaces.
The problem with the few
materialistic success stories is that those who earn it are more often more
balanced than those around them who bask in reflected glory and take their
glory to a narcissistic level, never having worked for it for a minute. The
quest for an illusory supremacy! This is diametrically opposite to the concept
of self-improvement.
And so we exist somewhere between
two extremes that polarize humanity so much so that the wrong majority forms
the “ right” and the right minority learns to survive as best as they can.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
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