“Success Principles in Student’s Career”
I heard a
story about two workers who were approached by a reporter. The reporter asked
the first worker, “what are you doing?” His response was to complain that he
was virtually a slave, an underpaid bricklayer who spent his day wasting his
time, placing bricks on top of another.
The reporter
asked the second worker the same question. His response was quite different. “I
got to be a part of important and beautiful piece of architecture. I turn
simple pieces of brick into beautiful masterpiece.
They are
both right. The truth is, we see in life what we want to see. If we search for
ugliness, you will find plenty of it. If you want to find fault with other
people, you career or the world in general, you will certainly be able to do
so. But the opposite is also true.
Attitude
defined: is a feeling of opinion which comes inside of us about something or
someone or way of behaving that follows from that.
The following
is immensely readable and succinct piece about the attitude, we all need to
develop and emulate on the rocky road to success.
Attitude 1: Do not expect success to
fall into your lap
Success is
not something that you run into by accident. It takes lot of preparation and
character. There is no substitute to hard work. Henry Ford said, “the harder
you work, the luckier you get.”
Lakshmi
Niwas Mittal was taken aback when at a seminar he was addressing in India (January,
2005), a young MBA student stood up in the audience and asked him, “How soon I
can become like you.” “You have to work hard,” he replied. There is no magic
here that one can overnight become XYZ. There is a process in life. I have been
a hard working person from childhood. Hard work is not something that is
difficult to me. Only a few people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
Attitude 2: Do not lay more emphasis
on material rewards as a success
Successful
people are generally high on incomes but they do not attach themselves with
material possessions. High materialism
can affect your health; can lead to less energy and vitality, higher
cholesterol and greater risk of heart disease.
Attitude 3: Have a clear set of goals
or purpose in life
Andrew Carnegic said, “If you want to be happy,
set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your
hopes.” Expert on Psychology know that the brain is a goal-seeking organism.
Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to
achieve. Most of the top achievers have had clear goals for their lives and
careers. They also constantly measured their performance against these goals.
Would you
sit in a train or a plane without knowing where it was going? The obvious
answer is NO. Then why do people go through life without having any goal. Goal
gives direction.
Lord Karan
F.Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer (in Pravasi Bharatiya Divas held in Jaipur,
January, 2012 urged the youngsters to find a purpose in their life. Bilimoria
hooked the audience with the story of his success and failure, “I lost
everything that I built three times in my life but never lost my purpose in
life.”
Attitude 4: Do not get discouraged by
obstacles in your life.
Some achievers cited the ability to overcome adverse
conditions as a reason for their success. They had something to fight. It is
important to understand that as soon as you set a goal, three things are going
to emerge that stop most people. These three obstacles are—consideration, fears
and roadblocks.
Attitude 5: Common sense plays an
important role in life
The ability
to exercise good practical judgments in the everyday affairs of life appears to
be more important than raw intelligence.
Attitude 6: Success is not
necessarily a matter of genius
You do not
have to be a genius to be a success, but other personal factors like ability to
get things done, passion to achieve, taking work as a mission are also
important.
As the
Ambani brothers said at a reunion held at Chorwad(January,2012) on
Dhirubhai’s 80th, Birth anniversary,
the biggest lesion they learnt from their father was, if you take up some work,
take it up with a mission and do not leave it half way.
Attitude 7: Take 100% responsibility
for your life to get success
You must
take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons
or the wind, but you can change yourself. If you want to be successful, you
have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your
life. Taking one hundred responsibility means you acknowledge that you create
everything that happens to you. It means you understand that you are the cause
of all of your experience.
Attitude 8: Believe in yourself to
get success
Napolean
Hill once said, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
If you are
going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to believe
that you are capable of making it happen. You have to believe in yourself.
Whether you call it self-esteem, self-confidence or self-assurance, it is a
deep seated belief that you have what it takes. Believing in yourself is an
attitude to success.
Attitude 9: Part-time work is an
important learning experience
Work outside
school/college teaches to be self-confident, independent, self-responsible and
self-sufficient even doing a small job. These traits developed at an early
stage of one’s life build a strong foundation for success in the later stage of
life.
Attitude 10: You can have success in
more than one field
Many
successful persons think they could have been a success in other fields too.
And many are successes in more than one line of work. In short, a success is a
success—the main ingredient is not the field, but development of inner traits
and attributes.
Attitude 11: High achievement will not necessarily bring
supreme happiness
Top
achievers tend to be happier than the general public, probably because they
have found a field they really enjoy. Unlike the general feeling, most
successful persons say they would go into the same line of work if they had to
do it over again. High achievement is but one of the many factors that can help
brings true happiness and contentment.
Attitude 12: Share your success with
others
Most
successful persons tend to be a caring, giving, concerned segment of society.
They are interested in and committed to shaping the future with their gifts and
volunteer activities.
Attitude 13: Energy is important to
success
Success is a
struggle. You need energy to work long hours, to think clearly, to remain
positive. Yet very few people work on keeping their energy levels strong and
powerful. Low energy is a very big reason that people do not succeed. The
proven energy enhancers are: good quality sleep, diet, keeping home and office
environment tidy, exercise, getting daily sunlight, positive self-talk, green
vegetable juice, etc.
Attitude 14: Not focusing on strengths
The globally
respected Strengths Expert, Marcus Buckingham has found that a paltry 12
percent of people believe their strengths are being used at work most of the
time. Many workers use their strengths and real talents for less than an hour a
day. If you get really clear on your strengths and centre your life around
them, you be living at an exceedingly high level of success. You will be more
effective, get better results and enjoy your work much more if you know what
you are good at and stick to it.
Attitude 15: Presentation skills
The fact is
people do judge by appearances. Successful people go further in life because of
their awesome presentation powers. A few tips for presenting superbly are: do
verbal practice, communicate eye to eye, pause when you speak, vary your voice,
get objective feedback, practice using your body gesture, and study the great
speakers.
Conclusion: Rest assured—success is a science.
Long term it is highly predictable. No matter what field successful people
excel in, no matter what time in history they ruled, the achievers have
performed a certain way and thought in a similar manner. In fact, the rules of
success are so similar in every field of life that many people have excelled
simply by coping the thoughts and methods of other high achievers in any field.
Just as there are laws of gravity, motion, chemistry and biology, so too are
laws of success and, inversely, definite paths to failure. Remember: if some
has achieved more than you, it is not usually because he/she is better than you
or smarter than you; it usually means that he/she has just learned in his
particular field before you have. And whatever someone else has done, you can
possibly do as well.
Reference
1) Jack Canfield,
“The Success Principles”, Harper Collins Publishers India, pp.5
2) Norman Vincent Peale, “The Power of the
plus Factor”, Orientpaperbacks, Delhi, pp26.
3) Robert H.Schuller, “Tough Times Never
Last But Tough People Do”, Orient Paperbacks, Delhi, pp. 102.
4) Siimon Reynolds (2010), “Why People
Fail”, Penguin Group, Australia, pp.212.
Prof. (Dr.) R.S.Rathee
Amity
Business School
Jaipur
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