Peace and success can go together. You may have peace in the noisy market and you may have mental disturbance in the peaceful hills. You don’t have to sacrifice peace for being successful in life.
We can achieve peace as well as successful by following these habits.
1: Stop Comparing
When you compare with others, you always lose peace of life. There is always someone who is superior to you in one way or other. Even if you are a superman, you can’t be the best in everything. If you can’t get rid of your habit of comparing, learn to compare with yourself. If you are better today than what you were yesterday, celebrate the accomplishment and enjoy your success.
2: Stop Following the Herd
You can’t succeed in life unless you work in the area in which you have an aptitude. There is a lot of wisdom in the words of Albert Einstein, “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Know yourself as deeply as you can and then work according to your interest, aptitudes and ability.
3: Don’t be Lazy
There is no shortcut to success. I agree with the ‘10,000 hours rule’ of Malcolm Gladwell. The key for achieving world-class expertise in any skill, is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000 hours. While 10,000 hours is not a scientifically proven time-frame, it clearly emphasize the importance of working hard for long time to achieve success in life. When you work hard, you improve your performance and thus come closer to your success.
4: Don’t try too many things
You can neither have peace of mind nor success in your chosen field if you are unable to focus your mind on your goal. When we try too many things at a time, we dissipate our energies in multiple direction and we fail to give our 100% on our most important goal. You must leave aside the less important things of life to achieve what you value most.
5: Don’t try to achieve contradictory goals
Most people try to achieve opposite things in life and fail either way.
- If you want power, you can’t get love.
- If you want love, you must forgo power.
- If you want to be a successful politician, you have to compromise your conscience.
- If you live according to your conscience, you can’t be a good politicians.
Your goals must have synergy so that you don’t lose one in your attempt to gain one. Be ready to sacrifice something in order to achieve something. There is no free lunches in this world.
