CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Living a passionate life

Introduction – Are you happy with your career?

Whether you are a working professional or a student, the above question is very important

Are you happy with your career?

Is it precious to you, meaningful to you?

Do you get up every day and want to rush to college/office and start the exciting day?

Do you feel a tightening in your belly when you think about your life and the great things are going to happen to you?

Do you feel an unlimited energy and enthusiasm towards your career /field?

It us such a terrible tragedy that the above feelings towards one’s work are extremely rare.99% of the people do not live or feel this.

They are the followers. They follow the crowd. And what does the crowd follow? They want a job –a good paying one by which they mean a little more the average pay scales. They want to marry and have kids. After having kids they fear, they start living in a constant inner fear & insecurity and put their fears in their children too.

They are now driven by that fear to work. Note this point. The motivating factor, the ruling factor in their lives Is not love but fear. It is fear that makes them run, it is fear that makes them shut their minds to their true desires and needs, it is fear that pushes them to make friends .Drop by drop, their love of life gets lost until a day when only fear dominates them .Them natural desire for joy , their natural energy , ambition ,love never surfaces , never finds expression . They reach a point where they don’t even understand what these things mean.

Then they wonder why, no matter how settled they are, they cannot find joy in their work or in their life. Everybody is happy around him, with him, except himself!

He doesn’t even know that he has the right to be happy, that it is his birthright. He has lost it.

Isn’t the above true?

Isn’t it the reality all around us?

Yet happiness is possible. Energy and enthusiasm is real. There are people like that the true, great leaders who do live like that.

The key to the psychology of great leaders who are deeply happy ,who get a great kick out of life is NOT genius or intelligence ; it is courage , daring and lack of fear.

What is really the difference, the core difference between the 99% and the 1%?

The 1% do NOT fear anything. Why? How is it that they escape the limited life and achieve great success and constant energy & joy?

They examine, question the things society tells them .Them develop their Own vision of their life. They do not blindly listen to others. They take as their role models not their immediate boring people, but great personalities .They suffer from no complexes, insecurities & fears!

Their attitude is:!I want a great life .I will work hard for it . I will die if I do not achieve great things .I will find out, I will not cannot (!) settle for less!”

You see ambition, true ambition not narrow, limited ambition, dominates their imagination.

Is that process of thinking, fear vanishes. They too fear, feel insecure at times but fear is not in the driving seat. It has been thrown to the back seat, they hate fear, weakness and following others .They love their life and cannot even imagine less than the greatest life.

All of us, each and every one of us, start in life like this .Then we given in because we become lonely, frustrated, pressured and develop deep fears. We are always carrying that baggage and never even for a moment, do we feel free hence joyous.

So you see, dear reader, it is not your ability as such, or your potential that limits you but your own decision to live a limited life! Only that!

You can become happy and develop an unlimited ambition, energy and passion towards your career and life.

For that you must understand how your life works, how you have given in to others.

You must liberate yourself not tomorrow but now, right now by examining your fears and the wrong conclusions you have come to.

It is a simple law that when a man begins to fear he shuts this mind and then he has only one choice by his own choice – to listen to society and form wrong conclusions about himself and life. He doesn’t reason and think out things. He blindly comes to conclusions .He blindly accepts, he feels he is right because everybody around him is feeling like that!

He, hence finds great security when he is with people life him. He smells their fear and they his! And the real self, the real hero is buried deep. The hero in the soul is frustrated and suppressed.

Yet remember, dear reader, you are a human being , you are born for joy , you can say that you are good enough but it never becomes true because you are born for greatness and a joyous life.

It is more than possible, it is natural! Now do you see the tragedy, the real tragedy of the world? It is not poverty, terrorism, corruption, lack of values. It is this “shutting one’s mind “and limiting one’s life by coming to wrong conclusions.

 What are the wrong conclusions?

Does the following sound familiar?

“I am not talented. I am average “

“Greatness is not practical. After all I will starve if I think these things”

“Everybody is better than me and I can never be good. Great people are born. I am not brave .I am not like that”

“Why fight? What for? I want to be happy & adjust. I will lose nothing “

“Great people are special. Me? A genius? Oh no!”

“I am happy. I am fine “

“People will not give you a chance. You have to adjust & compromise”.

“Why should I bother? Who am I to change the world?”

“ I don’t love anything . What is love?”

“Let others do great things .I want security”

The above sounds pretty logical but this book, a step a time, will blast one of the above fallacies Hopefully at the end, you will see, with your own eyes , heart & mind, what you are capable of . You will be convinced that there is absolutely no reason to fear and feel. you will get angry at your own lack of drive and courage and throw off blindness. You will feel ,” why should I fear when there is nothing to fear and when these fears are limiting me and harming me?” you will become naturally courageous, energetic and rediscover the real hero, the pure, innocent child in you.

You will dramatically change and your life right and be on the road to a great career that you known is possible to you and not a fantasy.

You will live like a human being and formulate a clear vision & count your chickens, many of them, and everybody you will prove to yourself that “yes Fear is death .Courage is life. I am happy & will always work hard to maintain it.”

You will discover the meaning of a career and live it!

The first chapter discusses true ambition and how to develop one foe yourself.

The second chapter makes you a great learner and blasts the fallacy of “I am an average. I am not talented”

The final chapter will show you how a vision – a lifelong work emerges from true learning and how to implement it.

Happy discovery!

Section – I

Developing true ambition.

There are two types of ambitious people .Both want to ‘come up’ in life . Both are energetic and spend their major part of life in pursuing their ambitions. Yet there is a profound between the two.

The first type is motivated by a desire to achieve position, name, and money. Their primary desire is that. That will do anything & everything to achieve position, Name and money. Their primary interest is not the work as such but the result of that work. Why? Why are they interested in position, name and money? What is it to them? in fact 99% of the people would agree these are great goals and would themselves like to achieve these things . Let us examine what these mean carefully.

If you think about it a little, there is a great error n this type of thinking, a fundamental error. If a man wants to achieve name, position, money primarily from his work then the work does not mean anything to him.

This means that the work by itself is a zero value to him. After he is done with that work he desires others to judge him and say he is great for the work he has done!

But, dear reader , I hope you see that this will not work & in fact , in reality , actually it doesn’t . The person realizes that he didn’t want anything truly and his desire for prestige, name and even money was empty .

Then why do 99%of the people consider these goals as true goals , as true ambition , worthy of achieving ? What is it that makes people want others’ appreciation ,approval and stamp so much?

It is really a wonder ! Think! There is no real reason for doing the work , now love , passion , burning desire . Notice also that such people would naturally do mediocre work .They would cheat ,copy borrow , get favors ,if possible. They would fool others . some ,the criminal kind may even kill or harm others for it politics is filled with such people.

Such people harm others ,yes ,but they harm themselves more !

Then why? Why should people throw away their precious lives in such pursuits?. Let us now proceeds to answer this crucial question .

When a man is devoid of a true love because he never made the effort , and was always driven by inner fears, he seeks a substitute ,pseudo purpose . He has to because he can’t remain still and without any purpose!

He looks around and discovers by smelling and by instinct that you must impress people, you must talk and talk, you must flatter and lie and you  must be a nice , friendly person to get things done.

He discovers only this because the world is exactly that . Others too are following others who are following others! Everybody is playing a game for no reason whatever !!In  any case , this person is not thinking , he is learning a behavior  blindly and noticing only that it is working.

              He soon realizes that everybody as mediocre and that even he can be in his work. He need not understand  his work , struggle to learn , be a master. He learns the minimum necessary to impress others not to develop a love for his field.

Alone with himself ,he knows it is all a dirty game . He feels dirty about it . his fear stops him from examining ,questioning and fighting.

The  whole  world to him , is a dark unknown and he has to fight but he doesn’t know why! Why –this question is along gone dead. What – he knows. Why – he doesn’t.

He rises , he manipulates , he joins a gang and finds his guru who too is like him. He is loyal to his gang. He is blind ,driven, lost in the group. This habit becomes a real habit. Now he can’t even live with himself. Everything  is calculated –every word, every action ,every dream ,every plan to get him what he wants or thinks he wants.

But life catches up with him . In middle age he does realize that he pursued all these things for no reason, that he was cheated of his by the world and that he cheated himself.

But he goes on playing that game not knowing now what else to do . He would go mad if he didn’t continue.

You see, dear reader, this is the truth ,the reality of 99% of people .Does it sound familiar? Don’t you see it around you ?

But is there no alternative ?  Is life doomed to be like this ? will life always be corrupt, dirty, bad and that too for no reason ,purpose, only  filling a vacuum ? will life always be dead ?

I will ask you to consider one question . And now I will tell you some very inspiring ,very good and bright things about life !

If all were like the pseudo ambitions people, would society survive ? If all become mediocre , society will crash , in fact , in one day . This means there are a few , there must be a few who do all the work & create the work for others .

Yes, such people have always existed in history . it is these people who carry the world forward . It is these people who gave us this magnificent world – scientifically and socially . It is these people who have the vision to se what is possible and achieve it ! It is these people who are the real heroes with an extraordinary character and tremendous talent and true joy beating in their hearts. They burn with passion and know no rest! This is the second type of ambitions people and the human beings.

What drives such people?

Such people are very difficult to understand not because they are complicated but because they are clean, profoundly simple people basically and at root.

Such people love their work ! More –they are mad about their work . Their work means more than anything else to them –even their true ones. Their work is their god and they are  slaves, passionate salves to their work . They are so consumed by their work that they cannot think of an alternative way from their life and they are dead. That is why they cross all obstacles –for their work . That Is why they achieve magnificent success, a little delayed and with unspeakable struggle but eventually . They mean business all the time . They cannot understand the link between ‘friendship’ and work . They despise, even hate those who compromise in their work and do mediocre work . They are merciless and aim at perfection it is their love and they cannot spoil it. It would be the greatest sin to them. They are, hence, filled with unlimited energy and drive and even patience .  They love their work so much that they can wait it out and work . Hence ,they win because they world needs them . They don’t fight for leadership . They find that they are ! They are natural leaders. Nobody is around them who can come even close to what they can do.

Such people control and rule the world. They may earn money ,fame, position but it is an inevitable by product of their tremendous love . They like all these things but not too much . They know too well what they like and they move the world and are impatient  with it . They brush aside the world and are , as a rule ,innocent and pure.

They look different but that  is superficial . inside such magnificent being s are all same . They are mad about their work-100%.

This is true ambition ,true living ,what else can be life it not using one’s powers and losing fear completely? What else can be life if not being powerful personally not forcing others ? Life is work and passion and drive . To be human is to be human .i.e. use ones mind to achieve not manipulate others and cheat oneself ultimately of life.

How does one develop such love ,such a true unlimited ambition ?

First , one must love oneself , I.e. one must value one’s life. We all start our lifelike that . when young nobody says I want to give up life , I don’t want a great life. I want to be loser.

Your self-esteem must be brought back . I will tell you a secret of life , an open secret which people don’t usually tell you . It is a simple secret.

You are the most important person in your life ! Nobody else. This is a selfish attitude. But notice that it is a basic truth. Your life is important and precious , that means you are important and precious . you are a value to yourself and hence to others and to the whole world . But then what is you ?. “ you” means your  true , honest self not some image of what others think or say about you. “you” means your real , actual self – your thoughts , your feelings.

Can you start with that –become naked, strip yourself of all pretence and look at your self?.

No, you don’t have to tell anybody anything . In fact in this context, others don’t count. We are not speaking  of them now but you.

Start from your life, your real self and do not be apologetic, self-critical, or anything.

Just remember that your life is precious and life means to live ( nothing else) and that you have to make that life.

When you honestly be with yourself and not be tempted by the world’s false and worthless beliefs ,you will start liking yourself and you start wondering truly what to do with your life .

Simple questions would come to you . what is life? What is a career ? what do I want?

You will get the answer too . I want a great adventures , exciting life . How ? How to get it?

You will decide one thing naturally . It would be anything and for any reason . It could be even a random reason . But you will commit to a field – one field.

I will learn and struggle and  know and do something important in my field- you will slowly commit . with that  decision made you are free , peaceful and happy . you will suddenly realize  - I have 30,40,50,60, years. You will realize ,yes ,I can make a true, great life.

In that natural decision you will start learning, struggling to know, discover , understand your field. Learning is the core of life. Life means to know, to discover, to learn ,to apply learning . It is through that our love grows without limit. Learning, true learning is laughter. It is the human being unleashing his weapon , his reason ,his intellect on to the world. The fire of learning burns forever and impacts on the world like nothing else. It leads to creation of values and that is the profound joy.

What is involved in learning? That is what we will explore in the next chapter.

Section –II

The art of true learning

The  guru of Pt.Ravi Shankar ( The sitar Maestro) once said about Ravi Shankar that “it was as if he had discovered a great laughter and he has been laughing since then….”

There are many who learn sitar for years but none of them seem to discover that “great laughter”

Such examples can be multiplied without end……

There are many who paint ,sketch ,sometimes quite well in the sense that everybody says they are good but there is something that happens to an Ravi varma (say ) or a Picasso. These painters never stopped and more – they continuously grew, they went on & on & on trying , experimenting as if there was no end or no limit ……. Again that  “laughter”

I met an Indian movie director once and we had a long chat . In the course of our conversation he said “you know there are secrets to making movies . Once you know it , it is easy “. A year later , I read that he had win the national award  . “ secrets”, “laughter” “passion” , “ madness” – what is it about the learning process that some people become really crazy about it ? It is as if a lightening has hit them and they are changed ! It is live . People in love behave like this . But these people love things ,fields ,subjects. After all it is just a subject why should one become crazy about it ?

Notice that in our schools , colleges – as a rule nobody seems to be crazy like that . we have periods ,bells, ,text books ,exams ,competition ,dull students ,toppers but no one who talks about subjects as if he has gone crazy?

Nobody  likes studies . in fact studying means boring !. The words have become synonymous . Laughter, secrets, madness on one hand and duty ,seriousness and boredom on the other hand . Again a duality . Again we come to point where a question needs to be asked.

What is true learning ?when do we get hit by something ? How is it what we discover the  “secrets”, the “laughter” ? Let us proceed to explore this whole business of learning fresh , sincerely with our mind  & heart.

I will start with a shocking statement and then i am going to discuss it.

The majority don’t  know anything ,not really ,truly . They think they know but in fact ,in reality they don’t .

The above is a sweeping , damaging statement but the tragedy and wonder of the world is that it is  true .

Why do I say that ? what do I mean ? After all people do know something . After all they do  go to school, do degrees , PGs even Ph Ds. They work too. If they didn’t know anything then how can they pass and how can they work and earn ?

When I say that people don’t know anything I mean that the thing they know is not real, is not seen by their own eyes ,mind and heart . It is a thing logically ,superficially accepted but not as a  real ,actual truth ,phenomenon and reality.

If you really know not many things but one thing , if that one thing you see, you comprehend and say  “Yes !. It is like that in reality and hence true “, You would be hit and your mind ,your brain centers ( so to speak) will open and be on and you will go on from there and start finding and discovering things . you will be led one after the other and for the first time discover the beauty , the magic and above all the wonder of our world…….

This point is difficult to understand but it is simple if I give you an example.

 Many many people ‘ know’ what causes ‘night & day’. We will accept it and now we say we ‘know ‘ it .It challenge even this . I say – no. you don’t. Not really.

What causes ‘night’ & ‘day’ ? The earth  turns once every 24 hours. When it faces the sun, there is day and when it doesn’t it is night .simple . But do you agree ? Do you feel It  ? Do you really feel that the earth is moving  ? Where and what is the evidence  ? How did we Know it ?

And why does the earth rotate ( and revolve  too) . you see, the ‘answers’ & ‘ explanation ‘ when given to you didn’t hit you . Other wise you would wondered about the above questions naturally. You would have brooded over it and worried about it. It staggers the imagination . doesn’t it ? The whole earth moving in empty space and the sun constantly giving light for millions of years. Look at the number of questions then that can occur to us ?  who or what put it in motion ? how did it happen ? when did it happen ? when was the earth formed ? why ? How ?  how does the sun give light ? what is happening in the sun ? And life ,what is life ? Why is life there in earth alone ?  you can go on now………hundreds of questions are triggered on your brain ; Even philosophical questions ……. Why are we on the earth ? Is there a God ? If yes , what, how ,when ? If no , who created that concept ,when ,why ?

You see plants and animals too having life ? you look at a cat or a dog an insect or a plant and wonder …when did these come into existence ; your teacher causally tells you life came a 100 crore years back and then life evolved … This staggers you … such a complex thriving , all working like clock  work, precisely began only a 100 crore year ago and then evolved ! That too only on earth ….. This process leads to almost all the questions and hence all the answers are laid open for your eyes to see and to understand . The very questions laid open the answers and you feel only now you understand , you are now seeing things ….you feel the power, the complexity and the simplicity –all at once , incredibly.

Laughter!?
yes! A laughter rises from deep within you, you feel like the first man , the nly man now . That is vision ,sight understanding –the very meaning of being a man.

That is the godlike thing called true learning! The majority don’t Know anything because whatever they know they accepted without feeling, savoring, understanding, questioning and thinking . why ? Because they were not honest, simple , humble . They never thought or even knew that they can understand and see . They just accepted . And it is not really real, true , convincing to their own minds.

You see now ,dear reader , to know that one doesn’t know is also a great thing because ,in that act your brain centres are receptive . When you are saying truthfully – “I do not know “, you are actually saying ‘ I want to know ‘, ‘ I will know ‘ and then the whole earth is yours to see , to know , to discover, to pay with ,experiment with as you please. This is the secret of learning ,this is what happened and happens to great visionaries whether they are scientists, inventors aritists,politicians,philosophers,cricketers,mothers whatever.

To be real and true is to see and use your brain but then really use it as a tool to know and discover NOT use it to memorize and recall and get marks . Yes ! you are not a computer but a human being and now you will accept it if I say that the greatest fallacy , the greatest myth is that some are intelligent and others dull. To be born as a human being is to process the power to look see know, feel , think,discover. If you didn’t have that power , you would not be all !

It  is only this that explains a Newton , an Aristotle , a Socrates, a Buddha ,a Kalpana Chawla…..

Whatever they saw, they saw and then they were not the same !

Have you observed their psychology ? They are childlike , humble , as if they were noting! They did astounding things but to them it was simple and it really was because it was real,true , and their brains where on they were not blind.

You see , blindness is not just of the eyes, it also pertains to the 99% of people who do not know and do not see even one thing with their own eyes , minds & hearts!

This too is a wonder !

This explains all problems of the world , doesn’t it ?

There is no problem on earth but this and it is not a problem as such; it is plain , impotent,worthless ignorance, a plain nothingness and hence terrible suffering.

Not to know , not to have discovered the process and power of true learning is the most pitiable thing . True learning is simple , natural like breathing . At least it should become like that.

Now you might ask me –then what is it that the majority are doing ? Don’t they know anything ?

They “know “ things but for me to explain that , I must bring In the concept called ‘compartmentalized learning’.

You can know physics but not biology ( or the reverse) as it happen in the school.. This Is pretty common. People say “ I am good at singing but not painting”, “My son Is good at maths but poor in physics”.

In work a man says –“I know CAD”, ‘I know C++ “,” I know how to design buildings “ and so on. They are even paid for it . A professor says – “ My specialty is economics. I know every thing about it “ And he does , in a manner of speaking .

If you “ know “ physics but not maths , it means you know physics in a somewhat detached ,abstract way an din a disconnected way . You know for example mechanic s, heat ,light ,etc., seperately. you  know the formulas and you have accepted the explanation but , you see, such person has not linked those facts with the whole world,to reality.

He has learnt “ heat” but he doesn’t see the “heat “ in things Heat is the phenomenon of energy of atoms onside a body Every thing is made up of atoms. You feel it too . IF you are sincere and honest . It will stagger your imagination . You will read and get more facts (even from bad books and bad teachers) you  will ask further question and think and think and ask and answers will again be got –Dalton’s postulates,discovery of electrons and protons ,Rutherford’s experiments, Bohr’s model  etc.

Slowly a picture , almost a story , reality  will emerge , the links will starts  forming ……..it will take you slowly to the periodic table , to chemistry ,to chemistry , to biology ,to geography ,to applications ,to the industrial revolution, to politics etc.

You see a series of questions lead to a greater understanding of the world . One question naturally leads to another and then to another and ultimately you are forced to understand the whole world ! This is not a fantasy and we are not talking a out details. You will get a basic understanding of the whole world. There are many who have this kind of historic understanding.

But think ! if a person knows only a narrow compartment he has not asked how that particular information has come . He doesn’t    know the roots of his knowledge so his know ledge hangs in air and only used as procedures in a narrow domain . To know how to design buildings using ready made formulas is not true knowledge .It is a procedure and you will now understand that such a person cannot go out of a procedure . He can do only that and cannot think beyond that . Of course the procedure is important in practical life but it is delimited and confined and cannot claim to be a deep, wide, powerful knowledge.

So now you understand , must people only know procedures and hence cannot be leaders that is cannot hold a wide vision and do wonders.Remember also that a wide knowledge created by somebody leads to procedures ultimately not he other way round. Somebody has to discover true knowledge so that the majority can then on earn a living through acquiring compartmentalized knowledge.

So now I can answer the question –how to learn ?

You must ask honest simple questions in your chosen field.  (your choice of profession could be anything ,even random ,it does not matter ). You must read, struggle ,try to ask people. Every book , even a bad one ,every person will given you something , you don’t stop, you question further ,you search and slowly, I promise you , YOU , your brain will begin to understand , to see patterns , links ,principles. You will naturally now be excited .  your field will become precious to you . You will feel powerful. You go on and then –LIGHT ! you will get the secrets , the foundations , the principles. You will not know all the details but know you will know the path of your learning , you will know that you can know all the details because the field basically and in essentials is now clear to you.

You will discover the handful of people , first handled professionals in your field , the masters and leaders in your field . you will talk to them ,read them ,observe them . Yu will suddenly realize you are at a height and there is nobody else. You have become a leader and you will see above all hundreds of possibilities . you will works ceaselessly and every day you will confirm and learn further . You will become better and better ! Yes , you will laugh and you will also feel terribly lonely because you will be alone with such a wonderful and  precious possession – your knowledge!

SUMMARY OF THE LEARNING PROCESS

So , when you begin learning in your chosen field ,remember the following (summarized) points

You  will have to struggle for some time . This means that you will  have to read several books and meet several people in you field. Unfortunately the world yet doesn’t have the book for each field where  everything is laid out  . Knowledge – as a rule –is in the minds of a few great masters and  professionals in each field .

A ‘bad ‘ or “ an average’ book will also help you if you read it critically that is carefully . You will get basic information from which you can begin to ask the right questions.

Asking questions is very important . Learning is a process of convincing yourself . If you don’t ask questions , how will you be convinced ? How will you reach the end of the process of understanding ? Do not accept too easily. You must go on until you really understand, really get it .

You may accept but only for some time . Then you must ask

How is this true ?

Why is this true ?

What is the evidence ?

Who said it , when and in what context ?

(iv) is a good question . It will take you to the history of your field . The historical development is a step by step improvement with new ideas emerging. It can be very illuminating.

Remembering questions lead to answers and to further questions and to answers and to still further questions. Knowledge is not isolated but a ‘ whole’ that is knowledge is a linked ,interconnected pattern and picture of many things .Real life is not made up of compartments.

The above process honestly carried out with sufficient amount of reading and talking to people is enough. You will get the light – the basics, the principles ,the foundations in your field .

From here you are more free. You can think on your own, try out ,experiment .At this stage you will be able to come new conclusions ,new ways of looking at your field  and a VISION will soon form in your mind .

What is that vision, purpose that comes after learning   ? How do we implement that vision and have a huge impact on the world?

True learning   naturally leads to a lifelong work that is vision. This will be explored in the next chapter.

Section - III

DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING A PRICELSESS THING - YOUR VISION

We talked about acquiring knowledge , a real personal , interconnected deep understanding of your field. Real knowledge ,true learning leads to a VISION – a clear picture  about what you can do in the world. This is the most beautiful , most precious thing in the world . It is this that becomes the source of unlimited energy, enthusiasm and joy . It is this that leads to breathstopping  action and work.

Once Pt. Ravi Shankar saw the light in music, once he understood music  (not just accepted and repeated) he at once saw what was possible to him ! He saw himself composing , rendering music without end ! He saw himself on an adventurous journey where he would learn  on and on and play on and on !

He had found the secret and knew  that no one could take away this from him. It was not money , fame , position that he was seeing In the future. (though he got all these things ).He was seeing what he will bring into the world that didn’t exist before, what he would do with the sitar and how he would give the same joy to millions.

Think about this . This , this kind of feeling of power (it Is a great power ! ) to create great values is that  trembling , is the ecstasy , is the laughter!

This is true of all great visionaries . Dheerubai Ambani after learning ,truly learning about his area of business saw- as a vision – what he could do for india. He knew and saw and was sure- 100% . That was the root of his communicative ability ! HHhh He carried ever body along!  It was so clear to him jis idea- and so practical and true , he could not remain still , he had to go on and on and on and he crossed all hurdles and achieved his vision !

Think of Gandhi , Mother Theresa , Sunita Williams , Einsten , Henryford, Bill Gates, Narayana Murthy , M S Subbalakshmi … all the great visionaries. Their fields were different but all learnt truly and all then saw their path and all were filled with an unlimited energy , passion , excitement and joy.

Who would want anything else if this is possible and real ?

Dear reader, this is what happens after you truly learn , this is the creative principle , the very source and meaning of life . Life is nothing but learning and finding one’s clear vision and then making it true.

Now, do you understand , true knowledge is power – literally . It is not some empty , boring ,dead thing.Oh no ! It is exciting , pulsating with power. It is life itself !

In fact , true learning makes you realize that life is infinite ! There are not one but hundred things to do ! And you formulate and develop the full , lifelong purpose for yourself.

So obviously that purpose will not be limited. It will be unbelievable big.  Ambani’s-  “  I will change the face of india “ is a vision . “ I will earn a crore “ is only a limited ambition . You understand , a vision is naturally , by its very nature , a big one.

Serena’s and Venus’s father saw his daughter ruling women’s tennis. He actually did. Jawed Habib used hair dressing and turned it into his vision.

A vision can be anything but since it flows from true learning , it encompasses the whole world.

It is unbelievable to ordinary people who are blind to this world. It is clear, simple obvious, sure and exciting to a man who has seen it to be possible through true learning.

Yes! Learning and vision , knowledge and action are one ! They are inseparable. To know , truly know , Is to then see its applications , see what is possible and then it is to get excited and passionate , work and work and achieve the vision !

So , once you have finished your learning, you will naturally get hundred ideas of what can be done, the values you would bring into the world. It is here that you find your love ! Your vision , the possibility of what can be done , your new creative idea is your supreme and prime love.

And then you will go on and on, knowing no rest. You will work and work and no one can stop you .

Remember ,every field begs for work , for innovation , for somebody to pick up new ideas and bring into existence what was not  there . This can be in any field. No field is small!

There are literally thousands of ideas waiting to be implemented and nobody to implement them! That is the tragedy – the lack of supply of true workers, true learners,true human beings.

Yet, at the end , it is SIMPLE, POSSIBLE , REAL.

You learn , you see things and then you see that so many things can be brought into existence by your knowledge and then you fall In love and continuously work to achieve your vision.

Yes, there will be hurdles – many of them .. A new vision as a rule is unacceptable immediately . But a visionary start working. He works all the time and doesn’t wait for big success. Hence he gets it !

You must ACT , you must start working because you love it and then it spreads and spreads why ? Because it is true , practical , a value . A true value will , in time, be accepted. A visionary is not worried about success. He knows he cannot fail. He only has to wait . If not today, tomorrow he has town.

This is a very important point.

A visionary does not think about succeeding, he need not , because what he has seen ( to him ) cannot fail; he has seen it . if today the world cannot understand , tomorrow they have to . why ? Because it is true and every one needs it . So one day he wins. And he is not surprised !

 He does not suffer, not really ,deeply because he has seen and he is working . He is peaceful, deeply. He is passionate and peaceful and patient. That is why he is joyous. You understand, he owns his knowledge and vision! Nobody can take it away ! There cannot be anxiety and worry then .!  The very concept is impossible !

M S Subbalakshmi  knew too well what she knew and loved . She saw what she had to do. She did it . you see , there is no doubt , no possibility of it at any step!

That is why such visionaries can face anything . Their courage too is unlimited. In history some died unrecognized –like  Van Gogh . But Van Gogh knew what he had done; in tne passionate years he had achieved it !

A visionary knows the value of life and his work .  In that he is happy . Fame , money ,position , is secondary and now you understand why their primary love is their work , not fame , money , postion .

SUMMARY OF THE STEPS TO IMPLEMENT ONE’S VISION

First , commit yourself  out of self love, self valuing to true ambition . Tell yourself – “my life is important, I am important and I must live a great life, find life , learn and achieve it.

Decide upon a career , a field . It could be anything .Trust me . If you have any special something and then stick to it, commit to it and develop a passion in it.

You must start a process of true learning – asking questions , searching, reading , finding out from people. As you begin to see , truly see and understand , you will develop an interest, a strong one it.

You go on and reach the end of learning , the light – the principles, the essential in your field.

At this time, you will see hundred that can be developed and brought into the world. You  will fall in love with your vision.

You start and not worry about  success. Your struggle begins in service of your love

In time, not too long you will get your chances, it will spread and spread and you will accelerate

You will be peaceful and courageous in this whole period because you have seen the  value of your vision and you are working,  No doubts existing in your mind !

You go on and on from success to success and reach the end - your vision brought into reality , functioning and benefiting the world.

Your vision is actually infinite . You go on till the very  from success to success and leave a great legacy creating what was not there before and thousands and millions benefit. 

You will have lived a passionate life – the only true meaning of life.

                                                                 CONCLUSION

ITS  ONE LIFE, YOUR LIFE….MAKE EVERY MOMENT COUNT

This brings me to the end. Remember it is all about self –esteem. Do not be hard on yourself , do not be too self –critical and self depreciating.

“who am I to do great things?” is an unnecessarily self – critical statement.

In fact , be simple , human , innocent- like a child  or a youth

Commit yourself to yourself – your ambition, your hero and find your peace. Then work to learn and do work that flows from true learning. It is really as simple as that.

It is your life, an only life. Make the most of it. Make every moment count

May the universe shower you with all its blessings!

Happy life!