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The Secret to Sucess!

“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” – David Frost

Success is one thing that most, if not all, of us constantly aspire for.  When, for one reason or another, we fail, we look outwards for reasons for the failure, and we also seek advice to succeed in the future. If you have ever tried to find tips to succeed on the Internet, I am sure you have found an abundant supply of advice on the subject.

But has that worked for you?  If not, maybe you are looking at the wrong picture.

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What is Your Profession?

300 is a nice movie. Admittedly, the movie is mostly blood, gore, screams and half naked men with great abs, yet it is a great movie. The quality of the movie, however, is not what this post is about. This post is about something I realised as I was watching the movie.

In one scene, King Leonidas, and his 300 men, meet a group of Arcadians, led by Daxos. Daxos is dismayed at seeing only 300 men, and he tells Leonidas that he was expecting the number of Spartans to be at least as much as the Arcadians. At that Leonidas asks three Arcadians what their profession was, and the answers he gets are potter, sculptor, and blacksmith respectively.

Spartans, of course, were soldiers by profession, each and every one of them. That was exactly what made Spartans a formidable fighting force.

The lesson to be learnt here is simple.

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Searching for that One Thing!

All our lives, most of us, are searching for that one secret that would take us from where we are now to where we want to be. This search leads us onto many paths – known and unknown – but most of these paths lead nowhere.

We read books, we listen to speeches, we watch videos, and every time we find something great and inspiring, we think this is it. We believe we have found the secret to success. In a few days, however, the illusion fades. We are still standing where we were, or maybe in a new place, but our destination is still hidden behind dense fog.

Do we fail because we are less capable than others? Or do we fail because we are not as enthusiastic as others?

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