“What if this fails?” Everyone asks this question.
What is someone shows you it’s possible?
What if someone shows you what all is working?
What if someone tells you that you have done it before, so repeating the impossible is possible?
What if that “someone” is the one in the mirror?
There are going to be a lot of times when the only person standing in your favour is you. And if you are strong from within, you will know it’s possible.
Agreeing with people is great. Every single human needs validation more than anything else.
However if you want to go ahead in life, you need to learn to tell what could be better – in a way that it does not offend the other person.
Everyone wants to get better. And if we see something that could help them get better and conceal it, we are making them worse. Nothing could be worse.
Yet we do get rejected all the time – in relationships that didn’t work out, in jobs where we didn’t find our happiness, in childhood when we were scolded for no fault of ours.
It’s like someone inserting a scalpel into your eyes without giving you the anaesthesia.
Even the thought pricks a hole in the heart.
Yet it’s impossible to find a successful person who was not rejected. Not one ever.
Rejection does not mean we were wrong or we were not accepted.
It simply means we were not aligned.
Relationship rejection – love yourself now.
Job rejection – your work you love is shouting out loud at you to be noticed.
Childhood rejection – don’t do the same to your kids (and your parents).
Rejection never stops anyone. Unless one is ready to be stopped.
Work goals, reading goals, phone-call goals, meditation goals.
Accomplished none of them fully. How much did I actually accomplish, doesn’t make sense because incompleteness is incompleteness.
Also I used social media for 1 hour! It was a big big wastage of time in the morning immediately after breakfast.
Lesson learnt: Own your morning ritual and the day falls into place.
Lesson I still need to learn: You get to decide. You control your day. If you focus, it’s possible in 25% of the time.
Lesson I must learn: No one loves you basis social media comments and likes. Sharing content is good just because you want to. Opening multiple tabs is equivalent to eating food without washing your hands – unwanted invitation.
Looking forward to telling you a success story tomorrow. Till then, keep rocking!
PS: I am strong, healthy and with my family. Life is fab. Utterly grateful. Will just raise it higher tomorrow:)
Last night was something I would remember for a long time.
Ever since the time lockdown began, I was in Delhi – where I stay owing to my work. Couldn’t go to home.
Yesterday we finally got the permission to move from there to my hometown via hired taxi. It was four of us – me, a friend, her brother and the taxi driver.
We had just crossed Jaipur and at the border of Jaipur and Tonk – there was a police patroling like it’s always there.
While crossing from there, the driver perhaps dozed off and blew away four barricades at a drizzling speed. The fifth one happened to finally drag the car for twenty metres – until it finally moved to a zigzag pattern, rendered the car to forcibly stop.
It was 1AM.
The moon was sparking bright.
In the month of May in the state of Rajasthan, the cool breeze was refreshing.
And then this accident. We managed to handle it. The police was extremely kind to us.
Another car was passing from the highway and the driver noticed the number plate on our car was of our hometown – where they were going. The driver offered to help. We were skeptical.
However going in the same broken car was nothing short of dangerous – here the police was there, later on we weren’t promised of police support.
We thought over it, deliberated it for a few minutes – until we finally asked the driver to share his ID.
And bam!
When my friend clicked the picture of his ID, she realised she has seen this ID a couple of days back.
She scrolled through her pictures and realised he was the same driver who had cancelled his trip to coming to pick us up because he was appointed to go somewhere else.
What a coincidence!
We went on with this driver, made the former driver go with his car, called his manager in the middle of the night to no avail – and off we went.
All sorted out.
With just one thing – yesterday as I escaped death just by a few inches, I almost had an intuition at 10 PM in the car that I better start meditating and create an aura of safety and protection around us.
God moves in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform – said Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich.
PS: In this entire episode from 1:10 AM to 1:55 AM, I felt zero anxiety or restlessness. Someone is mysteriously moving along.
PPS: Btw here’s a pic of clean sky in the otherwise busy evening of Noida. Enjoy!
Last night was something I would remember for a long time – for all the good reasons!
Maybe someone in your locality is using 50% of his income to support the daily wage earners.
Maybe a friend of yours is doing great stuff freelancing however they are not posting Instagram stories about it.
Perhaps the boss who is having huge understanding, is someone who invests 30 minutes daily in reading great books.
We happen to see a ton of greatness on social media, news and from people who want to be seen as great.
Yet a far majority of great people are the ones who are too busy.
Their busyness does not allow them to post it.
Also, their inner fulfilment does not mean to show it off either.
That’s true greatness. Greatness with the purpose of knowing they did the right thing. Not with the purpose of letting others know about your greatness.
Today morning, I woke up on time, did my meditation and went back to sleep.
By the time I got up again, it was already the time for breakfast. Also, was feeling very hungry. So decided to skip exercise in the morning, and thought to do it in the evening.
Around 12 noon, when I opened up the fridge to prepare for lunch, a different thing happened. I just felt the NEED for exercise.
So I dropped my plan of cooking, and stated exercising. Had lunch around 1:45PM post workout.
Though lunch got delayed too much, learnt a powerful thing about life: we always know what is right.
