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Conviction pays more than Qualifications
Most of the time and most of us these days run after qualification, higher qualification. Obviously it is the reality and there is no argument against it, but very few of them care for the conviction. What happens is we all are looking at the accomplished goal, the certificates and benefits attached to it, and forget the actual matter that is conviction that do we have conviction to achieve that? We all crave for success and we dream about the rosy future thereafter but how many of us first concentrate on the task and firmly believe that we would start from here, we will do our best and result will reflect our conviction! Hardly few, there is not all fault of us but these days we are accustomed to dream and more dream about our future, but what happens is we also sometime accomplish them in the same dream! So there is no further scope for efforts and there will not be even question of having convection too! I have come across some management Gurus who teach to see dream and set goal and better goal, even though one thing I noticed is, they teach us to see dreams and set higher and higher goal, it is his or her duty to say so to motivate us to do more out of our lives, but friends to do more to achieve more, you need conviction and that comes from within, from real experience and your strength to hold on all kind of situation and definitely not attached with your dreams, There is a popular slogan say.. If you can dream it, you can do it! No doubt it is one of the most powerful statements but I would say that it sounds more like a corporate slogan of any corporate house. I would say that, if you have dreams you must have conviction to accomplish them! Otherwise you will be just another guy who sees dreams and more dreams. It would be like New Year resolutions, most of us make so many new year resolutions without even knowing its relevance in our life and our capacity to be with it. But we just do it, because everyone out there is doing it! The same thing happens with the dreams. If you find it hard to swallow, do one experiment. Just open a dialogue with your college met about their goals that what they want to be in the future, where they see themselves in the next ten years from now? And the rendition of one after another guy will start simultaneously that he want to be so and so and she would be so and so blah…blah…blah… Even I have listen such things in my college days and even I also did the same thing with them but at the age of 39, now when I look back and remember my dreams and goals, I realize that so many dreams and goals still have not been accomplished, and when I tried to find reason for it, the reason I found was the lake of conviction to accomplish them! It was not the situation or any other reason that stopped me, but it was my inability, my inefficiencies that I could not achieve them. Also one thing I noticed during these observations that most of us do not care about our traits and orientations, we also do not look carefully at our strength and weakness, we mostly take things for granted and invariably we fail. Also after so many spiritual dialogues with my spiritual Guru, I found more realistic and down to earth reason of our failure. As per that we have a lot of greed to accomplish, we have cleverly named them as dreams, most of the dreams are those things which we are not able to do in the light of the day and some of them also rebuilding of the events of our past life, please do not mistake it as our other past births. I am talking about your present birth only. The reality is that, it is the greed of us which comes in front of us as dreams, and it is obvious that some time we succeed in accomplishing them and some time we fail, it is all belongs to our concentration in pursuing the task, if we look more at the result of our task, we forget to concentrate on it during the working, and sometime this lake of concentration results in to failure! It is simple and straight. So friends. If you want to dream and dream really big and beautiful future for you just do it, but do not forget to have conviction for it, and also remember one thing the dreams are simply our greed and not needs, so if you by any reason fail in achieving them, do not get demoralized or depressed and try to accept that it is your greed and in this world it is never to die till our last breath and there is no one in the world whose every greed has been accomplished! So have solace in the truth of life which I invariably got to know from a Saint which I shared in front of you. Do not think that I am trying to make you like me or make you to hate dreams or creating failure out of your ambitions. I am just sharing the both side of the coin. In this world with so much commercial endeavor and greedy stretches, we neglect the truth of life. Gandhiji rightly said that there is enough on earth for every ones need but not for greed.! Now the choice is yours! But again I would say that in the end you will still need conviction in whatever you do, whatever you follow. This side of the coin, or the other side of the coin. Written for www.vishwakarma.biz on 27-9-2011 by Bakul Valambhiya
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