WHO LOOKS OUTSIDE, DREAMS!

This April we are celebrating Vishu and the Resurrection Sunday, and is also the financial year beginning month of the year. Vishu is the harvest festival and the Hindu new year in Kerala. Easter reminds us not to give up hope to resurrect miraculously amidst the inevitable challenges of life. To reawaken, regenerate, to resuscitate, to come back to life has been the pattern of every single successful person if you study history.

Life doesn't fail to throw all the setbacks, frustrations, hurdles, anger, disappointments and losses throughout its journey. Sometimes life takes you to the summit of success, sometimes it brings you to its knees just to teach lessons significant for the next phase. Winning at life means a lot to observe those patterns keenly, understand yourself at your best, learning and building up the values/goals/discipline to make the right persuasive turn ahead. Knowing how to put on the best winning performance inorder to surf smoother through life should always be a priority learning. One very important learning here is to show gratitude for the journey you have already travelled. Nothing, absolutely nothing, in this life is a coincidence. Everything that happens to you, is happening for you. Every single success, failure, challenge, reward, or setback is taking you closer to the person life wants you to be. We just need to be open and ready to learn what life teaches at the pros and cons. An open learning mind while you are beaten down will take you unimaginable leaps ahead of the successful times of your life. That's when being grateful always helps you to keep yourself grounded and at the right receiving end. If you can see how and what life is trying to teach you through your hard times, that's when you really get to be successful at the next swing. Being in denial or being defensive in the dark times is only going to be detrimental to your growth.

Planning is important even while you face setbacks. I'd suggest journaling through your life. Our memory is pretty weak at times. We do not tend to remember every single event or happenings in our past. That's when writing down your life events helps you go back and take significant learnings from your own life changes. We tend to forget the past when we are in our good times and go with the flow. But life is not always about mornings – There are nights too. There will always be. Along with joys, you will have sorrows. With a lot of wins, you’ll always endure losses – whether it be material things or people. Human beings are still not able to win it all, unfortunately. That's when advance planning helps. Like I mentioned before, you need to keep ready for the contingency planning even when you are soaring at your best. Saving for your rainy days. Indeed your real strength is always shown when you confront hardships. Your good times always should be a preparation ground for it – Vice versa, your bad times also should be your preparation and expectation time for your imminent good times. Setting clear compelling goals, which reminds you of your inner strength and visions, will be a motivating factor. Empowering goals always act as a catalyst and fuel for your life and accelerate your efforts to fruition.

Always have clear specific visions for your life. Don't worry about others not validating your desires. Your goals should be bigger than your current circumstances. If you truly desire to have your goals met with all your heart, one day it will definitely come to fruition and you will be glad that you never gave up on your dreams. Every action first starts with a thought – the thought is your seed. We just have to make sure we nurture that seed enough so that we don't let it die anytime, unless we see the fruits out of the enormous tree it grows into. No matter how big or unachievable your dream seems today, be rest assured that you will see it in reality as long as you don't give up on it. Manifestation is real. Keep watering the seed until you see it in your reality. You are the one who creates your own reality. Keep affirming to yourself victory-phrases and keep believing, and keep putting in planned efforts and never step back from your belief. It is indeed your faith that is the fertiliser to the growth of your dream. Who else will believe in your dream if you don't?! Understand that your current position is never your final destination. No matter what you are or where you are, you always can get to where or who you want to be. Your visions should be an inspiration for you to become the person you always wanted to be. No matter your circumstance or no matter what your age is, nothing is or should be a letdown for you. Anything is possible if you put your mind into it. Remember – it is always the “mind” first. You should have that strong desire to make it happen and keep up your faith.

Most of the times you might not get tell-tale clear signs at your winning. Life is always tricky in that way. Unless you observe and learn it in the longer run, the roads might look vague and ambiguous. And that can cause disappointment and lower your motivation. Look into the patterns of the universe then – it is when you are about to breakthrough, you may face your biggest storm. Most of the time the scariest time is usually before you even start. Once you ven- ture out, you get to learn faster and adapt. And once you reach the land victoriously then, that doesn't mean that your challenges ended. One should always be prepared for the good n bad, light n dark, night n mornings of life. The most important element to a satisfied content life is your belief in yourself and your dreams. Success is never a final destination; you will have to rendezvous with several setbacks on the go, only to make you stronger. Courage to continue is what matters. There is no point ever waiting for the time to be right to do what you always wanted to do – Time might never be always perfect. A thousand-mile's journey starts with the first step. You may only see 100 metres ahead and not the entire road. So believe in your own self, take that bold step ahead and never ever ever give up! Luck and destiny always stand by the person who is ready to risk it for what he believes in. You are the Creator of your visions!