Determination

Like confidence, you get it by getting it! :)

In my previous post : Secret of Success - Dedication, I had mentioned that dedication gets the best out of you, challenges you to challenge yourself! One thing I did not mention there is one more angle to it – Determination.

Success – excluding exceptions generally stems out of hard work, and hard work requires enough grit and determination.

What’s determination? Determination is that state of mind where you are committed to do/not doing something in some form, come whatever may.

Have you noticed that when you are at the beginning of your determination, it takes a lot to beat the negative forces? And at the end you realize that determination doesn’t come easily. What keeps your determination right is “Constancy in Purpose”.

What is that you need for determination?
- A Strong Cause
- Fear of failure
- A understanding of the positive outcome

Conclusion
Dedication and Determination – Samaparpane and Sankalp(Sanskrit terms) is what we require to excel ourselves to new territories. These two unrealized facts when made conscious to the mind awaken the sleeping spirits!

Secret of Success - Dedication

Have you observed that when you try to do a true dedication, you always try to get the best!

Examples,
1. You want to buy a gift to your brother/sister after a long time. You try to get the best within your limits!
2. You know that the person whom you love, likes something in someway. You try to acheive that "someway" to your best and surprise them!
3. You challenged a friend that you will score x% in difficult subject in the college and to your surprise you did it!

If you notice, when you want to do/give something to someone with true love, you always excel! That’s dedication!

Dedication, when pure and from deep inside the heart, does wonders to your confidence. It takes you beyond your confidence levels and challenges all the negative energy that surrounds you during that time. Why? Because, dedication is done with some expected results. Dedication is done in anticipation of something that’s very dear to you.

Sometimes, the anticipation is to be honored in front of all your school friends, and sometime it’s to please someone or to get noticed!

Whatever the anticipation, dedication challenges you. Challenges you to excel from the best you have done earlier.

You want to excel in your work? You know what to do! :)

Unpredictable Behavior!

Human behavior is highly unpredictable. My observation in this regard:

A person who is highly organized, caring and compassionate at office need not be the same in his personal life. And most often they are contrary to what they behave in the office. The vice-versa is true too. i.e., a person very well organized, caring etc in personal life, may not be the same in his professional life. Very rarely you see people who are same at both the facets of life.

This doesn’t mean that a person has to be and will be different. This behavior keeps swinging and might surprise you if you go by one notion.

But, there are certain innate characteristics which a person will carry wherever he is, whatever he is doing. What is innate to a person is completely dependent on him/her. It generally takes a long time to change the innate characteristics even if they sometime embarrass the person himself.

Have you observed this? If not, time to think about yourself! :)