Reasons that one does not become successful : part-2

Lack of interest in work we are doing :  Success in the work always depends upon degree of your enthusiasm in the work.  When your mind is pulling an emotional plug on any attachment for the work, then staying engaged to the work is difficult.  People who lack conviction take the middle of the road and guess what happens to those in the middle of the road.  They try to change on guesswork to assess a right path, without knowing that lack of conviction, it will never work.  Whether you are working in the office, or running business or studying in the school / colleges, your intrinsic enthusiasm  is must.  There are so many signs that indicates that you are loosing interest that it may be time for change in your attitude or external behavior. There are two kinds of people in the world:

a)    People who make things happen.

b)    People who watch things happen.

Which category of above do you fall into  ??

People who make things happen, are having a strong will power and confident enough for their success.  Passion is an interest that comes from within you.  It is your own enthusiasm, your own motivation that creates an intrinsic interest for the work.

Looking for shortcuts methods: 

The desire to make a million overnight has made the lottery, a gambling etc.,   We are living in an age of instant gratification. It makes them to choose shortcuts, for satisfying temptation of instant gratification.   The Problem with people today is that they want instant answers.  For high scoring in the exam, we got “Most likely questions” a guide book on questions answers.  For losing weight, we got many products in the market.  For instant meals & refreshment, we got a fast food.  Losers always looks for quick fixes.  There are a lot of ways to make a job easier, whether it is losing weight or learning new skills.  But there is a big difference between doing something more efficiently and avoiding labour altogether. Many a time we land in trouble due to such shortcuts technique. Most of a crackpot looks for a jackpot.

Greediness and selfishness :

For people want to be a successful businessman, the key motivation for success in business activities is to make more money and more profit.  Here is the place, where greed is taking birth.  These people are not knowing that greed is never satisfied.  Greed increases with the years are passed by.  Greed is about never being satisfied with what one has, always wants and expecting more.  It is a kind of hungriness, that one cannot satisfies easily.   If greed is not satisfying, then it becomes hurtful, destructive, leading to dissatisfaction and frustration.  The fact is that people have lost their lives and livelihoods because of greed.  Both greed and selfishness correspond closely with what we call it as Desire for success. Greed is a kind of selfishness, but selfishness is necessarily be nasty, risky, creating a negativity in our internal behavior.  The positive side about greed is that it motivates people to work harder, but if it crosses the limit, it become harmful and lossful.

In our personal life also, all decisions we make are based on some sorts of greed, knowing that without it there is no success.  We have such a divide between rich and poor, healthy and unhealthy, educated and uneducated in our society, it is all greed driven.   Greed is what drives big businesses to ensure their business is not challenged and it tries to keep little down.  So, prudent businessman keep his greediness and selfishness under control, for true success in his business life.

Lack of conviction :

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are love.  Some determination, some devotion, some gumption, whatever we name it, to succeed in life, we must have a strong conviction that we will achieve your goal no matter what. It doesn’t matter, if your goal is business centric or family centric or career centric or health centric, by having the conviction to do something, every day that moves you forward.    It is rightly said by Mr.Roy T. Bennett that “Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”  Your passion to the goal itself is a conviction for success.  Conviction does not guarantee success. But a lack of it almost guarantees failure.  Conviction is linked to the structure that needs to be followed. It’s the success steps that are linked together over a series of trades that leads to long-term success. Taking the trade is the easy bit, having the conviction to follow the right approach when in the trade is a different story altogether.

Lack of study and knowledge :

Study success requires clear objectives, knowledge and full study. Running business without study and knowledge of business processes, ends with gross failure. Both study and knowledge co-relates to the education.  One can not acquire knowledge and study further without education.  As a student, you are imparted training, study skills and field knowledge by your schools and colleges.  These studies and knowledge assist you to be successful in handling the task after graduation.

In an organization, on joining a company you attend (KT) Knowledge Transfer activity through training.  (KT) Knowledge Transfer activity plays constructive role, through which you are trained and made a skilled worker of your roles and responsibilities to be carried out independently. It is an imperative task for all type of organization.  In absence of such KT and training, expecting an employee to carry out the given task is illogical.  Successful firms reward those employees who are involved in knowledge sharing activities.   A businessman sets up his firm, after acquiring full study and knowledge for success in his business processes.  It is just like driving a vehicle without driving license, for businessman running business without complete knowledge and thorough study about business.  The first step towards knowledge is awareness of area of ignorance.

Learning habit from past mistake :  

Making mistakes is inevitable in our life. Making mistakes is a normal part of our life.  Learning from mistake is a great way to learn and avoid doing the same thing again. A person who could not learn from past mistakes, and continue making the same mistake again and again, may make a big blunder.  People who do not learn lessons from history are doomed.  We learn from failure, if we have the right path.  Failure is a detour, not a dead end.  Ordinary people learn from their mistakes, while extra ordinary people learn from other people’s mistake.  Not Learning from past mistake is a bad habits.   A vulnerability of fearfulness is created in the mind of wise people who make mistake, resulting in poor performance, while wiser people are confident and believe in their skills and dig up some interesting insights.