We Create Our Own Destiny

Thinkingpad is an initiative to help people for being successful, and here we are with a blog in which there is a deep lesson of being successful.

To become successful in life, it is necessary to work hard with dedication and to give our 100%. There’s no alternative to that.

We don’t put in enough dedication and honesty into our actions, and eventually don’t get the expected results. And then, instead of searching for the cause of the failure, we go for the easier short-cut and blame our destiny.

We satisfy ourselves with the belief that it was written in our destiny. We don’t believe in ourselves. Our self-confidence is usually low. When we try to figure out the probability of our achieving success at a task, the negatives always trump the positives. “WillI be able to do it? Won’t I suffer loss? What if it doesn’t go well? “All these negative questions keep on circling around in our mind. In the process, knowingly or unknowingly, we program our subconscious mind negatively. Our subconscious mind is just like the Genie of Alladin. It follows our orders. At the end of the day, we get the results we had imagined; if we think negatively, we achieve negative results. And then, we blame our luck and go to astrologers for solutions. We are obsessed with this assumption that our destiny is already decided. This is a big fallacy. We ourselves are the directors of this movie called destiny. Our karmas make our destiny. Our destiny is exactly what we choose it to be.

We should work hard with full dedication, honesty, devotion, and positivity. If we don’t get successful in one go, that’s not the end. From that failure, we’ve acquired valuable experience. Thomas Alva Edison invented the bulb in his 1000th attempt, after having failed 999 times. He was so positive that when someone asked him to give up trying after his 999th failure, he replied, “I now know 999 ways in which if a man tries even lakhs of times, he won’t be able to make a bulb.” Edison could have made up excuses for his failure, but he didn’t. He kept on trying and used his failures as learning to finally achieve success. We might have been living without lighting our lives even in the twenty-first century if it hadn’t been for Edison’s positive spirit. Failures aren’t defeating, but just experiences and lessons. And there’s always a win after defeat!

 

Blog By: Mohnish Gupta