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Do you want to Die Rich or Live Rich?

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:51:26 +0530

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Are you Authentic?

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:08:56 +0530

Dearest Darling Readers,

Authentic is a very powerful word.

Being authentic is being real. It is being genuine. It also is a process of being honest to yourself. It is in finding alignment with our hearts’ desires, to our values and in ‘not pretending’. It requires courage. It is uplifting. It may be tough but it is worth every bit of it. It is in taking a stand point for our beliefs and in not escaping unpleasant situations.

It makes us love ourselves even if the world does not. We may ‘have’ less. We will still ‘be’ more. Isn’t that fantastic?

In my work, being authentic has meant different things at different times. Sometimes, it has been in forgiving. Sometimes it has been in making a new beginning. Sometimes, it has been in listening to criticisms without replying, waiting for my work to do the talking. Sometimes it has been in letting go while sometimes it has meant to hold on. I have experienced that following this path has always pointed me toward rightness, peace and flow…

With no offense meant to anyone, here are a few questions that might help you in being more authentic. If it is useful, please go ahead and answer them when you feel like. If nothing else, it will help you in understanding yourself. Let me warn you. This might make you smile too….And yes, you can answer them in any order you like…

1. What is your favorite word?

2. What is your least favorite word?

3. What sound or noise do you love?

4. What inspires you? Who inspires you?

5. What scares you?

6. Your comeback mantra in life?

7. Do you have a mantra for living, loving, leaving (death)?

8. What brings the best out of you?

9. What brings the beast out of you?

10. What is your weakness?

11. On your bed stand, what book will we find?

12. In life, if you lose all your money, whom will you find standing next to you? Are you doing justice to them today?

13. If you have to invite 5 people who are alive for dinner, who would they be and why?

14. Is there a talent you wished you had?

15. What work do you hate but you must do?

17. What will be the title of your autobiography?

18. If you have all the money in the world, what would you like to do?

19. What is your hobby? Do you regularly do it? Why not? Really?

20. When you are not working, what do you do with your time?

There! You see! You know yourself a little more now. May your answers guide you in making apt choices. May your answers bring the best out of you. All these answers have helped me to be authentic to myself. May it do the same to you too…

With loads of love, prayers and best wishes,

Narendra Goidani

As I Live, I learn.

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You make me want to be a better man

Tue, 07 May 2013 13:05:10 +0530

Dearest Darling Readers,

Jack Nicholson’s character ‘Melvin Udal’ famously said to Helen Hunt’s character Carol Connelly in the movie, ’As Good as it Gets‘: “You make me want to be a better man.”

The scene, the dialogue, the impact lingers fresh even today.

And I wonder who are those people who had similar impact on me?

My Teacher Ms Ela Mukherjee - I was 16. One day she looked hard at me and said, ‘You are not an ordinary boy. You will do something significant with your life.” I believe, today if she were alive, she would be proud of how I am living. In that moment, I could have said, You make me want to be a better man.

My mother - I was 18. All her jewelry was sold during a family financial crisis. I could do nothing to stop her from selling her gold. She was peaceful and determined. I was devastated. I was helpless. I was crying. In that moment I wanted to be a better man.

My trainer Rajan - I was about 26. After a session he hugged me and said, “You are a mountain of a man.” One day, in his home, he was in a pensive mood. He looked at me, looked away from me and said in a silent voice, “You are the only person who can do more than me. And he cried tears of joy.” Wow…a trainer I was looking up to says this about me!!! In both those instances, I decided to be a better man.

Dr Victor Frankl - I was about 28. I read his autobiography and my life changed. I believe, in their life time, every human being should read his autobiography, ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’. It’s awesome! To even think of what he had to endure and yet emerge unscathed from the travails of the concentration camps is so very inspiring. And that too not for personal gains….that too for the sake of humanity. To make everyone believe, no one else controls their life, but, “They Do!!!” As I read his book, so many times, I had goose bumps all over. So many times, I was determined to live a ‘meaningful’ life. If he was there, sitting with me, I would have certainly told him, “You make me want to be a better man.”

A painter was asked, ‘which is his best painting?’ ‘The next one’, he answered.

The journey continues. Many more people and events, large and small, have re-enforced the desire and determination to be better than ever before. I have realised, there are no destinations to reach, only milestones to cross, with happiness and a sense of purpose.

Today, when I see selflessness, when I see genuineness, when I see sacrifice, when I see sharing and caring, when I see expressions of unbridled love, I get overwhelmed. Tears well up. To each one of them I wish to say “You make me want to be a better man.”

As I write the LSMs, I ask myself, reading this, will someone want to be a better man (or woman)? Dear friends, I ask you, does reading LSMs make you want to be a better person? If yes, then the time we invest to write, edit, format, design, the few lakhs we invest every year on resources to release the LSMs, is all worth it. If no, I need to know and I am willing to improve. Help!

Darling friends, LSMs have completed 3 years in the same format. Would you like to see/read something else too in LSMs?

Would you like a particular aspect (parenting / marriage / sales / business / stories / quotes etc to be covered in LSM?

Would you like videos / audios to be presented in LSMs and make it more complete?

Would you like to write for LSMs?

Is there any other suggestion you would love to make? Your thoughts are welcome and needed.

In the coming month, based on your sharing, we will bring about changes in the content, design, format and presentation to make your LSMs more ‘lively and inspiring’.

Some of our readers regularly send us their thoughts. Their feedbacks are our HUGE motivation and a constant reminder of how much your thoughts mean to us. Thank you so much…What can we do in turn? What else but “Be better in connecting with you.”

Personally for me, as always, as Jack Nicholson would say, ”You make me want to be a better man.”

With loads of love, prayers and best wishes,

Narendra Goidani

As I Live, I learn.

Self-Awareness

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:39:58 +0530

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Questions Are Powerful - Think About it.

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:52:41 +0530

Work place helps us grow intellectually and professionally.
People who are growth seeking, love their workplace.
This is the opportunity to tell us what you feel about your workplace.
Use an adjective to tell us how you can describe it best.
It could be ‘growth’, ‘teamwork’, ‘cooperation’ or anything else…
Waiting to know your answers…

Dancing with Insecurities Part II

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:07:29 +0530

Dearest Darling Friends,

‘Things’ people want, change from time to time. But, how they want to ‘feel’ remains the same. In relationships, it is the feelings and not the things that we need to focus on. When the feelings are not right, we feel insecure.

In the last LSM- Dancing with Insecurities, my dear friends, we had discussed about what happens when we become insecure. I was thrilled with the feedbacks we received for that LSM. I had promised we will discuss about solutions this week. Here it comes…

I believe, there are five possible ways to deal with the insecurity we feel.

1. Inspiration -Inspired people achieve more in life than those who are ‘not’ inspired. Like a bird, who flies over the fences on the ground unmindful of the fences, inspiration makes me feel I can conquer everything. I sort of shrug off the doubts and hurdles on the path of my dreams. There is an inner force that sharpens my focus on what is to be done and makes me ignore what cannot be done. Even in the worst of times, an inspired person can see options. They never feel insecure.

2. Selfless Contribution – When I give without expecting anything in turn, I feel ‘powerful’. I feel ‘self worth’. I feel ‘I am good’. There is no possibility of insecurity. There is only ‘My life is worth living’. This makes me search for opportunities to give (When I feel secure, only then I can give without expectations). This is the opposite of ‘I am scared of giving as I may not have enough for me’ (which is insecurity).

3. Improve – Every time I find someone is better than me, I can either feel inferior or I can decide to improve. As I improve I KNOW I am becoming better. This gives me a sense of control over life. Insecurity makes me feel out of control. Hence, improvement is one of the easiest ways of tackling insecurity. After improving, so often I feel it was not worth feeling insecure. I realise this insecurity was a mirage. Ironically, this mirage makes me see what I am capable of. It is a wistful, funny, embarrassing truth and always implementable.

4. Count Your Blessings – This used to be my favorite. There are always some people who are worse off than we are. There are always some people who have much less than what we have got. There are always enough people who are happily willing to exchange what we are complaining about. Yes certainly, things can be better. However, things are already much better than many lives. I used to tell myself, “Don’t be greedy. Be content with what you have. And work harder than ever before to get what you want. Don’t Complain. Don’t Blame. Don’t carry excuses.” It always used to work. It always used to put me in the proper frame of mind to realise, this is indeed the truth. I would then smile, say a sorry to the creator and carry on.”

5. Whole and the role -Ahaa…this is a little mystical one. This is also my current favorite. This is what is working for me ‘big time’ today. I believe all of us are ‘one’. In this oneness, all of us have a role to play. The way the body is one and all the body parts have a role to play, all the parts are different, yet all of them are important. Similarly, each person belongs to the same force, the one force, the ONE. Each one of us have a role to play. Let’s focus on our role and not get concerned about my role being bigger or smaller. Big or small, the role is important. In being insecure, our focus shifts from our roles to ‘I want that role’. Imagine the tongue wanting the role of the leg and the leg thinking the throat is doing a more important work. There is no iota of truth in that. I am a part of the whole and I will focus on my role. It makes me feel important, valuable and determined.

To sum it up, each one of the above points puts you in the zone of ‘peace, self worth and performance’. It makes you realise no one can have it all. It makes you realise, no one ever NEEDS it all. It makes you realise there is so much that can be done with what we have, there is no point in being insecure.

Japan with hardly any natural resource is the second biggest economy of the whole world. With no offense to all my friends in Africa, with all the natural resources in the world, their economic and social status today is a tragedy. Be a Japan that we have today, and not the Africa that we have today.

With loads of love, prayers and best wishes,

Narendra Goidani

As I Live, I learn.

Questions are Powerful - Think About It

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:44:59 +0530

When things don’t go the way we expected, it is easy to be disheartened.

At that crucial moment, do we show courage to go on or do we give up and stop seeking happiness?

Think about it and share with us @

http://www.lifeschool.co.in/what-is-it-that-stands-between-you-and-your-happiness/

Dancing with Insecurity.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:56:33 +0530

Dearest Darling Readers,

Imagine yourself in front of a person who makes you feel insecure? How do you feel?

Do you feel a freeze?
Do you feel threatened?
Do you feel like a loser?
Do you feel like escaping?
Do you feel like screaming and no voice comes out?
Do you stay quiet and hate yourself for doing so?

Now, I ask you a crucial question. To change how you feel, can you do something right then, ‘within’?

If you can’t, lets delve a little deeper into insecurity.

Insecurity makes me uninteresting. Insecurity makes me possessive. Insecurity makes me panicky with imaginative negatives. Insecurity makes me unfriendly. Insecurity makes me jealous…..and much more.

Besides all of that, insecurity destroys my ability to connect.

People give us opportunities not only because we are talented or hard working or meritorious. People give us opportunities because they feel ‘connected’ to us.

Sometimes insecurities makes me do things going out of my way, thinking, it will please someone I want to appease. Sadly, I end up getting ridiculed or taken for granted. That makes me even more insecure.

Sometimes, I go on a crash diet wanting a glance of appreciation from someone. Sadly, I end up as the butt of jokes.

Sometimes, I pass up opportunities wanting to prove my genuinity. Sadly, I get taken as an idiot.

Every time, my sense of inadequacy ‘remains’. Ironically, my insecurity seems to have a life strength of its own that refuses to weaken.

Why is it so difficult to shake off this insecurity?

Clear your head and read on!!!

Everyone wants to feel like a hero. When we see inside, we feel weak, we feel inadequate, we feel low willpower, we feel we are not strong enough. In other words, we feel secretly ashamed of being ‘me’. There is no hiding here. There is no cheating here. There is no pretending here. There is only truth.

Immediately, we look outside for own sense of worth. Remember, we want to feel like a hero, we want to feel desirable.

This becomes our need for validation / approval / appreciation / acknowledgment.

Example…Have you noticed the madness to be around celebrities? To touch them, to be photographed with them, to collect their autographs, to throw their names in our ‘friends list’, etc is our way of increasing our self worth.

Another example…the advertising industry has exploited our need for acceptance by spending billions of dollars paying celebrities ‘preying’ on our naivety.

Sadly, this creates a belief that self worth can be purchased / acquired just like a car / music system / phone / fair skin / bigger home / designer brands / holidays abroad to exotic destinations etc.

The trouble is —- “No approval from the world can make us feel WORTHY”. No validations can ever eliminate self doubts.

On the contrary, it makes us more fragile / arrogant / snobbish / anxious. At the same time, when we crave for approval, we give the control over our lives to ‘others’. They are appointed as valuers who determine your value. A cobbler is asked to value a diamond. A fish is judged based on its ability to climb a tree. So sad!!!

How to overcome this? How to escape from this trap? How to ‘be’ secure?

Please bear with us. The answers follow in the next ‘Life School Message’. Sorry for the wait. On a lighter side, I have become influenced by our TV serials. Honestly speaking, this LSM was becoming a tad too long. Besides, I want you to think about this LSM, reflect it with you life and contemplate on the answers….

See you next week..

With loads of love, prayers and best wishes,

Narendra Goidani

As I Live, I learn.

www.lifeschool.co.in

Questions Are Powerful ...Think About It

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:31:48 +0530

Leaving behind everything, when you live in the present day ‘greatly’, you will create a great tomorrow. Live each day full of life.

For some people, when they live a day fully with hard work, devotion, love, cheerfulness, joy or positivity, it makes ‘great day’ for them.

Ponder and share with us

http://www.lifeschool.co.in/what-is-it-that-makes-a-day-great-for-you/

Always observe carefully

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:23:48 +0530

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Practice the Smile

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:44:53 +0530

Dearest Darling Readers,

A darling friend Rashida mailed from Colombo, Sri Lanka last week. She had this to say to me…

Amidst the daily trial and tribulations that one has to face

And the money and materialistic things we have to chase

We forget to smile

Except for once in a while.

Do practice the smile more often, and pass it on.

During day and night,

During disease and health.

While you are groveling in poverty

Or rumbling in wealth.

Do practice the smile more often, and pass it on.

While leaving for heaven or staying on earth,

To break monotony of life, smile was given birth

So practice the smile more often, and pass it on.

In all lives, ups and downs are there, in a mixture,

On your face, a sad face, should never be a fixture,

So do practice a smile more often, and pass it on.

Waiting for that moment when it is your belief

In every challenge, smiling brings you the best relief.

It doesn’t help when you don’t smile

Trust me. To smile is to live in style.

So do practice a smile more often, and pass it on.

As I read what Rashida had sent to me, I could not help but smile. As I read further, my smile became bigger.

“It is always a pleasure to watch someone laugh without any inhibitions. There are those sophisticated smiles, grins and a little of this and that, but a roaring laughter is the one I would ask you to go for. Enjoy your laugh. Societal manners that ask anything else of you, be damned. It’s your life.”

I also recollect what I believe was said by Dale Carnegie, ‘Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you’ve paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.’ (I presume the same is the case with women too…ha ha ha)

So, do practice a smile more often and pass it on. After all, even a newly born, knows the language of SMILE.

Whoever you are, whatever you are doing, whatever you are going through….Life of late might have been unfair to you, people might have broken your heart to pieces, you might be facing a challenge much bigger than what you can face, even if it feels impossible…. smile and pass it on!

If you trust me a little more, laugh your best laughter. Think about anything that makes you laugh. Laugh your heart out. And watch….things will feel better. It’s a promise!!!

With loads of love, prayers and best wishes,

Narendra Goidani

As I Live…I Learn

www.lifeschool.co.in

Respect in Parenting

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:17:25 +0530

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What drives ‘successful’ people?

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:05:05 +0530

Dearest Darling Readers,

Why Anand Kumar of the ‘Super 30′ fame from Bihar, who has trained 267 ‘poorest of the poor’ students to enter IIT, refuse to take government or private help?

Why does Ratan Tata, who has enough money to live a super comfortable life, work even after he has crossed 75 years of age?

When a Steve Jobs has enough money to retire forever, why does he create an iPod, an iPad, an iPhone?

Why does a Sister Agnes ( Mother Teresa ), trudge through the stinking by-lanes of Kolkatta searching for diseased destitutes, even if it means, exposing herself to diseases, harm and ridicule?

Why do Bill and Melinda Gates visit poverty stricken, disease infested parts of Africa when they can be sunning themselves on the beaches of Hawaii?

Why does a Rabindranath Tagore, with the risk of being hunted, return Knighthood to the British Empire after the Jallianwalabagh massacre even as the britishers are ruling his homeland?

Why does a Sundarlal Bahuguna undertake a 5000 km trans-himalaya march to save the forests and the ecology of that part of our country saying, ‘Ecology is the permanent economy’? Why does he politely refuse the Padma Shree by the Govt of India saying that “I do not deserve it till flesh and blood (top soil) of India was flowing down to the sea”?

Why does a Nandan Nilekani, with about Rs 1.4 Billion as his wealth, become a public servant, and assume charge of an audacious task (‘Aadhaar’ cards) as the chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India ?

We in Life School believe, it is so because Life is more than accumulation of things money can buy.

Because, Life is more than collecting rewards and accolades competing with others.

Because, Life is more than gaining attention and admiring glances when you are with people.

Because, Life is more than playing a games of oneupmanship.

Because, Life is more than having more than / better / the latest compared to others.

Because, Life is about ‘creating something special’. Every human being has an inherent desire to create.

Give a child a paper and pencil. It will immediately get down to ‘create’.

Give the child a few blocks. It will immediately get down to ‘create’.

Give the child some things that make noise. It will immediately get down to ‘create’.

‘Creating’ is our nature.

There are enough people who believe the ultimate objective of life is to accumulate enough wealth and fame, create a safety nest for their immediate family and live life into obscurity. This is what most people define as success.

The goal of life should never be this ‘success’. It should be SIGNIFICANCE. The more we have created, the more we are significant. Otherwise, we are in a mirage called success.

While success is ‘produced’, impact is ‘created’ !!!

May each reader of this LSM live not just to produce success, but live, to create an impact !!!

With loads of love, prayers and best wishes,

Narendra Goidani

As I Live…I Learn

www.lifeschool.co.in

Inspirational Videos

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:23:09 +0530

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Parenting Insights

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:02:00 +0530

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Duration: 00:5:19

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The Small Feeling

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:51:47 +0530

Dearest Darling Readers,

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” E. M. Forster

‘The small feeling’ within, induced by nature, art, architecture and science is followed by dancing within with our muse. The beauty within is unfolded, by allowing our inspiration to take us somewhere in the future that holds us as glorious. ‘The small feeling’ makes us want to break our shackles, our chains, our limitations. ‘This small feeling’ is beautiful. Experience it often to stay inspired!!!

The most wonderful part of feeling small this way is that it leaves us ‘feeling’ so very good and charged. There is no negativity in this ‘smallness’. Feels like saying, ‘Bring it on’ and dancing tuned to the melody inside!!! And surprise of surprises, ‘this small feeling’ so often, makes us strangely feel complete.

Have you ever felt this way? If you have, you know what I mean as I am sure my words cannot do justice to what the feelings are in this smallness.

‘The small feeling’ this way gives us the madness to create something bigger, bigger than ourselves that we would have completely avoided otherwise. It makes us feel connected and gifts us the gift of generosity.

Can we have this kind of an impact on another person? This is what love is all about. This is what our loved ones need.

On the other hand, the critic who seeks his identity at our expense does their best to convince us ‘we are small’ in the wrong way. Sadly, sometimes, we fall a victim to them….We feel sad and alone……and small. We resign to our smallness and we fill ourselves with negative emotions.

Do we make people feel small this way? If yes, then our approach needs correction. When we make people feel small this way, we belittle ourselves the most.

I made this mistake last week with two people I care about. In the end, all of us felt small and left a scar in everyone’s heart.

Even when the intentions were noble, the act still defiled and was a mistake. No justification can ever be enough.

I learnt the hard way and promised myself never to do it again. My dearest readers, through the writings of Life School or our other acts, if we have ever made you feel small in the wrong way, please accept our apologies. We pledge to make you feel small and big in the right way, ALWAYS.

With Love, Prayers & best wishes

Narendra Goidani

www.lifeschool.co.in

I Don’t have time!

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:50:16 +0530

Dearest Darling Readers,

I hear this all the time…

I know I should exercise but I don’t have the time.

I know I should meditate but I don’t have the time.

I know I should have quality time with my kids but I don’t have the time.

I know I should go for my medical checkup but I don’t have the time.

I know I should attend that training seminar but I don’t have the time.

I know I should read more but I don’t have the time.

I know I should read, ‘Life School Messages’, but I don’t have the time.

I want to take that hobby class but I don’t have the time.

I know I should be more with my parents but I don’t have the time.

…….and many more similar scenarios.

While many of us ‘know’ what we should do, a common excuse is, we are not having the time to do what we know we should do.

If you are seeking a simple answer, here it is…

“We have to ‘stop’ doing something that we are doing now?”

So, the obvious question is “What do we stop doing?“

Simple answer is, there are some things that we do, that really matter. There are enough things that we do that do not matter. Things that do not matter take away time from things that do matter!!!

Identify things that do not matter. Drop them!!! You will be able to create time for things ‘that do matter’. And this is an important matter…ha ha ha. Isn’t it?

With loads of love, prayers and best wishes,

naren

As I Live…I Learn

How would you rate yourself in courage?

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:25:13 +0530

Ever faced a situation in life which sends shivers down your spine?
Fear of failure in exams,
Fear of rebuke by elders at home.

Fear of market crashing down,
Fear of losses in business,
Fear of losing in a game,
Do you feel you have the courage to face it all?
Or do you feel you need more?
Share with us, ‘how would you rate yourself in courage?’

I Don’t have time!!!

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:59:34 +0530

I Don’t have time!!!:

Dearest Darling Readers,

I hear this all the time…

I know I should exercise but I don’t have the time.

I know I should meditate but I don’t have the time.

I know I should have quality time with my kids but I don’t have the time.

I know I should go for my medical checkup but I don’t have the time.

I know I should attend that training seminar but I don’t have the time.

I know I should read more but I don’t have the time.

I know I should read, ‘Life School Messages’, but I don’t have the time.

I want to take that hobby class but I don’t have the time.

I know I should be more with my parents but I don’t have the time.

…….and many more similar scenarios.

While many of us ‘know’ what we should do, a common excuse is, we are not having the time to do what we know we should do.

If you are seeking a simple answer, here it is…

“We have to ‘stop’ doing something that we are doing now?”

So, the obvious question is “What do we stop doing?“

Identify things that do not matter. Drop them!!! You will be able to create time for things ‘that do matter’. And this is an important matter…ha ha ha. Isn’t it?

With loads of love, prayers and best wishes,

naren

As I Live…I Learn

www.lifeschool.co.in

Having Fun....

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:33:58 +0530

Dearest Darling Friends,

In a meeting with 400 classy businessmen, I was asked, “How long should we chase success?”

I smiled and answered….”As long as you are having fun doing so.” While there were many guffaws at my answer, the question kept on lingering for a longer time in my head.

I looked around at the dining table after the meeting and found many people who were highly successful but not necessarily having deep sleep and peaceful nights. It was certain they were enjoying some fruits of success, it was also clear, they were not enjoying the process.

While we live most of our life chasing whatever each one of us decide as success, is there something else that we need and do not see clearly? I wondered if there is a missing piece to life.

This is what my wandering mind led me to. The train of our life runs on two rails. One of them certainly is success for success makes us feel alive. Success makes us feel worthy. Success makes us feel a high. Success helps us to get many things we want. Success makes me look ahead to life.

There are a few things that success cannot give us. One of them is the reason for our discussion here. While success cannot give us love, health, true friends, and a few more important things, there is another very important thing that success cannot give us. That something is the second rail of our life. That is ‘fulfillment’. That something is most crucial to live a complete life.

A combination of success and fulfillment is the best way to live life.

If you have both, congrats! You are a rare breed. You as an ‘example’, is what the world needs. Make yourself ‘visible’. And yes, live enthusiastically. Nothing else will make you more visible than enthusiasm.

In case you have one of the two rails, get the missing one. In case you don’t have both, start now with focus and determination.

“How to know if I am having both success and fulfillment?”

You make people get up and do something worthwhile with their life.

You make people believe they can do something wonderful.

You make people believe they are wonderful.

You make people believe it’s their duty to do something for a greater cause.

Even in your absence, people feel your gracious presence.

If the above six statements is about you, then you are leaving a legacy that empowers people not only in the present but for times to come. And yes, it also means you are truly successful and live a fulfilled life.

Congrats!!!

While fulfillment is your reward for living a good life, your success will be the world’s reward for having you.

With loads of love, prayers and best wishes,

Narendra Goidani.
www.lifeschool.co.in