Have you ever asked your life what it wants from you? Yes, ‘you’, the material you’, ‘the worldly you’ is definitely different from your ‘own’. Swami Bibekananda says, “Talk to yourself once in a day otherwise you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world.” Now, getting the identity of your ‘own self’ doesn’t seem easy to you as you never try to get it until you reach the dead end of your life. Think about these corona days! Before these days, people of the world were so busy that they didn’t have time to look back at themselves. It can even be interpreted in the way that nature came up to take revenge and made the world free for moments. Now, what if one day your life wants to take revenge on ‘you’? Yes, it seems to be a tough equation to solve. But actually, no, it’s not. All you need to know how you should evaluate your life and what the way you should choose to reach the level of contentment and gift it to your own life.
Robin Sharma in his book The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life, says “Limitation is nothing more than a mentality that too many good people practice daily until they believe it’s reality. It breaks my heart to see so many potentially powerful human beings stuck in a story about why they can’t be extraordinary, professionally and personally. You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.”
People like Robin Sharma work like psychological master not to teach you but to show you the way should think about. Yes, that’s my point—the way of your thinking. The change should start from this particular ‘benchmark’. You should come up with the touch of those books which do not shape your life but essentially show you how you should move on or from what point you may start. Every day you turn over the pages and gradually become amazed to feel the richness of assets in you. Don’t forget that this is your life—you are the master builder of your life. The words, the mighty words of true inspirational books do not tell you a fictional story; rather they tell about you, your life, your philosophy, your wish, your thoughts and most importantly, the way of finding ‘meaning’ in your life.
People often say that we are always in a competition but what kind of competition we face or we aspire for. Is it the competition that wipes out your sleep of ‘every single night’? Definitely, no! Matshona Dhliwayo, the author of The Art of Winning says, “To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself.” But to be the greatest champion, you need to know the demand of your ‘own’ and to find it out, your first step is to g for those words which set your initial path to recognize your ‘own’ and then comes the question how you can decorate it.