Lesson's For A Smart Life...!!! @ Sunny

There're so many secrets of success. Of all the secrets, some are basic. They're desire, determination, persistence, patience, enthusiasm, will power, discipline, honesty, integrity, punctuality, courage, and hard work. Let's see how they lead us to success.

1. Desire

Desire determines progress. If you've desire, you'll progress. If you don't have desire, you won't progress. If you want success, you've to develop a desire. A weak desire produces poor result. A strong desire produces good result. A stronger desire will produce better result. Your achieving success depends on the intensity of your desire. All the great personalities the world has seen had a strong and burning desire to do great things in their lives. Shiv Khera says, "A burning desire is the starting point of all accomplishment. Just as a small fire can't give much heat, a weak desire can't produce great results." When you're very thirsty, the first and foremost thing you want to do is drink a glass of water. When you're very hungry, the first thing you look for is food. Let's see if we can make these statements the other way round. To drink a glass of water, you've to be thirsty.
To eat a piece of meal, you've to feel hungry. To achieve success, you've to develop a strong desire to succeed. If you don't have a strong desire to succeed, you won't look for success. That's as simple as that.

You may ask how 'desire' is so important a secret to success. Here's a story that'll answer your question. Once, a young guy went to Socrates. He asked Socrates to teach him the most important secret to success. Socrates agreed. He told the young guy to go with him into a river. The young guy agreed. Both of them went into the deeper area of the river. The river water covered them up to the neck. All of a sudden, Socrates caught hold of the young guy's neck. He immersed the young guy's head into the water with all his might. The young guy struggled hard to escape from Socrates' firm hold but failed. He got suffocated long enough to turn blue. Socrates then pulled his head out of water. The young guy gasped. He took in a deep breath. Socrates asked him, "What did you want the most when you were under water?" To that the young guy replied, "Air." Socrates looked into the eyes of the young guy and said, "That's the secret to success. When you want success as intensely as you wanted air under water, then you'll have it." Napoleon Hills says, "The beginning of every great success is desire."

2. Determination

The determination should be a firm determination. Only then, it'll take us to our goal. You may have a strong desire to succeed. But if you aren't determined to succeed, you won't succeed. Desire and determination should go hand in hand.

Thomas Alva Edison failed more than 10,000 times before he invented his electric bulb. He was determined to invent the bulb. He was determined to put efforts. He was determined to go up to end. Ten thousand failures were nothing to him. When ten thousand failures were nothing to Thomas Alva Edison, why should we be ashamed of our first, second or third failure?

Beethoven was told that he had no talent for music. Did he give up hope? Never! He was determined to learn music. He was determined to put efforts. He was determined to go up to the end. The result? He gave the world some of the best pieces of music....... ......... ......... ."