Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

by N.K. Sondhi

You are a human being and you can do whatever you wish to do, provided you first recognize your own worth.”

“God, our creator, has stored in our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. We must tap and develop these powers.”

All the powers that you need to emerge a victor are already within you. You need to have faith in them. The creator has equipped you with all the weapons you need to fight any situation, and they will come to your rescue whenever there is a need, provided you believe in them.

The biggest factor, in fact, is our own inhibitions, especially once we are grown-ups. We are afraid of new experiences, afraid of disappointment, afraid of failure, afraid of making fools of ourselves. And this fear keeps us from taking advantage of opportunities to gather new experiences.

Unless you experience new things, you can never experience a new you. Unless you take risks, you can never transcend your normal, day-to-day existence.

If we believe that we can overcome any setback, we will fear nothing.

Don’t wait for life to give you these opportunities, rise up and grab them. This is the only way to fast-track your growth.

If your strengths are your armor, your weaknesses are like a crack in it.

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

“Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.”

“The Ego is only an enemy because it is wild, uncontrolled, and primitive, like many other aspects of the untrained mind. You do not kill a problem dog, you teach it to behave! Do not expect a problem dog to become good if you neglect it and berate it. Without Ego in its most basic form, it is impossible to have any desire, make any decision, have any awareness, or possess any of the critical qualities of a humanely developed person.”

“The man who is angry at the right things and with the right people, and, further, as he ought, when he ought, and as long as he ought, is praised.”

“As a single footstep does not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

“We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what we think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far… Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals place them day and night before you and out of that will come great work.”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him… The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”

“All Birds find shelter during rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!”

Talk to them about what can be done now to overcome the situation. What could have been done to avoid the situation can be discussed later once the crisis is over and the person who had committed the error is less stressed.

when you make a mistake and someone confronts you about it, don’t be defensive. Take responsibility and figure out what can be done to emerge out of the situation and also communicate what steps you are taking to avoid such mistakes in future.

“It is easy to criticize just for the sake of it. However, when it comes to adding real value, very few people are capable of that.

All of us have faults but most people are in the habit of finding fault with others.

“what is the reason for every misunderstanding?” Swami Vivekanand replied, “The reason is, we see the people as we are, but not as they are.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”

“Any problem, big or small, always seems to start with bad communication.”

“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.”

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”

“In a day when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are traveling in a wrong path.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”