The difference between an energetic focused person and a confused person is the way their minds handle their experiences. Here are Kalam’s words of wisdom on how one can stay focused on living one’s potential:
Difficult times:
We need our difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. Accept your destiny and go ahead with your life. Forget the failure; it was essential to lead you to your destined path. Search for your true purpose of your existence.
Solving problems:
As the process of confronting and solving problems often requires hard work and is painful, we have endless procrastination. Actually, problems can be the cutting edge that actually distinguishes between the success and the failure. They draw out innate courage and wisdom.
Leading teams:
Anyone who has taken the responsibility to lead a team can be successful only if he is sufficiently intelligent and powerful in his own right to become a person to reckon with. This is also the path to individual success in life. What can one do to strengthen oneself? First, by building your own education and skills. Knowledge is a tangible asset, the most important tool in your work. You must have the most up-to-date information. A leader should keep abreast of all that is happening around him. To lead, is to engage in continuing education. Second, develop a passion for personal responsibility. Work for the things you believe in. Work as hard as you can at something that presents a challenge and is approved by your heart.
Dealing with reality:
The trouble is that we often merely analyse life instead of dealing with it. People dissect their failures for causes and effects, but seldom deal with them and gain experience to master them and thereby avoid their recurrence. When your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.
Your best investment:
Your willingness to invest your own inner resources, to invest your life, esp. your imagination, will bring you success. When you undertake a task from your own uniquely individual standpoint, you will become a person.
Being a ‘workaholic’:
The term ‘workaholic’ is misleading because it implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do that which I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. Total commitment is a crucial quality for those who want to reach the very top of their profession. The desire to work at optimum capacity leaves hardly any room for anything else. FLOW is a sensation we experience when we act with total involvement. There is no hurry, there are no distractions. The past and future disappear. So does the distinction between self and activity.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
– Chuck Palahniuk –
