SURE WAYS TO SUCCEED IN LIFE AND ENJOY YOUR SUCCESS
We often look to Miracles to work for us when we pray. And if they don’t manifest, we lose faith in ourselves and also in our prayers. We are forever hopeful that a miracle human being has been assigned to us by God, sometime in life to take us out of our troubles. We feel we are entitled to this favour by the divine. We are often looking for such individuals who promise us an easy path.
We feel we are entitled because we have prayed so much that God has to listen. In our search for such individuals, we offer money in exchange for the service to give us material, religious or other forms of gratifications, in the form of blessings which can perform miracles in our lives.
More often, we feel our wants have not been completely serviced by these individuals because we are blinded by what we want. We feel our entitlements have to be serviced as per our requirements only.
Have we ever asked ourselves if we have honestly performed our part of what God asks of us?
There are 3 things we most often miss, which if done, can definitely get us God’s attention towards us and we can get blessed.
Now do not take me as God’s agent or that I am making a frivolous promise. What I am telling you is a sure shot way of how God has programmed it for us. These ways are;
- STOP SEEKING SELF GRATIFICATION FROM OTHERS – Man is a selfish being. So selfish that he is completely attached to his personal needs and is blinded by his cravings. In spite of all his efforts to secure his life (which is but natural), he still yearns for gratifications from others. Somewhere deep within him is this feeling that he is special and therefore deserves special attention.
We make such moves like enforcing our point of view on others, expects others to respect us out of turn. We want people to do us favours and want people to talk about us or to simply acknowledge our presence. We also dress loudly to announce our presence.
We start having unrealistic expectations out of life and put ourselves under tremendous societal pressure. We begin to compare ourselves with others. We blame others for judging our financial worth not realising that it is our own projection that is haunting us in return.
Such is the poverty of our self esteem that our happiness depends only on how others treat us. We need to get over this poverty and know that we need our own approval for being happy. We need to Look within ourselves, spend time with ourselves and sort out all our emotional baggages and pent up feelings.
2. ACCEPTING WHAT WE GET – We often pray for God’s attention on us. We constantly seek his undivided attention and his blessings on us. We in turn get a lot of blessings in return.
But we are only seeking what we want as we are blinded by our fixed desires and wants. God is offering us plenty of things but we do not recognise them. For a moment, let us relax, close our eyes, and see what is coming our way and not judge what is coming to us.
Let us openly accept them and ask God why he has sent us these material things or certain situations or people into our life at the moment.
Let us have the confidence in our prayers and know that God knows best what he is sending our way and he knows best what should come to us at what time. We need to keep aside our personal views of what we want and graciously and prayerfully accept as blessings what God is sending our way into our lives at this time.
For some of us, these are learning’s to make us more knowledgeable, for some it is filling up certain voids in our life and empowers our journey , and for some, it is fulfilling our needs and not wants. Let us open our consciousness to receive unconditionally.
If we challenge what we get or abuse what we receive, we are only limiting what God will give us henceforth as our ego becomes a big hinderance and we block God’s blessings on us through our own through less actions and insensitive behaviour.
3. SERVICE TO OTHERS – Selfless and unconditional service to others gives us a realistic view of our lives we lead. It tones our unrealistic desires and grounds our emotions. When we offer to selflessly serve others, we are also shown our own wasteful habits of unnecessary actions and our over expressive ways of flaunting what we have. We will also stop having unnecessary demands from life or from God.
By serving others, our emotions get fine tuned and we feel a deep sense of satisfaction and gratitude. We thank God for giving us a good life and the ability to extend to others what we ourselves enjoy. We feel blessed indeed.
Note that our selfless and unconditional service should be rendered by our own hands and not through someone who is performing it at our behest or command. Those who perform service are the ones who get the blessings. So if you are intending to serve and are asking someone to do it on your behalf, you get a small portion of the blessings that comes your way. One who serves by his own hands gets the immediate and wholesome blessings.
Blessings bring out the humility in us and makes us realise that we are actually distributing God’s wealth to his own people. We are only the channels of distribution. You need to feel grateful that God has chosen you as the channel who will serve as per his command.
The more we serve, the more we get. It’s a divine cycle of giving and receiving. We should Give with selfless surrender and we will receive plentifully in gratitude.
This is true living. You will be forever happy and will feel complete in every way. This will define your success in life.
You will feel your success, live your success and enjoy your success too.
Have a wonderful day. Happy Vijayadashami