Take a chance!
Success is easy! Yes, really easy. It’s floating around you, waiting for you to reach over and grab it. The only difference between successful people and the rest is that successful people go ahead and take a chance – on their dreams, their ambitions, their luck, their life, while the rest keep worrying about paying monthly bills and ensuring that the bank balance is rolling.
The most important fact of life is that it is not permanent. This existence is your one chance of leaving your own mark. And it suffices if you are your own celebrity! In fact that’s an achievement worth achieving.
We value our professional lives so much that ‘work’ is all that remains of our life. (While I write this, I must admit that I’m probably just as guilty as anyone else). That’s not to say that you should lead unambitious lives. In fact it’s quite the contrary. Balance your life – ride the see-saw without tipping either side.
Begin by pursuing one activity that helps you keep your ‘fire’ alive – an activity apart from chores. To begin with, learn to tell the two apart – going to the gym is a chore; joining a dance workshop is an activity. Very importantly don’t except too much from yourself right in the beginning. Enrol for a shorter period workshop, take up a certificate course, in this case you do not need too high motivational levels to keep your regularity going, and since you also finish your goals sooner it helps to up the bar the next time around.
An out-of-office email sometimes is a much required antidote to stress. Take a break from work with no agenda on mind. Use this time to focus on your passion. Discover what your hidden potential is. There has got to be more in you than churning excel sheets.
And the key rule – don’t wait till you have that perfect idea in mind, dive off that board, only then will you learn how to swim. Oh! And it’s perfectly fine to make a mistake. So if you wanted to give theatre a shot, do it, it’s okay if you realise you have stage fright issues. May be you could try Radio Jockeying the next time around.
The point here is give success a chance to find you, and more importantly give yourself a chance. You deserve way better than sitting insignificantly behind a computer monitor.
