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#1 Forget Luck, Live by Intent

#1 Forget Luck, Live by Intent

A few things may happen by chance. But if you wait for the chance, good things will happen to you only when you are in your grave because things may take their time.

When you live by chance, you also live in fear and anxiety.

When you live by intent and capability, it does not matter what is happening or not happening, at least you are in control of what is happening to you. It is a more stable life.

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#3 Work with Clarity

What a human being needs is clarity, not confidence.

If you want to walk through a crowd of people, if your vision is clear and you can see where everybody is, you can just walk through the whole crowd without touching anyone. If your vision is not clear but you have confi...

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#5 Drop Your Calculations

There is no need to aspire to greatness. If you make the focus and ambit of your life well beyond the concerns of who you are, you will anyway be a great human being.

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#4 Embrace the People and Things You Dislike

To handle different kinds of situations in our lives, we need different kinds of identities.

If you are fluid about it, if you can change from one to another gracefully, then you can play your role to the hilt and still have no problem with it.

But for most people, ...

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#9 Find Your Inspiration

Another important dimension is to constantly be inspired. Look at the reason why you are doing what you are doing and see the larger dimension of it, the contribution you make through every little thing you do in your life. Every action that human beings perform is a contribution...

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#10 Set the Gold Standard in Integrity

Integrity is important because when you want to function in the world, how much trust you generate with the people you interact with determines how easy or hard your daily efforts will be.

If there is an atmosphere of trust, your ability to work will be greatly enhanced – simply be...

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#6 Yoga For Success

Both the neurological and energy systems branch out in a big way between the shoulder blades and above.

So, keeping the neck region in a good condition is very important. Within 3-4 minutes of doing these neck practices, you will distinctly see that you are much more alert...

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#8 Tune Up Your Insight

Insight means you pay attention to life around you in such a way that you are able to see things that most people cannot see. If there is no insight, there is nothing to follow and toil for.

Mediocrity can be transformed into extraordinary activity, only when there is a deep insigh...

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#7 Be Equanimous and Exuberant

To be successful in the world, what you fundamentally need is prowess of the mind and the body.

  • Equanimity gives you access to different dimensions of the mind. If there is no equanimity, your ability to use the mind is greatly reduced.
  • Another important qual...

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#2 Stop Fixating on Failure

For a committed man, there is no such thing as failure .

If you fall down 100 times in the day, it is 100 lessons learnt. If you commit yours...

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