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 confidence, you will walk over everybody. Because there is no clarity, people think that confidence is a good substitute. It just cannot be.

#3 Work with Clarity

For a committed man, <a href="http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/masters-words/dont-buy-what-the-devil-sells/">there is no such thing as failure </a>. If you fall down 100 times in the day, it is 100 lessons learnt. If you commit yourself like this to creating what you really care for, your mind gets organized. Once your mind gets organized, your emotions will get organized because the way you think is the way you feel. Once your thought and emotion are organized, your energies and your very body will get organized. Once all these four are organized in one direction, your ability to create and manifest what you want is phenomenal. You are the creator in many ways.

#2 Stop Fixating on Failure

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.

#1 Forget Luck, Live by Intent

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.

#5 Drop Your Calculations

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, their personality is like a rock. If you have to break that, you have to do something in reverse. This is a simple thing you can do: team up with somebody that you do not like. Spend time with that person, very lovingly, joyfully.

#4 Embrace the People and Things You Dislike

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 because everyone will pave the way for you rather than setting up impediments.

#10 Set the Gold Standard in Integrity

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. There is a higher level of neuronal regeneration, and memory and intellectual sharpness also improve.

#6 Yoga For Success

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 insight into something.

#8 Tune Up Your Insight

To be successful in the world, what you fundamentally need is prowess of the mind and the body. <ul><li>Equanimity gives you access to different dimensions of the mind. If there is no equanimity, your ability to use the mind is greatly reduced.</li><li> Another important quality is on the level of your energy – you need exuberance, both physiologically and internally. </li></ul> If equanimity and exuberance are brought into your mind and body, success will come to you much more easily.

#7 Be Equanimous and Exuberant

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 to some dimension of this world. Whatever you may be doing, someone could be benefitted by it. Being conscious of your contribution will keep you inspired.

#9 Find Your Inspiration

10 Mantras for success to start your day powerfully. 

Here are 10 Mantras for Success to kickstart your day. Practical and effective tips from Sadhguru: live by intent, don't fixate on failure and work with clarity.

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