Success doesn't depend on what you learn, but on what you implement.

         When I was reading a blog post on ‘The leader of tomorrow’ by Maxine schiffmann she used a sentence,

 ‘Success doesn't depend on what you learn, but on what you implement’

          Right from a young age we are said that only if we study hard we would excel in exams, only then good companies would hire us and give us a good paying job. We are made to learn and learn but are not taught how to implement what we have learnt.

         It seems as if we are so much programmed in our life and are made to learn so many things. Starting back from the kg classes we were taught various subjects, as we grew up the things we learn multiplied. From mere addition and subtractions we moved to algebra, physics, management and much more things.

For much of our life we keep on learning various things and what next! No one knows!

          I feel I have not implemented the 90 percent of the things which I have learnt in my life.

           Just learning without implementing isn’t a useful thing. It’s something like I have gone to marketing and sales classes, learnt the ways of selling an item by numerous techniques but, I am not stepping out to do sales.

           Another example is of learning everything about healthy exercises and diet plans and yoga for a healthy lifestyle and not implementing anyone of them in our life.

           If we just keep learning and don’t implement anything that we have learnt then it’s something like being very much stagnant, there are lakhs of people in this world who have learnt so many things but have failed to implement them. They are same now as they were when they had started their life, almost without any progress.

         The counting of the progress starts as soon as we start to implement the things that we have learnt. It’s very much useless in just knowing the things without implementing them.

       I strongly feel the line said by Maxine does have a greater meaning in itself.

Surely the success doesn’t depend on what we just learn; without a doubt it depends on what we implement’ 

Happiness.

               In the current lifestyle which we follow, it’s a usual thing to be stressful. Obviously the hectic work schedules of the employees, the never ending tuition and extra coaching classes of the kids. The pressure to get a good career for the college students are few reasons for the stress.

Amidst these hectic schedules we have lost something known as ‘Being Happy’.

            Happiness is hardly seen anywhere today. When we walk across the street in a city, more than 90 percent of the people will surely appear very much occupied with their stress.

           The concepts of happiness are very much misunderstood nowadays. It’s thought something as getting more things or being ahead of someone.

            Few things like getting more likes for a profile picture on Facebook are considered as happiness now. When another person gets more likes surely this happiness vanishes soon, why? Because it seems as if that person has won something and we have lost.

             Many a times! Even when a person gets a job with a good pay he doesn’t seem happy, the reason may even be as small as some cousin of his is being paid more! We often start to feel happy when we are better than someone else.

             What we forget is when another person overtakes us the happiness which we have got is soon lost and every time someone does something better or gets something better we start to get a churn in our stomach.

          We have narrowed the concept of happiness to a great extent and have actually forgotten numerous reasons which lie right in front of us for being happy.

             Few small things such as being happy on receiving complement for the new dress that we have worn or something as being happy when mom makes a tasty dish or when a best friend gives a tight hug for supporting him are things to be cherished.

It just takes little efforts from our side to be happy.

           When we stop comparing ourselves with others and get out of the mentality of ‘The more we have the happier we are’ then, we would start seeing happiness in small things that are around us and our life would be much happier.

Accept rejections.

         

             Yesterday I was talking to an old classmate of mine and she said me it would be almost like dying to face a rejection from anyone.

            It surely gave me a thought about the rejections, why people are so afraid of rejections! Many a times we want to do certain things but we fail to do in fear of being rejected.

             Be it something small such as talking to a good looking lady who stays in your area. You get creeps in your minds about her rejecting to talk to you, a thing that might hurt your ego or self-respect.

            Moving a little further, In spite of you being a nice person, when you propose someone and that person rejects you for being average on looks!, Ah sounds Bad!

            But what’s wrong in accepting the reality? Yes! I am being rejected by someone. No doubt it’s painful, but it’s far better than sitting idle and not trying at all.

           Not only in these ‘pretty ones’ things! In many aspects of life you may face rejections! The painting you drew may be rejected to be auctioned, the photograph you clicked may be rejected or even a book which you have written with full dedication may be rejected to get published.

            No matter what, you can’t just impress few people. It’s the reality! It’s better for us to know that it’s okay not to impress the ‘FEW’ when there are lots more people who are impressed by us.

Yes! It’s okay to get rejected and it’s absolutely not shameful.

          Rejections should always give you a push to do and be better. It shouldn’t hinder you by creating insecurity and negativity around yourself.

Let the desire inside you to succeed be more than the fear of being rejected!