How to think effectively, to prosper in life.

We live in a complex world. This world is full of grandeur, which we enjoy and relish. When the enjoyment is over; we remember those events for satisfaction. Again, this same world provides us a lot of sufferings, sad information and scarcity of basic needs at times.  All walks of our life are pervaded with these two factors of joy and suffering. In this complexity, some people struggle more than others because of the circumstances and socioeconomic constraints they face. So, they struggle to sort out their conflicts for most of the time and unable to savor the sweet fragrance of the life. It seems they struggle because of their  less physical power and stamina to bear the painstaking situations. But here is the catch. Their struggle is very painful as they think, is the case with almost everyone. Barring a few who is born with a silver spoon, it is quite common for all. In fact, the wealthiest persons labor harder than an average person. People are  aware that if they don’t struggle, if they take their lives comfortably, their survival will be in danger. So, they shape their thoughts in a positive way and get engaged in all meaningful activities. Thoughts are always important to our well being.  For example, some people may try to repair their damaged relationships, some others who relentlessly distribute the power of their consciousness to reduce the community hatred and there are some others who desperately try to reduce the corruption level of our political system. You may also find some people who are very much interested to spread brotherhood transcending the barriers of religion.

While doing all above activities, people sometimes give up because of its daunting nature.  The thoughts then appear in their mind that we are too small to bring  radical changes in the society.  When this thought erupts in your mind, you become the slave of negativity, passivity and you are unable to find any promising outlook.  This behavior only creates a stumbling block for the forward movement and then, the activities do not produce any tangible results.  In the midst of any job, if there is an iota of passivity and thoughts of doubt, the same must be removed immediately. We must always think that we are neither too small nor we should be afraid to discharge  any activities, which create benefits to mankind.  It is all psychologically inflicted, and we don’t get the desired success as we plan for.

All of us are regularly downplaying our capabilities. We can perform more than what we achieve. We are always influenced by this defective perspective and not able to shine anymore. No sooner, we are able to make a correction in our thoughts; we flourish with respect to our personal, physical, philosophical and social context.  We try our best to do a lot, but most of the time, with a doubtful mind and scattered thoughts. We get ourselves busy in multi-tasking.  But we don’t pay our sincere attention to one task at a time.  Owing to our superficial needs, greed and ambition to achieve many things at a drop of the hat, we accomplish all our tasks with a half hearted approach and focus. Instead of being involved with a single task and finish the same accurately and perfectly, we reminisce the past happenings and dwell on the future fantasies. We weave our thoughts in such a way that job becomes secondary, but our ego must be satisfied.  In this way, we lose our considerable time and energy.  We should not forget that attention is not a mere slave of our mind; it is a storage house of our energy.  This energy of giving attention to a particular work has utmost importance.  This is the major benchmark of our success. 

If you like to be more assertive and want to control your thoughts, you must become mindful and have a grip on your attention.  Your attention must be centered on one point at a time. Then, whatever you want to achieve, the same is bound to materialize.  Remember that attention can run both in negative and positive directions. You have to exercise power of mind to ensure that you cling to the positive side maximum time.  You cannot completely eliminate negative directions, but through practice, you increase your mind power to eliminate the negativities.  However, because of our habit, we sit idle and procrastinate and allow the negative thoughts to grab us.  Some people, of course, are always negative.  They are always depressed and always in a pessimistic mood.  They feel pleasure to criticize others. They discourage  others is their achievement. They do not allow others to see the light after the tunnel. There are others who out of their fear, not ready to take action.  They feel that their actions will bring negative output.  Some other persons out of their jealousy and hatred want to avoid any activities with a feeling that will bring disastrous results. It is better to keep them at a distance and not to be influenced by them. The Mother Teresa taught us that it is imperative for all of us to develop positive consciousness  and to propel the same to carry out positive thoughts for the betterment of the individual and the society.