Tips to achieve success.

What is success?

Success is the achievement of aim or purpose in one's life. It is the final achievement of your effort in desirable direction. Remember your success is your own concern and not of others. Therefore be self reliant. Have confident in yourself, success is yours! 

"Raise yourself by your own efforts."

In all things, success depends upon previous preparation and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

"If you can dream and not make dreams your master....

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds worth of distance run,

Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,

And which is more you'll be a man, my soul!

 -KIPLING.

"God will estimate success."

 -BROWNING.

1. Ensure good health:

"A sound mind is a sound body. "Both a sound mind and a sound body are needed if you desire to be successful. A sound is a prerequisite of a sound mind. A sound body is a healthy body, able to perform its functions regularly and properly. The human body is a marvellous mechanism, but if you neglect its care, its efficiency is impaired. The first requisite for a healthy life and to aim success is cleanliness.

"Your Health is your Capital-Guard it".

"Cleanliness is next to Godliness".

"Health is the vital principle of bliss". 

-JAMES THOMSON"

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of  it".

-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy".

-TRADITIONAL PROVERB

A few ideas to maintain healthy:

1. Get into the habit of being in fresh air as long as possible. Let fresh air and sunlight into your rooms.
   
   

   

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2. Your finger-tips have to be kept always clean.





Keep it clean.



3. Your hair needs to be combed.
4. Your teeth should be clean.
5. Keep your clothes clean and wash them regularly.
6. Breathe through the nose, not through the mouth. Bathe, if possible, in cold water. Use plenty of  water for bath. There are persons who finish their bath with one gallon of water! That is no bathing.
7. Eat only clean food. chew your food well, don't gulp it down your throat. Eat slowly, not in a hurry. If you can keep silent and keep your mind at ease during eating, you can reap immense benefit from your food.
   
   

   

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8. Drink good, clean water. Use it sparingly during meal-time.
9. Don't indulge in alcoholic liquors.
10. Have less coffee or tea and also cocoa. If possible avoid these. They are no food at all. They are not necessary for the human system.
11. Do exercise regularly, once in the morning or in the evening. By exercise your muscles become strong, well-developed, and capable of doing work with little strain.





Exercise your body.



12. Be avoid excess in everything. overwork is as bad as overeating.





Should avoid overworking....



13. Take care about rest and also sleep. Rest is as much necessary for the welfare of the body to do work.
14. Sleep for seven to eight hours is quite necessary for every human being. if  you think your brain is valuable, pay attention to your sleep. But oversleeping is also bad. "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"- this is a well known proverb.
    
    

    

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15. Never go to bed immediately after strenuous work. Let there be a period of rest or relaxation before you go to bed; otherwise, your sleep will not be peaceful; it will be disturbed and full of dreams. 
16. Do not spit anywhere and everywhere.
17. Cultivate punctuality, good personal habits and temper.
18. Laugh when you can.

"Eat modestly that which is set before thee, and devour not, less thou be hated. When thou sittest among many, reach not, thine hand out first of all. How little is sufficient for man well thought! A wholesome sleep cometh of a temperate belly. Such a man riseth up in the morning, and is well at ease with himself.....; for, excess of meats bringeth sickness, and choleric disease cometh of gluttony. By surfeit have many perished, and he that dieteth himself prolongeth his life. Show not thy valiantness in wine; for wine hath destroyed many".

How true are these words! How well worthy of a constant place in our memories! Yet what pains have been taken to apologize for a life contrary to these precepts!   

2. Be cheerful:

Always be cheerful.

Always think positively, you be the centers of happiness and joy. If you can, you will so lighten labours that seem otherwise far too much oppressing. Be good by all means. Be also kind and sociable and make yourselves agreeable; have a cheerful atmosphere about you so that you may make yourself most welcome even when there is trouble and where there is unhappiness.

3. Desirable and useful habits:

In everything you do, keep regular hours. In food, in cleaning your bowels, in sleep, in play, in study and in all other things you do, you must keep regular hours. At first, it may be difficult, but keep determined. Very soon you can put into practice this ideal. 

Punctuality is a virtue that you must learn to acquire. Even if you are not going to serve under anyone, you have to be punctual. That will train you to use your time effectively and efficiently and enable  you to earn the respect of others. Whatever the work may be take active part or interest in it. When you learn to take interest in your work, you will unconsciously do it better and much better as days roll on. When you learn to keep regular hours, you learn to be organised and methodical in work. Your work will shine all the better if you are deeply interested in it. Real concentration gives another benefit also. 

It helps the mind to attend one thing at a time. "One thing at a time and that done well....". This is a well known proverb. "First things first"; learn to do important and necessary things first and then the less important ones. Never postpone  your work. Whatever you do, learn to do it gracefully and avoid slovenliness. When you do your work gracefully, you do with least effort; you derive the maximum advantage with minimum effort. That is the end and aim of all human beings. Therefore, make it a point you pay attention to this aspect in every things you do.

4. Be a decent member of society:

Be perfect an individual as you can. You must also be a useful member of society. First comes respect to elders and to the learned. Whatever the idea is in the West, in the East, we have always looked upon our elders and learned, men with nothing but veneration. We must never do or say anything to hurt their feelings. We thereby earn their esteemed blessings. You have to be polite to everyone, in your action and speech you must show politeness. Pay attention to your deportment and carriage. Be careful in your dressing style. Do not be gaudy or slovenly in dress. "The best way is to be so dressed as not to evoke attention or comment". Be ready to lend a helping hand if occasion needs it. Suppose a person has fallen from a running bus, then, run to his help. Do not deliberate whether to go or not to go to his help. Man has never been made to be selfish. Therefore, always be ready to help. Your motto should always be: "Be prepared to help".  

5. Your Character:

"It is no use growing like a tree". Trees grow. We too grow up. We may be intelligent and successful. But we must have character. Character is the one thing by which man is judged. All that we do or say or think must reflect our character. Your teacher, your elders and your books will tell you as to what real character ought to be. Character, in short, is purity of thought, word and deed. 

Have good character always...

"Circumstances are beyond the control of man, but his conduct lies within his own power".

6. Be Independent:

"Happiness ought to be your great object, and it is to be found only in independence". Write it on your heart that you will depend solely on your own merit and your own exertions. "To live upon little" is the great security against slavery.

Be independent....

7. Behave well:

Be obedient where obedience is due; for, it is no act of meanness, and no indication of want of spirit to yield implicit and ready obedience to those who have a right to demand it from you. "It is no disgrace, but the contrary, to obey cheerfully lawful and just commands". None are so saucy and disobedient as slaves; and, when you come to read history, you will find that in proportion as nations have been free has been their reverence of the laws.

8. Value time:

Value Time.

"And, first of all, the husbanding of your time". The respect that you will receive, the real and sincere respect, will, depend entirely on what you are able to do. You must manage well your time; and, to manage it well, you must have as much of the daylight and as little of the candle-light as is consistent with the due discharge of your duties.

Few lines about TIME:

"The inaudible and noiseless foot of time".

-SHAKESPEARE.

"The sun steals our life, second by second,

but alas we do not realise it".

-The gist of a Sanskrit verse.

"Does thou love life, then do not squander time, 

for that is the stuff life is made up of".

-B. FRANKLIN.

9. Respect all good souls:

There is no shame, belonging to poverty; as the scripture tells us that we are not to despise the poor because he is poor, so ought we not to honour the rich because he is rich. The true way is, to take a fair survey of the character of a man as depicted in his conduct, and to respect him or despise him according to a due estimate of that character.

Give respect...

10. Think and thrive:

MIND is, like the colt, wild and ungoverned. Discipline it. Fortify your mind with fixed principles. Cultivate your CONSCIENCE. Avoid temptations. Watch your temper. Improve your thoughts when alone. Thinking is a force which produces effects. Feeble thinking produces weak and bad results. Strong, intense and clear thought makes for great success. Try to form well-balanced judgments about you and others. Judge and get to know what you cannot do, as well as what you can do. Never over-estimate yourself; thereby, you injure your usefulness and destroy your happiness. That does not mean that you should be diffident or that you should underestimate yourself.

Develop thought-power. Think well and think twice. Have confidence in you and in your ability to think. Clear thinking and concentration mean promotion and success in all walks of life. Ah, the broom! Get one and sweep away your regrets, may be disappointments, shortcomings and such other things. Sit down and plan your future. Its never too late to mend.

Think Positively...

Do not grumble at the world. Look clearly and accurately. Hear correctly. Record in your brain what you look and hear. In short, cultivate the art of training and sharpening all your senses well. Cultivate proper desires. Form mental pictures of what you desire. Hold such pictures steady in mind. Develop your powers of concentrations. All that you think about should be of first quality; don't think of vulgar or mean things.

Oh, the money! Do not attach very much value to it. It is dangerous. You cannot eat or drink it. All the money in the world would be useless if  Mother Earth fails to yield us her annual crops. Know that we are all engaged in serving one another in some way and, in practice, we make our living by contributing our service in some form or shape to others, just as we pay them in return for saving us. Money-making is not an end in itself but it cannot be denied that it is a means of doing successful service to the world at large.

11. Have no fear to converse:

Say 'NO' to fear.

The capacity to converse well is an art and its acquisition should be aimed at by boys and girls alike. The man who knows precisely how to converse, has an instrument in his possession with which he can do great good to himself and others and which will make him welcome in all circles.

Do not talk upon trifles; you should not be stiff or severe in conversing with others. Do not slender others. He that indulges in ridiculing the little imperfections and weakness of his friend, will, in time, find mankind united against him. The man who sees another ridiculed before him, though he may for the present, concur in the general laugh, yet in a cool hour will realize that the same trick has been played on himself!

An honest fellow was introduced into the most fashionable circle of a town, and though he was neither learned nor brilliant, he passed off very well. But he always stayed so as to be the last person to leave the room. At length, he was asked categorically, why he always stayed so long. He replied with great good-humour and simplicity, that, as soon as a man was gone, they all began to talk against him; and, consequently, he thought it always judicious to stay till none was left behind to slander him.

Flattering friends and acquaintances will prove disastrous to your own character. Do not speak lightly or derisively of GOD, our Maker; for, levity of manner or matter, in regard to sacred things, will ruin your reputation. Conversation is an intellectual feast, to be enjoyed by the entire company; so, introduce only common and interesting topics in conversation.

Do not bring your "SELF" into any conversation - keep it always at a great distance. Be cheerful. Smile. But do not indulge in too much humour or wit and scrupulously avoid wounding others' sentiments even in jest. 

"You can be engaged in no better vocation than making people laugh. Humour is like the buffer between two heavy rail-road cars. It relieves the jolts of life. It is a shock absorber. It makes the journey through the years easier, and brightens the pathway all along the route. We could not get along without  humour".

Do not make a display of your knowledge or superior learning in company. In all your conversation, maintain purity of thought; do not allow any word to drop from your lips which you would not desire to have your father or mother, brother or sister, wife or child, hear you say. Keep your conversation clear of envy; and to do it, your heart must be kept clear and clean. Never get out of temper in company.

Remember that the power of communicating our thoughts and feelings by conversation is one of the greatest blessings bestowed on man. It is a perpetual source of comfort and may be an instrument of great usefulness.

The tongue is an instrument, also a vast mischief. It is our chief engine for doing good or bad. Remember that every word you utter wings its way to the throne of God and is to affect the condition of your Soul forever. Once uttered, it can never be recalled; and the impression which it makes extends to the years beyond the existence of earth. Our ancients have laid many restraints on speech. So, speak gently and sweetly.

"Honor, riches, marriage-blessings,

Long continuance and increasing,

Hourly joys be still upon you!"

-SHAKESPEARE.

"Success shall be in thy courses tall,

Success in thyself, which is best of  all,

Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,

In struggle with man, in battle with brute."

-SVEND VONVED.                                                     

12. What Is It To Be A Successful Person?

"It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be brave, to be kind and true worthy, to be wise and possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful manner".