How to Succeed in Life

One Point Formula

Guest post 
by Saalik Siddikki

A lot has been and is being said and written on how to succeed in life. Every author has tried his/her best to present the best gist of his/her experience and figment of creative imagination on the subject of success in life.
Professional gurus have laid down golden rules, to which nothing more of fundamental nature could further be added except improved techniques and creative ideas, for the younger generations to follow and achieve their goals. Hundreds of thousands of people, around the globe, pay heed to their advice and find their way to success.


Nevertheless, my personal setbacks, failures, losses, drawbacks, shortfalls, retreats and weaknesses have taught me just one point formula for achieving any goals, targets and success in life and that is 'never ever fly your plane on autopilot'.


Not flying your plane on autopilot emphatically means that you have to engage all of your devices, gadgets and tools in keeping the plane stable and correctly on the right path to your destiny.


Since you personally hold the control of your plane, it is essential that all of your instruments are in working order and handily in your access too.


Now the question is what devices, gadgets and tools you need to steer your plane on the path to success? These are:

• A concrete belief that God wants you to succeed
• A clearly defined destiny or goal
• Your obsession that works as a fuel
• Appropriate knowledge and skills
• A strong conviction in the legitimacy of your cause
• Positive thinking
• Necessary external resources
• Self confidence
• Realizing the value of time
• Perseverance
• Patience
• Cool-headedness
• Unwavering enthusiasm
• Unbending will power
• Mental stability
• Unperturbed focus of thoughts
• Habit of hard working
• No self-pity

The list is always extendable.


By leaving the plane of your life on autopilot you become a little weary, sluggish and lethargic and fall to slumber of defused enthusiasm in the comfort zone of complacency. All this adds up to changing your attitude from active to passive which is certainly a sign of ultimate disaster.


This is absolutely not what The Almighty God likes us to do. He has attached the whole universe with the wheel of change and change requires movement. Movement needs force and energy emanating from the human mind that is the most amazing creation of The Greatest Creator.


Taking solace in your comfort zone means causing the wheel of change to stop i.e. to restrict your mind to think creatively and thus allowing the plane of your life to deviate from its requisite path.


A little deep thinking will convince you that success in life is basically attached with realizing, understanding and applying the one point formula 'never ever fly your plane on autopilot'.


Saalik Siddikki (Siddiqui too) is a Freelance Journalist, Internet Writer, Photographer, Blogger (thinksucceeded.blogspot dot com) and moderator of siddiquees dot com.
His main areas of working during employment tenure over a period of more than two decades, both in Pakistan and abroad, have been Public Relationing, Human Resources, Communcations and Office Management.


His subjects of interest in studies are Mind Power, Positive Thinking, Personality Development, Character Building, Creative Visualization, Meditation and Mentoring youth.


Saalik likes to exchange experiences and opnions with people. You can write to him onthinksucceeded@gmail.com to share anything.

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Success Through 25 Simple Habits

By Saalik Siddiqui

Time never pauses to let us realize its pace and then it catches us at the age of 50, 60 or even 70 saying, "I feel I could not do what I wanted to, I could not achieve what I dreamed of." We repent our mistakes instead of not doing what could have changed our fate beyond imagination.


All actions that we fail to take in our late teen and post teen years laugh at us in later years because we could not perceive, at that time, how they can impact our lives in the coming years. Had we been able to recognize potential outcome of our supposed actions, we could change the tracks and directions of our future.


Remember, success is a process, a journey and not a destiny itself. Failures and achievements are just like milestones. Developing certain habits in early young age could help the youth cultivate a better future regardless of what practical field or profession they choose.


Here is a list of things, just occurred to my mind, that I would like today's youth, particularly the teenagers, to take into consideration for hammering their future, on the anvil of their actions, into satisfactory achievements and success.


1. Be a positive thinker under all circumstances. 
2. Write down your goals whatever they are. 
3. Learn blogging even if you dislike it and create a simple blog for personal musings. 
4. Learn and practice creative visualization and meditation. 
5. Regularly participate in a healthy activity of your interest. 
6. Learn what is brainstorming and practice it to find solutions. 
7. Never ever try to be an "A" type personality, rather be a "B" type personality. 
8. Cultivate lasting friendships instead of flirting around. 
9. Never humiliate a person for any reason at all. 
10. Commit yourself to learn at least 5 new words of English and use them in your writing daily. 
11. Start studying the subjects of your future profession at an early age. 
12. Regardless of your sleeping time, force yourself into early rising. 
13. Take care of your diet and food intake and watch your weight on a regular basis. 
14. Never ever think about smoking or drinking. 
15. Learn the technique of deep breathing and practice it regularly. 
16. Drink a glass of water after every hour whether you feel thirsty or not. 
17. Keep yourself informed of latest scientific and technology developments. 
18. Practice action-thinking and monetary-thinking. 
19. Spend less time watching television or surfing the internet just for killing time. 
20. Learn to spend time rather than killing. 
21. Learn to respond instead of reacting to situations especially volatile ones. 
22. Never ever violate any rules and regulations and traffic rules in particular. 
23. Make it a habit to pause for 5-10 seconds before responding or taking an action. 
24. Learn how to say "NO" when saying "YES" could harm your relationship in any terms. 
25. Respect other people's opinion and learn to communicate instead of arguing.


The list could go on and on depending upon what are your preferences in life. You can add up what you deem appropriate for your own benefit. However, these are the things which are essential for every educated young man or woman to carve out an impressive personality and successful character.


You must agree that each of the above actions is like a building block definitely necessary for constructing the skyscraper of your bright future. You can download a lot of information on any subject from internet that is a fathomless ocean of information. Make your net-surfing subject-oriented. You can ignore as many of these practical tips as you like but there should be a cogent reason for that.

Saalik Siddikki (Siddiqui too) is a Freelance Journalist, Internet Writer, Photographer, Blogger (http://thinksucceeded.blogspot.com) and moderator of siddiquees dot com.

His main areas of working during employment tenure over a period of more than two decades, both in Pakistan and abroad, have been Public Relationing, Human Resources, Communcations and Office Management.

His subjects of interest in studies are Mind Power, Positive Thinking, Personality Development, Character Building, Creative Visualization, Meditation and Mentoring youth.

Saalik likes to exchange experiences and opinions with people. 

You can write to him onthinksucceeded@gmail.com to share anything.

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