3-Step Guide to Success in Life

This is something which I have always wanted to share with everyone I know and I believe it has the power to change our life! So, read it again and again until you internalize the powerful messages conveyed by one of the greatest minds that India has produced in the recent centuries - Veerasanyasin Swami Vivekananda.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us.

Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly.

The whole world is in our own minds.

                                                         ~ Swami Vivekananda

Role models

“MY DADDY STRONGEST…!” – A line from a TV ad of the last decade makes a lot of sense to us when we see a small child shout it out. It captures the very essence of this writings title. As a child most of us would have looked up to our parents as role models in life. We try to model our own behavior, styles and speech based on our parents. Over the years we are exposed to new people, new environments, new experiences and soon each of us idolize someone other than our parents as a role model. Not that the parents are no longer “valid” role models for us, but it’s just that we begin to realize that each have their own short-comings and some other person outside the family is actually more stronger, braver, fashionable, etc. which captivates our imaginations and hence we aspire to be like that person; our role model.

Being a success forever

“Veerasanyaasin” Swami Vivekananda was a giant among philosophers and one of the greatest proponents of Hinduism,  that too, at a time when the entire nation of Hindus had been subjugated by foreigners financially, morally and politically. Some of his quotes are eternally etched in the ether of this universe and in the collective psyche of mankind. “Arise and awake”, “Sisters and brothers of America”, “We are what our thoughts have made us”, etc. But, personally,  the most motivating thought for me is –