Guaranteed recipes to fail...

There are certain things in this world to which we cannot attach a guarantee card, say happiness, love, friendship, affection, hatred, anger and frustration. All these may be counted as emotions or state of the mind, which may even be temporary .i.e. it can be changed by external forces and incidents. And there are others which come with a guarantee; say the TV that comes with a 5 year guarantee or the refrigerator or the air conditioner or the mobile phone or anything that we get to buy in the market.

        Almost all manufactured products are offered a guarantee, be it 5 years or 5000 hours or 2 lakh kilometers. All man-made things can be given a surety, while almost all god given gifts cannot. This is the reason as to why we cannot guarantee we’ll be happy even when we earn $1,000,000,000. Who knows, we might be happier as a poor man.
        I have heard people state that successes and failures are states of mind and that we have the ability to switch between success and failure. The explanation, I can think of for this, is that both successes and failures are manufactured products that can be bought from the market just like the way we buy a TV for a price. Some people choose to win and the others choose to loose, its not that failure happens automatically – its that they choose to loose. Now thats something very hard to accept, so let me try to convince you.
        Failure and success come with a guarantee card that lasts till you buy the next product. If you buy success now, you can continue enjoying successes till you buy another failure product. Now it is very easy to merge the god given products (like love, happiness, affection) with the success product and those like anger, frustration, and hatred with the failure products.

If we learn as to what will make us fail, we may/can refrain from doing it.

1.     Your brain can have n number of earning skills (like painting, singing, accounting, marketing etc), but if you don’t identify as to what you are good at – you can fail.

2.     You can be in the wrong business – like trying to sell type writers in this fast, hi-tech age.

3.     You can be in the right business but at the wrong time – like trying to start an IT industry in these times of recession.

4.     You can be in the right business but with the wrong people – like trying to build a tourism industry with all your partners being doctors.

5.     You are unaware that you are in the right business now – like it happened to millions of people in the 80’s when they were in distribution business and quit half way.

6.     You dont have a mentor to help and guide you.

7.     You are a pessimist – you always expect everything to go wrong, and so it does.

8.     You are a quitter – you give up when you are just 3 feet from gold.

9.     You find excuses and whine for not hitting the target. The more negative you are, the more the chances are that you’ll fail.

10. You don’t let the seed of success to sprout. You are impatient when it takes long to get the results.

I am not quite sure if success is the opposite to failure, but quite sure that success can be bought by deciding not to fail. The guarantee of success is just one sentence “To be in the right business at the right time with the right kind of resources”. If you don’t believe it still, you can ask any winner.
        Remember there are 5 crore financially independent families in India. Are you one among them ? Do you have it in you to be one among the next 100 new millionaires in the country?