1. Forget Luck, Live by Intent
A few things may happen by chance. But if you wait for chance, good things will happen to you only when you are in your grave because things may take their time. Even quantum theory says that if you try, you can actually walk through a wall once in a "zillion" times because there is a pulsation of particles happening and you may walk through. It is just that before you reach that one zillionth time, you'll have a cracked skull. When you live by chance, you also live in fear and anxiety. When you live by intent and capability, it does not matter what is happening or not happening, at least you are in control of what is happening to you. It is a more stable life.
2. Stop Fixating on Failure
For a committed person, there is no such thing as failure. If you fall down 100 times a day, it is 100 lessons learned. If you commit yourself like this to creating what you really care for, your mind gets organized. Once your mind gets organized, your emotions will get organized because the way you think is the way you feel. Once your thought and emotion are organized, your energies and your very body will get organized. Once all these four are organized in one direction, your ability to create and manifest what you want is phenomenal. You are the creator in many ways.
3. Work With Clarity
What a human being needs is clarity, not confidence. If you want to walk through a crowd of people, if your vision is clear and you can see where everybody is, you can just walk through the whole crowd without touching anyone. If your vision is not clear but you have confidence, you will walk over everybody. Because there is no clarity, people think that confidence is a good substitute. It just cannot be. Let's say you make all the major decisions in your life like this: get yourself a coin, flip it. If it is heads, it is one way, tails the other. It works 50 percent of the time. If you are right only 50 percent of the time, there are only two professions that you can keep -- either a weather man or an astrologer. You cannot keep any other job on this planet.
4. Embrace the People and Things You Dislike
To handle different kinds of situations in our lives, we need different kinds of identities. If you are fluid about it, if you can change from one to another gracefully, then you can play your role to the hilt and still have no problem with it. But for most people, their personality is like a rock. It sits on them all the time and makes them suffer anything that does not fit into its ambit.
If you have to break that, you have to do something in reverse. This is a simple thing you can do: Team up with someone that you do not like. Spend time with that person, very lovingly, joyfully. Learn to do things that you do not like, be with people that you do not like, and still live your life sensibly, lovingly and joyfully.
5. Drop Your Calculations
There is no need to aspire to greatness. If you make the focus and ambit of your life well beyond the concerns of who you are, you will anyway be a great human being. If you look at certain people, greatness happened to them not because they were seeking to be great, but because their way of looking at life was way beyond "What about me?"
If you just drop this one calculation, "What about me?" from your head, and function to the best of your ability, in some way you will be great because you will naturally be looking at, "What can I do about all the life around me?" So, you will naturally enhance your capabilities because there is so much to do!
Sadhguru will teach "Inner Engineering" in Atlanta May 16-18, 2014. This program is scientifically structured to present simple but powerful processes from the yogic tradition to transcend the limitations of who you are and bring you to higher levels of consciousness.
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