Sunday, May 06, 2012

Success

So many individuals fail in personal life, stumble in their personal dreams; this doesn’t mean they are ordinary people in their life, they are those individuals who have achieved almost everything in life, they are experts in their own field. However, they are failures in their personal life.


The biggest problem with such people is that they don’t know how to manage the success. That success becomes a big burden on their head and ultimately they spoil their entire life. Getting success may not be difficult, but managing the success is a big task. There are many examples, they work hard to achieve success and work harder to keep it and ultimately fail due to the sheer pressure of that success. There are only few who can manage both.

Wanted to talk on this..

There are only two in that house, father and daughter. Since mother passed away daughter became very close to dad. She used to share everything with her dad. Be it the college day or the movie she has seen or her arguments with her boyfriend; they used to talk everything.

As days passed, she graduated from a reputed business school and she got a very good salaried job with decent responsibilities. Since she was a smart worker, she got a very good name quickly. She took more and more responsibility and as generally happens in corporate life she got to handle even bigger responsibility. Her immediate managers were extremely happy about her hardworking abilities and her willingness to work extra mile.

She got ‘Best new comer’ award on that particular year.

A jubilant dad went to the function and was very happy to see her getting the award, but did notice that his daughter is not mixing with her colleagues and there seems to be some element of proud nesting in her.

Next day morning, while he was thinking about his daughter; she was talking to someone in the phone. “I got irritated when managers said in last night function that there was lot of competition for this award, lies. Is there anyone in this company who can match my ability? As a matter of fact I know more than these managers, what this management does? What all they do is weekly review meetings and project they are really working hard. All are liars”.

Disturbed by this behaviour dad said, “by just getting one award you are thinking that you are great and no one else is good, remember one thing, you might be great, that doesn’t mean that others are not worth. You called your managers as worthless guys, but let me remind you, these managers are those individuals who started like you sometime back and they moved up to become managers. They are managers means they deserve to be in that position. And you should not talk so lightly about anyone”.

He continued; “Success if not managed can be really spoil your head, you need to have your head on your shoulders. Once your mind gets masked due to success, you tend to neglect the small feedback or alerts from others, you start behaving as if you know everything. You start to walk six steps at a time and stumble badly. The success which was with you until that times slips out. Its important to be down to the earth, rooted and knowing where are you”.

Started thinking about Sachin Tendulkar..