Memoirs of GB Episode 47: Managing your Success.

Memoirs of GB Episode 47:?Managing your Success.

Elite performers make personal excellence look effortless and seem to make things happen as gracefully as a swan moves along the water. But like the swan, what you don't get to see is all the hard work taking place below the surface. The best way to create spectacular results in the most important areas of your life is through daily practice. This is called as Swan effect; The most important part of this effect is not success but managing success in a harmonious and progressive way. It’s not difficult to become successful but to remain successful and managing the success differentiates the smart successful people from suffering successful people.

Many top-notch professionals and entrepreneurs ?have succumbed to various forms of intoxication because they could not handle the magnitude of their success. Few falls to rise. Many rise to fall.

‘What you become’ means nothing if it comes at the cost of ‘Who you are’. There are good people and there are successful people. But great are those who remain good & great even after becoming successful. There is a lesson to learn from them. Let success not make your heart into a bitter heart. The higher you go, if you fall, the deeper the fall will be. Beware…

?Success should never feed your ego but must always feed your sense of responsibility. Success is not a status. It is a responsibility. Your next promotion is not a status. It only means you are responsible for the success of a lot more people in your team. Being made the captain of an Indian cricket team only means that you are now responsible for the aspirations and sentiments of a billion people. Becoming the Head of organization or department only means that you are now responsible for the future of that institution. Being elected as the President of a social organisation only means that it is your responsibility to ensure that the resources at your disposal will serve the right social needs during your tenure. With every rung you scale on the ladder of success, you are also scaling rungs on the ladder of responsibility. Aspiring to be successful, in essence, is aspiring to be more responsible.

Understand that every man is a product of a huge investment. From parents, to teachers, to society, to mentors, to colleagues, to all men who left a trail behind for us to follow, to people whose names and forms we may never know – everybody plays a part in the making of every man. Nobody makes it alone. In truth, nobody is self-made. All of us are made by others. The success we produce is just our way of justifying the investments that have been made on us. We are mere instruments of success. Success, per se, is a collective force. It just culminates through a few individuals. This time it could be you; next time it could be her…

Success can never burden or corrupt those who see themselves as an instrument of a higher force…?In fact, it will make them more responsible to lift everybody around them. No one is a Self made superstar behind that super success there are countless people who made us what we are today.

Gratitude is the key that unlocks the greatest potential to succeed in every challenging situation. Be Grateful to what you have and graciously pass the baton to the next successor when your time comes to handover.

Godspeed

Dinesh Chandrasekar DC*

P.S: All views expressed here are my personal views and opinion and have no bearing to the organization I work.?