SUCCESS- The sweetest nectar??- A dedication…

I dedicate this blog to my Gran pa who passed away this Christmas. My humble blog as a token of love for being the man who taught me how to read a newspaper and inculcated the reading habit in me… Miss you Gran pa..!!!

"Nothing succeeds like success" they say, if so can there be a person who can treat success and failure the same?? Rudyard Kipling says in his poem "If" , " IF you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those impostors just the same"- meaning that success and failure are the two strangers who need to be treated the same. Do not get carried away by a success nor let a failure let you lose hope in your endeavours. This blog is my opinion about what success actually is? Is success a relative term or a constant term across the world? Does success really succeed like success?? ……. Read on…

To me success is a relative term. What success is to you need not be the same to me and the vice versa.

• For an amatuer sprinter winning a single sprint event can be success, but for an athlete winning gold medals in olympics is success.
• For an amatuer cricketer playing a match for India is success, but for a pro winning world cups with back to back victories is success.
• For some winning elections is success, but for a Theodore Roosevelt or a Lincoln carving a niche and a place in the world history is success(Though they never claimed so)

Believe me nothing fails like success. I don't know whether you will agree to this. Success once tasted may make you headstrong, may breed complacency, may make you over confident. You will tend to forget the small things that made you successful. Those extra miles you walked… Be it your project or in a society..

Never take success close to your heart… Don't mistake this to be not cherishing it… But just take it as a small token of encouragement for your hardwork (or) smartwork. Do not cling on to the old laurels that you have earned. Know why I am saying all these? Many a times an associate after winning an award clings on to the laurels that he/she doesn't see to that they win the award again and again. You become a genius only when you stay on top consistently, perform consistently, innovate consistently.. Winning is not a one time affair but has to be a life long habit.. Yes a habit.. As someone once said, "Number one is not just getting to the top, but staying on top".

I am sure some may be skeptical about this blog… Let me put across few instances… Most often we do see movie directors who churn out block buster hits then a series of flops and then go unheard of. Why?? The block buster hits have gone into their heads. Then they start blaming thier numerologists, astrologists and we people say cine industry is all about luck. Funny isn't it??

The more successful you are, the higher you climb up the ladder try being humble… NO!! BE HUMBLE!! Being humble doesn't mean not telling anyone what you have acheived but to remember its only a phase and not an eternity.. Its as simple as that!!

You think otherwise.???? Put across your opinions in the comments!!!

HAts off!!! More to come..!! Wait and watch!!