Go-Getting Attitude - Nothing on Earth Can Stop You!

No, God, no Allah can stop the person withsuccess.
go-getting attitude, who follows one path withTake an example of a dull student of standard
self-confidence. Yes, I know God is Powerful andten who was always getting poor marks in all
omnipotent, but you can challenge the almighty bysubjects, couldn't memorize answers. One day
dint of your deeds. And the almighty has to salutecaught the attention of an innovative teacher. The
you. It is said, 'nothing is impossible'. Let us createteacher tried to find out a solution for him. The
another history and somebody else writes it.teacher came closer to him, behaves like a friend
Annals of history say, 10,000 times failure ofand tried to understand the root cause of the
Thomas Edison before he finally invented the lightproblem.
bulb, nearly thirty years of ups and downs ofHe discovers some basic and associate problems
President Abraham Lincoln, 16 times failure oflike low confidence level and poor English. He was
Muhammad Ghazni before he finally defeatedunable to understand long and complex sentences.
Prithiraj Chauhan.This has led him towards failure; he was harassed
We have Beethoven, who was told he had noand gave up study. The teacher came out with
talent in music, Henry Ford, who was broke atsome practical solution with success mantras. The
the age of 40, young cartoonist, Walt Disney,teacher asked to think of the topper student of
was told that he wasn't good at cartooning,the class. What he is having, that you haven't? All
bollywood king Amitabh Bachchan was rejectedthe power is within you, you can do anything and
as he was 'too tall and thin' and also rejected in aneverything, believe in that. Do not believe that
All India Radio audition because of a 'heavy voice'!you are weak. Almost you both have same thing,
But, later all these people became successfulsharing same class, same materials, living same
because they had possessed go-getting attitude.room of the hostel etc. Then where is the
So, what is this go-getting attitude? How doesproblem lies? Have you ever tried to find it?
nothing on earth can stop you achieving goal?Remember, until and unless you knock the door, it
It is simply "arise, awake and stop not till the goalwill not open. It is said, "If there is a will, there is a
is achieved" in the words of Swami Vivekananda.way." Find the root cause of the areas of
Self-doubt and fear are likely to creep aroundproblem, work on it and believe in that every
often. Understand that these are not unbeatable.problem has a solution.
Never allows it. While stepping forward on theThe teacher asked to fragment the long and
jagged path of your life, you should not throwcomplex sentences into small, use own words
discontent looks to other and should not always,which is easy to memorize. So, now with a zest
spend your time in comparing others' happiness toof go-getting attitude the student top the class in
your own. Because, by doing so, you are losingfinal exam surprising everybody.
your concentration and forgot the right path inLife is a long journey, we all are travelers. No
front.matter, how long may the road be; a traveler
True failure only happens when one gives up.cannot withdraw his journey! Result may be
They are convinced that they cannot do it;death, a soldier cannot retreat! No God, no Allah
therefore, they will not try, but shy. You mustcan resist the person who follows one path with
try rather than shy, without asking why. Failureconfidence! Nothing on earth can stop him.
breaks us and makes us. Those who are brokenPerhaps, destination may not come today for this
by failure are troubled by unpleasant memories.traveler!
These memories reveal as shadows from the halfPerhaps, victory may not kiss the forehead of
closed door of memories that prowl from allthis soldier!
sides, from above and beneath, from front andBut remember!
behind. It is that cage which traps the mind,Someday, somewhere, sometime it has to come.
preventing it to divert possibilities of freedom and