There is no Short Cut to Success’
Success in all our endeavors is what we all want but, most of us forget that for
reaching success, the road is not strewn with roses. The walk is not a cakewalk, nor is
it a gift on a platter. Success is an achievement by constant diligence and most of us
fail to achieve because most of us lack the essential quality of diligence.
The magic of hard work and perseverance cannot be underestimated. We see in
general that people who have succeeded in life have done an immense amount of hard
work and their success is we all see, but the effort put in, we fail to measure. We do
wonder how he could achieve so much, but it is absolutely certain that achievement
has come his way after much of continued effort. Most of us do make efforts but, soon
lose heart and leave our projects and this is why we fail to reach the pinnacle of
success. It must be clear in our minds that, we never can achieve with just a simple
raising of a finger, we have got to put our heart and soul in a particular job and that
also with continued vigour in every attempt then only we can hope for any success.
Those of us who leave effort midway are obviously left midway by success also, and
then we are disheartened and broke, just to ogle jealously at those who have
succeeded. If we have the confidence in our effort, there is nothing that can deter us
from achieving.
History presents to us several examples of achievers whose achievements
were due to the single magic of the labour they put in their project. For example,
Tenzing Norgay could achieve world fame, only after making dozens of unsuccessful
efforts at conquering the Mt. Everest. India could achieve its goal of achieving
independence from British regime only because of continued effort and sacrifice of
our leaders, like Mahatma Gandhi and others of the generation. Ever since 1856,
which saw the first war of independence for India, a continued effort of more than a
century, we finally achieved our objective in the year 1947. If this century’s effort was
not there, the position of India would have been quite different and our history would
have been something else. This shows that continuous effort can even change the
course of history of a nation than what about smaller achievements of an individual.
Even after seeing that effort is the magic wand for all achievements, some people still
hold the view that, at least some people in the world do get whatever they want
without much effort. This may be true in the case of a very few who may have been
born with silver spoons in their mouths’ but, by and large, all others whom we see on
the pedestal of success are there only after hard labour. We have not seen them
working but we are able to notice them only when they reach certain heights. On the
other hand, there may be so many who might have fallen on the way, and this must
certainly have been because there was less strength in their effort. Success is mostly
not God sent it is mostly a reward God gives for hard work. Those who put in constant
labour towards an end, surely achieve a position of great advantage. It is of course
always an uphill task to improve prospects.
Let us see right from childhood, those children who work hard and
constantly and regularly are always the ones to stand first. We do often admire or feel
jealous of people rising, but we fail to see what extra effort they are putting in to
improve their prospects. Those who sit pretty and just complain about the success of
others are never the ones to do much in life. Those who make continuous effort in the
right direction rarely lose in the struggle of life. One important password for all of us
to follow is that, there is no short cut to success, the road to success is thorny and very
long. Those who dare to cross this road and undertake the tedious journey with a
continuous effort always find leisure at the end.
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