Success cannot make you feel Successful

Feeling Successful is an emotion that is not really related to Success.

Consider that everyone in this world is running a race. Everyone is somewhere in the race. The beggars and homeless are somewhere towards the end, whereas the likes of Bill Gates and Ophra Winfrey are somewhere towards the front. You are also somewhere in the race, running and trying to move ahead of those in front of you.

Also, consider that everyone is suffering from myopia. Therefore, no matter where you are in the race, you can only see 5 people ahead of you and 5 people behind you. A small shop owner somewhere in the line can only see and compare with similar 5 people ahead, and 5 people behind. This shop owner cannot even see Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey. If the shop owner moves ahead, he would have a different set of 5 people ahead and 5 people behind to compare with. Similarly, a multi-millionaire somewhere in the race can see and compare himself only with 5 similar multi-millionaires ahead and 5 behind.

People continuously move ahead or behind in the race. Their position keeps changing with successes and failures in their own lives and in the lives of others. However, no matter where they are, their position remains the same from their own perspective. There are always 5 more successful people ahead, and 5 less successful people behind.

I agree life is not a race. In fact it is not possible to define what is life. There are multiple perspectives of life. life being a race it one such perspectives, which helps in understanding some aspects of it.
Some other perspectives of life that I personally like are, life is a journey, life is a game, life is an opportunity, life is an illusion.......

To enjoy life more...

To enjoy life more...


First, make sure you are positioned to laugh frequently.

Laughter is as intense and nourishing as experiences get. It reduces stress, builds your immune system, improves relationships, feels incredible and improves the way the world looks.

The key is to make sure you keep yourself open to an abundance of funny stuff to keep you laughing. Everyone claims to like to laugh, but it’s astounding how many people intentionally or unintentionally block most laughter opportunities from their lives. They’re too busy, too important, too tired, and too serious, to blah blah blah ... and they close the door on laughter.

Be sure to keep it wide open. Funny movies, funny friends, comedy shows … whatever makes you laugh, keep yourself wide open to it.

Second, to enjoy life more always remember to recognize and appreciate the little things.

There was an old toilet paper TV commercial whose jingle went, “Because little things mean a lot.” I don’t often quote toilet paper commercials, but I do agree with this one. And because the jingle was catchy, that saying always stuck in my head. Try to find a way to keep yourself reminded of the great importance of little things.

In the end the little things – a woman’s smile, a budding tree, that song on the radio, delightfully soft toilet paper – impact your life just as much if not more than the big things. That’s because there are so many more of them.

Third, to enjoy life more, experience more.

Delving into new adventures – from transformative books and music to spiritual experiences, travel experiences, you name it – keeps life amazing. It nurtures wisdom while keeping you young at heart … a gorgeous combination.

And just as with the little things, the world affords you an endless supply of these new experiences … again most people get so caught up in routine they forget how to see them, or they fool themselves into believing they have no time for them. Anxiety, dissatisfaction, depression sneaks up on these people. New experiences are as essential to your life as water.

The final key to enjoy life more? Love deeper.

Romantic love, parental love, familial love, friendship, universal love, love of God … no matter what brands of love you give or seek to give, with greater intensity. And you’ll discover (if you haven’t already) that this intense giving, this loving deeper, is not merely another way to enjoy life more … it is joy itself.

Be A Lake or Sea (story)

Once an The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.

"How does it taste?" the Master asked.

"Awful," spat the apprentice.


The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake.


The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake,


The old man said, "Now drink from the lake."


As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How does it taste?"


"Good!" remarked the apprentice. "Do you taste the salt?" asked the Master. "No," said the young man.


The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said,


"The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less.


The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it into.


So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things .....


Stop being a glass. Become a lake!"