Making A Choice!

Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi?

Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal?

The debate will always go on about who is better than the other!

And each of us do have our choices… and a very strong opinion about why our choice is the best one! But when it comes to important or significant things in our own life we stay away from making those choices. We avoid them like a hot potato... we push them to another day and continue living with the monkeys on our backs.

Face them... Monkeys or demons… whatever you want to call them.. And make a choice!!

Those difficult issues in your life which you don't talk or even think about, because they have happened in the past are the ones that shape your tomorrow. You begin to live with them and they become a part of who you are.

I did that too and the only thing I managed to do was make my life miserable. Until the day I decided to make a choice. I decided to take my life in my own hands, face my past and create my own destiny. However, to do this you need to make some tough choices. Choices about your values, choices about the way you will live your life from hereon and the strength to be disciplined enough to stand by these choices.

It will be a tough journey initially. It’ll make you regret your decision; but if you have based your choice on your values, it’ll be worth it in the long run. 

Look within yourself to understand what your values are. Ask yourself if you are living your life according to your true values. If you look into that difficult past and analyze the mistakes you did, you will realize that they happened since you weren’t true to your values.

Then, also analyze your values. Is the intensity of your values taking them close to the universal principles? If not, turn the regulator to high.

Once you are there, embrace these values and live your life as per them. As I said earlier, the initial journey will be difficult as you change yourself, to be in tune with your changed value system. 

Remember, every time you come across a fork on the journey of life, you have a choice. And these choices aren’t just going to impact you; they are also going to impact people in your circles of influence and concern.

I realized this when I experienced a choice being made by someone, which transformed MY life. And that’s when I made a choice – to up the ante, re-evaluate my value system, make tough choices about tough situations and create a Win - Win situation. I stand today with the courage to have dreams and the confidence of fulfilling them, because of THAT CHOICE made by someone else. I am now continuing the chain.

Continue this chain further and experience the difference that you create in the world.


Ciao!

Realization… It’s never too late!

As heavy as the word sounds, that heavy it is!!

In life, we only realize things when we undergo a situation. We then look back or repent and say “What if this had not happened the way it happened?”

Most of us come across such situations, be it relating to work, studies, relationships, personal, professional, social life, so on and so forth.

Many learn from their mistakes and many continue to make them with the “I don’t care” attitude.

But these situations hit you hard, make you jealous, break you down, depress you; when you see someone who was at par with you years ago and has now grown leaps and bounds.

Never think it’s too late. If you think you didn’t get an opportunity to do something that you wanted to do in the past, do it now.

If  you  think  that  you  want  to  run  a  marathon but at the same time have a fear of what your friends or society may think, put them aside and  think  about  yourself.

Think that you can and you will do it. Because when you will do it, you will gain an inner satisfaction. If you succeed, the entire world will blow their trumpet that they knew you were going to rock it.

Don’t suppress your desires for what others would think or comment. They are where they are but if you want to rise, make your realizations a reality.

Remember realizations come and go. When they come and you act on them youʼll succeed, though you may face difficulties. But when they come and you allow them to go, you just lost something which is known as an 'OPPORTUNITY'