Success

SUCCESS- REAL FRUITS OF LIFE

(An essential aspect that is to be defined individually for a self-motivated life leading to be content)

NEEDS OF AN INDIVIDUAL

Every human being wants to meet his needs.

All of us have a different environment and we have brought up in a different way, hence we fix our needs based on our situations. The fact is that every one of us has our own needs and we strive hard to meet it in one way or the other.

The Need may be the very basic thing to the Need to have recognition and reward.

The very basic need for all living beings in the world is the intake of food, water, air and a place to live and accompany.  And then comes the clothing for human beings in addition to it for preserving Dignity and self-esteem. The needs vary from the lower level like the things mentioned before, to a higher level of being recognized and rewarded.

The Success of an individual has a greater dependence on the definition of their Needs.

Only when our goals and needs are set in the right scape, we can define success. The Success of an individual greatly depends on what they have to achieve at the end of something and gratifying their needs with the content actions they do, in the progress of it.

Need is something that is essential or very important rather than just desirable by an individual.

The success that doesn’t meet the needs of an individual is not special and it isn’t the really happiest thing for the person. Success is desirable for all but the needs are essential for all. Everything that meets the real needs of the person is Success. 

SUCCESS- DEFINITION

Success is an accomplishment of Aim or Purpose.

Accomplishing something in the right direction at the right time is Success. So, it needs some objectives to be set before and the guidelines in achieving the objectives. The goals are essential for a refined aim or purpose in order to be achieved, which is called Success.

Some people define it as the accomplishment of Fame, Wealth or Social Status (to gain Self Esteem).

Most of the people have higher standards in their life and say that accomplishment of bigger wealth, getting the praise of many people, having a higher designation in the society is success as it helps them to feel high, gaining their Self-esteem.

Some people define it as Satisfactory Completion of Something.

The most fortunate people in the world are those who think that satisfactory completion of something is Success. They don’t have comparative standards or values but be content with themselves through defining right standards and desire to achieve the best as far as possible.

It could be defined at times as a favorable outcome of something attempted.

All the things that are positive, when attempted can be called Success as it has a favorable outcome. Though there need not be the completion of attempted things always, there can be something valuable that is got in the process and it can be a favorable outcome while attempting something, which itself will be Success at times. 

SETTING UP GOALS

Most of the people doesn’t think or very short focussed that they don’t set up Goals for their own personal development.

All people don’t take up challenges in life and just live the way by spending days and not really using it. Most of the times we ourselves are very short focused that we just do the things that are needed at the point of time which doesn’t really develop our personality in the long run.

Most people have Goals but they do not have appropriate action towards it, their short term plan doesn’t coincide with their long term plan.

Some of the people have good goals and aspiration to attain their dream and they do something that is relevant in short sight but it is not connected or needed to achieve their long term Goal. In the meanwhile after a course of time, their goals are scattered and become changed without appropriate action.

Most people don’t set up Goals that are more specific to them, they fail to consider their own circumstances, limitations, and advantages.

The unachieved goals are mostly because of irrational or unrealistic expectations while setting up the Goals. Some people don’t think about their present situations, positives, and negatives while setting up Goals. It always good to aim high but we need to know the height at present to move to some height higher. 

The Goals should be holistic, achievable, rational, positive, ethical, and moral with proper Initiative. 

All the Goals set may not achieve desirable results as per our expectations. The goals which are of selfish gain may not be desirable after attaining it. In order for the Goals to be more content, it needs to be holistic by considering all things, realistic in order to achieve, reasonable to ponder, positive to approach, ethical or moral to be acceptable, by taking the initiative to move steps forward. 

ATTAINING SUCCESS

Success is not facing failures at all; it is surpassing all the failures. It is learning from the mistakes.

At some point in time, we may not be able to accomplish something due to the mistakes or unexpected accidents which cannot be limited, during the progress of life. But we can learn from everything, even from the failures and the mistakes, which will be helpful to handle the situations better in the future.

Success is not just achieving something in some way for it doesn’t sustain and even if it sustains, the achievement of success cannot be much interesting and desirable. Success is achieving something by investing our time, treasure and talent for a positive purpose with a positive attitude.

Our goals, desires and responsibilities can be carried over by any way we like and it can be achieved. But we cannot uphold it with a pure conscience and attain transcendence. Success is achieving something in a sustainable and desirable way. It needs hard work, patience, and persistence in order to taste the invisible qualities that are more essential as a human being. It involves the use of time, treasure and talent for a common good and genuine purpose with the right attitude.

Success is not just the Destination but it is all about the path that a person travels and the entire set of steps that a person takes.

Many people in the world think that success is attaining a tough destination by crushing ourselves to reach that point. But everyone needs to understand that ‘tomorrow is not certain for all’. So, we need to feel successful at all the points of life, realizing that success is the entire path that we travel and the entire positive step we take to move forward. 

SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESS

Respect the Self and Respect Others.

We need to have dignity, in spite of others view by having right values and thoughts. Then we need to be respectful to other people in spite of the differences or disagreements we hold, to gain them or get along with them.

Build Independence and Build Relationships with Good people.

People are the most imperative ones in the world. We need to have a good relationship with valuable people in our lives and at the same time we need to build independence in doing certain things in which we are able to apply right thoughts, actions with the right values.

Manage your time

Time is valuable and most common resource for all people. We need to spend our time in the right thing that is helpful both long term and short term.

Be Rational with Values

We need to have an overall balanced view of all things in order to be accepted and be normal. The rationality with values helps others to approach and accept us.

Be Wise with Purpose

There is a wide difference between knowing and discerning. Knowing is through knowledge while discerning is through wisdom which uses knowledge. We need to be wise with right purpose.

Be Responsible with Discipline

We have to be accountable to what we had taken to do or given to do with our approval, by being responsible and carrying out the actions with Discipline.

Be Patient with Persistence

All the things may not be instantly available or attainable to us and we need to be patient at times with the persistence to keep going.

Be Initiative with Knowledge (Learn New things)

Everything may not be easily accessible to us all the times and the opportunities may not knock the door always, we need to push ourselves and initiate things by learning new things and having knowledge about many things.

Have Vision with Mission

The broader outlook of many things would be more helpful to carry out the actions long term and short term. So we need to have a clear vision to carry out a successful mission.

Have Positive attitude

The Attitude is the composite of heart and mind; it needs to be set right with right kind of values and standards, to be always positive, which helps us to be content and joyful at all points of life.

SUCCESS THAT SUSTAINS

Success is something that is seen at times and unseen at times. Every right action that is taken with the right attitude for the right purpose/objective is Success that sustains.

We all have our own hiccups in reaching the desired goal and it may not be possible at times. Most of the times we feel successful only at points when we attain the destination and other times we keep worrying, by filling our eyes with tears and failing to look at the positives. Success is unseen at times and everything that is done with the right attitude for the right purpose is Success, though we may not be able to complete certain things.

Success is seen mostly as a material thing that is worthy only till the time of achievement and it is no more interesting after a certain point. But Success that sustains is all that is immaterial such as Joy, Peace and Love that is needed at all times.

Few people think that becoming the richest billionaire is success but success is not the material thing as materials will be no more interesting after a certain point of life when a person lose the real valuables of successful life which are being joyful, peaceful and lovely.

Success is not just attaining Self-Esteem, It is more of achieving the state of Self-actualization, which is knowing one’s purpose and meaning of life.

Few people think that being in a higher position is Success but it has its own limits. Self-esteem is not Success itself, but being useful through our position and fulfilling the responsibilities is Success. Success is all about knowing the self and Purpose through a meaningful life.

Success is not just being Useful for one’s self and achieving self-gratification but also being useful to others with consideration of their interests and wellbeing.

The Self- Centred life cannot be a successful life that sustains, though it may gratify selves. People are the valuable resources in the world and exploiting others for the Self can turn against the self at any time. Only when there is unity, there will be genuineness with each other to consider others interests and wellbeing.

REAL FRUITS OF THE LIFE

Love

The starving of every people in the world is to have the sense of belongingness by loving others and being loved. Love is the most valuable feeling that makes us feel successful though we may face disasters of life. 

Joy

Everyone has struggles and we have to fight our own battle of unhappiness. Though we can’t avoid it, we can be Joyful when we are right, by moving forward, without hiding our eyes with tears throughout because of the present difficult situations of life.

Peace

The greatest longing of all the people of the world is Peace. Though we have lot of Education and needs being met, our ego and Selfishness can make us unsatisfied. Being content will give us peace and make us Successful.

Patience

We miss out many things in our lives by being so much confused and hurrying just because of the fear of losing, having a very narrow thinking. But having patience may be helpful to miss something, get something better and best at times that make Successful in a long run.

Kindness

Though we all have our own limitations and differences, we want others to accept us. The quality of kindness help us to have respect towards others and win the hearts of people. It also helps us to accept others and share the success of our lives.

Goodness

The people are the valuable resources in our lives and goodness makes the people to be attached with each other and help us to be successful together.

Faithfulness

We are integrated with one another either directly or indirectly and we are responsible to one another as we share our needed things. It is important for us to have faithfulness to be successful towards one another.

Gentleness

There is a saying that ‘ Pride goes before fall’ and the quality of gentleness always helps us to be content, knowing the self and being useful to others by living a successful life.

Self-control

We cannot act everything we think, we cannot express everything we feel as we live in a social structure which demands and expects us to have some standard. In order to be successful with the right values and virtues, we need to have self-control. 

CONCLUSION

SUCCESS in people’s sight might be a person’s material Gain but success for one’s own self is the gain of immaterial qualities with adorable character, behavior, and action, as all the material things are valuable and desirable only till the point of its achievement by a person and is temporary, whereas the valuable immaterial characteristics will continue throughout the paths of life.

Taking Initiative

TAKING INITIATIVE

(A skill that enables us to start things, even though we may have wonderful knowledge and ideas)

HUMAN NATURE

Human beings are the only ones who could be innovative with their thoughts and actions.

We as human beings are very special and unique with the emotions and intellect. No other creature in the world is concerned about using the resources of the world as a whole but just uses what they require. Human beings are highly intellect that urges them to be innovative in all of their thoughts and actions.

They are the only beings who could make the world constructive as well as destructive.

In the process of applying the thoughts, there cannot be always positive results but surely there will be some learnings from it. The nature of human beings is much complex and the actions can be sometimes critical too. The actions of human beings can be constructive at times and destructive at times.

All the Creatures in the World, follow a set of beautiful patterns through which we could learn many things. But human beings are extraordinary.

We cannot neglect the beauty of nature and the patterns followed by the creatures. Also, we can learn many things from the regularity, unity and many other amazing characteristics of different creatures. Still, all the creatures don’t have the ability to Discrete and understand except human beings, that makes humans extraordinary.

Human beings have such a creative power through which we flew in the sky like a bird, swim in the waters as fish with something that is invented.

No other living being in the world except human being have established the buildings, materials, or machines for themselves.  Human beings, by their creativity, produced airplanes and helicopters to fly in the sky like a bird and produced ships and submarines to swim and float in the waters. People continuously use their creativity to invent and discover something.

Though everyone has the ability and Knowledge in something that others don’t have, they fail to expose it because of not taking initiative.

Every one of us is unique in our ability and knowledge and surely have something to contribute to the cause of others. But most of the times only a few people are successful in climbing up in their ladder by expressing their ability and knowledge to convince others, most others suppress themselves by not taking any initiative.

WHAT IS INITIATIVE?

The initiative is the ability to assess and initiate things independently.

We all have a lot of thoughts and ideas as we perceive and analyze things around us. But all our thoughts and ideas are not executed as actions or innovations because of not knowing how to start and where to start. The initiative is just starting the things and taking the first step to do something new and independently after assessing.

The initiative is the power or opportunity to act or take charge.

There are many people in the world who work hard to achieve a common goal with different ways of doing. But there needs a starting point and an opportunity to be found, acted or taken charge. Waiting for a good time and good resources may not be helpful always. We need to be active in doing things at the right time with available resources.

The initiative is the first step towards acting something.

There is always a first step towards doing something interesting and innovative and it is the base for achieving the desired goal. The initiative is the first step that is taken towards starting something, in order to achieve it.

Everyone has great thoughts to achieve, help or create but without initiating, nobody could get to the mark they want to reach.

As human beings, we have wonderful thoughts to achieve something desired, to help the needy people or to create something better or new. But without starting to act in order to execute the thoughts, no one could ever move to the mark they had desired to reach.

WHY WE NEED TO TAKE INITIATIVE?

To achieve something new, we need to take initiative.

Every one of us desires to create something new for getting the attention of others. But there are hindrances within ourselves as the world around us doesn’t accept it immediately. So taking the first move is crucial and being initiative helps us to take the first step confidently.

To help someone in need, we need to be initiative.

Most of the times we resist ourselves in helping someone just because of not taking initiative. Even helping someone in need may not be possible at times, because of the only reason, not being initiative. Taking the initiative is needed to help someone.

To express our thoughts or ideas and to impress others with it, we need to be initiative.

We think a lot about many things but we don’t express our thoughts and ideas with others by being dumb. We need to be expressive in order to be open and clear, and then only we can negotiate things and move towards improvement. In order to express ourselves or impress others, we need to take initiative.

To solve a problem and to develop the Leadership skills we need to be initiative.

We don’t take the responsibility very easily and that’s the reason, only a few people are leaders and others are followers. Taking initiative is one of the key Leadership skill and it helps a person to be responsible for others, solving the conflicts.

WHO AND TO WHOM WE CAN TAKE INITIATIVE?

Everyone should take initiative in things they are able to do and in things there is a need.

There are always certain things we are interested in and we are skilled, we need to take initiative in the things we are able to do. Also, we are responsible where we enjoy our rights and privileges and we need to take initiative when there is a need.

We should first take initiative among our closest circle i.e. Family, School/ College/ Work spot, etc.

Though we are responsible for all the places where we are related directly or indirectly, we need to first take initiative in the closest circle where we are an integral part such as the Family or School or College or Work spot and so on. `

Then, we should consider taking initiative in the Society, Environment, etc.

After taking initiative in our closest circle, we can consider taking initiative in the broader places of our engagement such as society and environment, at least when there is a serious crisis or problem.

WHERE WE CAN TAKE INITIATIVE?

We can take initiative in our home.

The home is the first place where we belong and where we are a proprietor. So we need to take initiative with all our responsibility in the home

We can take initiative in our School/ College/ Workplace.

The School or College or Workplace is the next place in which everyone plays a vital role next to home. We are there in those places with a purpose and we need to be initiative for our own growth.

We can take initiative in our Society/Environment.

The place where we are a part, enjoying all the privileges is our Society/ Environment. We take the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat from the environment. So we are responsible for one another and the environment and should take initiative.

WHEN WE CAN TAKE INITIATIVE?

We can take initiative in the home to help, when the family members are making some important decision and act it out.

Most of the time we take advantage of our close environment and don’t really care about the happenings, as there is not much compulsion over things. We need to be aware that east or west, our home is the best and help our family members in making some important decisions over many things and help them to execute it.

We can take initiative in the School/ College/ Workplace, when there is a need to create something, a need to take the responsibility or a need to present something.

After home, most of us spent our time in school, college or work spot and we had taken or given some responsibilities there. We try our best to follow the instructions and complete our task but when something is needed beyond the curriculum or work we are given, we just ignore it. We need to take initiative to learn something new and create something in the School/College/Workplace.

We can take initiative in the society when some problem/crisis needs to be solved and when there is a lack of proper leadership.

All of us live in a home that lies in a street, district, state, country, and the world. So ultimately everyone is responsible for society and needs to be a steward to everything in which the privileges are enjoyed. We cannot and needn’t be taking things over our head always, but we can take initiative in the society at least when some problem/crisis occurs, that should be solved immediately. Also when there is no one to lead the people due to lack of leadership, we can take initiative. 

HOW WE CAN TAKE INITIATIVE?

We should be confident of ourselves while taking initiative.

Unless we trust ourselves, we cannot make others trust us and take responsibility by being initiative. We need to be confident of what we know, what our ability is and what we are able to learn while taking initiative.

We should be Rational and beware of the pros and cons.

Thinking twice about the consequences, positives and negatives will be much helpful. We are much emotional at the problems or crisis and lose our control while taking initiative about certain things. Being rational and predicting the following will be much helpful.

We should manage our Time and learn something new to increase our awareness/exposure.

Without knowledge about certain things to relate various things, we couldn’t be able to take any responsibility and execute it. So managing the time efficiently by learning new things and increasing awareness or exposure to many things will stimulate us to be initiative.

We should develop our tolerance skills and we shouldn’t trust others voices when it is fault finding/ negative always.

People don’t act positively to us always. There will be rejections, mistrusts and negligence as people are different and they have different expectations with different needs. We need to develop our tolerance skills and needn’t trust others when they always find faults and negatives. It will enable us to be initiative.

We need to develop a relationship with good people and seek their knowledge/experience. 

The valuable resources are the people around us. Relationships with good people around us will always be useful to us because of their knowledge, expertise, and experience. We feel the strength that there is someone to support when there are good people around us and that will be pushing us to accomplish something by being initiative.

We should not fear the failures and should not be carried away through success.

There is no one in the world who could say that they have never faced anything that they had never desired. Always there will be some undesirable things happening around that couldn’t be avoided many times. We should not fear the failures that are hidden but see something good in everything we experience. Also, we should not be carried much by success, to be initiative.

We should set right our attitude with the right values and contribute our part, wherever we are responsible.

When we are with the right values and virtues, with the right attitude, we always strive to be worthy, responsible, useful and selfless. We try our best to accomplish our responsibilities and contribute our best for the welfare of one another by being initiative. 

RESULTS OF TAKING INITIATIVE

When we start taking the initiative, our leadership skills are developed.

Taking initiative doesn’t happen around us much. Whenever there is a call for volunteering towards something, many people don’t turn up considering themselves to be inefficient or unskilled or less concerned. But taking initiative will help a person to develop leadership skills.

Taking initiative makes us independent and we could act without looking at others.

Most of the times we follow someone or something without knowing or analyzing the background of things by not using our mind. But taking initiative helps us not to be leaning on others and helps us to be independent. We can frame our own rules and procedures for acting towards something in the right way by having the right values.

When we take initiative, we could develop our Problem-solving skills and learn something new.

We needn’t know everything before starting to do something. But when we don’t have the right attitude and take something, we will leave it just because we don’t know anything. Taking initiative will be helpful in developing ourselves to find solutions for the problems arising out and thereby learn new things in the process of finding solutions in order to accomplish the goal.

Taking initiative helps us to fulfill our responsibility, wherever we are and whatever we do.

We are all responsible for many of the places around us. At times there will not be many people to ignite and make us do something. Taking initiative will help us to fulfill the responsibilities that are given or taken, wherever we are associated and whatever we commit ourselves to do.

Taking initiative helps us to achieve success at times, Joy at times and satisfaction at times. 

The first step we move is the big step, as it is the foundational stone for success. It involves a lot of emotions and rationalization. Taking initiative helps us to take the first step and we can taste success by altering things and learning things even though there can be slide backs or unexpected things. There will be Joy and satisfaction all the times when we don’t stop trying out things, as we are initiative all the times and even change the targets at times that are much worthier.

Responsibility to Society

RESPONSIBILITY TO SOCIETY:

(An action that enhances Dignity and makes a path for Future Generation)

RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY

Every one of us experiences rights in the home, school, or workplace, as well as public places.

We all have someplace or point of reference where we usually spend our time. The place that is accessible to us usually has some freedom for us in one or more aspects. Thereby we all can experience the rights in the home or a work/school spot or some public place, accordingly and appropriately.

Along with the Rights, there comes Responsibility, which is forgotten most of the time.

When we experience or enjoy some favor in something, we need to and we are expected to do something for it. So, whenever and wherever we claim the rights, there comes some responsibility along with it, which isn’t usually thought of and acted most of the time.

Responsibility is the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone.

Most of the time, responsibility is usually thought in synonymy with the position we hold, the role we play, or the hierarchy we are. But responsibility is the actions we do, based on the role or position or hierarchy. It is a state or fact of having and carrying out duties to deal with something we are obliged to. Also having control over someone we are accountable and who is accountable to us, is responsibility.

It is state or fact of being accountable or to blame/take the blame for something

Sometimes we just consider and get content after segregating and delegating something to someone. But responsibility is not just delegation but it is something to take care that everything goes on well, facing the struggles, fulfilling the requirements, and achieving the desired Goal. It is the fact of being accountable for the things that were given to us or taken by us, by blaming the wrong/ taking the blame for something wrong.

THE WORLD AROUND US

The World around us has both living and non-living beings. Living beings depend on other living things/non-living things.

We, as human beings, even other living, and non-living beings depend on one another in one way or the other directly or indirectly for survival. If we carefully analyze even a non-living thing, it needs something for its existence in the state it exists. And every living being depends on a non-living thing or another living thing.

People are only resources who could communicate and relate in an effective way, as well as manage everything in the world.

In the marvelous world with all its magnificence, People are the only resources who could communicate and relate in a much effective way due to the systems we had made around ourselves and for ourselves. Human beings are only one who is much intellectual among every other living being to manage everything in the world in a better way.

But people in today’s world became so selfish and utilized the resources very inappropriately.

Though human beings are highly intellectual and capable in many aspects, the values and the thoughts of people vary from person to person. People in today’s world became very much selfish with the weird desires that they utilize the resources in an inappropriate way which causes much chaos and bias.

Many people accumulate things and search for something new and they never find the happiness of being content and joy of giving. 

Due to selfishness among human beings, people accumulate things for themselves and search for something new every day in everything they come across. People don’t realize that there isn’t happiness in accumulation and they do realize that only when they are at stake, end of life. And the selfish people never find the happiness of being content and the joy in giving to others.

WHAT IS SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY?

Social responsibility is an ethical framework for an entity, be it an organization or individual. It has an obligation to act for the benefit of society at large. 

Every one of us has our responsibility depending on our family, School/Work, Friendship, etc. Social responsibility is not a compulsion but it’s a need and an ethical framework that makes an entity for acting something for the cause of others through which we ourselves are benefited directly or indirectly. It suggests an organization or individual for acting for the benefit of society to a greater extent, realizing an obligation.

Social responsibility is a duty for every individual to perform to maintain a balance between the economy and the ecosystem.

Social responsibility is thought of as an option by most of us, but it is a necessity. Only when we realize that social responsibility is a duty for each one of us that is to be performed based on their interests and social needs, we would be able to balance between the economy and the ecosystem. Or else there will be many advances in the economy at some point that will be unworthy to compensate for the damage caused in the ecosystem.

It is morally binding and suggests that each person acts in such a way that minimizes the adverse effect on those immediately around them.

People are highly interlinked with one another and the environment. Everything we make using our creativity and innovation will be for the glory of the self or admiration and usefulness of other people. A person who wants to gratify the self doesn’t care about the least privileged and just exploit them. Social responsibility alone helps us to be morally binding and helps each one of us to act in a way that minimizes the harmful effects on those around us.

It is a commitment everyone should have towards society – contributing to social, cultural, and ecological causes. 

Social responsibility is not an onetime process or a short time activity. It needs to be in the attitude of each and every one of us, being a part of our society who enjoys all the favor in it. It is a commitment that everyone needs to have towards our society so that we can contribute something positive towards social, cultural, or ecological problems.

WHY WE NEED SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY?

A human being is a social being and they are dependent on immaterial things like life, emotions, etc.

There is none in the world who can say that they will be independent and live a lonely life throughout the entire span of their life. We as human beings are social beings who are much dependent on one another for all our needs at least at some points of life and at least for all our immaterial needs such as showing our emotions. So we need one another for healthy survival and thereby need social responsibility too.

Human beings are also dependent on easy access to material things like food, dressing, land, etc.

All of us are not only dependent on one another for sharing our emotional needs but also dependent on one another for the much easier access to Material things like food- which is got through the known or unknown farmer, dress- which is got through the known or unknown weaver and a house that is built through the known or unknown builder and so on. So we need to be socially responsible towards one another.

We are very much integrated and we are responsible to give what we have received at different points for a complete life.

Whether we pay for something or we get it free of cost, we all are much connected with one another with a strong integration professionally or personally. So we are responsible to give something in return for what we have received at different points of life for a complete and content life.

TO WHOM WE ARE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE?

We are socially responsible for everyone and everything in our own environment.

As we are an integral part of many things in our environment, we enjoy many products that are derived out of it. Therefore we are equally and socially responsible towards every fellow human being who is a co-partner in producing or enjoying the products. We are responsible for everything in our own environment as it helps in the survival and welfare of one another.

At first, it is our family members, friends, relatives, neighbors, classmates/ colleagues who play an important role by directly and visibly involved in our life.

When a person is not able to relate and be responsible to the people who are closely related, the person could not relate and be responsible to others outside. If the person tries to do it, (s) he will not be able to pursue it. So at the foremost, it is our responsibility to be responsible to our family, friends, relatives, associates who are closely integrated with our lives and play a very important role directly and visibly, by involving in our life. 

It could be extended to the farmer who produces our food, the weaver who produces our clothes, the trees that give us air, the ponds that give us water and every third person/thing, involving indirectly or just by being in this world we live. 

We all experience certain things that are free but valuable for survival. As it is free, we easily forget the value of those things and give less care to protect it and prevent the hazards because of lack of it. We are socially responsible for everything we use and come across directly or indirectly, as we are involved in it. Though we don’t know who is actually producing our food, we are able to get it. If there is no producer, there will not be a product at all and we wouldn’t be able to get the food at any cost. Though we don’t see the weaver who produces our clothes, we could be covered beautifully only because of them. The trees that give air to breathe and the ponds that give water to drink and every third person or a thing that involves indirectly for our benefit by just being in the world we live need to be considered with care, having the commitment of responsibility.

WHERE WE ARE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE?            

We are responsible for our Family and home.

The Family is the first set of people who are involved in the making of a person. The home is the first and best place in all our lives where we will be much free to do whatever we desire to do with a feeling of being comfortable. So we are responsible for and in our family as well as home.

We are responsible for our School/ College/ Workplace.

The place where much of our time is spent other than the home could be School/College/Work spot based on what we are involved at a particular moment of life. So we need to be responsible for those places for a positive outcome and benefit without compromising the values and virtues.

We are responsible for our Society.

Many things including the home and School/College/Workplace comes under our society and it helps us to have access to all our needs in a much approachable and appropriate manner. So we are responsible for everyone and everything in the Society.

We are responsible for our Street/City/District/ State/ Country.

Society can be a group of people from a street, city, district, state or nation or even any other group of individuals, it should not be limited just to the people with whom we are comfortable. We need to be responsible for the street where we live as our home is in it, we need to be responsible to the City or the state or the Country as we enjoy the rights and privileges in its constitution and administration.

We are responsible for\ our environment and the entire world. 

At a larger scale, we all live on the earth which needs to be taken care of in a proper and sustainable manner for the welfare of one another. One person’s mistake that affects the planet could risk the lives of everyone who exists on earth, at the present and future time. We need to be responsible in the smallest part of the environment always and to the entire world when it is possible or needed.

WHEN WE SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE TO SOCIETY?

We should be responsible for our family, friends, relatives, school/ college/ workplace, and everyone/thing closely associated at all times.

We usually share and contribute our material and immaterial things with the people where we are close and comfortable with. So there need not be any special time to show our responsibility in the family, a circle of friends or relatives, School or College or Workplace. We need to be always responsible for the closest people.

We should be responsible for our society/street/country, environment, third persons, etc. at least when there is a serious crisis/natural disaster, though it may not be possible every time.

We need to be responsible for all the things or people around us at all times whether we are closely related or not, just because they are part of our own earth, in which we live. But it may not be possible at all times as we are held with our own personal duties, so we can be responsible for our society or street or country or environment or third person, at least during the serious problems or intolerable natural disaster.

HOW WE CAN BE RESPONSIBLE TO SOCIETY?

FAMILY/FRIENDS/RELATIVES:

Ø We should help our Parents/Relatives in the household works and Siblings/Friends in their studies or work, etc.

Most of us just want our parents or relatives to support us in all that we are not able to do by ourselves, but mostly we do not support them in what they do, for giving us a good environment. We shall help them in the household works as we take benefits from them. We can also be responsible for the friends or siblings to develop themselves by helping in their studies or some other things.

Ø We should emotionally support by loving, caring, encouraging, giving ideas, etc. when needed

Friends, Family, and Relatives are the people with whom we are associated with sharing different things. We are loved and taken care of by them and we need to give the same to them when they need it. Most of the time we want so many people to admire or follow us, leaving aside the real relationships who could ever come along. We need to emotionally and socially support the closed ones with love, care, encouragement, solutions at the needed times.

Ø We should share our belongings when the beloved people around us need it.

When there is a real concern and a good relationship with the people around us, we will not mind or be concerned about any other thing. As a person who is responsible, we will share our belongings with the beloved people who is in need, spontaneously.

Ø We should correct our parents/friends/ relatives through the Values that are Ethical and Moral when they try to act something that is not right and acceptable.

Everyone makes mistakes either knowingly or unknowingly. So it’s not a requirement that we need to agree and fall in line with whatever others say whoever it might be. It’s much necessary to correct our parents or friends or relatives whenever the Values aren’t ethical and moral. We are responsible to make sure that they are right and acceptable in their actions and thoughts.

SCHOOL/COLLEGE/WORKPLACE, SOCIETY, COUNTRY:

Ø We should reach school/college/workplace in time and leave in time. We should follow the rules and regulations of the public place to support them, as we had agreed to it before entering it.

Everyone is part of a school or College or Workplace in accordance with the moment of life. We should be responsible in those places as we are benefited from a cause and we benefit the place at times. We need to keep time, to be punctual by being in at right time and also being out at the right time for efficiently managing our time, as well as being responsible to one another. We had also agreed to abide by its rules while joining the place, so we need to follow and obey it to support, for a systematic environment.

Ø We should accept everyone, support one another, encourage one another and we should respect our elders.

There are always variations in the midst of us in public places when we come together for a purpose. For being responsible to one another we need to accept everyone at first. At times we need to support or encourage one another, and we need to show regard and respect to one another, especially to the seniors and the elders.

Ø We should follow things that have Ethical and Moral values.

Even if the people around or an entity violates the ethics and morals of the basic instinct, we need to always stand for what is right and be responsible for leading others on the right path.

Ø We should handle the Public properties with care as we handle our Private Properties.

Ø Every one handles the own things with special care for retaining it for a longer time and has less care or no care for the public properties. We should be responsible for handling things, the way it needs to be handled in spite of whether it is private or public property.

Ø We should fulfill our responsibilities, wherever we are and whatever we had agreed to do.

Ø All of us usually do not think much, when we are given some responsibility in common and simply agree to it as it is. Whenever we agree to something that is given either individually or as a group, we are responsible for fulfilling it at any cost. 

Ø We should be innovative and contribute to the growth of our nation.

Responsibility is not just doing something repetitively and that is put on our head. We can be innovative by trying something new and different and contribute to the growth by doing something better than what is expected, with real concern towards one another.

Ø We should help the people in need to help themselves.  If we are not helping others, we should not be a hindrance at least.

There are always the least privileged people around us due to various personnel or social reasons. We are responsible for one another and we can help those in need to come up themselves and meet their own needs. If we are not willing or helping the needy people, we should not be a hindrance to them at least.

Ø We should not waste our time and be modest in our dressing, attitude, and behavior.

All of us are stewards to ourselves. We know and we decide how we are going to spend our time though there is a little influence because of the situation. We should be responsible for how we use our time. Also, we need to be modest and be respectable in the way we think, the way we dress, and the way we act, for showing and taking our responsibility.

ENVIRONMENT/ ECOSYSTEM/ NATURE:

Ø We should manage the wastes securely with proper waste management systems for Medical wastes, Biodegradable wastes, and Non- Biodegradable wastes.

Most of us spill or throw things as it is, without thinking that it will be dumped in an inappropriate place if no one is going to take responsibility for discarding it. We need to be responsible for our environment and discard the different wastes in an appropriate way in an appropriate place.

Ø We should protect the land around us through proper use of it and using natural agents.

Today, people had demolished and devastated many of the natural habitats for digging out minerals, building out constructions, using synthetically non-degradable chemicals, etc.  The land we have sheltered us helps us to produce food and we need to be responsible for it by protecting it and properly using it with the natural agents.

Ø We should protect the air around us from pollution.

People easily destroy the trees for producing papers, furniture, or shelters generally. And most of the time we don’t realize the cost of its destruction and effort involved in producing it again. We are responsible for it as we get air from it. Also, we need to protect the air by preventing it from the release of manmade pollutants into the environment.

Ø We should reduce the usage of non-renewable sources of energy to the maximum and use Renewable sources of Energy.

The earth is not a place where every material gets replaced with the same suddenly and spontaneously. So when the material is used, it is done and it takes enormously large time for its replacement. So, it’s always necessary and good to use much of the renewable sources in place of non-renewable sources of energy for longer sustenance and showing our responsibility.

Ø We should avoid cutting trees and Plant more trees.

As stewards and partakers in the environment, we need to be responsible for everything in it. We have to find some alternatives instead of cutting or using trees and also we can be responsible for planting more trees for replacement when we cut out a single tree.

Ø We should have water bodies and avoid constructing unnecessary buildings and filling of lands for selfish purposes.

Most of the ecosystem is bedeviled by selfish or abnormal human activities which caused a big imbalance in the environment. We enjoy all the benefits of the environment and we need to protect the water bodies and avoid filling the low lands for the construction of buildings and avoid demolition of the living as well as non-living things.

Ø We should not disrupt the Ecosystem around us and help Nature to maintain its Balance.

We are responsible for all the things in the ecosystem and we are always responsible to help nature to maintain the balance of things as most of the things in the environment are altered by us in the process of innovating and using things. We are the foremost being who need to make sure and be responsible not to disrupt the Ecosystem.

RESULTS OF RESPONSIBILITY TO SOCIETY

The whole world will become a heavenly place when each one of us realizes our responsibilities towards other people and other living/non-living creatures around us.

People are responsible for both the major constructiveness as well as destructiveness in the whole world. If each one of us kills our selfishness and be concerned about others and our environment, showing our responsibility, then there will not be many social problems prevalent amongst us.

When we realize our Responsibility, Nature will have the balance and everyone will use their expertise/ knowledge/ experience for the Common Good of accommodation and not acquiring.

Most of the time we are self-dependent and use others for our benefit. When everyone realizes the responsibility for another, there will be equal sharing of the things from one another for a common good and there will be great balance and the distribution of the resources.

When we recognize our responsibility, ultimately our attitude and behavior get altered positively and we could kill our Selfishness which is the root cause of all problems.

The major root cause for all the problems is the pride and wanting to show the self, greater over everything. Only after recognizing and realizing the mortality of everything, we will be able to get rid of it. But recognizing our responsibility we can change our attitude and behavior positively by acknowledging one another.

When every one of us realizes our responsibility, we could enjoy our rights equally in spite of all our differences. 

The major reason for discrimination amongst us is exploitation and forbidding certain people to enjoy certain privileges. By being responsible, we can make ignorant people know their rights and help them to uphold it instead of exploiting them.

The wars will be ended and the fragrance of love and joy will be present all the time in all the places in all the people.

By being responsible over one another, we accept the differences and limitations, acknowledge each other’s strengths in the midst of many factors. There will be unity and harmony with one another by putting end to the wars and people will be enjoying the favor of one another with love and joy.

Positive Attitude

POSITIVE ATTITUDE:

(Power to pursue a peaceful and purposeful plan/process)

ATTITUDE

Attitude is something that impacts everything we do.

The thoughts and the actions accompanied by thoughts are the outcomes of our Attitude. While attitude is itself a mental state, it impacts other mental states and also the physical states. It has an influence on everything we do and strive to do as it is base for all the thought process.

It is the state of mind or feeling with regard to some matter

Every one of us has our own set of Ideas based on our circumstances and our background. There are certain values we have in our inner instincts that help us to be aright with what we do and what we need. Attitude is the state of mind with the thoughts or feelings in regard to something.

It is not inherited but it is acquired through the person’s own choices.

The person’s state of his mind and the emotions is not inherited from generations though it could be strongly influenced by the situations and background. Attitude can be acquired through our own choices and the decisions on the choices we have.  

NEED OF ATTITUDE

Attitude is needed for every human individual because the state of feeling and thinking alone differentiates human from other organism

Attitude is the base for all our thought processes and thereby all our actions. It is very much needed as it differentiates human beings from every other living being in the world. The emotions and intellect are best utilized only with the aid of attitude.

Every Behavior, Manner, and Character of the person relies on the attitude of that person.

As the actions are the outcome of our thoughts and thoughts are the outcome of our attitude, all the behavior or the manner or the Character of a person is strongly dependent on the attitude of the person.

The person’s choices have great influence with regard to his attitude.

All of us have different options around us, from a minor thing to a major thing. Every choice will not be an interest to every person as we differ in our tastes or interests. What we choose and how we choose from the choices depends on our attitude.

CONSEQUENCES OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDE

Every action of a person is the outcome of his attitude. If the person has a negative attitude, his actions will not be desirable

Outward expressions are the effect of inward thoughts, so every action we do knowingly or unknowingly is the outcome of our attitude. If we don’t take any effort to tame our attitude with right values, thoughts, and beliefs, the attitude will be negative and the actions will ultimately become undesirable.

The Negative attitude could make a person non-functional or hyper-functional, and both could be disastrous

The Negative attitude will be usually self-centered and the person could utilize his socio-economic advantages only for the gratification of self. This will make a person non- functional or hyper functional, and both could be disastrous in one way or the other.

COST OF A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE

The Negative attitude results in the impaired relationships

The Attitude which is negative causes malfunction in the person’s behavior and actions which is not accepted in the society normally. So, it usually results in an impaired or unhealthy relationships.

It results in the broken-heartedness

The negative attitude usually has the thought process that is not socially accepted or it is just consideration of self. Also, the emotions are not balanced as it doesn’t allow a person to act appropriately, which results in broken-heartedness after some point of time.

It could make some irreversible change around an individual which would be much costlier to be retrieved.

The negative attitude can make a person act inappropriately without the right thoughts and feelings which would be much adverse. It can make an irreversible change around an individual that’s much costlier for a person to come back and settle smoothly.

REDEFINING ATTITUDE

To achieve the vision, goals, and plans, in a peaceful and joyful manner, redefinition of attitude is very much necessary.

All the people have own agenda and target to reach every point of life. But simply doing anything for reaching a point may not be valuable when turned back. There should be Joy and Peace in the heart always which makes a person successful as a whole. Thereby in order to achieve the vision in a healthier manner, a positive attitude is much essential, for which redefinition of attitude is essential at many points of life.

Our attitude may be already positive or negative or shifting at times. All should have the passion to achieve Positive attitude and stay in it, which could be gained by positive and rational thinking.

The Attitude need not be constant throughout, it can be strongly influenced by the situations we undergo and exposure we have. There will be always a shift in the heart and mind at the adverse or exciting situations which make us disabled from what we actually want to be. Every one of us needs to have a passion to stay in a Positive attitude through proper taming of our thoughts and feelings, by redefining the attitude.

IMPORTANCE OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Research says that only 15% of the Technical Knowledge is responsible for success, while the rest lies only with the attitude

Attitude is the attribute that helps a human being in the thought process. Though a person is well acquired with much knowledge and If (s) he doesn’t know how, why and where to use it, it doesn’t account for much usefulness. Even Researchers confirms that only a very small amount of Technical knowledge is responsible for the success of a person, while Attitude has a major role. A person with a positive attitude can be able to develop himself with leaps of knowledge when he determines.

We aren’t responsible for controlling what happens outside us but we are responsible for controlling how we react towards it.

Nobody can change certain circumstances around us as it is dependent on so many factors. So we aren’t responsible for what’s happening outside us. But certainly, we alone are the proprietors of how we react to the external situations and we alone are responsible for how we react to it. A positive attitude helps in positive reactions.

A positive attitude helps an individual to handle everything with positive thinking and put the right thoughts into the right actions at the right times.

Differences always exist in all the things and the people around us. And every one of us has our own interests in the different options around us. Only the Positive attitude with Positive thinking will be helpful to handle the Difference in the thoughts and opinions so that we will be able to accept others and acknowledge ourselves. And it doesn’t stop with just accepting others but also helps to think what is right and do what is right at the appropriate times.

DEVELOPING POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Don’t push yourself further when you are already burdened. Though you could do it, you don’t have time to do it.

A positive attitude helps a person to be considerate of not only self but also others. It gives confidence to handle things, even the unknown, after learning about it. But at the same time, we need to analyze our own time, treasure and talent for not getting burdened. Though there will be confidence, it should not be overconfidence. You may be able to do many things but you should not be held in so many things that you don’t have the time or resources to do it and be embarrassed.

Don’t Compare Yourself with others, which makes you lose your Hope.

Everyone should accept the self in spite of others' comments or criticism. Also, there is always uniqueness in everyone that should be respected without any discrimination. It’s always good to admire some positives from others as well as ourselves and set right the limitations in ourselves as well as others. But comparing ourselves unnecessarily with others may make us feel inferior or superior which is unhealthy and affect our attitude.

Set targets for yourself according to your capacity and interests.

We all need to be focused on what we do, by being well prepared and planned. Only when we are prepared we would give much thought to what we do by knowing the objectives. Setting up targets by knowing the Capacity and Interests may be helpful to achieve it, with the right values and positive attitude, as well as continue to have a positive attitude.

Spend more time in things that interest you, at the same time spend little time in things that may not interest you, but necessary at times.

Positive Attitude helps a person to develop and build the self. It makes the person go into something that nobody entered, makes the person to leap beyond that’s unseen. So, spending more time on our interests may be helpful to master it and at the same time, we need to learn new things that will be helpful to build and relate things with one another. Both of them will be helpful to build a positive attitude in a person.

There is nothing that is beyond our knowledge and understanding which is made by our fellow human beings who are similar to ourselves, but the time is taken to understand it differs from person to person based on our own experience and exposure.

Most of the time we limit ourselves after trying out things for few times, failing to realize that trying it more would be surely helpful to attain the knowledge and understanding of it. Everything that’s discovered and made was done only by the human beings who are similar to each of us and no way superior. But the way we utilize our mind and heart makes a difference. Everyone can master everything but the time taken can be different based on experience and exposure.

Practicing things regularly makes you a master in it. Don’t worry about the time taken to master it as it differs from person to person

We all have our own strengths and Weaknesses, Our strength might be a weakness in others while our weakness might be a strength in others. We have our own capacity and ability, and practicing things with perseverance will help us to achieve the desired result and master over those things. So, there is no need to worry about the time taken to achieve the desired goal that is determined, but pursues it with confidence and hard work so that it would be accomplished at some point in life.

Learning a few new things every day will help you learn an abundant amount of things after a period of time without much burden.

Knowledge about many things around us will certainly help us and guide us, to have different options. Learning at least a few things new every day will contribute a lot in our day-to-day life, and the knowledge will be abundant after a certain period of time. It will certainly help us to take new steps and proceed further with confidence and a positive attitude.

Motivate yourself whenever you need it.

As human beings, we are socially susceptible and need inspiration from one another. But we can’t expect others to be with us all the time and it isn’t possible. So we all need to be self-motivated at least during some points of life to keep moving forward.

Help the people who are less fortunate than yourself, then you can gain your attitude.

We all strive to be accepted, acknowledged and adored by others in everything we do, at least by the people who are closer to us. Helping the people who are unfortunate, may enhance our social relationship and help us to accept and love others as ourselves. It will also be helpful to gain and develop a positive attitude in us.  

RESPONSE TOWARDS FAILURE

“I’m such an Idiot! I will never try that again! Or What I can learn from this experience?”

There can be two basic responses when we fail in attempting something new, doing something or involved in something. One of the responses is seeing the situation separately and saying to ourselves, that it is unworthy to try it again. And the other response can be applying the Experience by learning something out of it and applying the same in the future.

STUMBLING BLOCKS

Failures may be stumbling. But look at that as an event of learning, by not taking it personally.

No one in the world could say that they had achieved something targeted, at the very first attempt. Achieving something at the first attempt is mostly an impaired success as it doesn’t have much exposure and needed experience. Success with a lot of attempts with striving to achieve is great with a lot of learnings. Though failures are always stumbling, we can look at it as a process of Learning for a positive attitude.

We may have tried again and again for 99times which would have left us frustrated, but when we don’t continue trying from 100^th time, we fail at that point.

Success is not only achieving something that is targeted but the process of trying and working out things in order to achieve something. We always need to try out some way when things don’t work in a particular way. Trying out the way that doesn’t work at all is stupidity. Trying and thinking may cause frustration but only when we continue to try we will be able to achieve that is targeted. The movement we stop trying out things, we fail and attitude is affected.

Mistakes may happen, but learn from it and try your best not to repeat it.

We human beings are not all perfect and have our limitations. We always make mistakes knowingly or unknowingly. Making the same mistakes, again and again, isn’t good and we need to learn from our mistakes and learn not to do it again at any cost to build upon a positive attitude. 

RESULTS OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE

A positive attitude helps a person to relate well to the people around.

Interpersonal relations will be efficient and without deceit only when the attitude of the people is good. A person could accept the other person without considering his weaknesses and limitations, only when there is a healthy relationship. The Positive attitude helps us to relate to a person in a good and admirable way though they are wrong.

A person with a positive attitude never mourns for a mistake or a problem but always tries to solve it.

The person with a positive attitude have concern for the mistake or a problem and he doesn’t continue in sadness by mourning for it. The person with a positive attitude always try to correct the mistakes that had been taken place and tries to solve the problem as far as possible.

A person with a positive attitude will lead a content, joyful and peaceful life with all balance.

The Positive attitude person doesn’t stay idle and will be involved in something for the cause of self and others' development. (S) He learns new things, increases exposure and builds wider options around. So the person with positive attitude need not be stuck by something and could lead a content, Joyful and peaceful life as the person knew ways to balance things around.

A person with a positive attitude is always selfless, discerning, achieving by leading a lovely life.

The Person with positive attitude knew that gratifying the self alone cannot sustain a human being as it is not much constructive and reasonable. So, (s)he is always  without selfishness, Able to discern what is right and wrong, achieving the positive effects by leading a worthy, valuable and lovely life.

REMEMBER THE CYCLE EVERYDAY