Best strategy for Success

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-       -By Chandrashekhar Sangoi & Pratik Badgujar

Today, we want to share something which has helped us personally. This is a tool which we have practiced all our years and it has never disappointed us. Once you use this tool, we believe, there is a high degree of surety that you will achieve your goals. However, having appropriate goals in itself is important. A tool is after all just a tool. If used for right purpose, it can benefit you and if misused then it can be drastically damaging too. The tool which we are talking about is a quote by Edwin Markham:

“FOR ALL YOUR DAYS BE PREPARED, AND MEET THEM EVER ALIKE.

WHEN YOU ARE THE ANVIL, BEAR—WHEN YOU ARE THE HAMMER, STRIKE.”

-        EDWIN MARKHAM

Ever since we started our journey of self-improvement, this has been one of the most inspiring quotes for us. We came across this quote somewhere back in 2010 and since then it has inspired us time and again whenever we had lows in our journey.

The quote highlights two equally important phases which every dreamer goes through- the Anvil phase and the hammer phase.

“When You are the Anvil, bear”

Anvil: As defined by Merriam Webster dictionary, an anvil is a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering).

It happens with many of us that we decide our goals but don’t have resources and we give up the idea itself. We say, this is the worst mistake one can make. This is the biggest injustice to yourself.

Markham says, in such adverse conditions, one should become an anvil and just keep preparing him/her self to achieve the goal. This preparation resembles strikes an anvil bears. In unfavourable moments that you are the anvil, bear the hammers. Don’t complain about lack of resources. Complaining and nagging is not going to solve your problems. If You give up, there is no one in the world who can help you, no one is going to listen to you, not even God. After all, everybody is busy these days!

While being anvil you should just focus and prepare. This is opportunity to create more from less, to engineer something. Believe deep in your heart that there will come a day when you will get the opportunity to become a hammer.

When you are the Hammer, Strike.

After days, weeks, months and sometimes even years of practice, a moment arrives. A moment which tells you this is the time to become a hammer. The moment in which you forget who you are, what your identity is, what past you had or what future will happen. In that moment, you are just the goal seeker. In that moment- forget everything and strike. All the potential that was accumulated while being anvil becomes your strength. In that opportune moment, you should act as if your whole existence depends on the moment; as if you were waiting whole life for this moment. In that moment act- not to prove anything to anyone, not to show off, but just for your own self.

P.S. : Listen to this beautiful motivational song on the following link:

Bol hu- One of the best Motivational song.

 (Focus on lyrics and that little girl, Hadiya's mesmerising voice)