avatarPushpender Yadav

Summary

The article emphasizes the importance of focusing and managing one's desires to achieve success and avoid failure.

Abstract

The article discusses the critical role that desire plays in determining success or failure. It suggests that success is more likely when one's energy is channeled into a single, focused desire, while the lack of focus on too many desires can lead to failure. The author argues that desires shape our actions and outcomes, and thus, it is crucial to direct them properly. The article also warns against the dangers of unchecked desires, which can lead to distractions, anxiety, and a lack of progress. It advises readers to prioritize their true goals and avoid the pitfalls of wasteful thoughts and decisions influenced by an excess of desires.

Opinions

  • The author believes that success is achieved by focusing on a single desire at a time, while trying to fulfill multiple desires can result in failure.
  • Desires are seen as the driving force behind all actions, and therefore, they should be managed and directed towards meaningful goals.
  • The article suggests that people often blame others for their failures without recognizing that their desires may be misaligned or mismanaged.
  • It is highlighted that the constant comparison with others and the craving for more can lead to mental pressure and slow down progress.
  • The author points out that excessive desires can manifest as waste thoughts and indecision, which are detrimental to achieving one's goals.
  • The article concludes that maintaining a balance between desires and efforts is essential for an effective and productive life, though the specific balance is individual and cannot be universally prescribed.

Desire plays a very “specific role” in success and failures

Why are you getting drowsy while working for your dreams? Because you lack desire.

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You need to be very focused while reading this post. I am going to share several things that will help you grow in whatever you’re doing because I have seen people blame others for their failures; even though they’re not using their desires accurately.

Everything that you do has a reason behind it, and that reason is your “desire.”

You desire always followed by your interest. And later if you force yourself to do whatever you want, you get results out of it, and you call it a success.

People say that — when you want to do something, do not think about money because money is not that important. What you want to do is important, and if you can do it for free, then money will automatically follow.

In my case, it’s different, if I think why I am doing anything? Whatever I am doing. Specifically! Because I want to earn money for my dreams. Even though I try to convince myself that I am doing this because I want my message to reach people and want to help people. But I never forget about checking my stats and my daily progress.

Why?

Only because somewhere it’s fixed. Buddy, stats are important, and you need to see how much progress you have made till now?

That is your desire, and that is pushing you for doing more.

If you look at your life carefully, you’ll find everything you do is a result of your desires. Your fancy clothes, your sedan, your life partner plus your date that you got after swiping right on “tinder”.

All these are results of your desires, and your desire develops the interest, and later you want to achieve that thing.

So, you must learn to direct your desires. And try to lead them in the right direction.

How?

For directing your desires, you need to understand the importance of your desires, and how you got them.

You know that all things start from your brain in the form of “thought”, and later it comes to“ your words” and then it comes in “actions”.

So your desires are merely thoughts that you’re creating because of so many reasons, like.

  1. By looking at others life.
  2. Because you want to achieve a more suitable name, fame and position.
  3. You want to a better life than that you currently have.
  4. Because you love to progress.
  5. Because you compare yourself with others.

There are uncountable reasons, and it’s difficult to mention all of them. You need to find yours by self.

Most of the times, a desire or passion is created by looking at others and by comparison.

For example, If you’re are a writer, and you read my work and like it. The first thought that will cross your mind, “I want to write like him” or any other fellow writer that you like.

In the same way, if you watch movies or watch pornographic material, you just generate more desires for yourself, even though — they’re harmful to you.

And sometimes these over-desires destroy you, your life and your relationships — that’s why you need to realise that your desires are very important for you and you need to use them correctly.

What do you need to change?

You need to realise what’s necessary for you because the craving for everything will only kill your mental energies.

If you have a desire for becoming a better “writer” than just focus only on that, don’t try to add more to it, until you have achieved the results. Because if you’re adding new desires randomly to your gist — you’re only distributing your limited energy between more things, and that’ll slow down your progress, which you’ll notice when you’ll not obtain desired results.

Not only this, having too many desires creates mental pressure because all desired can’t be achieved in a single stroke.

Problems like anxiety and high temper are all caused because of too many desires.

Role of desire in success

If you have something in your mind that you want to achieve in your life, then you must focus on only that single thing without getting distracted by other things.

Because when you have a“ single desire” and you push yourself in the direction of that desire, your energy remains focused, and achieving that event become more comfortable for you. And This does not need proof; if you try, you’ll automatically get the answer in a few days.

The difference between successful persons and failure is. Successful people focus on one “Idea” at a time. On the other hand, a failure thinks about many Ideas and try to implement all at the same time, because of that, he fails to get proper results for himself.

These things I have seen in my life, during my college years, I used to do a lot of things, like playing football, coaching classes, mentoring students, and my college studies because of so many things, my energy and mind both were always distracted. I was failing to focus on one task at a time. And in the long run, I failed.

It was a learning for me because students who were focusing on their studies were much more brilliant than me and also had more knowledge than me.

And I use to struggle between my football game and my lecture. Due to which, I always seem distracted during my game. And from there, I learned if I want to achieve the best results than I have to focus on one thing at a time. And need to lend 100% to it.

In the same way, if you’re trying to achieve more. And focusing on — more than one thing at a time than you’re only “increasing time between you and your success” for which you’re working day and night.

If you want your desire to push you “fast towards your goal”, then you must concentrate on a single goal for a long time or until you have achieved it.

Role of desire in failure

As I have explained above if you fail to handle your desires properly, then they will become a reason for your failure in no time.

How?

You know that everything we do is due to our desires love, sex, money, relationships and other activities except sh*tting and getting sick.

The list of our desires is quite long, and we’re not even aware of that, getting more followers on social media, influencing people and watching fancy women/mem e.t.c.

So these all desires kills your real aim that you want to achieve, like if you’re working to build a company. And instead of focusing on that, you’re wasting your time in scrolling your Instagram by exploring profiles of your favourite cosplayers. Lol, you can guess where you’ll end!.

What will happen if you continue this for a long time?

Your “ real aim” will be covered by the different desire of watching pictures of women/men, so you need to be very careful while handling your desires.

Most of the people are victims of their desires, and they are continually suffering their desires in the form of waste thoughts and struggling with their decisions.

More desires create confusion inside your brain, and you fail to take any decision that’s why most people fails without taking any step towards their goal.

Conclusions;

You need to be very careful — while handling your desires and creating more desires for yourself because if you’re careless, then you’ll suffer them.

Desiring more is not a problem, but when you desire too much and make less affords, your desires eat your brain, and you’ll end up hating people who are more successful than you in terms of money, life and achievements.

If you want your life to be more effective and more productive than you need to need to create a balance between your desires and you afford.

Creating a balance can’t be taught because everyone has a different life, different goals, and different situations.

Suppose if I say do following things for creating balance in your life; they may to not work for you.

So try to find your way because that will be best for you.

And the mantra is;

Desire-less and do more.

Stay blessed and stay focused.

Success
Self Improvement
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