Excellence - Burning Desire To Succeed
Excellence is all about dreaming. Excellence is about having an enthusiasm to make it happen. Excellence is about drawing up effective strategies to make it happen. Excellence is about having a focused drive to work hard in a single direction of the goal. Excellence is about having a determined will to overcome all the hurdles that come between our goal and us in achieving Success.
Talking about success, it reminds me of the story of Socrates. As you all know, Socrates was a great thinker and philosopher.
A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river next morning. They met at the river next morning. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him into the water of the river.
When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water. The young man struggled to get out but Socrates kept him under the water until the young man started to turn blue. Socrates pulled his head out of water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air.
Socrates asked, “what did you want the most when you were under the water?” The young man replied, “Air”. Socrates said, “That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted air, then only you shall get success.”
The moral of the story is that a burning desire is the starting point of all accomplishments. Just like a small fire cannot give much heat, a weak desire cannot produce great results.
A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river next morning. They met at the river next morning. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him into the water of the river.
When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water. The young man struggled to get out but Socrates kept him under the water until the young man started to turn blue. Socrates pulled his head out of water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air.
Socrates asked, “what did you want the most when you were under the water?” The young man replied, “Air”. Socrates said, “That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted air, then only you shall get success.”
The moral of the story is that a burning desire is the starting point of all accomplishments. Just like a small fire cannot give much heat, a weak desire cannot produce great results.
posted by Sudhin Choksey @ 11:43 PM
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