Rise and Fall of Success: 7 Life Commandments for Sustainable Growth and Inner Peace
There are brilliant people, wealthy people, and healthy people across business, politics, sports, art, science & technology, and even spirituality. History is full of individuals who rise to great heights and enjoy global admiration. Yet, time and again, their downfall begins when balance is lost in the essentials of life.
This blog explores the Seven Commandments of Life—timeless principles that determine not only how high one rises, but how long one remains there.
The moment you start priding on yourself for an achievement, an arrogance creeps-in you feeling that you alone are responsible for your rise. This arrogance weakens your support systems and this is the stage when your decline begins. Therefore, never Pride yourself on your rise, give due-credit to others for your rise.
You sit in another’s shoes and understand the feelings of his sufferings. This brings in you the ‘Power of Compassion’. Maintain this Power for the stay in the heights of your career. Without this, your authority becomes oppressive and crumbles under the weight of your dominance. The downfall is then imminent.
Arguing yourself “right” is a lower virtue than let-go by virtue of your knowledge. Arguments often lose relationships. Therefore, use your common-sense, insight knowledge, perception, and intelligence with wisdom to remain constant in life.
Health is wealth that brings the finest comforts to the body. Therefore, keep the body healthy and enjoy the life. Without this, comforts turn meaningless.
Aspirations are the reflections of your life goals. When these goals are fulfilled, it brings in you a joy of success. The deepest joy of success, however, comes from having loved-ones and family to share with it. Keep it up for the sharing.
Progress without Confidence is a mulish-exercise. But over-confidence blinds us to take unbalanced-decisions which often result in Pitfalls. Therefore, be cautious of these phenomena.
Love your fulfilment but never be so-deep that it could not be detached. You must have the ability to release your control over your love to something and set-aside yourself when necessary. You are great then.