Know Yourself

The journey of Success starts with knowing self, deciding where we wish to take our life and then living the journey. Knowing self means knowing our strengths, knowing areas where we need improvement (not weaknesses - admitting our weaknesses give us a reason not to take responsibility and improve), our capabilities, our potential and our beliefs and paradigms. We shall require constant introspection, analysis and adjustments on course of path taken to achieve aim/goals of our life. That is why it is important to know self before choosing the path on which one wishes to travel.

And how do you choose your path? Perhaps following poem will resolve your dilemma:

The Road Not Taken - Poet: Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveller, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Once we have known our self, decided the lakshya and taken a path, we have to move on the chosen course with positive belief and living every moment of the journey, i.e.with energy, passion and enthusiasm and happiness.