THERE ARE 2 FUNDAMENTAL STEPS NEEDED TO GET WHATEVER YOU WANT IN LIFE:
This one is straight from my coaching sessions. I was sitting at the lawns of my apartment complex sometime back watching the moon and it got me into the mood for some power writing!
STEP 1: Best told through the story of American President John F. Kennedy. In 1961, in a now famous speech, JFK made an audacious statement to the American Congress. “By the turn of the decade, we will put man on the moon.” He made what is called in linguistics, a DECLARATION.
After the speech it seems NASA was pretty pissed off with Kennedy. “Sirji, we don’t even have the technology to put a satellite properly in Earth’s orbit, how could you commit to putting one in Moon’s orbit?”
Like Amitabh Bachchan in K3G, JFK was also a baap aadmi.. he replied, “Ab bol diya to bas bol diya. Now that I’ve said it, IT WILL HAPPEN. I don’t need reasons to believe that it will happen. It will happen BECAUSE I-SAID-SO.”
JFK had cracked the first secret of getting whatever you want in life.. YOU HAVE TO DECLARE IT PUBLICLY.
STEP 2: Declarations are not enough. You need to back them up with a RESPECT FOR YOUR WORD.. for your promises. You need to be a person who walks the talk, a person who always does what he/she says. Your commitment towards that has to be right up there. Without that, your declarations are useless.
“Achche din aa rahe hai” is a VERY POWERFUL DECLARATION. It can be a future altering sentence provided it is backed up with a system that walks the talk.
I often ask my clients, “Kya hai tumhare zabaan ki keemat?”
Over 400,000 people at NASA worked on the Apollo project. They had no idea what kind of rockets, engines, landing craft, space suits, underwear to take to the moon. With no Google Maps how do you find your way to the moon? And how on earth (literally!) do you get back home?
But their commitment was the glue which held them together. They didn’t cut corners. They didn’t take shortcuts. And in 1969, less than a decade after JFK’s powerful declaration, the world watched Neil Armstrong take that first giant step.
IN SUMMARY.. like Kennedy you have to get into the habit of DECLARING what you want. And parallely make yourself a person who honours your PROMISES and commitments.
Gandhiji and the other freedom fighters also made public declarations, “We will drive the British out of the country.” Mother Teresa did the same, “I commit my life to helping the homeless and the destitutes.”
YOU can make your own declarations, “I DECLARE that l will get a promotion this year”, “I DECLARE that I will start a new business in the next 6 months,” “I DECLARE I will lose 28 kgs in the next 9 months”, “I DECLARE I will make a trip to Spiti Valley this year” or whatever..
You can get WHATEVER you want in life. Because your WORD creates your WORLD. And that’s why you need to respect your word. And in any case, if you don’t respect your word, who will?