Success Can’t Give You Happiness, Only GROWTH Can!

I am so privileged and overwhelmed with the feeling of greatness when so many of you visited this page as I announced the launch of www.vidyashankar.net . Some of you also passed on your comments, thoughts over email, on the blog itself and at OnlySuccess phone number. Many of you where sharing the BORN to WIN language and it was great to hear. I got good number of comments regarding the OnlySuccess Dubai Story like, HAPPENS FOR A PURPOSE, THERE ARE NO FAILURES ONLY FEEDBACK, PAST=/= FUTURE etc. It made my day. Also several of you were asking about the OnlySuccess Foundation.

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Today as I write this post OnlySuccess has established the direct office in Dubai. We planned to have our office in 2008! Have we achieved the goal much faster? Definitely YES! But the reality is we were forced to achieve it much ahead of time. What made us do it? Because life was totally unfair!

In Feb 2006 we really stretched ourselves to launch our program abroad. We partnered with a local company in Dubai. As expected and as per our strategy we took off really well. Like every location we were finding it difficult to accommodate people and courses were running full in all locations of UAE: Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. As you know wealth is a by-product generated when you do what you love the most. We generated huge wealth and by end of the year our partner had all the profits.

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Lots of time people have asked me ‘How it is possible? No body have done this in the past.’ My answer is always create the Roger Bannister Phenomenon. What is Roger Bannister Phenomenon?
In 50s the entire world was ruled by a strong belief that no human can cross a distance of one mile in less than 4 minutes. There were even warnings from doctors if any human being even ‘try’ they will collapse to death. Bannister’s on May 6, 1954, in a meet at Oxford, competing for the British Amateur Athletic Association, crossed a mile in 3:59.4. minutes. The unbreakable record had been broken. At age 25, Roger Bannister had made history.

Definitely the world said WOW! But the most stunning fact is within a month, the Australian runner John Landy had broken even Bannister’s record! In the same year 1954 over 30 people across the world crossed a mile in less than four minutes and in the next year over 300 people crossed a mile in less than four minutes!! What is means? If it is done once immediately we accept it is possible. What I am asking you today is can you be a Roger Bannister? Look at some of the things what you have kept aside because no body else have done it, and do it today!
It was great when OnlySuccess decided to train other nationalities! Today we have a proud history where we have trained over 28 different Nationalities including Europeans, Americans, South Africans, Australians etc. STOP! Check in your own area of life where you can be a Roger Bannister.

I cannot forget the day when I was watching a TV program at my home. It was a short film on Giraffe in one of the popular channels. What I saw gave me a shock: A Giraffe delivered a little one. The little one was looking cute, fragile and soft. Anybody who loves animals will love to hold that creature in hand. After a while it was gaining all its strength, checking which leg to be used to get support so as to get up. It did everything to slowly get up. It was a struggle, even before it was standing up fully it was falling down.

Finally after all the efforts the little one was about to stand up or almost fully succeeded in standing up. The mom, who was looking at it so keenly, gave a hard kick! The little one has to fall, and the fall was bit tough. The Giraffe started kicking the just born again and again whenever it was about to stand up fully after a struggle! The scene was painful to watch. Little one which is so fragile and soft and was trying to stand! Good number of times it was almost successful in standing, and as a viewer I really wanted that little one to succeed.

It was about to stand, the mom immediately gave a hard kick. I cannot believe my self. What I saw made me think a lot.The little one was struggling to stand but the mom kept on kicking. On falling down the little one was putting all it efforts to stand but the mom was kicking again so hard! The commentary made me understand what was happening. If there are no kicks, standing is easy. Little one is going to do it very easily. But in the hours of need when it has to face an attack from the other animals, it will not have enough strength to escape. If the mom wants the best for the little it has to make it tougher.

As the mom is kicking so hard, the little has to fight back to stand. Mom wants it to fight back. That is the only way the little one is going to get a stronger physic and the survival instinct. Unfortunately, what I have always seen with parent and child is just the opposite. Most of the times thinking they are helping the child good number of parents do their son’s / daughter’s job. Sad! In the long run they are making them weak mentally and physically. Remember children need that kick to be stronger!

I often hear this from the parents of Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi, that We are so scared that our children are highly protected! They never struggle for anything and life is so easy for them. During our days it was different.

Good number of times I used to ask them who protects them?! As a parent if you make everything easy for your child, you cannot be there always for them to make things easier. By being with them always and by making their life much easier you are taking away their capabilities and mindset to face the tougher situation in life. You are killing their survival instinct.

This pictures was hand drawn by a cartoonist for me! Goals change every moment of your life. You live to get what you dream of getting. That should create passion, enthusiasm and energy. There was a little girl who was 20^th of 22 children, born prematurely for a poor family in the Backwoods of Tennessee. When she was four years old, she had double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her paralyzed and a useless left leg. She had to wear an iron leg brace. But she was fortunate to have a mother who told her, Don’t bother, you are very bright and definitely you will achieve whatever you want despite the brace and disabled left leg. At the age of nine, she removed her leg brace, and in four years she developed a rhythmic stride which was a medical wonder and she also became a basket ball player. Then the girl got an incredible notion that she should be the world’s greatest women runner!

At the age of thirteen she entered a race and came last. From that time onwards she entered every race in high school and came last in every race. But her passion towards what she wanted in life kept her energy levels high. Gradually she improved and there came a day when she won the race. From then on she won every race she entered. She was Wilma Rudolph who later went to Tennessee State University where she met her future coach Ed Temple. Ed was surprised by her belief and trained her so well that she made it to 1960 Rome Olympic Games. She had to run against the unbeaten German girl Jutta Heine. But Wilma made it. She won both 100 meter dash and 200 meters and became the world’s greatest women runner of that time!

In the 4 x 100 meter relay it was once again Wilma against Jutta. Wilma had a poor baton pass and saw Jutta taking off down the track. But Wilma still made it and clocked her third gold in that Olympic Games and became the first American women to win three gold medals in one Olympics.

When you know what you want from life and where you are heading, there will be unlimited energy within you and you will be passionate about all your activities.

As you read the title I am sure you know whom I am talking about. A guy who revolutionized my thoughts of Wealth. Who made me understand Wealth is about the mindset. If you are Wealth Abundance Graduate I am sure you should heard a lot about me how my total thought process is shifted because of Warren Buffet’s thoughts.

Some of the thoughts which run in my mind very fast whenever I log to my on line Share Trading Accounts are these: (Also see my comments next to it!)

#1. You can never predict the market - Every magazine, TV and stock broker failed predicting what will happen in the market
#2. Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing! - Stock market is risky if you are not aware how to play the game. For Schumacher Car Racing is not a risk but life! #3. Only when the tide goes out you discover who is been swimming naked - Whenever I read this I cant stop laughing. How many are right now swimming naked! When the tide is going to die. WOW, Warren is always mindblowing.
#4. Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing - Amazing truth. Unfortunately every management school teaches to reduce risk diversity your stocks:Crap!
#5. It is far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price - I have always seen magazines recommending wonderful companies but rarely people buy for a fair price
#6. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute - Such a wonderful thought. I adopted this thinking pattern from Warren!