Post No. 8471
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BOOKS INDIANS SHOULD READ- Chapter 3-Part 2
R. Nanjappa
Time as ally
This is a great read, unlike any other book on motivation. In nine enchanting chapters, it tells us how to make time our ally to realise our dreams. It gives numerous examples of real life cases. Even if we had to work at some job for a living, it need not stand in the way of shaping our life the way we dream of. Those long years could actually turn out to be a preparation, in ways we cannot decipher! Only, we should not give up hope, or waste our time or talent but nurse it by due application and sustained effort.
I deliberately refrain form giving a summary of the ideas as I want our people. especially youngsters, to read the book first hand and be inspired.
I will just give three quotes from the book:
“The universe is filled with examples which suggest that all good things take time… Yet in our fast-moving age, we begrudge the role of time and are embarrassed by the time it takes to do worthwhile things.”
“…..your success is more likely to occur the moment you stop looking for ‘great moments’ of motivation and instead give yourself the time to bring real things into being.”
“ major goals can and are often realised by anyone, as long as they are cast within appropriate time frames.”
Friends, don’t miss this book. Whatever the age we are at, we all can still do something! We can make life meaningful.
We have not wings, we cannot soar;
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Note:
What do we mean by greatness? It is not necessarily concerned with great wealth or public acclaim. It need not be confused with public leadership roles. Essentially, it has two dimensions: it is realising our inner urge or potential, and making a useful contribution to society. It is leading a fulfilled life, Self-actualization as Abraham Maslow said it.
“…..in thinking about time as a separate dimension of our lives, we rapidly slide into the view that time is finite and short, that it is in some sense our enemy, or at least a commodity in short supply. Yet time is none of these things. Time is a dimension of our life and experience. Time is an integral part of what we do and who we are.”
Time is no doubt precious, and non-renewable! Yet, how we waste our time in the pursuit of trivial things, and complain of ‘no time’ for really big things! Again, as Butler-Bowdon quotes Anthony Robbins:
” Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year, but underestimate what they can achieve in a decade.”
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tags- books to read, last part, Longfellow
