Reflection leads to opportunity

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." as said by Peter Drucker.

My life is my choices, some were good and some were my mistakes, which lead me to be who i am today. Will i make those mistakes again, or will i like to go back in time to make changes in my choices for me to be ... where?

This question has many possibilities of different answer's overtime as i reflect back in my life. Could I, should i have, maybe, probably.... all voices which give me answers to what i want to hear at the turning points of my life. But my growth if i may say has been due to reflecting on my choices and mostly on my mistakes. I have learnt more from my failures than winning and getting things right in first go.

As rightly said by Henry Ford " Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently". 

We all have faced our mistakes in our faces, fallen down, bruised our ego's and yet again stood up to try once again. Only the next time we don't make the same mistake twice, we find new ones. We try till we succeed. Our mantra of success  is looking at our failures and ensuring our goal is yet achievable and we strive to hit the bulls eye, if not today, then definitely tomorrow. 

All of you will say been there done that. But how many really made their dreams come true? I mean literally facing the failures, not letting anything come in between, beating the odds, strategically ensuring that the moves are correct for you to meet your goal. How many did not give up in between and focused on something else? 

I gave up in between on my dreams. I felt i did not have it in me to be an entrepreneur. Started couple of times in my life but in between when the going got tough, gave up and took a job. I was somehow more secure in getting my pay check on first of every month. No stress, no hassle and my bills were getting paid. Even if the price was letting go of my dreams. I tried thrice lost money thrice and then decided this is not what i can do. I actually let myself believe that i was not good enough to run my own business. Yet i was able to run other person's business and live other person's dreams. How could i have so little belief in my ability? Life at times is a horrible joke and we don't realise that the joke is on us. Life is teaching us, nudging us to move from our comfort zones, expand our horizons and follow our dreams.

If i look back, i realise my heart was not there in the ventures i had very excitedly thought of creating. I never wanted to own an event company, and three times i tried was to have my own event company. Work i enjoyed doing but would i make my this passion my business, many would think i am talking nonsense, off course your passion is the best business one can get in. To me it was my passion not my legacy i wanted to leave behind.

My failure in this was my biggest strength / opportunity  in pursuing my dream - Soul Studio. Creating a platform for people to talk about wellness, fitness, mind and soul. Not just spiritual but instilled with logic and taking the journey within to be just ourselves. I suddenly realised i am creating one of the biggest event platforms, my passion and dream fused together to create an event which could/may/should help people. The dream was always there, its how to implement it which has taken me 3 failures to understand.

Silence is deafening. As it is said, the voices which you hear inside, us reflecting on our actions, not something which we all enjoy doing and many of us would prefer to push this voice away. Its true there is no where in this world or universe we can run away from ourselves. Accepting who we are is what makes us who we are. Our failures and reflecting on them objectively, gives us strength and opportunities which our mind cannot fathom till the time we don't come to terms with our failures. Many of us try shifting the blame on some one else for our mistakes. It's common and we being human with large ego's we prefer to live in denial, than accepting our failures.

Once again i say "Still your mind" meditation helps us understand our deepest fears, which directly helps us understand our addictions and mindsets. From this arises our strength to be ourselves and accept our failures. 

Failure is not opposite of success, Its part of success.

Everything happens for a reason and that reason is us trying to be human. I am... who i am and that what matters to me.