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Home > Rivulets > Prosperous Author: Albert Hendra Wijaya Translated by: D. Wijaya Agree or not? If yes - how? If not - why? All of us will have the same opinion if I said that we all want to be succeed. Success is a how much someone's is having in fulfilling subjective needs (material or spiritual in quantity and quality). Achieving success of life is a desire to every person. The problem is that success if often considered as a not easy or even very hard thing to do. In an extreme way could be felt as impossible issues. Most of the successful persons feel they haven't success yet There's a story of a young and beautiful reporter who has just begun her writings, she tried to get a survey about famous successful people in this country. In one occasion, she had a chance to meet a person named A: "How do you think about your achievement?" A would answer: "Actually I don't deserve to be called successful because the truth is all of my wealth is a heritage from my parents" In another occasion, the reporter asked a man named B, which is answered: All of this is coincidence because someone has been supporting me all this time. (It's not polite to mention the names)" And when the reporter interviewed a man called C, the answer is as followed: "How can I be called success if I can achieve so much more than this, because of ..... (bla...bla...)" After meeting with numbers of important people, the reporter has managed to meet X who is famous of being a pioneer because he is such a hard worker from the beginning and with his own ability. With the same question, he could answer this way: "I might look succeed and, but actually I'm not happy with it, because of bla....bla....bla.... All you can see is only from the outside!" To find the truth that most of honorable and successful person still not satisfied with what they are achieved, and then the reporter started to figure out:
Wealth In Tao there are "5 happiness" which are the main purpose in life such as:
If the successful is considered as the quality of someone's life; which is become the accumulation of ability and works. That's why every individuals has to realize and put themselves in the right position of life and then to keep moving on in positive interaction with the environment to achieve success. In today's life, usually picture perfect of someone about future success is more subjective. This was made from internal influence (i.e. themselves) or external (i.e.: environment). These make a lot of opinions about the meaning of success is not proportional enough (not balance). They inclined to disproportional of wealth and keen to use someone else point of view to judge him. Those things happened because in fact it's hard know yourself than seeing other people. Visually things (wealth) will be easier to become a successful barometer. More over, it's human's destiny to want "more" and strange to feel satisfied. Most people inclined to "look upward" than "downward". For example: Someone who is rich enough, still feels that the bound in family is too cold, and then he tried his best to solve it. But the funny thing is he's becoming more busy and he thought that it would make his wife pay attention on him. The result is not that simple. Now the wife and children now become neglected. I'm absolutely agreed about the saying that if we can control wealth, we will solve our problems and pressure easier. But if we less understand about it, the incline will show that people addicted to wealth, which is the wealth will sit on first priority in life to buy and to relief his spiritual need. The message is: "Remember! Money is not everything!" Even tough achieving success is relevant, useful and give the importance to people's need and actualization satisfied, even it will break through to reality that achievement is unlimited. More important: successful in wealth without combining with morality aspect will bring emptiness in our life. Isn't that Tao is to achieve emptiness? For "yes man", it's okay. That is prosperous! But as a Taoist we have to place ourselves in the right position and portion. We have to know ourselves well. As a human we need material and spiritual as well. Through both of them we can handle everything. If we can understand ourselves and realize where the position of wealth is, then I now agree if someone said to go for wealth as much as we can. The problem is how to be succeeded? Is there something we have to do or prepare? To be succeeded is not just like walking in a single path but has to be in many ways. Every individual who wants to success has to have and grow positive attitudes as their main assets in hope that sometime they can harvest the fruit of success. The attitude and the basic habits will be explained as follows:
X - Factor Whether there is or there is not X Factor (luck or unfortunate) is can be the key for the end result, but of course it's not assumed as our pre-work because it has a high speculation substance. X Factor its not too worth it to think about, because I'm sure we can end up with best result if we try our best too. Well, that's all. It's true that there is some non absolute things or even things that can be neglected in practice to every person, but here we are only wants to say" something in common", which is I need it myself and will create many useful things. Hopefully, this article can give you another perspective that can be applied in your everyday life for refreshment. |
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