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Fame is being known in front of the world.
Success is knowing yourself.

Fame may (or may not) make us arrogant.
Success keeps us grounded.

Fame is external.
Success is internal.

There’s nothing wrong in chasing fame, as long as we know what makes us successful and keeps us grounded.

While the world defines one as being incidental to another, there are a lot of famous people that are dissatisfied.

That’s not success.

Also, there are a ton of successful people who aren’t or choose not to be famous.
That’s success - knowing what we want.

Fame and success aren’t concentric circles.
They may just be intersecting ones, but are mostly mutually exclusive.

We take time to nurture all our important relationships.

Family.
Friends.
Colleagues.

However, what about the relationship with the most important person, i.e., ourselves?

What is our response when people criticise us?
What if they don’t give any reaction?
How do we stay grounded when they celebrate us?

Their responses may change.
But the inner stability is a result of our inner conversations.

We don’t control what the world tells us.

We control our reaction to what the world tells us.

We make the worst decisions when we make them in the moment, led by our emotions.

We make the best decisions when we make them with no pressure, led by our awareness.

YOU ARE NOT STUCK.
No one's ever stuck.

In life if you feel stuck, you will be FAR MORE miserable for the exact same conditions, than if you have options.

It is true, not just for work.
It is true for relationships.
It is true for money.
True for life.

Even if the option you create is only marginally better, it will compound subconsciously to make you feel more powerful eventually.

The worst enemy in your life is the person who convinces you that you do not have any other choice. That you do not have options.

That you are stuck.

Often that person is you yourself.

We want to build that product.
Create a community of like-minded people.
Change the way things work.

But there is a lack of time.
Or we are not sure if the idea will succeed.

What will people say if we fail?
How will we ever know the result until we do the work?

Intentions hold power only when they’re backed by actions.
Otherwise, they’re the lies we are hypnotizing ourselves with.

A year from now you will wish you had started today.

You felt intense pain.
You wanted to escape.
It really hurt.

And in all that, it was easy to blame circumstances.
Except that circumstances were not to be blamed.

If circumstances brought us pain, how is it that different people handle their pain differently?

The hurt that we felt because of the circumstances was because the hurt was always there. Circumstances only brought them to the forefront.

Circumstances don’t cause pain.
They reveal them.

Happiness is not about experiencing something new or something exciting.

It is continually experiencing what you already have, in different ways.
And this also means that happiness is rarely about doing more.

Instead, it is about having the time, space and wisdom to appreciate what you already have.

A lot of us do not want to live by the conventional route.

We want to explore and challenge ourselves.
But our fears hardly let that happen.

What if I fail in singing?
What would I tell my parents if I couldn’t earn as much as Sharma ji’s son?
What would my friends say when they know I have left my job to start up?

However, what if we used our power to think for ourselves?

What if people end up loving my music?
What if my parents would be happier seeing me happy?
What if my friends draw inspiration from my example?

We don’t know what the result will be.
But if we don’t try, we won’t ever know our own selves.

If we were given a chance to peek into our future, we’d certainly not miss it.

What if we knew that the way we live our days is setting up our foundation for our future?

This also enables us to change our past, because the present of today is the past of the future.

The best way to change the future lies in the present.

We want to build that product.
Create a community of like-minded people.
Change the way things work.

But there is a lack of time.
Or we are not sure if the idea will succeed.

What will people say if we fail?
How will we ever know the result until we do the work?

Intentions hold power only when they’re backed by actions.
Otherwise, they’re the lies we are hypnotizing ourselves with.

A year from now you will wish you had started today.